General

+ Tuning of young player physical progression
+ Spanish regenerated players and virtual players do not get given common names as much.
+ Goalkeeping coaches now do not have high ratings for other coaching types.
+ Loan players who have a "cannot play in cup matches" clause, can play in competitions which their main team are not entered for.
+ Arsenal now use their red and white home top from the 2006 season onwards.
+ Slovenian wages tuned.
+ Mental attributes and happiness have more effect on training levels
+ Ensured team talk slight concerns get cleared down for loan players who have been loaned from non_selected leagues.
+ Toned down severe post-match player morale changes, this ensures players take at least a couple of good matches to go from poor/very poor morale to very good/superb morale and vice versa
+ Ensured human managers don't get criticised for not praising thier own players when in fact they have left team-talks to their assistant managers.
+ Stopped "grey team managers" being given negative attributes and therefore sabotaging their own teams causing some very big defeats.
+ Teams in the same division should not have the potential for a giant-killing news story even if one is semi-pro and one is pro.
+ Prevented board/fans/former club favourite/current player congratulations news items from appearing after a team has qualified for the Uefa Cup via the Intertoto Cup
+ Adjusted the increase / decrease of human manager visible attributes.
+ Reduced inflation of price clubs are willing to pay for a player based on domestic average rating.
+ Ensured assistant coach/manager can't give feedback on himself.
+ Some tweaks to coach and team reports.
+ Monaco virtual players now have French nationality instead of having Monaco set as their nation.
+ Fixed stadium expansion bug where team would sometimes not move back to their old stadium once it was finished.
+ Fixed problem where some players would start the first season with stats from the previous year
+ Fixed second nationalities for regens - previously weren't getting set properly.
+ Fixed problem with caretakers manager's hanging around for ages without being offered the job or a replacement being found
+ Fixed differing time periods for injury between profile and physio report
+ Fixed players reaction to manager mind-games not showing up on client machines when playing network game.
+ Fixed receiving news story stating Liverpool fifth times when should be sixth times champions.
+ Fixed cases of manager being hired from within the club having the wrong 'time in charge' stat
+ Fixed players on loan at a club who are signing for them at a later date (e.g. Laurent Robert) getting wrong player_bio about them.
+ Fixed a bug where you can fine a player who is on loan to you and he will get upset with the club that owns the player.

Interface

+ Injury league table not filled in for domestic leagues that had finished.
+ Squad screen filters now filter WB L/DM (C) players correctly.
+ You now have to pick a goalkeeper in quick tactics like you do in detailed tactics.
+ Added "Help" to the Mac menu bar to follow standard behaviour on the platform.
+ Help for "offer to clubs" now shows the correct information (instead of the "transfer offer " page).
+ Pressing the escape key now closes the help dialog.
+ Training section "attributes" list could display slightly different values than the player profile.
+ Improved goal net graphics.
+ 3rd placed Royal League teams displayed the 3rd placed team order instead of the proper group they were in.
+ Used "Far" as short text for both "attack far post" and "stand on far post".
+ Squad filters for teams works for b-teams if user is browsing the game without having added a human player.
+ "Release comment" section disappeared when you clicked on another section of a player (before you had confirmed the comment).
+ You were able to change some tactical settings from the full time team talks.
+ If you used quick flicks to go to next team while on your own tactics section you might end up seeing their instructions.
+ Referees now show a 'Based' city (if city is known) instead of showing an unknown city of birth on their profile.
+ Clicking 'View Draw' might not take you to the results of the draw if you viewed a different section of the same competition.
+ Minimum fee release clause was not visible while making a transfer offer for players in countries where this is mandatory (Spain).
+ Substituting a player at half time would initially leave his overall team talk at "None" until you it again.
+ Sometimes players were duplicated in part-exchange offers in the "Transfer listed" menu on the "Add" button.
+ Can now give team talks to players who were substituted.
+ Added more printing functionality to panels like Match Report, Match Stats, Home
+ Player instructions "swap player" (outfield) and "distribute to" (goalkeeper) did not remember settings if set outside a match.
+ In-match tactic panel updates the tactic title on the right panel properly.
+ If you were in control of both a nation and a club, using the quick flicks did not go anywhere.
+ If you were controlling a nation and a club, the context of the national FA confidence was the club and not the nation.
+ Corrected "Upcoming Fixtures" to "Fixtures & Results" on the manager home section.
+ In rare cases the player profile would display "-" for form even when the player had valid form.
+ Player histories did not show season year properly for clubs where season overlaps the new year (2004-05 format).
+ Go On Holiday dialog could have the "reject all offers as well as another item selected (they're mutually exclusive).
+ Go On Holiday dialog "Return from holiday after:" N days edit box layout fixed.
+ Inputting extended characters using AltGr (or Alt+Control) did not work.
+ Pasting a single character from the clipboard to an edit box did not work (multiple characters did).
+ Continue game timeout does not get used when a manager is making a team talk after the match.
+ Reset requested scroll position when loading new HTML screen.
+ Fixed wrong team being used in news item stating reasons for transfer delay being refused.
+ Fixed exchange players showing up on news item but not on transfer offer screen
+ Fixed home page snapshot of K-League (displayed opening stage intead of combined league).
+ Fixed Belgian lower divisions snapshot (displayed opening stage and not combined league).
+ Fixed possible crash browsing through teams staff list using the Quick Flicks.
+ Fixed potential crash on European World Cup qualifiers second placed teams table if clicking on team position to see progress.
+ Fixed some duplicate news items.
+ Being able to deselect the 'Index' panel in the tutorial by reclicking on the 'Index' button.
+ Fixed every second seperator line in tree view items being slightly longer than the others

Competitions

+ Scottish league cup ties are now seeded properly.
+ Fixed some issues with the CONCACAF Champions League when MLS is not a selected league.
+ Mexican teams now do not register too many foreign players.
+ Implemented English Conference changes for 2006/07 season.
+ Mexican First Division groups are now correct for 2005.
+ Prize money removed from Serbia and Montenegro Cup.
+ Manager snapshot panel now shows full stage name in the competitions panel. E.g. North Semi Final instead of Semi Final
+ All-Ireland Cup now stores past years correctly.
+ Teams from 2006 African World Cup qualifiers do not qualify to the 2008 African Nations Cup any more.
+ Some English FA Cup prize money amounts fixed.
+ Hong Kong AFC Playoff now gets scheduled once all of the domestic competitions have finished.
+ Ramat-Hasharon now deducted 2 points in 2005 Israeli National League.
+ Spanish teams now start playing friendlies earlier.
+ All Ireland cup now uses refs from Ireland or N. Ireland.
+ European player awards tunning
+ Greek player of the year problem fixed.
+ Greek foreign player of the year problem fixed
+ Player winning more than one seasonal award fix
+ Attacking bias added to seasonal player awards.
+ Some fixes for managers withdrawing players from international friendlies
+ Australian players no longer win Asian awards.
+ Award winner news item appears after player thanks manager news item.
+ Fixed string error (australian pre match odds news) declaring league as being finished when it hasn't.
+ Fixed some fixture dates in England for non World Cup/Euro Championship years.

Match

+ When 2 human managers are playing each other in a match, the game now shows both team talk screens at the end of the match instead of just the one.
+ When a human changed the order of his penalty takers just before a shootout, the score would sometimes not be stored properly when the result gets processed.
+ Fixed a match screen crash which would sometimes happen after making quick tactic changes.
+ If a human manager leaves a match (goes on holiday, disconnects from network game, etc), the assistant manager will now make tactical changes in his place.
+ Fixed bug where the view menu on the tactics screen might be disabled for a second human manager on the same machine.

Transfers

+ Starting foreign loans are now not treated as domestic loans for English teams when counting the number of loans done so far.
+ Fixed bug where occassionally the game might forget to process a future transfer.
+ Fixed a bug where national teams would sometimes appoint a director as their new manager.
+ Players signed after a club has finished its season, now get put on holiday.

Assets

- ADDED Livingston player pictures
- Fixed Scott Thomson (Dunfermline) picture mapping to the wrong Scott Thomson
- ADDED Nottingham Forest player pictures
- Fixed Cardiff pictures (Darren Purse, Jeff Whitley, Joe Ledley and Neal Ardley)
- Fixed Stafford Rangers player pictures (Peter Thomson)
- Fixed Blackpool badge
- Fixed Rotherham kits not displaying
- Fixed Daejeon kits not displaying in first season
- Fixed Joao Goncalves FaceInTheGame picture

Data Editor

- Fixed potential crash on the squad screen
- Fixed manager preferred formations sometimes defaulting to 442

Tutorial Note

The tutorial will only display properly in the languages installed with the Retail CD.