Sports Interactive and Eidos Interactive are pleased to announce that Championship Manager: Season 01/02 has reached its ‘gold master’ stage and is on course for a UK launch date of Friday, October 12th.

“It’s been the usual round of late nights as we endeavoured to make the game as perfect as possible before we got it out of the door in time for an October 12th launch date, but we’re extremely pleased to have managed it” says Miles Jacobson, Managing Director of Sports Interactive. “Our fan base is obviously as anxious as we are to see the game on the shelves” he added. “We have had an astonishing amount of downloads of the demo: there have been over 125,000 already, and it only went live a week ago.”

The BAFTA award nominated Championship Manager: Season 01/02 will be available for PC CD-ROM from October 12th in the UK and across all other territories apart from France, Benelux, Spain, Germany and the Americas. These territories will release on an as yet unspecified date in October. Sports Interactive is looking for new partners for this and future products for north and South America.

The demo can be downloaded at www.sigames.com.