Championship Manager is the best football management simulation game in the world. With more than 40 leagues and over 200,000 players to wheel, deal and steal, there is no other management experience like it...

Eidos and Sports Interactive issued a statement today confirming the big signing of four new leagues, a pre-game database editor, the ability to view previously saved matches and updated player, team and competition data.

A spokesperson for the team revealed: We are extremely pleased with the progress we have made over the summer and would just like to confirm that the following changes have been made to the starting line up:

Improved media module

Player-to-player relationships

Updated data for the 03/04 season

New intuitive training system - effects of training now visually indicated on player profile screen

Improved match engine with more commentary, better AI, weather effects and inclusion of visual status indicators

Goal of the month and season awards