Championship Manager 5 Editor Page

CM5 allowed you to swap teams between divisions freely. Want to take a Conference team and put them in the Champions League group stage? The editor lets you do it with two clicks. You can create a European Super League featuring 2005-era Real Madrid (Zidane, Ronaldo, Beckham) against peak Arsenal (Henry, Vieira, Bergkamp). The match engine might struggle to keep up, but the idea is glorious.

While the Football Manager series (and its pre-game editor) went on to become the gold standard, the CM5 Editor is a fascinating failure. It gives you total control over a broken game. And sometimes, trying to fix a broken game is more fun than playing a perfect one. Championship Manager 5 Editor

Enjoying these retro deep dives? Check back next week when I look at the weird "Championship Manager 2007" data issues. CM5 allowed you to swap teams between divisions freely