In December 2008, Eidos Interactive made the game available for free download, and included a recommendation for users to download a users-created update patch from. The full list of playable leagues in CM01/02 is as follows: This edition of Championship Manager included about a hundred fully playable leagues in twenty-six countries, and patch 3.9.67 added South Korea's K-League, its first appearance in the CM series.
Other new additions included the ability to send players away for surgery, player notes, player comparisons, and improved media and board interaction. Championship Manager 01/02 implemented the new EU regulated transfer system, introduced in September 2001, and also featured a new attribute masking mode, whereby the player could only see information about footballers they would realistically know about (also known as a fog of war).
Although never particularly expanding on the graphical side, Sports Interactive included many new features along with the usual updated database.
