Championship Soccer
Player’s manual
This manual describes the menus, controls, match information and career systems of Championship Soccer. Each chapter explains what the displayed choices and values mean and what changes when they are used.
Start here
Your first five minutes
- Choose the kind of game. Use Quick game for one friendly or tournament, or Start a new career to build a football world that continues from week to week.
- Assign an input device. In player options or squad setup, assign a keyboard or gamepad to the team or individual footballer you want to control. The assignment guide explains shared devices and conflicts.
- Learn movement and one action. Move with the arrow keys, D-pad or left stick. Use Shift, Ctrl or the primary gamepad button for the context action. A tap and a hold do different things.
- Try Practice before a competitive match. Practice lets you find your footballer, strike the ball and repeat free kicks or corners without risking a career result. See the Practice walkthrough.
- Save an active career. Return to the main menu, choose Save game and create a clearly named file. The saving guide covers locations, formats and backups.
The team or footballer probably has no human input assignment. Return to squad or player options and assign the intended keyboard or gamepad before choosing Play match.
About the game
Football on the pitch and across a career
Championship Soccer combines direct control of matches with individual player careers, team management and an evolving football world.
A career may be experienced as one footballer, as a player-manager controlling one player, as a player-manager controlling the whole team, or as a manager. Several human profiles can take part in the same career and may be attached to different clubs, teams or individual players.
During matches, movement and a context-sensitive action button control passes, shots, challenges, headers and player changes. Away from the pitch, selections, formations, contracts, transfers, training, youth players, finances, competitions and season history continue from week to week.
Player age, ability, potential, form, fitness, reputation, happiness and match performance are separate values. Their meanings and the places in which they are used are covered in the player, training, transfer and reference chapters.
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