video game industry founded 1994 ; 22 years ago 1994 founder paul collyer oliver collyer mbes headquarters islington london united kingdom products football manager series championship manager series nhl eastside hockey manager series owner sega sammy holdings number of employees 70 1 parent sega games co. ltd. website sigames.com sports interactive ltd. is a british video game development company who is best known for the football manager series . based in old street central london the studio is wholly owned by the japanese video game company sega . in addition to its work on football manager the studio has also created a number of other sports management simulations including nhl eastside hockey manager and championship manager quiz and is the former developer of championship manager . contents 1 history 2 afc wimbledon & watford sponsorship 3 sega 4 football manager live 5 games 6 accolades 7 staff 8 references 9 external links history edit founded by paul collyer and oliver collyer the company is commonly abbreviated to si amongst fans of their games . in 2003 it was announced sports interactive would no longer develop games under the brand championship manager as this was owned by publisher eidos interactive . instead on 12 february 2004 it was announced that sports interactive had signed a publishing deal with sega and would produce its new football management games under the self owned brand of football manager . afc wimbledon & watford sponsorship edit sports interactive have had a relationship with afc wimbledon since the club s formation championship manager 01 02 contains a pro afc wimbledon message occasionally visible at start up along with a similarly rare but now rather dated save chip message and they are currently afc wimbledon s main sponsors with their logo appearing on the team strip . a similar deal now exists with watford fc . in 2004 sports interactive announced a deal to help develop markus heinsohn s out of the park baseball . 2 sega edit on april 4 2006 it was announced that sega holdings europe ltd holding company for sports interactive s publishers sega had acquired sports interactive . on january 1 2007 sports interactive announced that they were beginning work on a new game . the only detail revealed has stated that the game will be football based this is football manager handheld 06 and so on football manager live edit on april 20 2007 sports interactive announced the release of a brand new massively multiplayer online football management game entitled football manager live 3 similar to that of football manager 2007 but as the name suggests played completely online by up to 1000 people within any gameworld of which there will be multiple . the game was originally announced to be released in march 2008 but the game was actually released january 23 2009 . 4 the game uses a database comprising over 330 000 football players and 10 playable leagues . in addition game players can talk to one another via in game chats . games edit championship manager championship manager championship manager 93 championship manager 2 championship manager 96 97 championship manager 97 98 championship manager 3 championship manager season 00 01 championship manager season 01 02 championship manager 4 championship manager season 03 04 football manager football manager 2005 4 november 2004 for pc mac football manager 2006 21 october 2005 for pc mac & april for psp xbox 360 football manager 2007 20 october 2006 for pc mac & psp football manager 2008 october 2007 for pc mac & psp and march 2008 for xbox 360 football manager 2009 14 november 2008 for pc mac & psp football manager live 23 january 2009 football manager 2010 30 october 2009 for pc mac & psp and april for iphone football manager 2011 5 november 2010 for pc mac december for psp & iphone and april for ipad football manager 2012 21 october 2011 for pc mac psp december for iphone & ipad and april for android football manager 2013 november 2 2012 for pc mac psp ios android football manager 2014 31 october 2013 for pc mac linux ios android vita football manager 2015 7 november 2014 for pc mac linux ios android vita football manager 2016 13 november 2015 for pc mac linux eastside hockey manager nhl eastside hockey manager 2 july 2004 nhl eastside hockey manager 2005 27 may 2005 nhl eastside hockey manager 2005 north american version 27 september 2005 nhl eastside hockey manager 2007 22 september 2006 out of the park baseball manager out of the park baseball manager 2006 31 may 2006 out of the park baseball manager 2007 23 march 2007 this section needs expansion . you can help by adding to it . may 2010 accolades edit in 2010 co founders of sports interactive paul collyer and oliver collyer were appointed as members of the order of the british empire for their services to the computer game industry . in 2011 studio director of sports interactive miles jacobson was appointed as an officer of the order of the british empire again for service to the computer game industry . staff edit paul collyer chairman oliver collyer chairman miles jacobson studio director grant appleyard senior producer marc duffy product manager svein kvernoey technical director marc vaughan head of handheld development paul hecker producer bardi golriz producer neil dejyothin producer jean sunwoo producer & translator mark nutt handheld producer craig hunter artist chris rice artist ronnie ochero artist mark smith animator philip rolfe media mark woodger head of research & localisation dean gripton head researcher england pete sottrel research simon tipple research stephen davidson research david siddall research kevin turner programmer niall redmond programmer david crammond programmer dave owens programmer graeme kelly programmer risto riz remes programmer ed lambert programmer richard jones programmer martin smith programmer nick habershon programmer john schofield programmer okwaeze otusi programmer david soley programmer keith flannery programmer neil brock community administrator stuart warren qa manager ben kenney qa olly kenney qa glenn wakefield qa ant farley qa michael burling qa lucas weatherby qa stuart coleman qa alari naylor qa paul dejyothin it team navdeep dhanjal it team alex bell office manager alan granger digital marketing 5 references edit http www.sigames.com studio out of the park baseball announcement of game 1 http www.sigames.com studio meet.php external links edit official website official football manager website official forums v t e sega sammy holdings sega sammy corporation video game developement amplitude studios atlus creative assembly demiurge studios index corporation relic entertainment sega am2 sports interactive sega sports r & d sonic team three rings design animation tms entertainment marza animation planet resort sega live creation former subsidiary sims co. ltd. defunct amusement vision sega hitmaker sega racing studio segasoft sega studios san francisco sega wow smilebit technosoft v t e sega arcade systems arcade games pinball r 360 vr 1 home consoles sg 1000 master system genesis mega drive cd 32x saturn dreamcast portable devices game gear nomad vision educational consoles pico beena dual systems laseractive teradrive amstrad mega pc licensed clone consoles sega zone online gaming services sega meganet sega channel seganet all.net accessories dc broadband and modem adapter dreamcast gun dreamcast vga dreameye gd rom lock on master gear menacer sega card sega vr vmu related list of games video game franchises development studios sega sammy holdings csk holdings corporation sega v. accolade book sega category sega portal sega commons sega retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title sports interactive & oldid 742107422 categories sega divisions and subsidiariesvideo game development companiesvideo game companies of the united kingdommedia companies of the united kingdomsports media in the united kingdomhidden categories articles to be expanded from may 2010all 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