It is available for Microsoft Windows and Mac, and there is no PlayStation Portable version as there was in Championship Manager 2007.

[1] Users can now play in a multi-player mode, meaning that they can have more than one person on an account.

Furthermore, users can manage nations and can apply "Club Benefactor", which lets the user have more money, although these additions were added in the previous Championship Manager.

The game uses ProZone tool to give a comprehensive database of player statistics.

Championship Manager 2008 received average reviews but was criticised by GameSpot because it "ultimately fails because it doesn't seem to know who it's aiming at", and gave it a score of "6".