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Sheffield United

FM05 Update

Club
100Reputation
8Last season
—Squad value
32300Capacity

Squad strength

FMDB calculation
29Players
—Average age
—Under 21
106Average ability
130Average potential
—Squad value
£75,650Wage bill per week
6Nationalities
—Home-grown
—Expiring contracts
118CA16
139PA16

These are the FMDB's own figures over all 29 registered members of the primary team, not just the rows listed below; hover a figure for the population it was computed from. The wage bill is the sum of recorded contract wages, not an asserted payroll. This version's export records no game start year, so ages and the contract-expiry window cannot be computed. CA16 and PA16 are the means of the sixteen highest recorded abilities and potentials; a coded potential enters PA16 at its band's midpoint and the figure says how many did. Home-grown counts players whose person_trained_status names this club.

Best eleven

FMDB calculation
The FMDB's own selection: the highest recorded current ability per slot of the supplied 4-3-3, each player used once, and only where player_position.competency for that slot is at least 10. Mean ability of the eleven 120, from the 29 strongest squad members.

Club

Full name
Sheffield United
Short name
Sheff Utd
Nickname
—
Nation
England
City
—
Current division
English Championship
Continental competition
—
Stadium
Bramall Lane
Founded
1889
Reputation
100
Colours
#FFFFFF #E00000
Captain
—
Vice-captain
—
Other teams
—
Reputation scope
—
Reputation stars
—

Finances

Partial export
Balance
—
Transfer budget
—
Wage budget
—
Debt
—
Club value
—
Financial status
—
Owner
—
Shirt sponsor
—

Balance is club_finance_detail.cash and Debt its basic_loan_debt, as authored. Every other club_finance row — loans, gifts and FFP totals — is listed by the source family loan_source_type gives it, with the amount's meaning on hover, rather than summed into a figure the source does not state. Club value, a named owner and a shirt sponsor are not established by the export.

Squad

29 people with a club_squad_number row for this team
Columns

Columns

Set-piece takers
No start year CA PA Value Apps (Gls) 2004–05 HG Not in this export
1Paddy KennyGK—England1251402007-06-30£2,000—40 (0)—
2Leigh BrombyDC—England1251302006-06-30£2,000—46 (5)—
4Craig ShortDC—England1051402006-06-30£4,000—14 (1)—
5Chris MorganDC—England1151202008-06-30£3,500—41 (2)—
6Phil JagielkaDC—England1301402007-06-30£8,000—46 (0)—
7Paul IfillAMR—England1291552008-06-30£8,000—18 (4)—
9Neil ShipperleyFC—England1171372007-06-30£5,000———
10Danny WebberFC—England116-82008-06-30£3,500—34 (15)—
11Steven KabbaFC—England1151252006-06-30£2,000—11 (2)—
12Alan QuinnMC—Republic of Ireland1201352008-06-30£3,000—43 (7)—
13Phil BarnesGK—England1001062007-06-30£1,200—6 (0)—
14Lilian NalisDMC—France1081392006-06-30£4,000—39 (5)—
15Rob KozlukDR—England1101202006-06-30£1,500—10 (0)—
16Simon FrancisDR—England1101302007-06-30£2,000—6 (0)—
17Nick MontgomeryMC—England1051202006-06-30£3,500—25 (1)—
18Michael TongeML—England1231352006-06-30£4,000—34 (2)—
19Keith GillespieMR—Northern Ireland1051502006-06-30£2,000———
20Chris ArmstrongDL—England1001202005-12-31£2,000—0 (0)—
21Jonathan ForteAML—England1001202008-06-30£500—22 (1)—
22Ian RossMC—England80-72006-06-30£500—0 (0)—
23Kevan HurstMR—England851202006-06-30£500—15 (1)—
25Alan WrightDL—England1151402006-06-30£3,000—14 (0)—
26Derek GearyDR—Republic of Ireland1101202007-06-30£2,000—32 (1)—
29Luke BeckettFC—England1001202007-06-30£2,000—35 (18)—
30Paul ShawAMC—England1061352006-06-30£3,000—30 (9)—
34Gary MulliganFC—Republic of Ireland651052006-06-30£300—14 (3)—
37Kyle NixAML—Australia80-62006-06-30£350—0 (0)—
38Stephen QuinnMC—Republic of Ireland70-52006-06-30£300—0 (0)—
39Hao HaidongFC—China PR1181452008-06-30£2,000—11 (4)—

Sort by clicking a column header. Hide columns you do not need; the choice is remembered in this browser. Apps (Gls) is the 2004–05 season, the latest player_history season recorded for anyone in this squad; it is named explicitly because no database records the date the game starts on.

Highest potential

FMDB calculation
Player Pos Age CA PA Value
Paul IfillAMR—129155—
Keith GillespieMR—105150—
Hao HaidongFC—118145—
Craig ShortDC—105140—
Alan WrightDL—115140—
Paddy KennyGK—125140—

The highest recorded player.potential_ability across all 1 of this club's team, one row per person. A negative potential is a coded band rather than a fixed ability and is shown as the code it is, never ranked as a number. Ages are season-start ages where the export records a start year; the list is ranked on potential alone, so it is not an age-filtered wonderkid list.

Facilities

Training only in the export
  • Training facilities16
  • Youth facilities—
  • Youth recruitment—
  • Junior coaching—
  • Corporate facilities—
Training ground
—
Academy
—
Morale
12
Season ticket holders
—
Average attendance
22000
Lowest and highest
8000 / 26000

club_facility carries training facilities only, in every version: youth facilities, youth recruitment, junior coaching and academy category are not in the export. The training ground is the stadium row that club_server names.

Key staff

Chairman
—
Managing Director
—
Director of Football
—
Manager
—
Assistant Manager
—
Head of Youth Development
—

Roles held now from staff_history. "Unknown person" is a spell whose person uid this version does not contain.

League position by season

25 seasons on this page
Sheffield United league position by season11121 1980–811984–851988–891992–931996–972000–012004–05English Championship, 1984–85: position 18 of 22English Championship, 1985–86: position 7 of 22English Championship, 1986–87: position 9 of 22English Championship, 1987–88: position 21 of 23English Championship, 1989–90: position 2 of 24English Championship, 1994–95: position 8 of 24English Championship, 1995–96: position 9 of 24English Championship, 1996–97: position 5 of 24English Championship, 1997–98: position 6 of 24English Championship, 1998–99: position 8 of 24English Championship, 1999–00: position 16 of 24English Championship, 2000–01: position 10 of 24English Championship, 2001–02: position 13 of 24English Championship, 2002–03: position 3 of 24English Championship, 2003–04: position 8 of 24English Championship, 2004–05: position 8 of 24English Premier Division, 1990–91: position 13 of 20English Premier Division, 1991–92: position 9 of 22English Premier Division, 1992–93: position 14 of 22English Premier Division, 1993–94: position 20 of 22English League One, 1980–81: position 21 of 24English League One, 1982–83: position 11 of 24English League One, 1983–84: position 3 of 24English League One, 1988–89: position 2 of 24English League Two, 1981–82: position 1 of 24
Finishing position as recorded, 1 at the top, from the 25 season rows on this page.

Honours

FMDB calculation
4English FA Cup1925, 1915, 1902, 1899
1English League Two1982
1English Championship1953
1English Premier Division1898

Competitions won by any of this club's 1 recorded team, counted from comp_history. Every recorded season in this version. It records no cancelled, abandoned or joint-winner flags, so none are excluded. The newer nation_cup_history export covers national-team tournament runs; it does not establish club cup-run coverage.

Transfers

Exported; UI pending
Record signing
—
Record sale
—
Net spend
—
Date Player From or to Fee
————

Modern exports separate completed transfer events, agreed future moves and club fee records. This panel has not integrated them. Unknown fees and incomplete coverage cannot establish full net spend.

Stadium

In the export
Name
Bramall Lane
Capacity
32300
Seated
32300
Expandable to
36000
Built
1855-07-01
Pitch
112 × 72
Roof
—
Owner
—

Affiliates

Not in this export
Club Relationship Terms
———

Affiliations from club_link in both directions, with the yearly cost, dates, loan counts and wage share the row records. link_type_id has no lookup table in the catalog, so the relationship is shown as its code rather than given a name. Owned teams are listed separately under Other teams.

Fans

Not in this export
Supporter profile
—
Expectation
—
Season ticket waiting list
—

Supporter values are the researched 1–20 figures in club_supporter_profile; the expectation is the media's predicted finish in club_media_expectation; ticket prices are from club_finance_detail. Supporter-type percentages and a waiting list are not exported.

Across versions

Recorded
Sheffield United reputation across versions05K10K CM0102 RFM06 RFM10 RFM13 RFM16 RFM19 RFM22 RFM26 UReputation, CM0102 Release: 11 Reputation, CM0203 Release: 11 Reputation, CM0304 Release: 10 Reputation, CM0304 Update: 10 Reputation, FM05 Release: 100 Reputation, FM05 Update: 100 Reputation, FM06 Release: 102 Reputation, FM07 Release: 106 Reputation, FM07 Update: 106 Reputation, FM08 Release: 106 Reputation, FM09 Release: 104 Reputation, FM09 Update: 104 Reputation, FM10 Release: 5,200 Reputation, FM10 Update: 104 Reputation, FM11 Release: 5,150 Reputation, FM11 Update: 103 Reputation, FM12 Release: 5,100 Reputation, FM12 Update: 5,300 Reputation, FM13 Release: 5,300 Reputation, FM14 Release: 5,050 Reputation, FM14 Update: 4,900 Reputation, FM15 Release: 4,900 Reputation, FM15 Update: 4,900 Reputation, FM16 Release: 5,000 Reputation, FM16 Update: 5,000 Reputation, FM17 Release: 5,250 Reputation, FM17 Update: 5,250 Reputation, FM18 Release: 112 Reputation, FM18 Update: 5,700 Reputation, FM19 Release: 114 Reputation, FM19 Update: 5,700 Reputation, FM20 Release: 121 Reputation, FM20 Update: 6,300 Reputation, FM21 Release: 126 Reputation, FM21 Update: 6,350 Reputation, FM22 Release: 6,100 Reputation, FM23 Release: 6,050 Reputation, FM24 Update: 6,200 Reputation, FM26 Release: 6,200 Reputation, FM26 Update: 6,200
Recorded reputation in each database where this uid resolves. Missing values remain gaps. Raw export scales may differ between versions.

Current staff

0 spells
Role Person Joined Until Rating FMDB calculation
—————

Playing spells belong to a career and are shown on the person's own page. A further 0 current spells point at a person uid this version does not contain.

Season records

Points as stored, never recomputed
Season Competition Pos Of P W D L GF GA Pts
2004–05English Championship82446181315575667
2003–04English Championship82446201115655671
2002–03English Championship32446231112725280
2001–02English Championship132446151516535460
2000–01English Championship102446191116524968
1999–00English Championship162446131518597154
1998–99English Championship82446181315716667
1997–98English Championship62446191710695474
1996–97English Championship52446201313755273
1995–96English Championship92446161416575462
1994–95English Championship82446171712745568
1993–94English Premier Division20224281816426042
1992–93English Premier Division142242141018545352
1991–92English Premier Division9224216917656357
1990–91English Premier Division13203813718365546
1989–90English Championship2244624139785885
1988–89English League One2244625912935484
1987–88English Championship21234413724457446
1986–87English Championship92242151314504958
1985–86English Championship72242171114646362
1984–85English Championship182242101418546644
1983–84English League One32446241111865383
1982–83English League One11244619720626464
1981–82English League Two1244627154944196
1980–81English League One212446141220656340

Club records

More record types
Record type Holder Name as recorded Value
————

record_type is a raw code; the two rows read as most appearances and most goals. Attendance record, biggest win and heaviest defeat belong here too.

Derbies and partnerships

Derby Opponent W Needs data D L First match Needs data Reputation
———————

No partnerships recorded

club_partnership is empty or near-empty in most versions of the source.

Kits

Season and slots

    Showing up to 8 of 0 loaded kit rows. Legacy colour slots are shown. Modern kit-part and style exports now describe the parts, but these drawings have not integrated them.

    Data wishlist for this page

    20 data pointsWhole site
    • export_meta.game_start_year Season-start ages, under-21 count and this season's expiring contracts Now liveAges are taken at 1 July of the exported game start year and the expiry window closes on 30 June of the next; the convention is stated on every figure because no .dat database stores an in-game date. CSV-era versions carry no start year and say so.
    • player.current_ability, player.potential_ability over the squad CA16 and PA16 Now liveFMDB means of the sixteen highest recorded abilities and potentials in the primary squad; a coded potential is counted at its band midpoint (config/potential.php) and the figure says how many were.
    • player over club_squad_number Squad ability, potential, value and recorded wage totals Now liveFigures cover the whole primary-team squad with recorded-value coverage. League-relative ability stars are not implemented.
    • player.current_ability and player_position Best eleven Now liveFMDB selects eligible players for a fixed 4-3-3 from at most 60 candidates. Empty positions stay blank and a team average requires eleven filled slots.
    • person_trained_status, person_days_at_location Training days and home-grown squad status Partial exportThe squad table and the home-grown count show recorded trained-at-club and trained-in-nation relationships where the version exports them. Rule codes are not interpreted and training days are not shown; neither is a ruling on eligibility under a competition rule.
    • player.current_ability, player.potential_ability Squad member ability and potential Now liveThe squad table displays stored figures where recorded; coded potential is not a fixed ability.
    • player_history Squad appearances and goals for a named season Now liveThe page uses the latest season recorded for anyone in the squad, not an inferred last season relative to a game date.
    • player.potential_ability across the club teams Highest potential at the club Now livePlayers are deduplicated across the club teams. This is not an age-based wonderkid list.
    • club_finance, club_finance_source, club_finance_detail, club_director Balance, budgets, debt rows, embargo and directors Partial exportCash balance, basic loan debt, the embargo flag and directors are displayed, and every other finance row is listed by its loan_source_type family with the amount meaning on hover. Club valuation, a named owner, a financial-status label and a shirt sponsor are not established: owner type, financial state and income type are raw codes.
    • club_facility, club_server.training_ground_stadium_uid Youth facilities, recruitment, junior coaching and academy status Needs source dataOnly training_facilities is present in any version; the training ground is shown where club_server names one. A corporate revenue field is not a facilities rating.
    • club identity Club nickname Needs source dataThe current club catalog has no nickname column; a short name is not a nickname.
    • transfer_event, future_transfer, club_transfer_record Transfers and record signing or sale Exported; UI pendingCompleted FM24/FM26 events, agreed future moves and recorded club fee records now have separate tables. They are not integrated into this panel; incomplete or unknown fees cannot support complete net-spend totals.
    • club_link Affiliations and agreement terms Partial exportLinks in both directions are displayed with cost, dates, loan counts and wage share. link_type_id, flags and reasons have no lookup, so the relationship is shown as a code; club_partnership is a player-pair relation.
    • comp_history for every recorded club team Confirmed titles with competition and years Now liveThe honours calculation covers all recorded club teams, with edition and stage checks where available. nation_cup_history describes national-team tournament runs, not club cup coverage.
    • stadium Stadium capacity, build date, pitch dimensions, roof and owner Now liveThese fields are rendered where recorded. Pitch type and heating remain available source fields not shown in this club panel.
    • staff_history, staff_ability, staff_coaching Staff quality by recorded job Now liveFMDB computes role-specific attribute means with coverage thresholds; these are not stored scouting stars or a staff-subtype census.
    • club_supporter_profile, club_media_expectation Supporter loyalty, passion, patience, affluence, temperament, expectations and media prediction Now liveResearched FM23+ supporter values and the predicted league finish are displayed where exported; computed supporter-type percentages are deliberately absent.
    • derby Derby record and history Now liveRecorded results are oriented to this club; dates and reputation remain missing where unrecorded.
    • club across versions Reputation across versions Partial exportRaw reputation history is live. Squad value and average ability across versions are not implemented; reputation-scale integration is also pending.
    • club_kit, club_kit_part, kit_display_type, kit_style Kit seasons, parts and patterns Partial exportThe page shows legacy kit rows and colour slots. Modern exports now identify parts, goalkeeper kits and style lookups; drawings have not integrated them, and numbering differs by era.

    Reviewed 30 September 2026 against the current schema and page implementation. “Now live” means implemented where data is recorded; “Exported; UI pending” means the schema has data this page does not yet use. Tables and coverage vary by version. Missing values stay blank.