van der Sar1
Squad number 1, club colours

Edwin van der Sar

PlayerNED Contracted to 2010Home-grown —
170 Current ability
180 Potential ability
—Estimated value
£50,000Weekly wage
130Caps

Attributes

Technical

  • Corners— —
  • Crossing— —
  • Dribbling— 4
  • Finishing— —
  • First touch— 13
  • Free kicks— —
  • Heading— 7
  • Long shots— —
  • Long throws— —
  • Marking— —
  • Passing— 10
  • Penalties— —
  • Tackling— 9
  • Technique— 12
  • Versatility— 1

Mental

  • Aggression— 7
  • Anticipation— 16
  • Bravery— 12
  • Composure— 16
  • Concentration— 16
  • Consistency— 17
  • Decisions— 15
  • Determination— 16
  • Dirtiness— 3
  • Flair— 2
  • Important matches— 15
  • Leadership— 13
  • Off the ball— —
  • Positioning— 16
  • Team work— 12
  • Vision— 5
  • Work rate— 8

Physical

  • Acceleration— 7
  • Agility— 15
  • Balance— 14
  • Injury proneness— 9
  • Jumping reach— 17
  • Natural fitness— 13
  • Pace— 7
  • Stamina— 12
  • Strength— 13
15–2011–146–101–5Not recorded▲ ▼ change across versions

This is the first version of its game, so there is no earlier database in the same game to compare with. A + marks a value this version records and the earlier one does not; a ! marks a stored value outside the 1–20 scale, which is left unsubtracted.

Positions

  • GKGoalkeeper20natural
  • SWSweeper1awkward
  • DLDefender Left1awkward
  • DCDefender Central1awkward
  • DRDefender Right1awkward
  • DMDefensive Midfielder1awkward
  • MLMidfielder Left1awkward
  • MCMidfielder Central1awkward
  • MRMidfielder Right1awkward
  • AMLAttacking Midfielder Left1awkward
  • AMCAttacking Midfielder Central1awkward
  • AMRAttacking Midfielder Right1awkward
  • STStriker1awkward
  • WBLWing Back Left1awkward
  • WBRWing Back Right1awkward
Competency on the game's 1–20 scale. A dashed ring is a position with no recorded competency.
GK 20 SW 1 DL 1 DC 1 DR 1 DMC 1 ML 1 MC 1 MR 1 AML 1 AMC 1 AMR 1 FC 1 WBL 1 WBR 1

Best roles

FMDB calculation
Best roles for the strongest position
Role Duty Suitability
GoalkeeperGKDefend15.9 / 20
Sweeper KeeperGKSupport13.6 / 20

The FMDB's own figure, not a game scouting star: the weighted mean of the recorded attributes for each role, on the source's own 1–20 scale, with a role's key attributes counted 2× its preferable ones. Roles are offered only for positions with a recorded competency of at least 10, and a role scored from under 70% of its attributes is withheld rather than published from a handful of values.

Personal information

Full name
—
Common name
—
Date of birth
1970-10-29
Nationality
Holland
Other nationalities
—
Birth city
Voorhout
Height and weight
—
Youth club
—
Agent
—
Languages
Dutch, English, Italian

Club contract

Squad number
1
Type
—
Squad status
—
Joined
2005-06-10
Contract start
—
Expires
2010-06-30
Weekly wage
£50,000
Estimated value
—
Transfer status
—
Asking price
—

Joined is the club-join date on the person row. Contract start is the date the current contract was last signed, as the modern export records it; CSV-era versions record only the join date. Type comes from person_contract_detail where the version decodes it.

Player profile

Current ability
170
Potential ability
180
Home reputation
175
Current reputation
170
World reputation
165
Personality
—
Media handling
—
Favourite squad number
—

Ability and reputation are stored on the game's internal scale, which runs to about 200, and shown unchanged; the stars in the header are that figure out of five.

Home-grown and training

Exported; UI pending
Trained in Days Since
———
Home-grown at club
—
Home-grown in nation
—
Trained in the EU
—
Qualifies as
—

Modern exports include training days and recorded trained status. This panel has not integrated them; eligibility must respect the recorded rule and location type.

Personality

  • Adaptability 20
  • Ambition 15
  • Controversy 4
  • Loyalty 16
  • Pressure 19
  • Professionalism 20
  • Sportsmanship 16
  • Temperament 20

Personality is stored on the same 1–20 scale as the attributes. A dash is a value the export did not record.

Feet

  • Left foot 14
  • Right foot 20

Goalkeeping

  • Aerial ability 18
  • Command of area 15
  • Communication 17
  • Gk eccentricity 9
  • Handling 17
  • Kicking 17
  • One on ones 14
  • Reflexes 15
  • Rushing out 9
  • Tendency to punch 14
  • Throwing 10

Across versions

Recorded
Edwin van der Sar current and potential ability across versions0100200 CM0102 RCM0304 RFM05 RFM06 RFM07 UFM09 RFM10 RFM11 RFM11 UCurrent ability, CM0102 Release: 150 Current ability, CM0203 Release: 150 Current ability, CM0304 Release: 150 Current ability, CM0304 Update: 150 Current ability, FM05 Release: 161 Current ability, FM05 Update: 166 Current ability, FM06 Release: 170 Current ability, FM07 Release: 176 Current ability, FM07 Update: 176 Current ability, FM08 Release: 172 Current ability, FM09 Release: 174 Current ability, FM09 Update: 171 Current ability, FM10 Release: 170 Current ability, FM10 Update: 170 Current ability, FM11 Release: 170 Current ability, FM11 Update: 170 Potential ability, CM0102 Release: 165 Potential ability, CM0203 Release: 165 Potential ability, CM0304 Release: 170 Potential ability, CM0304 Update: 170 Potential ability, FM05 Release: 176 Potential ability, FM05 Update: 175 Potential ability, FM06 Release: 175 Potential ability, FM07 Release: 178 Potential ability, FM07 Update: 178 Potential ability, FM08 Release: 178 Potential ability, FM09 Release: 178 Potential ability, FM09 Update: 178 Potential ability, FM10 Release: 180 Potential ability, FM10 Update: 180 Potential ability, FM11 Release: 180 Potential ability, FM11 Update: 180
Current ability 170Potential ability 180
Recorded ability in each database where this uid resolves. Missing values remain gaps. Negative potential codes are listed in the data table, not plotted as fixed abilities.
Edwin van der Sar current and potential ability across versions
VersionCurrent abilityPotential ability
CM0102 Release150165
CM0203 Release150165
CM0304 Release150170
CM0304 Update150170
FM05 Release161176
FM05 Update166175
FM06 Release170175
FM07 Release176178
FM07 Update176178
FM08 Release172178
FM09 Release174178
FM09 Update171178
FM10 Release170180
FM10 Update170180
FM11 Release170180
FM11 Update170180
Edwin van der Sar weekly wage across versions£0£50K CM0102 RCM0304 RFM05 RFM06 RFM07 UFM09 RFM10 RFM11 RFM11 UWeekly wage, CM0102 Release: £0 Weekly wage, CM0203 Release: £0 Weekly wage, CM0304 Release: £15,000 Weekly wage, CM0304 Update: £15,000 Weekly wage, FM05 Release: £35,000 Weekly wage, FM05 Update: £40,000 Weekly wage, FM06 Release: £40,000 Weekly wage, FM07 Release: £40,000 Weekly wage, FM07 Update: £40,000 Weekly wage, FM08 Release: £50,000 Weekly wage, FM09 Release: £50,000 Weekly wage, FM09 Update: £50,000 Weekly wage, FM10 Release: £50,000 Weekly wage, FM10 Update: £50,000 Weekly wage, FM11 Release: £50,000 Weekly wage, FM11 Update: £50,000
Recorded weekly wage (GBP) in each database where this uid resolves. Missing values remain gaps. The table below the chart also carries the recorded estimated value in each of those databases.
Edwin van der Sar weekly wage across versions
VersionWeekly wageEstimated value
CM0102 Release£0—
CM0203 Release£0—
CM0304 Release£15,000—
CM0304 Update£15,000—
FM05 Release£35,000—
FM05 Update£40,000—
FM06 Release£40,000—
FM07 Release£40,000—
FM07 Update£40,000—
FM08 Release£50,000—
FM09 Release£50,000—
FM09 Update£50,000—
FM10 Release£50,000—
FM10 Update£50,000—
FM11 Release£50,000—
FM11 Update£50,000—

Attribute summary

Attribute summary Attribute summary: 5 of 6 values recorded, plotted on a 1 to 20 scale. Axes omitted because the value is not recorded: Shooting. Attribute summary: 5 of 6 values recorded, plotted on a 1 to 20 scale. Axes omitted because the value is not recorded: Shooting.
5 of 6 recorded Not recorded: Shooting Derived by thefmdb by averaging the attributes listed below. The Football Manager database stores no such summary.
Attribute summary — every value plotted above, plus the ones that are not recorded.
AttributeValueCoverage
Pace 7.0 2 of 2 recorded
Physical 14.0 6 of 6 recorded
Technical 9.8 4 of 5 recorded
Mental 13.0 8 of 9 recorded
Defending 11.0 4 of 5 recorded
Shooting Not recorded 0 of 3 recorded — not enough to average
Axis Mean Coverage
Pace7.02 of 2 recorded
Physical14.06 of 6 recorded
Technical9.84 of 5 recorded
Mental13.08 of 9 recorded
Defending11.04 of 5 recorded
Shooting—0 of 3 recorded — not enough to average

Percentile wheel

No percentile distribution has been built for this version.
Axis Percentile Measured against
———

Injuries

0 recorded
Injury history from player_injury, most recent first
Injury From Returned Side Severity Flags
——————

Bars are the recorded absence; amber is over three weeks, red over two months. severity is a raw number from the source.

Clauses and bonuses

None recorded
Clause Amount Applies
———

Recorded clauses come from person_contract_clause and clause_type. Modern person_contract_bonus rows, where a contract has them, are counted here and wait for clause-specific interpretation before any amount is shown.

International

Youth level pending
Senior caps and goals
130 caps
Under-21
—
Youth
—
Declared for
—
Eligible for
—
Debut
—
First goal
—

Caps, goals, previous nations, debut and first goal come from person_international_record where the version exports it; debut and first-goal dates are decoded in FM24 and rarely elsewhere. Versions without the table show senior caps from the player row only. Eligibility lists the nations person_nationality marks eligible-for. No export establishes youth-level records. Missing fields stay blank.

Honours

Partial export
—

FM24 exports achievements with event codes and date precision in starting_person_history and starting_person_history_date. Other versions remain unsupported, and this panel still needs validated event interpretation. A club spell during a winning season does not prove a personal medal. The awards panel below shows recorded placings.

Career

0 marked current
Career spells from staff_history
Club Role From To Status
—————
Career apps and goals
543 (1)
Clubs
—
Loans
0
First professional contract
—

Career appearances and goals combine the recorded player_history rows this page has checked do not overlap: every detail row, plus a summary row only where no detail row covers the same season at the same club. The clubs count is the distinct clubs in the career spells above. The date of a first professional contract is not derivable from the earliest history row.

Season record

Season record

One row per season as the export recorded it. A transfer fee is shown where a figure was stored; where the source recorded only a sentinel — "Undisclosed fee", "Unknown fee" — that sentinel is printed instead. A fee of zero is a fee of zero, not a missing one.

Season-by-season record from player_history.
Season Club Division Apps Goals Transfer fee Joined Left
1990–91 AFC Ajax — 9 0 — 1990-07-01 —
1991–92 AFC Ajax — 0 0 — — —
1992–93 AFC Ajax — 19 0 — — —
1993–94 AFC Ajax — 32 0 — — —
1994–95 AFC Ajax — 33 0 — — —
1995–96 AFC Ajax — 33 0 — — —
1996–97 AFC Ajax — 33 0 — — —
1997–98 AFC Ajax — 33 1 — — —
1999–00 Juventus — 32 0 — 1999-08-01 —
2003–04 Fulham — 37 0 — — —
2002–03 Fulham — 19 0 — — —
2004–05 Fulham — 34 0 £2,000,000 — 2005-06-10
2000–01 Juventus — 34 0 £7,000,000 — 2001-07-31
1998–99 AFC Ajax — 26 0 £7,700,000 — 1999-08-01
2001–02 Fulham — 37 0 — 2001-07-31 —
2005–06 Manchester United — 38 0 — 2005-06-10 —
2006–07 Manchester United — 32 0 — — —
2007–08 Manchester United — 29 0 — — —
2008–09 Manchester United — 33 0 — — —

Similar players

FMDB calculation

Nearest recorded attribute profiles among 66 players in English Premier Division within 15 current ability, compared on the attributes both record. Not a whole-database search. The match is the mean absolute difference over those attributes expressed against the 1–20 scale; an attribute only one of the two records is left out rather than counted as a gap of fourteen.

National-team spells

No national-team spells recorded

Nothing in person_nation_contract for this person, although 130 international appearances are recorded on the player row.

Bans and absences

Bans and absences from person_ban
Type From To Matches Competition Nation
——————

Awards

0 recorded
Season Award Placed
———

Likes and dislikes

In the export
Favoured clubs
—
Disliked clubs
—
Favoured people
—
Disliked people
—

Other relations

Typed relations from person_other_relation
Target type Target Rating
———

Familiarity

Familiarity from person_familiarity
Target type Target Level Linked
————

Preferred moves

Needs mapping

The source records preferred moves as bits. Names need a validated export mapping.

Data wishlist for this page

18 data pointsWhole site
  • person_days_at_location, person_trained_status Training days and recorded home-grown status Exported; UI pendingThe modern schema includes days, age bands and trained-at-club or trained-in-nation relationships. Rule codes and target kinds must be respected; these rows do not prove eligibility under every competition rule.
  • person names, date_of_birth, height_cm, weight_kg Names, birth date, height and weight Now liveRecorded identity and measurements are displayed; missing values stay blank.
  • export_meta.reference_date Age at the in-game date No reference dateThe base .dat source does not store an authoritative reference date. Birth year alone cannot establish an exact age.
  • person_nationality, person.declared_nation_uid Additional nationalities and declared nation Now liveSecond, third and resident nationalities with their source relationship labels, and the declared nation, are displayed where the version exports them; CSV-era versions say so.
  • person_contract_detail, person_club_status Contract type, squad status and explicit unattached status Partial exportContract type is displayed where contract_status is decoded (FM24); the FM26 exports carry the column as NULL on every row. squad_status has no lookup table and has_no_club is not yet used; a missing contract is not evidence of free agency.
  • playing-time promises and market status Playing-time promise, transfer or loan listing and asking price Needs source dataThese facts are not established by the current contract-detail or club-status columns.
  • person_contract_clause, person_contract_bonus Contract clauses and bonuses Partial exportRecorded clauses are displayed. Starting-contract bonus rows are counted with their raw type codes; cash and misc need clause-specific interpretation before any amount or condition is shown.
  • agent identity and representation Agent Needs source dataThe current catalog has no agent identity or representation relation.
  • player attribute tables and PlayerRoles Role suitability Now liveFMDB calculates its own weighted attribute scores for competent positions, with coverage thresholds; these are not stored scouting stars.
  • attribute tables in the previous version of the same game Attribute changes since the previous version Now liveComparisons distinguish a changed value, newly recorded data, missing data and off-scale values.
  • player and person_club_contract across versions Ability, potential, value and wage across versions Now liveCharts use recorded values after identity checks in each target database. Missing values and coded potential are not invented chart points.
  • person personality attributes; preferred_move.bit_index Personality, media handling and preferred-move labels Needs validationPersonality scores and move bits are recorded. Validated labels and era-specific mappings are still missing.
  • person_international_record Senior and under-21 goals, caps and debut details Now liveSenior and under-21 caps and goals, previous nations, debut and first goal are displayed where the version exports them; CSV-era versions fall back to senior caps from the player row. Youth categories are not established.
  • starting_person_history, starting_person_history_date Personal honours and milestones Partial exportFM24 achievements include record_type, job, flags and date precision. Other versions remain unsupported; the page still needs validated event interpretation. Club membership in a winning season does not prove a medal.
  • player_history Career totals and recorded season history with fees Now liveTotals use bounded history and exclude overlapping summary rows. Coverage depends on the selected player and version.
  • player attribute vectors within a bounded division cohort Similar players Now liveFMDB compares shared recorded attributes within the documented ability band and candidate cap; this is not a whole-database search.
  • award_history_winner and person relationship tables Recorded awards, liked and disliked clubs and people Now liveOnly resolving identities are linked; missing relationships remain missing.
  • explicit youth and first-professional-contract events Youth club and first professional contract Needs source dataAn earliest career row, current contract start or forced initial contract date does not establish either fact.

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.