Blackburn Rovers

FM11 Release

Club
127Reputation
10Last season
—Squad value
31367Capacity

Squad strength

FMDB calculation
30Players
—Average age
—Under 21
122Average ability
149Average potential
—Squad value
£529,447Wage bill per week
17Nationalities
—Home-grown
—Expiring contracts
137CA16
157PA16

These are the FMDB's own figures over all 30 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 139, from the 30 strongest squad members.

Club

Full name
Blackburn Rovers
Short name
Blackburn
Nickname
—
Nation
England
Current division
English Premier Division
Continental competition
—
Stadium
Ewood Park
Founded
1875
Reputation
127
Colours
#0050D0 #FFFFFF
Other teams
—

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

30 people with a club_squad_number row for this teamSet-piece takers
Squad members with number, position, age, nationality, ability, contract, wage, value and last season
No start year CA PA Value Apps (Gls) 2009–10 HG Not in this export
1Paul William RobinsonGK—England1431522013-06-30£35,000—35 (0)—
3Martin Tony Waika OlssonML—Sweden1331602015-06-30£15,000—21 (1)—
4Christopher Veijeany SambaDC—The Congo1501602014-06-30£35,000—30 (4)—
5Gaël Givet-ViarosDC—France1481552013-06-30£34,999—34 (2)—
6Ryan William NelsenDC—New Zealand1391532012-06-30£35,000—28 (4)—
7Brett Michael EmertonMR—Australia1371482012-06-30£25,000—24 (0)—
8David John Ian DunnAMC—England1421462012-06-30£25,000—23 (9)—
9Nikola KalinicFC—Croatia1361682013-06-30£26,000—26 (2)—
10El Hadi Ousseynou DioufAMR—Senegal1331602012-06-30£30,000—26 (3)—
11Vincenzo GrellaDMC—Australia1351452012-06-30£20,000—15 (0)—
12Morten Gamst PedersenML—Norway1381552014-06-30£35,000—33 (3)—
13Mark BunnGK—England1191462012-06-30£4,000—32 (0)—
14Amine Linganzi KoumbaDMC—The Congo1121522013-06-30£10,000—1 (0)—
15Steven Kozlowski N'ZonziDMC—France1351602015-06-30£20,000—33 (2)—
16Jason Andre Davis RobertsFC—Grenada1261452011-06-30£35,000—29 (5)—
17Keith Joseph AndrewsMC—Republic of Ireland1251282013-06-30£15,999—32 (1)—
19Aaron DoranMR—Republic of Ireland901352012-06-30£4,000—10 (0)—
21BenjaniFC—Zimbabwe1331522011-06-30£10,000—10 (0)—
23David HoilettAMR—Canada1251552012-06-30£14,999—23 (0)—
25Alan JudgeMR—Republic of Ireland1061392011-06-30£1,500—36 (5)—
27Miguel Ángel Salgado FernándezDR—Spain1321622011-06-30£35,000—21 (0)—
28Phil JonesDC—England116-92015-06-30£12,000—9 (0)—
29Gavin GunningDC—Republic of Ireland92-62012-06-30£350—20 (0)—
30Maceo RigtersFC—Holland941202011-06-30£10,000—0 (0)—
31Grant HanleyDC—Scotland73-82015-06-30£1,000—1 (0)—
32Jason Roy BrownGK—Wales1221322011-06-30£4,000—4 (0)—
33Josh MorrisML—England73-72011-06-30£100—0 (0)—
34Frank FieldingGK—England951402012-06-30£2,500—18 (0)—
39Pascal ChimbondaDR—France1291452011-06-30£23,000—24 (1)—
41Mame Biram DioufFC—Senegal1321522013-07-01£10,000—34 (17)—

Sort by clicking a column header. Hide columns you do not need; the choice is remembered in this browser. Apps (Gls) is the 2009–10 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
Highest recorded potential ability across every team the club owns
Player Pos Age CA PA Value
Nikola KalinicFC—136168—
Miguel Ángel Salgado FernándezDR—132162—
El Hadi Ousseynou DioufAMR—133160—
Martin Tony Waika OlssonML—133160—
Christopher Veijeany SambaDC—150160—
Steven Kozlowski N'ZonziDMC—135160—

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 facilities17
  • Youth facilities—
  • Youth recruitment—
  • Junior coaching—
  • Corporate facilities—
Training ground
—
Academy
—
Morale
13
Season ticket holders
18200
Average attendance
25428
Lowest and highest
16000 / 31367

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
—
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
Blackburn Rovers league position by season11019 1985–861989–901993–941997–982001–022005–062009–10English Premier Division, 1992–93: position 4 of 22English Premier Division, 1993–94: position 2 of 22English Premier Division, 1994–95: position 1 of 22English Premier Division, 1995–96: position 7 of 20English Premier Division, 1996–97: position 13 of 20English Premier Division, 1997–98: position 6 of 20English Premier Division, 1998–99: position 19 of 20English Premier Division, 2001–02: position 10 of 20English Premier Division, 2002–03: position 6 of 20English Premier Division, 2003–04: position 15 of 20English Premier Division, 2004–05: position 15 of 20English Premier Division, 2005–06: position 6 of 20English Premier Division, 2006–07: position 10 of 20English Premier Division, 2007–08: position 7 of 20English Premier Division, 2008–09: position 15 of 20English Premier Division, 2009–10: position 10 of 20npower Championship, 1985–86: position 19 of 22npower Championship, 1986–87: position 12 of 22npower Championship, 1987–88: position 5 of 23npower Championship, 1988–89: position 5 of 24npower Championship, 1989–90: position 5 of 24npower Championship, 1990–91: position 19 of 24npower Championship, 1991–92: position 6 of 24npower Championship, 1999–00: position 11 of 24npower Championship, 2000–01: position 2 of 24
Finishing position as recorded, 1 at the top, from the 25 season rows on this page.
Blackburn Rovers league position by season
SeasonCompetitionPosition
2009–10English Premier Division10
2008–09English Premier Division15
2007–08English Premier Division7
2006–07English Premier Division10
2005–06English Premier Division6
2004–05English Premier Division15
2003–04English Premier Division15
2002–03English Premier Division6
2001–02English Premier Division10
2000–01npower Championship2
1999–00npower Championship11
1998–99English Premier Division19
1997–98English Premier Division6
1996–97English Premier Division13
1995–96English Premier Division7
1994–95English Premier Division1
1993–94English Premier Division2
1992–93English Premier Division4
1991–92npower Championship6
1990–91npower Championship19
1989–90npower Championship5
1988–89npower Championship5
1987–88npower Championship5
1986–87npower Championship12
1985–86npower Championship19

Honours

FMDB calculation

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
Capacity
31367
Seated
31367
Expandable to
40000
Built
1890-07-01
Pitch
115 × 76
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
Blackburn Rovers reputation across versions05K10K CM0102 RFM06 RFM10 RFM13 RFM16 RFM19 RFM22 RFM26 UReputation, CM0102 Release: 12 Reputation, CM0203 Release: 12 Reputation, CM0304 Release: 13 Reputation, CM0304 Update: 13 Reputation, FM05 Release: 130 Reputation, FM05 Update: 125 Reputation, FM06 Release: 127 Reputation, FM07 Release: 132 Reputation, FM07 Update: 135 Reputation, FM08 Release: 135 Reputation, FM09 Release: 134 Reputation, FM09 Update: 134 Reputation, FM10 Release: 128 Reputation, FM10 Update: 128 Reputation, FM11 Release: 127 Reputation, FM11 Update: 127 Reputation, FM12 Release: 129 Reputation, FM12 Update: 129 Reputation, FM13 Release: 119 Reputation, FM13 Update: 116 Reputation, FM14 Release: 110 Reputation, FM14 Update: 110 Reputation, FM15 Release: 111 Reputation, FM15 Update: 111 Reputation, FM16 Release: 111 Reputation, FM16 Update: 111 Reputation, FM17 Release: 112 Reputation, FM17 Update: 112 Reputation, FM18 Release: 108 Reputation, FM18 Update: 5,400 Reputation, FM19 Release: 111 Reputation, FM19 Update: 5,550 Reputation, FM20 Release: 112 Reputation, FM20 Update: 5,700 Reputation, FM21 Release: 114 Reputation, FM21 Update: 5,700 Reputation, FM22 Release: 5,700 Reputation, FM23 Release: 5,800 Reputation, FM24 Release: 5,850 Reputation, FM26 Release: 5,900 Reputation, FM26 Update: 5,900
Recorded reputation in each database where this uid resolves. Missing values remain gaps. Raw export scales may differ between versions.

Current staff

9 spells
Roles held now, from staff_history spells with no end date or one still in the future
Role Person Joined Until Rating FMDB calculation
CoachTerry McPhillips2006-06-01——
PhysioDavid Joyce2009-05-01——
ManagerIain Brunskill2008-08-20——
ManagerSam Allardyce2008-12-18——
ManagerPhil Cannon2009-09-18——
Fitness CoachMark Howard2008-07-08——
Fitness CoachAdrian Lamb2008-12-18——
Chief ScoutMartyn Glover2009-08-04——
Head PhysioDavid Fevre1999-07-01——

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
League seasons, as stored: points include any deduction applied at the time
Season Competition Pos Of P W D L GF GA Pts
2009–10English Premier Division102038131114415550
2008–09English Premier Division152038101117406041
2007–08English Premier Division72038151310504858
2006–07English Premier Division10203815716525452
2005–06English Premier Division6203819613514263
2004–05English Premier Division15203891514324342
2003–04English Premier Division15203812818515944
2002–03English Premier Division62038161210524360
2001–02English Premier Division102038121016555146
2000–01npower Championship2244626137763991
1999–00npower Championship112446151714555162
1998–99English Premier Division19203871417385235
1997–98English Premier Division62038161012575258
1996–97English Premier Division13203891514424342
1995–96English Premier Division7203818713614761
1994–95English Premier Division122422787803989
1993–94English Premier Division222422598633684
1992–93English Premier Division42242201111684671
1991–92npower Championship62446211114705374
1990–91npower Championship192446141022516652
1989–90npower Championship52446191710745974
1988–89npower Championship52446221113745977
1987–88npower Championship5234421149685277
1986–87npower Championship122242151017455555
1985–86npower Championship192242121317536249

Club records

More record types
Club records
Record type Holder Name as recorded Value
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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

Derbies involving this club
Derby Opponent W Needs data D L First match Needs data Reputation
East LancashireBurnley4115371888-11-03—

No partnerships recorded

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

Kits

Season and slots
  • Kit 1, style 2, -1
  • Kit 1, style -1, -1
  • Kit 1, style -1, -1
  • Kit 1, style -1, -1
  • Kit 1, style 101, -1
  • Kit 1, style 103, -1
  • Kit 1, style 205, -1
  • Kit 1, style 213, -1

Showing up to 8 of 24 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.