Van der Heyden3
Squad number 3, club colours

Peter Van der Heyden

PlayerBEL Contracted to 2011Home-grown —
115 Current ability
132 Potential ability
—Estimated value
£6,000Weekly wage
22Caps

Attributes

Technical

  • Corners· 13
  • Crossing· 11
  • Dribbling· 11
  • Finishing· 6
  • First touch· 9
  • Free kicks· 10
  • Heading· 11
  • Long shots· 12
  • Long throws· 16
  • Marking· 10
  • Passing· 11
  • Penalties· 10
  • Tackling· 13
  • Technique· 11
  • Versatility· 16

Mental

  • Aggression· 14
  • Anticipation· 13
  • Bravery· 12
  • Composure· 10
  • Concentration· 11
  • Consistency▲1 13
  • Decisions· 11
  • Determination· 16
  • Dirtiness· 11
  • Flair· 12
  • Important matches· 15
  • Leadership· 15
  • Off the ball· 9
  • Positioning· 11
  • Team work▲2 16
  • Vision▼2 10
  • Work rate· 16

Physical

  • Acceleration· 12
  • Agility· 11
  • Balance· 13
  • Injury proneness· 16
  • Jumping reach· 13
  • Natural fitness· 12
  • Pace· 11
  • Stamina· 12
  • Strength· 14
15–2011–146–101–5Not recorded▲ ▼ change across versions

Change against FM11 Release, the previous version of this game. A value the earlier database did not record is marked newly recorded, not an increase from zero. 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

  • GKGoalkeeper—not recorded
  • SWSweeper9unconvincing
  • DLDefender Left20natural
  • DCDefender Central9unconvincing
  • DRDefender Right—not recorded
  • DMDefensive Midfielder14competent
  • MLMidfielder Left14competent
  • MCMidfielder Central9unconvincing
  • MRMidfielder Right—not recorded
  • AMLAttacking Midfielder Left9unconvincing
  • AMCAttacking Midfielder Central—not recorded
  • AMRAttacking Midfielder Right—not recorded
  • STStriker—not recorded
  • WBLWing Back Left18accomplished
  • WBRWing Back Right—not recorded
Competency on the game's 1–20 scale. A dashed ring is a position with no recorded competency.
DL 20 WBL 18 DMC 14 ML 14 SW 9 DC 9 MC 9 AML 9

Best roles

FMDB calculation
Best roles for the strongest position
Role Duty Suitability
Defensive MidfielderDMCDefend13.0 / 20
Wide MidfielderMLSupport12.6 / 20
Full BackDLDefend12.2 / 20
Wing BackDLSupport12.1 / 20
Anchor ManDMCDefend11.8 / 20
Inverted Wing BackDLSupport11.5 / 20
Complete Wing BackWBLAttack11.2 / 20
Deep-Lying PlaymakerDMCSupport11.1 / 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
1976-07-16
Nationality
Belgium
Other nationalities
—
Birth city
Aalst
Height and weight
—
Youth club
—
Agent
—
Languages
Dutch, French, English, German

Club contract

Squad number
3
Type
—
Squad status
—
Joined
2010-01-21
Contract start
—
Expires
2011-06-30
Weekly wage
£6,000
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
115
Potential ability
132
Home reputation
110
Current reputation
117
World reputation
75
Personality
—
Media handling
—
Favourite squad number
3

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 15
  • Ambition 16
  • Controversy 12
  • Loyalty 16
  • Pressure 12
  • Professionalism 15
  • Sportsmanship 14
  • Temperament 12

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 20
  • Right foot 12

Goalkeeping

No goalkeeping attributes recorded

Shown only when at least one value in player_goalkeeper_attributes is recorded.

Across versions

Recorded
Peter Van der Heyden current and potential ability across versions0100200 CM0203 RFM05 UFM08 RFM10 UFM12 UFM14 UFM16 UCurrent ability, CM0203 Release: 145 Current ability, CM0304 Release: 137 Current ability, CM0304 Update: 137 Current ability, FM05 Release: 142 Current ability, FM05 Update: 144 Current ability, FM06 Release: 139 Current ability, FM07 Release: 125 Current ability, FM07 Update: 125 Current ability, FM08 Release: 125 Current ability, FM09 Release: 115 Current ability, FM09 Update: 115 Current ability, FM10 Release: 115 Current ability, FM10 Update: 116 Current ability, FM11 Release: 115 Current ability, FM11 Update: 115 Current ability, FM12 Release: 113 Current ability, FM12 Update: 113 Current ability, FM13 Release: 110 Current ability, FM13 Update: 100 Current ability, FM14 Release: 100 Current ability, FM14 Update: 100 Current ability, FM15 Release: 90 Current ability, FM15 Update: 90 Current ability, FM16 Release: 80 Current ability, FM16 Update: 80 Potential ability, CM0203 Release: 147 Potential ability, CM0304 Release: 142 Potential ability, CM0304 Update: 142 Potential ability, FM05 Release: 144 Potential ability, FM05 Update: 145 Potential ability, FM06 Release: 145 Potential ability, FM07 Release: 130 Potential ability, FM07 Update: 130 Potential ability, FM08 Release: 130 Potential ability, FM09 Release: 120 Potential ability, FM09 Update: 120 Potential ability, FM10 Release: 120 Potential ability, FM10 Update: 132 Potential ability, FM11 Release: 132 Potential ability, FM11 Update: 132 Potential ability, FM12 Release: 132 Potential ability, FM12 Update: 132 Potential ability, FM13 Release: 132 Potential ability, FM13 Update: 132 Potential ability, FM14 Release: 132 Potential ability, FM14 Update: 132 Potential ability, FM15 Release: 132 Potential ability, FM15 Update: 132 Potential ability, FM16 Release: 132 Potential ability, FM16 Update: 132
Current ability 115Potential ability 132
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.
Peter Van der Heyden current and potential ability across versions
VersionCurrent abilityPotential ability
CM0203 Release145147
CM0304 Release137142
CM0304 Update137142
FM05 Release142144
FM05 Update144145
FM06 Release139145
FM07 Release125130
FM07 Update125130
FM08 Release125130
FM09 Release115120
FM09 Update115120
FM10 Release115120
FM10 Update116132
FM11 Release115132
FM11 Update115132
FM12 Release113132
FM12 Update113132
FM13 Release110132
FM13 Update100132
FM14 Release100132
FM14 Update100132
FM15 Release90132
FM15 Update90132
FM16 Release80132
FM16 Update80132
Peter Van der Heyden weekly wage across versions£0£15K CM0203 RFM05 UFM08 RFM10 UFM12 UFM14 UFM16 UWeekly wage, CM0203 Release: £2,500 Weekly wage, FM07 Release: £15,000 Weekly wage, FM07 Update: £15,000 Weekly wage, FM08 Release: £15,000 Weekly wage, FM10 Update: £6,000 Weekly wage, FM11 Release: £6,000 Weekly wage, FM11 Update: £6,000 Weekly wage, FM12 Release: £1,800 Weekly wage, FM12 Update: £1,800
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.
Peter Van der Heyden weekly wage across versions
VersionWeekly wageEstimated value
CM0203 Release£2,500—
CM0304 Release——
CM0304 Update——
FM05 Release——
FM05 Update——
FM06 Release——
FM07 Release£15,000—
FM07 Update£15,000—
FM08 Release£15,000—
FM09 Release——
FM09 Update——
FM10 Release——
FM10 Update£6,000—
FM11 Release£6,000—
FM11 Update£6,000—
FM12 Release£1,800—
FM12 Update£1,800—
FM13 Release——
FM13 Update——
FM14 Release——
FM14 Update——
FM15 Release——
FM15 Update——
FM16 Release——
FM16 Update——

Attribute summary

Attribute summary Attribute summary: 6 of 6 values recorded, plotted on a 1 to 20 scale. Attribute summary: 6 of 6 values recorded, plotted on a 1 to 20 scale.
6 of 6 recorded 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 11.5 2 of 2 recorded
Physical 12.5 6 of 6 recorded
Technical 10.6 5 of 5 recorded
Mental 12.4 9 of 9 recorded
Defending 11.4 5 of 5 recorded
Shooting 9.3 3 of 3 recorded
Axis Mean Coverage
Pace11.52 of 2 recorded
Physical12.56 of 6 recorded
Technical10.65 of 5 recorded
Mental12.49 of 9 recorded
Defending11.45 of 5 recorded
Shooting9.33 of 3 recorded

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
22 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
377 (22)
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
1999–00 VC Eendracht Aalst 2002 — 30 4 £420,000 — 2000-06-30
2000–01 Club Brugge KV — 32 2 — 2000-07-01 —
2001–02 Club Brugge KV — 26 1 — — —
1997–98 FCV Dender E.H. — 31 3 £278,000 — 1998-06-30
1996–97 FCV Dender E.H. — 32 3 — — —
1998–99 VC Eendracht Aalst 2002 — 28 4 — 1998-07-01 —
2002–03 Club Brugge KV — 30 1 — — —
2003–04 Club Brugge KV — 32 0 — — —
2004–05 Club Brugge KV — 30 3 £0 — 2005-06-30
1995–96 FCV Dender E.H. — 20 0 — 1994-07-01 —
2005–06 VfL Wolfsburg — 24 0 — 2005-07-01 —
2006–07 VfL Wolfsburg — 18 0 — — —
2008–09 1.FSV Mainz 05 — 17 1 — 2008-07-01 —
2007–08 VfL Wolfsburg II — 8 0 — — —
2007–08 VfL Wolfsburg — 1 0 £0 — 2008-06-30
2008–09 1.FSV Mainz 05 II — 1 0 — — —
2009–10 1.FSV Mainz 05 — 8 0 £0 — 2010-01-20
2009–10 Club Brugge KV — 9 0 — 2010-01-21 —

Similar players

FMDB calculation

Nearest recorded attribute profiles among 120 players in Belgian Pro League 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 22 international appearances are recorded on the player row.

Bans and absences

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