Boston United

FM17 Update

Club
45Reputation
5Last season
—Squad value
6643Capacity

Squad strength

FMDB calculation
2Players
—Average age
—Under 21
55Average ability
69Average potential
—Squad value
£450Wage bill per week
1Nationalities
—Home-grown
—Expiring contracts
55CA16
69PA16

These are the FMDB's own figures over all 2 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. 2 of 11 slots could be filled from the 2 strongest squad members; the rest are left blank and no team average is published.

Club

Full name
Boston United
Short name
Boston Utd
Nickname
—
Nation
England
City
Boston
Continental competition
—
Founded
1933
Reputation
45
Colours
—
Vice-captain
Shane Clarke
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

2 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) 2015–16 HG Not in this export
19Waide Simon FairhurstFC—England64852017-06-30£250—11 (0)—
23Nathaniel BrownDC—England45532017-06-30£200—22 (0)—

Sort by clicking a column header. Hide columns you do not need; the choice is remembered in this browser. Apps (Gls) is the 2015–16 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
Waide Simon FairhurstFC—6485—
Nathaniel BrownDC—4553—

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 facilities8
  • Youth facilities—
  • Youth recruitment—
  • Junior coaching—
  • Corporate facilities—
Training ground
—
Academy
—
Morale
12
Season ticket holders
500
Average attendance
1358
Lowest and highest
700 / 7000

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
Martyn Bunce
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
Boston United league position by season11223 1991–921995–961999–002003–042007–082011–122015–16Vanarama National League North, 2007–08: position 10 of 22Vanarama National League North, 2010–11: position 3 of 21Vanarama National League North, 2011–12: position 11 of 22Vanarama National League North, 2012–13: position 16 of 22Vanarama National League North, 2013–14: position 6 of 22Vanarama National League North, 2014–15: position 3 of 22Vanarama National League North, 2015–16: position 5 of 22English Northern Premier League Premier Division, 1993–94: position 3 of 22English Northern Premier League Premier Division, 1994–95: position 5 of 22English Northern Premier League Premier Division, 1995–96: position 2 of 22English Northern Premier League Premier Division, 1996–97: position 6 of 23English Northern Premier League Premier Division, 1997–98: position 2 of 22English Northern Premier League Premier Division, 2008–09: position 16 of 22English Northern Premier League Premier Division, 2009–10: position 3 of 20Sky Bet League Two, 2002–03: position 15 of 24Sky Bet League Two, 2003–04: position 11 of 24Sky Bet League Two, 2004–05: position 16 of 24Sky Bet League Two, 2005–06: position 11 of 24Sky Bet League Two, 2006–07: position 23 of 24Vanarama National League, 1991–92: position 8 of 22Vanarama National League, 1992–93: position 22 of 22Vanarama National League, 2000–01: position 12 of 22Vanarama National League, 2001–02: position 1 of 22English Southern League Premier Division, 1998–99: position 2 of 22English Southern League Premier Division, 1999–00: position 1 of 22
Finishing position as recorded, 1 at the top, from the 25 season rows on this page.
Boston United league position by season
SeasonCompetitionPosition
2015–16Vanarama National League North5
2014–15Vanarama National League North3
2013–14Vanarama National League North6
2012–13Vanarama National League North16
2011–12Vanarama National League North11
2010–11Vanarama National League North3
2009–10English Northern Premier League Premier Division3
2008–09English Northern Premier League Premier Division16
2007–08Vanarama National League North10
2006–07Sky Bet League Two23
2005–06Sky Bet League Two11
2004–05Sky Bet League Two16
2003–04Sky Bet League Two11
2002–03Sky Bet League Two15
2001–02Vanarama National League1
2000–01Vanarama National League12
1999–00English Southern League Premier Division1
1998–99English Southern League Premier Division2
1997–98English Northern Premier League Premier Division2
1996–97English Northern Premier League Premier Division6
1995–96English Northern Premier League Premier Division2
1994–95English Northern Premier League Premier Division5
1993–94English Northern Premier League Premier Division3
1992–93Vanarama National League22
1991–92Vanarama National League8

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
6643
Seated
1826
Expandable to
1
Built
1933-07-01
Pitch
111 × 75
Roof
Not retractable
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
Boston United reputation across versions02K4K CM0102 RFM06 RFM10 RFM13 RFM16 RFM19 RFM22 RFM26 UReputation, CM0102 Release: 4 Reputation, CM0203 Release: 5 Reputation, CM0304 Release: 5 Reputation, CM0304 Update: 5 Reputation, FM05 Release: 45 Reputation, FM05 Update: 47 Reputation, FM06 Release: 47 Reputation, FM07 Release: 39 Reputation, FM07 Update: 39 Reputation, FM08 Release: 39 Reputation, FM09 Release: 25 Reputation, FM09 Update: 29 Reputation, FM10 Release: 26 Reputation, FM10 Update: 26 Reputation, FM11 Release: 30 Reputation, FM11 Update: 30 Reputation, FM12 Release: 38 Reputation, FM12 Update: 38 Reputation, FM13 Release: 41 Reputation, FM13 Update: 44 Reputation, FM14 Release: 44 Reputation, FM14 Update: 44 Reputation, FM15 Release: 44 Reputation, FM15 Update: 44 Reputation, FM16 Release: 44 Reputation, FM16 Update: 44 Reputation, FM17 Release: 45 Reputation, FM17 Update: 45 Reputation, FM18 Release: 50 Reputation, FM18 Update: 2,500 Reputation, FM19 Release: 50 Reputation, FM19 Update: 2,500 Reputation, FM20 Release: 50 Reputation, FM20 Update: 2,500 Reputation, FM21 Release: 50 Reputation, FM21 Update: 2,600 Reputation, FM22 Release: 2,600 Reputation, FM23 Release: 2,600 Reputation, FM24 Release: 2,600 Reputation, FM26 Release: 3,250 Reputation, FM26 Update: 3,250
Recorded reputation in each database where this uid resolves. Missing values remain gaps. Raw export scales may differ between versions.

Current staff

12 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
CoachAlan Lewer———
CoachMartyn Lakin———
CoachSteve Welsh2009-05-06——
PhysioKatie Cooper———
ScoutKai Brownhill———
ManagerDick Creasey———
ManagerAdam David Murray2016-12-09——
Player ManagerDavid Stephen Cusack———
Assistant ManagerMartyn Bunce2013-06-01——
Goalkeeping CoachMick Hogg———
Chief ScoutDick Creasey———
Chief ScoutRichard Boryszczuk2013-03-13——

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
2015–16Vanarama National League North5224222515736071
2014–15Vanarama National League North32242201210755172
2013–14Vanarama National League North62242201210856072
2012–13Vanarama National League North16224214721687349
2011–12Vanarama National League North11224215918606754
2010–11Vanarama National League North3214023107723379
2009–10English Northern Premier League Premier Division320382387903477
2008–09English Northern Premier League Premier Division162242121317385249
2007–08Vanarama National League North10224217817655759
2006–07Sky Bet League Two232446121024518046
2005–06Sky Bet League Two112446151615506061
2004–05Sky Bet League Two162446141616625858
2003–04Sky Bet League Two112446161119505459
2002–03Sky Bet League Two152446151318555654
2001–02Vanarama National League122422598844284
2000–01Vanarama National League122242131712746356
1999–00English Southern League Premier Division12242271141023992
1998–99English Southern League Premier Division2224217169695167
1997–98English Northern Premier League Premier Division2224222128554078
1996–97English Northern Premier League Premier Division6234422139744779
1995–96English Northern Premier League Premier Division2224223613865975
1994–95English Northern Premier League Premier Division52242201111804371
1993–94English Northern Premier League Premier Division3224223910904378
1992–93Vanarama National League22224291320506940
1991–92Vanarama National League8224218915716663

Club records

More record types
Club records
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

Derbies involving this club
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
  • Kit 1, style 39, -1
  • Kit 1, style 207, -1
  • Kit 1, style —, -1
  • Kit 1, style —, -1
  • Kit 1, style 101, -1
  • Kit 1, style 35, -1
  • Kit 1, style 101, -1
  • Kit 1, style 207, -1

Showing up to 8 of 22 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.