Gillespie29
Squad number 29, club colours

Mark Joseph Gillespie

Mark Joseph Gillespie

PlayerENG Contracted to 2023Home-grown —
120 Current ability
135 Potential ability
£375,000Estimated value
£6,000Weekly wage
0Caps

Attributes

Technical

  • Corners— —
  • Crossing— —
  • Dribbling— —
  • Finishing— —
  • First touch— 8
  • Free kicks— —
  • Heading— 9
  • Long shots— —
  • Long throws— —
  • Marking— —
  • Passing— 9
  • Penalties— —
  • Tackling— —
  • Technique— 11
  • Versatility— —

Mental

  • Aggression— 9
  • Anticipation— 10
  • Bravery— 13
  • Composure— 10
  • Concentration— 11
  • Consistency— 13
  • Decisions— 12
  • Determination— 11
  • Dirtiness— 7
  • Flair— 5
  • Important matches— 13
  • Leadership— 7
  • Off the ball— 9
  • Positioning— 11
  • Team work— 7
  • Vision— 8
  • Work rate— 11

Physical

  • Acceleration— 9
  • Agility— 12
  • Balance— 9
  • Injury proneness— 6
  • Jumping reach— 12
  • Natural fitness— 13
  • Pace— 9
  • Stamina— 14
  • 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
  • DLdefender_left—not recorded
  • DCdefender_central—not recorded
  • DRdefender_right—not recorded
  • DMdefensive_midfielder—not recorded
  • MLmidfielder_left—not recorded
  • MCmidfielder_central—not recorded
  • MRmidfielder_right—not recorded
  • AMLattacking_mid_left—not recorded
  • AMCattacking_mid_central—not recorded
  • AMRattacking_mid_right—not recorded
  • STstriker—not recorded
  • WBLwing_back_left—not recorded
  • WBRwing_back_right—not recorded
Competency on the game's 1–20 scale. A dashed ring is a position with no recorded competency.
GK 20

Best roles

FMDB calculation
Best roles for the strongest position
Role Duty Suitability
GoalkeeperGKDefend13.3 / 20
Sweeper KeeperGKSupport12.1 / 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
Mark Joseph Gillespie
Common name
—
Date of birth
1992-03-27
Nationality
England
Other nationalities
—
Birth city
Newcastle
Height and weight
192 cm, 83 kg
Youth club
—
Agent
—
Languages
English

Club contract

Squad number
29
Type
—
Squad status
—
Joined
2020-07-03
Contract start
2020-07-03
Expires
2023-06-30
Weekly wage
£6,000
Estimated value
£375,000
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
120
Potential ability
135
Home reputation
120
Current reputation
120
World reputation
75
Personality
—
Media handling
—
Favourite squad number
1

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 12
  • Ambition 11
  • Controversy 2
  • Loyalty 8
  • Pressure 11
  • Professionalism 12
  • Sportsmanship 12
  • Temperament 10

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 7
  • Right foot 20

Goalkeeping

  • Aerial ability 14
  • Command of area 15
  • Communication 13
  • Gk eccentricity 4
  • Handling 16
  • Kicking 11
  • One on ones 12
  • Reflexes 14
  • Rushing out 16
  • Tendency to punch 4
  • Throwing 17

Across versions

Recorded
Mark Joseph Gillespie current and potential ability across versions0100200 FM09 RFM11 RFM13 RFM15 RFM17 RFM19 RFM21 RFM24 RFM26 UCurrent ability, FM09 Release: 35 Current ability, FM09 Update: 35 Current ability, FM10 Release: 45 Current ability, FM10 Update: 45 Current ability, FM11 Release: 60 Current ability, FM11 Update: 70 Current ability, FM12 Release: 80 Current ability, FM12 Update: 80 Current ability, FM13 Release: 84 Current ability, FM13 Update: 90 Current ability, FM14 Release: 92 Current ability, FM14 Update: 92 Current ability, FM15 Release: 93 Current ability, FM15 Update: 87 Current ability, FM16 Release: 87 Current ability, FM16 Update: 96 Current ability, FM17 Release: 89 Current ability, FM17 Update: 93 Current ability, FM18 Release: 99 Current ability, FM18 Update: 99 Current ability, FM19 Release: 108 Current ability, FM19 Update: 111 Current ability, FM20 Release: 116 Current ability, FM20 Update: 120 Current ability, FM21 Release: 120 Current ability, FM21 Update: 120 Current ability, FM22 Release: 120 Current ability, FM23 Release: 120 Current ability, FM24 Release: 120 Current ability, FM26 Release: 109 Current ability, FM26 Update: 109 Potential ability, FM15 Release: 120 Potential ability, FM15 Update: 120 Potential ability, FM16 Release: 120 Potential ability, FM16 Update: 120 Potential ability, FM17 Release: 120 Potential ability, FM17 Update: 120 Potential ability, FM18 Release: 120 Potential ability, FM18 Update: 120 Potential ability, FM19 Release: 120 Potential ability, FM19 Update: 120 Potential ability, FM20 Release: 120 Potential ability, FM20 Update: 135 Potential ability, FM21 Release: 135 Potential ability, FM21 Update: 135 Potential ability, FM22 Release: 135 Potential ability, FM23 Release: 135 Potential ability, FM24 Release: 135 Potential ability, FM26 Release: 135 Potential ability, FM26 Update: 135
Current ability 120Potential ability 135
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.
Mark Joseph Gillespie current and potential ability across versions
VersionCurrent abilityPotential ability
FM09 Release35-5
FM09 Update35-5
FM10 Release45-5
FM10 Update45-5
FM11 Release60-5
FM11 Update70-6
FM12 Release80-6
FM12 Update80-6
FM13 Release84-6
FM13 Update90-6
FM14 Release92-6
FM14 Update92-6
FM15 Release93120
FM15 Update87120
FM16 Release87120
FM16 Update96120
FM17 Release89120
FM17 Update93120
FM18 Release99120
FM18 Update99120
FM19 Release108120
FM19 Update111120
FM20 Release116120
FM20 Update120135
FM21 Release120135
FM21 Update120135
FM22 Release120135
FM23 Release120135
FM24 Release120135
FM26 Release109135
FM26 Update109135
Mark Joseph Gillespie weekly wage across versions£0£6K FM09 RFM11 RFM13 RFM15 RFM17 RFM19 RFM21 RFM24 RFM26 UWeekly wage, FM09 Release: £69 Weekly wage, FM09 Update: £69 Weekly wage, FM10 Release: £70 Weekly wage, FM10 Update: £70 Weekly wage, FM11 Release: £250 Weekly wage, FM11 Update: £250 Weekly wage, FM12 Release: £500 Weekly wage, FM12 Update: £500 Weekly wage, FM13 Release: £600 Weekly wage, FM13 Update: £900 Weekly wage, FM14 Release: £900 Weekly wage, FM14 Update: £900 Weekly wage, FM15 Release: £800 Weekly wage, FM15 Update: £800 Weekly wage, FM16 Release: £900 Weekly wage, FM16 Update: £900 Weekly wage, FM17 Release: £1,000 Weekly wage, FM17 Update: £1,000 Weekly wage, FM18 Release: £1,500 Weekly wage, FM18 Update: £1,500 Weekly wage, FM19 Release: £999 Weekly wage, FM19 Update: £999 Weekly wage, FM20 Release: £1,200 Weekly wage, FM20 Update: £1,200 Weekly wage, FM21 Release: £1,200 Weekly wage, FM21 Update: £6,000 Weekly wage, FM22 Release: £6,000 Weekly wage, FM23 Release: £6,000 Weekly wage, FM24 Release: £6,000 Weekly wage, FM26 Release: £6,000 Weekly wage, FM26 Update: £6,000
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.
Mark Joseph Gillespie weekly wage across versions
VersionWeekly wageEstimated value
FM09 Release£69—
FM09 Update£69—
FM10 Release£70—
FM10 Update£70—
FM11 Release£250—
FM11 Update£250—
FM12 Release£500—
FM12 Update£500—
FM13 Release£600—
FM13 Update£900—
FM14 Release£900—
FM14 Update£900—
FM15 Release£800—
FM15 Update£800—
FM16 Release£900—
FM16 Update£900—
FM17 Release£1,000—
FM17 Update£1,000—
FM18 Release£1,500—
FM18 Update£1,500£269,850
FM19 Release£999—
FM19 Update£999£411,750
FM20 Release£1,200—
FM20 Update£1,200£599,250
FM21 Release£1,200—
FM21 Update£6,000£375,750
FM22 Release£6,000£375,750
FM23 Release£6,000£375,000
FM24 Release£6,000£375,000
FM26 Release£6,000£0
FM26 Update£6,000£0

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 9.0 2 of 2 recorded
Physical 12.2 6 of 6 recorded
Technical 9.3 3 of 5 recorded
Mental 9.9 9 of 9 recorded
Defending 11.0 3 of 5 recorded
Shooting Not recorded 0 of 3 recorded — not enough to average
Axis Mean Coverage
Pace9.02 of 2 recorded
Physical12.26 of 6 recorded
Technical9.33 of 5 recorded
Mental9.99 of 9 recorded
Defending11.03 of 5 recorded
Shooting—0 of 3 recorded — not enough to average

Percentile wheel

Percentile wheel Percentile wheel: 5 of 6 values recorded, plotted on a 0 to 100 scale. Axes omitted because the value is not recorded: Shooting. Percentile wheel: 5 of 6 values recorded, plotted on a 0 to 100 scale. Axes omitted because the value is not recorded: Shooting.
5 of 6 recorded Not recorded: Shooting Each wedge is the mean of its attributes' percentiles against goalkeeper at tier 0 clubs in this version — derived by thefmdb from the same six groups as the summary above. The Football Manager database stores no such figure. A wedge reaching the rim is the top of the cohort; the centre is the bottom.
Percentile wheel — every value plotted above, plus the ones that are not recorded.
AttributeValueMeasured against
Pace 34.5 pct 2 of 2 attributes
Physical 54.9 pct 6 of 6 attributes
Technical 62.0 pct 3 of 5 attributes
Mental 46.2 pct 9 of 9 attributes
Defending 65.9 pct 3 of 5 attributes
Shooting Not recorded 0 of 3 attributes — not enough for a percentile
Axis Percentile Measured against
Pace34.5 pctgoalkeeper at tier 0 clubs · 2 of 2 attributes
Physical54.9 pctgoalkeeper at tier 0 clubs · 6 of 6 attributes
Technical62.0 pctgoalkeeper at tier 0 clubs · 3 of 5 attributes
Mental46.2 pctgoalkeeper at tier 0 clubs · 9 of 9 attributes
Defending65.9 pctgoalkeeper at tier 0 clubs · 3 of 5 attributes
Shooting—goalkeeper at tier 0 clubs · 0 of 3 attributes — not enough for a percentile

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
0 caps, 0 goals
Under-21
0 caps, 0 goals
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

1 marked current
Career spells from staff_history
Club Role From To Status
Carlisle UnitedPlayer2008-06-302017-06-30Ended
Blyth SpartansPlayer2010-10-152011-01-14Ended
WalsallPlayer2017-07-012018-06-05Ended
MotherwellPlayer2018-06-052020-06-01Ended
Newcastle UnitedPlayer2020-07-03—Current
Career apps and goals
253 (0)
Clubs
5
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
2008–09 Carlisle United Sky Bet League One 0 0 Unknown fee 2008-06-30 —
2009–10 Carlisle United Sky Bet League One 1 0 Unknown fee — —
2010–11 Carlisle United Sky Bet League One 0 0 Unknown fee — —
2010–11 Blyth Spartans Vanarama National League North 12 0 Unknown fee 2010-10-15 2011-01-14
2011–12 Carlisle United Sky Bet League One 0 0 Unknown fee — —
2012–13 Carlisle United Sky Bet League One 35 0 Unknown fee — —
2013–14 Carlisle United Sky Bet League One 15 0 Unknown fee — —
2014–15 Carlisle United Sky Bet League Two 19 0 Unknown fee — —
2015–16 Carlisle United Sky Bet League Two 45 0 Unknown fee — —
2016–17 Carlisle United Sky Bet League Two 46 0 £0 — 2017-06-30
2017–18 Walsall Sky Bet League One 23 0 £0 2017-07-01 2018-06-05
2018–19 Motherwell cinch Premiership 27 0 Unknown fee 2018-06-05 —
2019–20 Motherwell cinch Premiership 30 0 £0 — 2020-06-01
2020–21 Newcastle United English Premier Division 0 0 Unknown fee 2020-07-03 —
2021–22 Newcastle United English Premier Division 0 0 Unknown fee — —

Similar players

FMDB calculation

Nearest recorded attribute profiles among 120 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 0 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
Disliked clubs
—
Disliked people
—

Other relations

Typed relations from person_other_relation
Target type Target Rating
clubCarlisle United1
clubCarlisle United10
nationEngland1

Familiarity

Familiarity from person_familiarity
Target type Target Level Linked
clubNewcastle United36No

Preferred moves

Needs mapping
Bit 55—

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.