Niko Kovač

Staff

Staff record

staff is the non-playing subtype of person: people this export decoded as staff rather than as players. It is only one of the three places a career can live. Plenty of well-known managers have no staff row at all — some are stored as players, and many sit in person_unclassified, whose subtype the decoder could not determine. Whichever table a person is in, their jobs come from staff_history joined to job_type, which is the table below.

Current ability
150
Potential ability
160
Home reputation
141
Current reputation
150
World reputation
125
International appearances
83
Coaching qualification
1

Ability and the three reputations are the raw game figures, which run to roughly 200 rather than to 20 — they are printed exactly as stored and nothing is converted. coaching_qualification is a badge level with no lookup table in the export, so it is shown as the stored number and no name is invented for it.

Calculated at game start

Age at game start
50
Reputation
Continental 1.5 / 5 stars
Coaching style
General
Preferred mentality
Balanced
Preferred playing style
Standard
Preferred pressing style
More Urgent
Coaching category scores calculated by the game
CategoryScoreStars
Quickness79 / 1004.0 / 5
Strength79 / 1004.0 / 5
GK shot stopping37 / 1002.0 / 5
GK handling37 / 1002.0 / 5
Defending (tactical)80 / 1004.5 / 5
Defending (technical)78 / 1004.0 / 5
Possession (tactical)78 / 1004.0 / 5
Possession (technical)74 / 1004.0 / 5
Attacking (tactical)72 / 1004.0 / 5
Attacking (technical)70 / 1004.0 / 5
Overall70 / 1004.0 / 5

Football Manager's own game-start calculations from the attributes above, ported from the game's rules by the enriched overlay (method in each value's tooltip). Coaching scores use the game's FM22 training categories applied to every release and leave out the secondary-job and injury reductions; a dash is a value the rule had no input for, and board members have no reputation label.

Appearance

Ethnicity code
0
Hair colour code
5
Hair length code
6
Skin tone code
4

Raw codes from the source. The export carries no lookup table for any of them, so they are shown as stored and are not given names.

Non-playing ability

Judging player ability 14
Judging player potential 16
Judging staff ability 8
Tactical knowledge 15
Hardness of training 19
Youngsters 14
Motivating 15
People management 12
Discipline 17
Mind games 13
Determination 19
Eccentricity 12
Versatility 5
Buying players 12
Negotiating 8

15 of 26 values recorded from staff_ability. Not recorded: Judging team data, Analysing data, Presenting data, Coaching, Coaching technique, Physiotherapy, Injury management, Patience, Business, Resources, Interference.

Coaching

Coaching Coaching: 6 of 6 values recorded, plotted on a 1 to 20 scale. Coaching: 6 of 6 values recorded, plotted on a 1 to 20 scale.
6 of 6 recorded
Coaching — every value plotted above, plus the ones that are not recorded.
AttributeValue
Attacking 12
Defending 16
Technical 12
Tactical 14
Mental 16
Fitness 15
Attacking 12
Defending 16
Technical 12
Tactical 14
Mental 16
Fitness 15

6 of 6 values recorded from staff_coaching.

Goalkeeping coaching

Goalkeeper shot stopping 1
Goalkeeper handling 1
Goalkeeper distribution 1

3 of 3 values recorded from staff_coaching.

Tactical style

The tactical preferences this person brings to a side, on the same 1 to 20 scale.

Attacking 12
Directness 8
Tempo 12
Width 8
Depth 6
Pressing 18
Flexibility 18
Flamboyancy 12
Squad rotation 12
Dirtiness allowance 14

10 of 17 values recorded from staff_tactical_style. Not recorded: Sitting back, Marking, Offside, Use of playmaker, Use of subs, Free roles, Set pieces.

Career spells

Marked current: 4 of 16 spells. A spell counts as current when date_left is empty or falls in the future — the source records plenty of long-finished spells with no end date, so more than one spell can carry the mark.

Career spells from staff_history, in the order the export wrote them.
ClubRoleFromToStatus
FC Hertha 03 Zehlendorf Player — 1991-07-01 Ended
Hertha Berlin II Player 1991-07-01 — Current
Hertha Berlin Player — 1996-07-01 Ended
Bayer 04 Leverkusen Player 1996-07-01 1999-07-01 Ended
Hamburger SV Player 1999-07-01 2001-07-01 Ended
FC Bayern München Player 2001-07-01 2003-07-01 Ended
Hertha Berlin II Player — — Current
Hertha Berlin Player 2003-07-01 — Current
Hertha Berlin Player — 2006-07-01 Ended
Fussballclub RB Salzburg Player 2006-07-01 2009-05-31 Ended
Fussballclub RB Juniors Salzburg (EXT) Manager 2009-06-17 2011-04-08 Ended
Fussballclub RB Salzburg Assistant Manager 2011-04-08 2012-06-24 Ended
Eintracht Frankfurt Manager 2016-03-08 2018-06-30 Ended
FC Bayern München Manager 2018-07-01 2019-11-03 Ended
AS Monaco Manager 2020-07-19 2022-01-01 Ended
VfL Wolfsburg Manager 2022-07-01 — Current

National-team spells

National-team spells from person_nation_contract.
NationRoleFromToStatus
Croatia Manager 2013-01-13 2013-10-16 Ended
Croatia Manager 2013-10-16 2015-09-09 Ended

Club contract

Joined
2022-07-01
Contract start
2022-07-01
Expires
2025-06-30
Weekly wage
£66,135

Squad numbers

Squad numbers from club_squad_number, keyed on team_uid.
TeamNumber
Team 961 —

Languages

Languages from person_language.
LanguageFirst languageProficiency
German Yes —

Retirement

Retirement facts from person_retirement.
TypeDate
Total player retirement 2009-05-29

Relations and preferences

Liked clubs

Liked people

Disliked people

Other relations

Typed relations from person_other_relation.
Target typeTargetRating
nation Germany 100
— — 100
nation Germany 100

Personal information

Date of birth
1971-10-15
Nationality
Croatia
Birth city
Berlin
Joined current club
2022-07-01

Personality

Personality is stored on the same 1–20 scale as the attributes, and is shown exactly as recorded. A dash is a value the export did not record, which is not a zero.

Adaptability 16
Ambition 18
Controversy 14
Loyalty 7
Pressure 15
Professionalism 12
Sportsmanship 8
Temperament 12