Darrell James Clarke

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
105
Potential ability
125
Home reputation
105
Current reputation
105
World reputation
45
International appearances
0
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
47
Reputation
National 0.0 / 5 stars
Coaching style
Mental
Preferred mentality
Balanced
Preferred playing style
Standard
Preferred pressing style
Balanced
Coaching category scores calculated by the game
CategoryScoreStars
Quickness59 / 1003.0 / 5
Strength59 / 1003.0 / 5
GK shot stopping26 / 1001.5 / 5
Defending (tactical)52 / 1003.0 / 5
Defending (technical)51 / 1003.0 / 5
Possession (tactical)53 / 1003.0 / 5
Possession (technical)51 / 1003.0 / 5
Attacking (tactical)52 / 1003.0 / 5
Attacking (technical)51 / 1003.0 / 5
Overall49 / 1002.5 / 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
11
Hair length code
6
Skin tone code
1

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 10
Judging player potential 10
Judging staff ability 10
Tactical knowledge 9
Hardness of training 8
Youngsters 10
Motivating 11
People management 11
Discipline 11
Mind games 6
Determination 13
Eccentricity 13
Versatility 2
Buying players 5

14 of 26 values recorded from staff_ability. Not recorded: Judging team data, Analysing data, Presenting data, Coaching, Coaching technique, Physiotherapy, Injury management, Patience, Negotiating, 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 10
Defending 10
Technical 8
Tactical 9
Mental 12
Fitness 12
Attacking 10
Defending 10
Technical 8
Tactical 9
Mental 12
Fitness 12

6 of 6 values recorded from staff_coaching.

Goalkeeping coaching

Goalkeeper shot stopping 1

1 of 3 values recorded from staff_coaching. Not recorded: Goalkeeper handling, Goalkeeper distribution.

Tactical style

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

Attacking 12
Directness 12
Tempo 12
Width 12
Depth 12
Pressing 12
Flexibility 10
Squad rotation 12
Dirtiness allowance 8

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

Career spells

Marked current: 2 of 14 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
Mansfield Town Player 1994-07-01 2001-06-30 Ended
Hartlepool United Player 2001-07-17 2007-06-30 Ended
Stockport County Player 2005-01-12 2005-02-12 Ended
Port Vale Player 2005-09-28 2005-10-24 Ended
Rochdale Player 2006-07-28 2007-01-07 Ended
Salisbury City Player 2007-07-03 — Current
Salisbury City Manager 2010-08-04 2013-06-14 Ended
Bristol Rovers Assistant Manager 2013-07-01 2014-06-14 Ended
Bristol Rovers Manager 2014-06-14 2018-12-13 Ended
Walsall Manager 2019-05-10 2021-02-15 Ended
Port Vale Manager 2021-02-15 2023-04-17 Ended
Cheltenham Town Manager 2023-10-02 2024-05-23 Ended
Barnsley Manager 2024-05-23 2025-03-12 Ended
Bristol Rovers Manager 2025-05-06 — Current

National-team spells

No national-team spells are recorded in person_nation_contract for this person.

Club contract

Joined
2025-05-06
Contract start
2025-05-06
Expires
2028-06-30
Weekly wage
£3,500

Squad numbers

Squad numbers from club_squad_number, keyed on team_uid.
TeamNumber
Team 620 —

Languages

Languages from person_language.
LanguageFirst languageProficiency
English Yes —

Retirement

Retirement facts from person_retirement.
TypeDate
Total player retirement 2013-06-30

Relations and preferences

Liked clubs

Liked people

Personal information

Date of birth
1977-12-16
Nationality
England
Birth city
Mansfield
Joined current club
2025-05-06

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 10
Ambition 12
Controversy 6
Loyalty 14
Pressure 10
Professionalism 14
Sportsmanship 10
Temperament 12