Stephen Cotterill

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
93
Potential ability
120
Home reputation
93
Current reputation
93
World reputation
70
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
60
Reputation
Regional 0.0 / 5 stars
Coaching style
Defending
Preferred mentality
Cautious
Preferred playing style
Direct
Preferred pressing style
Balanced
Coaching category scores calculated by the game
CategoryScoreStars
Quickness41 / 1002.5 / 5
Strength41 / 1002.5 / 5
Defending (tactical)61 / 1003.5 / 5
Defending (technical)59 / 1003.0 / 5
Possession (tactical)57 / 1003.0 / 5
Possession (technical)53 / 1003.0 / 5
Attacking (tactical)57 / 1003.0 / 5
Attacking (technical)55 / 1003.0 / 5
Overall51 / 1003.0 / 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
17
Hair length code
6
Skin tone code
6

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 12
Judging player potential 10
Judging staff ability 8
Tactical knowledge 11
Hardness of training 15
Youngsters 7
Motivating 9
People management 9
Discipline 14
Mind games 6
Determination 17
Eccentricity 14
Versatility 2
Buying players 10
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 10
Defending 12
Technical 9
Tactical 11
Mental 9
Fitness 5
Attacking 10
Defending 12
Technical 9
Tactical 11
Mental 9
Fitness 5

6 of 6 values recorded from staff_coaching.

Tactical style

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

Attacking 7
Directness 15
Tempo 13
Width 10
Depth 11
Pressing 8
Flexibility 8
Squad rotation 4
Dirtiness allowance 17

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: 3 of 23 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
Cheltenham Town Player 1984-07-01 1988-07-01 Ended
Burton Albion Player 1988-07-01 1989-02-27 Ended
Wimbledon Player 1989-02-27 1993-08-14 Ended
Brighton & Hove Albion Player 1992-08-13 1993-02-13 Ended
AFC Bournemouth Player 1993-08-14 1995-08-01 Ended
Sligo Rovers Manager 1995-08-01 1996-12-01 Ended
Cirencester Town Player — — Current
Cheltenham Town Player — — Current
Cheltenham Town Manager 1997-02-01 2002-05-27 Ended
Stoke City Manager 2002-05-27 2002-10-10 Ended
Sunderland Assistant Manager 2002-10-10 2003-03-10 Ended
Leicester City Coach 2004-02-23 2004-05-16 Ended
Burnley Manager 2004-06-03 2007-11-08 Ended
Notts County Manager 2010-02-23 2010-05-27 Ended
Portsmouth Manager 2010-06-18 2011-10-14 Ended
Nottingham Forest Manager 2011-10-14 2012-07-12 Ended
Queens Park Rangers Coach 2013-01-11 2013-06-30 Ended
Bristol City Manager 2013-12-03 2016-01-14 Ended
Birmingham City Assistant Manager 2017-04-19 2017-06-30 Ended
Birmingham City Manager 2017-09-29 2018-03-03 Ended
Shrewsbury Town Manager 2020-11-27 2023-06-06 Ended
Forest Green Rovers Manager 2024-01-25 2025-06-26 Ended
Cheltenham Town Manager 2025-09-30 — Current

National-team spells

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

Club contract

Joined
2025-09-30
Contract start
2025-09-30
Expires
2028-06-30
Weekly wage
£2,500

Squad numbers

Squad numbers from club_squad_number, keyed on team_uid.
TeamNumber
Team 631 —

Languages

Languages from person_language.
LanguageFirst languageProficiency
English Yes —

Bans and absences

Bans and absences from person_ban.
TypeFromToMatchesCompetitionNation
Medical 2021-01-01 2021-05-05 — — —

Relations and preferences

Liked clubs

Liked people

PersonRating
David Kevan 100
Mark Yates 90
Michael Duff 80
Aaron Thomas Wilbraham 80
— 75
Harry Redknapp 70
— 50

Disliked people

PersonRating
Roland Wycherley 80
— 75
— 65

Personal information

Date of birth
1964-07-20
Nationality
England
Birth city
Cheltenham
Joined current club
2025-09-30

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 12
Ambition 16
Controversy 13
Loyalty 14
Pressure 8
Professionalism 17
Sportsmanship 8
Temperament 16