Simon Grayson

  • England
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
100
Potential ability
132
Home reputation
100
Current reputation
100
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.

Appearance

Ethnicity code
0
Hair colour code
11
Hair length code
6
Skin tone code
5

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 11
Judging player potential 11
Tactical knowledge 12
Hardness of training 10
Youngsters 11
Motivating 10
People management 11
Discipline 12
Mind games 3
Determination 11
Buying players 12

11 of 26 values recorded from staff_ability. Not recorded: Judging staff ability, Judging team data, Analysing data, Presenting data, Coaching, Coaching technique, Physiotherapy, Injury management, Patience, Eccentricity, Versatility, 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 9
Defending 11
Technical 10
Tactical 11
Mental 12
Fitness 10
Attacking 9
Defending 11
Technical 10
Tactical 11
Mental 12
Fitness 10

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 11
Directness 13
Tempo 14
Width 16
Depth 12
Pressing 14
Flexibility 14
Squad rotation 8
Dirtiness allowance 7

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: 1 of 21 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
Leeds United Player 1987-07-01 1992-03-13 Ended
Leicester City Player 1992-03-13 1997-07-01 Ended
Aston Villa Player 1997-07-01 1999-07-29 Ended
Blackburn Rovers Player 1999-07-29 2002-06-30 Ended
Sheffield Wednesday Player 2000-08-11 2001-02-11 Ended
Stockport County Player 2001-01-12 2001-07-12 Ended
Notts County Player 2001-09-06 2002-03-06 Ended
Bradford City Player 2002-02-15 2002-08-15 Ended
Blackpool Player 2002-06-30 — Current
Blackpool Player / Coach 2004-07-01 2005-11-12 Ended
Blackpool Manager 2005-11-12 2008-12-24 Ended
Leeds United Manager 2008-12-24 2012-02-01 Ended
Huddersfield Town Manager 2012-02-20 2013-01-24 Ended
Preston North End Manager 2013-02-18 2017-06-29 Ended
Sunderland Manager 2017-06-29 2017-10-31 Ended
Bradford City Manager 2018-02-11 2018-05-08 Ended
Blackpool Manager 2019-07-06 2020-02-12 Ended
Fleetwood Town Manager 2021-01-31 2021-11-24 Ended
Bengaluru Manager 2022-06-08 2023-12-09 Ended
Lalitpur City FC Manager 2025-02-01 2025-06-12 Ended
Hartlepool United Manager 2025-06-12 2025-10-12 Ended

National-team spells

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

Club contract

No club contract is recorded in person_club_contract for this person.

Languages

Languages from person_language.
LanguageFirst languageProficiency
English Yes —

Relations and preferences

Liked clubs

Liked people

Personal information

Date of birth
1969-12-16
Nationality
England
Birth city
Harrogate
Joined current club
2025-10-12

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 14
Ambition 12
Controversy 5
Loyalty 18
Pressure 14
Professionalism 16
Sportsmanship 15
Temperament 10