Simon Grayson
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
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
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| Attacking | 9 |
| Defending | 11 |
| Technical | 10 |
| Tactical | 11 |
| Mental | 12 |
| Fitness | 10 |
6 of 6 values recorded from staff_coaching.
Goalkeeping coaching
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.
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.
| Club | Role | From | To | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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
| Language | First language | Proficiency |
|---|---|---|
| English | Yes | — |
Relations and preferences
Liked clubs
| Club | Rating |
|---|---|
| Leicester City | 90 |
| Blackburn Rovers | 70 |
| Blackpool | 50 |
| Leeds United | 100 |
Liked people
| Person | Rating |
|---|---|
| — | 90 |
| Steven James Thompson | 90 |
| Ian Miller | 90 |
| Michael Joseph McCarthy | 75 |
| — | 75 |
| Thomas Clarke | 75 |
Personal information
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.