Matt Jackson

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
133
Potential ability
145
Home reputation
133
Current reputation
133
World reputation
100
International appearances
0
Coaching qualification
—

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
53
Reputation
National 0.5 / 5 stars
Coaching style
General
Preferred mentality
—
Preferred playing style
—
Preferred pressing style
—

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
9
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 13
Judging player potential 13
Determination 16
Business 13

4 of 26 values recorded from staff_ability. Not recorded: Judging staff ability, Judging team data, Analysing data, Presenting data, Tactical knowledge, Coaching, Coaching technique, Hardness of training, Youngsters, Physiotherapy, Injury management, Motivating, People management, Discipline, Mind games, Patience, Eccentricity, Versatility, Buying players, Negotiating, Resources, Interference.

Coaching

A staff_coaching row exists, but none of its 6 values are recorded.

Goalkeeping coaching

Goalkeeper shot stopping 1

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

Tactical style

A staff_tactical_style row exists, but none of its 17 values are recorded.

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
Luton Town Player 1990-07-01 1991-10-18 Ended
Preston North End Player 1991-03-27 1991-09-27 Ended
Everton Player 1991-10-18 1996-12-24 Ended
Charlton Athletic Player 1996-03-26 1996-05-31 Ended
Queens Park Rangers Player 1996-08-20 1996-10-30 Ended
Birmingham City Player 1996-10-31 1996-12-23 Ended
Norwich City Player 1996-12-24 2001-10-19 Ended
Wigan Athletic Player 2001-10-19 2007-05-24 Ended
Watford Player 2007-05-24 — Current
Wigan Athletic Director of Football 2013-06-14 2017-03-31 Ended
Wolverhampton Wanderers Head of Player Development 2021-05-31 2023-06-30 Ended
Grasshopper Club Zürich Chairman 2023-07-01 2024-01-18 Ended
Wolverhampton Wanderers Technical Director 2024-02-07 2025-06-16 Ended
Wolverhampton Wanderers Director of Football 2025-06-16 — Current

National-team spells

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

Club contract

Joined
2025-06-16
Contract start
2025-06-16
Expires
—
Weekly wage
£15,000

Squad numbers

Squad numbers from club_squad_number, keyed on team_uid.
TeamNumber
Team 740 —

Languages

Languages from person_language.
LanguageFirst languageProficiency
English Yes —
German No 1

Retirement

Retirement facts from person_retirement.
TypeDate
Total player retirement 2008-08-06

Relations and preferences

Liked clubs

ClubRating
Everton 75
Wigan Athletic 100

Personal information

Date of birth
1971-10-19
Nationality
England
Birth city
Leeds
Joined current club
2025-06-16

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 10
Controversy 2
Loyalty 14
Pressure 13
Professionalism 20
Sportsmanship 16
Temperament 14