David Anthony Lowe

  • 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
122
Potential ability
135
Home reputation
130
Current reputation
120
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
59
Reputation
National 0.0 / 5 stars
Coaching style
General
Preferred mentality
Adventurous
Preferred playing style
Standard
Preferred pressing style
More Urgent
Coaching category scores calculated by the game
CategoryScoreStars
Quickness63 / 1003.5 / 5
Strength63 / 1003.5 / 5
GK shot stopping27 / 1001.5 / 5
Defending (tactical)65 / 1003.5 / 5
Defending (technical)64 / 1003.5 / 5
Possession (tactical)60 / 1003.5 / 5
Possession (technical)58 / 1003.0 / 5
Attacking (tactical)59 / 1003.0 / 5
Attacking (technical)58 / 1003.0 / 5
Overall60 / 1003.5 / 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
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 10
Judging player potential 10
Judging staff ability 10
Tactical knowledge 12
Hardness of training 16
Youngsters 15
Motivating 14
People management 12
Discipline 11
Mind games 2
Determination 12
Eccentricity 10
Versatility 10
Buying players 2
Negotiating 5

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 11
Defending 14
Technical 12
Tactical 13
Mental 10
Fitness 13
Attacking 11
Defending 14
Technical 12
Tactical 13
Mental 10
Fitness 13

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 14
Directness 12
Tempo 15
Width 14
Depth 12
Pressing 15
Flexibility 15
Squad rotation 15
Set pieces 10
Dirtiness allowance 14

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

Career spells

Career spells from staff_history, in the order the export wrote them.
ClubRoleFromToStatus
Wigan Athletic Player 1982-07-01 1987-06-26 Ended
Ipswich Town Player 1987-06-26 1992-07-13 Ended
Port Vale Player 1992-03-19 1994-05-18 Ended
Leicester City Player 1992-07-13 1996-03-28 Ended
Port Vale Player 1994-02-18 1994-05-18 Ended
Wigan Athletic Player 1996-03-28 1999-06-30 Ended
Wrexham Player 1999-07-05 2001-06-30 Ended
Rushden & Diamonds Player 2000-01-31 2000-04-30 Ended
Wigan Athletic Coach 2006-09-25 2007-09-20 Ended
Derby County Coach 2008-01-21 2009-04-20 Ended
Tranmere Rovers Coach 2010-08-19 2011-06-23 Ended
Blackburn Rovers Head of Youth Development 2011-06-23 2017-02-22 Ended
Blackburn Rovers Assistant Manager 2017-02-22 2017-06-07 Ended
Blackburn Rovers Coach 2017-06-07 2025-06-30 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

ClubRating
Wigan Athletic 100
Leicester City 75

Liked people

PersonRating
Damien Michael Johnson 75
Ben Benson 75

Personal information

Date of birth
1965-08-30
Nationality
England
Birth city
Liverpool
Joined current club
2025-06-30

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 12
Controversy 12
Loyalty 16
Pressure 12
Professionalism 14
Sportsmanship 10
Temperament 7