Alan Dowson
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
- 77
- Potential ability
- 100
- Home reputation
- 79
- Current reputation
- 79
- World reputation
- 30
- International appearances
- 0
- Coaching qualification
- 6
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
The enriched overlay is not loaded for this version, so Football Manager's calculated values are not available.
Appearance
- Ethnicity code
- 0
- Hair colour code
- 6
- Hair length code
- 6
- Skin tone code
- 2
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
13 of 26 values recorded from staff_ability.
Not recorded: Judging team data, Analysing data, Presenting data, Coaching, Coaching technique, Physiotherapy, Injury management, Patience, Eccentricity, Versatility, Business, Resources, Interference.
Coaching
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| Attacking | 6 |
| Defending | 10 |
| Technical | 5 |
| Tactical | 8 |
| Mental | 8 |
| 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: 3 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.
| Club | Role | From | To | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Millwall | Player | 1988-07-01 | — | Current |
| Fulham | Player | 1990-01-01 | 1990-07-01 | Ended |
| Bradford City | Player | 1991-07-01 | 1992-01-01 | Ended |
| Darlington (EXT) | Player | 1992-01-01 | 1993-07-01 | Ended |
| Slough Town | Player | — | 1994-07-01 | Ended |
| Gateshead | Player | 1994-07-01 | — | Current |
| Walton & Hersham | Player | 1996-12-20 | — | Current |
| Walton & Hersham | Player / Manager | 2004-07-01 | 2005-06-30 | Ended |
| Walton & Hersham | Manager | 2005-06-30 | 2007-01-10 | Ended |
| Kingstonian | Manager | 2007-01-10 | 2014-05-11 | Ended |
| Hampton & Richmond Borough | Manager | 2014-09-14 | 2018-05-18 | Ended |
| Woking | Manager | 2018-05-18 | 2022-03-01 | Ended |
| Dartford | Manager | 2022-05-31 | 2024-01-11 | Ended |
| Aldershot Town | Coach | 2025-08-08 | 2025-10-24 | 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 |
|---|---|
| Millwall | 50 |
| Gateshead | 75 |
| Woking | 75 |
| Kingstonian | 95 |
Disliked clubs
| Club | Rating |
|---|---|
| Boreham Wood | 90 |
Liked people
| Person | Rating |
|---|---|
| — | 100 |
| — | 100 |
| Ian Dyer | 100 |
| Christian Anthony Hillard Jolley | 100 |
| — | 100 |
| — | 100 |
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.