Ralf Becker

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
115
Potential ability
130
Home reputation
115
Current reputation
115
World reputation
65
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
54
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
GK shot stopping25 / 1001.5 / 5
Defending (tactical)44 / 1002.5 / 5
Defending (technical)46 / 1002.5 / 5
Attacking (tactical)56 / 1003.0 / 5
Attacking (technical)58 / 1003.0 / 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
9
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 13
Judging player potential 13
Judging staff ability 12
Analysing data 11
Tactical knowledge 8
Youngsters 14
Physiotherapy 1
Injury management 1
Motivating 8
People management 12
Discipline 13
Patience 9
Determination 12
Eccentricity 7
Versatility 14
Buying players 10
Negotiating 12
Business 13
Resources 1
Interference 5

20 of 26 values recorded from staff_ability. Not recorded: Judging team data, Presenting data, Coaching, Coaching technique, Hardness of training, Mind games.

Coaching

Coaching Coaching: 4 of 6 values recorded, plotted on a 1 to 20 scale. Axes omitted because the value is not recorded: Mental, Fitness. Coaching: 4 of 6 values recorded, plotted on a 1 to 20 scale. Axes omitted because the value is not recorded: Mental, Fitness.
4 of 6 recorded Not recorded: Mental, Fitness
Coaching — every value plotted above, plus the ones that are not recorded.
AttributeValue
Attacking 12
Defending 6
Technical 12
Tactical 10
Mental Not recorded
Fitness Not recorded
Attacking 12
Defending 6
Technical 12
Tactical 10

4 of 6 values recorded from staff_coaching. Not recorded: Mental, Fitness.

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 10
Tempo 10
Width 12
Depth 10
Pressing 14
Dirtiness allowance 11

7 of 17 values recorded from staff_tactical_style. Not recorded: Sitting back, Marking, Offside, Use of playmaker, Use of subs, Free roles, Flexibility, Flamboyancy, Squad rotation, Set pieces.

Career spells

Marked current: 4 of 19 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
SV Stuttgarter Kickers Player 1987-07-01 1989-07-01 Ended
TSF Ditzingen Player 1989-07-01 1993-07-01 Ended
Bayer 04 Leverkusen II Player — — Current
Bayer 04 Leverkusen Player 1993-07-01 — Current
Bayer 04 Leverkusen Player — 1995-07-10 Ended
FC St. Pauli Player 1995-07-10 1997-01-01 Ended
SV Stuttgarter Kickers Player 1997-01-01 1998-07-01 Ended
TSF Ditzingen Player 1998-07-01 1999-07-01 Ended
SSV Reutlingen 05 Player 1999-07-01 2003-07-01 Ended
Karlsruher SC Player 2003-07-01 — Current
Karlsruher SC Assistant Manager 2006-07-01 2009-08-19 Ended
SSV Ulm 1846 Fussball Manager 2009-10-15 2009-12-01 Ended
VfB Stuttgart Scout 2011-01-31 2011-06-30 Ended
VfB Stuttgart Chief Scout 2011-07-01 2016-02-07 Ended
Holstein Kiel Director of Football 2016-05-16 2018-05-27 Ended
Hamburger Sport-Verein Director of Football 2018-05-28 2019-05-24 Ended
SG Dynamo Dresden Managing Director 2020-07-01 2024-03-05 Ended
SG Dynamo Dresden Director of Football 2020-07-01 2024-03-05 Ended
Hannover 96 Technical Director 2025-06-01 — Current

National-team spells

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

Club contract

Joined
2025-06-01
Contract start
2025-06-01
Expires
2027-06-30
Weekly wage
£5,800

Squad numbers

Squad numbers from club_squad_number, keyed on team_uid.
TeamNumber
Team 927 —

Languages

Languages from person_language.
LanguageFirst languageProficiency
German Yes —
English No 8

Relations and preferences

Liked clubs

ClubRating
SSV Reutlingen 05 75
TSF Ditzingen 75

Disliked clubs

ClubRating
Hamburger Sport-Verein 75

Liked people

Disliked people

PersonRating
David Fischer 60

Personal information

Date of birth
1970-09-26
Nationality
Germany
Birth city
Leonberg
Joined current club
2025-06-01

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 4
Ambition 12
Controversy 6
Loyalty 10
Pressure 8
Professionalism 17
Sportsmanship 12
Temperament 14