Benjamin Chenery

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
135
Home reputation
115
Current reputation
115
World reputation
30
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
48
Reputation
National 0.0 / 5 stars
Coaching style
Defending
Preferred mentality
—
Preferred playing style
—
Preferred pressing style
—
Coaching category scores calculated by the game
CategoryScoreStars
Overall42 / 1002.5 / 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
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

Physiotherapy 1
Determination 15

2 of 26 values recorded from staff_ability. Not recorded: Judging player ability, Judging player potential, Judging staff ability, Judging team data, Analysing data, Presenting data, Tactical knowledge, Coaching, Coaching technique, Hardness of training, Youngsters, Injury management, Motivating, People management, Discipline, Mind games, Patience, Eccentricity, Versatility, Buying players, Negotiating, 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 6
Defending 12
Technical 7
Tactical 8
Mental 9
Fitness 8
Attacking 6
Defending 12
Technical 7
Tactical 8
Mental 9
Fitness 8

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

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

Career spells

Marked current: 1 of 15 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
Ipswich Town Player 1993-07-01 1994-07-01 Ended
Luton Town Player 1994-07-01 1997-07-01 Ended
Cambridge United Player 1997-07-01 2000-07-01 Ended
Kettering Town Player 2000-07-01 2000-12-01 Ended
Canvey Island Player 2000-12-01 2006-05-31 Ended
Chelmsford City Player 2006-05-31 2008-01-01 Ended
Canvey Island Player 2008-01-01 2008-04-01 Ended
Braintree Town Player 2008-04-01 2008-08-14 Ended
Needham Market Player 2008-08-20 2008-09-11 Ended
Chelmsford City Coach 2008-09-11 2012-05-30 Ended
Bury Town Assistant Manager 2012-07-01 2014-06-01 Ended
Bury Town Manager 2014-06-01 2023-03-02 Ended
Tottenham Hotspur Youth Coach 2023-07-01 2024-07-01 Ended
Tottenham Hotspur Assistant Manager 2024-07-01 2025-08-01 Ended
Ipswich Town Head of Youth Development 2025-08-01 — Current

National-team spells

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

Club contract

Joined
2025-08-01
Contract start
2025-08-01
Expires
—
Weekly wage
£2,500

Squad numbers

Squad numbers from club_squad_number, keyed on team_uid.
TeamNumber
Team 667 —

Languages

Languages from person_language.
LanguageFirst languageProficiency
English Yes —

Relations and preferences

Liked clubs

ClubRating
Chelmsford City 75
Canvey Island 75

Liked people

PersonRating
— 80
— 75
— 60
Danny Laws 50

Personal information

Date of birth
1977-01-28
Nationality
England
Birth city
Ipswich
Joined current club
2025-08-01

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 10
Ambition 10
Controversy 5
Loyalty 17
Pressure 11
Professionalism 15
Sportsmanship 13
Temperament 14