Keith Downing

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
121
Potential ability
135
Home reputation
120
Current reputation
120
World reputation
55
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
Balanced
Coaching category scores calculated by the game
CategoryScoreStars
Quickness53 / 1003.0 / 5
Strength53 / 1003.0 / 5
GK shot stopping32 / 1002.0 / 5
Defending (tactical)65 / 1003.5 / 5
Defending (technical)63 / 1003.5 / 5
Possession (tactical)64 / 1003.5 / 5
Possession (technical)60 / 1003.5 / 5
Attacking (tactical)63 / 1003.5 / 5
Attacking (technical)61 / 1003.5 / 5
Overall56 / 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
2
Hair length code
6
Skin tone code
1

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 12
Judging player potential 10
Judging staff ability 10
Tactical knowledge 14
Hardness of training 15
Youngsters 15
Motivating 11
People management 11
Discipline 17
Mind games 7
Determination 16
Versatility 10
Buying players 11
Negotiating 5

14 of 26 values recorded from staff_ability. Not recorded: Judging team data, Analysing data, Presenting data, Coaching, Coaching technique, Physiotherapy, Injury management, Patience, Eccentricity, 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 12
Technical 10
Tactical 12
Mental 11
Fitness 8
Attacking 11
Defending 12
Technical 10
Tactical 12
Mental 11
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

The tactical preferences this person brings to a side, on the same 1 to 20 scale.

Attacking 13
Directness 8
Tempo 9
Width 10
Depth 12
Pressing 13
Flexibility 10
Squad rotation 9
Set pieces 10

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

Career spells

Marked current: 4 of 21 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
Mile Oak Player 1983-07-01 1984-07-01 Ended
Notts County Player 1984-07-01 — Current
Wolverhampton Wanderers Player 1987-07-01 — Current
Birmingham City Player 1993-07-01 1994-07-01 Ended
Stoke City Player 1994-07-01 1995-07-02 Ended
Cardiff City Player — 1995-07-02 Ended
Hereford United Player 1995-07-02 — Current
Hereford United Player / Coach 1998-06-01 1999-03-05 Ended
Wolverhampton Wanderers Manager 1999-03-06 2004-07-01 Ended
Cheltenham Town Assistant Manager 2004-07-02 2007-11-02 Ended
Cheltenham Town Manager 2007-10-02 2007-11-02 Ended
Cheltenham Town Manager 2007-11-02 2008-09-12 Ended
Port Vale Assistant Manager 2009-02-05 2009-05-02 Ended
West Bromwich Albion Coach 2009-07-01 2012-06-08 Ended
West Bromwich Albion Assistant Manager 2012-06-08 2015-01-09 Ended
Bristol City Assistant Manager 2020-08-10 2021-09-22 Ended
Bristol City Coach 2021-09-22 2021-12-23 Ended
Plymouth Argyle Assistant Manager 2021-12-23 2022-05-14 Ended
Birmingham City Assistant Manager 2022-07-04 2023-10-09 Ended
Blackburn Rovers Assistant Manager 2024-02-24 2025-02-13 Ended
Derby County Coach 2025-02-13 — Current

National-team spells

National-team spells from person_nation_contract.
NationRoleFromToStatus
England Manager 2015-07-28 2016-08-10 Ended
England Manager 2016-08-10 2017-07-01 Ended
England Manager 2017-07-01 2020-08-10 Ended

Club contract

Joined
2025-02-13
Contract start
2025-02-13
Expires
2028-06-30
Weekly wage
£3,500

Squad numbers

Squad numbers from club_squad_number, keyed on team_uid.
TeamNumber
Team 645 —

Languages

Languages from person_language.
LanguageFirst languageProficiency
English Yes —

Relations and preferences

Liked people

Personal information

Date of birth
1965-07-23
Nationality
England
Birth city
Warley
Joined current club
2025-02-13

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 —
Ambition 10
Controversy —
Loyalty 16
Pressure —
Professionalism 16
Sportsmanship 13
Temperament 15