Gavin Peter McCann

  • 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
105
Potential ability
—
Home reputation
105
Current reputation
105
World reputation
0
International appearances
1
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.

Appearance

Ethnicity code
0
Hair colour code
17
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

Tactical knowledge 10
Youngsters 14
Determination 16

3 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, Coaching, Coaching technique, Hardness of training, Physiotherapy, Injury management, Motivating, People management, Discipline, Mind games, Patience, Eccentricity, Versatility, Buying players, Negotiating, Business, Resources, Interference.

Coaching

Coaching Coaching: 5 of 6 values recorded, plotted on a 1 to 20 scale. Axes omitted because the value is not recorded: Tactical. Coaching: 5 of 6 values recorded, plotted on a 1 to 20 scale. Axes omitted because the value is not recorded: Tactical.
5 of 6 recorded Not recorded: Tactical
Coaching — every value plotted above, plus the ones that are not recorded.
AttributeValue
Attacking 11
Defending 8
Technical 13
Tactical Not recorded
Mental 14
Fitness 8
Attacking 11
Defending 8
Technical 13
Mental 14
Fitness 8

5 of 6 values recorded from staff_coaching. Not recorded: Tactical.

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 11
Directness 5
Tempo 12
Width 15
Depth 4
Pressing 10
Flexibility 6

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

Career spells

Marked current: 1 of 9 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
Everton Player 1995-07-01 1998-11-27 Ended
Sunderland Player 1998-11-27 2003-07-24 Ended
Aston Villa Player 2003-07-24 2007-06-08 Ended
Bolton Wanderers Player 2007-06-08 — Current
Bolton Wanderers Coach 2011-05-20 2012-05-24 Ended
Hyde United Assistant Manager 2012-05-25 2013-11-11 Ended
Blackpool Coach 2015-09-04 2016-09-01 Ended
Bolton Wanderers Coach 2016-09-01 2021-01-31 Ended
Hyde United Coach 2022-02-18 2025-09-07 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
Manchester United 60

Liked people

PersonRating
— 100
Jamie Milligan 85
John Hills 85
Peter Reid 75

Disliked people

PersonRating
— 75

Personal information

Date of birth
1978-01-10
Nationality
England
Birth city
Blackpool
Joined current club
2025-09-07

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 7
Ambition 11
Controversy 7
Loyalty 12
Pressure 14
Professionalism 15
Sportsmanship 9
Temperament 9