Steve Round

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
149
Potential ability
160
Home reputation
149
Current reputation
149
World reputation
115
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
Continental 1.0 / 5 stars
Coaching style
Tactical
Preferred mentality
Attacking
Preferred playing style
Standard
Preferred pressing style
Balanced
Coaching category scores calculated by the game
CategoryScoreStars
Quickness54 / 1003.0 / 5
Strength54 / 1003.0 / 5
Defending (tactical)72 / 1004.0 / 5
Defending (technical)66 / 1003.5 / 5
Possession (tactical)70 / 1004.0 / 5
Possession (technical)58 / 1003.0 / 5
Attacking (tactical)72 / 1004.0 / 5
Attacking (technical)66 / 1003.5 / 5
Overall70 / 1004.0 / 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
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 11
Judging player potential 13
Tactical knowledge 15
Hardness of training 13
Youngsters 15
Motivating 10
People management 12
Discipline 10
Mind games 8
Determination 17
Buying players 8

11 of 26 values recorded from staff_ability. Not recorded: Judging staff ability, Judging team data, Analysing data, Presenting data, Coaching, Coaching technique, Physiotherapy, Injury management, Patience, Eccentricity, Versatility, 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 15
Defending 15
Technical 12
Tactical 18
Mental 10
Fitness 10
Attacking 15
Defending 15
Technical 12
Tactical 18
Mental 10
Fitness 10

6 of 6 values recorded from staff_coaching.

Tactical style

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

Attacking 16
Directness 8
Tempo 10
Width 10
Depth 12
Pressing 12
Flexibility 8
Squad rotation 13

8 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, Dirtiness allowance.

Career spells

Marked current: 2 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
Derby County Player 1990-07-01 — Current
Derby County Assistant Manager 1996-06-01 2001-06-23 Ended
Middlesbrough Coach 2001-06-23 2006-06-30 Ended
Newcastle United Coach 2007-06-29 2008-07-03 Ended
Everton Assistant Manager 2008-07-04 2013-06-30 Ended
Manchester United Assistant Manager 2013-07-01 2014-04-22 Ended
Aston Villa Director of Football 2016-09-01 2018-07-04 Ended
Arsenal Assistant Manager 2019-12-24 2023-06-30 Ended
Derby County Coach 2025-02-24 — Current

National-team spells

National-team spells from person_nation_contract.
NationRoleFromToStatus
England Coach 2006-07-10 2007-06-29 Ended

Club contract

Joined
2025-02-24
Contract start
2025-06-30
Expires
2026-06-30
Weekly wage
£2,500

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 clubs

ClubRating
Derby County 60

Liked people

Personal information

Date of birth
1970-11-09
Nationality
England
Birth city
Burton-on-Trent
Joined current club
2025-02-24

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 15
Controversy 3
Loyalty 18
Pressure 14
Professionalism 16
Sportsmanship —
Temperament 12