Kevin John Russell

  • 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
91
Potential ability
130
Home reputation
91
Current reputation
91
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.

Appearance

Ethnicity code
0
Hair colour code
0
Hair length code
4
Skin tone code
6

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 10
Judging player potential 10
Tactical knowledge 6
Hardness of training 9
Youngsters 12
Motivating 9
People management 10
Discipline 8
Mind games 2
Determination 10
Buying players 5

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 10
Defending 10
Technical 9
Tactical 9
Mental 8
Fitness 11
Attacking 10
Defending 10
Technical 9
Tactical 9
Mental 8
Fitness 11

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 12
Directness 6
Tempo 8
Width 15
Pressing 6
Flexibility 4

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

Career spells

Marked current: 2 of 25 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
Portsmouth Player 1984-07-01 — Current
Wrexham Player 1987-07-17 1989-06-20 Ended
Leicester City Player 1989-06-20 1992-07-16 Ended
Peterborough United Player 1990-09-06 1990-10-06 Ended
Cardiff City Player 1991-01-17 1991-02-17 Ended
Hereford United Player 1991-11-07 1991-12-07 Ended
Stoke City Player 1992-01-02 1992-02-02 Ended
Stoke City Player 1992-07-16 1993-06-28 Ended
Burnley Player 1993-06-28 1994-03-03 Ended
AFC Bournemouth Player 1994-03-03 1995-02-24 Ended
Notts County Player 1995-02-24 1995-07-21 Ended
Wrexham Player 1995-07-21 — Current
Wrexham Assistant Manager 2001-10-01 2007-01-20 Ended
Peterborough United Assistant Manager 2007-01-20 2009-11-10 Ended
Preston North End Assistant Manager 2010-01-06 2010-12-29 Ended
Peterborough United Assistant Manager 2011-01-11 2014-07-05 Ended
Stoke City Coach 2015-08-18 2016-06-30 Ended
Stoke City Manager 2016-07-01 2018-01-21 Ended
Stoke City Coach 2018-01-22 2018-07-08 Ended
Stoke City Manager 2018-07-08 2022-06-30 Ended
Stoke City Manager 2022-07-01 2023-06-30 Ended
Cheltenham Town Assistant Manager 2023-07-22 2023-10-10 Ended
Huddersfield Town Manager 2024-01-15 2024-02-19 Ended
Huddersfield Town Coach 2024-02-19 2025-05-14 Ended
Peterborough United Coach 2025-06-13 2025-10-25 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 people

PersonRating
Darren Ferguson 90
Kieran Scarff 75

Other relations

Typed relations from person_other_relation.
Target typeTargetRating
nation (object type 8) England 100

Personal information

Date of birth
1966-12-06
Nationality
England
Birth city
Portsmouth
Joined current club
2025-10-25

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 9
Controversy —
Loyalty 14
Pressure 14
Professionalism 16
Sportsmanship 6
Temperament 6