René van Eck

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
100
Potential ability
120
Home reputation
100
Current reputation
100
World reputation
45
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
—
Preferred mentality
Balanced
Preferred playing style
Standard
Preferred pressing style
Balanced
Coaching category scores calculated by the game
CategoryScoreStars
Defending (tactical)55 / 1003.0 / 5
Defending (technical)52 / 1003.0 / 5
Possession (tactical)57 / 1003.0 / 5
Possession (technical)51 / 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
7
Hair length code
6
Skin tone code
5

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 10
Judging staff ability 8
Tactical knowledge 9
Hardness of training 13
Youngsters 13
Motivating 13
People management 11
Discipline 13
Determination 12
Negotiating 6
Resources 1

12 of 26 values recorded from staff_ability. Not recorded: Judging team data, Analysing data, Presenting data, Coaching, Coaching technique, Physiotherapy, Injury management, Mind games, Patience, Eccentricity, Versatility, Buying players, Business, Interference.

Coaching

Coaching Coaching: 4 of 6 values recorded, plotted on a 1 to 20 scale. Axes omitted because the value is not recorded: Attacking, Fitness. Coaching: 4 of 6 values recorded, plotted on a 1 to 20 scale. Axes omitted because the value is not recorded: Attacking, Fitness.
4 of 6 recorded Not recorded: Attacking, Fitness
Coaching — every value plotted above, plus the ones that are not recorded.
AttributeValue
Attacking Not recorded
Defending 10
Technical 7
Tactical 10
Mental 12
Fitness Not recorded
Defending 10
Technical 7
Tactical 10
Mental 12

4 of 6 values recorded from staff_coaching. Not recorded: Attacking, Fitness.

Tactical style

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

Attacking 12
Directness 11
Tempo 10
Width 12
Depth 14
Pressing 13

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

Career spells

Marked current: 5 of 27 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
Excelsior Rotterdam Player 1983-07-01 — Current
FC Den Bosch Player 1986-07-01 — Current
FC Luzern Player 1990-07-01 — Current
1. FC Nürnberg Player 1998-07-01 2001-01-01 Ended
FC Winterthur Player 2001-01-01 2001-01-02 Ended
SC Kriens Player 2001-01-02 — Current
FC Luzern Assistant Manager 2002-07-01 2003-06-30 Ended
FC Luzern Manager 2003-07-01 2006-06-30 Ended
FC Inter Turku Manager 2006-09-16 2006-11-16 Ended
FC Wohlen Manager 2006-11-01 2007-06-30 Ended
FC Thun Berner Oberland Manager 2007-07-01 2008-06-30 Ended
FC Carl Zeiss Jena Manager 2008-09-28 2009-03-23 Ended
FC Carl Zeiss Jena Manager 2009-07-01 2010-06-01 Ended
1. FC Nürnberg Manager 2010-06-24 2012-09-09 Ended
TSV Alemannia Aachen Manager 2012-09-10 2013-06-30 Ended
FC Den Bosch Manager 2015-02-05 2016-02-06 Ended
FC Muri Manager 2016-05-18 2016-06-30 Ended
FSV Wacker Nordhausen Manager 2017-01-03 2017-04-21 Ended
FC Zürich Assistant Manager 2018-02-20 2019-06-30 Ended
Grasshopper Club Zürich Coach 2020-07-01 2021-06-30 Ended
Feyenoord Rotterdam Coach 2021-07-01 2021-11-08 Ended
SC Kriens Manager 2021-11-08 2022-05-31 Ended
KMSK Deinze Assistant Manager 2022-07-01 2022-11-01 Ended
VV Capelle Assistant Manager 2022-12-01 2023-06-30 Ended
FC Cosmos Koblenz Manager 2023-07-01 2023-11-14 Ended
VV Capelle Manager 2024-01-25 2024-06-30 Ended
FC Dordrecht Manager 2025-07-01 — Current

National-team spells

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

Club contract

Joined
2025-07-01
Contract start
2025-07-01
Expires
2026-06-30
Weekly wage
£0

Squad numbers

Squad numbers from club_squad_number, keyed on team_uid.
TeamNumber
Team 1001 —

Languages

Languages from person_language.
LanguageFirst languageProficiency
Dutch Yes —
French No 10
German No 10
English No 10

Relations and preferences

Disliked clubs

ClubRating
1. FC Nürnberg 70

Liked people

PersonRating
Jos van Eck 100

Personal information

Date of birth
1966-02-18
Nationality
Netherlands
Birth city
Rotterdam
Joined current club
2025-07-01

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 13
Ambition 14
Controversy 13
Loyalty 13
Pressure 13
Professionalism 14
Sportsmanship 7
Temperament 5