Ben Garrity

Ben Garrity
Garrity captaining Port Vale in October 2023.
Personal information
Full name Benjamin Matthew Garrity[1]
Date of birth (1997-02-12) 12 February 1997 (age 27)[2]
Place of birth Croxteth, Liverpool, England[3]
Height 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)[2]
Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
Port Vale
Number 8
Youth career
2004–2013 NSC Junior
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2013 Oyster Martyrs
2013 Formby 7 (0)
2013–2018 Lower Breck
2018–2020 Warrington Town 46 (12)
2020–2021 Blackpool 0 (0)
2020–2021Oldham Athletic (loan) 29 (2)
2021– Port Vale 123 (24)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 15:30, 21 September 2024 (UTC)

Benjamin Matthew Garrity (born 12 February 1997) is an English professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for EFL League Two club Port Vale. He is also the club captain.

He began his career playing non-League football at Merseyside-based clubs NSC Junior, Oyster Martyrs, Formby and Lower Breck, winning Lower Breck's Player of the Season award in 2016–17. He joined Northern Premier League Premier Division side Warrington Town in 2018 and impressed enough to win a move to Blackpool in January 2020, turning professional in the English Football League shortly before the age of 23. He spent the 2020–21 season on loan at Oldham Athletic and was sold on to Port Vale in June 2021. He helped the club to win promotion out of League Two via the play-offs in 2022 and was also named as the club's Player of the Year. He won the award again in 2024.

  1. ^ "Club list of registered players: As at 23rd June 2020: Oldham Athletic" (PDF). 23 June 2020. p. 32. Retrieved 6 September 2020.
  2. ^ a b Ben Garrity at Soccerway
  3. ^ O'Neill, Connor (27 May 2022). "From Parkview to Wembley - Ben Garrity on his rise up the football pyramid". Liverpool Echo. Retrieved 29 May 2022.