 McCarthy warming up for West Ham United in 2010 | |||||||||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Benedict Saul McCarthy[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 12 November 1977 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Cape Town, South Africa | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)[2] | ||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Forward | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| Young Pirates | |||||||||||||||||
| Crusaders | |||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 1995–1997 | Seven Stars | 49 | (39) | ||||||||||||||
| 1996–1997 | → Cape Town Spurs (loan) | 7 | (3) | ||||||||||||||
| 1997–1999 | Ajax | 36 | (20) | ||||||||||||||
| 1999–2003 | Celta Vigo | 66 | (10) | ||||||||||||||
| 2003–2006 | Porto | 85 | (46) | ||||||||||||||
| 2006–2010 | Blackburn Rovers | 109 | (37) | ||||||||||||||
| 2010–2011 | West Ham United | 11 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2011–2013 | Orlando Pirates | 24 | (10) | ||||||||||||||
| Total | 387 | (161) | |||||||||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||||||||
| South Africa U23 | 13 | ||||||||||||||||
| 1997–2012 | South Africa | 79 | (31) | ||||||||||||||
| Managerial career | |||||||||||||||||
| 2015–2016 | Sint-Truiden (assistant) | ||||||||||||||||
| 2017–2019 | Cape Town City | ||||||||||||||||
| 2020–2022 | AmaZulu | ||||||||||||||||
| 2022–2024 | Manchester United (first team coach) | ||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||||||||||||||||
Benedict Saul McCarthy (born 12 November 1977) is a South African football coach and former player who was most recently a first-team coach at Manchester United. He previously worked as head coach of South African Premier Division team AmaZulu.[3][4]
A former forward, McCarthy is the South Africa national team's all-time top scorer with 31 goals.[5] He is also the only South African to have won the UEFA Champions League, doing so with Porto in 2003–04.
- ^ "List of Players under Written Contract Registered Between 1 February 2010 and 28/02/2010" (PDF). The Football Association. p. 6. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 October 2012.
- ^ "Premier League Player Profile". Premier League. Archived from the original on 1 October 2012. Retrieved 4 April 2011.
- ^ "Confirmed: Benni Returns To The Dugout". Soccer Laduma. 14 December 2020.
- ^ Molobi, Timothy. "Benni in the Bafana Zone". Citypress. Retrieved 2 May 2021.
- ^ "Benni McCarthy urges South Africa strikers to break his record". www.goal.com. 11 November 2011. Retrieved 23 November 2011.