Back Benni McCarthy Afrikaans بيني ماكارثي Arabic بينى ماكارثى ARZ بنی مککارتی AZB Бэні Макарці BE-X-OLD Benedict McCarthy Catalan Benni McCarthy Czech Benni McCarthy Danish Benni McCarthy German Μπένι ΜακΚάρθι Greek
 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 | (42) | ||||||||||||||
| 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 | (168) | |||||||||||||||
| 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) | ||||||||||||||||
| 2025– | Kenya | ||||||||||||||||
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 who is currently the manager of the Kenya national football team. He previously worked as head coach of South African Premier Division team AmaZulu, and as assistant coach at Manchester United.[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.