Paddy McCarthy
McCarthy with Crystal Palace in 2012
Personal information
Full name Patrick Richard McCarthy[1]
Date of birth (1983-05-31) 31 May 1983 (age 40)[1]
Place of birth Dublin, Ireland
Height 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)[1]
Position(s) Centre-back
Youth career
Stella Maris
2000–2002 Manchester City
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2002–2005 Manchester City 0 (0)
2002–2003 → Boston United (loan) 12 (0)
2003 → Notts County (loan) 6 (0)
2005–2007 Leicester City 73 (3)
2007–2008 Charlton Athletic 29 (2)
2008–2016 Crystal Palace 134 (6)
2014 → Sheffield United (loan) 11 (1)
2015 → Bolton Wanderers (loan) 5 (0)
2015 → Preston North End (loan) 1 (0)
Total 271 (12)
International career
1999–2000 Republic of Ireland U17 9 (0)
Republic of Ireland U21 7 (1)
2006 Republic of Ireland B 1 (0)
Managerial career
2023 Crystal Palace (caretaker)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Patrick Richard McCarthy (born 31 May 1983) is an Irish former professional footballer who played as a centre-back. He is currently assistant manager of Premier League club Crystal Palace.

Born in Dublin, he began his football career as a junior with Manchester City before joining Leicester City in 2005 where he spent three seasons before joining Charlton Athletic in the summer of 2007. He remained with Charlton for just twelve months, joining Crystal Palace in the summer of 2008 where he remained until 2016. McCarthy has also played for Boston United and Notts County on loan during the early part of his career and Sheffield United, Bolton Wanderers and Preston North End, also as a loan player.

Having previously been the coach of Crystal Palace's under-18s side since 2016, in March 2023 McCarthy was interim manager of the first team, and then became the assistant manager.

Club career

McCarthy was born in Dublin.[1] He joined Leicester City in March 2005 for a fee of £100,000 from Manchester City, signing a three-year contract.[2] He had never played for Manchester City's first team but had enjoyed loan spells at Boston United and Notts County during 2002 and 2003. Boston had made a bid to sign McCarthy on a permanent basis in February 2003.[3]

McCarthy became a favourite with the Leicester fans, due to his no-nonsense style of play, and in July 2006 was named club captain for the 2006–07 season. His season was cut short when he dislocated his shoulder in a training accident in February 2007.[4] Nonetheless, McCarthy expressed his wish to leave Leicester before the start of next season, despite being offered a new contract.[5]

McCarthy moved to Charlton Athletic for a fee of £650,000 in June 2007,[6] but spent only a year at The Valley, moving across south-east London to sign for Crystal Palace in the summer of 2008, with Mark Hudson travelling in the opposite direction.[6] McCarthy was troubled by a series of shoulder injuries which restricted him from playing in much of the 2008–09 and the 2009–10 seasons, but this did not stop him being named Palace captain in the run-up to the 2010–11 season.

McCarthy missed the entire 2012–13 season with a groin injury, and made only one appearance in the subsequent Premier League season.[7] Despite this, he signed a one-year contract extension with Palace in September 2014.[8] Despite being given a new deal, first-team chances remained limited, and so, on 3 October 2014, McCarthy joined Sheffield United on an initial one-month loan deal[9] and made his début the following day as United lost 3–2 away at Chesterfield.[10] His first goal for the Blades came in the next match in a 2–2 draw against Leyton Orient at Bramall Lane.[11] At the end of the loan period McCarthy returned to Palace and was named amongst the substitutes for an away fixture against Manchester United on 8 November.[12] However, on 11 November, it was confirmed that McCarthy's loan with the Blades had been renewed until 28 December 2014.[13][14] In his first game back at United, McCarthy was sent off in a Yorkshire derby away at Doncaster Rovers with ten men United eventually going on to win 1–0.[15]

McCarthy signed for Bolton Wanderers on loan in March 2015, a prankster had telephoned the West Bromwich Albion manager Tony Pulis pretending to be Bolton manager Neil Lennon weeks previously, with an enquiry for Gareth McAuley as the main point of interest. Pulis himself recommended his old Palace captain McCarthy, whom Bolton duly signed in an unconnected incident later in the season. McCarthy made five appearances in a Bolton shirt, but had to return to Palace after picking up an injury in Wanderers 2–2 draw with Brentford at Griffin Park.

McCarthy signed for newly promoted Preston North End on 3 October on a 93-day loan, and went straight into the squad to make his debut against Sheffield Wednesday on the same day.[16] However, he was substituted after ten minutes due to injury.[17]

On 13 June 2016, it was announced that McCarthy would be released by Crystal Palace on expiry of his contract on 30 June.[18]

International career

McCarthy represented the Republic of Ireland Under-16 team at the 2000 UEFA European Under-16 Championship and the Under-19 team at the 2002 UEFA European Under-19 Championship. He appeared for the Under-21 and B side too. In September 2009 McCarthy received a call up by then manager Giovanni Trapattoni for a friendly against South Africa played in Limerick, where he was an unused substitute.

Coaching career

On 2 December 2016, six months after his retirement from playing, McCarthy was appointed under-18s coach at Crystal Palace, replacing Ken Gillard, who left the club in November to join Arsenal.[19]

On 17 March 2023, after the sacking of manager Patrick Vieira, the club announced that McCarthy would take over as first-team manager on an interim basis.[20] His only match in charge was a 4–1 away loss to league leaders Arsenal.[21] Following the re-appointment of Roy Hodgson as first-team manager, McCarthy became assistant manager.

Career statistics

As a player

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Season Club League FA Cup League Cup Others Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Manchester City 2002–03[22] Premier League 0 0 0 0 0 0 – 0 0
2003–04[23] Premier League 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2004–05[24] Premier League 0 0 0 0 0 0 – 0 0
Total 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Boston (loan) 2002–03[22] Third Division 12 0 0 0 – – 12 0
Notts County (loan) 2002–03[22] Second Division 6 0 – – – 6 0
Leicester City 2004–05[24] Championship 12 0 1 0 – – 13 0
2005–06[25] Championship 39 2 2 0 4 0 – 45 2
2006–07[26] Championship 22 1 2 0 1 1 – 25 2
Total 73 3 5 0 5 1 0 0 83 4
Charlton Athletic 2007–08[27] Championship 29 2 2 0 2 1 – 33 3
Crystal Palace 2008–09[28] Championship 27 3 0 0 2 0 – 29 3
2009–10[29] Championship 20 0 0 0 2 0 – 22 0
2010–11[30] Championship 43 1 1 0 2 0 – 46 1
2011–12[31] Championship 43 2 0 0 7 0 – 50 2
2012–13[32] Championship 0 0 0 0 0 0 – 0 0
2013–14[7] Premier League 1 0 1 0 0 0 – 2 0
2014–15[33] Premier League 0 0 0 0 2 0 – 2 0
2015–16[34] Premier League 0 0 0 0 0 0 – 0 0
Total 134 6 2 0 15 0 0 0 151 6
Sheffield United (loan) 2014–15[33] League One 11 1 0 0 0 0 – 11 1
Bolton Wanderers (loan) 2014–15[33] Championship 5 0 0 0 0 0 – 5 0
Preston North End (loan) 2015–16[35] Championship 1 0 0 0 0 0 – 1 0
Career total 271 12 9 0 22 2 0 0 302 14

As a manager

As of match played 18 March 2023
Managerial record by team and tenure
Team From To Record
P W D L Win %
Crystal Palace (caretaker) 17 March 2023 21 March 2023 1 0 0 1 000.0
Total 1 0 0 1 000.0

Honours

Crystal Palace

Individual

References

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  2. ^ "Foxes land City stopper". Sky Sports. 3 March 2005. Retrieved 15 April 2009.
  3. ^ "Boston bid for McCarthy". BBC Sport. 24 February 2003. Archived from the original on 23 October 2009. Retrieved 23 October 2013.
  4. ^ "McCarthy shoulder blow for Foxes". BBC Sport. 15 February 2007. Archived from the original on 19 February 2007. Retrieved 23 October 2013.
  5. ^ "Allen regrets McCarthy departure". BBC Sport. 7 June 2007. Retrieved 23 October 2013.
  6. ^ a b "Palace sign McCarthy from Addicks". BBC Sport. 12 June 2008. Retrieved 23 October 2013.
  7. ^ a b "Games played by Patrick McCarthy in 2013/2014". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
  8. ^ "McCarthy Extends Eagles Contract". Crystal Palace F.C. 26 September 2014. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
  9. ^ "Sheffield United confirm deal to sign Paddy McCarthy on loan from Crystal Palace". Sheffield Telegraph. 3 October 2014. Retrieved 3 October 2014.
  10. ^ "Chesterfield 3 Sheffield United 2: Higdon and Lee see red in Blades loss". Yorkshire Post. 4 October 2014. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
  11. ^ "O's hold Blades in thriller". Sky Sports. 11 October 2014. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
  12. ^ "Fixture | Man Utd vs Crystal Palace". Archived from the original on 9 November 2014.
  13. ^ "Sheffield United receive timely boost ahead of Doncaster Rovers derby as Paddy McCarthy returns on loan". Sheffield Star. 11 November 2013. Retrieved 11 November 2014.
  14. ^ "- News".
  15. ^ "Doncaster Rovers 0 Sheffield United 1: Murphy earns 10-man Blades derby honours". The Yorkshire Post. 15 November 2014. Retrieved 16 November 2014.
  16. ^ "Paddy McCarthy Goes On Loan". cpfc.co.uk. 3 October 2015. Retrieved 3 October 2015.
  17. ^ "Sheffield Wednesday 3-1 Preston North End - BBC Sport".
  18. ^ "Six Players Released By Crystal Palace". cpfc.co.uk. 13 June 2016. Retrieved 20 June 2016.
  19. ^ "Former captain Paddy McCarthy to take over as coach of the club's under 18 side". www.cpfc.co.uk. 2 December 2016. Retrieved 3 December 2016.
  20. ^ "Paddy McCarthy to manage Palace at Arsenal - News". Crystal Palace F.C. Retrieved 17 March 2023.
  21. ^ "Arsenal 4–1 Crystal Palace". BBC Sport. 19 March 2023. Retrieved 21 March 2023.
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  23. ^ "Games played by Patrick McCarthy in 2003/2004". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
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  26. ^ "Games played by Patrick McCarthy in 2006/2007". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
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  30. ^ "Games played by Patrick McCarthy in 2010/2011". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
  31. ^ "Games played by Patrick McCarthy in 2011/2012". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
  32. ^ "Games played by Patrick McCarthy in 2012/2013". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
  33. ^ a b c "Games played by Patrick McCarthy in 2014/2015". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
  34. ^ "Games played by Patrick McCarthy in 2015/2016". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
  35. ^ "Games played by Patrick McCarthy in 2015/2016". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 20 March 2023.

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