Joe Hart
 Hart in 2014 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Charles Joseph John Hart[1] | ||
| Date of birth | 19 April 1987[2] | ||
| Place of birth | Shrewsbury, England | ||
| Height | 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m)[3] | ||
| Position | Goalkeeper | ||
| Youth career | |||
| –2003 | Shrewsbury Town | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2003–2006 | Shrewsbury Town | 54 | (0) |
| 2006–2018 | Manchester City | 266 | (0) |
| 2007 | → Tranmere Rovers (loan) | 6 | (0) |
| 2007 | → Blackpool (loan) | 5 | (0) |
| 2009–2010 | → Birmingham City (loan) | 36 | (0) |
| 2016–2017 | → Torino (loan) | 36 | (0) |
| 2017–2018 | → West Ham United (loan) | 19 | (0) |
| 2018–2020 | Burnley | 19 | (0) |
| 2020–2021 | Tottenham Hotspur | 0 | (0) |
| 2021–2024 | Celtic | 109 | (0) |
| Total | 550 | (0) | |
| International career | |||
| 2005–2006 | England U19 | 6 | (0) |
| 2007–2009 | England U21 | 21 | (0) |
| 2008–2017 | England | 75 | (0) |
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Charles Joseph John Hart (born 19 April 1987) is an English football pundit, coach and former player who played as a goalkeeper. He was most recently the goalkeeper coach of EFL League Two club Shrewsbury Town.
He began his career at his hometown club Shrewsbury Town in the Football Conference and League Two. In 2006, he moved up to the Premier League with Manchester City, having attracted the attention of several other top-flight teams. In his first season, he spent time on loan at Tranmere Rovers and Blackpool. Hart had a loan spell with Birmingham City in the 2009–10 season, during which he was nominated for the PFA Young Player of the Year and was voted as the Premier League goalkeeper of the season in recognition of his performances. He returned to Manchester City for the 2010–11 season and won the Golden Glove for keeping the most clean sheets throughout the Premier League season. Hart replicated this feat in the 2011–12 season as Manchester City won the Premier League title.[4] He won the Golden Glove for the third year in a row the following season, and won again in 2012–13 for his fourth in five years.[5] In between, Hart won a second Premier League title with Manchester City in 2013–14. With over 100 Premier League clean sheets, Hart holds the joint record for the most Golden Glove awards (four).
With the arrival of new manager Pep Guardiola at Manchester City in 2016, Hart became the second-choice goalkeeper and made only one appearance in the UEFA Champions League before moving on loan to Torino and West Ham United in successive seasons. In August 2018, he moved to Burnley on a permanent transfer after injuries to the club's two regular goalkeepers. When they returned from injury, Hart again found himself in the role of backup and he left the club at the end of his contract in June 2020. In August 2020, Hart signed with Tottenham Hotspur on a two-year deal. A year later, he signed for Scottish Premiership side Celtic. At Celtic, Hart rejuvenated his career, winning seven honours in three seasons at Celtic Park, including three consecutive Scottish Premiership titles, two Scottish League Cups and two Scottish Cups. He retired at the end of the 2023–24 season.
A former regular for England at Under-21 level, Hart made his senior international debut in June 2008, and was recognised as England's first-choice goalkeeper from 2010 to 2017.[6] He gained 75 caps, kept 43 clean sheets and was selected in England's squads for two FIFA World Cups and two UEFA European Championships.
Early life
Hart was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, to Charles Hart, who sold gym equipment, and his wife Louise, a nursery school teacher.[7] He attended Oxon Primary School, followed by Meole Brace School in Shrewsbury, where he was head boy in his final year.[8] As a schoolboy, he was an equally competent cricketer and briefly played for Shrewsbury CC in the Birmingham and District Premier League and also spent two years in Worcestershire's youth squads, playing alongside England cricketer Steven Davies.[8]
Club career
Shrewsbury Town
While still a 15-year-old schoolboy, Hart travelled with the first-team squad of his hometown club, Shrewsbury Town, to Exeter City on 1 February 2003.[9] He was a non-playing substitute on that occasion and fulfilled that role again versus Rochdale at Gay Meadow on 1 March 2003, still some six weeks short of his 16th birthday.[10] This match yielded Shrewsbury's final victory in a season that culminated in relegation to the Football Conference.[11] During the one season that Shrewsbury spent in the Conference, Hart made his senior debut on 20 April 2004, the day after his 17th birthday.[12] He played the full 90 minutes in the match against Gravesend & Northfleet.[13] Four days later, he conceded three at Morecambe.[14]
Hart did not play again until April of the following year, as Scott Howie dominated goalkeeping duties. With Shrewsbury back in the Football League and struggling in the newly renamed League Two, Hart played six matches, conceding four goals.[7]
From the start of the 2005–06 season, Hart made the step up into the first team, and became the club's first-choice goalkeeper. He played a full 46-match league season, conceding 55 goals.[15] Despite conceding more than one goal per game, Hart won plaudits for his personal performances, winning his first England under-19 cap in October 2005, as a substitute against Poland.