Dwight Yorke

**Dwight Eversley Yorke** CM (born 3 November 1971) is a retired Trinidadian football player. He has played for Trinidad and Tobago national team. He won the 1998–99 Premier League Golden Boot, alongside Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink and Michael Owen. This made him the joint first foreign Golden Boot winner.

### Club

- Source:

|rowspan="2"|Club|rowspan="2"|Season|colspan="3"|League|colspan="2"|FA Cup|colspan="2"|League Cup|colspan="2"|Europe|colspan="2"|Other|colspan="2"|Total|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="11"|Aston Villa|1989–90|First Division|2|0|0|0|—|—|0|0|2|0|||
|1990–91|First Division|18|2|2|0|1|0|0|0|—|21|2||||
|1991–92|First Division|32|11|5|5|2|0|—|1|1|40|17||||
|1992–93|Premier League|27|6|4|1|4|0|—|—|35|7|||||
|1993–94|Premier League|12|2|2|1|0|0|0|0|—|14|3||||
|1994–95|Premier League|37|6|2|1|4|1|0|0|—|43|8||||
|1995–96|Premier League|35|17|5|2|8|6|—|—|48|25|||||
|1996–97|Premier League|37|17|2|2|2|1|2|0|—|43|20||||
|1997–98|Premier League|30|12|2|2|1|0|7|2|—|40|16||||
|1998–99|Premier League|1|0|—|—|—|—|1|0|||||||
|rowspan="5"|Manchester United|1998–99|Premier League|32|18|8|3|0|0|11|8|—|51|29||
|1999–2000|Premier League|32|20|—|0|0|11|2|4|1|47|23||||
|2000–01|Premier League|22|9|2|0|2|2|11|1|1|0|38|12|||
|2001–02|Premier League|10|1|1|0|1|0|3|0|1|0|16|1|||
|rowspan="4"|Blackburn Rovers|2002–03|Premier League|33|8|3|3|4|2|3|0|—|43|13||
|2003–04|Premier League|23|4|1|0|1|2|2|0|—|27|6||||
|2004–05|Premier League|4|0|—|—|—|—|4|0|||||||
|Birmingham City|2004–05|Premier League|13|2|1|0|2|0|—|—|16|2||||
|rowspan="3"|Sydney FC|2005–06|A-League|21|7|—|—|—|2|1|23|8||||
|2006–07|A-League|1|0|—|—|—|—|1|0|||||||
|rowspan="4"|Sunderland|2006–07|Championship|32|5|1|0|—|—|—|33|5||||
|2007–08|Premier League|20|1|0|0|1|0|—|—|21|1|||||
|2008–09|Premier League|7|0|1|0|0|0|—|—|8|0|||||

### International

|National team||Year||Apps||Goals|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="13"|Trinidad and Tobago|1989|10|2|||
|1992|5|0|||||
|1993|1|1|||||
|1994|1|0|||||
|1996|5|1|||||
|1999|1|0|||||
|2000|9|8|||||
|2001|7|1|||||
|2004|1|0|||||
|2005|13|0|||||
|2006|9|3|||||
|2008|6|2|||||
|2009|4|1|||||

### International goals

- _Scores and results list Trinidad and Tobago's goal tally first._

|Num|Date|Venue|Opponent|Score|Result|Competition|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|**1**|9 July 1989|Bridgetown, Barbados||2–1|Win|1989 Caribbean Championship|
|**2**|||||||
|**3**|21 May 1993|Montego Bay, Jamaica||4–1|Win|1993 Caribbean Cup|
|**4**|23 June 1996|Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago||8–0|Win|1998 World Cup Qualifier|
|**5**|15 February 2000|Los Angeles, United States||4–2|Win|2000 CONCACAF Gold Cup|
|**6**|7 May 2000|Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago||3–1|Win|2002 World Cup Qualification|
|**7**|19 May 2000|Port-au-Prince, Haiti||1–1|Draw|2002 World Cup Qualification|
|**8**|8 July 2000|Port of Spain||2–4|Loss|Friendly|
|**9**|||||||
|**10**|16 July 2000|Edmonton, Canada||2–0|Win|2002 World Cup Qualification|
|**11**|16 August 2000|Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago||6–0|Win|2002 World Cup Qualification|
|**12**|||||||
|**13**|23 June 2001|Hamilton, Bermuda||5–0|Win|Friendly|
|**14**|28 February 2006|London, England||2–0|Win|Friendly|
|**15**|||||||
|**16**|7 October 2006|Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago||5–0|Win|Friendly|
|**17**|15 October 2008|Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago||2–1|Win|2010 World Cup Qualification|
|**18**|19 November 2008|Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago||3–0|Win|2010 World Cup Qualification|
|**19**|11 February 2009|San Salvador, El Salvador||2–2|Draw|2010 World Cup Qualification|

## Honours

**Aston Villa**
- Football League Cup: 1995–96

**Manchester United**
- Premier League: 1998–99, 1999–2000, 2000–01
- FA Cup: 1998–99
- UEFA Champions League: 1998–99
- Intercontinental Cup: 1999

**Sydney FC**
- A-League: 2005–06

**Sunderland**
- Football League Championship: 2006–07

**Trinidad and Tobago**
- Caribbean Cup: 1989

**Individual**
- Premier League Player of the Month: February 1996, January 1999, March 2000
- PFA Team of the Year: 1998–99 Premier League
- Premier League Player of the Season: 1998–99
- Premier League Golden Boot: 1998–99
- Joe Marston Medal: 2005–06
- Sydney FC Hall of Fame: 2015

## Other websites

- Sydney FC profile
- Dwight Yorke Interview
- Profile at Soca Warriors Online

## Infobox (football biography)

- **name**: Dwight Yorke
- **image**: Dwight Yorke in Chennai.jpg
- **caption**: Yorke in 2012
- **fullname**: Dwight Eversley Yorke
- **birth place**: Canaan, Tobago, Canaan, Trinidad and Tobago
- **position**: Forward (association football), Forward
Midfielder
- **youthyears1**: 1988–1989
- **youthclubs1**: Signal Hill Comprehensive School
- **youthyears2**: 1989–1990
- **youthclubs2**: Aston Villa F.C., Aston Villa
- **years1**: 1990–1998
- **clubs1**: Aston Villa F.C., Aston Villa
- **caps1**: 231
- **goals1**: 73
- **years2**: 1998–2002
- **clubs2**: Manchester United F.C., Manchester United
- **caps2**: 96
- **goals2**: 48
- **years3**: 2002–2004
- **clubs3**: Blackburn Rovers F.C., Blackburn Rovers
- **caps3**: 60
- **goals3**: 12
- **years4**: 2004–2005
- **clubs4**: Birmingham City F.C., Birmingham City
- **caps4**: 13
- **goals4**: 2
- **years5**: 2005–2006
- **clubs5**: Sydney F.C., Sydney FC
- **caps5**: 22
- **goals5**: 7
- **years6**: 2006–2009
- **clubs6**: Sunderland A.F.C., Sunderland
- **caps6**: 59
- **goals6**: 6
- **totalcaps**: 481
- **totalgoals**: 148
- **nationalyears1**: 1989–2009
- **nationalteam1**: Trinidad and Tobago national football team, Trinidad and Tobago
- **nationalcaps1**: 72
- **nationalgoals1**: 19