Marcus Bent

**Marcus Nathan Bent** (born 19 May 1978) is a retired English professional footballer. A former England under-21 international, he played 573 games and scored 113 goals for fourteen different clubs.

## Career statistics

|rowspan="2"|Club|rowspan="2"|Season|rowspan="2"|Division|colspan="2"|League|colspan="2"|FA Cup|colspan="2"|League Cup|colspan="2"|Other|colspan="2"|Total|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="4"|Brentford|1995–96|Second Division|12|1|4|3|0|0|1|0|17|4|||
|1996–97|Second Division|34|3|2|0|4|0|5|1|45|4|||||
|1997–98|Second Division|24|4|2|0|3|1|0|0|29|5|||||
|rowspan="3"|Crystal Palace|1997–98|Premier League|16|5|0|0|0|0|―|16|5||||
|1998–99|First Division|12|0|1|0|2|0|―|15|0||||||
|Port Vale|1998–99|First Division|15|0|0|0|0|0|―|15|0|||||
|1999–2000|First Division|8|1|0|0|1|0|―|9|1||||||
|rowspan="3"|Sheffield United|1999–2000|First Division|32|15|3|1|0|0|―|35|16||||
|2000–01|First Division|16|5|0|0|5|3|―|21|8||||||
|Blackburn Rovers|2000–01|First Division|28|8|6|3|0|0|―|34|11|||||
|2001–02|Premier League|9|0|0|0|1|0|―|10|0||||||
|rowspan="4"|Ipswich Town|2001–02|Premier League|25|9|2|1|0|0|0|0|27|10|||
|2002–03|First Division|32|11|2|0|1|0|3|1|38|12|||||
|2003–04|First Division|4|1|0|0|1|0|0|0|5|1|||||
|Leicester City (loan)|2003–04|Premier League|33|9|2|1|0|0|0|0|35|10||||
|rowspan="3"|Everton|2004–05|Premier League|37|6|3|0|2|1|―|42|7||||
|2005–06|Premier League|18|1|1|0|1|0|4|0|24|1|||||
|Charlton Athletic|2005–06|Premier League|13|2|0|0|0|0|―|13|2|||||
|2006–07|Premier League|30|1|1|0|4|1|―|35|2||||||
|2007–08|Championship|3|1|0|0|1|0|―|4|1||||||
|Wigan Athletic (loan)|2007–08|Premier League|31|7|1|0|0|0|0|0|32|7||||
|Birmingham City|2008–09|Championship|33|3|1|0|1|0|0|0|35|3||||
|Middlesbrough (loan)|2009–10|Championship|7|0|1|0|0|0|0|0|8|0||||
|Queens Park Rangers (loan)|2009–10|Championship|3|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|3|0||||
|Wolverhampton Wanderers (loan)|2010–11|Premier League|3|0|0|0|2|0|0|0|5|0||||
|Sheffield United (loan)|2010–11|Championship|11|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|11|0||||
|Mitra Kukar|2011–12|Indonesia Super League|11|4|―|―|―|11|4|||||||
|Wick|2017–18|Southern Combination Premier Division|0|0|0|0|―|0|0|0|0|||||
|Cornard United|2019–20|Eastern Counties League Division One North|1|0|colspan="2"|―|colspan="2"|―|colspan="2"|―|1|0||||

## Honours

**Blackburn Rovers**
- Football League First Division second-place promotion: 2000–01

**Birmingham City**
- Football League Championship second-place promotion: 2008–09

**Individual**
- Premier League Player of the Month: January 2002

## Infobox (football biography)

- **name**: Marcus Bent
- **image**: Marcus Bent.png
- **caption**: Bent playing for Charlton Athletic F.C., Charlton Athletic in April 2006
- **fullname**: Marcus Nathan Bent
- **birth place**: Hammersmith, London, England
- **position**: Forward (association football), Forward
- **currentclub**: Cornard United F.C., Cornard United
- **youthyears1**: –1995
- **youthclubs1**: Brentford F.C., Brentford
- **years1**: 1995–1998
- **clubs1**: Brentford F.C., Brentford
- **caps1**: 70
- **goals1**: 8
- **years2**: 1998–1999
- **clubs2**: Crystal Palace F.C., Crystal Palace
- **caps2**: 28
- **goals2**: 5
- **years3**: 1999
- **clubs3**: Port Vale F.C., Port Vale
- **caps3**: 23
- **goals3**: 1
- **years4**: 1999–2000
- **clubs4**: Sheffield United F.C., Sheffield United
- **caps4**: 48
- **goals4**: 20
- **years5**: 2000–2001
- **clubs5**: Blackburn Rovers F.C., Blackburn Rovers
- **caps5**: 37
- **goals5**: 8
- **years6**: 2001–2004
- **clubs6**: Ipswich Town F.C., Ipswich Town
- **caps6**: 61
- **goals6**: 21
- **years7**: 2003–2004
- **clubs7**: → Leicester City F.C., Leicester City (loan)
- **caps7**: 33
- **goals7**: 9
- **years8**: 2004–2006
- **clubs8**: Everton F.C., Everton
- **caps8**: 55
- **goals8**: 7
- **years9**: 2006–2008
- **clubs9**: Charlton Athletic F.C., Charlton Athletic
- **caps9**: 46
- **goals9**: 4
- **years10**: 2007–2008
- **clubs10**: → Wigan Athletic F.C., Wigan Athletic (loan)
- **caps10**: 31
- **goals10**: 7
- **years11**: 2008–2011
- **clubs11**: Birmingham City F.C., Birmingham City
- **caps11**: 33
- **goals11**: 3
- **years12**: 2009–2010
- **clubs12**: → Middlesbrough F.C., Middlesbrough (loan)
- **caps12**: 7
- **goals12**: 0
- **years13**: 2010
- **clubs13**: → Queens Park Rangers F.C., Queens Park Rangers (loan)
- **caps13**: 3
- **goals13**: 0
- **years14**: 2010–2011
- **clubs14**: → Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C., Wolverhampton Wanderers (loan)
- **caps14**: 3
- **goals14**: 0
- **years15**: 2011
- **clubs15**: → Sheffield United F.C., Sheffield United (loan)
- **caps15**: 11
- **goals15**: 0
- **years16**: 2011–2012
- **clubs16**: Mitra Kukar F.C., Mitra Kukar
- **caps16**: 11
- **goals16**: 4
- **years17**: 2017–2018
- **clubs17**: Wick F.C., Wick
- **caps17**: 0
- **goals17**: 0
- **years18**: 2020
- **clubs18**: Cornard United F.C., Cornard United
- **caps18**: 1
- **goals18**: 0
- **totalcaps**: 501
- **totalgoals**: 97
- **nationalyears1**: 1998
- **nationalteam1**: England national under-21 football team, England U21
- **nationalcaps1**: 2
- **nationalgoals1**: 1