Phil Charnock

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Personal information
Phil Charnock
Full name	Philip Anthony Charnock
Date of birth	February 14, 1975 (age 32)
Place of birth	Southport, England
Height	5ft 11in
Playing position	Midfielder
Club information
Current club	Fleetwood Town
Youth clubs
	Liverpool
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1992-96 1996 1996-2002 2002-03 2003 2003-06 2006 2006-	Liverpool Blackpool (loan) Crewe Alexandra Port Vale Bury Linfield Ballymena United Fleetwood Town	0 (0) 4 (0) 155 (8) 18 (1) 3 (0)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of September 3, 2003. * Appearances (Goals)

Phil Charnock (born February 14, 1975 in Southport) is an English footballer who plays as a midfielder. Charnock began his career with Liverpool, and made his debut in 1992 in a Cup Winners' Cup game against Apollon Limassol. Charnock was just 17 years and 9 months old, which made him the youngest player ever to play for the club in European competition, breaking a record previously set by Jamie Redknapp one year earlier. Despite this promising start, Charnock did not break into the first team at Anfield, and in 1996 he left for Crewe Alexandra, following a successful loan spell. He spent six largely successful years at the Alex, playing in the third and second tiers, but his time was blighted by injury. After leaving Crewe in 2002, he spent a year with Port Vale and a brief spell with Bury, before moving to Northern Ireland, playing for Linfield and Ballymena United. Again he suffered with injury, missing a whole year of action, and he returned to England in summer 2006, joining Fleetwood Town.