| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Jamie Daniel McCart[1] | ||
| Date of birth | (1997-06-20)20 June 1997 (age 28) | ||
| Place of birth | Bellshill, Scotland | ||
| Position | Defender | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Heart of Midlothian | ||
| Number | 5 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Celtic | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2016–2018 | Celtic | 1 | (0) |
| 2017 | →Inverness Caledonian Thistle (loan) | 11 | (0) |
| 2017 | →St Mirren (loan) | 3 | (0) |
| 2018 | →Alloa Athletic (loan) | 13 | (1) |
| 2018–2020 | Inverness Caledonian Thistle | 45 | (2) |
| 2020–2022 | St Johnstone | 82 | (1) |
| 2022–2025 | Rotherham United | 24 | (0) |
| 2023 | →Leyton Orient (loan) | 8 | (0) |
| 2023–2024 | →Barnsley (loan) | 26 | (0) |
| 2025– | Heart of Midlothian | 14 | (1) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2015 | Scotland U19 | 6 | (0) |
| 2017 | Scotland U21 | 1 | (0) |
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 25 November 2025 ‡ National team caps and goals as of 4 March 2019 | |||
Jamie Daniel McCart (born 20 June 1997) is a Scottish professionalfootballer who plays as adefender forScottish Premiership clubHeart of Midlothian.
McCart has previously played forCeltic,Inverness Caledonian Thistle,St Johnstone andRotherham, as well as on loan forSt Mirren,Alloa Athletic,Leyton Orient andBarnsley.
A product ofCeltic's youth system,[3] McCart made his competitive debut for theGlasgow club as a substitute againstMotherwell in theScottish League Cup during August 2016.[4]
On 31 January 2017, McCart joinedInverness Caledonian Thistle on a loan deal until the end of the season.[5] He then made an emergency loan move toSt Mirren in September 2017,[6] and returned to Celtic at the end of the year having made just three appearances for theBuddies.[7] McCart moved on loan again in January 2018, joiningScottish League One sideAlloa Athletic until the end of the season.[8]
McCart returned to Inverness ahead of the 2018–19 season,[9] signing a two-year contract with the club.[10]
McCart signed a pre-contract agreement withSt Johnstone in January 2020.[11] Later in the month, Inverness and St Johnstone agreed a deal that allowed him to join theSaints immediately.[12] He quickly established a defensive partnership withJason Kerr andLiam Gordon.[3] McCart won an unprecedented Cup Double with Saints by winning both the League Cup and Scottish Cup in the 2020-2021 season.
On 27 June 2022, McCart signed a three-year contract withEFL Championship sideRotherham United, after signing a pre-contract earlier in the month.[13] McCart made just one league start for Rotherham during the first half of the 2022–23 season, and he moved on loan toLeyton Orient in January 2023[14] and then Barnsley[15] before returning to play as a regular starter for Rotherham, now in League One.
On 2 January 2025, McCart signed a pre-contract agreement to joinHeart of Midlothian.[16] The following day, the two clubs agreed an undisclosed fee for McCart to move to Hearts immediately.[17][18]
In March 2017 he made his debut for theScotland Under-21 side in a friendly againstEstonia.[19][20]
Selected for theScotland under-20 squad in the2017 Toulon Tournament.[21] The team went to claim the bronze medal.[22] It was the nation's first ever medal at the competition.[2]
He is the son of formerMotherwell defenderChris McCart, who is now the Head of Celtic'sYouth Academy.[23]
| Club | Season | League | National cup[a] | League cup[b] | Other | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Celtic | 2016–17[24] | Scottish Premiership | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2017–18[25] | Scottish Premiership | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Total | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Celtic U-20s | 2016–17[24] | SPFL Development League | — | — | — | 3[c] | 0 | 3 | 0 | |||
| 2017–18[25] | — | — | — | 1[c] | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||
| Inverness Caledonian Thistle (loan) | 2016–17[24] | Scottish Premiership | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 11 | 0 | |
| St Mirren (loan) | 2017–18[25] | Scottish Championship | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Alloa Athletic (loan) | 2017–18[25] | Scottish League One | 13 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4[d] | 0 | 18 | 1 |
| Inverness Caledonian Thistle | 2018–19[26] | Scottish Championship | 26 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5[e] | 0 | 38 | 1 |
| 2019–20[27] | Scottish Championship | 19 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1[c] | 0 | 24 | 1 | |
| Total | 45 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 62 | 2 | ||
| St Johnstone | 2019–20[27] | Scottish Premiership | 8 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 10 | 0 | |
| 2020–21[28] | Scottish Premiership | 37 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 6 | 0 | — | 48 | 0 | ||
| 2021–22[29] | Scottish Premiership | 37 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 5[f] | 0 | 46 | 1 | |
| Total | 82 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 104 | 2 | ||
| Rotherham United | 2022–23[30] | EFL Championship | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | — | 10 | 0 | |
| 2023–24[31] | EFL Championship | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | — | 3 | 0 | ||
| 2024–25[32] | EFL League One | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 20 | 1 | |
| Total | 34 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 33 | 1 | ||
| Leyton Orient (loan) | 2022–23[30] | EFL League Two | 8 | 0 | — | — | — | 8 | 0 | |||
| Barnsley (loan) | 2023–24 | EFL League One | 26 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 32 | 0 |
| Heart of Midlothian | 2024–25 | Scottish Premiership | 11 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 1 |
| 2025–26 | Scottish Premiership | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | |
| Total | 14 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 1 | ||
| Career total | 236 | 5 | 22 | 0 | 20 | 2 | 23 | 0 | 293 | 7 | ||
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