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Marcus Gayle
Personal information
Full name	Marcus Gayle
Date of birth	September 27, 1970 (age 36)
Place of birth	Hammersmith, England
Height	6'3
Playing position	Defender, Midfield, Striker
Club information
Current club	Aldershot Town
Number	10
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1989-1994 1990 1994-2001 2001 2001-2005 2005-2006 2006-	Brentford →KuPS (loan) Wimbledon Rangers Watford Brentford Aldershot Town	193 (26) 22 (9) 285 (47) 4 (0) 115 (9) 37 (2) 22 (7)
National team2
1998-2002	Jamaica	14 (0)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 17/02/07. 2 National team caps and goals correct as of 29/8/2006. * Appearances (Goals)

Marcus Gayle (born 27 September 1970 in Hammersmith, England) is a professional English born Jamaican footballer, who currently plays for Aldershot Town in the Conference National. He can play as a striker or winger, though in recent seasons he has also demonstrated his versatility by converting to a central defender.

Gayle started his career at Brentford in 1989, scoring 26 goals in 193 appearances for the Bees. He was loaned to KuPS in 1990. In 1994 Gayle moved to Wimbledon on transfer deadline day and then made his home and league debut against Leeds United the following day in a 1-0 win. He was part of their successful Premiership side. In 2001, with Wimbledon on their way to relegation, he was sold to Rangers for £900,000. He only made 4 appearances for the club, and was allowed to go Gianluca Vialli's new-look Watford side for an identical fee.

Gayle was unpopular with Watford fans during the Vialli season, during which time he played as a largely ineffective striker, scoring only seven times in forty-one appearances. Memorably his substitution during the 3-2 away loss to Birmingham was greeted with cheers from the Watford support.

He was expected to leave, along with most of Vialli's other unsuccessful signings, in the summer of 2002. However, he re-emerged as a centre-back under new manager Ray Lewington, and won the Player of the Season award that year. He also scored in the club's 2-1 defeat to Southampton in the FA Cup semi-finals. Another good season followed in 2003-04, but injury plagued his 2004-05, and he left Watford two days after the sacking of Lewington in March 2005.

He re-joined Brentford, his first club and made 37 appearances for the Bees. Gayle was released from his Brentford contract on May 17, 2006 and signed for Aldershot Town on 2 July 2006. He scored the first hat-trick of his career for the Shots on 14 October 2006, coming on as a second-half substitute to score 3 times against Kidderminster Harriers.^[1]

Gayle was capped 14 times for Jamaica and played in the 1998 FIFA World Cup.

Gayle owns a designer clothes shop in Fulham Road, London, called Three Tribes.

1. ^ Gayle realises hat-trick dream

• Marcus Gayle career stats at Soccerbase

	Jamaica squad - 1998 FIFA World Cup
1 Barrett | 2 Malcolm | 3 Dawes | 4 Dixon | 5 Goodison | 6 Simpson | 7 Cargill | 8 Gayle | 9 Williams | 10 Boyd | 11 Whitmore | 12 Sewell | 13 Lawrence | 14 Ricketts | 15 Gardner | 16 Earle | 17 Lowe | 18 Burton | 19 Sinclair | 20 Powell | 21 Brown | 22 Hall | Coach: Simões