Jamie McCart, born on 20 June 1997 (age 29), is a Scottish central defender with Hearts. He came through at Celtic as a trainee, but his senior career was built elsewhere after he left for Inverness Caledonian Thistle in July 2018.
Inverness gave him a proper footing away from Celtic, before later spells took him through Rotherham United and Hearts. The club that gives his career its clearest shape, though, is St Johnstone. Across three seasons in Perth, McCart made 82 league appearances and scored once, with his busiest league campaign coming in 2021-2022 when he played 37 times and got that goal.
His St Johnstone period also brought the silverware: a Scottish Cup and a League Cup. That is the substantial part of the story, rather than the early promise at Celtic or the moves around it.
By 2026-2027, McCart was with Hearts, where he had made two league appearances along with outings in the League Cup, Scottish Cup and European qualifiers, taking him to nine appearances in all competitions. His career has been that of a steady Scottish defender whose strongest spell came at St Johnstone after leaving Celtic behind.
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