Clive Paul Mendonca (born 9 September 1968) is an English former professional footballer, who played as a forward between 1986 and 2002, notably for Grimsby Town and Charlton Athletic.
[1] Mendonca moved to Charlton Athletic in the summer of 1997 and scored twenty eight times for the Addicks in the 1997–98 season, including a hat-trick against his home town team Sunderland who he'd supported as a boy, in the Division One play-off final at Wembley.
Mendonca scored another hat-trick in Charlton's first home game in the Premier League, a 5–0 win against Southampton.
[2] However, he started to suffer a series of injury problems, with his final appearance for Charlton coming in the first half of the 1999–2000 season against Queens Park Rangers.
In January 2012 Mendonca auctioned his prized possessions from his football career to help his wife set up her own business.