Career
Mendonca also played for Sheffield United, Doncaster Rovers and Rotherham United. Mendonca started his career with Sheffield United, before spells with Doncaster Rovers, Rotherham United and Sheffield United again. Mendonca then moved to Grimsby Town in 1992, initially on loan.
Mendonca scored 60 goals in 166 appearances for Grimsby, and is considered to be their best striker in recent history.
Mendonca moved to Charlton Athletic in the summer of 1997 and scored twenty eight times for the Addicks in the 1997-1998 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. His hat-trick in 1998 was the last one to be scored at the original Wembley Stadium for an English league team
However, Mendonca 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. Although a possible return to Grimsby was mooted, Mendonca retired from football in February 2002.
On 9 August 2003, a testimonial match was played against Nippon Electric Corporation Nijmegen (ended 1-1).
After his football career ended, Mendonca received funding from the Professional Football players" Association to train to become an oil-rig worker