Erroll Bennett

{{short description|Tahitian footballer (born 1950)}}

Erroll Bennett (born 7 May 1950) is a former Tahitian footballer, who spent most of his career with AS Central Sport. Bennett placed fifteenth in a 1999 poll by International Federation of Football History & Statistics to find the Player of the Century for Oceania.{{cite web|url=https://www.rsssf.org/miscellaneous/iffhs-century.html |title=IFFHS Century Elections |accessdate=2010-11-03 |url-status=live |website=RSSSF |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160112150635/http://www.rsssf.com/miscellaneous/iffhs-century.html |archivedate=2016-01-12 }}

Bennett was part of the Tahitian national squad for the 1973 Oceania Cup, the first ever Oceania-wide international soccer tournament. Bennett scored three goals in the tournament, and played in the final, which Tahiti lost 2–0 to New Zealand.{{cite web|url=https://www.rsssf.org/tables/73oc.html| title=Oceanian Cup 1973 |website=RSSSF| accessdate=2010-11-03}}

He joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in 1977 after which he refused to play football on Sundays. Following Bennett's baptism, Napoléon Spitz, the head of Bennett's team, held a meeting in which he said his team would stop Sunday play and all football teams in that division agreed to move games to weeknights.

Bennett was also a police officer in Tahiti. He is the father of Naea Bennett, who also played for Tahiti national team.Article from Richard Vansam, in France Football, n°1.855, 27 october 1981, page 23.