Dave Woodcock

David Keith Woodcock (born 13 October 1966) is an English former footballer who made 27 appearances in the Football League playing as a midfielder for Darlington in the mid-1980s.

Dave Woodcock
Personal information
Full name David Keith Woodcock[1]
Date of birth (1966-10-13) 13 October 1966[1]
Place of birth Shardlow,[1] England
Height 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)[2]
Playing position(s) Midfielder
Youth career
Sunderland
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1984–1985 Sunderland 0 (0)
1985–1987 Darlington 27 (2)
Newcastle Blue Star
19??–1992 North Shields
1992–199? Bridlington Town
Bishop Auckland
Teams managed
1998–2007 Darlington Railway Athletic
200?–2009 Darlington Railway Athletic
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Life and career

Woodcock was born in Shardlow, Derbyshire.[1] He began his football career as an apprentice with Sunderland, but left the club without having played for the first-team, and signed for Darlington, newly promoted to the Football League Third Division, in August 1985. Over the next two seasons, he played 27 league matches, around half of which as a substitute, and scored twice.[1] At the end of his second season, Darlington were relegated back to the Fourth Division, and Woodcock left.

He played non-league football for clubs including Newcastle Blue Star,[3] North Shields, Bridlington Town,[4] with whom he won the FA Vase and the Northern Premier League First Division title in 1993,[5] and Bishop Auckland.

His playing career was ended by a badly broken leg in the mid-1990s, and he resumed working in football in 1998 as manager of Darlington Railway Athletic,[6] where he stayed for ten of the next eleven years.[7]

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References
  1. Hugman, Barry J., ed. (1998). The PFA Premier & Football League Players' Records 1946–1998. Queen Anne Press. p. 593. ISBN 978-1-85291-585-8.
  2. Dunk, Peter, ed. (1987). Rothmans Football Yearbook 1987–88. London: Queen Anne Press. p. 150. ISBN 978-0-356-14354-5.
  3. "Darlington: 1946/47–1988/89 & 1990/91–2009/10". Post War English & Scottish Football League A–Z Players Database. Neil Brown. Retrieved 26 August 2014.
  4. "Reforming of Club". North Shields F.C. Archived from the original on 7 April 2014.
  5. Metcalf, Rupert (9 May 1993). "Football: Sweet solo by Radford". Independent on Sunday. London. Retrieved 26 August 2014.
  6. "RA are on the right track". The Northern Echo. Darlington. 14 February 2003. Retrieved 8 February 2020.
  7. "History". Darlington Railway Athletic F.C. Archived from the original on 23 March 2016. Retrieved 26 August 2014.
    "Local football: Determined RCA vow to avoid complacency". Sunderland Echo. 12 August 2009. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 26 August 2014.


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