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 (age 58)[1]
Place of birth	Shardlow,[1] England
Height	5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)[2]
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
Managerial career
1998–2007	Darlington Railway Athletic
200?–2009	Darlington Railway Athletic
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

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]