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Darlington Football Club, an English association football club based in Darlington, County Durham, was founded in 1883. They entered the FA Cup for the first time in 1884–85, were founder members of the Northern League in 1889, turned professional in 1908 and joined the North Eastern League,〔 which they won in 1913 and 1921.〔 The latter win preceded election to the Football League as members of its newly formed Third Division North.〔 Runners-up in their first season, Darlington were Northern Section champions three years later, thus winning promotion to the Second Division. Their 15th-place finish in 1926 remains their best League performance, and they were relegated back to the Third Division the following year. After 68 years of continuous membership, they were relegated from the Football League in 1988–89. Having made an immediate return as Conference champions, they remained in the League until 2010, when they again dropped into the Conference.〔 After Darlington failed to exit administration in an acceptable manner, the Football Association treated it as a new club, required it to change its name (to Darlington 1883), and placed the team in the Northern League, the ninth tier of English football, for the 2012–13 season. All players who have played between 1 and 24 matches in the Football League, either as a member of the starting eleven or as a substitute, are listed below. Each player's details include the duration of his Darlington career, his typical playing position while with the club, and the number of games played and goals scored in Football League matches. Where applicable, the list also includes the national team for which the player was selected, and the number of senior international caps he won. The names are ordered first by number of appearances and then if necessary by date of debut (earliest first). == Introduction == More than 600 men played in nationally organised competition for Darlington but never reached the 25-appearance mark. Some made a significant contribution to the Darlington club despite making few such appearances. Dick Healey's career was coming to an end by the time the club was elected to the Football League, but he was their top scorer with 41 goals as they won the North-Eastern League title in 1913 and captained the club to their second title in 1921, as well as scoring four goals in as many matches for the England amateur team and representing the Amateur XI in the 1913 FA Charity Shield.〔For 41 goals: For 1921: For Amateur XI: For Charity Shield: 〕 Eddie Carr, Len Walker and Simon Davey went on to manage the club's first team. Other players took part in significant matches in the history of the club. Bill Edmunds and John Ward played in Darlington's first match in the Football League, a 2–0 win at home to Halifax Town on 27 August 1921. Seven of the thirteen players used in the club's last match in the league, a 2–0 home defeat against Dagenham & Redbridge on 8 May 2010, fall into this category: Nick Liversedge, Andrew Milne, Dan Burn, Gary Dempsey, Nathan Mulligan, Danny Groves and the 16-year-old Jordan Marshall, who had made his senior debut just eleven days earlier.〔 〕 Numerous players left Darlington to seek opportunities with other teams. Reg Mountford played for ten years in the First Division for Huddersfield Town, appeared in the 1938 FA Cup Final, and managed the Denmark national team that won the bronze medal at the 1948 Olympics. Ray Wood went on to win two League titles with Manchester United and play for England; he survived the Munich air crash, played another 300 times in the League and managed at both club and international level abroad. The careers of others were winding down: Aston Villa's European Cup-winner Allan Evans's single appearance for Darlington was his last of an 18-year senior career.〔 〕 Others were to make an impression in different sporting fields. Graham Doggart, who played twice for Darlington in 1921–22, became an administrator both in cricket, as a committee member of Sussex CCC and of the MCC, and in football, as chairman of the Football Association. Walter Creasor was a speedway rider in the early days of the sport in Britain. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「List of Darlington F.C. players (1–24 appearances)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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