David Davison (born between April and June 1916) was an English footballer who played as a goalkeeper, later becoming a manager.

In July 1948, then aged 34, he was given the coaching position of Heracles Almelo, a club of the eastern division of the Dutch First Division where he succeeded player-coach Koldewey (who in turn was the successor of Leslie Lievesley who died as manager of Il Grande Torino at the Superga plane crash).

In February 1949 he was sacked after an altercation with the ground-keeper, after the club had felt unhappy with his achievements anyway.

In November the club was just a couple of points outside the relegation zone of the Oberliga Süd, the southern division of Germany's highest football tier, and Davison was found out to have been involved in a pub brawl.

After interim solutions with former players and a player-manager, Max Schäfer, up to then with local rivals TSV 1860 Munich, became Bayern's manager for the 1951/52 season.