List of Darlington F.C. players (1–24 appearances)

[4] The club's first team have competed in numerous nationally organised competitions, and all players who have played in between 1 and 24 such matches, either as a member of the starting eleven or as a substitute, are listed below.

Where applicable, the list also includes the national team for which the player was selected, and the number of senior international caps he won.

In the early days, the scarcity of nationally organised competitive football meant players could spend many years with the club while making few such outings.

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.

[9] 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.

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.