| Dave Woodcock | |
| Fullname: | David Keith Woodcock |
| Birth Date: | 13 October 1966 |
| Birth Place: | Shardlow, England |
| Height: | [1] |
| Position: | Midfielder |
| Youthclubs1: | Sunderland |
| Years1: | 1984–1985 |
| Caps1: | 0 |
| Goals1: | 0 |
| Years2: | 1985–1987 |
| Caps2: | 27 |
| Goals2: | 2 |
| Clubs3: | Newcastle Blue Star |
| Years4: | 19??–1992 |
| Clubs4: | North Shields |
| Years5: | 1992–199? |
| Clubs5: | Bridlington Town |
| Clubs6: | Bishop Auckland |
| Manageryears1: | 1998–2007 |
| Managerclubs1: | Darlington Railway Athletic |
| Manageryears2: | 200?–2009 |
| Managerclubs2: | Darlington Railway Athletic |
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.
Woodcock was born in Shardlow, Derbyshire.[2] 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.[2] 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]