Len Green

Len Green
Personal information
Full name Leonard Hope Green[1]
Date of birth (1936-10-02)2 October 1936[1]
Place of birth Bishop Auckland,[1] England
Date of death 2 November 2024(2024-11-02) (aged 88)
Position(s) Right back
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Lingfield Lane
1955–1961 Darlington 50 (0)
Horden Colliery Welfare
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Leonard Hope Green (2 October 1936 – 2 November 2024) was an English footballer who made 50 appearances in the Football League playing as a right back for Darlington. He also played non-league football for clubs including Lingfield Lane and Horden Colliery Welfare.[2]

He was a member of the Darlington team that drew with Chelsea, League champions only three seasons earlier, in the fourth round of the 1958–59 FA Cup, and won the replay 4–1 to progress to the last 16 of the competition for only the second time in the club's history.[3]

Green died in hospital on 2 November 2024 at the age of 88.[4][5]

  1. ^ a b c "Len Green". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 12 November 2024.
  2. ^ "Darlington: 1946/47–1988/89 & 1990/91–2009/10". Post War English & Scottish Football League A–Z Players Database. Neil Brown. Retrieved 5 July 2015.
  3. ^ Amos, Mike (29 January 2008). "The day Greener's Darlington made FA Cup clowns of Chelsea". The Northern Echo. Darlington. Retrieved 20 December 2017.
  4. ^ "Death notice: Leonard Hope Green". The Northern Echo. Darlington. 12 November 2024. Retrieved 12 November 2024.
  5. ^ Simpson, Ray (12 November 2024). "Len Green – funeral details". Darlington F.C. Retrieved 12 November 2024.