Darlington have today signed striker Jacob Hazel from Whitby Town for an undisclosed fee.

28 year old Jacob, who has signed a two year contract, started his career at Chesterfield in 2012, and was loaned out to several clubs, scoring goals regularly for each of them.

After leaving Chesterfield in 2014, he joined Mickleover Sports whom he helped to win promotion to the Northern Premier League, scoring 18 times.

After a year at Mickleover, he moved to Frickley and scored 19 goals for them in the 2015-16 season. He joined Scarborough in 2016 and scored 13 times for them in 20 matches before joining Frickley again in 2017.

He was a prolific scorer for Frickley, scoring 88 times in 115 matches for them over three seasons – including 47 in one season for them in the EvoStik League South --  a record that persuaded Whitby to sign him in the summer of 2020. He also scored in eleven consecutive games for them.

Jacob was the Northern Premier League Premier Division’s top scorer last season with 26 league goals, six more than anyone else in the league, plus another eight for the Seasiders in the FA Cup and FA Trophy.

Jacob has also been capped three times by St Kitts and Nevis, and was part of their squad in the World Cup and Olympics.

He's really looking forward to playing for Quakers -- you can listen to an audio interview here:

And here's what Alun has to say:

Courtesy of Whitby, here are some clips of him scoring for the Seasiders:

The signing is subject to FA and National League approval.

As part of the transfer terms, Quakers have agreed to play a friendly at Whitby on Saturday July 30^th. We'd like to thank Whitby for their professionalism and co-operation with the transfer.

We’re sure that everyone would like to wish Jacob every success in his time with us.

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