The 27-year-old started his career at Seaton Delaval in the Northern Alliance, and joined Blyth Spartans at the start of the 2012/13 season.

He went on to score 159 goals for them in 310 appearances, including 37 goals in 54 appearances when Blyth won promotion from the Northern Premier League in season 2016/17.

During the same season he was capped by England C, and was also voted the NPL player of the year.

When current Darlington boss Alun Armstrong was in charge of Blyth in season 2018/19, Maguire scored 19 goals to help them into the National League play-offs.

He joined full-time club York in the summer of 2019, and made 14 appearances, scoring twice, before he was released after they were beaten in the recent play-offs.

Armstrong told https://darlingtonfc.co.uk: “Hopefully, Dan is the missing piece in our jigsaw.

“We’ve been missing somebody like Nippa who scores goals on a regular basis, and he wants to get back to what he knows best. He’s a phenomenal goalscorer, who can score them out of nothing especially on the counter-attack. He’s set up for the system that we play.

“He’s strong, physical and sets the other players up really well. He will give us lots of massive options with the other players. I’m really looking forward to working with him again”.

Ray Simpson