Midfielder Chris Salmon returns to Bay, having played for the club in 2017/18, making 26 appearances and scoring 2 goals.

He has also been with Bishop Auckland and Billingham Synthonia.

Also re-joining the Seasiders is Kieran Brannen, who has re-joined the club from Ashington.

The 20-year-old made 40 appearances for Bay after arriving from New Hartley Juniors before joining the Colliers in 2019.

Attacking midfielder Ben Richardson, who played 13 games for the Bay in 2018, is returning after a spell at Newcastle Benfield. 

He was with Middlesbrough as a youngster and also played for North Shields.

Defender Darren Hamilton has been signed from Whickham, where he spent the second half of last season.

He signed for Whickham in December 2019 having spent four years playing collegiate soccer in the United States and graduated from University of California Irvine.

He went out to the USA in 2015 and spent two years studying and playing at East Central Community College in St Louis.

After transferring to Hartwick College, where he spent a year, he then moved to UC Irvine.

Following his graduation in 2019, the centre-back signed with Swedish third-tier outfit Säffle FF.

Jamie Dunn was at Ryton & Crawcrook Albion with Tony Fawcett and has joined his former manager in moving to Hillheads.

Another midfielder, Craig Henniss (pictured), joins Bay having been at Sunderland RCA and Washington last season.