Daniel Paul Mills (born 27 November 1991) is an English

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby lea ...

who plays as a striker for

Dulwich Hamlet Dulwich Hamlet Football Club is a semi-professional football club based in East Dulwich in south-east London, England. They are currently members of and play at Champion Hill. History The club was formed in 1893, by Lorraine 'Pa' Wilson. The ...

Career

Born in

Croydon Croydon is a large town in South London, England, south of Charing Cross. Part of the London Borough of Croydon, a Districts of England, local government district of Greater London; it is one of the largest commercial districts in Greater Lond ...

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, Mills started his career with the

Croydon F.C. Croydon Football Club is an English semi-professional football club based in Croydon, London. Until 2006, they played in the Isthmian League, but lost their place in that league as part of the 2006 re-structuring of non-league football, and no ...

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in 2007 before signing for

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club

Crawley Town Crawley Town Football Club is a professional association football club based in the town of Crawley, West Sussex, England. The team currently competes in , the fourth level of the English football league system. Founded in 1896 as Crawley Foo ...

in 2008. Mills scored 26 goals in 2008–2009 for Crawley's youth team and made two first-team appearances as a substitute, earning a trial at

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and a £15,000 move to

Peterborough United Peterborough United Football Club is a professional association football club based in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England. The team compete in League One, the third level of the English football league system. Peterborough United formed in ...

Peterborough United

Mills made his

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debut on loan at

Torquay United Torquay United Football Club is a professional association football club based in Torquay, Devon, England. The team currently compete in the National League South, the sixth level of the English football league system. They have played their ho ...

on 26 September 2009, coming on as a substitute in the 74th minute for

Elliot Benyon Elliot Paul Benyon (born 29 August 1987) is an English footballer who plays for Hanwell Town as a striker. Career Benyon began his career as a trainee at Bristol City after being spotted playing local football in High Wycombe. Despite making ...

in a 1–2 defeat at

Macclesfield Town Macclesfield Town Football Club was an association football club based in Macclesfield, Cheshire, England. Initially known as Macclesfield F.C., the club was formed in 1874 and from 1891 played home games at Moss Rose. It competed in the short ...

, before joining

Rushden & Diamonds Rushden & Diamonds Football Club was an association football club based in Irthlingborough, Northamptonshire, England. Nicknamed "The Diamonds", the club played at Nene Park. The club's main rivals were county neighbours Kettering Town F.C., Ket ...

on loan in October 2009. He made his Diamonds debut in an

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tie at

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on 24 October 2009, but after little opportunity in the first team, he returned to

after just one month. Mills made his

debut in a

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fixture against

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on 5 April 2010, which ended in a 2–2 draw and confirmed The Posh's relegation. Mills joined

side

Histon Histon is a village and civil parish in the South Cambridgeshire district, in the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It is immediately north of Cambridge – and is separated from the city – by the A14 road (England), A14 road which runs eas ...

on 30 July 2010 in a season long loan deal, making his debut at home to

Altrincham Altrincham ( , locally ) is a market town in Trafford, Greater Manchester, England, south of the River Mersey. It is southwest of Manchester, southwest of Sale, Greater Manchester, Sale and east of Warrington. At the 2021 United Kingdom ce ...

on 9 October 2010 and scoring after coming on as a 90th-minute substitute. Following the result Mills spoke of his delight at scoring his first goal for Histon. Mills was re-called from his loan to

on 3 January 2011 and on 15 February 2011 joined

Kettering Town Kettering Town Football Club is a football club based in Burton Latimer, Northamptonshire, England. They are currently members of the and play at Latimer Park. Kettering were the first club to wear sponsorship on their shirts in 1976, and have ...

on loan until the end of the season. Mills was then reunited with his former

Kettering Kettering is a market town, market and industrial town, industrial town in the North Northamptonshire district of Northamptonshire, England, west of Cambridge, England, Cambridge, southwest of Peterborough, southeast of Leicester and north- ...

manager Marcus Law at Tamworth, in another loan deal before a further loan at

Carshalton Athletic

After being released by

in the summer of 2012, Mills moved back to his home town of Croydon to join Carshalton Athletic at the start of the 2012–13

Isthmian League Premier Division The Isthmian League () is a regional football league covering Greater London, East and South East England, featuring mostly semi-professional clubs. Founded in 1905 by amateur clubs in the London area, the league now consists of 88 teams in fo ...

season. Used primarily as a striker, and occasionally on the right of a front three, he played 10 games and scored three goals – two in an

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qualifier against

Heybridge Swifts Heybridge Swifts Football Club is a football club based in Heybridge, near Maldon, Essex, England. They are currently members of the and play at Scraley Road. History The club was established in 1880 as Heybridge Football Club. After joining t ...

and one against Kingstonian in a 2–1 league defeat.

Whitehawk

Mills joined newly promoted

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in November 2012 and helped The Hawks to the

title in his first season at the Enclosed Ground. Mills established himself as one of the leading goal scorers in

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the following year, despite The Hawks spending most of the 2013–2014 season battling against relegation. Mills finished the season as the club's top scorer, with 21 goals in all competitions, including five league goals in a 6–2 away win at Dorchester Town on 24 August 2013. Once the club had secured its place in the division for the next season, The Hawks activated a clause in Mills' contract to keep him at the club and in June 2014 turned down a five-figure bid from

rivals Havant & Waterlooville. Mills scored a further 18 league goals in 2014–2015 as well as the opening goal at

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in a 5–0 Sussex Senior Cup Final win over

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on 16 May 2015. In the summer of 2015, he signed a further two-year contract with Whitehawk, saying he was "staying at the club he loves". Danny Mills

Mills scored eight times in the

in 2015–16, including the opening goal to give Whitehawk the lead in the round 2 replay against

Dagenham & Redbridge Dagenham & Redbridge Football Club (), often known simply as Dagenham and abbreviated when written to Dag & Red, is a professional association football club based in Dagenham, Greater London, England that play in the , the sixth level of the En ...

, televised live on BT Sport on 6 December 2015. In April 2016 Mills won the

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player of the month award and was named in the league team of the season alongside teammates

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and Nick Arnold, after finishing the season as The Hawks' top scorer with 22 league goals. In a 4–2 defeat at

Truro City Truro City Football Club is an Association football in England, English football club based in Truro, Cornwall. They currently compete in the National League (English football), National League, the fifth tier of the English football league sys ...

on 25 March 2017, Mills scored his 100th goal for the club in all competitions.

Ebbsfleet United

Mills joined

Ebbsfleet United Ebbsfleet United Football Club is a professional association football club based in Northfleet, Kent, England. The club compete in the National League South, the sixth level of the English football league system. Founded in 1946 from the merger ...

in June 2017. Mills, along with a number of other first-team players, was released by Ebbsfleet at the end of the 2018/19 season.

Dartford (loan)

On 1 December 2017, Mills signed on loan for

Dartford Dartford is the principal town in the Borough of Dartford, Kent, England. It is located south-east of Central London and is situated adjacent to the London Borough of Bexley to its west. To its north, across the Thames Estuary, is Thurrock in ...

until the end of January 2018, an arrangement which would subsequently be extended until the end of the 2017–18 season.

Welling United (loan)

On 20 July 2018, Mills signed on a season-long loan for

Welling United Welling United Football Club is a semi-professional association football club, based in Welling in the London Borough of Bexley, England. The most prominent aspect of the club is its men's first team, who play in the , the seventh level of the E ...

Dulwich Hamlet

On 19 June 2019, Mills signed for

Career statistics

Honours

Welling United *

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: 2018–19

References

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Mills, Danny 1991 births Living people Footballers from the London Borough of Croydon People from Croydon English men's footballers Men's association football forwards Croydon Athletic F.C. players Crawley Town F.C. players Peterborough United F.C. players Torquay United F.C. players Rushden & Diamonds F.C. players Histon F.C. players Kettering Town F.C. players Tamworth F.C. players Carshalton Athletic F.C. players Croydon F.C. players Whitehawk F.C. players Ebbsfleet United F.C. players Dartford F.C. players English Football League players National League (English football) players Isthmian League players 21st-century English sportsmen