Jon Wright (footballer)


Jonathan Wright was an English footballer who played as an inside forward in the Football League for Darlington. He made his debut on 1 March 1947, standing in for Charlie Stubbs at inside right in a 4–1 win against Rochdale, and made three more appearances towards the end of that season. He had a run of 11 matches at the end of the following season, and played his final first-team match in September 1948. He went on to play for North-Eastern League club Horden Colliery Welfare.
Wright was born in Newburn, Northumberland, in 1925 and died in Durham in 2015 at the age of 90.