{"id":29983,"date":"2025-06-27T18:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T17:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gateshead-fc.com\/?p=29983"},"modified":"2025-06-24T10:44:40","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T09:44:40","slug":"aidan-rutledge-joins-darlington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gateshead-fc.com\/aidan-rutledge-joins-darlington\/","title":{"rendered":"Aidan Rutledge joins Darlington"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Aidan Rutledge has departed the club to join Darlington on a permanent transfer for an undisclosed fee.<\/h1>\n<p>The forward leaves Gateshead International Stadium after spending the past two years on Tyneside, originally joining in June 2023 from Northern League side Birtley Town.<\/p>\n<p>Rutledge made 14 appearances across all competitions during his two seasons with the club, and also spent time out on loan in the National League North with Darlington, Scarborough Athletic and Spennymoor Town, with his final stint at The Moors culminating in an appearance at Wembley Stadium in the 2025 FA Trophy final.<\/p>\n<p>All at Gateshead FC would like to thank Aidan for his efforts during his time with the club, and wish him the best of luck in future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aidan Rutledge has departed the club to join Darlington on a permanent transfer for an undisclosed fee. <\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/gateshead-fc.com\/aidan-rutledge-joins-darlington\/\" class=\"readmore\"> Read More  &raquo;<\/a>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":23619,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,19,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news-media","category-club-news","category-first-team"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Aidan Rutledge joins Darlington - Gateshead FC<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/gateshead-fc.com\/aidan-rutledge-joins-darlington\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Aidan Rutledge joins Darlington - Gateshead FC\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Aidan Rutledge has departed the club to join Darlington on a permanent transfer for an undisclosed fee.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/gateshead-fc.com\/aidan-rutledge-joins-darlington\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Gateshead FC\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/gatesheadfc\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-06-27T17:00:10+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-06-24T09:44:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/gateshead-fc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/A-RUTLEDGE-13-180724-JM-scaled.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2560\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1707\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jack McGraghan\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@Jmcgraghan6\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@GatesheadFC\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jack McGraghan\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/gateshead-fc.com\/aidan-rutledge-joins-darlington\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/gateshead-fc.com\/aidan-rutledge-joins-darlington\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Jack McGraghan\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/gateshead-fc.com\/#\/schema\/person\/a8d634ec4d2039bb9714c1f16cdfcbff\"},\"headline\":\"Aidan Rutledge joins Darlington\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-06-27T17:00:10+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-06-24T09:44:40+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/gateshead-fc.com\/aidan-rutledge-joins-darlington\/\"},\"wordCount\":123,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/gateshead-fc.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/gateshead-fc.com\/aidan-rutledge-joins-darlington\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/gateshead-fc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/A-RUTLEDGE-13-180724-JM-scaled.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"All News &amp; 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