Brian Close (footballer, born 1982)

Brian Aidan Close (born 27 January 1982) is a Northern Irish football defender or midfielder who plays for club Guisborough Town.

Close played in the Football League for Chesterfield and Darlington. He was on the books of Middlesbrough without playing league football for them, and played non-league football for clubs including Billingham Synthonia, Stokesley, Sunderland RCA, West Auckland Town, with whom he reached and lost in the 2014 FA Vase Final, Newton Aycliffe, and a second spell at West Auckland Town, before joining Guisborough Town in September 2017.

He represented Northern Ireland at under-21 and under-23 level.