Dave Taylor (footballer, born 1940)

David Taylor (17 September 1940 – 12 March 2017) was an English footballer who played as an inside forward.

Taylor started his career at Gillingham where he played 21 appearances in the Football League scoring 3 goals, before leaving for Portsmouth where he made a further two Football League appearances. At the end of the 1959–60 season, Taylor dropped into non-league football joining Southern Football League side Yeovil Town. In nine seasons with Yeovil, Taylor scored 284 goals in 436 matches setting a post-war club record as top scorer. Taylor left Yeovil in April 1969, signing for their local rivals Bath City scoring a further 46 goals in 149 appearances before his departure in November 1971 for Cheltenham Town.

Taylor died in March 2017 aged 76.