Date / Year of birth: 11th July 1985

Position: Left-back

Season of first appearance: 2004/05

Season of last appearance: 2005/06

Also played for: Gillingham (0), Hastings United, Welling United, Eastbourne Borough, Thurrock, Tonbridge Angels, Dartford, Folkestone Invicta, Sittingbourne and Chatham Town

Defender who played for England's Schoolboys side as a centre-back before becoming an attacking full-back. Mark started his senior career with Gillingham and progressed through the club's youth ranks up the reserves during the 2002/03 season.

In September 2003 Mark was loaned to Hastings and he spent almost two months with the Sussex club before returning to Priestfield in November 2003.

In February 2004 he was released by Gillingham and went back to Hastings although Fisher were also interested in him. By the end of the 2003/04 campaign Mark had scored twice in 24 outings for Hastings during his two spells with the club.

In the summer of 2004 Mark played in a friendly for Conference club Dagenham & Redbridge but he ended up signing for Margate shortly before the start of the 2004/05 season.

Mark made his debut at left wing-back in a 3-2 defeat against Bognor Regis in the Conference South at Margate's adopted home in Ashford on 14.8.04. The Thanet Times said he was "a potent threat going forward" but noted he struggled "with the defensive part of his job". Mark was a fixture in the number three shirt for the first few weeks of the campaign and on 30.8.04 he scored his first goal in a 2-1 defeat at Cambridge City, firing a low shot across the keeper and into the bottom corner after cutting in from the left.

Disaster then struck in Mark's next outing as he suffered a broken leg during the first half of a 3-1 win over Hayes at Ashford on 4.9.04. Margate's assistant manager Kevin Raine told the Thanet Times "It was a big blow." Mark was taken to the William Harvey Hospital in Ashford where he underwent an operation to have a metal plate and pin put into his leg to hold his left tibia together.

By October 2004 Mark's leg was out of plaster and Margate manager Chris Kinnear told the Thanet Times "He's got some movement, but we've got no idea how long it will take to heal." A month later Kinnear said "He's been working very hard - possibly too hard. He might have aggravated it by doing too much - but not badly."

In January 2005 the Thanet Times reported that Mark had pleaded with Kinnear for a place on the bench for a game against Redbridge at Ashford on 22.1.05 but his request fell on deaf ears and Kinnear told the paper "Mark's done very well, and he wants to be involved. But I won't risk him if I've got any doubts at all."

Mark finally returned to the side on 16.4.05 when he played at left wing-back in a 1-1 draw at Eastbourne and the Thanet Times said he "added a dimension to Margate's play" that had "been missing since he suffered a broken leg in September". Mark then played in the last two Conference South matches of the season as Margate were relegated to the Isthmian League Premier Division and on 2.5.05 he was part of the side that beat Dover 2-1 at Folkestone to win the Kent Senior Cup. In all he'd managed 11 appearances and scored once.

In August 2005 Chris Kinnear spoke to the Isle of Thanet Gazette about Mark and said "He was out for a lot of last season and we missed him, but hopefully he will fulfill his potential with us." Mark was fixture in the team at left wing-back during the early part of the new campaign and the Thanet Times said he "linked well with midfield" and was "dangerous at set-plays" in its report on a 1-0 home win over Maldon on 20.8.05. It was Margate's first game in the Isthmian League Premier Division and the club's first back at the temporary version of Hartsdown Park.

On 27.8.05 Mark captained the side for the first time in a 0-0 draw at Harrow and he kept the role for the next few weeks. The Isle of Thanet Gazette said "he rallied his troops when Gate were up against it" during a 1-1 draw with Fisher at Hartsdown Park on 6.9.05 but after leading Margate to a 1-0 home win over Carshalton on 24.9.05 Mark abruptly left the club having made 11 appearances during the season.

He had an agent - former England striker Cyrille Regis - who advised him to take advantage of being out of contract and Chris Kinnear told the Thanet Times "Mark Green has left the club, I don't know where he's going, but his agent thinks he can find him a Nationwide Conference club and that's what he wants to do. He feels he should be playing there and Cyrille Regis thinks he should be there or the Football League. He didn't have the greatest start to the season, he was fed up because he wasn't playing well and felt he needed a new challenge. He thinks that's what he wants but now he has to show he's capable of playing at that level, too. With Pat Gradley out, we made Greeny captain in the hope it would give him a lift, but it's made him think he's a Conference player possibly."

Before the end of September 2005 Mark signed for Conference South club Welling and their manager Adrian Pennock told the Kentish Football website "Mark's a natural left-back and he wants to do really well. He's hungry and a very good footballer so I'm very pleased he's come on board." Mark himself told the site "No disrespect to the Ryman League, it's a good standard, but I am a young kid and I wanted to better myself. Adie's a defender like myself and he will bring me on leaps and bounds. That's what I need - someone who is going to look after me and train me. Adie's got a lot of experience and hopefully he can pass some of that onto me."

In January 2006 Welling loaned Mark to their Conference South rivals Eastbourne Borough and he made his debut for them in a 2-2 draw at Basingstoke on 21.1.06. In March 2006 his move was made permanent but Mark was then released by Eastbourne in May 2006.

He started the 2006/07 campaign with Thurrock of the Conference South but at the start of September 2006 Mark returned to the Isthmian League Premier Division when he joined Tonbridge.

He made 29 appearances (five as sub) without scoring for Tonbridge before being released in February 2007 shortly after playing in a 1-1 home draw against East Thurrock on 17.2.07 in which he gave away two penalties and was sent off for picking up two yellow cards.

Mark finished the 2006/07 season with Isthmian League Division 1 South club Dartford and stayed with the Darts for the 2007/08 campaign too. He made 27 appearances (14 as sub) without scoring during the season before being released in July 2008.

Mark's next move took him to Folkestone in August 2008 and after 11 Isthmian League Division 1 South outings there he signed for Sittingbourne in November 2008.

Mark's spell with the Brickies was blighted by injuries and when he left Sittingbourne at the end of 2008/09 he'd only made 14 Isthmian League Division 1 South appearances (six as sub), scoring once.

In the summer of 2009 Mark joined Chatham, another Isthmian League Division 1 South club, and made 16 league appearances (five as sub) without scoring before suffering a horrific injury in a home game against Folkestone on 29.12.09. He broke his right leg in three places and the match was abandoned with ten minutes left. The injury ended Mark's senior career at the age of just 24.

In January 2010 he told the Kentish Football site "Chris Kinnear gave me my break at Margate where if I'm honest I went the wrong way as I was chasing the pound notes and I realised when I went to Dartford that it's not just about the money."

In May 2010 a game dubbed the 'Mark Green Thank You Match' was staged at Chatham's ground and it was originally due to be a fund-raiser for Mark before he asked for all the proceeds to go to charities.