Dion Charles is a player that has played more non-league football than the top four leagues. A player that got released from Blackpool, he chose to play for close non-league neighbours in AFC Fylde which included being sent out on loan to Skelmersdale United, a team in the seventh level of English football.  Following the spell at Fylde, Charles signed for Fleetwood Town, where he yet again failed to make an impression.

He was then loaned out to Halifax Town in the 2017-18 season before making the permanent switch to Southport at the end of the 2017-18 season, which it would be Charles’ fourth non-league team. It was at Southport that Charles scored 14 goals and assisted 4 goals within the sixth tier of the English football pyramid, which saw Charles get spotted by then newly promoted Accrington Stanley signing on 12 August 2019. A jump of three tiers to EFL League One.   

Dion Charles in John Coleman’s System