Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The club was founded in 1893 as New Brompton Football Club and renamed to Gillingham Football Club in 1912. The club played in the Southern League before joining the Football League in 1920. After 18 unsuccessful seasons, Gillingham were voted out of the league in favour of Ipswich Town at the end of the 1937–38 season, and returned to the ...
Rank Club Attendance Stadium Opposition Competition Date Ref 1: Tottenham Hotspur: 85,512: Wembley Stadium [a]: Bayer Leverkusen: UEFA Champions League group stage: 2 November 2016
The highest seasonal average attendance for league matches at Priestfield since Gillingham returned to the Football League in 1950 was 12,576 in the 1951–52 season. [59] [60] Gillingham's lowest seasonal average was 2,979 in the 1994–95 season, [60] [61] although Brighton recorded a lower figure of 2,328 in the 1997–98 season. [62]
Ron Hillyard, Gillingham's appearance record holder, played a total of 655 games in a 17-year career with the club. Gillingham Football Club is an English professional association football club based in Gillingham, Kent, playing in EFL League Two, the fourth level of the English football league system, as of the 2024–25 season. The club was formed in 1893 as New Brompton F.C., a name which ...
Bradley Dack returns to Gillingham on a free transfer seven years after he left the club. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us. Sign ...
On 17 May, Gillingham announced their first pre-season friendly, against Dartford. [47] Five days later, a second fixture was confirmed against Watford. [48] A third and fourth was then shortly added to the schedule, against Southend United and Woking. [49] [50] In June, a fifth friendly was added to the clubs schedule, versus Millwall. [51]
Jock Robertson, the team's captain when Gillingham first entered the League in 1920, made a total of 388 appearances, a club record which stood for over ten years until overtaken by Charlie Marks, although Marks' total of 434 appearances includes those made while the club played outside the Football League.
Soon after the war, Grossmark became a season-ticket holder at Priestfield Stadium, home of Gillingham F.C., then playing in the Southern League. [2] In 1954, four years after the club had been elected back into The Football League, he became the club doctor, and three years later was asked to join the board of directors. [2]