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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 ...
Gillingham dominated the remainder of the half and, despite pressure from Preston after the interval, they held onto their lead; Vince Bartram, the Gillingham goalkeeper, dived full-length across his goal to keep out a strike from Jon Macken. The match ended 1–0 and Gillingham progressed to the final with a 2–1 aggregate victory. [4]
Gillingham Football Club is a professional association football club based in the town of Gillingham, Kent, England that plays home matches at Priestfield Stadium. The team competes in League Two , the fourth tier of the English football league system , in the 2024–25 season .
Gillingham and Swindon Town were competing to be promoted from the Football League Third Division to the Second Division for the 1987–88 season. [1] [2] [3] The 1986–87 season was the inaugural season of the Football League play-offs, which were introduced as part of the Heathrow Agreement, a ten-point proposal to restructure the Football League. [4]
This was the season Gillingham had won their first League Championship in nearly 50 years, finishing 1st in League Two after a 2–2 draw with AFC Wimbledon in the penultimate match of the season. [ 1 ]
In 2000, Gillingham reached the second tier of the English league for the first time in the club's history. They went on to spend five seasons at this level, achieving a club record highest league finish of eleventh place in the 2002–03 season before being relegated twice to return to the league's bottom division, known since 2004 as Football ...
During the extra period Wigan took a 2–1 lead when Stuart Barlow scored a penalty kick, but Gillingham scored two goals in the last six minutes through Steve Butler and Andy Thomson, both of whom had come on as substitutes, to win 3–2. Gillingham thus gained promotion to the second tier of English football for the first time in the club's ...
Shrewsbury's Chris Humphrey (pictured in 2016) had not played in the second leg of the semi-final but was selected for the final by manager Paul Simpson.. The match was Gillingham's first appearance at the new Wembley Stadium, which opened in 2007, [10] although the club had played at the previous stadium of the same name in play-off finals in 1999 and 2000.