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  • 21 Aug, 2019

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List Of Gillingham F.C. Records And Statistics
Gillingham Football Club is an English professional association football club based in Gillingham, Kent, playing in League One, the third level of the English football league system, as of the 2019–20 season. The club was formed in 1893 as New Brompton F.C., a name which was retained until 1913, and has played home matches at Priestfield Stadium throughout its history. The club joined the Football League in 1920, was voted out of the league in favour of Ipswich Town at the end of the 1937–38 season, but returned to the league 12 years later after it was expanded from 88 to 92 clubs. Between 2000 and 2005, Gillingham played in the second tier of the English league for the only time in the club's history, achieving a highest league finish of eleventh place in 2002–03.

The record for most games played for the club is held by Ron Hillyard, who made 655 appearances between 1974 and 1991. Brian Yeo is the club's record goalscorer, scoring 149 goals during his Gillingham career. Andrew Crofts holds the record for the most international caps gained as a Gillingham player, having made 12 appearances for Wales. The highest transfer fee ever paid by the club is the £600,000 paid to Reading for Carl Asaba in 1998, and the highest fee received is the £1,500,000 paid by Manchester City for Robert Taylor in 1999. The highest attendance recorded at Priestfield was 23,002 for the visit of Queens Park Rangers in 1948. The club holds one Football League record, having conceded the fewest goals in a 46-match season, when the team conceded only 20 goals during the 1995–96 season.

All figures are correct as of 2022.

Honours and achievements

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Gillingham fans at the 2000 play-off final

Gillingham have won two major honours in English football; first the Football League Fourth Division title in the 1963–64 season and then the Football League Two title in the 2012–13 season. The club has also achieved promotion on four other occasions, most recently in the 2008–09 season, when a 1–0 victory over Shrewsbury Town in the 2009 Football League Two play-off final at Wembley Stadium secured a return to League One following relegation the previous season.

Gillingham's only previous victory at Wembley (at the original Wembley Stadium) came in the 1999–2000 season, when a 3–2 victory over Wigan Athletic in the Second Division play-off final clinched promotion to the second tier of English football for the first time in Gillingham's history. Between 1938 and 1950, when the club played outside the Football League, Gillingham won the Southern Football League championship on two occasions and the Kent League once.

The Football League

Other honours

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The New Brompton team which won the Southern League Division Two championship in the 1894–95 season

National cup competitions

Player records

Age

Appearances

All competitive peacetime first team matches are included. Statistics correct as of the end of the 2023–24 season. Appearances as substitute are in brackets. Players who played for the club prior to 1920 or between 1938 and 1950, when the club played in the Southern League and Kent League rather than the Football League, have appearances in those competitions included in their totals.

# Name Years League FA Cup League Cup Other Total
1 Ron Hillyard 1974–1991 563 (0) 34 (0) 44 (0) 14 (0) 655 (0)
2 John Simpson 1957–1972 571 (0) 26 (0) 19 (0) 0 (0) 616 (0)
3 Mark Weatherly 1974–1989 458 (49) 33 (5) 38 (3) 14 (1) 543 (58)
4 Jimmy Boswell 1946–1958 470 (0) 36 (0) 17 (0) 0 (0) 523 (0)
5 Charlie Marks 1943–1957 392 (0) 20 (0) 22 (0) 0 (0) 434 (0)
6 Dick Tydeman 1969–1977
1981–1984		 371 (3) 22 (0) 23 (1) 3 (0) 419 (4)
7 Max Ehmer 2014–2020
2021–present		 348 (6) 23 (1) 14 (0) 15 (1) 400 (8)
8 Paul Smith 1997–2005
2005–2006		 345 (4) 21 (0) 18 (0) 12 (2) 396 (6)
9 Jock Robertson 1919–1933 365 (0) 30 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 395 (0)
10 Brian Yeo 1963–1975 356 (11) 16 (0) 15 (0) 0 (0) 387 (11)

Goalscorers

Fred Cheesmur scored six goals in a match in 1930, a club record haul for a match in The Football League.

Top goalscorers

All competitive first team matches are included. Appearances, including those as substitute, are in brackets. Players who played for the club prior to 1920 or between 1938 and 1950, when the club played in the Southern League and Kent League rather than the Football League, have goals in those competitions included in their totals.

# Name Years League FA Cup League Cup Other Total
1 Brian Yeo 1963–1975 136 (356) 4 (16) 9 (15) 0 (0) 149 (387)
2 Hughie Russell 1946–1952 106 (186) 12 (23) 2 (0) 0 (0) 120 (209)
3 Tug Wilson 1936–1949 91 (211) 5 (16) 17 (25) 0 (1) 113 (253)
4 Tony Cascarino 1981–1987 78 (219) 11 (17) 9 (18) 12 (15) 110 (269)
5 Brian Gibbs 1962–1969 101 (259) 3 (9) 6 (16) 0 (0) 110 (284)
6 Steve Lovell 1986–1993 94 (233) 5 (10) 2 (17) 3 (15) 104 (275)
7 Damien Richardson 1972–1991 94 (323) 5 (14) 3 (20) 0 (0) 102 (357)
8 Ken Price 1976–1983 78 (255) 7 (21) 4 (18) 0 (0) 89 (294)
9 Cody McDonald 2010–2011
2013–2017		 77 (198) 1 (7) 1 (6) 2 (9) 81 (220)
10 Ernie Morgan 1953–1957 73 (155) 4 (8) 0 (0) 0 (0) 77 (163)
11 Danny Westwood 1975–1982 74 (211) 1 (12) 2 (12) 0 (3) 77 (238)

International caps

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Andrew Crofts, the club's international caps record holder

Transfer fees

Record transfer fees paid

# Name Fee Paid to Date Notes
1 Carl Asaba £600,000 Reading 29 August 1998
2 Robert Taylor £500,000 Brentford 1 August 1998
3 Paul Shaw £450,000 Millwall 4 July 2000
4= Marlon King £250,000 Barnet 28 June 2000
4= Ade Akinbiyi £250,000 Norwich City 6 January 1997
4= Chris Hope £250,000 Scunthorpe United 4 July 2000

Record transfer fees received

# Name Fee Received from Date Notes
1 Robert Taylor £1,500,000 Manchester City 29 November 1999
2 Ade Akinbiyi £1,200,000 Bristol City 1 June 1998
3 Marlon King £950,000 Nottingham Forest 27 November 2003
4 Bradley Dack £750,000 Blackburn Rovers 27 June 2017
5 Jimmy Corbett £525,000 Blackburn Rovers 21 May 1998

Some media sources claimed that the transfer fee paid by Southampton for Paulo Gazzaniga in 2012 was higher than that paid for Taylor, but the fee was not officially disclosed by either club.

Managerial records

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William Ironside Groombridge, the club's first manager
See also: List of Gillingham F.C. managers

Club records

Goals

Points

Matches

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The Gillingham team and officials pictured before the club's first ever Football League match in 1920

Firsts

  • First match: New Brompton 1–5 Woolwich Arsenal reserves, friendly, 2 September 1893
  • First FA Cup match: Ilford 6–3 New Brompton, first qualifying round, 14 October 1893
  • First Southern League match: Sheppey United 0–6 New Brompton, Division Two, 15 September 1894
  • First Football League match: Gillingham 1–1 Southampton, Division Three South, 28 August 1920
  • First Football League Cup match: Gillingham 1–1 Preston North End, second round, 19 October 1960

Record wins

Record defeat

Attendances