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Gillingham Football Club is a professional association football club based in the town of Gillingham, Kent, England. The only Kent-based club in the Football League, the "Gills" play their home matches at Priestfield Stadium. The team compete in League Two, the fourth tier of the English football league system, in the 2022–23 season.
Gillingham Football Club is an English football club based in Gillingham, Kent. The club was formed in 1893, and played in the Southern League until 1920, when that league's top division was absorbed into the Football League as its new Division Three. The club was voted out of the league in favour of Ipswich Town at the end of the 1937–38 season, but returned 12 years later, when that league was expanded from 88 to 92 clubs. Twice in the late 1980s Gillingham came close to winning promotion to the second tier of English football, but a decline then set in and in 1993 the club narrowly avoided relegation to the Football Conference. In 2000, the "Gills" reached the second tier of the English league for the first time in the club's history and went on to spend five seasons at this level, achieving a club record highest league finish of eleventh place in 2002–03. The club has twice won the division comprising the fourth level of English football: the Football League Fourth Division championship in 1963–64 and the Football League Two championship in 2012–13.
Denis Ronald Lewin was an English professional football defender. His clubs included Fulham and Gillingham, where he made 191 Football League appearances. He would coach the Norway national football team and Cheltenham Town before coaching Everton, Newcastle United, Knattspyrnufélagið Þróttur and also in the Netherlands, Egypt and Kuwait.
William Hanna "Buster" Collins was an Irish professional footballer. His clubs included Distillery, Belfast Celtic, Luton Town and Gillingham.
During the 1920–21 English football season, Gillingham F.C. competed in the Football League for the first time. The team had previously played in Division One of the Southern League, but in 1920 the Football League added the Third Division to its existing set-up by absorbing the entire Southern League Division One. The club appointed Robert Brown as manager, but the arrangement turned out to be only a casual one and he accepted another job before the season started. Under his replacement, John McMillan, Gillingham's results were poor, including a spell of over three months without a league victory, and at the end of the season they finished bottom of the league table.
James Harold Poxton was an English professional footballer of the 1920s and 1930s. Born in Staveley, he joined Gillingham from West Bromwich Albion in 1928 and went on to make 43 appearances for the club in The Football League. He left to join Millwall in 1929. He subsequently played for Watford – predominantly at outside left – and Walsall.
Charles Reddock was a Scottish professional football left half of the 1920s. Born in Rutherglen, he joined Gillingham from Shettleston in 1925 and went on to make 29 appearances for the club in The Football League. He left to join Brentford in 1926 and made 9 appearances in a four-year spell, before finishing his career with Thames.
Thomas James C. Baxter was an English professional footballer of the 1920s. Born in Wandsworth, he joined Gillingham from Chelsea in 1920 and went on to make 19 appearances for the club in The Football League.
Arnold Andrew Holt was an English professional footballer in the 1920s.
James S. McWhirr was a Scottish professional footballer of the 1920s who played as an outside right. Born in Partick, he joined Gillingham from Glasgow-based club Ashfield in 1925 and went on to make six appearances for the club in the English Football League. He left to join Norwich City in 1926.
Julian Frederick "Fred" Howard was an English professional footballer of the 1920s.
John Ward was an English professional footballer of the 1920s. Born in Birtley, he joined Gillingham from Darlington in 1925 and went on to make two appearances for the club in The Football League. He left to join Fatfield Albion in 1926.
Albert James Carter (1898–?) was an English professional association football player of the 1920s. He joined Gillingham from a minor club called Zion in 1920 and went on to make two appearances for the club in The Football League.
Joseph A. Griffiths was an English professional footballer of the 1920s. He joined Gillingham in 1920 and played for the club in the Southern League. After the club was elected to The Football League in 1920, however, he played only five more games before leaving to join Sheppey United in 1921, where he linked up with another player who had failed to make the transition to the higher level, Donald McCormick.
Donald McCormick was an English professional footballer of the 1920s. He joined Gillingham in 1919 and played for the club in the Southern League. After the club was elected to The Football League in 1920, however, he only played once more before leaving to join Sheppey United in 1921, where he linked up with another player who had failed to make the transition to the higher level, Joseph Griffiths.
Harold "Harry" Wright was an English professional footballer of the 1920s. Born in Staveley, he joined Gillingham from Welbeck Colliery in 1920 and went on to make 33 appearances for the club in The Football League, after which he returned to the colliery team. In 1922, he joined Bradford City, where he played for five years before joining Staveley Town in November 1927.
Ernest Ollerenshaw was an English professional footballer of the 1920s. Born in Hollingworth, Hyde, Cheshire, he joined Gillingham from Manchester City in 1920, but only made one appearance for the club in The Football League.
References
- ↑ Triggs, Roger (2001). The Men Who Made Gillingham Football Club. Tempus Publishing Ltd. p. 28. ISBN 0-7524-2243-X.
- ↑ Brown, Tony (2003). The Definitive Gillingham F.C.: A Complete Record. Soccerdata. p. 125. ISBN 1-899468-20-X.
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