Season record / 1995–96Promotion under Tony Pulis
Gillingham finished second in 1995–96 with 83 points, conceding just 20 league goals.
83Points earned
20Goals conceded
2ndPromoted
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ARCHIVE / 1950–PRESENT
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The club archive.
Results, records and club history since 1950. Browse match results, compare seasons and follow Gillingham’s progress through the leagues.
PRIESTFIELD, GILLINGHAMHOME SINCE 1893 / 51.384° N, 0.560° E
Club records & highlights
League history
Gillingham in the league pyramid
Season-end positions across the English Football League.
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Season record / 1995–96Divisional record
Seasons by division
Completed seasons since re-election in 1950
Divisions are grouped by tier to allow comparisons across changes in league names.
Season records
Points are shown under the scoring system used at the time. Select a season for details.
Final totals for 2026–27 are not yet available. Current season contains the latest dated results. Manager searches use recorded permanent tenures; caretaker gaps remain.
Player comparisons
Cult heroes
Compare up to three players using editorial profiles.
About the player profiles
These profiles are subjective assessments of playing style, rated from 0 to 100. They are not measured performance statistics.
Verified appearance and goal totals are available in Player records. Minutes played and individual match contributions are not available.
Season points estimator
Season points calculator
Estimate a points total from 23 home and 23 away league matches.
Home matches
Away matches
Each venue always totals 23 games. Moving a slider adjusts the remaining outcomes automatically.
ESTIMATED POINTS
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Indicative League Two thresholds: 85+ points for title contention, 78+ for automatic promotion, 70+ for the play-offs and 50+ for mid-table or safety. Below 50 may leave a side in a relegation battle. These bands are illustrative; actual thresholds vary each season.
Season analysis
Compare seasons
Compare results, goals and points per game across completed seasons.
Season analysis
Promotion comparisons
Compare the league records of six promotion-winning seasons.
Season analysis
Manager records
Permanent tenures from the club’s published chronology.
League statistics below use only seasons fully contained within the recorded tenure (1 July to 30 June). Shared seasons and caretaker periods are excluded. Appointment and departure dates are shown as published; the official July 2017 Pennock appointment typo is corrected to 4 January using contemporary reporting. “Present” in the source is capped at the 5 November 2026 snapshot, not a live status.
Club manager chronology ↗Season analysis
Five-season trends
Rolling windows of five consecutive completed seasons.
Climb and decline compare first and last season-end pyramid positions across five seasons (four annual intervals). Stability is the smallest maximum-minus-minimum position range. Ties select the earliest window. Regional pre-1958 standings use the estimated midpoint described in methodology.
Season analysis
Selected seasons
Select a season for its league record, a short summary and sources.
Images show present-day Priestfield, not historic match action. Photography: Stephen Kennard / CC0.
Season analysis
Home and away records
Verified home and away league splits, reconciled against the season archive.
Source: Gillingham FC Scrapbook. Every included split must reconcile W/D/L and goals with the embedded season total.
Supporter statistics
Attendance and travel
Home and away attendance, published travelling-support figures and a mileage planner.
Home and away-fixture averages count everyone at the match. The away-fixture series is not a count of Gillingham supporters travelling. The separate reported away-following figure below measures travelling Gills.
Source: Gillingham FC Scrapbook. Static rounded season averages; historical coverage includes the pandemic seasons. This archive reports 12,546 for 1951–52; the club’s honours page gives 12,576. The chart retains the archive series consistently. Percentage change is unavailable after a zero-crowd baseline. No crowd totals are inferred from rounded averages.
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| Season | Tier | Home avg crowd | Away-fixture avg crowd | League games |
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Away support and travel estimates
Reported away following / 2025–26
630
Average travelling Gillingham supporters per away match; reported 10th in League Two. Secondary-source figure, not a complete match-by-match dataset.
Football Ground Guide · 29 October 2026 ↗Published road itinerary / 2026–27
8,284 miles
Reported round-trip distance from Priestfield to all 23 away grounds. That is 360.2 miles per fixture for one supporter attending every trip.
Gills 365 / Select Car Leasing research ↗The published itinerary uses shortest Google Maps road routes, starting and returning at Priestfield. It is a theoretical season itinerary, not measured travel by an average fan. The away-following and mileage snapshots cover different seasons and are not multiplied together. Historical unique-fan counts, origins, attendance frequency, and measured miles per fan are unavailable.
Away-day mileage planner
Enter your own one-way road distances. Each row represents one return trip by one supporter.
Return miles / one fan
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Mean return miles / match
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Enter up to 46 trips. Distances are not checked automatically. Entries are kept in this browser tab until it is reloaded; download the itinerary to retain a copy.
Archive
Match results
Search 1950–present results by opponent, date, season or scorer.
All archived results · expunged fixtures excluded
About expunged results & counting conventions
Expunged means played but removed from the official league record. The 1961–62 Accrington Stanley fixture and two 1991–92 Aldershot fixtures are excluded from statistical totals by default; the checkbox reveals the historical match entries. 1961–62 league table / Aldershot historical account. Season totals already follow the official adjusted record. Player totals retain the source’s own competition-counting conventions.
| Date | Opponent | H/A/N | Gills score | Competition | Season | Total crowd |
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Source: Gillingham FC Scrapbook, fetched 6 November 2026. Scores always show Gillingham first. W/D/L uses the match score; penalty shootout outcomes are not encoded. Dated source rows with a recorded numeric score are included, including named neutral venues. Bracketed annotations are preserved verbatim: they may refer to extra time, aggregate scores or penalties and are not automatically treated as shootout results. This is not a complete friendly or reserve archive. Manager filters use recorded permanent tenure dates, with caretaker gaps. Opponent tier data is unavailable.
Archive
Head to head
Lifetime league totals alongside searchable meetings since 1950.
| Date | Opponent | H/A/N | Gills score | Competition | Season | Total crowd |
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Archive
Player records
Appearance and goalscoring records, with league and all-competition totals shown separately.
| Rank in selection | Player | Years | League apps | League goals | All apps | All goals |
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“All” follows the source’s recorded competition coverage, including pre-Football League and wartime football for some early players; it is not a uniform post-1950 league-and-cup ranking. Active-player totals are a static snapshot. Appearance source / Scoring source. Goalkeeper clean-sheet totals are not available here and are not inferred from appearances.
Archive
On this day
View matches played on a selected date. The default is today’s date in the UK.
| Date | Opponent | H/A/N | Gills score | Competition | Season | Total crowd |
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Matches are drawn from the archive, which begins in 1950–51. Dates with no recorded fixtures return no results.
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2026–27 season
Results and standings at the stated cutoff date. Final season totals are not yet available.
Results are current through 31 October 2026. This section is updated periodically and does not provide live scores. View the current league table ↗ / Club match information ↗
Last eight league results · oldest → newest
| Date | Opponent | H/A/N | Gills score | Competition | Season | Total crowd |
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Match results: Gillingham FC Scrapbook. Table placement: Football Web Pages, table timestamp 31 October 2026. Completed-season charts retain their original scope and exclude this unfinished campaign.
Photo archive
Priestfield and Gillingham
Photographs retain their original files and licences. Dates describe when each photograph was taken. Select an image to see the full frame.
Priestfield Stadium
Views of Priestfield
Photographs by Stephen Kennard (Medway Aerial Photography), 2025 · CC0 public-domain dedication · Rainham End / Medway Stand / Pitch view
Sources, coverage and methodology
League results: Football Club History Database. Club records and honours: Gillingham FC official records. Checked 5 November 2026. Static snapshot; no live feed.
76 completed seasons, 1950–51 to 2025–26. Current 2026–27 figures are unverified and deliberately blank. Points retain the original system: two for a win through 1980–81 and three from 1981–82. The 2019–20 season ended after 35 matches; final placing was determined by points per game. The 1961–62 record has 44 games after Accrington Stanley's results were expunged.
Pyramid positions use the number of clubs in higher divisions for each season. Before 1958, North and South were parallel third-tier divisions: the chart uses the midpoint of the tied national rank interval (44 + 2 × regional position − 0.5), not an official unique national placing. Thresholds move with historical division sizes. The current unverified season is excluded from chart and aggregates.
Manager chronology: official club source. Home/away records and average fixture crowds: Gillingham FC Scrapbook. Full-season manager aggregates exclude partial tenures; three-point equivalents enable scoring-system comparisons. Attendance sources and travel definitions are documented in the Attendance & travel tab.
Where a league top scorer has not been verified, the archive shows “Not verified”. All-competition goal totals are not used as substitutes. Player profile ratings are editorial examples, not measured performance. The often-quoted figure of 29 clean sheets is not independently verified here. The club’s official records confirm 20 league goals conceded. This is an independent fan project, unaffiliated with Gillingham FC.
White horse of Kent artwork: Paolo Interdonato, 2023, Wikimedia Commons source ↗, CC0 1.0 public-domain dedication ↗. Used unmodified as the independent archive’s Kent symbol.
Additional photo archive: Gordon Road entrance · 1 January 2008 ↗ — Danny Robinson, CC BY-SA 2.0; Redfern Avenue · 23 March 2008 ↗ — Danny Robinson, CC BY-SA 2.0; Gillingham from above · 14 July 2025 ↗ — Stephen Kennard, CC0 1.0. Original files retained; display crops are made with CSS. Creative Commons share-alike terms apply to the licensed photographs.
Data last checked: 6 November 2026. Historical league records cover completed seasons through 2025–26; current-season results are accurate through 31 October 2026. This is a dated snapshot, not a live feed.