Gillingham FC

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Gillingham FC
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Basic data
Surname Gillingham Football Club
Seat Gillingham , England
founding 1893 (as New Brompton FC )
Board EnglandEngland Paul Scally
Website gillinghamfootballclub.com
First soccer team
Head coach EnglandEngland Steve Evans
Venue Priestfield Stadium , Gillingham
Places 11,582
league EFL League One
2019/20 10th place
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The FC Gillingham (officially: Gillingham Football Club ) - also known as The Gills - is an English football club based in the town of Gillingham , in the local authority Medway in the county of Kent is. The club is currently active in EFL League One and plays its home games at Priestfield Stadium .

history

The club was founded in 1893 as New Brompton Football Club and changed its name to Gillingham in 1913 . In 1920 the club found its way to the Third Division of the Football League for the first time , but was then not re-elected in 1938 as bottom of the Third Division South and had to relegate to the Southern League . As a “non-league club” on January 10, 1948, the FA Cup against the Queens Park Rangers with 23,002 spectators had the largest number of visitors to date. After Gillingham was able to return to the third division in 1950, they always played in the bottom two leagues of the Football League for the next 50 years, where they were promoted from the Fourth Division in 1964 and 1974 , but were followed by relegations in 1971 and 1989. In the 1980s, the club under the coaches Gerry Summers and Keith Peacock often only narrowly failed to rise to the second division. At that time, the careers of players like Micky Adams , Steve Bruce and Tony Cascarino , who was hired for a set of tracksuits and corrugated iron and then sold to Millwall FC for £ 225,000 , were developing in Gillingham .

Recent developments

In 1995 the club was on the verge of bankruptcy as the bottom of the table in the lowest professional class and was bought by Paul Scally , a businessman from the office supplies industry, for the symbolic sum of one pound. With him, Tony Pulis was the new coach at Gillingham, who immediately signed a dozen new players. With them succeeded the immediate promotion to the third division. Only three seasons later, the club then narrowly missed a renewed promotion to the second division through a defeat in the play-offs against Manchester City . After goals from Robert Taylor and Carl Asaba , Gillingham were 2-0 up just two minutes before the end of the game. However, there were two more goals from Manchester City before the end of the 90 minutes to make it 2-2. The subsequent penalty shootout was won by Manchester with 4-2 goals.

For the new season Pulis was dismissed and succeeded by Peter Taylor . A season followed in which Gillingham was able to reach the quarter-finals of the FA Cup for the first time after victories against the Premier League clubs Bradford City and Sheffield Wednesday , but lost 5-0 to Chelsea there . In the championship, the club finished third and gambled away through the defeat on the last day of the game against AFC Wrexham direct promotion and had to go back to the qualifying games. After beating Stoke City in the semi-finals, they met Wigan Athletic at Wembley Stadium . After 90 minutes they parted with 1: 1 goals, with Iffy Onuora having scored for the Gills. Although the club had to accept the 1: 2 in the first half of extra time , Gillingham won 3: 2 after goals from Steve Butler and Andy Thomson and rose to the First Division (now Football League Championship ) for the first time.

Since Taylor had only signed a one-year contract, he was then able to move to the Premier League club Leicester City without any problems . As a result, the former team captain Andy Hessenthaler , who had previously taken on care tasks, became the team's player-coach. Under his reign he finished the seasons up to 2003 with a thirteenth, twelfth and then eleventh place. At the end of the 2003/04 season, the club was able to keep the class with just one goal after a 0-0 win against FC Walsall on the last day of the match . With John Gorman , who already Kotrainer of Glenn Hoddle in the England team had been Hessenthaler was made an assistant to the side, after the season had started 2004/05 with little success for Gillingham. When the performance of the teams did not improve, Hessenthaler resigned as a coach in November, but continued to play in the team. Gorman temporarily trained the team on his own before he switched to the Wycombe Wanderers . Gillingham then signed Stan Ternent, the former coach of Burnley FC . Despite a significant increase, the club rose on the last day of the game in the Football League One, with Gillingham only missing one goal, which is why they stayed behind Crewe Alexandra .

League affiliation

literature

  • Roger Triggs: The Men Who Made Gillingham Football Club , Tempus Publishing Ltd., Stroud 2001, ISBN 0-7524-2243-X

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