:List of Gillingham F.C. records and statistics

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Gillingham have won two major honours in English football; first the Football League Fourth Division title in the 1963–64 seasonBrown, p3 and then the Football League Two title in the 2012–13 season.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/22133526|title=Gillingham 2–2 AFC Wimbledon|work=BBC Sport|date=2013-04-20|access-date=2013-08-15|archive-date=16 October 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131016201606/http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/22133526|url-status=live}} 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.{{Cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_div_3/8048284.stm|title=Gillingham 1–0 Shrewsbury|work=BBC Sport|access-date=2009-05-23|date=2009-05-23|archive-date=25 May 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090525150909/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_div_3/8048284.stm|url-status=live}}

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.{{Cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sport/football/767702.stm|title=Second time lucky for Gills|work=BBC Sport|access-date=2008-08-06|date=2000-05-28|archive-date=3 March 2003|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030303203928/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sport/football/767702.stm|url-status=live}} 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.Brown, pp55, 56, 58

• Second Division (level 3):
• Promotion (1): 1999–2000{{ref label|Shared|A|}}Brown, p109
• Third Division / Fourth Division / Football League Two (level 4):
• Winners (2): 1963–64, 2012–13
• Promotion (3): 1973–74{{ref label|Auto|B|}}, 1995–96{{ref label|Auto|B|}},Brown, pp83, 105 2008–09{{ref label|Playoff|C|}}

File:Gills1894.jpg Division Two championship in the 1894–95 season|alt=A group of men pose in two lines, one standing and one seated. Eleven of the men are wearing striped football shirts, long shorts and socks with shinpads worn over them. Of the other men, one is wearing a suit and tie and a flat cap, and the other is wearing a blazer, waistcoat, shirt without a tie, and a cricket-style cap.]]

• Southern League:
• Division One champions (2): 1946–47, 1948–49Brown, p58
• Division Two champions (1): 1894–95
• Southern League Cup winners (1): 1946–47
• Kent League:
• Champions (1): 1945–46Brown, p55
• Kent League Cup winners (1): 1945–46

• FA Cup:
• Quarter finalists: 1999–2000
• League Cup:
• Fourth round (round of 16): 1963–64, 1996–97 and 2022-23{{Cite news |date=8 November 2022 |title=Brentford stunned by League Two Gillingham |url=https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/63466355 |access-date=2024-03-17 |work=BBC Sport |language=en-GB |archive-date=8 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230108133549/https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/63466355 |url-status=live }}

• Youngest first team player: Luke Freeman, 15 years 233 days (against Barnet, 10 November 2007).{{Cite web

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• Oldest first team player: Glenn Morris, 41 years 102 days (against Colchester United, 1 April 2025).{{Cite web |last=Panting |first=Matthew |date=2024-08-13 |title=Report: 10-man Gills knocked out of Carabao Cup |url=https://www.kentonline.co.uk/medway/sport/report-swansea-v-gillingham-311275/ |access-date=2024-08-21 |website=Kent Online |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Cawdell |first=Luke|date=2025-04-01 |title=Gillingham 1 Colchester 1: League 2 match report from Priestfield Stadium |url=https://www.kentonline.co.uk/medway/sport/gillingham-v-colchester-united-league-2-match-report-322240/ |access-date=2025-04-04 |website=Kent Online |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Games played by Glenn Morris in 2024/2025 |url=https://www.soccerbase.com/players/player.sd?player_id=27381 |access-date=2024-08-21 |website=Soccebase}}
• Oldest first team debutant: John Gorman, 37 years 39 days (against Oxford United, 24 September 1986).{{Cite journal|date=19 September 1987|title=Extra Time|last=Bradley|first=Andy|journal=Gillingham F.C. Official Matchday Magazine}}

All competitive peacetime first team matches are included. Statistics correct as of 5 April 2025. 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.Brown, pp122–129.

File:Fred cheesmur001.jpg scored six goals in a match in 1930, a club record haul for a match in The Football League.]]

• Most goals in a season: Hughie Russell, 42 goals (including 33 Southern League goals) in the 1946–47 season.Brown, p56
• Most goals in a season during Football League membership: Brian Yeo, 32 goals (including 31 League goals) in the 1973–74 season.Brown, p83
• Most Football League goals in a season:
• Brian Yeo, 31 goals in Division Four in the 1973–74 season.Triggs (2001), p344
• Ernie Morgan, 31 goals in Division Three South in the 1954–55 season.Triggs (2001), p226
• Most goals in a Football League match: 6, Fred Cheesmur (against Merthyr Town, 26 April 1930).Triggs (2001), p349
• Most goals in any match: 9, Hughie Russell (against Gloucester City, Southern League, 9 November 1946).
• Fastest hat-trick: Jimmy Scarth, three goals in two minutes and 30 seconds (against Leyton Orient, 1 November 1952). At the time this was the fastest hat-trick in Football League history, a record which lasted until 2004.{{Cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/b/bournemouth/3485294.stm|title=Hayter keeps feet on ground|work=BBC Sport|author=Mark Mitchener|access-date=19 September 2008|date=2004-02-25|archive-date=16 January 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080116163502/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/b/bournemouth/3485294.stm|url-status=live}}

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.

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|5||style="text-align:left;"| {{sortname|Brian|Gibbs}}||1962–1969 ||101 (259) ||3 (9) ||6 (16) ||0 (0) ||110 (284)

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|6||style="text-align:left;"| {{sortname|Steve|Lovell|Steve Lovell (Welsh footballer)}}||1986–1993 ||94 (233) ||5 (10) ||2 (17) ||3 (15) ||104 (275)

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|7||style="text-align:left;"| {{sortname|Damien|Richardson|Damien Richardson (footballer)}}||1972–1991 ||94 (323) ||5 (14) ||3 (20) || 0 (0)||102 (357)

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|8||style="text-align:left;"| {{sortname|Ken|Price|Ken Price (footballer, born 1954)}}||1976–1983 ||78 (255) ||7 (21) ||4 (18) ||0 (0) ||89 (294)

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|9||style="text-align:left;"| {{sortname|Cody|McDonald|Cody McDonald}}||2010–2011
2013–2017 ||77 (198) ||1 (7) ||1 (6) ||2 (9) ||81 (220)

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|10||style="text-align:left;"| {{sortname|Ernie|Morgan}}{{ref label|higher|D|}}||1953–1957 ||73 (155) ||4 (8) ||0 (0) ||0 (0) ||77 (163)

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|11||style="text-align:left;"| {{sortname|Danny|Westwood}}||1975–1982 ||74 (211) ||1 (12) ||2 (12) ||0 (3) ||77 (238)

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File:Me and Andrew Crofts2.jpg, the club's international caps record holder|alt=A young man with a shaven head, wearing a blue and white T-shirt]]

• First capped player: Damien Richardson for Republic of Ireland on 6 June 1973Triggs (1984), p28{{ref label|Fox|E|}}
• Most international caps while a Gillingham player: Andrew Crofts, 12 for Wales
• First Gillingham player to appear in the World Cup finals: Brent Sancho, for Trinidad and Tobago against Sweden on 10 June 2006Elligate, p104

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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.kentnews.co.uk/sport/gillingham_s_paulo_gazzaniga_joins_southampton_1_1452950|work=Kent News|date=20 July 2012|access-date=20 July 2012|title=Gillingham's Paulo Gazzaniga joins Southampton|first=Greg|last=Miles|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305070853/http://www.kentnews.co.uk/sport/gillingham_s_paulo_gazzaniga_joins_southampton_1_1452950|archive-date=5 March 2016}}

File:Groombridge.jpg, the club's first manager|alt=A black-and-white portrait of a dark-haired man with a large moustache, wearing a three-piece suit and tie]]

:{{See also|List of Gillingham F.C. managers}}

• First manager: William Ironside Groombridge (appointed secretary-manager in 1896)Brown, p130
• Longest serving manager: Archie Clark, managed the club from 1939 until 1957

• Most Football League goals scored in a season: 90 in 46 matches, Division Four, 1973–74.{{Cite web|url=https://www.fchd.info/GILLINGH.HTM|title=Gillingham|publisher=The Football Club History Database|access-date=17 September 2008|archive-date=9 May 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080509173818/http://www.fchd.info/GILLINGH.HTM|url-status=live}}
• Fewest Football League goals scored in a season: 34 in 42 matches, Division Three, 1920–21.
• Most Football League goals conceded in a season: 101 in 46 matches, Division Three South, 1950–51.
• Fewest Football League goals conceded in a season: 20 in 46 matches, Division Three, 1995–96, a league record for a 46-game season.{{Cite book|title=News of the World Football Annual 2007–2008|first=Stuart|last=Barnes|publisher=Invincible Press|year=2007|isbn=978-0-00-725555-9|pages=334}}
• Most league goals scored in a season at any level: 111 in 20 matches, Kent League, 1945–46.
• Fewest league goals scored in a season at any level: 20 in 34 matches, Southern League Division One, 1905–06.

• Most points in a Football League season:
• Two points for a win: 62 in 46 games, Division Four, 1973–74.
• Three points for a win: 85 in 46 games, Division Two, 1999–2000.
• Fewest points in a Football League season:
• Two points for a win: 26 in 44 games, Division Three South, 1937–38.
• Three points for a win: 40 in 42 games, Division Three, 1992–93, and 40 in 46 games, Division Three, 1988–89.
• Most points in a season at any level:
• Two points for a win: 64 in 44 games, Southern League, 1938–39.
• Fewest points in a season at any level:
• Two points for a win: 19 in 28 games, Southern League Division One, 1900–01.{{Cite web|url=https://www.fchd.info/NEW-BROM.HTM|title=New Brompton|publisher=The Football Club History Database|access-date=18 September 2008|archive-date=16 May 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080516042327/http://www.fchd.info/NEW-BROM.HTM|url-status=live}}

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• First match: New Brompton 1–5 Woolwich Arsenal reserves, friendly, 2 September 1893{{ref label|first|F|}}Brown, p12
• 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 1920Brown, p34
• First Football League Cup match: Gillingham 1–1 Preston North End, second round, 19 October 1960Brown, p70

• Record Football League win: 10–0 against Chesterfield in Division Three, 5 September 1987.
• Record FA Cup win: 10–1 against Gorleston, first round, 16 November 1957.
• Record win in any competitive match: 12–1 against Gloucester City in the Southern League, 9 November 1946.Triggs (1984), p16{{Cite web

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• Record Football League defeat: 0–8 against Luton Town in Division Three South, 13 April 1929Brown, p.42
• Record FA Cup defeat: 3–9 against Sutton United, fourth qualifying round, 3 November 1945.

• Highest home attendance: 23,002 against Queens Park Rangers, FA Cup third round, 10 January 1948.
• Highest Football League attendance: 20,128 against Millwall, Division Three South, 2 September 1950.

General

• {{Cite book

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• {{cite book | last = Elligate | first = David | title = Gillingham FC On This Day | publisher = Pitch Publishing | year = 2009 | isbn = 978-1-9054-1145-0 |location=Durrington}}
• {{Cite book

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| title = Gillingham Football Club: A Chronology 1893–1984

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• {{Cite book| last = Triggs

| first = Roger | title=The Men Who Made Gillingham Football Club| publisher=Tempus Publishing Ltd | year=2001| isbn=0-7524-2243-X}}

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