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Gillingham

2023–24 season
Owner	Brad Galinson
Chairman	Brad Galinson
Head Coach	Neil Harris (until 5 October) Keith Millen (interim) Stephen Clemence (from 1 November)
Stadium	Priestfield Stadium
League Two	12th
FA Cup	Third round
EFL Cup	Second round
EFL Trophy	Group stage
Top goalscorer	League: Ashley Nadesan (2) All: Ashley Nadesan Robbie McKenzie (3 each)
Home colours
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The 2023–24 season is the 131st season in the history of Gillingham and their second consecutive season in League Two. The club are participating in League Two, the FA Cup, the EFL Cup, and the 2023–24 EFL Trophy.

Current squad

As of 23 March 2024

No.	Name	Position	Nationality	Place of birth	Date of birth (Age)	Signed from	Date signed	Fee	Contract end
Goalkeepers
1	Glenn Morris	GK		Woolwich	(1983-12-20) 20 December 1983 (age 40)	Crawley Town	12 January 2023	Free Transfer	30 June 2024
25	Jake Turner	GK		Wilmslow	(1999-02-25) 25 February 1999 (age 25)	Newcastle United	1 July 2022	Free Transfer	30 June 2025
33	Taite Holtam	GK				Academy	1 July 2023	Trainee	30 June 2024
Defenders
3	Max Clark	LB		Kingston upon Hull	(1996-01-19) 19 January 1996 (age 28)	Stevenage	1 July 2023	Free Transfer	30 June 2025
4	Conor Masterson	CB		Celbridge	(1998-09-08) 8 September 1998 (age 26)	Queens Park Rangers	1 July 2023	Free Transfer	30 June 2024
5	Max Ehmer	CB		Frankfurt	(1992-02-03) 3 February 1992 (age 32)	Bristol Rovers	1 July 2021	Free Transfer	30 June 2024
13	Scott Malone	LB		Rowley Regis	(1991-03-25) 25 March 1991 (age 33)	Millwall	24 July 2023	Free Transfer	30 June 2024
14	Robbie McKenzie	RB		Kingston upon Hull	(1998-09-25) 25 September 1998 (age 26)	Hull City	21 August 2020	Free Transfer	30 June 2024
22	Shadrach Ogie	CB		Limerick	(2001-08-25) 25 August 2001 (age 23)	Leyton Orient	18 July 2023	Undisclosed	30 June 2025
24	Remeao Hutton	RB		Walsall	(1998-09-28) 28 September 1998 (age 26)	Swindon Town	17 January 2024	Undisclosed	30 June 2025
35	Alex Giles	CB			(2005-01-29) 29 January 2005 (age 19)	Academy	1 July 2023	Trainee	30 June 2024
Midfielders
6	Shaun Williams	DM		Portmarnock	(1986-10-19) 19 October 1986 (age 38)	Portsmouth	1 July 2022	Free Transfer	30 June 2024
7	George Lapslie	CM		Waltham Forest	(1997-09-05) 5 September 1997 (age 27)	Mansfield Town	14 January 2023	Undisclosed	30 June 2024
8	Jonny Williams	AM		Pembury	(1993-10-09) 9 October 1993 (age 31)	Swindon Town	1 July 2023	Free Transfer	30 June 2024
11	Dom Jefferies	CM			(2002-05-22) 22 May 2002 (age 22)	Brentford	1 July 2022	Free Transfer	30 June 2024
17	Jayden Clarke	CM		London	(2001-05-08) 8 May 2001 (age 23)	Dulwich Hamlet	19 January 2023	Undisclosed	30 June 2024
18	Ethan Coleman	DM		Reading	(2000-01-28) 28 January 2000 (age 24)	Leyton Orient	19 January 2023	Undisclosed	30 June 2024
38	Timothée Dieng	DM		Grenoble	(1992-04-09) 9 April 1992 (age 32)	Exeter City	11 January 2023	Undisclosed	30 June 2024
41	Stanley Skipper	MF			(2005-09-29) 29 September 2005 (age 19)	Arsenal	1 July 2022	Trainee	30 June 2024
Forwards
9	Josh Andrews	CF		Solihull	(2001-10-16) 16 October 2001 (age 23)	Birmingham City	1 February 2024	Undisclosed	30 June 2025
10	Ashley Nadesan	CF		Redhill	(1994-09-09) 9 September 1994 (age 30)	Crawley Town	27 July 2023	Undisclosed	30 June 2025
12	Oliver Hawkins	CF		Ealing	(1992-04-08) 8 April 1992 (age 32)	Mansfield Town	12 January 2023	Undisclosed	30 June 2024
19	Jorge Cabezas Hurtado	CF		Tumaco	(2003-09-06) 6 September 2003 (age 21)	Watford	1 February 2024	Loan	31 May 2024
23	Connor Mahoney	RW		Blackburn	(1997-02-12) 12 February 1997 (age 27)	Huddersfield Town	25 August 2023	Loan	31 May 2024
29	Joseph Gbode	CF		Southwark	(2005-04-08) 8 April 2005 (age 19)	Academy	1 July 2022	Trainee	30 June 2024
31	Ronald Sithole	CF				Academy	1 July 2023	Trainee	30 June 2024
36	Kieron Agbedi	CF				Dover Athletic	11 August 2023	Free Transfer	30 June 2024
47	Josh Walker	CF		London	(1997-12-28) 28 December 1997 (age 26)	Burton Albion	25 January 2024	Loan	31 May 2024
Out on Loan
	Nathan Harvey	GK			(2002-06-08) 8 June 2002 (age 22)	Charlton Athletic	3 September 2023	Free Transfer
26	Ike Orji	RB			(2003-01-04) 4 January 2003 (age 21)	Chatham Town	9 February 2023	Free Transfer	30 June 2024
30	Matthew MacArthur	LW		Sydney	(2004-09-24) 24 September 2004 (age 20)	Southampton	1 July 2021	Free Transfer	30 June 2024
32	Josh Chambers	CM		London	(2003-11-13) 13 November 2003 (age 21)	Academy	1 July 2022	Trainee	30 June 2024
34	Sam Gale	CM			(2004-10-01) 1 October 2004 (age 20)	Academy	1 July 2021	Trainee	30 June 2024
45	Macauley Bonne	CF		Ipswich	(1995-10-26) 26 October 1995 (age 29)	Charlton Athletic	11 August 2023	Free Transfer	30 June 2025

Transfers

In

Date	Pos	Player	Transferred from	Fee	Ref
1 July 2023	LB	Max Clark	Stevenage	Free Transfer
1 July 2023	CB	Conor Masterson	Queens Park Rangers	Free Transfer
1 July 2023	AM	Jonny Williams	Swindon Town	Free Transfer
18 July 2023	CB	Shadrach Ogie	Leyton Orient	Undisclosed
24 July 2023	LB	Scott Malone	Millwall	Free Transfer
27 July 2023	CF	Ashley Nadesan	Crawley Town	Undisclosed
11 August 2023	CF	Kieron Agbedi	Dover Athletic	Free Transfer
11 August 2023	CF	Macauley Bonne	Charlton Athletic	Free Transfer
3 September 2023	GK	Nathan Harvey	Charlton Athletic	Free Transfer
17 January 2024	RB	Remeao Hutton	Swindon Town	Undisclosed
1 February 2024	CF	Josh Andrews	Birmingham City	Undisclosed

Out

Date	Pos	Player	Transferred to	Fee	Ref
30 June 2023	LB	Bailey Akehurst	Hastings United	Released
30 June 2023	CB	Freddie Carter	Eastbourne Borough	Released
30 June 2023	LB	Will Dempsey	Folkestone Invicta	Released
30 June 2023	RW	Jordan Green	Ramsgate	Released
30 June 2023	RW	Scott Kashket	Sutton United	Released
30 June 2023	CM	Julian Kuhr	Free agent	Released
30 June 2023	RM	Alex MacDonald	Stevenage	Free Transfer
30 June 2023	CM	Elliott Moore	Folkestone Invicta	Released
30 June 2023	CM	Stuart O'Keefe	Aldershot Town	Released
30 June 2023	LB	Lewis Page	Dagenham & Redbridge	Released
30 June 2023	AM	Ben Reeves	Free agent	Released
30 June 2023	LB	David Tutonda	Morecambe	Free Transfer
1 August 2023	RB	Will Wright	Crawley Town	Undisclosed
17 January 2024	CF	Lewis Walker	Woking	Free Transfer
29 January 2024	RB	Cheye Alexander	Free agent	Mutual Consent
1 February 2024	CF	Tom Nichols	Mansfield Town	Undisclosed

Loaned in

Date	Pos	Player	Loaned from	Until	Ref
25 August 2023	RW	Connor Mahoney	Huddersfield Town	End of Season
25 January 2024	CF	Josh Walker	Burton Albion	End of Season
1 February 2024	CF	Jorge Cabezas Hurtado	Watford	End of Season

Loaned out

Date	Pos	Player	Loaned to	Until	Ref
3 September 2023	GK	Nathan Harvey	Lewes	End of Season
29 September 2023	CF	Lewis Walker	Woking	1 January 2024
4 October 2023	CF	Joseph Gbode	Maidstone United	1 November 2023
11 November 2023	CM	Josh Chambers	Welling United	9 December 2023
21 November 2023	DM	Sam Gale	Hastings United	19 December 2023
2 December 2023	CF	Joseph Gbode	Aveley	22 February 2024
5 December 2023	RB	Ike Orji	Welling United	2 January 2024
9 December 2023	CB	Alex Giles	Chatham Town	6 January 2024
5 January 2024	LW	Matthew Macarthur	Dartford	3 February 2024
1 February 2024	CF	Macauley Bonne	Cambridge United	End of Season
15 March 2024	LW	Matthew Macarthur	Tonbridge Angels	End of Season
16 March 2024	RB	Ike Orji	Hemel Hempstead Town	End of Season
22 March 2024	CM	Josh Chambers	Worthing	End of Season

Pre-season and friendlies

On 16 May, The Gills announced their first pre-season friendly, where an XI would travel to Tonbridge Angels. A day later, a second fixture was confirmed, against Dover Athletic. A third fixture was added in June, against Dartford. On June 5, a further fixture was announced, against Dagenham & Redbridge. A day later, a visit from Charlton Athletic was also added to the schedule. A seventh friendly, against Millwall was later announced. On 30 June, the club announced their full schedule, which included one final friendly which was a behind closed doors game against Cambridge United on 25 July.

Also confirmed by the club was a pre-season tour to Como in Italy for a five-day warm weather training camp.

  Win   Draw   Loss   Fixtures

12 July 2023 Friendly	Como	0–1	Gillingham	Como
13:00 CEST 12:00 BST		Report	Jefferies 88'	Stadium: Stadio Giuseppe Sinigaglia

15 July 2023 Friendly	Gillingham	0–2	Millwall	Gillingham
13:00 BST		Report	Nisbet 25' (pen.) Emakhu 87'	Stadium: Priestfield Attendance: 5,012 Referee: John Busby

18 July 2023 Friendly	Gillingham	1–3	Charlton Athletic	Gillingham
19:30 BST	Wright 32'	Report	Campbell 1' Blackett-Taylor 53' Payne 55'	Stadium: Priestfield Stadium Attendance: 2,932 Referee: Gavin Ward

22 July 2023 Friendly	Dartford	0–5	Gillingham	Dartford
13:00 BST		Report	Williams 9', 35' Dieng 19' Jefferies 48' Clarke 84'	Stadium: Princes Park Attendance: 884 Referee: Isaac Searle

25 July 2023 Friendly	Cambridge United	4-0	Gillingham	Cambridge
13:00 BST	Brophy 2' Okenabirhie 28', 59' (pen.) Cousins 35'	Report		Stadium: Abbey Stadium Attendance: 0 (behind closed doors)

29 July 2023 Friendly	Dagenham & Redbridge	0–1	Gillingham	Dagenham
15:00 BST		Report	Ogie 52'	Stadium: Chigwell Construction Stadium Attendance: 579

Competitions

Overall record

Last updated: 27 April 2024
Source: Soccerway

League Two

League table

1. On 11 April 2024, Morecambe were deducted three points for failing to pay players and staff on time following previous EFL rules breaches in the 2023–24 season.

Results summary

Last updated: 27 April 2024.
Source: Soccerway

Matches

On 22 June, the EFL League Two fixtures were released.

  Win   Draw   Loss   Fixtures

5 August 2023 1	Stockport County	0–1	Gillingham	Edgeley
15:00 BST		Report	Williams  3' Coleman  45' Ogie  58' Nichols  76' McKenzie 86' Clarke  90+4'	Stadium: Edgeley Park Attendance: 9,116 Referee: Ben Speedie

12 August 2023 2	Gillingham	1–0	Accrington Stanley	Gillingham
15:00 BST	Jefferies  5' Nadesan 29' Ogie  58' Ehmer  90'	Report	Andrews  26' Rich-Baghuelou  62'	Stadium: Priestfield Stadium Attendance: 6,489 Referee: Will Finnie

15 August 2023 3	Sutton United	0–1	Gillingham	Sutton
19:45 BST	Angol  5' Milsom  25'	Report	Nadesan 10' Coleman  76'	Stadium: Gander Green Lane Attendance: 3,714 Referee: Scott Tallis

7 October 2023 (2023-10-07) 12	Gillingham	2–1	Milton Keynes Dons	Gillingham
15:00 BST	Bonne 26' Malone  35', 55' Turner  73'	Report	Williams  58' Harvie  62'  90+2' Dean  81' Harrison 82' Stewart  90'	Stadium: MEMS Priestfield Stadium Attendance: 6,119 Referee: Darren Drysdale

14 October 2023 (2023-10-14) 13	Walsall	4–1	Gillingham	Walsall
15:00 BST	Hutchinson 34', 59', 85' Draper 39' Tierney  70' Knowles  72' McEntee  77'	Report	Clark  49' Bonne 60',  74' Ogie  90+5'	Stadium: Poundland Bescot Stadium Attendance: 5,632 Referee: Charles Breakspear

14 October 2023 (2023-10-14) 14	Gillingham	1–2	Notts County	Gillingham
15:00 BST	Malone 52',  52' Lapslie  77'	Report	Langstaff 38' Macari 78' O'Brien  84' Cameron  90+6' McGoldrick  90+6'	Stadium: MEMS Priestfield Stadium Attendance: 6,983 Referee: Alan Young

24 October 2023 15	Swindon Town	0–1	Gillingham	Swindon
19:45 BST		Report	Mahoney 22' Clarke  68' Alexander 74',  79'	Stadium: The County Ground Attendance: 8,853 Referee: Peter Wright

FA Cup

The Gills were drawn away to Hereford in the first round, at home to either Charlton Athletic or Cray Valley Paper Mills in the second round, and at home to Sheffield United in the third round.

  Win   Draw   Loss   Fixtures

EFL Cup

Gillingham were drawn at home to Southampton in the first round, and away to Luton Town in the second round.

  Win   Draw   Loss   Fixtures

8 August 2023 First round	Gillingham	3–1	Southampton	Gillingham
19:45 BST	Nadesan 12' Lapslie  27' McKenzie 51', 67'  65' Jefferies  58' Ehmer  88' Gbode  90+2'	Report	Perraud  44' Charles  64' Lyanco  78' Alcaraz 89'	Stadium: Priestfield Attendance: 7,775 Referee: Carl Brook

EFL Trophy

In the group stage, Gillingham were drawn into Southern Group E along with Leyton Orient, Portsmouth and Fulham U21.

  Win   Draw   Loss   Fixtures

10 October 2023 Group stage	Portsmouth	5–1	Gillingham	Portsmouth
19:45 BST	Anjorin 11' Towler  47' 80' Stevenson 50' Yengi 54' Kamara 72'		Jefferies  25' Ogie  37' Williams J. 45' Orji  53'	Stadium: Fratton Park Attendance: 5,066 Referee: Farai Hallam

7 November 2023 Group stage	Gillingham	0–1	Fulham U21	Gillingham
19:00 GMT		Report	Loupalo-Bi 43' O'Neill  87'	Stadium: Priestfield Attendance: 1,226 Referee: Craig Hicks

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