Bradford City 2-1 Gillingham: result and report

League Two · Saturday 19 October 2024

Result

Bradford City 2-1 Gillingham

League Two · Saturday 19 October 2024, 14:00 UTC · half-time 2-1

Bradford City · Gillingham · League Two predictions

Bradford City 2-1 Gillingham: match report

Bradford City beat Gillingham 2-1 in the League Two on Saturday 19 October 2024. It was 2-1 at half-time.

Jayden Clarke opened the scoring in the 11th minute. Bradford City's goals came from Neill Byrne (38') and Jack Shepherd (45+3'). Gillingham scored through Jayden Clarke (11').

Discipline: Bradford City received 5 yellow cards; Gillingham received 4 yellow cards.

Going into the game Bradford City were 8th on 18 points from 11 and Gillingham 5th on 19 points from 11. Bradford City went on to finish that season 5th with 78 points, and Gillingham 17th with 58.

Bradford City lined up in a 3-5-2 and Gillingham in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Jamie Walker of Bradford City (7.9), ahead of Neill Byrne (7.7).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Bradford City wins, 1 draw and 0 for Gillingham.

Going into the match Bradford City's last five read W-W-D-L-D and Gillingham's L-L-L-W-W.

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 11'Goal · Jayden ClarkeGillingham · 0-1
  • 22'Yellow card · T. DiengGillingham
  • 24'Yellow card · Jayden ClarkeGillingham
  • 24'Yellow card · Tyreik WrightBradford City
  • 38'Goal · Neill ByrneBradford City · 1-1
  • 42'Yellow card · Max ClarkGillingham
  • 45+3'Goal · Jack ShepherdBradford City · 2-1
  • 45+4'Yellow card · Ethan ColemanGillingham
  • 61'Yellow card · Jack ShepherdBradford City
  • 70'Yellow card · Neill ByrneBradford City
  • 82'Yellow card · Brad HallidayBradford City
  • 83'Yellow card · Bobby PointonBradford City

Head-to-head

4 meetings: Bradford City 3, draws 1, Gillingham 0.

Team news

Unavailable

Bradford City line-up (3-5-2)

Sam Walker, C. Diabate, Neill Byrne, Jack Shepherd, Brad Halliday, Jamie Walker, Richard Smallwood, Clarke Oduor, Tyreik Wright, Calum Kavanagh, Andy Cook

Gillingham line-up (4-2-3-1)

Jake Turner, Remeao Hutton, Max Ehmer, Conor Masterson, Max Clark, Ethan Coleman, T. Dieng, Jayden Clarke, George Lapslie, Joe Gbodé, Oli Hawkins