Fleetwood Town 2-1 Gillingham: result and report

League One · Saturday 29 October 2016

Result

Fleetwood Town 2-1 Gillingham

League One · Saturday 29 October 2016, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-0

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Fleetwood Town 2-1 Gillingham: match report

Fleetwood Town won against Gillingham 2-1 in the League One on Saturday 29 October 2016. The half-time score was 1-0.

David Ball opened the scoring in the 19th minute. Fleetwood Town's goals came from David Ball (19') and Ashley Hunter (82'). Gillingham scored through J. Hessenthaler (52').

Discipline: Fleetwood Town received 1 yellow card; Gillingham received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Fleetwood Town were 14th on 19 points from 14 and Gillingham 18th on 17 points from 15. Fleetwood Town went on to finish that season 4th with 83 points, and Gillingham 20th with 50.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Fleetwood Town wins, 2 draws and 1 for Gillingham.

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

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 19'Goal · David BallFleetwood Town · 1-0
  • 41'Yellow card · B. KnottGillingham
  • 45+2'Yellow card · Chris HerdGillingham
  • 52'Goal · J. HessenthalerGillingham · 1-1
  • 77'Yellow card · C. BolgerFleetwood Town
  • 82'Goal · Ashley HunterFleetwood Town · 2-1

Head-to-head

6 meetings: Fleetwood Town 3, draws 2, Gillingham 1.

Team news

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Fleetwood Town line-up

Chris Neal, Connor McLaughlin, Nathan Pond, Cian Bolger, Amari'i Bell, Jimmy Ryan, Jack Sowerby, Kyle Dempsey, David Ball, Bobby Grant, Christopher Long

Gillingham line-up

Stuart Nelson, Max Ehmer, Paul Konchesky, Chris Herd, Deji Oshilaja, Jake Hessenthaler, Billy Knott, Josh Wright, Jay Emmanuel-Thomas, Cody McDonald, Frank Nouble