Editing Gillingham F.C. (section)

==Statistics and records==
{{Further|List of Gillingham F.C. records and statistics}}
[[File:Gillingham FC League Performance.svg|upright=1.8|thumb|right|Yearly table positions of Gillingham in the Football League.]]
Goalkeeper [[Ron Hillyard]] holds the record for Gillingham appearances, having played 657 matches in all competitions between 1974 and 1990,{{sfn|Triggs|2001|p=158}} while the record for appearances solely in the [[Football League]] is held by another goalkeeper, [[John Simpson (footballer born 1933)|John Simpson]], with 571 between 1957 and 1972.<ref name="SB" /> [[Brian Yeo]] is the club's all-time leading league goalscorer, having scored a total of 136 goals between 1963 and 1975.{{sfn|Triggs|2001|p=344}}  He also jointly holds the club record for the most Football League goals scored in a single season, having scored 31 goals in the [[1973–74 in English football|1973–74]] season,{{sfn|Triggs|2001|p=344}} equalling the record set by [[Ernie Morgan]] in [[1954–55 in English football|1954–55]].{{sfn|Triggs|2001|p=226}} The highest number of goals scored by a player in a single game at a professional level is the six registered by [[Fred Cheesmur]] against [[Merthyr Town F.C. (1909)|Merthyr Town]] in April 1930.{{sfn|Triggs|2001|p=349}}  The highest [[transfer (association football)|transfer]] fee received by the club is £1.5&nbsp;million for [[Robert Taylor (footballer, born 1971)|Robert Taylor]], paid by [[Manchester City F.C.|Manchester City]] in 1999, and the highest fee paid by Gillingham is £600,000 for [[Carl Asaba]], signed from [[Reading F.C.|Reading]] in 1998.<ref name="SB" />

The club's record home attendance is 23,002, for an [[FA Cup]] match against [[Queens Park Rangers F.C.|Queens Park Rangers]] on 10 January 1948,<ref name="SB">{{cite web
| url = http://www.soccerbase.com/teams/team.sd?team_id=1098&teamTabs=records
| title = All Time Gillingham Records & Achievements
| access-date = 3 October 2021
| publisher = [[Soccerbase]]
| archive-date = 2 May 2022
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220502104241/https://www.soccerbase.com/teams/team.sd?team_id=1098&teamTabs=records
| url-status = live
}}</ref> a record which will almost certainly never be broken unless the club relocates to a larger ground, given that Priestfield Stadium's current capacity is approximately half that figure.  The team's biggest ever professional win was a 10–0 defeat of [[Chesterfield F.C.|Chesterfield]] in September 1987,<ref name="SB" />
although they had previously registered a 12–1 win against [[Gloucester City F.C.|Gloucester City]] in the [[Southern Football League|Southern League]] in November 1946.<ref name="GFCHist" /> The Gills hold the record for the fewest goals conceded by a team in the course of a 46-game Football League season, set in the 1995&ndash;96 season, during which goalkeeper [[Jim Stannard]] kept 29 clean sheets.{{sfn|Rollin|1996|p=167}}