Editing Gillingham F.C. (section)

==Rivalries==
The 2003 Football Fans Census revealed that no other team's supporters considered Gillingham to be among their club's main rivals.<ref>{{cite web
| url = http://www.footballfanscensus.com/issueresults/Club_Rivalries_Uncovered_Results.pdf
| title = Rivalry Uncovered!
| access-date =3 October 2021
| publisher = The Football Fans Census
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090304004344/http://www.footballfanscensus.com/issueresults/Club_Rivalries_Uncovered_Results.pdf
| archive-date = 4 March 2009
}}</ref> [[Millwall F.C.|Millwall]] are considered to be the closest the Gills have to local rivals.<ref name="FGG">{{cite news
| url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_div_1/1670888.stm
| title = Millwall 1–2 Gillingham
| access-date = 3 October 2021
| date = 24 November 2001
| publisher = BBC
| archive-date = 29 August 2023
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20230829074901/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_div_1/1670888.stm
| url-status = live
}}</ref> [[Swindon Town F.C.|Swindon Town]] are seen by many fans as the club's biggest rivals, stemming from bad-tempered matches between the teams in the past.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gillinghamfootballclub.com/page/MatchReport/0,,10416~30787,00.html |title=Gillingham vs Swindon Town |access-date=6 February 2014 |date=14 January 2006 |publisher=Gillingham F.C. |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110711093335/http://www.gillinghamfootballclub.com/page/MatchReport/0%2C%2C10416~30787%2C00.html |archive-date=11 July 2011 }}</ref>  While Swindon fans generally do not consider Gillingham among their biggest rivals, there was violence when they met at Priestfield in the [[2005–06 in English football|2005–06]] season, their first meeting since a promotion play-off match in 1987.<ref>{{cite web
| url = http://archive.thisiswiltshire.co.uk/2006/1/17/259405.html| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100722063307/http://archive.thisiswiltshire.co.uk/2006/1/17/259405.html| archive-date = 22 July 2010| title = Town set to pay price for crowd trouble
| access-date = 3 October 2021
| publisher = [[Swindon Advertiser]]
}}</ref>  Following their promotion in 1989, [[Maidstone United F.C. (1897)|Maidstone United]] became Kent's second League side. A rivalry with Gillingham developed over the following seasons, until Maidstone's financial troubles forced them to resign from the League in 1992.<ref>{{cite news
 |url          = https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/butlers-hattrick-lifts-gillingham-to-top-1323335.html
 |title        = Butler's hat-trick lifts Gillingham to top
 |access-date  = 3 October 2021
 |date         = 10 January 1996
 |author       = Simon O'Hagan
 |work         = The Independent
 |archive-date = 11 November 2012
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20121111102837/http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/butlers-hattrick-lifts-gillingham-to-top-1323335.html
 |url-status   = live
}}</ref> A minor rivalry between Gillingham and [[Fulham F.C.|Fulham]] has developed arising from the death of a Fulham fan who was killed during a clash between both sets of fans outside Priestfield Stadium in March 1998.<ref>{{Cite web |title=BBC News {{!}} UK {{!}} Football fan jailed for killing rival supporter |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/199637.stm |access-date=2022-09-28 |website=[[BBC News]] |archive-date=5 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220805194918/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/199637.stm |url-status=live }}</ref> In the [[2024–25 EFL League Two|2024–25 season]], the arrival of [[Bromley F.C.|Bromley]] into the Football League raised the prospect of a new rivalry for Gillingham, dubbed the A2 Derby or "Kent" Derby due to the town of [[Bromley]] being part of Kent's historical boundaries until the creation of [[Greater London]] in 1965.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.kentonline.co.uk/kmtv/video/kent-tonight-special-the-kent-derby-preview-61714/ |title=Kent Tonight Special: The 'Kent' Derby Preview|work=Kent Online|publisher=[[KM Media Group]]|date=4 December 2024|accessdate=4 May 2025}}</ref>