2000 Football League Second Division play-off Final

2000 Football League Second Division play-off final

Winner
Gillingham Gillingham F.C. Gillingham Football Club is an English professional football club based in the town of Gillingham, Kent. The only Kent-based club in the Football League, they play their home matches at the Priestfield Stadium...
Runner-up
Wigan Athletic Wigan Athletic F.C. Wigan Athletic Football Club is an English Premier League Association football club based in Wigan, Greater Manchester, having been promoted from the Championship in 2005. Wigan's current spell in the Premier League is the only top flight run in the club's history.They have played at the DW...
Score
3–2
Date
28 May 2000
Venue
Wembley Stadium
Man of the Match
Andy Liddell Andy Liddell Andrew Mark "Andy" Liddell is a former Scottish football midfielder who is currently fitness coach of Ipswich Town. He previously played with Barnsley, Sheffield United, Wigan Athletic and Oldham Athletic and Rotherham United.-Early career:Liddell started his league career at Barnsley, making his...

The 2000 Football League Second Division play-off final was a football match played at Wembley Stadium on 28 May 2000, to determine the third and final team to gain promotion

Promotion and relegation

In many sports leagues around the world, promotion and relegation is a process that takes place at the end of each season. Through it, teams are transferred between divisions based on their performance that season...

from the Second Division

Football League Second Division

From 1892 until 1992, the Football League Second Division was the second highest division overall in English football.This ended with the creation of the FA Premier League, prior to the start of the 1992–93 season, which caused an administrative split between The Football League and the teams...

to the First Division

Football League First Division

The First Division was a division of The Football League between 1888 and 2004 and the highest division in English football until the creation of the Premier League in 1992. The secondary tier in English football has since become known as the Championship....

of The Football League

The Football League

The Football League, also known as the npower Football League for sponsorship reasons, is a league competition featuring professional association football clubs from England and Wales. Founded in 1888, it is the oldest such competition in world football...

in the 1999–2000

1999-2000 in English football

-Premier League:Manchester United were crowned FA Premier League champions with an 18-point margin over runners-up Arsenal and with just 3 league defeats all season. This was despite their failure to retain the European Cup and withdrawal from the FA Cup in order to compete in the FIFA Club World...

season. Gillingham

Gillingham F.C.

Gillingham Football Club is an English professional football club based in the town of Gillingham, Kent. The only Kent-based club in the Football League, they play their home matches at the Priestfield Stadium...

faced Wigan Athletic

Wigan Athletic F.C.

Wigan Athletic Football Club is an English Premier League Association football club based in Wigan, Greater Manchester, having been promoted from the Championship in 2005. Wigan's current spell in the Premier League is the only top flight run in the club's history.They have played at the DW...

in one of the last competitive fixtures to be played at the original Wembley Stadium.

The match was Gillingham's second consecutive appearance in the Second Division play-off final after a defeat to Manchester City

Manchester City F.C.

Manchester City Football Club is an English Premier League football club based in Manchester. Founded in 1880 as St. Mark's , they became Ardwick Association Football Club in 1887 and Manchester City in 1894...

the previous season. Wigan had been defeated in the semi-finals the previous season and had never previously reached a play-off final. The teams reached the final by defeating Stoke City

Stoke City F.C.

Stoke City Football Club is an English professional football club based in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire that plays in the Premier League. Founded in 1863, it is the oldest club in the Premier League, and considered to be the second oldest professional football club in the world, after Notts...

and Millwall

Millwall F.C.

Millwall Football Club is an English professional football club based in South Bermondsey, south east London, that plays in the Football League Championship, the second tier of English football. Founded as Millwall Rovers in 1885, the club has retained its name despite having last played in the...

respectively in the semi-finals.

Gillingham took the lead in the first half of the final, but Wigan equalised to send the game into extra time. During the extra period Wigan took a 2–1 lead, but Gillingham scored two goals in the last six minutes through substitutes Steve Butler

Steve Butler (footballer)

Stephen "Steve" Butler is an English former footballer. During his professional career he played over 400 matches and scored over 150 goals for Brentford, Maidstone United, Watford, Bournemouth, Cambridge United, Gillingham and Peterborough United, including a remarkable tally of eight goals in...

and Andy Thomson

Andy Thomson (Scottish footballer)

Andrew "Andy" Thomson is a former Scottish professional football player. He played in 549 league matches, scoring 195 league goals in a career that saw him play for Queen of the South, Partick Thistle, Falkirk and Stenhousemuir in Scotland and Southend United, Oxford United, Gillingham and...

to win 3–2. Gillingham thus gained promotion to the second tier of English football for the first time in the club's 107-year history, in what proved to be manager Peter Taylor's final match in charge.

Route to the final

**Football League Division Two final table, leading positions**
Pos	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Pts
1.	Preston North End Preston North End F.C. Preston North End Football Club is an English professional football club located in the Deepdale area of the city of Preston, Lancashire, currently playing in the third tier of English league football, League One...	46	28	11	7	74	37	95
2.	Burnley Burnley F.C. Burnley Football Club are a professional English Football League club based in Burnley, Lancashire. Nicknamed the Clarets, due to the dominant colour of their home shirts, they were founder members of the Football League in 1888...	46	25	13	8	69	47	88
3.	Gillingham Gillingham F.C. Gillingham Football Club is an English professional football club based in the town of Gillingham, Kent. The only Kent-based club in the Football League, they play their home matches at the Priestfield Stadium...	46	25	10	11	79	48	85
4.	Wigan Athletic Wigan Athletic F.C. Wigan Athletic Football Club is an English Premier League Association football club based in Wigan, Greater Manchester, having been promoted from the Championship in 2005. Wigan's current spell in the Premier League is the only top flight run in the club's history.They have played at the DW...	46	22	17	7	72	38	83
Pos=Position P=Games played W=Wins D=Draws L=Defeats F=Goals for A=Goals against Pts=Points

Gillingham had finished the 1999–2000 Football League season

The Football League 1999-2000

The 1999–2000 season was the 100th completed season of the The Football League.-Overview:The 1999–2000 season saw the league dispense with the traditional 1–11 numbering of players’ shirts in favour of squad numbers, a system that had been adopted by the Premier League a few seasons before...

in third place in Division Two, one place ahead of Wigan. Both therefore missed out on the two automatic promotion

Promotion and relegation

places and instead took part in the play-offs

Football League Play-Offs

The Football League play-offs are an annual series of football matches to determine some of the promotion places within the Football League. Essentially, each division of the league offers a certain number of automatic promotion places to the top two or three clubs. A further promotion place is...

to determine the third promoted team. On the final day of the league season Gillingham had the opportunity to finish in second place in the table and thereby clinch an automatic promotion place, but a 1–0 defeat away to Wrexham meant that Burnley

Burnley F.C.

Burnley Football Club are a professional English Football League club based in Burnley, Lancashire. Nicknamed the Clarets, due to the dominant colour of their home shirts, they were founder members of the Football League in 1888...

were able to overtake them thanks to their 2–1 win over Scunthorpe United

Scunthorpe United F.C.

Scunthorpe United Football Club is an English association football team based in the town of Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, who play in the Football League One....

. Wigan had looked on course for an automatic promotion place in the first half of the season but the team's form fell away dramatically after Christmas. Both teams were appearing in the play-offs for a second consecutive season. In the 1998–99

1998-99 in English football

-Premier League:Manchester United overcame close competition from Arsenal, Aston Villa and Chelsea to win their fifth Premiership title in seven seasons thanks to the comeback of Roy Keane after his long-term injury and a transfer raid totalling nearly £30 million which netted Aston Villa striker...

season both Wigan and Gillingham had qualified for the play-offs but been defeated in the semi-finals and final respectively by eventual winners Manchester City

Manchester City F.C.

.

In the play-off semi-finals, Wigan were paired with fifth-placed Millwall

Millwall F.C.

and Gillingham with sixth-place finishers Stoke City

Stoke City F.C.

. Wigan drew 0–0 in the first leg against Millwall, but Darren Sheridan

Darren Sheridan

Darren Stephen Sheridan is an English footballer.He is currently a player-manager for English non-league club Barrow...

's goal gave them a 1–0 win in the second leg and therefore a 1–0 aggregate win. Gillingham lost the first leg of their tie 3–2 away to Stoke, but overturned the deficit with a 3–0 second leg win. Barry Ashby

Barry Ashby

Barry John Ashby is an English former professional footballer who played as a centre-half. He played for Watford, Brentford and Gillingham during a 17-year professional career....

, Iffy Onuora

Iffy Onuora

Ifem "Iffy" Onuora is a coach a former professional footballer born in Scotland of Nigerian descent.He was recently the head coach of the Ethiopia national team...

and Paul Smith

Paul Smith (footballer born 1971)

Paul William Smith is an English professional footballer.Smith was born in East Ham, London and began his career as a trainee with Southend United, turning professional in 1990...

scored the goals in an emotionally charged match in which Stoke had two players sent off

Misconduct (football)

Misconduct in association football is any conduct by a player that is deemed by the referee to warrant a disciplinary sanction in accordance with Law 12 of the Laws of the Game. Misconduct may occur at any time, including when the ball is out of play, during half-time and before and after the...

Wigan Athletic				Gillingham
Opponent	Result	Legs	Round	Opponent	Result	Legs
Millwall Millwall F.C. Millwall Football Club is an English professional football club based in South Bermondsey, south east London, that plays in the Football League Championship, the second tier of English football. Founded as Millwall Rovers in 1885, the club has retained its name despite having last played in the...	1–0	0–0 away; 1–0 home	Semi-finals	Stoke City Stoke City F.C. Stoke City Football Club is an English professional football club based in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire that plays in the Premier League. Founded in 1863, it is the oldest club in the Premier League, and considered to be the second oldest professional football club in the world, after Notts...	5–3	2–3 away; 3–0 home

Match summary

The two teams were competing for promotion

Promotion and relegation

to the second tier of the English football league system

English football league system

The English football league system, also known as the football pyramid, is a series of interconnected leagues for association football clubs in England, with six teams from Wales also competing...

, at the time called the First Division

Football League First Division

, a level which neither club had ever previously reached. The attendance of 53,764 was significantly down on the figure of 76,935 registered at the equivalent fixture in the previous season, and there was a significant disparity in the number of tickets sold to the fans of the two clubs, with only around 10,000 Wigan fans in attendance compared to over 40,000 Gillingham fans. A specific revenue figure for the match was not made public, but half of the gate receipts went to The Football League to distribute amongst its member clubs, with Gillingham and Wigan each receiving twenty-five per cent and no additional television broadcast fee.

Gillingham manager Peter Taylor picked eight of the players who had started the previous season's playoff final, but made the decision to drop the team's captain, Paul Smith

Paul Smith (footballer born 1971)

Paul William Smith is an English professional footballer.Smith was born in East Ham, London and began his career as a trainee with Southend United, turning professional in 1990...

, from the starting line-up due to personal issues, which led to the player requesting a transfer

Transfer (football)

In professional association football, a transfer is the action taken whenever a player under contract moves between professional clubs. It refers to the transferring of a player's registration from one professional association football club to another. In general, the players can only be...

. Wigan manager John Benson

John Benson (footballer)

John Harvey Benson was a Scottish football player and manager. Born in Arbroath, Benson started his career as an apprentice at Manchester City. He turned professional in 1961, and made 44 league appearances over the next three seasons before being sold to Fourth Division side Torquay United in 1964...

, who was taking charge of the team for the last time before the appointment of a new manager, included five players in the starting line-up who had played at Wembley in the previous season's Football League Trophy

Football League Trophy

The Football League Trophy, currently known as the Johnstone's Paint Trophy for sponsorship reasons, is an annual English association football knock-out competition open to the 48 clubs in Football League One and Football League Two, the bottom two divisions in the four fully professional top...

final, but left out captain Carl Bradshaw

Carl Bradshaw

Carl Bradshaw is a former professional footballer who played for Sheffield Wednesday, Barnsley, Manchester City, Sheffield United, Norwich City, Wigan Athletic and Scunthorpe Utd...

, as well as first-choice goalkeeper Roy Carroll

Roy Carroll

Roy Eric Carroll is a Northern Irish footballer who is currently playing for Greek Superleague club OFI Crete. He is a goalkeeper and is best known for his spells at Wigan Athletic and Manchester United, where he won the 2004 FA Cup...

, who had missed both semi-final matches following an appendix

Vermiform appendix

The appendix is a blind-ended tube connected to the cecum , from which it develops embryologically. The cecum is a pouchlike structure of the colon...

operation.

First half

Wigan started off the stronger team, with Darren Sheridan dominating the midfield play and Andy Liddell

Andy Liddell

Andrew Mark "Andy" Liddell is a former Scottish football midfielder who is currently fitness coach of Ipswich Town. He previously played with Barnsley, Sheffield United, Wigan Athletic and Oldham Athletic and Rotherham United.-Early career:Liddell started his league career at Barnsley, making his...

causing problems for Gillingham's defenders. After four minutes Simon Haworth

Simon Haworth

Simon Owen Haworth is a Welsh former footballer. He won five caps for the Wales national football team during his career.-Club career:...

headed for goal, but Gillingham goalkeeper Vince Bartram

Vince Bartram

Vincent Lee Bartram is an English former professional footballer, who played as a goalkeeper. He is now goalkeeping coach at Southampton F.C.-Career:...

made a comfortable save. Haworth also hit the crossbar with a long-range shot on goal.

Gillingham took the lead after 35 minutes after Andy Hessenthaler

Andy Hessenthaler

Andrew "Andy" Hessenthaler is an English football manager and former player, currently in his second spell as manager of Gillingham. Hessenthaler began his career in non-league football and did not turn professional until he joined Watford at the age of 26...

passed to Carl Asaba

Carl Asaba

Carl Edward Asaba is a former English professional football player who played as a striker.-Career:Asaba first came to prominence at Brentford, debuting in 1994 after joining the club from Dulwich Hamlet. His goalscoring soon attracted attention and Reading signed him for a club record £800,000...

, whose shot was deflected into his own goal by Wigan defender Pat McGibbon

Pat McGibbon

Patrick Colm "Pat" McGibbon is a former Northern Ireland international footballer. His regular position was at centre-back....

, under pressure from Iffy Onuora

Iffy Onuora

Ifem "Iffy" Onuora is a coach a former professional footballer born in Scotland of Nigerian descent.He was recently the head coach of the Ethiopia national team...

. Wigan's Arjan De Zeeuw

Arjan de Zeeuw

Adrianus "Arjan" de Zeeuw is a retired Dutch footballer, who played as a centre-back.-Club career:...

attempted to keep the ball out of the goal, but after checking with his assistant referee, referee Rob Styles

Rob Styles

Robert Styles is an English football Referee from Waterlooville, Hampshire, who officiates in the FA Premier League, and for FIFA. He has now retired.- Career :...

ruled that the ball had crossed the line and awarded a goal to Gillingham. At half-time the score remained 1–0 to Gillingham.

Second half

Wigan again dominated play after the half-time interval and equalised in the 53rd minute. Wigan's de Zeeuw crossed the ball from a wide position and Simon Haworth flicked it up and then hit a shot from six yards out past Bartram and into the net, to score what The Independent
The Independent
The Independent is a British national morning newspaper published in London by Independent Print Limited, owned by Alexander Lebedev since 2010. It is nicknamed the Indy, while the Sunday edition, The Independent on Sunday, is the Sindy. Launched in 1986, it is one of the youngest UK national daily...

described as "one of Wembley's great goals". In the 65th minute, de Zeeuw's header was cleared off the line by Gillingham's Nicky Southall

Nicky Southall

Leslie Nicholas "Nicky" Southall , is an English professional footballer who is a player/coach at Football League Two side Gillingham, in his fourth spell with the club. He has played in all tiers of English league football and has also appeared in the Premier League for Bolton Wanderers...

, who appeared to be standing behind the goal line. Wigan's supporters believed that the ball had in fact crossed the line and entered the goal, but the assistant referee ruled otherwise. Gillingham had several chances on goal in the latter stages of the game, but Wigan goalkeeper Derek Stillie

Derek Stillie

Derek Stillie is a retired Scottish footballer. He played as a goalkeeper for a number of clubs in Scotland and England before retiring to pursue a career in English law.-Career:...

prevented any further goalscoring. Shortly before the end of the game Wigan defender Kevin Sharp

Kevin Sharp (footballer)

Kevin Philip Sharp is a Canadian-born footballer who plays as a left-back for Harrogate Town.-Career:...

, who had earlier been cautioned for dissent, was sent off for a foul on Southall, reducing his team to ten men. The match remained deadlocked at 1–1 after 90 minutes and therefore went into a 30-minute period of extra time.

Extra time

In the early stages of extra time, Wigan again looked stronger despite their numerical disadvantage. After approximately nine minutes of the extra period, Gillingham's Barry Ashby

Barry Ashby

Barry John Ashby is an English former professional footballer who played as a centre-half. He played for Watford, Brentford and Gillingham during a 17-year professional career....

was adjudged to have fouled Darren Sheridan

Darren Sheridan

Darren Stephen Sheridan is an English footballer.He is currently a player-manager for English non-league club Barrow...

, resulting in a penalty kick

Penalty kick

A penalty kick is a type of direct free kick in association football, taken from twelve yards out from goal and with only the goalkeeper of the defending team between the penalty taker and the goal.Penalty kicks are performed during normal play...

for Wigan, which Stuart Barlow

Stuart Barlow

Stuart Barlow is a retired English football forward. He is best remembered for scoring the winning goal in an FA Cup fifth round replay win against Premiership Southampton in the 2000-01 season...

scored to give his team a 2–1 lead. Gillingham's Andy Hessenthaler rallied his unsettled team, and in the 114th minute team-mate Steve Butler

Steve Butler (footballer)

, who had come on as a substitute a few minutes earlier, headed in a cross from Junior Lewis

Junior Lewis

Karl Junior Lewis is an English footballer who plays as a midfielder for Isthmian League Premier Division side Hendon where he is also a coach.-Playing career:...

to level the match once again. Four minutes later another Gillingham substitute, Andy Thomson

Andy Thomson (Scottish footballer)

, beat Stuart Balmer to the ball after a cross from Ty Gooden

Ty Gooden

Ty Gooden is an English former professional footballer. He played for teams including Arsenal, Wycombe Wanderers, Swindon Town, Gillingham and Canvey Island.During his time at Swindon he was often inconsistent...

and scored to give the Kent

Kent

Kent is a county in southeast England, and is one of the home counties. It borders East Sussex, Surrey and Greater London and has a defined boundary with Essex in the middle of the Thames Estuary. The ceremonial county boundaries of Kent include the shire county of Kent and the unitary borough of...

club the lead with only two minutes remaining. Wigan were unable to score any further goals in the short time remaining, and the match finished 3–2 to Gillingham.

Post-match

After the final whistle Gillingham's temporary captain Adrian Pennock

Adrian Pennock

Adrian Barry Pennock is a retired English footballer player turned manager. His playing career was spent mainly at AFC Bournemouth and Gillingham.-Playing career:...

received the winners' trophy jointly with the team's usual captain, Paul Smith, who had come on as a substitute. Peter Taylor commented that "These players, especially the ones that were here last year, deserved it. All season they've shown unbelievable character, and that's what they have done today. They never know when they are beaten." John Benson, commenting particularly on the goal which Wigan felt they were denied, said that "You feel cheated, but decisions like that are part of the game".

In the aftermath of the match Gillingham offered a new contract to manager Peter Taylor, but two weeks after leading the club to victory at Wembley he left to take over as manager of Premier League team Leicester City

Leicester City F.C.

Leicester City Football Club , also known as The Foxes, is an English professional football club based at the King Power Stadium in Leicester...

. Wigan manager John Benson had already announced before the play-off final that he would be leaving his post whatever the result, and he was replaced by Bruce Rioch

Bruce Rioch

Bruce David Rioch is an English-born football manager and former player. He was manager of Aalborg BK in the Danish Superliga, until his sacking on 23 October 2008....

. As a result of their victory, Gillingham gained promotion to the second tier of English football for the first time in the club's 107-year history, and went on to spend five seasons at that level. Wigan finally gained promotion to the second tier of English football in the 2002–03

2002-03 in English football

The 2002-03 season was the 123rd season of competitive football in England.-Most Memorable rise:*Wigan Athletic marked their 25th season of Football League membership by winning the Division Two championship and reaching the league's second tier for the very first time.-Most Memorable...

season and achieved further promotion to the Premier League two years later.

Match details


style="font-size: 90%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">	Wigan Athletic:
GK	13	Derek Stillie Derek Stillie Derek Stillie is a retired Scottish footballer. He played as a goalkeeper for a number of clubs in Scotland and England before retiring to pursue a career in English law.-Career:...
DF	4	Pat McGibbon Pat McGibbon Patrick Colm "Pat" McGibbon is a former Northern Ireland international footballer. His regular position was at centre-back....
DF	5	Stuart Balmer Stuart Balmer Stuart Murray Balmer is a former Scottish professional football defender who is currently assistant manager at Ross County in the Scottish First Division.-Career:... (c)
DF	6	Arjan de Zeeuw Arjan de Zeeuw Adrianus "Arjan" de Zeeuw is a retired Dutch footballer, who played as a centre-back.-Club career:...
MF	3	Kevin Sharp Kevin Sharp (footballer) Kevin Philip Sharp is a Canadian-born footballer who plays as a left-back for Harrogate Town.-Career:...
MF	14	Scott Green Scott Green (footballer) Scott Paul Green is a retired English football defender. He is currently running the Yeovil Town Centre of Excellence....
MF	18	Ian Kilford Ian Kilford Ian Kilford is an English former professional footballer who played 263 games as a midfielder in the Football League for Nottingham Forest, Wigan Athletic and Scunthorpe United...
MF	32	Neil Redfearn Neil Redfearn Neil David Redfearn is an English former footballer and manager who is currently under-18s coach and reserve team manager at Leeds United....
MF	22	Darren Sheridan Darren Sheridan Darren Stephen Sheridan is an English footballer.He is currently a player-manager for English non-league club Barrow...
FW	9	Simon Haworth Simon Haworth Simon Owen Haworth is a Welsh former footballer. He won five caps for the Wales national football team during his career.-Club career:...
FW	7	Andy Liddell Andy Liddell Andrew Mark "Andy" Liddell is a former Scottish football midfielder who is currently fitness coach of Ipswich Town. He previously played with Barnsley, Sheffield United, Wigan Athletic and Oldham Athletic and Rotherham United.-Early career:Liddell started his league career at Barnsley, making his...
Substitutes:
FW	11	Stuart Barlow Stuart Barlow Stuart Barlow is a retired English football forward. He is best remembered for scoring the winning goal in an FA Cup fifth round replay win against Premiership Southampton in the 2000-01 season...
GK	1	Roy Carroll Roy Carroll Roy Eric Carroll is a Northern Irish footballer who is currently playing for Greek Superleague club OFI Crete. He is a goalkeeper and is best known for his spells at Wigan Athletic and Manchester United, where he won the 2004 FA Cup...
MF	29	Jeff Peron
DF	15	Gareth Griffiths Gareth Griffiths Gareth John Griffiths is an English former footballer. A defender, he played 337 league games in a 13 year career in the Football League....
DF	2	Carl Bradshaw Carl Bradshaw Carl Bradshaw is a former professional footballer who played for Sheffield Wednesday, Barnsley, Manchester City, Sheffield United, Norwich City, Wigan Athletic and Scunthorpe Utd...
Manager:
John Benson John Benson (footballer) John Harvey Benson was a Scottish football player and manager. Born in Arbroath, Benson started his career as an apprentice at Manchester City. He turned professional in 1961, and made 44 league appearances over the next three seasons before being sold to Fourth Division side Torquay United in 1964...

style="font-size: 90%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> Gillingham: | GK 1

Vince Bartram

Vincent Lee Bartram is an English former professional footballer, who played as a goalkeeper. He is now goalkeeping coach at Southampton F.C.-Career:...

DF 17

Adrian Pennock

Adrian Barry Pennock is a retired English footballer player turned manager. His playing career was spent mainly at AFC Bournemouth and Gillingham.-Playing career:...

Barry Ashby

Barry John Ashby is an English former professional footballer who played as a centre-half. He played for Watford, Brentford and Gillingham during a 17-year professional career....

DF 6

Guy Butters

Guy Butters is a Football Manager and former professional footballer currently Managing Winchester City FC in the Wessex Premier League having been appointed to replace Glenn Cockerill in September 2010....

MF 3

Roland Edge

Roland Edge is an English footballer who plays and coaches at non-league Folkestone Invicta. He previously played professionally for Gillingham, Hibernian and Hull City, making over 150 appearances in total. However, injuries curtailed Edge's professional career and he moved onto non-league...

MF 7

Nicky Southall

MF 8

Andy Hessenthaler

MF 24

Junior Lewis

Karl Junior Lewis is an English footballer who plays as a midfielder for Isthmian League Premier Division side Hendon where he is also a coach.-Playing career:...

MF 11

Ty Gooden

FW 9

Carl Asaba

FW 29

Iffy Onuora

Ifem "Iffy" Onuora is a coach a former professional footballer born in Scotland of Nigerian descent.He was recently the head coach of the Ethiopia national team...

Substitutes: MF 4

Paul Smith

Paul Smith (footballer born 1971)

Paul William Smith is an English professional footballer.Smith was born in East Ham, London and began his career as a trainee with Southend United, turning professional in 1990...

FW 26

Steve Butler

Steve Butler (footballer)

FW 27

Andy Thomson

Andy Thomson (Scottish footballer)

GK 38

Steve Mautone

Steve Mautone is an Australian football coach with Melbourne Victory in the A-League. Mautone was initially recruited by Melbourne Victory to assume responsibility for training their goalkeepers Michael Theoklitos and Eugene Galekovic...

DF 12

Nyron Nosworthy

Nyron Paul Henry Nosworthy is an English football player who plays for Watford as a defender.-Gillingham:Born in Brixton, South London, Nosworthy - known since childhood by the nicknames "the clown","Ny" or "Nuggy" – began his career as a trainee at Gillingham. Where he became famed for running to...

Manager:

Peter Taylor

MATCH RULES

90 minutes.
30 minutes of extra-time if necessary.
Penalty shootout if scores still level.
5 named substitutes.
Maximum of 3 substitutions.

External links

Official Football League website

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