ARTICLE: Who Are Ya? - Gillingham (Q&A) - HAVE A READ! | Vital Football

ARTICLE: Who Are Ya? - Gillingham (Q&A) - HAVE A READ!

I'm afraid Gillingham were not the first club to be re-elected to the Football League, not by a long way:
1891 Stoke (not re-elected in 1890)
1892 Darwen (not re-elected to Div 1 but elected to the new Div 2)
1894 Rotherham Town (not re-elected in 1894 but invited to re-join later in 1894)
1896 Walsall Town Swifts (not re-elected in 1895)
1898 Burslem Port Vale (not re-elected in 1896)
1898 Darwen (not re-elected in 1898 - earlier the same day)
1900 Blackpool (not re-elected in 1899)
1904 Doncaster Rovers (not re-elected in 1903)
1905 Burton United (not re-elected in 1905 - earlier the same day)
1905 Stockport County (not re-elected in 1904)
1909 Lincoln City (not re-elected in 1908)
1911 Grimsby Town (not re-elected in 1910)
1912 Lincoln City (not re-elected in 1911)
1915 Stoke (resigned in 1908)
1919 Port Vale (resigned in 1907)
1920 Grimsby Town (not re-elected in 1920 - earlier the same day)
1920 Luton Town (resigned in 1900)
1921 Chesterfield Town (not re-elected in 1909)
1921 Crewe Alexandra (not re-elected in 1896)
1921 Lincoln City (not re-elected in 1920)
1921 Walsall (not re-elected in 1901)
1923 Doncaster Rovers (not re-elected in 1905)
1950 Gillingham (not re-elected in 1938)
 
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