Swindon Town 1-3 Gillingham: result and report

League One · Saturday 26 December 2015

Result

Swindon Town 1-3 Gillingham

League One · Saturday 26 December 2015, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-2

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Swindon Town 1-3 Gillingham: match report

Swindon Town were beaten by Gillingham 1-3 in the League One on Saturday 26 December 2015. It was 1-2 at half-time.

Jonathan Obika opened the scoring in the 18th minute. Swindon Town's goal came from Jonathan Obika (18'). Gillingham scored through B. Dack (19'), J. Hessenthaler (35') and Ryan Jackson (69').

Discipline: Swindon Town received 3 yellow cards and 1 red card; Gillingham received 4 yellow cards.

Going into the game Swindon Town were 14th on 28 points from 22 and Gillingham 3rd on 41 points from 22. Swindon Town went on to finish that season 15th with 59 points, and Gillingham 9th with 69.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Swindon Town wins, 3 draws and 4 for Gillingham.

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

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 16'Yellow card · J. HessenthalerGillingham
  • 18'Goal · Jonathan ObikaSwindon Town · 1-0
  • 19'Goal · B. DackGillingham · 1-1
  • 35'Goal · J. HessenthalerGillingham · 1-2
  • 44'Yellow card · Raphael RossiSwindon Town
  • 64'Yellow card · Adedeji OshilajaGillingham
  • 65'Yellow card · B. DackGillingham
  • 65'Yellow card · Ryan JacksonGillingham
  • 69'Goal · Ryan JacksonGillingham · 1-3
  • 84'Second yellow · Raphael RossiSwindon Town
  • 90'Yellow card · Yaser KasimSwindon Town
  • 90+2'Yellow card · B. BarrySwindon Town
  • 90+3'Missed penalty · B. DackGillingham

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Swindon Town 3, draws 3, Gillingham 4.

Team news

Swindon Town line-up

Lawrence Vigouroux, Jordan Turnbull, Raphael Rossi, Adam El-Abd, Ben Gladwin, Louis Thompson, Anton Rodgers, Brad Barry, Fabien Robert, Nicky Ajose, Jonathan Obika

Gillingham line-up

Stuart Nelson, John Egan, Aaron Morris, Ryan Jackson, Bradley Garmston, Jake Hessenthaler, Bradley Dack, Josh Wright, Deji Oshilaja, Dominic Samuel, Rory Donnelly