Preview: Stags v Gillingham

18 April 2024

Mansfield Town face Gillingham this Saturday in a Sky Bet League Two contest at One Call Stadium (3pm kick-off). Here's all you need to know...

Please note that One Call Stadium is a cashless Stadium. Cash is not accepted anywhere in the ground on matchdays or during the week.
Quarry Lane Road will be closed 20 minutes before full-time until the club car park is cleared.
Pyrotechnic detection dogs will be on duty outside of the home and away turnstiles to ensure the safety of fellow supporters.
Tickets for the match are sold out. Thank you for your outstanding support.
Supporters who have purchased tickets in the North Stand for Saturday’s game with Gillingham will be able to enter the stadium via turnstiles 11 and 12 at the rear of the North Stand. Exit after full-time will be via the Ian Greaves Lower Tier.
Supporters should also note that the pedestrian gate between the North Stand and the Ian Greaves Stand will be closed from approximately 20 minutes before full-time until away supporters have departed.
Portland Retail Park have politely asked us to remind supporters that parking is not permitted on their site on a matchday.
Are you a first-time visitor to One Call Stadium? If so, you may wish to check out our useful first-time guide.

The same matchday squad that was involved on Tuesday night as Stags beat Accrington to gain promotion to Sky Bet League One, is expected to be involved again on Saturday.

The referee for Saturday’s match is Sam Purkiss. Mr. Purkiss will be assisted by Michael Chard, Richard Wigglesworth and fourth official, Christopher Ward.

Tickets for the match have sold out.

Thank you for your outstanding support.

Parking is unfortunately unavailable at One Call Stadium.

All reserved car parking spaces are within the location of the Ian Greaves Stand car park. Please note that the car park shuts 30 minutes prior to kick-off due to safety regulations.

The following sites, owned by Mansfield District Council and with easy access to One Call Stadium are Grove Street, Victoria Street, Garden Road and Church Lane.

Charges are as follows:

Grove St 50p/hr

Victoria St 50p/hr

Garden Rd 50p/hr

Church Lane 80p/hr

All of the above pay and display surface level car parks offer cashless parking via RingGo as an additional way to pay.

Every car park has a unique code so people can either pay over the phone, by text, online or by using a free smartphone app.

Details of how to do this are displayed in each car park. Information about all Mansfield District Council car parks can be found at www.mansfield.gov.uk/carparks.

Where do I go when I get to One Call Stadium?

Hospitality

If you are a hospitality guest, please enter the stadium via the brown double doors to the rear of the Ian Greaves Stand, which is the entrance to our hospitality suites.

The doors are located to the left of the Fans' zone bar/merchandise stall outside Sandy’s Bar & Kitchen, backing onto the main car park and sign-posted 'The Kevin Bird Suite'.

Media

Members of the media are asked to also head to the entrance to our hospitality suites, where our media steward will provide you with the necessary accreditation.

The required entrance is located to the left of the merchandise stall/Fans’ Zone bar outside Sandy’s Bar & Kitchen and signposted 'The Kevin Bird Suite'.

Sandy's Bar & Kitchen will be open from 12pm.

The Fan Zone Bar will be open from 12.30pm.

Monthly/annual subscribers to iFollow Stags can hear audio commentary of the game as part of their subscription. Alternatively, an audio commentary pass can be purchased for just £2.50 by clicking here.

Commentary will be by iFollow Stags' Martin Shaw and Lee Wilson.

Supporters – outside the UK – can watch the match live for just £10. Purchase your video match pass by clicking here.

Commentary for the visually impaired will be provided by Alan March Sport. Collect your headsets from the Kevin Bird Suite/Hospitality entrance at the rear of the Ian Greaves Stand.

You can follow all the action from the fixture live via our Twitter match updates here.

The match centre on mansfieldtown.net will also contain Opta-populated updates and can be accessed here.

A report from the match will be published on the club website following the full-time whistle, and post-match reaction from the dressing room will be available to view on mansfieldtown.net and iFollow Stags.

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Match Reports

Report: Stags 2-1 Gillingham

20 April 2024

A pair of incredible strikes from Davis Keillor-Dunn and Stephen McLaughlin sealed yet another home victory for promoted Mansfield Town over Gillingham.

The visitors had opened the scoring in the early stages of the contest at One Call Stadium before Keillor-Dunn and McLaughlin struck in the second-half to seal a deserved 2-1 win for the hosts.

Mansfield will play once more, an away trip to Barrow, before preparing for life in the third division of English football for the first time in 21 years.

Nigel Clough made two changes to the side that beat Accrington Stanley to gain promotion to Sky Bet League One on Tuesday.

Stephen Quinn and Davis Keillor-Dunn were replaced by Aaron Lewis and James Gale in the side to face Gillingham.

The visitors crafted the game’s first opportunity inside the opening minute as Remeao Hutton’s floated cross from the right was nodded just over the Stags’ crossbar by Tim Dieng.

A period of unsettled possession ensued for both sides until Gillingham opened the scoring on 19 minutes. Having worked his way into the box from the left wing, Dieng opened up his body to beat Christy Pym from a tight angle and set the Gills ahead.

Mansfield immediately went in search of an equaliser and almost carved the visitors open on 24 minutes when James Gale’s inviting driven ball from the right had seemingly deceived Conor Masterson, before the Gills’ defender was able to deflect the ball narrowly around the post to safety.

Stags worked a way into the Gillingham box again fifteen minutes later via a well-picked cross from Stephen McLaughlin. The full-back’s delivery found the feet of Tom Nichols who, with his back to goal, acrobatically flicked the ball wide of the bottom corner.

The hosts began the second-half brightly and were in again on 48 minutes thanks to a counter-attack led by Gale. The forward squared the ball to Nichols on the edge of the box, who teed up Maris, but the midfielder’s miscued effort was calmly gathered by Jake Turner in the Gillingham net.

Top goalscorer Davis Keillor-Dunn was introduced to the action just before the effort and almost made an instant impact by curling a whipped attempt narrowly around the post from inside the box.

Fellow substitute Stephen Quinn was the next to pick out Keillor-Dunn in a promising position. The Irishman’s excellent delivery from the left was perfectly met by the forward’s near-post run before his close-range effort was impressively turned behind by Turner.

That didn’t discourage the lively forward who eye-catchingly netted Mansfield’s equaliser on 77 minutes. Having latched onto a knock-down by Nichols, Mansfield’s number-44 unleashed a powerful strike from 20 yards to leave Turner beaten.

However, Keillor-Dunn’s incredible strike was quickly trumped by a McLaughlin wonder goal just three minutes later to snatch the lead for the hosts.

The left-back received the ball on the left, just outside the box, and thumped the ball into the top right corner of Turner’s goal, kissing the underside of the crossbar on its way into the back of the net.

The hosts came agonisingly close to adding a third deep inside additional time. Nichols received a ball over the top of the Gillingham defence to work it to Quinn via a contribution from Ollie Clarke. One-on-one with the goalkeeper and just inside the box, Quinn tried to slide the ball under Turner but the stopper recovered to make yet another strong save.

The win means already-promoted Mansfield head to Barrow second in Sky Bet League Two with just one match remaining in the 2023/24 season.

STAGS: Pym, Akins, Flint ©️, Bowery, McLaughlin (Cooper 90+2’), Reed, Maris (Keillor-Dunn 65’), Lewis (Clarke 65’), Boateng (Quinn 65’), Nichols, Gale (MacDonald 85’).

UNUSED SUBS: Flinders, Flanagan.

GILLINGHAM: Turner, Hutton, Ehmer, Masterson, Clark (Malone 76’), Dieng, Coleman, Mahoney (Walker 70’), Jefferies (Ogie 70’), Williams (McKenzie 59’), Andrews (Hawkins 76’).

UNUSED SUBS: Morris, Clarke.

REFEREE: Sam Purkiss

ATTENDANCE: 8,150 (519 Gillingham supporters)

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