Gillingham have sacked manager Mark Bonner after eight months in charge of the League Two club.
The Gills have lost their last three league games, including a 3-0 home defeat to Bromley on Thursday.
Bonner was appointed Gills’ third permanent manager in the space of seven months in May 2024 and was in charge of a total of 28 matches, winning nine and losing 15.
“Mark is a great guy, a great professional and has given absolutely everything he could have given to help the club succeed,” Gillingham general manager Joe Comper told the club’s website., external
“We liked him from the moment we met him, and we still like him, which makes this decision even more difficult.”
Having led Cambridge United to promotion from League Two in 2021, Bonner was tasked with ending the Kent side’s three-year stay in the fourth tier.
They were top of the table at the end of September, but a run of 10 defeats in their last 15 games, including their last three in charge, has left them in 14th place, 10 points off the play-off places. .
Gillingham’s match at Chesterfield on Sunday has been postponed.
“We felt that if we were going to accomplish anything this season with what we believe is a very talented group of players, we needed to make a change to give ourselves the best possible opportunity to get to where we want to be at the start of the season.” May,” Comper added.
Bonner’s assistant Anthony Hayes will also leave the club, whose next game will be at home against Fleetwood Town on January 11.
