2023/24 Gateshead Season

Gateshead 2023/24 Season
Gateshead Information

Overview
The pre-season for Gateshead didn't go to plan, 2 draws and two heavy losses saw the start of the season looking slightly bleak. On a positive note, it saw multiple new signings for free, these included: experienced holding midfielders; Evans and Fuchs, attacking players Kennedy and South Thomas along with highly rated winger Mighten. Many youngsters also came in for future thinking as many were sent on loan or placed in the reserves for experience.

With the friendlies not going to plan, it set the season off badly and the form followed into the league after a draw to Yeovil and 3-1 loss to Plymouth. Ireland made sure that the team was aware of their poor form and magically they managed to beat Championship side Derby on penalties in the Carabao Cup. This then picked up the lads and they won 9 games on the bounce which in turn pushed them up to the top 4. But it also saw them crash out of the Crabao Cup with a 2-0 loss to Premiership side Bournemouth and a 1-0 loss to Burnley Reserves in the Leasing.com group stage first game.

October continued to go well in league, with only loosing two all the way up to the end of the year. This saw us challenging for the league title and goals from South Thomas and Simpson helped this massively. Unfortunately it also saw us Come out of the Leasing.com trophy group stage as we finished bottom of the group with draws against Oldham and Shrewsbury. But the FA Cup started and we had good wins against Isthmian premiership team Carshalton (3-0) and Aldershot in the next round (1-0) which 3 of the 4 the goals came from upcoming youngster David Croll.

The January window came and Ireland wasn'nt looking to bring anyone in but to sell some players to releive the wage budget was needed. Veteran Urban Zibert was on the list after falling down the pecking order with the signings of Evans and Fuchs. National League North side Farsley came in with a £55,000 offer which was accepted just after his last appearance in a 0-0 draw to Swindon. Meanwhile league form dropped slightly with only 4 wins in the 8 games that month and a 1-0 loss in the 4th FA Cup round to Sheffield Utd saw us fully focus on the league.

From the start of February all the way to the end of the season it was clear that the title was going to be between Gateshead, Yeovil and Swindon. During the last few months, Connor Simpson stepped up his game and overtook South Thomas as the clubs top scorer.

Gateshead only lost one game right to the end of the season against fellow northern team Carlisle 3-0. But too many draws in the the same time frame saw us eventually loose out the title by two points to inform Yeovil. Overall the team played well and we gained our main goal of promotion to League One. Next season we look to avoid relegation and perform better in the Leasing.com trophy.

Squad
Below is the squad that finished the season and their personal stats respectively.

Transfers
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Staff
Staff stayed the same as the previous season.