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Gillingham's 2019/20 season is over after League 1 clubs voted to end it now.
Placings in the division are to be decided on unweighted points per game average which leaves the Gills 10th.
Earlier on Tuesday all 71 member clubs of the EFL agreed to pass through regulation changes should the season be curtailed. It's understood the League 1 vote was overwhelmingly in favour of curtailing the season.
Gillingham were sitting 11th when football was halted because of coronavirus but on point average they move up a place ahead of Ipswich Town.
The EFL said they preferred the season to continue but the long running debate over how it could possibly end has meant that’s been made virtually impossible.
Gillingham still had nine games of the season to play.
Curtailment of the league season brings to an end weeks of debate and speculation ever since the EFL decided to put the decision in the hands of their member clubs.
And while the Gills will play no more this season - the play-offs will still go ahead.
Coventry City are crowned champions and Rotherham United take the second automatic promotion spot into the Championship.
Those clubs placed third to sixth will battle it out for the final spot. Wycombe Wanderers, Oxford United, Portsmouth and Fleetwood will be the teams in the play-offs.
Bolton Wanderers, Southend United and Tranmere Rovers are to be relegated.
League 2 also held a formal vote on their season and it was decided to end it now, with Swindon Town finishing as champions while Crewe Alexandra and Plymouth Argyle have also been promoted.
Cheltenham, Exeter, Colchester and Northampton will contest the play-offs, battling for the final place in League 1.
The bottom side in League 2 will be relegated to the National League but only if the league below can give the EFL assurances that they will be playing a 2020/21 campaign.
