Gamlingay United - The Rearlights. Gamlingay received it's nickname by virtue of the fact that in their early years the Motor Car was just rising to prominence and with the team colours being bright red the locals affectionately began to refer to the team the "Rear Lights".

Gamlingay is one of the longest serving clubs in the Cambs League having missed only two seasons since the league was formed in 1921. When first formed in 1902 the club played local friendlies before entering the Biggleswade & District League and the Cambs Junior League. On the formation of the county league in 1921 Gamlingay were placed in Division 2 and in that first season finished runners-up to Girton. The following season saw Gamlingay decide to concentrate on the Biggleswade League as the fixture congestion from both competitions had proved too much. The club won the title with a Canter that year and decided to change back to the Cambs league as it proved provided better quality football.

It proved a good decision for the Club as although they were placed in Division 3B they won the Division 3 and 2 titles at the first attempt as well as reaching the final of the junior Cup where they lost 3-1 to Romsey Old Boys. The club was now on a roll and in l93O they won Division A of the Premier Division but were beaten in the Championship play-off by Chatteris Engineers. Three years later the league title was finally secured and for good measure beat Royston 2-0 in the final of the Creake Charity Shield. Eleven seasons were spent in the top flight before the club got relegated in 1936.

The club missed the first season after the war as they re-built but were rewarded with their Division 1 place when they re-joined in 1947. It was obvious that they had another good side as they finished runners-up in both 1949 and l95O before finally winning Division 1A in 1954. Unfortunately the Reds only lasted two seasons in the Premier Division before being relegated.

This time however there was no stopping the fall and by the 1960's they had dropped down into Division 2A, a descent that culminated in relegation to Division 3A in 1969. That proved the jolt the club needed and they won the Division 3 and 2 titles in successive seasons. They stayed in Division 1 until they were placed in Premier B in 1981. That proved to be a successful move for the club as in 1984 the club reached the final of the William Cockell Cup, winning it the following season. Eventually in 1988 the won the Premier B double by taking both the title and the William Cockell Cup to regain their Premier Division place thirty two years after losing it. Gamlingay gradually resettled into the top flight and won the Premier League Cup in 1991 by beating Waterbeach. In 1992 they finished runners-up to Phillips UK for the title but after that they dropped into Senior A. 1993 saw the commencement of a youth policy for the club which was to prove so successful in the coming years. A major reorganisation off the field saw all the football clubs within the village combine under the new title of GAMLINGAY UTD.

Follwing the merger of the 'Old Boys' and the 'Eagles' the club continued to compete in the Cambridgeshire Kershaw Leagues with the 1st team in Kershaw Senior A and the reserves in Division 3A. This continued to be the case until the end of the 2006/07 season when the club was no longer able to field two teams. The decision was taken to remove the 1st team from the Senior A and start afresh in Division 2A after the reserves had gained promotion that season.

The 2007/08 season saw the club claim its second successive promotion after finishing 2nd in the league and spent the next three seasons establishing themselves in 1A before finally achieving promotion to the Kershaw Senior B in 2011/12.

During this period, the club also had a successful Sunday side who competed in the Cambridgeshire & District Sunday League. The 2006/07 season saw the side clinch the Division 4B title by 14 points as well as lifting the Shelford Energy Cup with a 6-0 win over L.T.F.C. The 2007/08 brought more success as the club won their league for the second consecutive season and retained the Shelford Energy Cup with a 2-0 over Sawston Wanderers. They were denied a treble after narrowly losing 2-1 to Milton Sunday in the final of the Millenium Cup. The 2008/09 season was a disappointing season in comparison to the previous two. The side were trophy-less after falling at the quarter final stage of the cup competitions although despite finishing 5th in the league, the club were granted promotion to Division 1B as a result of league restructuring. The 2009/10 season will probably be seen by most as the sides most successful season. The club won the league by 2 points and with it promotion to the Senior division thanks to a last gasp Matthew Steele (current first team manager) goal against runners up Fulbourn Sports in the final game of the season. They finished runners up in the Royston Scaffolding & Roofing Cup after a disappointing 4-1 defeat to Fowlmere Metals in the final before bouncing back the following week to defeat highly fancied Sawston Keys 2-1 AET in the Cambs FA Sunday Challenge Cup. In their final season, the club secured their safety in the Senior division and managed the quarter finals of the league cup. Having won the Challenge Cup the previous season the club also represented the league in the FA Sunday Cup, however they fell at the first hurdle by the odd goal in an 11 goal thriller against FC Houghton Centre.

The 2012/13 season was a successful year for the club with the first team winning Senior B by 12 points and without losing a game at home and also beat Senior As Cambridge City Reserves on penalties to win the William Coad Intermediate Cup but were once again denied a treble after losing 5-2 to Bluntisham in the final of the Percy Oldham Memorial Cup.

The club's Reserves side reformed in 2012/13 they have gained back-to-back-to-back promotions climbing from 5B to division 2A where they remained for four seasion with three 9th place finishes from 2015/2016 until 2017/2018. In 2018/19 the reserves finished fourth which clinched promotion into division 1B.

The first team continued their winning ways into the 2013/2014 season as the team won Senior A and for a second season running didn't lose a game at the newly named Eco Arena however were denied back to back 'Willy Coads' losing to Sawston in the final. In the first season back in the Kershaw Premier in 2014/2015 the firsts finished 13th and unfortunately were defeated by Hardwick in the final of the Percy Oldham cup. In the second season back in the Kershaw Premier the first team lifted the Kershaw Premier League KO cup defeating Great Shelford 2-0 as well as finishing 12th. The following two seasons the club maintained it's Kershaw premier league status with consecutive 10th place league positions. In 2017/2018 the club also entered a Veterans team into the Cambs county veterans league, finishing third in their inaugural season.

Unfortunately however in the summer of 2018 the Football Associated attempted to end the clubs 97 year association with the Cambs league as part of their step 7 restructuring by attempting to laterally move the clubs into Bedfordshire's premier league. The club rejected and appealed the decision with no success and the decision was then made to accept relegation into Senior A for the 2018/2019 season to enable to club to continue playing their football in Cambridgeshire. In the 2018/19 season the firsts finished third missing out on an immediate return to the top flight by just two points.