Lincoln City title-winner Kamil Conteh is reportedly set to leave Bristol Rovers, with last season’s League Two champions Bromley closing in on the midfielder.
The 23-year-old spent the second half of last season at Sincil Bank, playing a small but still memorable part in City’s 2025/26 title-winning campaign. According to Bristol Live, Conteh is now expected to make the move from Bristol Rovers to Bromley, who are preparing for life in League One after winning the fourth tier last season.
Conteh’s time with Lincoln was unusual. He arrived on deadline day in February, with the Imps already well stocked in midfield and on a remarkable unbeaten run. Tom Bayliss, Ivan Varfolomeev and Conor McGrandles were all ahead of him in the queue, which meant his route into the side was never straightforward.
He remained around the group throughout the run-in, but his only appearance came on the final day as City beat Port Vale to seal a League One record. Conteh was introduced from the bench and got 31 minutes, helping us extend the unbeaten league run to 29 matches.
It was not an entirely quiet cameo. He was booked for one late challenge and then caught Tyler Magloire shortly afterwards, with Port Vale players feeling he might have been fortunate to avoid a second yellow. Still, for a player who had been waiting patiently for an opportunity, it gave him a place on the pitch during one of the most significant afternoons in recent history.
Conteh had joined Bristol Rovers from Grimsby Town in January 2024, with reports at the time suggesting the Gas paid around £300,000 for him. He had impressed at Blundell Park after earlier spells with Watford, Braintree Town, Middlesbrough and Gateshead, where he was named supporters’ player of the year in 2022/23.
His progress at Rovers was interrupted by a serious health issue during the 2024/25 campaign. After suffering an injury on Boxing Day 2024, he was later diagnosed with osteomyelitis, a rare bone infection in his foot, which ruled him out for the rest of the season.
He returned to the Bristol Rovers side at the start of 2025/26 and made 28 league appearances during the campaign before being loaned to Lincoln. The Sierra Leone international was then made available for transfer or loan by Steve Evans in May, seemingly never in Evans’ plans. A move to Bromley would now give Conteh another chance to establish himself in the third-tier.
For the Imps, his stay may have been brief, but it was attached to a record-breaking season and a title-winning squad. Not every contribution to a campaign is measured in minutes played, and Conteh’s small part in that final-day story means he will always have a footnote in one of City’s greatest seasons.
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