The
Football League Two play-offs are a series of
play-off matches, contested by the teams
finishing from 4th to 7th in the
Coca Cola
Football League Two table to
determine the fourth spot for
promotion to the third tier of
English football,
League
One.
The first ever play-off final was contested between
Aldershot and
Wolves, with Aldershot ending
up as winners over two legs. The last final was played in May 2009,
Gillingham defeated
Shrewsbury Town 1-0, thanks to a last
minute header from Simeon Jackson, in front of 53,706.
The highest crowd for
a league 2 play-off final was when Bristol Rovers beat Shrewsbury Town 3-1
at a newly-renovated Wembley
in front of
a crowd of 61,589.
Format
The current system for the League Two play-offs uses semi-finals
played over two legs, with 7th playing 4th and 6th playing 5th,
with the return fixtures following. For the two-legged semi-finals,
there is no away goals advantage such as those in the knock-out
rounds of European competition.
The Final is played at Wembley, although from
2001 to 2006, it was played at the Millennium Stadium
in Cardiff
while
Wembley was being rebuilt.
Aside from the branding changes which affected English football in
1992 and 2004, the League Two play-offs have also changed in
format. When they started in 1987, the play-offs originally
featured a third-tier team and three fourth-tier clubs. This format
was continued for 1988, but discontinued afterwards. The final
changed from two-legged to a one-bout affair beginning in
1990.
Results
1987
- Semi-finals
- Final
1988
- Semi-finals
- Final
1989
- Semi-finals
- Final
1990
- Semi-finals
- Final
1991
- Semi-finals
- Final
1992
- Semi-finals
- Final
1993
- Semi-finals
- Final
1994
- Semi-finals
- Final
1995
- Semi-finals
- Final
1996
- Semi-finals
- Final
1997
- Semi-finals
- Final
1998
- Semi-finals
- Final
1999
- Semi-finals
- Final
2000
- Semi-finals
- Final
2001
- Semi-finals
- Final
2002
- Semi-finals
- Final
2003
- Semi-finals
- Final
2004
- Semi-finals
- Final
2005
- Semi-finals
- Final
2006
- Semi-finals
- Final
2007
- Semi-finals
- Final
2008
- Semi-finals
- Final
2009
- Semi-finals
- Final
See also
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