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    The Football League Play-Offs determine the final promotion place in each of the league's three divisions. Teams that finish below the automatic promotion places can keep their promotion hopes alive through the play-offs. The play-offs started in 1987 and involved teams from different divisions playing each other, but now involve the four teams below the automatic promotion places in each division playing semi-finals and a final, with the winner gaining promotion.

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    The Football League Play-Offs determine the final promotion place in each of the league's three divisions. Teams that finish below the automatic promotion places can keep their promotion hopes alive through the play-offs. The play-offs started in 1987 and involved teams from different divisions playing each other, but now involve the four teams below the automatic promotion places in each division playing semi-finals and a final, with the winner gaining promotion.

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    The Football League Play-Offs determine the final promotion place in each of the league's three divisions. Teams that finish below the automatic promotion places can keep their promotion hopes alive through the play-offs. The play-offs started in 1987 and involved teams from different divisions playing each other, but now involve the four teams below the automatic promotion places in each division playing semi-finals and a final, with the winner gaining promotion.

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    The Football League Play-Offs are used as a means of determining the final promotion place

    from each of the league's three divisions. This is a way of keeping the possibility of promotion
    open for more clubs towards the end of the season.

    The format was first introduced in 1987, after the decision was made to reduce the top flight
    from 22 to 20 clubs over the next two seasons; initially, the play-offs involved the team finishing
    immediately above the relegation places in a given division and the three teams who finished
    immediately below the promotion places in the division below - essentially one team was
    fighting to keep their place in the higher division while the other three teams were attempting to
    take it from them. In 1989, this was changed—instead of teams from different divisions playing
    each other, the four teams below the automatic promotion places contested the play-offs. The
    first season of this arrangement saw the final being contested in home and away legs. The four
    teams play off in two semi-finals and a final, with the team winning the final being promoted.
    Originally the semi-finals and the final were all two-legged home-and-away affairs, but from
    1990 onwards the final was a one-off match (usually at Wembley or, during its rebuilding, the
    Millennium Stadium). It is in this format that the play-offs continue today. A proposal to have
    six teams rather than four competing for the final place was defeated at the league's AGM in
    2003.[21]

    [edit] Play-off winners

    Season Division Two Division Three Division Four


    1986-
    Charlton Athletic Swindon Town Aldershot
    87
    1987-
    Middlesbrough Walsall Swansea City
    88
    1988-
    Crystal Palace Port Vale Leyton Orient
    89
    1989-
    Swindon Town1 Notts County Cambridge United
    90
    1990-
    Notts County Tranmere Rovers Torquay United
    91
    1991-
    Blackburn Rovers Peterborough United Blackpool
    92
    Season Division One Division Two Division Three
    1992-
    Swindon Town West Bromwich Albion York City
    93
    1993-
    Leicester City Burnley Wycombe Wanderers
    94
    1994-
    Bolton Wanderers Huddersfield Town Chesterfield
    95
    1995-
    Leicester City Bradford City Plymouth Argyle
    96
    1996-
    Crystal Palace Crewe Alexandra Northampton Town
    97
    1997-
    Charlton Athletic Grimsby Town Colchester United
    98
    1998-
    Watford Manchester City Scunthorpe United
    99
    1999-
    Ipswich Town Gillingham Peterborough United
    00
    2000-
    Bolton Wanderers Walsall Blackpool
    01
    2001-
    Birmingham City Stoke City Cheltenham Town
    02
    2002-
    Wolverhampton Wanderers Cardiff City Bournemouth
    03
    2003- Brighton & Hove
    Crystal Palace Huddersfield Town
    04 Albion
    Season Championship League One League Two
    2004-
    West Ham United Sheffield Wednesday Southend United
    05
    2005-
    Watford Barnsley Cheltenham Town
    06
    2006-
    Derby County Blackpool Bristol Rovers
    07
    2007-
    Hull City Doncaster Rovers Stockport County
    08
    2008-
    Burnley Scunthorpe United Gillingham
    09
    2009-
    Blackpool Millwall Dagenham & Redbridge
    10

    1: Due to financial irregularities, Swindon were prevented from taking their place in the top division, which was
    awarded to the losing finalists, Sunderland.

    [edit] Footballs

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