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The 2020 EFL League Two play-off Final was an association football match played on 29 June 2020 at Wembley Stadium, London, between Exeter City and Northampton Town to determine the fourth and final team to gain promotion from EFL League Two to EFL League One. The top three teams of the 2019–20 EFL League Two season gained automatic promotion ...
The financial value of winning the EFL League Two play-off is derived from the additional remuneration clubs receive in League One. As of 2020 [update] , clubs in League One receive around £675,000 from the Premier League as a "core club" payment compared to £450,000 in League Two.
The play-offs were introduced to the English Football League in 1987 and have been staged at the conclusion of every season since. The first three play-off seasons saw the finals also being conducted over two legs, on a home-and-away basis. Since 1990 the winners of each division's play-off competition have been determined in a one-off final.
2021–22 →. The 2020–21 EFL League Two (referred to as the Sky Bet League Two for sponsorship reasons) was the 17th season of Football League Two under its current title and the 29th season under its current league division format. [1] [2]
A national fourth tier of English league football was established in 1958–59, as the Fourth Division. It was formed from the merger of the Third Division North and the Third Division South . In 1992, with the departure of the First Division clubs to become the Premier League , the fourth tier became known as the Third Division .
2021 →. The English Football League play-offs for the 2019–20 season (referred to as the Sky Bet Play-Offs for sponsorship reasons) were held in June, July and August 2020 with all finals played at Wembley Stadium in London. The play-offs began in each league with two semi-finals played over two legs. The teams who finished in 3rd, 4th, 5th ...
League Two is the most watched fourth-tier domestic sports league in the world, and the 14th most watched football league in Europe of any tier. [4] The total number of spectators who watched a League Two game in the 2022–23 season was 3,191,719. Since the restructuring into League Two in 2004, the average attendance across all seasons is 4,602.
As with the end to the previous season, the season was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, resulting in games being played behind closed doors.However, on 19 September 2020, two matches in the division, between Norwich City and Preston North End at Carrow Road, and between Middlesbrough and Bournemouth at The Riverside Stadium, were held in front of 1,000 spectators, as part of EFL pilots.