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Football League 2 (typically known as League Both for even short or Coca-Cola Football League Ii for sponsorship reasons) is the third-greatest section of The Football League and fourth-greatest section overall in the English football league system.
Structure
There are Xxiv teams inside Football League Both. For apiece the single team plays each of the more teams twice (when home, it used to be that away) & come awarded trine points for the win, one for the draw & zero for a loss. From either these points the league table is constructed. At a prevent of every year a top iii teams, together sustaining a winner of a play-offs between the teams which finished around Quaternary–Seventh position, come promoted to Football League One and are replaced per 4 teams that finished at a bottom of that section. Likewise them teams that finished at a bottom of Football League 2 come relegated to the Conference National & are replaced per team that finished First and a team that won a 2d–Fifth place play-off in this section.
Final League position is determined, therein choose, by points found, goal difference, goals scored, the mini-league of the outcomes between 2 or even other teams ranked using the former trey criteria & eventually a series of 1 or thomas more pit matches.
History
Football League 2 was introduced for the 2004-2005 season. It replaced a Football League Third Division.
Football League Two clubs, 2005-06
Note: At a prevent of the 2004-05 year, Yeovil Town, Scunthorpe United, & Swansea City automatically gained promotion to League One while Southend United won promotion via the playoffs. Kidderminster Harriers & Cambridge United were relegated to the Conference National.
Winners of Football League Two
For retiring winners at this level from either 1993 to 2004, look at Football League Third Division. For past winners at this level as much as 1992, understand Football League Fourth Division.
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