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Football League Two (often referred to as League Two for short or Coca-Cola Football League 2 for sponsorship reasons) is the third-highest division of The Football League and fourth-highest division overall in the English football league system.

Football League Two was introduced for the 2004-2005 season. It replaced the Football League Third Division.

Structure


There are 24 teams in Football League Two. Each team plays each of the other teams twice (once at home, once away) and are awarded three points for a win, one for a draw and zero for a loss. From these points a league table is constructed.

At the end of each season the top three teams, together with the winner of the play-offs between the teams which finished in 4th–7th position, are promoted to Football League One and are replaced by the four teams that finished at the bottom of that division.

Similarly the two teams that finished at the bottom of Football League Two are relegated to the Conference National and are replaced by the team that finished 1st and the team that won the 2nd–5th place play-off in that division.

Final League position is determined, in this order, by points obtained, goal difference, goals scored, a mini-league of the results between two or more teams ranked using the previous three criteria and finally a series of one or more play off matches.

There is a mandatory wage cap in this division that limits spending on players' wages to 60% of club turnover.

Football League Two clubs, 2006-07


Club
Finishing position last season
Accrington Stanley1st in Nationwide Conference
Barnet18th
Boston United11th
Bristol Rovers12th
Bury19th
Chester City15th
Darlington8th
Grimsby Town4th
Hartlepool United21st in League One
Hereford United2nd in Nationwide Conference
Lincoln City7th
Macclesfield Town17th
Mansfield Town16th
Milton Keynes Dons22nd in League One
Notts County21st
Peterborough United9th
Rochdale14th
Shrewsbury Town10th
Stockport County22nd
Swindon Town23rd in League One
Torquay United20th
Walsall24th in League One
Wrexham13th
Wycombe Wanderers6th

Winners of Football League Two


Season Winner Runner-Up 3rd Place Promoted Play-Off Winner
2004-05 Yeovil Town Scunthorpe United Swansea City Southend United
2005-06 Carlisle United Northampton Town Leyton Orient Cheltenham Town
For past winners at this level before 2004, see List of winners of English Football League Two and predecessors.

Play-off results


Northampton Town 0-0 Southend UnitedSouthend United 1-0 Northampton TownWycombe Wanderers 1-2 Cheltenham TownCheltenham Town 0-0 Wycombe Wanderers
Season Semifinal (1st Leg) Semifinal (2nd Leg) Final
2004-05 Lincoln City 1-0 Macclesfield Town
Macclesfield Town 1-1 Lincoln City
Lincoln City 0-2 Southend United
2005-06 Lincoln City 0-1 Grimsby Town
Grimsby Town 2-1 Lincoln City
Grimsby Town 0-1 Cheltenham Town
2006-07

Relegated teams


Season Clubs
2004-05 Kidderminster Harriers, Cambridge United
2005-06 Oxford United, Rushden & Diamonds

Top Scorers


Season Top scorer, club Goals
2004-05 Phil Jevons, Yeovil Town 27
2005-06 Karl Hawley, Carlisle United
Rickie Lambert, Rochdale
22

See also


External links


The Football League

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