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The 2010 Football League Championship play-off final was an association football match played at Wembley Stadium, London, on 22 May 2010 between Blackpool and Cardiff City. The match was to determine the third and final team to win promotion from the Championship , the second tier of English football , to the Premier League for the 2010–11 ...
The Football League play-offs for the 2009–10 season were held in May 2010, with the finals taking place at Wembley Stadium in London.The play-off semi-finals were played over two legs, contested by the teams who finished in 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th place in the Football League Championship and League One and the 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th placed teams in the League Two table.
As of 2024, the Championship play-offs involve the four teams that finish directly below the automatic promotion places in the EFL Championship, the second tier of the English football league system. These teams meet in a series of play-off matches to determine the final team that will be promoted to the Premier League .
1967 was the first year where a pre-scheduled playoff (rather than regular season results) determined participation in the championship. It also marked the first year in which if there was a tie for first place in a division, the division champion was determined by a system of tiebreakers, rather than via a playoff game (as detailed in the 1933 ...
It started on 6 August 2010 and concluded on 7 May 2011, with the resultant play-offs concluding with the final on 30 May. Queens Park Rangers secured the Championship title on 30 April 2011, ending their 15-year hiatus from the Premier League , [ 3 ] while Norwich City secured the second automatic promotion spot two days later, ending a six ...
The new format for the College Football Playoff, a thrilling departure from the norm, saw 12 teams battling it out in a round-by-round elimination to secure a chance at the national title.
Forest manager Billy Davies, who belittled Blackpool after the first leg, [53] was sacked at the end of the following 2010–11 season after again failing at the play-offs stage. [54] The Final saw Blackpool face the victors of the other semi-final, Cardiff City, at Wembley on 22 May.
As of 2025, this is the Jets' most recent playoff game, and the latest AFC Championship Game to not feature either the New England Patriots or the Kansas City Chiefs. [ 11 ] This was the second postseason meeting between the Jets and Steelers, with Pittsburgh winning the only prior meeting 20–17 in overtime in the 2004 AFC Divisional playoffs .