2019–20 EFL League Two

League Two 2019–20
Season information
Winners	Swindon Town
Promoted	Swindon Town Crewe Alexandra Plymouth Argyle Northampton Town
Relegated	Stevenage
Season statistics
Top goalscorer	Eoin Doyle (25 goals)
Biggest home win	Mansfield 6–1 Oldham (12 October 2019)
Biggest away win	Crawley 0–4 Swindon (26 October 2019) Mansfield 0–4 Cambridge (17 September 2019) Cambridge 0–4 Stevenage (18 January 2020)
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The 2019–20 EFL League Two (referred to as the Sky Bet League Two for sponsorship reasons) was the 16th season of Football League Two under its current title and the 28th season under its current league division format. On 13 March 2020, the EFL, alongside the FA announced the suspension of all domestic football until 3 April due to the rapidly developing COVID-19 pandemic. On 3 April 2020, this suspension was extended indefinitely.

On 15 May 2020, the clubs voted to end the season with immediate effect with the final table being determined on a points-per-game basis. No decision was made as to promotion and relegation. The play-offs would be played as normal. The decision meant Swindon Town would be crowned champions and would be joined by Crewe Alexandra and Plymouth Argyle in League One the following season.

Changes from last season

Team changes

The following teams have changed division since the 2018–19 season.

To League Two Promoted from National League Leyton Orient Salford City Relegated from League One Plymouth Argyle Walsall Scunthorpe United Bradford City

From League Two Promoted to League One Lincoln City Bury Milton Keynes Dons Tranmere Rovers Relegated to National League Notts County Yeovil Town

Stadiums

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity
Bradford City	Bradford	Valley Parade	25,136
Cambridge United	Cambridge	Abbey Stadium	8,127
Carlisle United	Carlisle	Brunton Park	18,202
Cheltenham Town	Cheltenham	Whaddon Road	7,066
Colchester United	Colchester	Colchester Community Stadium	10,105
Crawley Town	Crawley	Broadfield Stadium	5,996
Crewe Alexandra	Crewe	Gresty Road	10,180
Exeter City	Exeter	St. James Park	8,696
Forest Green Rovers	Nailsworth	The New Lawn	5,147
Grimsby Town	Cleethorpes	Blundell Park	9,052
Leyton Orient	London (Leyton)	Brisbane Road	9,271
Macclesfield Town	Macclesfield	Moss Rose	6,355
Mansfield Town	Mansfield	Field Mill	10,000
Morecambe	Morecambe	Globe Arena	6,476
Newport County	Newport	Rodney Parade	7,850
Northampton Town	Northampton	Sixfields Stadium	7,653
Oldham Athletic	Oldham	Boundary Park	13,512
Plymouth Argyle	Plymouth	Home Park	17,500
Port Vale	Burslem	Vale Park	19,052
Salford City	Salford	Moor Lane	5,108
Scunthorpe United	Scunthorpe	Glanford Park	9,088
Stevenage	Stevenage	Broadhall Way	6,722
Swindon Town	Swindon	County Ground	15,728
Walsall	Walsall	Bescot Stadium	11,300

Personnel and sponsoring

Team	Manager	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Sponsor
Bradford City	Gary Bowyer	James Vaughan	Avec Sport	JCT600
Cambridge United	Calderwood, ColinColin Calderwood	Greg Taylor	Hummel	Mick George
Carlisle United	Chris Beech	Adam Collin	Erreà	Edinburgh Woollen Mill
Cheltenham Town	Michael Duff	Ben Tozer	Erreà	Mira Showers
Colchester United	McGreal, JohnJohn McGreal	Prosser, LukeLuke Prosser	Macron	Texo Scaffolding (Home) JobServe (Away / Third)
Crawley Town	John Yems	Smith, JimmyJimmy Smith	Erreà	The People's Pension
Crewe Alexandra	Artell, DavidDavid Artell	Perry Ng	FBT	Mornflake
Exeter City	Taylor, MattMatt Taylor	Taylor, JakeJake Taylor	Joma	Flybe
Forest Green Rovers	Cooper, MarkMark Cooper	Mills, JosephJoseph Mills	PlayerLayer	Ecotricity
Grimsby Town	Anthony Limbrick (interim)	James McKeown	Erreà	Young's Seafood
Leyton Orient	Ross Embleton (interim)	Josh Coulson	New Balance	The Sun Dream Team
Macclesfield Town	McMahon, DarylDaryl McMahon	Kelleher, FiacreFiacre Kelleher	Nike	Paddy Power
Mansfield Town	Graham Coughlan	Krystian Pearce	Surridge	One Call
Morecambe	Derek Adams	Roche, BarryBarry Roche	Macron	Annapurna Recruitment
Newport County	Flynn, MichaelMichael Flynn	Labadie, JossJoss Labadie	FBT	Paddy Power (unbranded)
Northampton Town	Curle, KeithKeith Curle	Goode, CharlieCharlie Goode	Nike	University of Northampton
Oldham Athletic	Dino Maamria	Mohamed Maouche	Hummel	Wakelet
Plymouth Argyle	Lowe, RyanRyan Lowe	Gary Sawyer	Puma]	Ginsters
Port Vale	John Askey	Pope, TomTom Pope	Erreà	Synectics Solutions
Salford City	Graham Alexander	Liam Hogan	Kappa	Soccer Saturday Super 6
Scunthorpe United	Paul Hurst	Andy Butler	FBT	Utilita Energy
Stevenage	Graham Westley	Cuthbert, ScottScott Cuthbert	Macron	Burger King
Swindon Town	Wellens, RichieRichie Wellens	Conroy, DionDion Conroy	Puma	Imagine Cruising
Walsall	Darrell Clarke	James Clarke	Erreà	HomeServe]

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Walsall	Martin O'Connor	End of caretaker spell	4 May 2019	Pre-season	Darrell Clarke	10 May 2019
Scunthorpe United	Andy Dawson				Paul Hurst	13 May 2019
Plymouth Argyle	Kevin Nancekivell				Ryan Lowe	5 June 2019
Oldham Athletic	Pete Wild	Resigned			Laurent Banide	11 June 2019
Mansfield Town	David Flitcroft	Sacked	14 May 2019		John Dempster	14 May 2019
Leyton Orient	Justin Edinburgh	Deceased	8 June 2019		Ross Embleton	19 June 2019
Macclesfield Town	Sol Campbell	Mutual consent	15 August 2019	8th	Daryl McMahon	19 August 2019
Stevenage	Dino Maamria	Sacked	9 September 2019	23rd	Mark Sampson	9 September 2019
Oldham Athletic	Laurent Banide		19 September 2019	21st	Dino Maamria	19 September 2019
Leyton Orient	Ross Embleton	End of caretaker spell	16 October 2019	17th	Carl Fletcher	16 October 2019
Morecambe	Jim Bentley	Signed by A.F.C. Fylde	28 October 2019	24th	Derek Adams	7 November 2019
Carlisle United	Steven Pressley	Sacked	13 November 2019	19th	Chris Beech	26 November 2019
Leyton Orient	Carl Fletcher		14 November 2019	16th	Ross Embleton	14 November 2019
Grimsby Town	Michael Jolley		15 November 2019	18th	Anthony Limbrick	15 November 2019
Crawley Town	Gabriele Cioffi		2 December 2019	17th	John Yems	5 December 2019
Mansfield Town	John Dempster	Sacked	14 December 2019	18th	Graham Coughlan	17 December 2019
Stevenage	Mark Sampson	End of caretaker spell	15 December 2019	23rd	Graham Westley	15 December 2019

League table

2019–20 Football League TwoOne table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Swindon Town  (C) (P)	36	21	6	9	62	39	+23	69	Promotion to League One
2	Crewe Alexandra  (P)	37	20	9	8	67	43	+24	69
3	Plymouth Argyle  (P)	37	20	8	9	61	39	+22	68
4	Cheltenham Town	36	17	13	6	52	27	+25	64	Qualification to the League Two play-offs
5	Exeter City	37	18	11	8	53	43	+10	65
6	Colchester United	37	15	13	9	52	37	+15	58
7	Northampton Town  (P)	37	17	7	13	54	40	+14	58
8	Port Vale	37	14	15	8	50	44	+6	57
9	Bradford City	37	14	12	11	44	40	+4	54
10	Forest Green Rovers	36	13	10	13	43	40	+3	49
11	Salford City	37	13	11	13	49	46	+3	50
12	Walsall	36	13	8	15	40	49	−9	47
13	Crawley Town	37	11	15	11	51	47	+4	48
14	Newport County	36	12	10	14	32	39	−7	46
15	Grimsby Town	37	12	11	14	45	51	−6	47
16	Cambridge United	37	12	9	16	40	48	−8	45
17	Leyton Orient	36	10	12	14	47	55	−8	42
18	Carlisle United	37	10	12	15	39	56	−17	42
19	Oldham Athletic	37	9	14	14	44	57	−13	41
20	Scunthorpe United	37	10	10	17	44	56	−12	40
21	Mansfield Town	36	9	11	16	48	55	−7	38
22	Morecambe	37	7	11	19	35	60	−25	32
23	Macclesfield Town	37	7	15	15	32	47	−15	36	Reprieved from relegation
24	Stevenage  (R)	36	3	13	20	24	50	−26	22	Relegation to the National League

Source: BBC Sport
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal difference; 3rd number of goals scored.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round; (Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament

Results

Home \ Away	BRA	CAM	CAR	CHE	COL	CRA	CRE	EXE	FGR	GRI	LEY	MAC	MAN	MOR	NEW	NOR	OLD	PLY	POR	SAL	SCU	STE	SWI	WAL
Bradford City	—	0–0	3–1	1–1		2–1		2–0	0–1	1–1			2–0	1–0	1–0	2–1	3–0	2–1	1–2	1–1	2–2	3–1	2–1
Cambridge United	2–1	—	1–2		2–1	2–1		4–0	0–1	0–0	2–3	2–2	2–3	1–0	0–0		1–2	1–0		0–4	3–2	0–4	0–1
Carlisle United	0–0	0–0	—	0–1	0–3	2–1	2–4	1–3	0–0	0–0		2–1	0–2	2–2	2–0	0–2	1–0	0–3		2–2			1–1	2–1
Cheltenham Town	3–2	1–1	2–0	—	1–1		1–1		1–2		2–1	3–0	1–0	2–1		2–1	3–0	0–1	0–0		4–1	4–2	2–2	3–1
Colchester United	0–0	1–2	3–0	0–2	—	1–1		2–2		2–3	2–1	2–1		0–1	3–1	1–0		3–0	1–1	1–0		3–1	3–1	0–0
Crawley Town	2–1		0–0	1–0	2–1	—	1–2	0–1	1–1	3–2			1–0	1–1		4–0	3–0	2–2	0–0	2–0	3–1	2–0	0–4	2–3
Crewe Alexandra	2–1	2–3	4–1	1–0	0–0	2–1	—	1–1			2–0	2–0	1–1	5–0			2–1	0–3	0–1	4–1	3–1	3–1	3–1	1–0
Exeter City		2–0		0–0	0–0	1–1	1–1	—	1–0	1–3	2–2	1–0	1–0		1–0	3–2	5–1	4–0	2–0			2–1	1–1	3–3
Forest Green Rovers			1–4		1–0	3–1	0–0	0–1	—	1–0		1–0	2–2		0–2		1–0	0–1	2–3	1–2	0–2	0–0	2–2	1–2
Grimsby Town	1–1			0–0	2–2	1–1	0–2	0–1	2–2	—	0–4	1–0	0–1	2–1	4–2	0–3			5–2	1–0	0–1	3–1	0–3
Leyton Orient	0–0	2–1	1–1	1–0	1–3	2–3	1–2		2–4	1–1	—	1–1	2–1		2–1	1–1	2–2		3–3		0–2	0–0	1–3	3–1
Macclesfield Town	1–1	1–0			1–1	1–1	1–1	2–3	2–1	1–1	3–0	—	0–0	0–1	1–1	0–1	1–1	1–1	2–1	0–2	1–0
Mansfield Town	3–0	0–4	2–2	0–3	2–3				3–4	0–1	2–3		—	2–2	1–0	1–1	6–1	0–1	2–2	1–2	2–0	0–0
Morecambe	1–2	1–1	1–1	0–0	1–1		1–1	2–3	0–2	0–2	1–0	2–0	1–1	—	2–1	2–2	1–2		2–1	2–2				0–1
Newport County	2–1	0–1	1–0	1–1		1–1	1–0	1–1			1–1	1–0	2–2	1–0	—		0–1	1–0	1–0	1–2	2–1	1–1	2–0	0–0
Northampton Town		2–0		1–1		2–2	4–1	2–0	1–0	2–0	0–1	1–2	1–2	4–1	2–0	—		3–1	0–1	2–0	3–0	1–0	0–1	0–1
Oldham Athletic	3–0		1–1	1–1	0–1	2–1	1–2	0–0	1–1	2–2	1–1	0–1	3–1	3–1	5–0	2–2	—			1–4	0–2			2–0
Plymouth Argyle	2–1	0–0	2–0	0–2	1–0	2–2	2–1			3–0	4–0	3–0	3–1	3–0	1–0		2–2	—		2–2	2–2	2–1	1–2	3–0
Port Vale		1–0	2–1	1–1	3–0			3–1	2–1		1–0	2–2	2–2	3–1		1–1	0–0	1–0	—	1–1	2–2	1–1	2–0	0–1
Salford City	2–0	1–0		0–2	1–2	0–0	3–1	0–1	0–4	1–0	1–1	0–0				1–2	1–1	2–3	1–1	—	1–1	2–0	2–3	1–2
Scunthorpe United	1–1	0–2	0–1	1–0	2–2	2–2	2–2	3–1	1–0	0–2				3–0	1–2	3–0	2–2	1–3	2–1		—	0–0	0–2	0–2
Stevenage	0–1	1–1	2–3		0–0	0–0	1–5	0–1	0–0	2–1	0–3	2–2		1–0		0–1	0–0	1–2	0–1	0–1		—
Swindon Town	1–1	4–0	3–2		0–3		3–1	2–1	0–2	3–1		3–0	1–0	3–1	0–2	0–1	2–0	1–1	3–0		2–0	1–0	—	2–1
Walsall	0–1	2–1	1–2	1–2		2–1	1–2	3–1	1–1	1–3	1–0	1–1	1–2	0–2	0–0	3–2			2–2	0–3	1–0	0–0		—

Updated to match(es) played on 10 March 2020. Source: EFL Official Website
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For upcoming matches, an "a" indicates there is an article about the rivalry between the two participants.

Play-offs

See also: 2020 English Football League play-offs

		Semi-finals				Final
	4	Cheltenham Town	2 0 (2)
	7	Northampton Town	0 3 (3)
						7	Northampton Town	4
						5	Exeter City	0
	5	Exeter City	0 3 (3)
	6	Colchester United	1 1 (2)

Season statistics

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Eoin Doyle	Swindon Town	25
2	Nicky Maynard	Mansfield Town	14
3	Ryan Bowman	Exeter City	13
	Ollie Palmer	Crawley Town
	Jerry Yates	Swindon Town
6	Bez Lubala	Crawley Town	12
	Chris Porter	Crewe Alexandra
8	Theo Robinson	Colchester United	11
	Danny Rose	Mansfield Town
	James Vaughan	Bradford City
11	Antoni Sarcevic	Plymouth Argyle	10
	Kevin van Veen	Scunthorpe United

Hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Result	Date
Nicky Maynard	Mansfield Town	Oldham Athletic	6–1 (H)	12 October 2019
Eoin Doyle	Swindon Town	Crawley Town	4–0 (A)	26 October 2019
Keshi Anderson	Swindon Town	Cambridge United	4–0 (H)	26 December 2019
Nicky Maynard	Mansfield Town	Cambridge United	3–2 (A)	1 January 2020