2020–21 EFL League Two

League Two
2020–21
	League Two; 2020–21
Season information
Dates	(12 September 2020 – 8 May 2021)
Winners	Cheltenham Town
Promoted	Cheltenham Town; Cambridge United; Bolton Wanderers; Morecambe
Relegated	Grimsby Town; Southend United
Season statistics
Top goalscorer	Paul Mullin (32 goals)
Biggest home win	Tranmere 5–0 Grimsby; (21 November 2020); Exeter 6–1 Colchester; (24 November 2020); Exeter 5–0 Tranmere; (12 December 2020)
Biggest away win	Morecambe 0–5 Cambridge; (19 September 2020); Scunthorpe 0–5 Cambridge; (17 October 2020)
Highest scoring	Bolton 3–6 Port Vale; (5 December 2020) Harrogate 5–4 Cambridge; (30 April 2021)
← 2019–20	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.

Team changes[]

The following teams have changed divisions since the 2019–20 season.

To League Two[]

Promoted from National League

Relegated from League One

From League Two[]

Promoted to League One

Relegated to National League

Macclesfield Town

Stadiums[]

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity
Barrow	Barrow-in-Furness	Holker Street	5,045
Bolton Wanderers	Bolton	University of Bolton Stadium	28,723
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
Exeter City	Exeter	St. James Park	8,696
Forest Green Rovers	Nailsworth	The New Lawn	5,147
Grimsby Town	Cleethorpes	Blundell Park	9,052
Harrogate Town	Harrogate	Wetherby Road	5,000
Leyton Orient	London (Leyton)	Brisbane Road	9,271
Mansfield Town	Mansfield	Field Mill	10,000
Morecambe	Morecambe	Globe Arena	6,476
Newport County	Newport	Rodney Parade	7,850
Oldham Athletic	Oldham	Boundary Park	13,512
Port Vale	Stoke-On-Trent	Vale Park	19,052
Salford City	Salford	Moor Lane	5,108
Scunthorpe United	Scunthorpe	Glanford Park	9,088
Southend United	Southend-on-Sea	Roots Hall	12,392
Stevenage	Stevenage	Broadhall Way	7,800
Tranmere Rovers	Birkenhead	Prenton Park	16,789
Walsall	Walsall	Bescot Stadium	11,300

Personnel and sponsoring[]

Team	Manager	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Sponsor
Barrow	David Dunn	Lewis Hardcastle	Joma	JF Hornby & Co.
Bolton Wanderers	Ian Evatt	Antoni Sarcevic	Macron	Home Bargains
Bradford City	Stuart McCall	James Vaughan	Avec Sport	JCT600
Cambridge United	Mark Bonner	Greg Taylor	Hummel	Mick George
Carlisle United	Chris Beech	Nick Anderton	Erreà	Edinburgh Woollen Mill
Cheltenham Town	Michael Duff	Ben Tozer	Erreà	Mira Showers
Colchester United	Steve Ball	Tom Eastman	Macron	Texo Scaffolding (Home) JobServe (Away / Third)
Crawley Town	John Yems	George Francomb	Erreà	The People's Pension
Exeter City	Taylor, MattMatt Taylor	Taylor, JakeJake Taylor	Joma	Carpetright
Forest Green Rovers	Cooper, MarkMark Cooper	Chris Stokes	PlayerLayer	Ecotricity
Grimsby Town	Ian Holloway	James McKeown	Erreà	Young's Seafood
Harrogate Town	Simon Weaver	Josh Falkingham	New Balance	Strata
Leyton Orient	Ross Embleton	Jobi McAnuff	New Balance	Multiple charities
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	Hummel	Home: Alzheimer's Society Cymru Away: PureVans Third: ExilesPicks
Oldham Athletic	Harry Kewell	Mohamed Maouche	Hummel	Wakelet
Port Vale	John Askey	Legge, LeonLeon Legge	Erreà	Synectics Solutions
Salford City	Graham Alexander	Ashley Eastham	Kappa	TalkTalk
Scunthorpe United	Neil Cox	Andy Butler	Macron	Utilita Energy
Southend United	Mark Molesley	Nathan Ralph	Hummel	Watchlotto
Stevenage	Alex Revell	Cuthbert, ScottScott Cuthbert	Macron	Burger King
Tranmere Rovers	Mike Jackson	Scott Davies	Puma	Essar
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
Bolton Wanderers	Keith Hill	End of contract	12 June 2020	Pre-season	Ian Evatt	1 July 2020
Southend United	Sol Campbell	Mutual consent	30 June 2020		Mark Molesley	13 August 2020
Barrow	Ian Evatt	Signed by Bolton Wanderers	1 July 2020		David Dunn	9 July 2020
Tranmere Rovers	Micky Mellon	Signed by Dundee United	6 July 2020		Mike Jackson	18 July 2020
Colchester United	John McGreal	Sacked	14 July 2020		Steve Ball	28 July 2020
Oldham Athletic	Dino Maamria	Sacked	31 July 2020		Harry Kewell	1 August 2020
Scunthorpe United	Russ Wilcox	End of caretaker spell	7 August 2020		Neil Cox	7 August 2020
Salford City	Graham Alexander	Sacked	12 October 2020	5th	Richie Wellens	4 November 2020
Mansfield Town	Graham Coughlan		27 October 2020	22nd	Nigel Clough	6 November 2020
Tranmere Rovers	Mike Jackson		31 October 2020	18th	Keith Hill	21 November 2020
Bradford City	Stuart McCall		13 December 2020	22nd	Mark Trueman Conor Sellars	22 February 2021
Barrow	David Dunn		13 December 2020	21st	Michael Jolley	23 December 2020
Grimsby Town	Ian Holloway	Resigned	23 December 2020	20th	Paul Hurst	30 December 2020
Port Vale	John Askey	Sacked	4 January 2021	17th	Darrell Clarke	15 February 2021
Walsall	Darrell Clarke	Signed by Port Vale	15 February 2021	11th	Brian Dutton	15 February 2021
Barrow	Michael Jolley	Sacked	21 February 2021	23rd	Rob Kelly (Caretaker)	21 February 2021
Colchester United	Steve Ball		24 February 2021	21st	Wayne Brown (Caretaker)	24 February 2021
Leyton Orient	Ross Embleton		27 February 2021	14th	Jobi McAnuff (Caretaker)	28 February 2021
Oldham Athletic	Harry Kewell		7 March 2021	16th	Keith Curle	8 March 2021
Salford City	Richie Wellens	Mutual consent	22 March 2021	9th	Gary Bowyer	23 March 2021
Colchester United	Wayne Brown (Caretaker)	End of caretaker spell	31 March 2021	21st	Hayden Mullins (Caretaker)	31 March 2021
Southend United	Mark Molesley	Mutual consent	9 April 2021	23rd	Phil Brown	9 April 2021
Forest Green Rovers	Mark Cooper	Sacked	11 April 2021	6th	Jimmy Ball (interim)	11 April 2021
Tranmere Rovers	Keith Hill	Sacked	11 May 2021	7th	Ian Dawes (caretaker)	11 May 2021

League table[]


Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Cheltenham Town (C) (P)	46	24	10	12	61	39	+22	82	Promotion to League One
2	Cambridge United (P)	46	24	8	14	73	49	+24	80
3	Bolton Wanderers (P)	46	23	10	13	59	50	+9	79
4	Morecambe (P) (O)	46	23	9	14	69	58	+11	78	Qualification to the League Two play-offs
5	Newport County	46	20	13	13	57	42	+15	73
6	Forest Green Rovers	46	20	13	13	59	51	+8	73
7	Tranmere Rovers	46	20	13	13	55	50	+5	73
8	Salford City	46	19	14	13	54	34	+20	71
9	Exeter City	46	18	16	12	71	50	+21	70
10	Carlisle United	46	18	12	16	60	51	+9	66
11	Leyton Orient	46	17	10	19	53	55	−2	61
12	Crawley Town	46	16	13	17	56	62	−6	61
13	Port Vale	46	17	9	20	57	57	0	60
14	Stevenage	46	14	18	14	41	41	0	60
15	Bradford City	46	16	11	19	48	53	−5	59
16	Mansfield Town	46	13	19	14	57	55	+2	58
17	Harrogate Town	46	16	9	21	52	61	−9	57
18	Oldham Athletic	46	15	9	22	72	81	−9	54
19	Walsall	46	11	20	15	45	53	−8	53
20	Colchester United	46	11	18	17	44	61	−17	51
21	Barrow	46	13	11	22	53	59	−6	50
22	Scunthorpe United	46	13	9	24	41	64	−23	48
23	Southend United (R)	46	10	15	21	29	58	−29	45	Relegation to the National League
24	Grimsby Town (R)	46	10	13	23	37	69	−32	43	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	BRW	BOL	BRA	CAM	CAR	CHE	COL	CRA	EXE	FOR	GRI	HAR	LEY	MAN	MOR	NEW	OLD	POR	SAL	SCU	SOU	STE	TRA	WAL
Barrow	—	3–3	1–0	0–2	2–2	3–0	1–1	3–2	2–1	2–2	0–1	0–1	1–1	2–0	1–2	2–1	3–4	0–2	0–1	1–0	1–2	1–1	1–1	2–2
Bolton Wanderers	1–0	—	1–0	2–1	1–0	1–1	0–0	0–1	1–2	0–1	0–0	2–1	2–0	1–1	1–1	0–2	1–2	3–6	2–0	2–0	3–0	1–0	0–3	2–1
Bradford City	2–1	1–1	—	1–0	0–1	1–2	0–0	0–2	2–2	4–1	1–0	0–1	1–0	1–0	2–1	0–3	0–0	0–0	0–1	0–0	3–0	2–1	0–1	1–1
Cambridge United	1–1	1–1	0–0	—	3–0	0–1	2–1	3–1	1–4	1–0	3–0	2–1	2–1	0–1	2–1	2–1	1–2	3–1	2–1	0–1	0–0	0–1	0–0	1–0
Carlisle United	1–0	3–3	3–1	1–2	—	1–2	3–2	2–0	1–0	1–2	1–1	1–1	0–1	1–0	3–1	3–2	1–3	0–0	2–1	2–0	2–0	4–0	2–3	0–0
Cheltenham Town	0–2	0–1	0–2	1–1	1–1	—	1–0	2–0	5–3	2–1	1–3	4–1	1–0	0–0	1–2	1–1	2–0	3–2	2–0	1–0	1–0	1–1	4–0	3–0
Colchester United	1–1	2–0	1–2	1–1	2–1	0–0	—	1–1	1–2	1–0	2–1	2–1	2–1	2–2	1–2	0–2	3–3	0–1	1–0	0–1	2–0	3–1	2–2	2–1
Crawley Town	4–2	1–4	1–1	2–1	0–3	1–0	1–0	—	2–0	0–0	1–2	1–3	0–0	1–0	4–0	1–1	1–4	1–3	1–0	1–0	1–1	0–1	4–0	1–1
Exeter City	1–1	1–1	3–2	2–0	1–0	0–1	6–1	2–1	—	1–1	3–2	1–2	4–0	0–0	0–2	0–0	1–2	0–2	1–0	3–1	0–0	3–1	5–0	0–0
Forest Green Rovers	0–2	0–1	2–2	2–0	1–0	0–0	3–0	1–2	0–0	—	1–0	2–1	2–1	1–2	2–2	1–1	4–3	1–1	0–2	3–2	1–3	1–0	2–1	1–1
Grimsby Town	1–0	2–1	1–2	1–2	1–1	1–1	0–0	2–1	1–4	1–2	—	1–2	0–1	1–1	0–3	0–2	0–0	1–0	0–4	1–0	0–0	1–2	0–0	1–1
Harrogate Town	1–0	1–2	2–1	5–4	1–0	0–1	3–0	1–1	0–0	0–1	1–0	—	2–2	1–0	0–1	2–1	0–3	0–2	0–1	2–5	0–1	0–0	0–1	2–2
Leyton Orient	2–0	4–0	1–0	2–4	2–3	0–2	0–0	1–2	1–1	0–1	2–3	3–0	—	2–2	2–0	2–1	2–1	1–1	1–0	1–1	2–0	0–0	1–3	0–0
Mansfield Town	2–4	2–3	1–3	0–3	1–1	3–1	1–1	3–3	1–2	0–0	2–2	0–1	0–2	—	1–0	1–1	4–1	4–0	2–1	3–0	1–1	0–0	0–0	1–1
Morecambe	1–0	0–1	2–0	0–5	3–1	1–0	3–0	3–1	2–2	1–2	3–1	1–0	2–1	1–1	—	1–3	4–3	1–0	2–1	4–1	1–1	1–1	0–1	1–1
Newport County	2–1	1–0	2–1	0–1	0–0	1–0	2–1	2–0	1–1	0–2	1–0	2–1	0–1	2–1	2–1	—	2–4	1–0	0–0	4–0	0–1	0–0	1–0	1–1
Oldham Athletic	0–1	0–2	3–1	2–4	1–1	2–1	5–2	2–3	2–1	0–3	1–2	1–2	0–1	2–3	2–3	3–2	—	1–2	2–1	0–2	0–0	0–1	0–1	2–3
Port Vale	0–2	0–1	2–1	0–1	0–1	2–1	1–1	2–0	1–0	1–1	3–0	0–0	2–3	0–3	1–0	2–1	0–0	—	1–0	0–1	5–1	0–0	3–4	1–3
Salford City	1–0	0–1	3–0	4–1	1–1	0–0	0–0	1–1	2–2	0–0	1–1	2–2	3–0	2–0	2–1	1–1	2–0	1–0	—	1–1	3–0	2–1	2–2	2–0
Scunthorpe United	2–1	0–1	2–0	0–5	1–0	0–2	0–1	0–0	0–2	1–4	3–0	3–1	2–0	2–3	1–1	1–1	1–1	2–0	0–1	—	1–1	0–1	0–0	0–2
Southend United	1–0	0–1	1–3	1–2	0–2	0–2	2–0	0–0	2–2	0–1	3–1	0–4	2–1	0–1	1–2	1–1	1–2	0–2	0–0	1–0	—	0–0	0–2	0–0
Stevenage	2–1	1–2	1–1	1–0	3–1	0–1	0–0	3–3	0–1	3–0	0–0	1–0	0–2	0–1	2–2	0–1	3–0	2–1	0–1	3–1	0–0	—	0–0	1–1
Tranmere Rovers	1–0	2–1	0–1	1–1	1–0	0–3	0–0	0–1	2–1	3–2	5–0	3–2	0–1	1–1	0–1	1–0	2–2	3–1	0–0	2–0	2–0	0–1	—	1–3
Walsall	0–1	2–1	1–2	0–2	0–2	1–2	1–1	1–0	0–0	2–1	1–0	0–0	2–1	1–1	0–2	0–1	1–1	4–3	0–2	1–2	0–1	1–1	1–0	—

Updated to match(es) played on 8 May 2021. Source: .
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[]

	Semi-finals		Final

4	Morecambe	2 1 (3)
7	Tranmere Rovers	1 1 (2)
			4	Morecambe	1

			5	Newport County	0
5	Newport County	2 3 (5)

6	Forest Green Rovers	0 4 (4)

First leg

18 May 2021 20:15	Newport County	2–0	Forest Green Rovers	Rodney Parade, Newport Attendance: 900 Referee: Charles Breakspear
	Dolan 31' Collins 56'	Report

20 May 2021 18:00	Tranmere Rovers	1–2	Morecambe	Prenton Park, Birkenhead Attendance: 3,400 Referee: Darren Drysdale
	Clarke 19'	Report	Knight-Percival McAlinden 45+1'

Second leg

23 May 2021 12:30	Morecambe	1–1	Tranmere Rovers	Mazuma Stadium, Morecambe Attendance: 1,558 Referee: Thomas Bramall
	Wildog 9'	Report	Vaughan 53'

Morecambe won 3–2 on aggregate.

23 May 2021 18:30	Forest Green Rovers	4–3	Newport County	The New Lawn, Nailsworth Attendance: 1,300 Referee: Martin Coy
	Adams 7' Collins 8' Cadden 53' Matt 87'	Report	Ellison 70' Labadie 77' Maynard 119'

Newport County won 5–4 on aggregate.

League Two Final[]

Main article: 2021 EFL League Two play-off Final

31 May 2021 15:00	Morecambe	1–0 (a.e.t.)	Newport County	Wembley Stadium, London Attendance: 9,083 Referee: Bobby Madley
	Mendes Gomes 107' (pen.)	Report

Season statistics[]

Top scorers[]

As of 19 September 2020

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Ian Henderson	Salford City	4
2	Jack Muldoon	Harrogate Town	3
2	Paul Mullin	Cambridge United	3
4	Mark Cullen	Port Vale	2
	Danny Johnson	Leyton Orient
	Aaron Martin	Harrogate Town
	Ryan Taylor	Newport County
	Carl Winchester	Forest Green Rovers
9	17 players		1

Hat-tricks[]

Player	For	Against	Result	Date
Ian Henderson	Salford City	Grimsby Town	4–0	19 September 2019

Most assists[]

Rank	Player	Club	Assists
1	Ryan Fallowfield	Harrogate Town	2
	Luke Hannant	Cambridge United
	Kyle Knoyle	Cambridge United
	Aaron Martin	Harrogate Town

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Season information
League Two 2020–21

Dates	(12 September 2020 – 8 May 2021)
Winners	Cheltenham Town
Promoted	Cheltenham Town Cambridge United Bolton Wanderers Morecambe
Relegated	Grimsby Town Southend United
Season statistics
Top goalscorer	Paul Mullin (32 goals)

Biggest home win	Tranmere 5–0 Grimsby (21 November 2020) Exeter 6–1 Colchester (24 November 2020) Exeter 5–0 Tranmere (12 December 2020)

Biggest away win	Morecambe 0–5 Cambridge (19 September 2020) Scunthorpe 0–5 Cambridge (17 October 2020)

Highest scoring	Bolton 3–6 Port Vale (5 December 2020) Harrogate 5–4 Cambridge (30 April 2021)


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