2020 EFL League One play-off Final

2020 EFL League One
play-off final

Oxford United Wycombe Wanderers 1 2
Report
Event	2019–20 EFL League One
Date	13 July 2020
Venue	Wembley Stadium, London
Referee	Robert Jones
Attendance	0
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The 2020 EFL League One play-off Final was a football match contested between Wycombe Wanderers and Oxford United to determine the third and final team to gain promotion from EFL League One to the EFL Championship. It was played on 13 July 2020 at Wembley Stadium in London. The top two teams of the 2019–20 EFL League One season (Coventry City and Rotherham United) gained automatic promotion to the Championship, while the teams placed from third to sixth place in the table took part in play-off semi-finals and the winners of these semi-finals competed for the final place in the Championship. The match was played behind closed doors to comply with restrictions during the coronavirus pandemic.

Route to the final

Main article: 2019–20 EFL League One

EFL League One final table, leading positions

Pos	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts	PPG
1	Coventry City	34	18	13	03	48	30	+18	67	1.97
2	Rotherham United	35	18	08	09	61	38	+23	62	1.77
3	Wycombe Wanderers	34	17	08	09	45	40	+5	59	1.74
4	Oxford United	35	17	09	09	61	37	+24	60	1.71
5	Portsmouth	35	17	09	09	53	36	+17	60	1.71
6	Fleetwood Town	35	16	12	07	51	38	+13	60	1.71
Pos=Position, P=Games played, W=Wins, D=Draws, L=Losses, F=Goals for, A=Goals against, GD=Goal difference, Pts=Points, PPG=Points per game

Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Football League season was temporarily suspended on 13 March. On 3 April 2020, this suspension was extended indefinitely. On 9 June, clubs in EFL League One and League Two, the third and fourth tiers of the English football league system, voted to curtail the season, meaning the final table would be calculated by a points-per-game (PPG) method, with the play-offs being played between the clubs finishing third to sixth as normal. Wycombe Wanderers finished the season in third place in the revised League One table, one place ahead of Oxford United. Both therefore missed out on the two automatic places for promotion to the EFL Championship, which went to Coventry City and Rotherham United. This meant Wycombe Wanderers, Oxford United, Portsmouth (who finished fifth) and Fleetwood Town (sixth) took part in the play-offs to determine the third promoted team.

Oxford United's opponents in their play-off semi-final were Portsmouth, who they defeated 5–4 on penalties after an aggregate score of 2–2 after two legs (both of which finished 1–1). Wycombe qualified for the final by beating Fleetwood Town 6–3 on aggregate (a 4–1 victory followed by a 2–2 draw). During the second leg, Wycombe player Adebayo Akinfenwa was racially abused by a representative of Fleetwood Town who referred to him as a "fat water buffalo".

Match

Details

13 July 2020 19:30 BST	Oxford United	1–2	Wycombe Wanderers	Wembley Stadium, London Attendance: 0 Referee: 0
	Sykes  57'	Report	Stewart  9' Jacobson  79' (pen.)

Oxford United

Wycombe Wanderers

1 Simon Eastwood 12 Sam Long 79' 4 Rob Dickie (c) 5 Elliott Moore 3 Josh Ruffels 18 Mark Sykes 6 Alex Rodríguez Gorrín 27' 46' 8 Cameron Brannagan 17 James Henry 79' 9 Matty Taylor 30 Marcus Browne 89' Substitutes: 10 Ben Woodburn 89' 13 Jack Stevens 14 Anthony Forde 79' 15 John Mousinho 19 Jamie Mackie 20 Jamie Hanson 23 Dan Agyei 79' 26 Rob Atkinson 28 Liam Kelly 46' Manager: Karl Robinson

1 Ryan Allsop 19 Jack Grimmer 5 Anthony Stewart 21 Darius Charles 3 Joe Jacobson 7 David Wheeler 4 Dominic Gape 28 Nnamdi Ofoborh 63' 10 Matt Bloomfield (c) 46' 25 Alex Samuel 62' 23 Fred Onyedinma 90+3' Substitutes: 2 Sido Jombati 8 Alex Pattison 46' 11 Scott Kashket 16 Giles Phillips 18 Curtis Thompson 72' 63' 20 Adebayo Akinfenwa 62' 22 Nick Freeman 90+3' 27 Josh Parker 31 David Stockdale Manager: Gareth Ainsworth

External links

• BBC Sport