User:Falastur2/Football League One 2007–08

The Football League 2007–08 (entitled Coca-Cola Football League for sponsorship reasons), was the sixteenth season under its current league division format and its fourth with its current sponsorship. The leagues started in August 2007 and concluded in May 2008, with the promotion play-off finals.

The Football League is contested through three Divisions. The top divisions of these is the League Championship. The winner and the runner up of the League Championship will be automatically promoted to the Premiership and they will be joined by the winner of the League Championship playoff. The bottom three teams in the Championship will be relegated to the second division, League One.

West Bromwich Albion finished top of the league with 81 points, closely followed by Stoke City who had 79 points. Hull City were promoted through the play-offs. Colchester and Scunthorpe United were both relegated several weeks before the end of the season. However, in a very tight league, with a gap of only 29 points between top and 22nd place, the final team to be relegated, Leicester City, went down on the final day while six other teams were within three points of them.

From League One
Promoted to Championship
 * Scunthorpe United
 * Bristol City
 * Blackpool

Relegated to League Two
 * Chesterfield
 * Bradford City
 * Rotherham United
 * Brentford

To League One
Relegated from Championship
 * Southend United
 * Luton Town
 * Leeds United

Promoted from League Two
 * Walsall
 * Hartlepool United
 * Swindon Town
 * Bristol Rovers

Playoffs
The Football League One Playoffs took place at the end of May 2008. They involved the teams that finished third to sixth in the table. Doncaster Rovers (3rd) and Leeds United (5th) qualified from their semi-finals against Southend United (6th) and Carlisle United (4th) respectively over two legs. Doncaster won the final with a single James Hayter goal to win promotion to the Football League Championship.