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Football League One (often referred to as League One for short or Coca-Cola Football League 1 for sponsorship reasons) is the second-highest division of The Football League and third-highest division overall in the English football league system.

Football League One was introduced for the 2004-2005 season. It replaced the Football League Second Division.

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There are 24 teams in Football League One. Each team plays each of the other teams twice (once at home, once away) and are awarded three points for a win, one for a draw and zero for a loss. From these points a league table is constructed. At the end of each season the top two teams, together with the winner of the play-offs between the teams which finished in 3rd–6th position, are promoted to the Football League Championship and are replaced by the three teams which finished at the bottom of that division. Similarly the four teams that finished at the bottom of Football League One are relegated to Football League Two and are replaced by the teams which finished 1st, 2nd, 3rd and the winner of the 4th–7th place play-off in that division.

Final League position is determined, in this order, by points obtained, goal difference, goals scored, a mini-league of the results between two or more teams ranked using the previous three criteria and finally a series of one or more play off matches.

Football League One clubs, 2006-07

Club
Finishing position last season
Blackpool 19th
Bournemouth 17th
Bradford City 11th
Brentford 3rd
Brighton & Hove Albion 24th in the Championship
Bristol City 9th
Carlisle United 1st in League Two
Cheltenham Town 5th in League Two
Chesterfield 16th
Crewe Alexandra 22nd in the Championship
Doncaster Rovers 8th
Gillingham 14th
Huddersfield Town 4th
Leyton Orient 3rd in League Two
Millwall 23rd in the Championship
Northampton Town 2nd in League Two
Nottingham Forest 7th
Oldham Athletic 10th
Port Vale 13th
Rotherham United 20th
Scunthorpe United 12th
Swansea City 6th
Tranmere Rovers 18th
Yeovil Town 15th

Winners of Football League One

Season Winner Runner-Up Promoted Play-Off Winner
2004-05 Luton Town Hull City Sheffield Wednesday
2005-06 Southend United Colchester United Barnsley
For past winners at this level before 2004, see List of winners of English Football League One and predecessors.

Play-off results

Season Semifinal (1st Leg) Semifinal (2nd Leg) Final
2004-05 Sheffield Wednesday 1-0 Brentford
Hartlepool United 2-0 Tranmere Rovers 		Brentford 1-2 Sheffield Wednesday
Tranmere Rovers 2-0 Hartlepool United
(Hartlepool won 6-5 on penalties, AET) 		Sheffield Wednesday 4-2 Hartlepool United AET
2005-06 Barnsley 0-1 Huddersfield Town
Swansea City 1-1 Brentford 		Huddersfield Town 1-3 Barnsley
Brentford 0-2 Swansea City 		Barnsley 2-2 Swansea City
(Barnsley won 4-3 on penalties, AET)
2006-07

Relegated teams

Season Clubs
2004-05 Torquay United, Wrexham, Peterborough United, Stockport County
2005-06 Hartlepool United, Milton Keynes Dons, Swindon Town, Walsall

Top Scorers

Season Top scorer, club Goals
2004-05 Stuart Elliott, Hull City
Dean Windass, Bradford City 		27
2005-06 Freddy Eastwood, Southend United
Billy Sharp, Scunthorpe United 		23

External links

|- !colspan="3" style="background:#ccf; text-align:center;"|Football League One, 2006-2007 |- |colspan="3" style="padding:0 5% 0 5%; text-align:center; font-size: smaller;"| Blackpool | Bournemouth | Bradford City | Brentford | Brighton & Hove Albion | Bristol City | Carlisle United | Cheltenham Town | Chesterfield | Crewe Alexandra | Doncaster Rovers | Gillingham | Huddersfield Town | Leyton Orient | Millwall | Northampton Town | Nottingham Forest | Oldham Athletic | Port Vale | Rotherham United | Scunthorpe United | Swansea City | Tranmere Rovers | Yeovil Town    [http://encycl.opentopia.com/ edit]

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