The phrase
"promotion places" refers to the positions or spots in a competition or league that allow the winner or highest-ranked team to move up to a higher level or division.
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Sky Bet League One Sky Sports Football & Main Event, 7.45 pm Thursday Blackburn have slipped out of Sky Bet League One's automatic
promotion places after nearly three weeks without a game but they can return to the top of the table by beating playoff - chasing Bradford at Ewood Park.
The Toon have not only almost certainly secured one of the two automatic
promotion places up for grabs, but also the title this season, with the league leaders unlikely to slip up for much of the rest of the season.
A surprise 2 - 0 loss at Charlton last time out means the third - placed Shrews are eight points behind the automatic
promotion places with four games to play.
Going into Sunday, therefore, Norwich City in particular will be looking at their game with their mouths watering as the game which they are undoubtedly favourites for gives them the opportunity, not only to take 3 points against their most fierce rivals, but also to close the gap to just 4 points on
promotion placed Sheffield Wednesday.
West Ham won the Final 2 - 1 gaining the
third promotion place from the Championship, meaning that they will play in the Premier League next season.
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The result moved the Peacocks to within 5 points of the automatic
promotion places while Burton lost another chance to move out of the foot of the championship table.
The Bluebirds could drop out of the automatic
promotion places if they do not beat Villa and Fulham win at home to strugglers Reading.
Derby boss Gary Rowett feels no extra pressure as his side look to regain an automatic
promotion place against Sheffield Wednesday.
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All in all, however, Queen's Park Rangers and Nottingham Forest look the two clubs most likely to be in possession of those coveted automatic
promotion places after 46 games.
The 37 - year - old has taken the Cherries in to the
automatic promotion places in the Championship and has been doing a good job by all accounts.
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Given the nature of the second tier of English football, a string of wins could catapult the club right up into
the promotion places, and so there is undoubtedly still plenty of time to get things right and start pushing up the table.
After taking the club to the play off final last season all seemed to be going swimmingly this season until an alarming series of results, including the embarrassment of being knocked out of the FA Cup by minnows Histon have left the club ninth and a fair distance off the automatic
promotion places.
The forward has been one of the outstanding players in the Championship this season, and indeed, has been influential as the Cherries have secured on of the top two automatic
promotion places.
Fulham's draw means that Wolves will finish in one of the automatic
promotion places.
Yeovil's run of five successive league wins was ended with a draw against Oxford last month, yet they remain in the driving seat to secure one of two
promotion places to WSL 1.
Two goals from Billy Kee secured the win for Stanley, and ensured that they would finish in the League Two automatic
promotion places.
«Any of the teams at that level can beat anybody but if we put in some good performances and stay focused then we can be fighting for
that promotion place.»
By Christmas, Leeds were nine points clear in
the promotion places, and when 2010 started with an FA Cup third round win at Manchester United - the club's first win at Old Trafford for 29 years - the season was shaping up to be a memorable one.
Burnley are in the push for
a promotion place up to the Championship and are running along in nice form at the moment.
Diacre, 41, has guided Clermont to fifth in Ligue 2 this season — just two points off
the promotion places — despite the club having the second - lowest budget in the league.
Derby start the midweek fixtures in second place, and although we expect Aston Villa and Wolves to seal the automatic
promotion places, the Rams have been fighting well this season.
Since the turn of the year, Aston Villa has been flying and we've finally gotten ourselves into the race for an automatic
promotion place...
Middlesbrough were considered promotion contenders for much of last season after spending much of the campaign's first half in the automatic
promotion places.
West Ham produce a comeback win over Leicester to keep themselves in the hunt for an automatic
promotion place.
This is their final chance to lock in an automatic
promotion place and they will get there probably with just a point from this game even if Fleetwood win their final game of the season, because of a better goal difference.
Cardiff City drop out of the Championship's automatic
promotion places after a 1 - 0 defeat at Aston Villa.
Cardiff need nine points from their remaining four games to secure the second automatic
promotion place and Warnock believes Madine can play a crucial role.
Wednesday sit prominently in fourth in League One, level on points with the automatic
promotion places after a comfortable 3 - 1 success at Scunthorpe on Tuesday.
In a three - way battle with Burnley and Middlesbrough for the two automatic
promotion places, Albion travelled to Middlesbrough on the last day of the season needing to win to go up, but could only draw.
Watch ten minutes of extended highlights from Wigan Athletic's dramatic 1 - 0 victory over Oxford United on Tuesday evening, as Paul Cook's side pulled three points clear at the top of the Sky Bet League One table to move eight points inside the automatic
promotion places.
Maddison has helped Coventry to foruth in League One, two points outside the automatic
promotion places, as they look to go up back to the Championship.
Bruce's side will be looking to earn that play - off place or even earn an automatic
promotion place this season which would see them promoted back to the Premier League next season.
Wycombe are up to sixth, eight points off the automatic
promotion places, the third of which is occupied by Doncaster who came from behind to beat Leyton Orient 3 - 1.
Leeds United have launched a somewhat surprise bid to claim promotion into the Premier League this season and with the Whites currently in 3rd position in the table, there is every possibility that they will be able to earn an automatic
promotion place.
Tony Mowbray's team are currently fourth in League One, two points from the automatic
promotion places.
After all, this club had a fraction of the resources of its rivals in the Championship; an increasingly capricious division populated by rich former top - flight sides like Aston Villa and Middlesbrough — neither of whom are in the automatic
promotion places — and pugnacious, plucky scrappers like Burton Albion and Barnsley.
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