Doncaster Rovers and Gillingham have won silverware that they have not claimed before.
Last season, Doncaster were the League One champions and Gillingham were the top team in League Two.
Doncaster, managed by Brian Flynn, have jumped back to the Championship after one season, being demoted in 2011-12 having finished at the bottom.
Before their relegation, the Rovers spent four successive years in the Championship.
The other club to gain an automatic up from League One last month was Bournemouth.
In the last two seasons, Martin Allen’s Gillingham finished eighth before the breakthrough.
The other two promoted sides were Rotherham and Port Vale.
The Johnstone Paint Trophy final, the knockout for League One and League Two clubs and some from the Conference, was won by Crewe Alexandra.
Crewe beat Southend United 2-0 in the final at Wembley.
This was Crewe’s second glory day at the temple of English football. In fact, at the end of last season, the Railwaymen had beaten Cheltenham in the play-off final.
Play-off winners: League One − Yeovil-Brentford 2-1. League Two − Bradford-Northampton 3-0.
Barnet and Aldershot were demoted to non-League football last month.
They will be replaced by Conference champions Mansfield and play-off winners Wrexham.
League One
Played | Pts | |
Doncaster | 46 | 84 |
Bournemouth | 46 | 83 |
Brentford | 46 | 79 |
Yeovil Town | 46 | 77 |
Sheffield Utd | 46 | 75 |
Swindon | 46 | 74 |
Leyton Orient | 46 | 71 |
MK Dons | 46 | 70 |
Walsall | 46 | 68 |
Crawley | 46 | 68 |
Tranmere | 46 | 67 |
Notts County | 46 | 65 |
Crewe | 46 | 64 |
Preston | 46 | 59 |
Coventry | 46 | 55 |
Shrewsbury | 46 | 55 |
Carlisle | 46 | 55 |
Stevenage | 46 | 54 |
Oldham | 46 | 51 |
Colchester | 46 | 51 |
Scunthorpe | 46 | 48 |
Bury | 46 | 41 |
Hartlepool | 46 | 41 |
Portsmouth | 46 | 32 |
Top scorers
23 − Madden (Yeovil).
20 − Donaldson (Brentford).
19 − Clarke (Coventry), Grigg (Walsall).
PFA select team
Foderingham (Swindon), Francis (B’mouth), Jones (Doncaster), Maguire (Sheff. Utd), Daniels (Bournemouth), Ritchie (Bourne-mouth), Murphy (Crewe), Judge (N. County), Cotterill (Doncaster), Madden (Yeovil), Clarke (Coventry).
League Two
Played | Pts | |
Gillingham | 46 | 83 |
Rotherham | 46 | 79 |
Port Vale | 46 | 78 |
Burton | 46 | 76 |
Cheltenham | 46 | 75 |
Northampton | 46 | 73 |
Bradford | 46 | 69 |
Chesterfield | 46 | 67 |
Oxford | 46 | 65 |
Exeter | 46 | 64 |
Southend | 46 | 61 |
Rochdale | 46 | 61 |
Fleetwood | 46 | 60 |
Bristol Rovers | 46 | 60 |
Wycombe | 46 | 60 |
Morecambe | 46 | 58 |
York City | 46 | 55 |
Accrington | 46 | 54 |
Torquay | 46 | 53 |
Wimbledon | 46 | 53 |
Plymouth | 46 | 52 |
Dagenham | 46 | 51 |
Barnet | 46 | 51 |
Aldershot | 46 | 48 |
Top scorers
31 − Pope (Port Vale).
21 − Cureton (Exeter), Wells (Bradford City).
19 − Nardiello (Rotherham)
PFA Select team
Nelson (Gillingham), Clohessy (Sout-hend), Barrett (Gillingham), Cresswell (Southend), Martin (Gillingham), Maghoma (Burton), Pack (Cheltenham), Jones (Bradford City), Myrie-Williams (Port Vale), Pope (Port Vale), Cureton (Exeter).
April review
• Sunderland appoint Paolo di Canio as manager.
• Neil Warnock parts company with Leeds United.
• In the quarter-finals first leg of the Europa League, Chelsea beat Rubin Kazan 3-1 at home.
Other results: Tottenham-Basel 2-2, Benfica-Newcastle 3-1.
• At Wembley Stadium, Crewe beat Southend 2-0 to lift the Johnstone Paint trophy.
• England slip to seventh in the latest FIFA rankings.
• In the second legs of the Europa League quarter-finals, Chelsea reach the last four despite a 3-2 upset away to Russians Rubin Kazan, advancing on a 5-4 aggregate score.
• The remaining two English sides bow out − Tottenham away at Basel 2-2 aggregate, down 1-4 on penalties; Newcastle at home draw 1-1 with Benfica, eliminated 2-4 on aggregate.
• Scottish First Division side Dunfermline go into administration and get docked 15 points.
• The Premier League have voted to introduce goal-line technology from next season.
• Cardiff City gain promotion to the top-flight after a break of 51 years.
• More than two thirds of the Premier League clubs’ income in 2011-12 was paid out in wages.
• Partick Thistle get promoted to the Scottish Premier League.
• At Old Trafford, Manchester United beat Aston Villa 3-0 to claim a record 20th English title.
• Gareth Bale, of Tottenham Hotspur, becomes only the third player to win the PFA’s both awards, Player and Young Player of the Year.