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Play-offs are a different game

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
15 June 2025

ARTICLES and letters in recent editions of The Non-League Paper show that many fail to fully comprehend the structure of football in 2025.
I remember the old days, when the top two or three or four teams, depending upon division or league, would automatically be promoted as a right.
Then someone invented the play-offs in their various geometries and the path to promotion changed, perhaps for the worse, but changed nonetheless.
Let us consider the National League 2024-25. Barnet are champions and are promoted back to the Football League by right.
York City are second and are to be c...

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