Play off extension

[tdmickey3]

EFL board discussing Championship play-offs expansion to give seventh and eighth-placed finishers chance of promotion

Might help us.....................................One day

 

EFL board discussing Championship play-offs expansion to give seventh and eighth-placed finishers chance of promotion | Football News | Sky Sports

Edited Tuesday at 12:57 by tdmickey3

[capitalsaint]

Will League One be doing the same? 🤞 

[die Mannyschaft]

1 hour ago, capitalsaint said:

Will League One be doing the same? 🤞 

Good idea otherwise its same teams promoted all the time, as in national league. 

Needs to be a relegation play off from 18th to 24th then Saints can have a chance of staying up this season, maybe a relegation play off final at Wembley!!

 

[badgerx16]

Why not extend the playoffs so that every team has a chance ? Maybe they could play each of the other teams in the division once at home and once away.

Edited Tuesday at 14:29 by badgerx16

[Toussaint]

19 minutes ago, badgerx16 said:

Why not extend the playoffs so that every team has a chance ? Maybe they could play each of the other teams in the division once at home and once away.

Dumb idea, never work. Unless they play all of the games at Wembley, so everyone's a winner.

[Badger]

8 minutes ago, Toussaint said:

Dumb idea, never work. Unless they play all of the games at Wembley, so everyone's a winner.

Or perhaps they could arrange them in MIami, Seattle, Tokyo.... 

[Doctoroncall]

If they want to extend the playoffs then do it by increasing the number of promoted teams so third place is an automatic place and four teams go up/go down. 4th-7th in the playoffs. 

[Matthew Le God]

On 23/09/2025 at 15:59, Doctoroncall said:

If they want to extend the playoffs then do it by increasing the number of promoted teams so third place is an automatic place and four teams go up/go down. 4th-7th in the playoffs. 

Why would the Premier League clubs agree to that?

[miserableoldgit]

1 hour ago, Matthew Le God said:

Why would the Premier League clubs agree to that?

They won't. The 'Big Six" wanted a smaller PL because of all the European games they have to play.

[Doctoroncall]

2 hours ago, Matthew Le God said:

Why would the Premier League clubs agree to that?

I don’t know. Why would the Premier League clubs agree to that?

[Saint Fan CaM]

It’s a totally stupid and pointless idea. Far better to have just a 3rd and 4th play-off two-legged match and be done with it. Much more equitable and fair for those two also-ran teams. Bloody woke liberal madness.

Other than that…yeah.

[beatlesaint]

Thats ridiculous. Teams that finish 6th and get promoted struggle enough, how the hell would a small club who scraped into 8th then won the play-offs cope in the Premier League? Probably no worse than us last season admitted but all the same !

[Patrick Bateman]

I have an idea. Why don't they create a league of 24 teams that play each other twice a season to determine who gets promoted? Let's say the top 2 teams get promoted.

I think that would work. 

[S-Clarke]

Don't try to fix what isn't broken is my view. The playoffs still create a competitive league, and even in the final weeks you have teams often down to 10 or 11th in the Champ who still have a sniff. It's not like the 'top 6' in these leagues works as a closed shop. The league table so far this season demonstrates that.

I don't see any genuine benefit of complicating it and adding additional places for playoffs. 

[S-Clarke]

1 hour ago, beatlesaint said:

Thats ridiculous. Teams that finish 6th and get promoted struggle enough, how the hell would a small club who scraped into 8th then won the play-offs cope in the Premier League? Probably no worse than us last season admitted but all the same !

Yeah can you imagine - team finishing third, 95 points. Loses in the playoff final to a team who scraped 8th on the final day to finish on say 60-65 points

That gap is crazy, and it would show in the PL as it would further erode competitiveness between the promoted sides and the rest of the PL if that started to happen.

[Tommy Mulgrew]

2 hours ago, S-Clarke said:

That gap is crazy, and it would show in the PL as it would further erode competitiveness between the promoted sides and the rest of the PL if that started to happen.

Well, well well (and btw I agree); I wonder whether that consideration entered the thought process of those who came up with the suggestion.  🤔

[leesaint88]

On 23/09/2025 at 15:29, badgerx16 said:

Why not extend the playoffs so that every team has a chance ? Maybe they could play each of the other teams in the division once at home and once away.

Like the Eerste Divisie in Holland, pretty sure most teams have a chance at promotion come the end of the season..

[Matthew Le God]

18 hours ago, Doctoroncall said:

I don’t know. Why would the Premier League clubs agree to that?

They wouldn't. Turkeys voting for Christmas.

[HarvSFC]

Some teams also stop putting performances in once they've cemented a play-off place, but the automatics are too far ahead. Sunderland went into the play-offs last season on the back of five straight defeats, scoring one goal and one win in seven, scoring two goals over those seven matches. Leeds the year before, one win in their last six. At least with the current set-up there's a bit of jeopardy if your form drops off too much with there only being 4 play-off spots, but another two spots could devalue the competition for teams who are lucky enough to catch those on the beach at the back end of the season.

[sledger]

8 relegated from premier league,8 promoted from the championship that would keep the premier league on their toes.