Ups & Downs

[Patrick Thistle]

Colin's only gone and got the record for most football league promotions as a manager.

[Southport Zeb]

And there's the 0-0 that suits them both, celebrations all around. This will be Coventry's first ever place in a playoffs – which sounds amazing until you consider they were in the top flight for the first 15 years or so that the playoffs existed, and have basically been unremittingly useless since. I'm sure I remember hearing the other year that they hadn't had a finishing position in single digits since something like 1996. This is going to be a whole new adventure for them.

First top six finish since 1970.

2016 was Coventry's first single digit finish since 2006, which was itself the first since 1989.

[Amor de Cosmos]

Yes. They moved from the Athenian league to the Isthmian League in 1963, along with Hitchin, Wealdstone and Enfield. They've moved neither up, down, nor sideways ever since.

[KGR]

I just independently stumbled across the same tweet, and figured there must be a mention somewhere in this thread. Here it is for posterity:

https://twitter.com/mark_nbfc/status/987793368477585409Trinity were both elected to the League and demoted from it by failing to win re-election, so had never once gone up or down via promotion or relegation on the field in their 145 years.

Morecambe's record of never having been relegated continues.

I heard that Hendon have never been promoted - is that true?

[ursus arctos]

Hellas Verona join Benevento in Serie B after losing 4-1 to Milan

[Various Artist]

And there's the 0-0 that suits them both, celebrations all around. This will be Coventry's first ever place in a playoffs – which sounds amazing until you consider they were in the top flight for the first 15 years or so that the playoffs existed, and have basically been unremittingly useless since. I'm sure I remember hearing the other year that they hadn't had a finishing position in single digits since something like 1996. This is going to be a whole new adventure for them.

[elguapo4]

It's Barnets own fault over the season but that Coventry game stinks to high heaven

[E10 Rifle]

Coventry and Morecambe doing a West Germany v Austria 1982 by the sounds

[Antepli Ejderha]

Stoke are down.

[Diable Rouge]

Nîmes promoted to Ligue 1 for first time since 1993.

[Third rate Leszno]

Litherland REMYCA promoted from the NW Counties 1st to the Prem (alongside Silsden) after Prestwich Heys lost their game in hand last night.

[Ray de Galles]

Montrose up from the bottom tier in Scotland for the first time in over 20 years and not long after escaping relegation via the play-offs a few seasons ago.

[Various Artist]

I’ve just read a tweet saying that Gainsborough Trinity (est 1873) have been relegated from the National North and that this is the first time they have been promoted or relegated, having changed leagues before only through reorganisations.

Can this possibly be true?

Gainsborough were promoted and relegated to and from the Football League before World War I, but that was by election rather than automatic. Since leaving the League they have only changed the Division in reorganisations - e.g. Founder member of the Northern Premier League then staying in that till becoming a founder member of Conference North. I remember seeing in their trophy cabinet a plaque from the NPL recognising their continued membership in the top division from 1968 to 2004.

I just independently stumbled across the same tweet, and figured there must be a mention somewhere in this thread. Here it is for posterity:

https://twitter.com/mark_nbfc/status/987793368477585409Trinity were both elected to the League and demoted from it by failing to win re-election, so had never once gone up or down via promotion or relegation on the field in their 145 years.

[N est à?]

Dunstable are down from the southern premier after losing at Frome, while rivals gosport borough won 4-0 at st neots.

For gosport, after getting 11 points from their first 43 games, that's three wins on the trot to finish, two away from home, with a combined goal difference of 13-0. An, er, amazing escape. Truly, an unbelievable sequence of results. <purses lips>

[Satchmo Distel]

Spennymoor won't be going up, missing the play-offs on GD.

[Jobi1]

Exciting end to the Conference South title race yesterday. Havant & Waterlooville had taken a 3-goal lead over Dartford at the top by winning their remaining game in hand 6-1 during the week, meaning they effectively just had to match the Darts' result yesterday. Dartford won 2-1 at Bognor, but H&W contrived to throw away a 2-0 half-time lead at home against Concorde before eventually coming up with a last-minute winner to nick first place back.

[slackster]

Sevenoaks Town promoted from the SCEFL (Southern Counties East, or the Kent League in old money) to step 4 Isthmian South as champions. Quite a turnaround for a club more accustomed to being closer to bottom spot in most recent years.

Whistable Town are runners-up in the SCEFL, and are claiming one of the 12 additional promotion places available to the 14 step 4 feeder leagues, though I don’t think that’s confirmed yet.

[Auntie Beryl]

Berkhamsted FC up from the Spartan South Midlands League today.

[Bizarre Löw Triangle]

Cheshunt are indeed kind of mugs, but they're also kind of mugs in blistering form - they've taken 13 points from their last five games - including a point at champions-elect Hornchurch. Maldon and Tiptree, meanwhile, appear to have broken up early for the summer and have lost their last three since the playoffs slipped from their grasp.

As certain Bostik North visionaries predicted, Norwich struggled against Cheshunt (they actually overturned a first half 3 - 0 deficit before conceding three more goals), while Romford enjoyed better luck against already-on-the-beach Maldon and Tiptree (who they beat 4 - 2); with the now-homeless Essex side escaping the drop.

Meanwhile, 2nd to 5th tediously all won, with Potters Bar securing promotion and the other three maintaining position.

[Antepli Ejderha]

Ankaragücü are back in the Turkish Süper Lig.

[Amor de Cosmos]

Wycombe get third place in League 2 and promotion.

Well done Sir Gareth!

[Ray de Galles]

MK Dons are down. So Shrewsbury don't get to do the satisfying deed of relegating them next week.

Please, they’re the MK Downs.

[Patrick Thistle]

Wycombe get third place in League 2 and promotion.

[Ray de Galles]

Franchise losing 2-0 to Scunthorpe, so effectively down, while Wimbledon would be safe with a game to spare if the current results were to be maintained.

Not quite safe yet due to Wigan’s more than deserved equaliser but still two games to play (there is a rearranged game at Doncaster on Tuesday night) and one point required, I think. If that happens then Franchise’s relegation can be properly celebrated, though it was nice to be with the travelling Dons support when it was confirmed.

[Patrick Thistle]

Woking got the fourth and final relegation slot from the National League