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unusual facts about Second Division



1974–75 Luton Town F.C. season

Macdonald scored 31 during 1970–71 as Luton finished sixth in the Second Division, and was sold to Newcastle United at the end of the season to ease the club's financial worries.

1985 Football League Cup Final

Despite Norwich and Sunderland appearing in the final, they were both relegated to the Second Division at the end of the 1984–85 season.

1992–93 Port Vale F.C. season

Player of the Year Ian Taylor, top-scorer with nineteen goals, was also picked for the PFA Second Division Team of the Year.

The 1992–93 season was Port Vale's eighty-first season of football in the Football League, and fourth successive (thirty-sixth overall) season in the Second Division.

1993 Football League Second Division play-off Final

The 1993 Football League Second Division play-off Final was a football match played at Wembley Stadium on 30 May 1993, to determine the third and final team to gain promotion from the Third Division to the Second Division of The Football League in the 1992–93 season.

1995 Football League Second Division play-off Final

The 1995 Football League Second Division play-off final was a football match played at on 28 May 1995, to determine the third and final team to gain promotion from the Second Division to the First Division of The Football League in the 1994–95 season.

2004 in Paraguayan football

Sport Colombia and Sol de América automatically relegated to the second division after finishing last and second-to-last in the average points table over a three-year period.

2010 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup qualification

These five levels, namely Major League Soccer, the United Soccer Leagues (First Division, Second Division, and Premier Development League), and the United States Adult Soccer Association, each have their own separate qualification process to trim their ranks down to their final team delegations in the months leading up to the start of the tournament proper.

Alan Hinton

He spent eight seasons with the Rams, which coincided with the golden period in the club's history, winning promotion to the top flight as Second Division champions in 1968-69 and then winning the league championship in both 1971-72 and 1974-75.

Altin Rraklli

In 1992, he signed with Germany's SC Freiburg, being instrumental in the Black Forest side's first ever top flight promotion, netting 16 second division goals (squad best, tenth in the league, as Freiburg scored 102); in the next three Bundesliga seasons, he would only manage to be relatively used.

Bill Bentley

He spent the next nine years with Blackpool, helping them to win promotion out of the Second Division in 1969–70, and to lift the Anglo-Italian Cup in 1971.

Billy Spurdle

He helped the club to win promotion out of the Second Division in the 1950–51 campaign, and went on to feature in the 1955 FA Cup Final defeat to Newcastle United.

Cammie Fraser

Fraser made a few appearances in attack for Birmingham, relegated to the Second Division at the end of the 1964–65 season, and played regularly at right-back the following season.

Christos Bourbos

In 2006–2007, Llorenç Serra Ferrer having 2 other Right Defenders (Nikolaos Georgeas and Martin Albano Pautasso) proposed him a loan move, at first, to Niki Volou (a Second Division team).

Colin Foster

Never a regular player under Macari, he became so under new manager Billy Bonds in a team which won promotion from the second division in season 1990-91.

Colin Grainger

Despite playing just five league games under manager Peter Jackson in 1950–51, 1951–52, and 1952–53, he was snapped up Reg Freeman at Second Division champions Sheffield United in July 1953 for £2,500.

Darko Kolić

Kolić started his professional career in Yugoslavia in 1992, first with FK Rad in the First Division and then FK Hajduk Beograd in the Second Division.

David Simbo

After his successful first season in Norway, he was signed by second division club Sogndal; however, because his asylum request was denied due to him using two different names, he was unable to return to Norway to play for them.

Elisandro Naressi Roos

In August 2007 he left for Hong Kong First Division League club Workable, which itself borrowed the licenses from "regional" team Shek Kip Mei (from Shek Kip Mei, an area/sub-district), the runner-up of 2006–07 Second Division.

Emperadores de Texcoco

The Emperadores de Texcoco is a soccer club in the Mexican Football League Second Division in Texcoco, Estado de Mexico, Mexico.

Eurico Gomes

The following year, on 10 October, he was appointed at Ethnikos Piraeus F.C. in Greece (second division), failing to win promotion.

Frank Bagnack

He made his Second Division debut for FC Barcelona B on 8 September 2012 in a game against Guadalajara when he came on as a substitute in the 75th minute for Kiko Femenía.

Fred Tully

He spent the next four seasons in the reserves before moving to the South coast to join Second Division Southampton in June 1933, to replace Johnny Arnold who had been transferred to Fulham the previous February.

Gary West

They consolidated their Second Division status the next season, though following this West secured a £35,000 move to Lincoln City in August 1985.

Graham Roberts

He joined Chelsea in August 1988 for £475,000 and helped the side emphatically win the Second Division championship in 1988–89.

Hans-Jörg Criens

By the 1993–94 season Criens had fallen down the attacker pecking order, behind Martin Dahlin, Heiko Herrlich and Martin Max, and in October 1993, the 33-year-old signed for 1. FC Nürnberg, suffering team relegation and then playing his last year as a professional in the second division.

Hong Kong Football Club

After showing initial promise, they lost 4 league matches in a row between March and April 2007, and were relegated to the Second Division, until April 2010 as they obtained another championship of Second Division, then promoted to First Division in next season.

Ibón Pérez Arrieta

In his country, Pérez could never play in higher than the third division in his beginnings, moving in 2001 to Iberian Peninsula neighbours Portugal with Desportivo de Chaves where he scored at incredible rate, always in the second division.

Jay Threatt

Jay L. Threatt (born August 8, 1989) is an American basketball player, currently with MLP Academics Heidelberg in Germany's second division.

Jens Todt

In 1991, he followed manager Volker Finke to SC Freiburg, in the second division, and the two would eventually gain legendary status at the Black Forest outfit.

José Luís Vidigal

Born in Sá da Bandeira, Portuguese Angola, Vidigal moved to Portugal at an early age, and started his footballing career with amateurs O Elvas CAD, moving in 1994 to the second division with G.D. Estoril-Praia.

José Orúe

After a loan to Barakaldo CF in the same region, in the second division, Orúe returned to Athletic to be an instrumental part of the sides that won one league and three Copa del Rey trophies in the 50's, including the double in the 1955–56 campaign, with the player contributing with 35 official games (one goal, in a 3–2 home win against Deportivo Alavés on 1 January 1956, his only as a professional).

Karsten Wettberg

In 2003, he joined ASV Cham for a season, a club that had once been a second division outfit but now had become a long-term Landesliga club.

Kevin Steggles

He then left Portman Road in February 1987 and spent the rest of the season in the Second Division with West Bromwich Albion, playing 14 league games for Ron Saunders's "Baggies".

La Primera División A 1994-1995

Primera División A (Méxican First A Division) 1994-95 is a Mexican football tournament.This was the first tournament played, the newly created league took over the Second division.15 clubs played the tournament in order to earn promotion to the first division at the end of the tournament A. Celaya earn the Promotion and Tabasco was relegated to the Second Division.

Lee Peacock

In his final season at Ashton Gate the club secured a Play-Off place within the Second Division and after defeating Hartlepool United in the semi-final, City lost 1–0 at the Millennium Stadium against Brighton & Hove Albion.

Luděk Mikloško

He was named Hammer of the Year in 1991 - the year that West Ham were promoted to the First Division as Second Division runners-up and reached the FA Cup semi-final.

Mario Videla

He then spent some time with FBC Melgar in Peru before returning to Argentina where he played out his career at Deportivo Laferrere in the Second division.

Maurice Ligeon

He is listed as playing the 1997-1998 season with Dutch Second Division club Telstar.

Mel Machin

In his first season at the helm he managed to keep the club in the Second Division despite a start with seven consecutive defeats and a serious financial crisis, this feat later became known as "The Great Escape".

R. Léopold Uccle Forestoise

In 1912-13 it played in the second division but managed to secure a place for the next first division season.

Raúl Antonio Coreas

Raúl Antonio Coreas Pérez (born February 7, 1989 in San Miguel, El Salvador) is a Salvadoran footballer who currently plays for Dragón in the Salvadoran Second Division.

Salvador Coreas

Salvador Arturo Coreas Pérez (born September 29, 1984 in San Miguel, El Salvador) is a Salvadoran footballer who currently plays for second division side Municipal Limeño.

Scottish Football Federation

In 1893 it was absorbed by the Scottish Football Alliance when that league lost all but one of its members to the Scottish Football League's new Second Division.

Stuart Boam

He was immediately placed in Boro's starting lineup, and was named team captain ahead of the 1973–74 season, when Middlesbrough won the Second Division title.

Ted Killean

By November 1898, Peter Chambers had taken over at left-half and Killean was transferred to Glossop North End who had just been elected to the expanded Second Division.

Terry Alcock

He helped the "Seasiders" to win promotion out of the Second Division in 1969–70, and also featured in the club's Anglo-Italian Cup success in 1971.

W. E. Barclay

While he was in charge of the side that won the Second Division championship in 1893-4, Liverpool got relegated from the First Division the following season (with Liverpool losing a test match to Bury 1-0).

Waasland-Beveren

In 2003–04, they finished first in their series of the third division and promoted for the first time to the second division.

William Roberto Figueroa

Figueroa started his career in the FAS reserves and played for second division sides Once Municipal and Atiquizaya before making his debut at the country's top level with Once Lobos in 2004.


see also

1972–73 French Rugby Union Championship

Olympique Besançon (Besançon) (promoted from second division)

1989–90 West Ham United F.C. season

Ince had reportedly been a transfer target for Alex Ferguson since the end of the previous campaign, the transfer finally being completed on 14 September 1989, by which time Ince had actually played a Second Division game for the Hammers.

1991–92 Derby County F.C. season

Despite the loss of key players like Mark Wright and Dean Saunders, Derby County emerged as genuine contenders for an automatic return to English football's top flight (which would be renamed the FA Premier League from the start of the next season) after the takeover by Lionel Pickering made Derby one of the richest clubs in the Second Division.

1996–97 Thailand Soccer League

Another six teams, who failed to make it into the top 12 elite, Thailand Tobacco Monopoly, Osotsapa, Bangkok Bank of Commerce, Raj Vithi, Krung Thai Bank and Thamrongthai will join the top four teams from the old second division - Rayong, Samut Prakan, Royal Household Bureau and Bank for Agriculture and Co-Operatives - to make up a new second tier.

1997 Football League Second Division play-off Final

The 1997 Football League Second Division play-off Final was a football match played at Wembley Stadium on 25 May 1997, at the end of the 1996–97 season.

1998 Football League Second Division play-off Final

The 1998 Football League Second Division play-off Final was a football match played at Wembley Stadium, London on 24 May 1998 at the end of the 1997–98 season.

2004 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A

The four teams relegated to the second division were Criciúma, Guarani, Vitória and Grêmio.

Albert Ebossé Bodjongo

Before joining Perak, Bodjongo last played with his hometown club Douala Athletic Club, a club in MTN Elite Two, Cameroon's National Second Division.

Alberto Di Bernardo

After bouncing back between the top and second division, he decided to leave Leeds behind and take on the challenge of playing for Bourgoin in the Top 14.

Albinegros de Orizaba

After having a bad year in the Primera A The owner sales the club and is relocated in Yucatán where it played under the name of Lagartos de Tabasco remaining the only affiliate second division team which remains as the city's club.

Aleksandrs Kulakovs

In 1976 he moved to Daugava Rīga, the top club in Soviet Latvia which at the time played in the second division of Soviet football.

Antigua Guatemala

Antigua GFC football club has played in the Guatemala top division for several years but have been playing in the second division lately.

Brian Stein

Initially a winger, he soon moved into a central striking role where he formed successive prolific partnerships with Bob Hatton and then Steve White as Luton won the Second Division Championship in 1981/2.

Chiapas F.C.

On May 20, 2013, it was announced that the club was sold to Grupo Delfines whose majority stake holder Amado Yañez is also an owner of the club Querétaro F.C. Stating low attendance and lack of sponsorship, the new owner announced he would be moving the team to Querétaro to replace Querétaro F.C. recently relegated to the second division.

Dani Chigou

In February 2013 he had a trial at second division 1. SC Znojmo.

Danny Dunton

Following the decision of the British League promoters in November 1967 to run a second division, five promoters from the British League, Danny Dunton, Maury Littlechild, Len Silver, Ron Wilson and Reg Fearman formed the Allied Presentations Limited.

Diego Ciorciari

Unfortunately, his team relegated to the second division and he decided to leave the LEB after 7 seasons in Spain.

Eddie Baily

He helped Billy Walker's side to win promotion out of the Second Division in 1956–57, and showed the Vale what they had let go when he returned to Vale Park on 2 February to mastermind a 7–1 win.

Elie Mechantaf

Then he joined Notre Dame University – Louaize (NDU) for one semester, after which he went to Cyprus playing basketball professionally, starting with EPA Larnaca, Cyprus, in second division, alongside another Lebanese player, Fouad Abou Chacra.

Fabricio Poci

In June 2013, he returned to Crete, this time for A.O.Chania, who had just been promoted to the second division.

Gary Poole

Success followed in 1994–95 with the Second Division championship and victory in the Football League Trophy at Wembley.

Gene St. Leon

On February 7, 1976, St. Leon rode Toonerville to a world record time of 1:51 2/5 for one and three sixteenth miles on turf in winning the second division of the Bougainvillea Handicap at Hialeah Park Race Track.

Ian Griffiths

Playing under former Japan international Kazuo Imanishi, Mazda finished as Second Division (West) champions in 1988–89 and then finished third in the amalgamated Second Division in 1989–90, just two points behind promoted Toyota Motors.

India in World War II

Later in the war however, the INA's second division, tasked with the defence of Irrawaddy and the adjoining areas around Nangyu, was instrumental in opposing Messervy's 7th Indian Infantry Division when it attempted to cross the river at Pagan and Nyangyu during the successful Burma Campaign by the Allies the following year.

Inti Gas Deportes

They relocated to Huamanga, Ayacucho but they decided to play their home games in Ica because another Second Division team already had their home ground in Ayacucho and security issues that have risen.

Johan Devrindt

He played for Anderlecht, Dutch oufit PSV Eindhoven, Club Brugge, Lokeren, Winterslag and La Louviere before hanging up his boots after suffering relegation with second division Tienen.

John Sydenham

He was lured back to Western Australia in 1980 to take on a player-coaching role at the Greek-backed club Athena, where both Alan Ball and Ted MacDougall played for him, and succeeded in returning the side back into the State League as Second Division champions.

Kyrylo Fesenko

Born in Dnipropetrovsk, Fesenko began his basketball career in the Ukrainian Basketball SuperLeague, first with the second division team of BC Azovmash in 2003 then to its first division from 2004 to 2006.

Lega Pro

A new league running this Second Division, the Direttorio Divisioni Inferiori Nord (Northern Directory of Lower Divisions) was set up in Genoa, while the football activity in the southern part of the country was run by the Direttorio Divisioni Inferiori Sud which later became the Direttorio Meridionale (Southern Directory).

Luke Guttridge

In May 2000, against the advice for a longer contract offer given by youth coaches Paul Compton and Richard Hancox, Guttridge was only offered a three-month professional contract by Torquay manager Wes Saunders, even though Cambridge United had offered him a one-year deal and the chance to play second division football.

Márcio Luiz Adurens

In 2009–'10 he will be playing for the Greek second division team of Diagoras F.C.

Mauro Guevgeozián

He began his career in CA Fénix Montevideo where he became Cerrito scorer and the club became second division Uruguayan Segunda División Clausura champion.

Pavel Podkolzin

Podkolzin made his debut with Lokomotiv Novosibirsk, in the Russian second division, during the 2001–02 season.

Praise Onubiyi

He began his career at youth level with Puma FC in Abuja before playing two seasons with Abuja FC in the second division in Nigeria.

Rafael Acosta

In January 2010, he was loaned to Greek second division side Diagoras until the end of the 2009–10 season.

Robert Nordmark

He was the headcoach for Almtuna IS in Allsvenskan (the Swedish second division) in the 2007/2008 season, but he was replaced by Leif Boork in November 2007 because of poor results.

Roberto Dipiazza

He also supported sports activities and became president of the second division basketball team “Pallacanestro Trieste 2004”.

Second Corps, Army of Northern Virginia

This unit was also known as the Second Division and was eventually subsumed into general Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia as a reserve in Maj. Gen. D. H. Hill's Division.

Simeon Ivanov

In February 2012, Ivanov was close to signing with A PFG club Vidima Rakovski, but eventually put pen to paper on a contract with second division side Akademik Sofia.

Trevor Wood

They then went on to finish eleventh in the Second Division in 1995–96, before Wood moved on to Graham Turner's Hereford United in the 1996–97 campaign.

Vunikavikaloa

The Nalawa Football Club, which is affiliated to the Fiji Football Association and plays in the second division of the Association, is based here.

William Colfax

In 1811 he was Brigadier-General of the Second Division of Infantry, Bergen Brigade where in the War of 1812 he had a command at Sandy Hook.

Yiannis Ioannou

Yiannis is currently playing at Chalkanoras Idaliou, (Cyprus second division), rotating between the first team and reserves (Cyprus first division).

Yohann Lasimant

In February 2012 he joined Greek second division club Larissa FC and signed a contract till the end of the season.