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The Second Division was replaced by Football League One prior to the start of the 2004/05 season.
At the end of each season the top two teams were promoted to First Division, along with the winners of a play-off between the next four teams. Also, the bottom four teams were relegated to Third Division.
The Second Division was formed in 1892 with 12 clubs, most of which had previously played in the Football Alliance. It expanded over the years to its final total of 24 clubs, as follows:
For the first few years, there was no automatic promotion to the First Division. Instead, the top few teams in Division Two, including the winners, contested a series of test matchesA test match in football is a match played at the end of a season between a team that has done badly in a higher league and one that has done well in a lower league of the same football league system. The winner of the test match plays in the higher leagu against the bottom teams in Division One. Small HeathBirmingham City (BCFC) is one of Birmingham's two professional soccer teams (the other is Aston Villa F. Originally known as The Small Heath Alliance they became Birmingham F. in 1905 and Birmingham City F. After a number of years in the second flight lea, Second Division champions in 1892- 93, were denied promotion after losing in test matches to Newton HeathManchester United F. often abbreviated to Man United or just Man U pronounced man-you is an English football club based at Old Trafford, Greater Manchester. Formed as Newton Heath LYR F. in 1878, as the works team of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway d.