League One, League Two promotion, relegation permutations: What Stockport County, Bradford City, Stevenage, Luton Town, Plymouth need on final day

A full of 20 teams volition either beryllium competing for automatic promotion, playoff places and endurance connected the last play of League One and League Two.

Despite Lincoln City and Cardiff having already earned promotion to the Championship, 3 clubs being relegated from League One and MK Dons and Bromley securing a top-three spot successful League Two, determination stands to beryllium a melodramatic decision to the 3rd and 4th tiers of English football.

Here, Sports Mole covers each of the permutations up of a nerve-wracking last circular of League One and League Two fixtures, which volition each get underway astatine 3pm connected Saturday, May 2. 

League One playoff permutations

With 4 points separating 4th and eighth position, a fig of scenarios could play retired with regards to the League One playoff race.

Stockport County and Bradford City are champion placed to unafraid a top-six spot. If they debar decision against Barnsley and Exeter City respectively, they volition beryllium successful the playoffs.

As for Stevenage successful sixth position, they volition gain a playoff spot if they flooded Wigan Athletic. If they draw, arsenic good arsenic Luton Town and Plymouth Argyle neglect to triumph their respective fixtures, Stevenage would besides decorativeness successful the playoffs done those results.

If Luton bushed Bolton Wanderers and astatine slightest 1 of Stockport, Bradford oregon Stevenage endure defeat, Jack Wilshere's broadside volition beryllium guaranteed a top-six place, helped by their extremity difference.

Luton tin besides execute a playoff spot with a draw, providing that Stevenage suffer and Plymouth neglect to win.

Meanwhile, eighth-placed Plymouth request to Northampton Town and anticipation that Stevenage and Luton some neglect to cod 3 points.

League One relegation permutations

The League One relegation scrap present features conscionable 2 teams: Leyton Orient and Exeter City.

If Leyton Orient defat Burton Albion, they are guaranteed endurance and Exeter volition beryllium relegated.

However, if Leyton Orient gully and Exeter get the amended of Bradford, Exeter would enactment up connected extremity difference.

Exeter indispensable bushed Bradford to person immoderate accidental of avoiding relegation to League Two.

League Two rubric and playoff permutations

MK Dons and Bromley are successful a final-day conflict for the League Two title. MK Dons volition triumph the trophy if they flooded Fleetwood Town.

However, if they gully and Bromley flooded Walsall, it volition beryllium Bromley who seal the title.

Furthermore, MK Dons volition besides triumph the rubric if some they and Bromley neglect to grounds 3 points.

As acold arsenic the 3rd automatic promotion spot is concerned, Cambridge United, Salford City and Notts County are each successful the running.

Cambridge person a one-point vantage and acold superior extremity difference. Therefore, if they bushed Crewe Alexandra connected distant territory, they volition gain an contiguous instrumentality to League One.

A gully would spot Salford overtake them with a triumph implicit Crawley Town. Salford volition lone stay successful the moving for 3rd with a victory.

If Cambridge suffer and Salford neglect to win, Notts County volition determination past some of them by beating Bristol Rovers.

The teams sitting betwixt sixth and eighth tin each assertion 1 of the last 2 playoff spots. Grimsby are the wide favourites and a gully oregon decision would inactive beryllium capable if eighth-placed Swindon Town neglect to flooded seventh-placed Chesterfield. Swindon indispensable triumph to person immoderate accidental of the playoffs.

League Two relegation permutations

The League Two relegation contention inactive features 5 teams. However, bottom-placed Barrow indispensable triumph to person immoderate accidental of survival, anticipation that 2 results spell their mode and reverse an eight-goal swing.

If Harrogate Town bushed Barnet, it would instrumentality the 3 teams straight supra them to triumph to contradict them survival.

Newport tin warrant endurance with a triumph implicit Barrow. If they draw, it would instrumentality wins for Harrogate and Crawley to forestall them from stopping successful the division.

Twenty-second-placed Crawley person the champion extremity quality of the bottommost five. However, decision to Salford would permission Harrogate lone needing a constituent to debar relegation to the National League.

Should Tranmere Rovers suffer to Grimsby Town, astatine slightest 2 of Newport, Crawley and Harrogate would request to triumph to nonstop them down to the 5th tier.