1992 Football League play-offs
| Season | 1991–92 |
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| Champions |
Blackburn Rovers (Second Division) Peterborough United (Third Division) Blackpool (Fourth Division) |
| Matches played | 15 |
| Goals scored | 41 (2.73 per match) |
| Biggest home win |
Leicester 5–0 Cambridge (Second Division) |
| Biggest away win |
Huddersfield 1–2 Peterborough (Third Division) |
| Highest scoring |
Blackburn 4–2 Derby (6 goals) |
| Highest attendance | 68,147 – Blackburn v Leicester (Second Division final) |
| Lowest attendance | 5,629 – Barnet v Blackpool (Fourth Division semi-final) |
| Average attendance | 18,510 |
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The Football League play-offs for the 1991–92 season were held in May 1992, with the finals taking place at Wembley Stadium. The play-off semi-finals were also played over two legs and were contested by the teams who finished in 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th place in the Football League Second Division, the 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th placed teams in the Football League Third Division and the 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th place teams in the Football League Fourth Division table. The winners of the semi-finals progressed through to the finals, with the winner of these matches gaining promotion for the following season.
The Second Division season finished with Ipswich Town as champions and Middlesbrough as runners-up gaining automatic promotion to the new FA Premier League. This left Derby County and Blackburn Rovers, the two biggest spending teams in the division, facing each other in the one playoff semi-final, while the other was contested between Leicester City and a Cambridge United side who successful style of long ball play had taken them to the brink of a unique third successive promotion, while Leicester had made their first serious promotion challenge since being relegated from the First Division five years earlier.
Blackburn won the first leg 4-2 at Ewood Park, and Derby's 2-1 win in the return leg at the Baseball Ground was not enough to prevent the Lancastrian side from going through to the final. In the other semi-final, Cambridge held Leicester to a 1-1 draw at the Abbey Stadium before losing the return leg 5-0 at Filbert Street.
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