1993 Football League Second Division play-off Final
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| Date | 30 May 1993 | ||||||
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| Venue | Wembley Stadium, London | ||||||
| Referee | Roger Milford | ||||||
| Attendance | 53,471 | ||||||
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. Port Vale faced West Bromwich Albion.
West Brom had no experience of the play-offs before 1993, while Vale had gone though the Second Division play-offs 2–1 on aggregate four years previous and whilst they had lost Robbie Earle since then, new signing Martin Foyle gave the team strong hopes of coming home the victors. In the semi-finals, Vale defeated and West Brom beat Swansea City.
The game finished with a comprehensive 3–0 victory for West Brom, all three goals coming in the second half. The pivotal point of the game was when Vale defender Peter Swan was sent off for bringing down Bob Taylor, who had been through on goal. Andy Hunt, Nicky Reid and Kevin Donovan went on to score for Albion, to take their side into the second tier of the Football League.
Port Vale had finished the 1992–93 Football League season in third place in Division Three, one place ahead of West Bromwich Albion. Both therefore missed out on the two automatic promotion places and instead took part in the play-offs to determine the third promoted team. Vale had finished one point behind Bolton in second and also had superior goal difference to Bolton. The misery for Vale was made worse by the fact that they had lost both Potteries derby games to rivals Stoke, who went up as champions four points ahead of Vale. West Bromwich Albion finished fourth, four points behind Port Vale, having scored 88 goals that season, more than any other team in the division; 30 of these goals came from the division's top scorer Bob Taylor. Swansea City and finished 12 and 13 points behind Albion in fifth and sixth respectively.
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