All finals confirmed " EFL Play-Offs thread "

by **worcester_ccfc** » Sun May 03, 2026 11:00 am

The EFL Play-Offs begin on Friday. All matches will be live on Sky Sports and all three finals will be held at Wembley Stadium.

As usual, will keep this thread updated with the results.

All the details are below.

Championship

Semi Finals

Hull City 0-0 Millwall

Millwall 0-2 Hull City

Middlesbrough 0-0 Southampton

Southampton 2-1 Middlesbrough (AET)

Final

Hull City v Southampton - 23rd May, 4.30pm

League One

Semi Finals

Stevenage 0-1 Stockport County

Stockport County 2-0 Stevenage

Bolton Wanderers 1-0 Bradford City

Bradford City 0-1 Bolton Wanderers

Final

Stockport County v Bolton Wanderers - 24th May, 1pm

League Two

Semi Finals

Grimsby Town 1-2 Salford City

Salford City 2-2 Grimsby Town (AET)

Chesterfield 0-1 Notts County

Notts County 0-0 Chesterfield

Final

Salford City v Notts County - 25th May, 3pm

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by **Caerphillyblue1927** » Sun May 03, 2026 11:43 am

Can't see anyone stopping Southampton in the Championship playoffs.
Anyone except Stockport in the League One Playoffs.
League Two playoffs, not interested.
:bluebird:

by **davids** » Sun May 03, 2026 11:59 am

Bradford for me in League 1.

by **Starvinmarvin** » Mon May 04, 2026 3:38 pm

Southampton in the championship.

League one really is anyone's game. The only playoff team in any sort of form is Stevenage and they look to be the worse team by far in that mix

by **Blue since 1981** » Mon May 04, 2026 3:57 pm

I've gone

Southampton
Bolton
Notts county

A tenner returns 264 quid

by **TopCat CCFC** » Wed May 06, 2026 11:14 pm

I would like Southampton to go up from the Championship - on an unbeaten run of 19 league games to this point .

by **worcester_ccfc** » Fri May 08, 2026 11:57 am

Play-Offs start tonight with the first leg of Hull v Millwall in the Championship.

by **worcester_ccfc** » Fri May 08, 2026 6:52 pm

It's a complete lottery but I'll say the teams that go up will be Middlesbrough, Stevenage and Salford.

by **pontlliwblue** » Fri May 08, 2026 8:27 pm

may l8ve tobregret this but if hull and millwall are two of the top six we teally have nothing to worry about. average at best.

by **EastleighBlue** » Fri May 08, 2026 8:49 pm

pontlliwblue wrote:may l8ve tobregret this but if hull and millwall are two of the top six we teally have nothing to worry about. average at best.

I said the same thing last year when we went down watching Charlton in the play offs. League One was nothing to fear and that proved correct! The Championship is a different beast though. These two won't go up, my money is on Southampton but it just shows that we could compete in the top half of the table next year.

by **pontlliwblue** » Fri May 08, 2026 8:52 pm

i agree winner of the other tie will be favourites. id bet on southampton as well. in a great run of form

by **worcester_ccfc** » Fri May 08, 2026 8:53 pm

Hull and Millwall draw 0-0 in their first leg.

It was a terrible game, in all honesty.

Middlesbrough v Southampton in their first leg at 12.30pm tomorrow, with the League One first legs later in the day.

by **Sven** » Fri May 08, 2026 9:08 pm

worcester_ccfc wrote:Hull and Millwall draw 0-0 in their first leg.

It was a terrible game, in all honesty.

Middlesbrough v Southampton in their first leg at 12.30pm tomorrow, with the League One first legs later in the day.

Agree, it was poor stuff other than the horrid ‘Jack’ McBurnie having a good opportunity near the end

The first legs are often a bit stale but the second leg should see both teams step up! :ayatollah:

by **worcester_ccfc** » Sat May 09, 2026 11:15 am

Three more first legs today:

Middlesbrough v Southampton (Championship) - 12.30pm

Stevenage v Stockport (League One) - 3pm

Bolton v Bradford (League One) - 8pm

All games live on Sky Sports.

by **worcester_ccfc** » Sat May 09, 2026 1:23 pm

Entertaining game between Middlesbrough and Southampton but it ends 0-0. No idea how Middlesbrough didn't score in that game.

At least both Championship semi finals are in the balance.

Stevenage v Stockport at 3pm.

by **Cardiff_CPT** » Sat May 09, 2026 2:28 pm

I saw Boro earlier in the season, i thought they looked really good

by **SB 1927** » Sat May 09, 2026 3:56 pm

Stockport with a late goal in another crap game.

Stevenage are a horrible watch. Cant see them going on the front foot.

by **ORCHARD BLUEBIRD** » Sat May 09, 2026 4:03 pm

What a terrible game both sides were awful bad advert for the play offs hope none of these teams Go UP

by **EastleighBlue** » Sat May 09, 2026 4:17 pm

ORCHARD BLUEBIRD wrote:What a terrible game both sides were awful bad advert for the play offs hope none of these teams Go UP

This is why we had to go up first time. Horrible league to be stuck in. Stevenage are a non-league team and have massively over achieved. Stockport are just physical bullies, neither deserve to be in the Championship.

by **worcester_ccfc** » Sat May 09, 2026 6:43 pm

Didn't see the Stevenage v Stockport game but I'm not surprised by the assesment of others on here about that game, exactly what everyone would have expected from those two.

Bolton v Bradford should be decent. You'd think Bolton will go for it from the start, they'll want to capitalise on home advantage in the first leg because everyone knows how good Bradford are at home.

by **Welshman in CA** » Sat May 09, 2026 7:34 pm

Not a great advert for the British game so far.

by **Welshman in CA** » Sat May 09, 2026 7:48 pm

Bolton v Bradford is 0-0 at half time with ZERO shots on target, maybe even zero shots on goal.

by **worcester_ccfc** » Sat May 09, 2026 8:09 pm

Welshman in CA wrote:Bolton v Bradford is 0-0 at half time with ZERO shots on target, maybe even zero shots on goal.

Referee going off injured is probably the most interesting thing that's happened so far.

by **stickywicket** » Sat May 09, 2026 8:26 pm

Stevenage fell asleep for the goal

by **Jestrix** » Sat May 09, 2026 8:59 pm

Surprised that there's only around 22000 for the Bolton game. I'd like to think of Cardiff had been in the POs we would of had closer to 30k in attendance

by **worcester_ccfc** » Sat May 09, 2026 8:59 pm

Bolton beat Bradford 1-0.

I reckon both teams will be relatively pleased with that. Bolton take a lead into the away leg while Bradford will be happy it's just a one goal deficit and know they're good at home.

All four semi finals that have been played so far are in the balance.

League Two first legs on Sunday before the second legs start from Monday.

by **Welshman in CA** » Sat May 09, 2026 11:01 pm

Jestrix wrote:Surprised that there's only around 22000 for the Bolton game. I'd like to think of Cardiff had been in the POs we would of had closer to 30k in attendance

I don't know if you get the same commentary as me but they did say that both league games between these 2 had biggers crowds than this game.

by **Forever Blue** » Sun May 10, 2026 9:13 am

SkyBetLeagueOne Play Off Semi Final 1st Leg Attendances

Bolton Wanderers vs Bradford City 22,789 (Away) 2,043 ( Bradford only given this, asked for 5,000 what they got in the League game)

Stevenage vs Stockport County 7,321 (Away) 1,339

by **Jestrix** » Sun May 10, 2026 2:04 pm

Welshman in CA wrote:
Jestrix wrote:Surprised that there's only around 22000 for the Bolton game. I'd like to think of Cardiff had been in the POs we would of had closer to 30k in attendance

I don't know if you get the same commentary as me but they did say that both league games between these 2 had biggers crowds than this game.

I didn't hear that in commentary, I think Bolton ground holds closer to 28k though doesn't it? Strange they didn't give more tickets to Bradford unless they thought there maybe trouble. More likely worried about the noise Bradford may make

by **Jestrix** » Sun May 10, 2026 2:06 pm

Grimsby and Salford done more in the opening 4 minutes than the championship Playoffs so far. Very entertaining game