Event | 2014–15 Football League Two | ||||||
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Southend won 7–6 on penalties | |||||||
Date | 23 May 2015 | ||||||
Venue | Wembley Stadium, London | ||||||
Man of the Match | Dan Bentley[1] | ||||||
Referee | Simon Hooper | ||||||
Attendance | 38,252 | ||||||
The 2015 Football League Two play-off final was an association football match played on 23 May 2015 at Wembley Stadium, London, between Wycombe Wanderers and Southend United. The match determined the fourth and final team to gain promotion from Football League Two, English football's fourth tier, to Football League One. The top three teams of the 2014–15 Football League Two season gained automatic promotion to League One, while the teams placed from fourth to seventh in the table took part in play-off semi-finals; the winners of these semi-finals competed for the final place for the 2015–16 season in League One. Wycombe finished in fourth place while Southend ended the season in fifth position. Stevenage and Plymouth Argyle were the losing semi-finalists.
The final was played in front of 38,252 spectators and was refereed by Simon Hooper. After a goalless 90 minutes, the match went into extra time and in the 95th minute, a Joe Jacobson free kick passed over the wall, off the underside of the Southend crossbar and into the goal to make it 1–0 to Wycombe. Two minutes into injury time, Myles Weston's cross was partially cleared but Joe Pigott brought the ball under control inside the Wycombe box, and struck a shot from 15 yards (14 m) into the bottom corner of Alex Lynch's goal to send the game into a penalty shootout. Ben Coker and Matt Bloomfield missed their spot kicks to send the shootout into sudden death where Sam Wood's shot was saved to give the victory to Southend 7–6.
Wycombe ended their following season in thirteenth place in League Two while Southend's next season saw them finish in fifteenth position in the League One table.