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15/6/2018 4:02 PM  #1


Season 2018-19 Promotion and Relegation places

According to Peter Miller's post on Walsall Wood's Twitter account, these are the 2018-19 season criteria for promotion and relegation. 

Step 6 promotion places  (28 promotion places)
There are 19 leagues at step 6:
1   CCL 1
2   East Midlands,
3   Eastern Counties 1 North, 
4   Eastern Counties Senior
5   Hellenic 1 East
6   Hellenic 1 West
7   Midland 1
8   NCW 1 North
9   NCW 1 South
10  NCE 1
11 Northern 2
12  SW Peninsula Premier
13  Southern Combination 1
14  SCE 1
15  Spartan 1
16  UCL 1
17  Wessex 1
18  WMRL Premier
19  Western 1

The 19 champions will be promoted to step 5 plus the 9 best runners up based on points per game

Step 5 Promotion and Relegation
There are 14 leagues at Step 5  (14 promotion places to Step 4 and 28 teams will be relegated to Step 6)
1   CCL Premier
2   Eastern Counties Premier
3   Essex Senior Premier
4   Hellenic Premier
5   Midland Premier
6   NWC Premier
7   NCE Premier
8   Northern 1
9   Southern Comb Premier
10 SCE Premier
11 Spartan Premier
12 UCL Premier
13 Wessex Premier
14 Western Premier
Only the top team from each league are promoted to Step 4.  The bottom two teams in each league will be relegated to Step 6.


Step 4 Promotion and Relegation
There are 7 leagues at Step 4

1  Northern West
2  Northern East
3  Southern West
4  Southern East
5  Isthmian South Central
6  Isthmian North
7  Isthmian South East

The bottom two from each league will be relegated to Step 5


To summarise from an Ilkeston Town viewpoint. At the end of the 2018-19 season:
Only the Champions of each of the 14 Step 5 leagues will be promoted to Step 4. They will replace the bottom two teams in each of the 7 Step 4 leagues

The bottom two teams in each of the 14 Step 5 leagues will be relegated to Step 6.

So Ilkeston have to finish top to be promoted and to finish above the bottom two to avoid relegation.












 

 

23/6/2018 7:19 AM  #2


Re: Season 2018-19 Promotion and Relegation places

According to the above Peter Miller: the proposed arrangements for promotion from Step 4 are open to criticism.


As things stand If Ilkeston win promotion to Step 4 then promotion to Step 3 may be via playoffs.
The Champions of the seven Step 4 leagues get promoted and teams finishing 2nd to 5th qualify for the play offs.

There are only 4 leagues at Step 3 (Northern Premier, Southern League Central, Southern League South and Isthmian League. The bottom 3 in each of the above leagues will be relegated to Step 4 meaning that 12 teams can be promoted from Step 4.
That means that only 5 of the 7 teams who win the Step 4 playoffs can be promoted (based on points per game).
This in turn means the two playoff winners who finished lowest in their league (therefore with the lowest average points per game) would miss out. Also the  two teams going into the playoffs with the worst points per game would enter the playoffs knowing that they would not go up.
 

Last edited by Matchman (23/6/2018 9:06 PM)

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