The 2012 Football League Championship play-off final was an association football match which was played on 19 May 2012 at Wembley Stadium, London, between West Ham United and Blackpool. The match was to determine the third and final team to gain promotion from the Football League Championship, the second tier of English football, to the Premier League. The top two teams of the 2011–12 Football League Championship season gained automatic promotion to the Premier League, while the teams placed from third to sixth place in the table partook in play-off semi-finals; West Ham ended the season in third place while Blackpool had finished fifth. The winners of these semi-finals competed for the final place for the 2012–13 season in the Premier League.
Carlton Cole (pictured in 2014) scored the opening goal of the 2012 play-off final.
Kevin Nolan lifts the trophy at the end of the game
A panorama of Wembley before the 2012 final
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Stephen Dobbie is a Scottish former professional footballer. Dobbie is currently the Senior Professional Development Phase coach at one of his former clubs Blackpool.
