Head to head
• These clubs have met 55 times previously; Swindon have won 12, Charlton 25 with 18 drawn.
• Both league clashes this season were drawn.
• It is 13 years since Swindon last recorded a home win over the Addicks.
Swindon Town
• Finished in fifth, one place and two points inferior to Charlton.
• They conceded 57 goals, make their defence the weakest of the four clubs in these play-offs.
• Since 1991 when the play-offs assumed their current format, the club finishing three places below the automatic promotion spots has been promoted to the second tier only twice (Sheffield Wednesday in 2005, and Barnsley in 2006).
• Won only one of the last six, but unbeaten in five at home since defeat to Bristol Rovers on 6 March.
• Hoping to rise out of League One after a three-year stay.
• Last promoted to the second tier in 1996, where they stayed for four seasons.
• Promoted to the second tier in the first ever play-offs in 1987, and also successful in them in 1990 and 1993.
• This is the third play-off campaign for manager Danny Wilson. He was unsuccessful with Bristol City in 2003 and 2004.
Charlton Athletic
• Won their last two games in the regular league season, with clean sheets in both.
• Spent the first half of the season in the top two, but fell out of the automatic promotion places at the start of 2010, and never returned to them.
• Eager to make an instant return to the Championship; not experienced consecutive seasons in the third tier for 35 years.
• Successful in the first ever play-offs, when they retained their top-flight status in 1987.
• Promoted to the Premier League in 1998 after, arguably the most dramatic play-off final ever, when they drew 4-4 with Sunderland after extra time, and won 7-6 on penalties.
• This is Phil Parkinson's first experience of the play-offs as a manager.
• The club finishing two places below the automatic spots in the third tier has won promotion on five occasions since 1991. Brighton were the most recent in 2004.
0
