2003 Football League First Division Play-off Final
The 2003 Football League First Division playoff final was a football match played at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium on 26 May 2003, at the end of the 2002–03 season. The match determined the third and final team to gain promotion from the First Division to the Premier League, and was contested by Sheffield United and Wolverhampton Wanderers.
Wolves won the match 3–0, with three first-half goals, taking them back to the top flight for the first time in 19 years.
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