2012 Football League Championship play-off Final
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The <entity_0> was an <entity_2> match which was played on <entity_6> at <entity_4>, London, between <entity_3> and <entity_7>. The top two teams of the <entity_1> 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 <entity_7> had finished fifth. The winners of these semi-finals competed for the <entity_8> place for the <entity_6>–13 season in the Premier League. The <entity_6> <entity_8>, refereed by <entity_5>, was watched by a crowd of more than 78,000 people. <entity_3> finished the regular <entity_1> in third place in the Football League Championship, the second tier of the English football league system, two places ahead of <entity_7>. Davies reduced Birmingham's deficit to a single goal but the match ended without further scoring, and <entity_7> qualified for the <entity_8> 3–2 on aggregate. In the other play-off semi-<entity_8>, <entity_3>'s opponents were Cardiff City, with the first leg being played at the Cardiff City Stadium. This was <entity_7>'s second appearance in the second tier play-off <entity_8>, having beaten Cardiff City 3–2 in the 2010 Football League Championship play-off Final. The referee for the <entity_8> was <entity_5>, with assistant referees Peter Kirkup and Mike Mullarkey, and Kevin Friend acted as the fourth official. <entity_7> went into the <entity_8> without Gary Taylor-Fletcher whose injury during training prevented him from taking part.
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