Bromley have been promoted to League One for the primary time of their historical past with two video games of the season to spare.
The Ravens had been made to attend to realize the feat after shedding to MK Dons and drawing with Cambridge over the previous week.
However Notts County’s defeat to Barnet on Saturday means the League Two leaders can now not be caught within the automated promotion locations.
Based in 1892, the Ravens took 132 years to achieve the EFL, however in simply their second season they’ve reached the third tier.
It’s a sensational achievement for the south-east London membership, led by boss Andy Woodman.
Bromley are seven factors clear for fourth-placed Salford after Saturday’s outcomes and end the marketing campaign with video games towards Salford and Walsall.
‘The rise has been outstanding’
Sky Sports activities’ EFL Editor Simeon Gholam:
“It took Bromley 132 years to reach the Football League. It has taken just two for them to get from League Two to League One.
“A small group membership tucked away within the nook of south-east London, it appeared unthinkable after they gained the Nationwide League play-off ultimate in 2024 to achieve the EFL. This isn’t a membership that has had cash pumped into it. It’s success achieved with graft, togetherness and endeavour.
“Andy Woodman, in charge since 2021, has been the driving force at the helm. He never let them rest on their laurels when they reached League Two, insisting the only way was up.
“Final season they threatened the play-offs, earlier than falling away in the direction of the top, this season they’ve stormed the division.
“After a slowish start, they hit the top of at the end of December and have held that spot throughout the entirety of this calendar year.
“Hayes Lane, their house since 1938, holds simply over 6,000 followers – lower than 2,000 of these are seated. They’ve needed to modify and replace the bottom as they’ve grown and needed to tear out their previous synthetic pitch simply two summers in the past after they reached the EFL.
“It will next host League One football and sides that have played in the Premier League and, for some, even in Europe in the 21st century.
“The rise has been outstanding.”
‘Bromley identity unique in the EFL… it is a real Cinderella story’
Dave Edwards on the Sky Sports Essential EFL podcast:
“It is among the most great group soccer membership’s I’ve visited. It is very distinctive, particularly within the EFL, to have a spot like that.
Bromley had been solely promoted from the Nationwide League in 2024
“They’ve got the social club in the corner where all the fans are before the game, then they come back out, and there’s all the ‘Player of the Match’ stuff in there at the end.
“Andy Woodman has created one thing very particular there and so they’ve bought the entire fanbase actually engaged with it.
“I’m really happy for him. He’s come from a goalkeeping coach background, got this opportunity, grabbed it with both hands and excelled at this football club.
“Id is so essential for them. They’re unapologetic in the best way they play. Lots of people who watch them for the primary time will assume they’re a long-ball workforce, however they’re not. I’d say they’re a long-passing workforce.
“They play percentage football but they’re all on the same page. The amount of times they get down the sides, whether that’s a striker or the wingers getting in and putting crosses into the box, it’s so simple but so effective.
“It’s a actual Cinderella story.”
