Promotion

How it is used

Teams win, earn or secure promotion and are in the promotion race. A promoted club goes up, and fans celebrate with "we're going up". Teams just below the automatic promotion places usually fight for the last spot in the promotion play-offs.

Example sentences

1. A win on Saturday will secure promotion for Kestrel Athletic.

2. They won promotion through the play-offs.

Common collocations

• win promotion
• promotion race
• automatic promotion
• promotion play-offs
• promotion party

Related terms

• relegationDropping down to a lower division at the end of the season after finishing in one of the bottom places of the league.
• leagueA competition in which teams play each other over a season, usually home and away, and are ranked in a table by points.
• tableThe list that ranks the teams in a league by points, with goal difference and other figures; also called the league table or standings.
• fixtureA match arranged for a particular date; the fixtures, or the fixture list, are all the matches a team or league has scheduled for the season.

This word in other fields

The same English word can have a different meaning in another field:

• promotion · Business English
• promotion · Marketing
• promotion · Public Administration
• promotion · Military & Defence
• promotion · Job Interviews & Careers

More terms: Competitions & Results

• match
• draw
• clean sheet
• beat
• penalty shootout
• goal difference
• away game