Notts Co 3 – 0 Salford City

Notts County sealed promotion to League One for the first time in 11 years after beating Salford 3-0 at Wembley.

Goals from Alassana Jatta and Lucas Ness in the first half set them on their way in the League Two play-off final.

Jodi Jones struck after the break to seal the win. Just three years after promotion from the National League, the oldest professional football club in the world are back in the third tier.

For Salford, watched on by co-owners David Beckham and Gary Neville, an eighth season trying to get out of League Two awaits in August.

Stylish County comfortably win at Wembley

Both of these sides were still in contention for automatic promotion heading into the final day of the season, before being forced to settle for the play-offs. They got through their semis in very different ways, with Notts County beating Chesterfield 1-0 over two legs, while Salford City saw off Grimsby 4-3 on aggregate in extra-time.

It was County, though, who found the breakthrough on 32 minutes, when a long, searching pass from Jones evaded the Salford defence and glided into the path of Jatta, who coolly strode into the box before finishing low past Matthew Young.

And on the stroke of half-time it was 2-0. A smartly worked free-kick steered into the box, where Ness rose highest to head in.

The game was sealed with 20 minutes to go. Conor Grant surged down the right and pulled the ball back into the box. It missed Jatta but found Jones, who had acres of space to slide one into the bottom corner.