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2011 Conference Premier play-off final

football match

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ4620790 ↗
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The 2011 Conference Premier play-off final, known as the 2011 Blue Square Bet Premier play-off final for sponsorship purposes, was a football match between AFC Wimbledon and Luton Town on 21 May 2011 at the Etihad Stadium in Manchester. It was the ninth Conference Premier play-off final and was played in Manchester due to a conflict with the UEFA Champions League final. AFC Wimbledon won the match 4–3 in a penalty shoot-out following a 0–0 draw after extra time to secure promotion to League Two, thus entering the Football League for the first time in the club's nine-year history.

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The public source identifies “2011 Conference Premier play-off final” as football match. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Conference, Premier and play-off.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2011—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Conference, Premier and play-off providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “2011 Conference Premier play-off final” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.