2008–09 Football League One
The Football League 2008–09 (named Coca-Cola Football League for sponsorship reasons), was the seventeenth season under its current league division format. It began in August 2008 and concluded in May 2009, with the promotion play-off finals.
| Season | 2008–09 |
|---|---|
| Champions | Leicester City |
| Promoted | Leicester City Peterborough United Scunthorpe United |
| Relegated | Northampton Town Crewe Alexandra Cheltenham Town Hereford United |
← 2007–08 2009–10 → | |
The Football League is contested through three Divisions. The second division of these is League One. The winner and the runner up of League One will be automatically promoted to the Football League Championship and they will be joined by the winner of the League One playoff. The bottom four teams in the league will be relegated to the third division, League Two.
Leicester City played at this level for the first time in their history having spent all their time in the top two divisions. In the opposite direction, Hereford United made their first appearance in the third tier since 1978, after many seasons in non-league and lower-league football.