{"id":615416,"date":"2026-04-18T16:45:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T16:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/615416\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T16:45:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T16:45:17","slug":"efl-roundup-cardiff-promoted-from-league-one-after-exeter-keepers-goal-denies-stockport-football-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/615416\/","title":{"rendered":"EFL roundup: Cardiff promoted from League One after Exeter keeper\u2019s goal denies Stockport | Football League"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cardiff are celebrating an instant return to the Championship after results in the League One promotion race favoured the Welsh club, while Bromley have been promoted from League Two<\/a> without playing.<\/p>\n

After Bradford and Bolton were held to draws in Saturday\u2019s early games, Cardiff needed more points from there game at Reading than Stockport could manage at Exeter. Cardiff did their part, winning 3-1, but Stockport<\/a> were leading 3-2 in added time at St James Park. However, Jack Bycroft, the Exeter goalkeeper, went up for a corner and headed home in the sixth minute of added time.<\/p>\n

Jack Bycroft lifted Exeter\u2019s slim hopes of survival with his equaliser deep in added time. Photograph: Tom Sandberg\/PPAUK\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n

Barry-Murphy, the former Rochdale manager, has transformed Cardiff since taking over last summer after relegation to the third tier for the first time in more than two decades. A squad of young players has won over the club\u2019s support.<\/p>\n

The Irishman told the BBC before Saturday\u2019s win: \u201cI\u2019ve had the time of my life. A club of our size doing so well, backed by so many people is an incredible feeling and one that you treasure every single day.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think there would have been a lot of doubts about myself, the club [at the start of the season], I think it\u2019s easy to forget. The perception of the club in pre-season was of a club that wasn\u2019t very stable or wasn\u2019t very settled or didn\u2019t have a real clear identity. The players have transformed that, and the supporters have fuelled it with their energy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bromley, who drew 0-0 against Cambridge on Thursday, went up as a result of Barnet winning 2-1 at Notts County.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cardiff are celebrating an instant return to the Championship after results in the League One promotion race favoured…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-615416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}