This weekend sees Crawley Town and Crewe Alexandra go head-to-head under the famous arch with promotion at stake.

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• Crewe Alexandra are unbeaten in each of their last seven games against Crawley Town (W6 D1), all of which have come in League Two. Indeed, the Railwaymen won both meetings this term (1-0 at home, 4-2 away).
• Having lost both league meetings with Crewe this season, Crawley could become just the fourth side in the fourth tier this century to lose both league games but get promoted in the play-off final against the same side after Cheltenham Town in 2006, Dagenham and Redbridge in 2010 and Morecombe in 2021.
• Crawley are looking to become the first side since Coventry City in 2018 to earn promotion in their first ever time in the Football League play-offs, while Crewe have won each of their last two appearances in the play-off finals in 1997 in the third tier and 2012 in League Two.
• Crawley’s eight goals across their play-off semi-final against MK Dons is the most by a side in their first two games in the Football League play-offs. Indeed, the only sides with more goals during their first ever year in the play-offs are Walsall in 1988 (11) and Dagenham and Redbridge in 2010 (10).
• This is the first time since 2019 that the sides finishing sixth (Crewe) and seventh (Crawley) will meet in the final of the League Two play-offs. The last time a side finished seventh and earned promotion was Northampton in 2020.
• This will be Crawley’s first ever appearance at Wembley, while Crewe will be making their fifth appearance there, winning on each of their last three trips (D1).
• Since a 2-0 home league defeat to Doncaster in March, Crawley have scored in each of their last nine games (24 goals), while they last netted in 10 successive matches in all competitions in March 2021.
• Crewe enter the League Two play-off final having won just two of their last 11 games (D4 L5), while their 2-0 second-leg win over Doncaster was the first time they’d scored more than once in a game since a 3-2 defeat to Morecambe at the beginning of March.
• Two of Jay Williams’ three goals for Crawley in all competitions this season came across both legs of the semi-finals against MK Dons. Indeed, the last player to score in both legs and the final in a single year in the EFL play-offs was James Wilson for Port Vale in 2022.
• In the top four tiers this season (inc. play-offs), only Luke Leahy (10) has more goals among defenders than Crewe’s Mickey Demetriou (9), while he has more Football League goals against Crawley (4) than any other side.