Hull City have been promoted to the Premier League after they beat Middlesbrough 1-0 in the Championship play-off final.
Oli McBurnie netted the winner in the fifth minute of second-half stoppage time, scrambling home after an error from Boro goalkeeper Sol Brynn.
The Tigers were in limbo as to who they would face at Wembley Stadium after the Southampton ‘Spygate’ scandal, which saw the Saints expelled from the season finale and Boro reinstated.
In a game of limited quality, Kim Hellberg’s Teesiders had the lionshare of possession, but were starved of any clear-cut chances by Sergej Jakirovic’s resolute army in gold and black, who stood firmly in a 5-4-1 shape soaking up the pressure in the heat under the arch.
Lewie Coyle had the first real opporunity of the encounter late on in the first period as he forced Brynn to tip over his far-post header from Ryan Giles’ cross.
McBurnie went close to an opener of his own when he crashed the woodwork from another Giles delivery, and Tigers ‘keeper Ivor Pandur was called into action to deny Sontje Hansen, who was sent clear by the returning Hayden Hackney.
But it was the Scot who had been omitted from his country’s World Cup squad that was the matchwinner, notching his 19th of the campaign in scruffy style.
Yu Hirakawa burst down the left flank before fizzing a low cross in that Brynn spilled, and McBurnie gobbled up the rebound to bundle it over the line and send the Humberside outfit back to the big time.