page_title: 2016 Football League One play-off Final
section_title: First half
hierarchical_section_title: 2016 Football League One play-off Final / Match / First half
caption_attribution_description: English: West Ham United player, Ashley Fletcher warming up before their Premier League game at the London Stadium against Southampton.
context_page_description: The 2016 EFL League One play-off Final was an association football match which was played on 29 May 2016 at Wembley Stadium, London, between Barnsley and Millwall to determine the third and final team to gain promotion from EFL League One to the EFL Championship. The top two teams of the 2015–16 Football League One season gained automatic promotion to the Championship, while the teams placed from third to sixth place in the table partook in play-off semi-finals; the winners of these semi-finals competed for the final place for the 2016–17 season in the Championship.
  Both Barnsley and Millwall had won one and lost one of their previous play-off finals going into the match. A Wembley Stadium crowd of more than 51,000 people watched the game which was refereed by Stuart Attwell. Ashley Fletcher opened the scoring for Barnsley after two minutes, and seventeen minutes later Adam Hammill doubled the lead. Eleven minutes before half-time, Millwall's Mark Beevers halved the deficit, but a goal on seventy-four minutes from Lloyd Isgrove restored Barnsley's two-goal advantage which they maintained to the final whistle, winning 3–1 and earning promotion to the Championship.
context_section_description: Millwall kicked the match off around 3 p.m. in front of a Wembley crowd of 51,277.  Shane Ferguson was fouled by Barnsley's Josh Scowen but Mark Beevers headed the resulting free kick from Taylor wide of the post.  From the goal kick, Winnall's headed flick-on fell to Fletcher who ran into the box before shooting low past Archer to open the scoring.  Hammill's fifth minute strike was too high and wide before Fletcher's shot was blocked by Archer.  Conor Hourihane's subsequent low corner found Winnall whose attempt from 15 yards (14 m) was also blocked.  On 19 minutes, Hammill doubled Barnsley's lead with a curling shot into the top corner of Millwall's goal from 25 yards (23 m).  George Williams was shown the first yellow card of the match on 28 minutes when he fouled Millwall's Chris Taylor.  The resulting free kick from Carlos Edwards was cleared by Winnall.  Scowen then made two clearances in quick succession, first from Taylor and then Edwards.  In the 34th minute, Millwall scored through Lee Beevers: a corner from Ferguson was kept in play at the near post by Morison, and Beevers held off Craig to strike the ball into Barnsley's net.  In the 43rd minute, Martin became the first substitution of the game after sustaining a calf injury, and was replaced by the forward Aiden O'Brien.  Brownhill's free kick in the last minute of the first half was off-target, and after three minutes of additional time, the referee brought the first half to a close with Barnsley leading 2–1.
caption: Ashley Fletcher (pictured warming up for West Ham United) scored the game's opening goal after two minutes.
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