The Football League play-offs for the 1992–93 season were held in May 1993, with the finals taking place at Wembley Stadium in London.
Portsmouth, whose top scorer Guy Whittingham had found the net 42 times in Division One, only missed out on automatic promotion on goal difference.
Fourth placed Tranmere Rovers had recorded the highest finish of their history and had yet to play in the top flight of English football.
Swindon Town, who finished fifth, had won the playoff final three years earlier but promotion was then withdrawn due to financial irregularities.
Glenn Hoddle's impressive two-year spell as player-manager of Swindon attracted attention of bigger clubs, and soon after this famous victory he was appointed player-manager of Chelsea, while losers Leicester had now been beaten in all of their six appearances at Wembley.