To say there will be an unfamiliar face in the Premier League after Saturday's League Championship playoff final between Hull and Bristol City would be a huge understatement.
Hull is known as the largest English city never to have had its club in English soccer's top division, while Bristol City has spent a meager total of just nine years among the elite.
But such is the allure of victory at Wembley _ and the chance to play the likes of Manchester United and Chelsea regularly _ the teams are barely concerned with the aspect of promotion that could make the biggest difference to two sides that have never won a major title. Money.
A spot in the Premier League is reckoned to be worth as much as 60 million pounds (US$119 million; 75.5 million) in television money, sponsorship and other revenue _ enough to guarantee a club's future for many years.
"I don't think the 60 million means much to the players to be honest," Bristol City manager Gary Johnson said. "I think it means more to the accounts department at the football club because they have to make the figures add up all the time.
"This group of lads will not have one thought about the money. Once the game kicks off, it's all about the prestige of getting to the Premier League and winning this game."
But City knows more than most clubs the importance of the extra income that promotion could bring, having gone bankrupt while in England's lowest professional division in 1982.
Its last spell in the topflight of English soccer ended in 1980, when it had the first of three straight relegations that made it the first team to fall from the top to the bottom league in consecutive seasons.
The club went bankrupt and only managed to keep going when eight leading players, who came to be known by fans and media as "The Ashton Gate Eight," agreed to be made redundant in exchange for half the value of the remainder of their contracts.
With Hull playing in the attractive, six-year-old KC Stadium and boasting former Premier League players including Nick Barmby, Dean Windass and Henrik Pedersen, promotion would arguably make a bigger difference to its rival.
"It's a game of football that we've got to win," Johnson said. "All the bits that come after _ the finances and everything _ really do come after."
Johnson, who has managed Latvia's national side but spent most of his career at lowly English clubs such as Cambridge, Kettering and Yeovil, endured calls for him to quit shortly after he took over in 2005 after a club-record nine straight defeats.
He saved the club from relegation and the following season got it promoted to the League Championship. City then challenged for automatic promotion for most of its first year back in the second tier before losing out to West Brom and Stoke to finish fourth _ one place and one point below Hull.
While City beat Crystal Palace 4-2 in the two-legged semifinal playoff, Hull routed favorite Watford 6-1.
Unlike City, at least one of Hull's veterans has experience of playing at Wembley _ albeit at the old stadium that was demolished in 2003.
Barmby, a former Tottenham, Middlesbrough, Everton and Liverpool midfielder, played 23 times for England and featured in his country's run to the 1996 European Championship semifinals, when England played all its games at Wembley.
"This'll rank up with anything I've won with some of the great clubs I've been fortunate enough to play for," said the 34-year-old Barmby.
And having left his hometown to make his name as a regular with Tottenham at just 18, Barmby is in no doubt what promotion would mean to the Tigers.
"It would mean everything to the people of Hull and, especially, to the kids of the city, who aspire to make it in the game," Barmby said. "To see the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo coming to the KC and going to places like Anfield and Old Trafford would have a massive positive effect on the city."
