Amiens promoted to Ligue 1 after 96th-minute winner, capping wild final day

Blink and you'll miss the most exciting promotion race in football.

A frantic final day of Ligue 2 action has seen Strasbourg and Amiens secure promotion to France's top flight, while third-place Troyes can look forward to a play-off for a Ligue 1 berth.

Entering Friday's slate of matches, only three points separated six sides vying for three positions, amounting to the most hotly contested promotion battle among Europe's marquee divisions:

Friday's tilts were made more dramatic by the fact that any of the half-dozen clubs had a shot at winning the league, and by chance, the fixture list meant none of the six outfits were tasked with facing each other.

As scores changed, so too did the table, with Lens suffering the most courtesy of Amiens' 96th-minute winner against Reims. Emmanuel Bourgaud's goal booked his club's first-ever Ligue 1 berth, vaulting Amiens from sixth to second.

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Here's how the table looked after Friday's nutty finale:

For Strasbourg, Friday's Ligue 2 conquest marks a second successive league triumph after Le Racing won the Championnat National a year ago after a six-year absence from France's professional tiers.

Like Strasbourg, Amiens has now experienced two promotions on the trot and can look forward to a maiden voyage in France's premier division, while Troyes and 40-year-old technical marvel Benjamin Nivet await a playoff opponent after finishing bottom a year ago with the worst points tally (18) in French history.