Monday 17 April 2017 17:50, UK
Brighton fans could be celebrating a memorable Easter weekend on Monday night, with their side on the verge of securing promotion to the Premier League.
Chris Hughton's side need to beat Wigan at the Amex Stadium and hope Huddersfield fail to beat Derby, live on Sky Sports, in the late kick-off if they are to get the job done.
After six wins in seven, Hughton is backing his squad to hold up their end of the deal against the Latics.
"At the moment we're on a good run and it's a really good time to be on that run," said Hughton, following Brighton's 2-0 win at Wolves on Friday.
"I think they've learnt a lot all season. At the moment we've got really good competition in the squad and they're all pushing. That real determination is showing through."
Brighton's win at Molineux put them on the verge of promotion, after missing out in the play-offs three times in the past four seasons.
However, 20 years ago, Brighton fans were more concerned about staying in the Football League.
The Seagulls went to Hereford on the last day of the 1996-97 season needing a draw to survive dropping into non-League football and after falling behind, Robbie Reinelt got the crucial goal that kept them in the fourth tier.
Yet that survival was bittersweet as the club lost their home of 95 years, the Goldstone Ground, after it was sold to property developers to pay the club's debts.
That meant fans had to make a 70-mile trip to Gillingham's Priestfield Stadium to watch games, where the average attendance dropped to less than 2,500 for their first season at the ground.
Two years later they returned to Brighton - playing at a converted Athletics venue, the Withdean Stadium.
Success soon followed, including a play-off win over Bristol City at Cardiff that saw them promoted to the Championship in 2004.
After slipping back down to the third tier, Gus Poyet saw them sign off from the Withdean in style by winning League One in 2011.
That year also saw them move to the 30,000-seater Amex Stadium, where they've come close to promotion to the Premier League several times.
Last season saw them only miss out on automatic promotion via goal difference to Middlesbrough on the last day of the season, before a play-off defeat to Sheffield Wednesday.
Click the video at the top of the page to watch Brighton's journey from League Two to the top of the Championship and follow Easter Monday's EFL action with our live blogs on skysports.com and the Sky Sports apps. Watch Championship goals as they go in on Soccer Special.
