League One 2025/26 line-up confirmed as Wanderers learn final opponent
Myles Hippolyte scored the decisive goal on the stroke of half time, picking out the bottom corner with a clinical first-time finish from the edge of the area.
Walsall were inches away from an equaliser early in the second half when Riley Harbottle cleared Jamille Matt's effort off the line.
Levi Amantchi and David Okagbue also had chances late on, while Tommy Simkin made an impressive save from Josh Neufville at the other end.
Former Wanderer Liam Gordon played the full 90 minutes for Walsall, while Brandon Comley was an unused substitute.
Wimbledon survived six minutes of stoppage time to get over the line after three years in League Two.
"This is surreal it feels like a dream, and I'm trying to take it in and enjoy it," manager Johnnie Jackson told Sky Sports.
"There was so much riding on this game, so much pressure when the whistle goes. It's just relief and now I want to spend time with players, family and friends."
The 2025/26 League One line-up is now finalised. Doncaster Rovers, Port Vale and Bradford City are the other promoted sides.
Cardiff, Luton and Plymouth are the clubs dropping down from the Championship after finishing in the bottom three.
Leyton Orient will play in the third tier again after their narrow defeat against Charlton at Wembley over the weekend.
The Addicks join Birmingham and Wrexham, who finished first and second respectively, in promotion to the Championship.
Wanderers and their rivals will learn the full 2025/26 fixture list at 9am on Thursday, June 26.
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If you found yourself in a fight like that, and if you realized early in the first round that you had an easy path to victory available to you, would you feel obligated to take more risks for the sake of other people's entertainment? I think it felt lackluster mostly because Chimaev was clearly so dominant that we assumed he could have done more. You control a guy that thoroughly, it makes us think you're dragging it out by not just cranking up the volume and putting him away. But you saw how "DDP" was dangerous even in the final round when given an opening. Job one for Chimaev was to win and become champ. He did that. I don't blame him too much for deprioritizing our excitement — at least this time. @jmprobus: RDR or Fluffy? Who has a better chance at taking out The Wolf and why? One thing both Reinier de Ridder and Anthony Hernandez have in common is great ground games — but also ground games that are different from what we've seen Chimaev face. 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I just have no desire to see something bad happen to Frankie Edgar at this point. @ShinyaAokiplata: Carlos Prates is awesome but probably gonna struggle to reach champion status. How would you recommend he promote himself to be at least as popular as Cowboy Cerrone used to be It probably says something about this sport that his love of cigarettes seems to be doing a lot of marketing work for him. Weird, I know. But that's MMA. It just goes to show how far you can go with a gimmick — almost any gimmick — as long as it feels genuine. You just need that one little thing to make us remember you as an individual and not just another faceless UFC fighter. I kind of think Prates has that. Now he just needs to win the big fights.
