Promotion, or relegation, isn’t something teams experience much.

Some clubs go years without a promotion, such as Newport County and Colchester. For some, bouncing between leagues is the norm, with Rotherham and MK Dons the obvious contenders.

There are some teams who rise like Lazarus and sink like the Titanic, often in quick proximity. We’ve had teams go from non-league to the Championship in successive seasons, and others fall from the First Division to the Fourth Division in the same timeframe.

As we’re on a little bit of a lull, Football Lowdown brings you some of the teams who went through divisions like a dodgy fish curry.

FULHAM

Disgraced tycoon Mohamed Al Fayed arrived at Fulham in May 1997 with a bold promise: he wanted Premier League football within five years. In the end, he needed only four.

The first part of that rise had already been completed. Micky Adams had taken over a club sitting 91st in the Football League and led them out of the fourth tier, but that achievement did not save his job. Al Fayed wanted a more high-profile setup, bringing in Ray Wilkins as head coach, Kevin Keegan as director of football and Paul Peschisolido as part of the new-look squad.

When that structure failed to produce the expected impact, Keegan took full control. Fulham then surged to the title in 1999, finishing with 101 points before Keegan left for the England job, having balanced club and country duties during the closing months of the campaign.

The final push took another change of direction. Paul Bracewell and Karl-Heinz Riedle could not get Fulham over the line the following season, so Al Fayed made another major appointment by turning to Jean Tigana. That did the trick, with another 101-point season carrying Fulham into the Premier League.