 Following the end of the league season, the winners of the fifth-level Highland and Lowland Leagues compete in a two-legged playoff.The winner then enters a two-legged playoff against the bottom team from Scottish League Two, with the winner of that tie either remaining in or promoted to League Two.Long before the SPL era, two situations arose in which the top two teams in the table had to share the title as neither goal average nor goal difference had been instituted to break ties.