Yo-yo club
No Team Promotions Relegations Total
1 Notts County 13 16 29
= Grimsby Town 13 16 29
3 Birmingham City 12 12 24
4 Leicester City 11 11 22
5 Manchester City 11 10 21
= Millwall 11 10 21
7 Bolton Wanderers 9 11 20
8 West Bromwich Albion 9 9 18
= Barnsley 9 9 18
= Plymouth Argyle 9 9 18
= Sheffield Wednesday 9 9 18
= Stoke City 8 10 18
13 Sunderland 9 8 17
= Reading 9 8 17
= Middlesbrough 9 8 17
16 Portsmouth 9 6 15
= Watford 9 6 15
= Derby County 7 8 15
19 Sheffield United 7 7 14
20 Crystal Palace 7 6 13
England -- Overall total
The table below shows the total number of relegations and promotions ( of select clubs ) between the top four tiers of English football as of the beginning of the 2016–17 season .
A yo-yo club is a sporting side that is regularly promoted and relegated. The phrase is most typically used in association football in the United Kingdom, especially in reference to promotion to and relegation from the Premier League. The name is derived from the toy yo-yo which goes up and down a string. In Germany the equivalent term is Fahrstuhlmannschaft, in Greece it is ομάδα ασανσέρ, in Spain it is equipo ascensor and in Russia they often say команда-лифт, all four of them literally meaning lift team or elevator team. In the Netherlands the term is heen-en-weer club (to-and-fro club). In Polish, yo-yo clubs are referred to as wańka-wstańka, which translates to roly-poly toy. In Romanian, clubs oscillating between the first and second tier are called ABBA, in reference to these leagues' former names, Divizia A and Divizia B. In England the phrase has been used to describe, among others, Birmingham City, Leicester City, Crystal Palace, Hull City, Norwich City, Queens Park Rangers, Newcastle United and West Bromwich Albion. West Brom were an archetypal yo-yo club throughout the first decade of the 21st-century, during which time they were promoted four times and relegated three times. This was seen by some to be a direct result of the policies espoused by the club's chairman Jeremy Peace, who refused to allow the club to spend beyond its means and has insisted on sound financial management. This tended to leave the club at a disadvantage in the Premier League, when other similarly-sized clubs have tended to spend beyond their means, but strongly placed in the second tier (The Championship) due to the parachute payments received on relegation from the Premier League. West Brom has recently been relegated yet again from the Premier League, proving themselves as a yo-yo club.