The settings may not be as glamourous, but the will to win for those involved will be very much the same.
In the 2007-08 season, the Championship Play-off final was contested by Bristol City and Hull City, who were managed by Gary Johnson and Phil Brown respectively.
Fast forward 13 years and the two managers will be going head to head in the National League as Johnson's Torquay United prepare to face Brown's Southend United.
A Dean Windass strike famously decided the contest, which is regarded as the 'most expensive gamein English football', as the Tigers reached the top-flight for their first time in their history.
Brown then went on to consolidate Hull's place in the Premier League before leaving the club in the summer of 2010. He then went on to manage Preston North End before he took charge of Southend United in March 2013 and he led the Shrimpers to promotion from League Two in the 2014-15 campaign. A spell in charge of Swindon and a stint in India followed before he returned to Roots Hall in April 2021, but he was unable to stop them from being relegated from the Football League for the first time in their history.
Johnson left his post as Bristol City in March 2010 and went on to manage Peterborough United and Northampton Town before returning to Yeovil Town in January 2012. He then guided the Glovers to the Championship against the odds in the 2012-13 season, following a Play-off final victory over Brentford.
Yeovil's stay in the Championship proved to be a brief one and would leave Huish Park in February 2015, following his dismissal.
In the following month Johnson returned to management with Cheltenham Town, then in League Two. He was unable to keep them in the Football League; however, he led them to an immediate return to the Football League in the 2015-16 season as the Robins clinched the title with a brand new squad built from scratch.
Four games into the 2018-19 campaign, Johnson was dismissed by Cheltenham but was appointed as manager of Torquay side, who had recently been relegated to National League South, in September 2018.
At the time of his appointment, the Gulls were 14th in the National League South - but he soon galvanised the club as they went on a club record 16-match unbeaten run in the league before clinching the club's first title in 91 years.
Two years later, Johnson led United to the brink of promotion from the National League, as they narrowly missed out on the league title before losing in the Play-off final on penalties to Hartlepool United.
Both managers will be looking for a reaction following their side's disappointing start to the campaign, United gained four points from their opening six league fixtures and the Shrimpers picked up five, but memories of that day in 2008 at Wembley won't be far away.
Footnote: Saturday's clash will be the second time that Brown and Johnson have locked managerial horns since the 2008 Championship Play-off final. Brown's Southend lost 1-0 to Johnson's Yeovil in the first round of the Capital One Cup in August 2013.
