The Knights also missed out on automatic promotion in seasons 2010-11 and 2011-12.
Preston spent much of the 2006-07 season in the automatic promotion or playoff places.
Up to 300,000 students are expected to attend summer school this year under a new policy that ended automatic promotion.
In 2005, they finished 2nd and gained an automatic promotion to J1.
He'd been a maverick in his ways too long to get the kind of automatic promotions other good guys did.
They came the first club to gain automatic promotion to the league.
This carried with it automatic promotion to commander after two years' service.
He couldn't achieve automatic promotion though, and the club finished fourth at the end of the 2010-11 season.
As a result of their second place finish they received automatic promotion to the 1.
They would need to suffer a 13-goal swing in their final two games to fail to win automatic promotion.