The Football League is to undergo a complete revamp with the First Division renamed The Championship and the Second and Third divisions renamed League One and League Two.
The move is designed to raise the profile of the three lower divisions in England's top echelon and capitalise on the current First Division's rising attendance figures.
League chairman, Sir Brian Mawhinny, said it was vital to boost awareness with the top flight dominating media and public attention.
He said: "The Championship is a term steeped in the history of the League. It will place a new emphasis on its status. Not only is it [First Division] a gateway to the Premiership, it is one of Europe's leading league competitions, in terms of the standard of football, the stadia and the numbers of supporters attending.
"We want our games to become ever more attractive, not only to our core audience, but also to a new generation of youngsters on the brink of discovering the game.
"We also want a commercial audience to be encouraged to re-evaluate its perception of the League."
The name switch comes just 12 years after the formation of the Premiership from the ashes of the old First Division. This saw the former Division Two renamed Division One, Division Three renamed Division Two and so forth.
It means that in the space of just a few years, the bottom division of the top footballing echelon has gone from being known as Division Four, to League Two.
It was not known at the time of publication whether the name changes would take place in time for the new domestic season, which kicks off in August.