Leeds United F.C.

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**Leeds United Football Club** is an English professional association football club based in the city of Leeds, West Yorkshire. They currently compete in the Premier League and play their home games at Elland Road.

The club was founded in 1919 after Leeds City was dissolved by the Football League due to financial irregualrities and took over their Elland Road stadium. In 1920, the club were elected into the Football League Second Division. After some steady seasons, they were promoted to the First Division in 1924, however, they failed to establish themselves as a First Division club and were subsequently relegated in 1927. In the year building up to the Second World War, they were twice relegated but on both occasions were immediately promoted again.

In March 1961, the club appointed former player Don Revie as manager. The Revie era would go down as the club's most successful era in its history. Whilst manager, Revie won the Second Division, the First Division twice, Inter-Cities Fairs Cup twice, the FA Cup, the League Cup, the FA Charity Shield and the British Home Championship. Revie left in 1974 to take charge of the England national team.

In 1992, Leeds became the last ever champions of the First Division before its rebranding to the Premier League. In 2004, they were relegated to the Championship, just a couple of years after they reached the semi-finals of the UEFA Champions League, as they found themselves in financial trouble. They entered administration in 2007, thus given a 10-point deduction which relegated the club to League One. They returned to the Championship in 2010 and eventually returned to the Premier League in 2020 under the management of Marcelo Bielsa.

## Rivalries

*Main articles: Leeds United F.C.–Manchester United F.C. rivalry, Leeds United F.C.–Millwall F.C. rivalry, Chelsea F.C.–Leeds United F.C. rivalry, West Yorkshire derby.*

Leeds United maintain many rivalries. Fans of the club consider Manchester United to be their main rival. Fixtures between the two sides are known as the *Roses derby*, in reference to the historic rivalry between Yorkshire and Lancashire dating back to the War of the Roses, or the *Pennines derby* after the hill range that seperates the two cities.

London clubs Chelsea and Millwall are also strong rivals the club. Both rivalries have links to the North-South divide in England as well as links to hooliganism. This is similar to the rivalry with Turkish club Galatasaray. The rivalry stems from the murder of two Leeds supporters in Istanbul before a UEFA Cup tie between the two sides. When former Leeds player Harry Kewell moved to Galatasaray, it caused uproar amongst Leeds fans.

Other rivals to a lesser extent include West Yorkshire rivals Bradford City and Huddersfield Town and Yorkshire rivals Sheffield United, Sheffield Wednesday and Hull City.

## Honours

### Domestic

#### League

* **First Division/Premier League**
	+ **Champions**: 1968–69, 1973–74, 1991–92
* **Second Division/Championship**
	+ **Champions**: 1923–24, 1963–64, 1989–90, 2019–20

#### Cup

* **FA Cup**
	+ **Winners**: 1971–72
* **EFL Cup**
	+ **Winners**: 1967–68
* **FA Charity/Community Shield**
	+ **Winners**: 1969, 1992

### European

* **Inter-Cities Fairs Cup**
	+ **Winners**: 1967–68, 1970–71