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Team
Overview
Stadium:
Elland Road
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Honours:
UEFA
Fairs Cup: 1968,
1971
League
Winners: 1969;
1974; 1992
FA
Cup:
1972
League
Cup: 1968
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Originally Leeds City, the
club changed it's name to Leeds United in 1919.
Leeds started off with three years of mid-table
anonymity in Division Two, but the 1923-24 season
saw some well-balanced play, particularly at Elland
Road where only ten goals were conceded and two
games lost this contributed to Leeds United winning
the Second Division Championship and promotion
to top flight football for the first time.
After the Second World Ward, Leeds often bounced
between the first and second divisions, and whilst
never creating much of a threat as a team, they
produced some outstanding individuals, most famously
- John Charles,
who went on to become very successful with Italian
giants Juventus.
Playing poorly i nthe second division, former
player Don Revie took charge and transformed the
clubs fortunes.
The clubs first trophy cam in shape of the UEFA
Fairs Cup in 1968. The following season Leeds
won the First Divison Championship with legends
Jack Charlton, Billy Bremner and Peter Lorimer
now all first team regulars.
Leeds' title winning team of 74 is still believed
to be the best the club has produced, and once
Revie left to take the England job, things soon
turned sour.
Brian Clough reigned for 44 days before being
shown the door, leaving Jimmy Armfield to pick
up the pieces. Armfield guided Leeds to the European
Cup inal, where they lost to Bayern Munich. Leeds
never recovered from this blow and were eventually
relgated back to the second division in 1982.
Things were still sour until Howard Wilkinsons
arrival in 1988. Wilikinson guided the team to
the first division and the n won the League for
only the 2nd time in the clubs history in 1992.
This was followed by victory in the Charity Shield
at the start of the inaurgral Premiership season.
It is Leeds last trophy as their form went from
bad to worse.
Following Wilkinsons departure, George Graham
tried and failed to regain Leeds' glory and when
he left for Tottenham, David O'Leary took charge,
and finally brought relative success to the club.
The Irishman took Leeds to 3rd in the Premiership
and then the Euopean Cup Semi-Finals the following
season but was sacked after the club failed to
qualify for the Champions League in 2002.
New coach Terry Venables has doen a decent job
considering the clubs tribulations in the current
campaign.
QUICK
FACT
When
appointed as manager, Don Revie changed
the clubs home strip to white. It was previously
gold and blue, now the colour of the clubs
away kit. |
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