https://baileyfootballblog.blogspot.com/2019/10/leeds-from-city-to-united.html
The blogs above will tell of the Leeds' football club history up to, at least, 1920 when they were elected to the Football League.You will also learn that thanks to Leeds' demise, Port Vale emerged as a League club, taking over the "dismissed" Leeds City existing results and fixtures. There is still a "Leeds City FC" playing in the West Yorkshire League.
Leeds United was founded in 1920 and made the First Division in 1924. BUT relegation came in 1926-7 and the club went up and down between the top two divisions. In that period with John Charles in their team in 1955-6, they were a force BUT they sold him to Juventus...a first transfer of that kind to Italy, Leeds benefitting by £65,000. Leeds were relegated in 1959-60.
(John Fox Watson from Scotland, whose career began at Bury FC, was transfered to Fulham and then to Real Madrid, where he played for a year from 1948-9. He later returned to Crystal Palace for 2 years and then ended up at Canterbury City FC. He died on April 1976 aged 58 in Southend.)
The Don turned up in 1961 and the club just avoided relegation to Division 3 at the final game of the season. What did they need? New kit!!
They left their Yorkshire pale blue and yellow behind for the all white like Real Madrid. It worked!
By 1963-4 they were in the First Division and Revie was so good at his job, that he was made England manager in October 1974.
Leeds had been no lower than 4th in the top flight for a decade, winning the league twice, r-up four times, an FA Cup Final, Inter-Cities Fairs Cup and runnuers up in the European Cup Winners Cup.
Clough took over Leeds United for 44 days (the DVD is worth watching) and Revie didnt stay long in charge of the national side either. In June 1977, Revie left the national team under curious circumstances. Remember?
Leeds United
1982 (relegated from Div 1)-1990 to Division 2.
1990-92 to Division 1.
1992-2004 the Premier League.
from 2002-3 Terry Venables was the first manager in the era* and by 2018 Leeds Utd welcomed Marcelo Bielsa.
*Between these two were 21 managers. Simon Grayson lasted longest between 2008-12.
2004-7 to the Championship.
2007-10 then League One.
2010-20 back to the Championship.
Neil Redfearn had three goes as "acting" manager.
2020- and now the Premier League.
Bill Hampson, the longest serving manager at Leeds from 1935-47...over the War years of course! AFTER THE DON (see above link) who served one way or another from 1961-74.
Best wishes Marcelo
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