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| Full name | Leeds United Football Club | ||
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| Nickname(s) | The Whites[1] | ||
| Founded | 17 October 1919 | ||
| Ground | Elland Road | ||
| Capacity | 37,608[2] | ||
| Owner | 49ers Enterprises[3] | ||
| Chairman | Paraag Marathe | ||
| Manager | Daniel Farke | ||
| League | EFL Championship | ||
| 2023–24 | EFL Championship, 3rd of 24 | ||
| Website | leedsunited.com | ||
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Leeds United Football Club is a professional football club based in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. The club competes in the Championship, the second tier of English football and play their home games at Elland Road.
Leeds United have won the League Championship three times, four Second Division titles, the FA Cup once, the League Cup once, the Charity Shield twice and the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup twice. The club had their most successful period under the management of Don Revie in the 1960s and 1970s, when they won the League title twice, the FA Cup once, the League Cup once and the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup twice. The club have also been runners-up five times in the League Championship, three times in the FA Cup, once each in the League Cup, the Charity Shield, the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, the Cup Winners' Cup and the European Cup, and lost the play-off to keep the Inter-City Fairs Cup trophy.
The club has rivalries with Manchester United and Chelsea. The team's traditional kit colours are white shirts, white shorts and white socks. Their badge features the White Rose of York, which is a symbol of Yorkshire.
- ^ Barnes, Stuart, ed. (2008). Nationwide Football Annual 2008–2009. SportsBooks. p. 476. ISBN 9781899807-72-7.
- ^ "Premier League Handbook 2022/23" (PDF). 19 July 2022. p. 24. Archived (PDF) from the original on 5 August 2022. Retrieved 11 April 2023.
- ^ "49ers Enterprises assumes full ownership of Leeds United". Leeds United FC. 17 July 2023. Retrieved 17 July 2023.