Leeds United is an English football club from Leeds in West Yorkshire, formed in the year that the previous city club, Leeds City, was disbanded after being expelled from the Football League over financial irregularities. The new club took over Elland Road, its home ground, and joined the league soon after. Its golden age was under the manager Don Revie in the 1960s and 1970s, when the team won the league title in 1969 and 1974, as well as the FA Cup in 1972, and were runners-up in the European Cup in 1975. Leeds won the last pre-Premier League title in 1992 and reached the Champions League semi-finals in 2001, before financial crisis led to relegation in 2004. It returned to the Premier League in 2020.
Before and after
- 23 December 1918Birth of Helmut Schmidt
- 25 December 1918Birth of Anwar Sadat
- from 31 December 1918 to 5 January 1919Battles for Vilnius
- 1919Founding of International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
- 1919Founding of Leeds United F.C.
- from 1919 to 1933Founding of Bauhaus
- 1919Founding of Baku State University
- 1919Paris Peace Conference
- 1919Founding of Save the Children
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- 9 July 1916Founding of CONMEBOL
- 20 July 1924Founding of FIDE
- from 3 August 1936 to 9 August 1936Jesse Owens wins four gold medals in Berlin
- November 1938Kristallnacht
- 1940Katyn massacre
- 1941Rise of Vietnamese Independence League
The era
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