Leeds United: 2023/24 Season Stats
Leeds United Club Honours
The club have tasted European success in the form of two Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Winners trophies in 1967/68 and 1970/71, while we also reached the European Cup final in 1974/75 under Jimmy Armfield. The Whites also reached the UEFA Cup semi-finals in 2000 and the Champions League semi-finals in 2001 under manager David O'Leary.
Leeds have reached 18 cup finals (excluding FA Charity Shield matches) and have won just 3 of them outright without aggregate victories over the course of the club's history. The club has won just 3 of the 10 matches played at Wembley that have been involved in.
Leeds have also finished as runners-up five times in the League Championship, three times in the FA Cup, three-times in Play-Off Finals, once each in the League Cup, the Charity Shield, the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, the Cup Winners' Cup and the European Cup.
On December 8th 2022, Mateusz Klich scored an 88th-minute winner as Leeds won the 2022 Festa d'Elx Trophy with a 2-1 friendly comeback win against Elche under Jesse Marsch.
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leeds united PLAYER OF THE YEAR
Norman Hunter became the inaugural winner of the Leeds United Player of the Year award in 1971. John Sheridan became the first non-British winner of the award in 1987. Tony Yeboah became the first non-European player to be named Leeds Player of the Year.
Gordon McQueen became the first Leeds player to win the award twice (1975, 1977). Pablo Hernandez became the first player to win three Leeds Player of the Year awards which he achieve in consecutive seasons (2018, 2019, 2020). Pablo Hernandez, Lee Bowyer, Gordon McQueen and Jermaine Beckford remain the only Leeds players to have won the award on more than one occasion.
There was no recipient of the Leeds Player of the Year award in 2022 as the club prioritised staying in the Premier League and securing the club's top flight status over hosting the club awards. The club decided against holding a Player of the Year awards following relegation from the Premier League in May 2023.
leeds united YOUNG PLAYER OF THE YEAR
Tommy Knarvic became the inaugural winner of the Leeds United Young Player of the Year award in 1998 at the age of 18. James Milner remains the youngest ever recipent of the award at the age of just 17. Alan Smith (1999 & 2002), Jonny Howson (2008 & 2011) and Lewis Cook (2015 & 2016) remain the only Leeds United players to have received the award on more than one occasion, with the latter the only player in the club's history to have received the award in consecutive years.
Paul Robinson became the first goalkeeper to received the award in 2001 at the age of 21. Alan Smith remains the only forward to have received the award (twice). There were no recipients of the award in the years in which the club suffered relegation in 2004, 2007 and 2023. There was also no recipient in 2022 as the club prioritised staying in the Premier League and securing the club's top flight status at the time.
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leeds united INDIVIDUAL AWARDS
Norman Hunter was the very first recipient of the prestigious PFA Players' Player of the Year award in 1974.