100 Years of Leeds United

Paperback, 625 pages

English language

Published 2020 by Icon Books, Limited.

ISBN:: 978-1-78578-635-8

100 Years of Leeds United is a 472 page hardback or 640 page paperback book telling the story of a one-club city and its unique relationship with its football team.

It has been updated for a new Champions Edition published in September 2020, taking the story to the end of the 2019/20 Championship title winning and centenary season, and uncovering lost documents crucial to the closure of Leeds City in 1919.

Since its foundation in 1919, Leeds United Football Club has known more ups and downs than most, rising to global fame through an inimitable and uncompromising style in the 1960s and clinching the last Division One title of the pre-Sky Sports era in 1992, before a spectacular fall from grace at the start of the 21st century.

United remains one of the best supported – and most divisive – clubs in football, with supporters’ clubs dotted …

100 Years of Leeds United is a 472 page hardback or 640 page paperback book telling the story of a one-club city and its unique relationship with its football team.

It has been updated for a new Champions Edition published in September 2020, taking the story to the end of the 2019/20 Championship title winning and centenary season, and uncovering lost documents crucial to the closure of Leeds City in 1919.

Since its foundation in 1919, Leeds United Football Club has known more ups and downs than most, rising to global fame through an inimitable and uncompromising style in the 1960s and clinching the last Division One title of the pre-Sky Sports era in 1992, before a spectacular fall from grace at the start of the 21st century.

United remains one of the best supported – and most divisive – clubs in football, with supporters’ clubs dotted across the globe, all hoping for a return to the Premier League.

In 100 Years of Leeds United, Daniel Chapman delves deep into the archives to discover the lesser-known episodes, providing fresh context to the folkloric tales that have shaped the club we know today, painting the definitive picture of the West Yorkshire giants.

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jalager reviewed 100 Years of Leeds United by Daniel Chapman

Essential reading

5 stars

"Essential reading" is the comment by iconic Leeds United covering journalist Phil Hay on the cover of this book, and it truly is. If you're a Leeds fan and want to know the club's history, look no further. Daniel Chapman walks his way through the first century of Leeds United as well as the decades leading up to its creation, with insight, humour and style. The book ends with Leeds United reaching promotion back to the Premier League at the end of the 2019/2020 season.