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Elland Road, also called Elland Road Football Stadium or Elland Road Stadium, is a football stadium in Beeston, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, which has been the home of Championship club Leeds United since the club's formation in 1919. [4] The stadium is the 13th largest football stadium in England.
Revie's men were also beaten semi-finalists in the FA Cup, although they did find their first domestic and European successes, completing a League Cup and Fairs Cup double. Terry Cooper 's goal securing a tense League Cup final victory against Arsenal , and a Mick Jones goal secured the Fairs cup victory over the veteran Hungarian side ...
Other factors, such as fixture congestion and the FA's insistence that Leeds play 9 games in 22 days (the 1969–70 season was foreshortened by England's early departure to Mexico to defend the World Cup) meant that Revie was often forced to field tired players. Geoffrey Green of the Times wrote: "It has been a strenuous slog, greatly ...
The newly formed Leeds City agreed to rent and later own Elland Road. After their disbandment, it was sold to Leeds United. The most recent stand at Elland Road is the East, or Family, Stand, a cantilever structure completed during the 1992–93 season that can hold 17,000 seated spectators. It is a two-tiered stand that continues around the ...
Revie implemented a youth policy and a change of kit colour to an all-white strip in the style of Real Madrid, [3] and Leeds soon won promotion to the First Division in 1963–64. Leeds adapted well to the First Division in the 1964–65 campaign, finishing second to rivals Manchester United on goal difference. [ 4 ]
Don Revie: Stadium: Elland Road: First Division: 1st: FA Cup: Fifth round: League Cup: Second round: UEFA Cup: Third round: Top goalscorer: League: Mick Jones (14) All: Mick Jones (17) Highest home attendance: 47,128 vs Bristol City (19 February 1974, FA Cup) Lowest home attendance: 14,196 vs Vitória Setúbal (28 November 1973, UEFA Cup ...
During the weekend of 21 July 2007, Leeds United fans decorated the statue of Billy Bremner outside the Elland Road stadium with flowers, Leeds United shirts and scarves, and notes bearing messages of support for their team, as uncertainty over the future of the club grew amid legal disputes between owners, football authorities, administrators ...
Manager Don Revie left after many successful years at Leeds to manage the England side. He was replaced by Brighton & Hove Albion's Brian Clough—this appointment raised many eyebrows, as Clough had often made public his disdain for both Revie and the playing style of his Leeds side, even clamouring for the club to be relegated on disciplinary grounds.