60 free Leeds United trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Leeds United were born in 1919 out of the wreckage of Leeds City, bought a rugby ground for £250, and under Don Revie became one of the most feared (and most disliked) sides in Europe. This quiz covers the whole story: the Salem Chapel meeting, the blue-and-gold years, John Charles and the world-record sale to Juventus, Revie's switch to all-white, the two First Division titles, the Fairs Cups, the 44 days of Brian Clough, the Paris riot of 1975, Howard Wilkinson's 1992 champions, Cantona, O'Leary's babies, the Ridsdale collapse, League One, Bielsa's promotion and the 2025 Championship title. The early questions suit anyone who has stood on the Kop or watched a Roses derby; the later ones are for supporters who know their Scratching Shed from their Gelderd End: what Elland Road was called before it was Elland Road, who sold it to the club, why the owl badge annoyed Revie, and which Fourth Division side dumped Leeds out of the Cup in 1971. Good for a supporters' club night or a Yorkshire pub quiz. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the club, its history and Elland Road, and each question shows its source.
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Q 01Leeds United were formed in 1919 at a meeting held where?
Salem Chapel
The new club took the Midland League place vacated by Leeds City Reserves after Leeds City were forcibly disbanded.
Q 02Why were Leeds City, Leeds United's predecessor club, forcibly disbanded by the Football League in 1919?
Illegal payments to players during World War I
Leeds City had been formed in 1904 and elected to the League in 1905; the scandal killed them after just eight games of the 1919-20 season.
Q 03Yorkshire Amateurs sold Elland Road to the new Leeds United for how much?
£250
Local businessmen had contemplated digging up the clay under the pitch and turning the ground into a brickyard before Yorkshire Amateurs stepped in.
Q 04Which club's chairman, Hilton Crowther, loaned Leeds United £35,000 and inspired their first striped kit?
Huddersfield Town
Crowther was trying to merge the two clubs, which is why Leeds' first strip was modelled on his own team's.
Q 05John Charles left Leeds in 1957 for a then world-record fee of £65,000 to join which club?
Juventus
The West Stand had burned down that year and the club needed the money to rebuild it; the stand now carries Charles's name.
Q 06Who became Leeds United's first black player when he made his debut on 30 November 1957?
Gerry Francis
Francis was a South African winger; his compatriot Albert Johanneson followed a few years later and became a Revie-era regular.
Q 07In 1961-62 Don Revie switched Leeds to an all-white strip in the style of which club?
Real Madrid
Before that Leeds had worn blue and gold, and for several seasons after the change the shirts carried no badge at all.
Q 08Which Spanish club knocked Revie's Leeds out of the 1965-66 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup semi-final?
Real Zaragoza
Leeds finished second in the league that season too, having lost the 1965 FA Cup final to Liverpool after extra time.
Q 09Leeds lost the 1967 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup final to which Croatian side?
Dinamo Zagreb
A year later Leeds went one better and won the trophy for the first time.
Q 10Leeds won their first major trophy, the 1968 League Cup, by beating which club at Wembley?
Arsenal
The same season Leeds also won the Fairs Cup, beating Ferencváros 1-0 on aggregate; the owl on the badge was coloured gold for the League Cup final.
Q 11Leeds' first Inter-Cities Fairs Cup win, in 1968, came over two legs against which Hungarian side?
Ferencváros
Leeds won the first leg 1-0 and defended the lead with a 0-0 draw in Budapest a month later.
Q 12Leeds' club record unbeaten league run, set during the 1968-69 title season, lasted how many matches?
34
The title was clinched with a draw at Anfield, where the Liverpool crowd applauded the new champions.
Q 13Which club sold Allan Clarke to Leeds for a British-record £165,000 in 1969-70?
Leicester City
'Sniffer' Clarke later scored the only goal of the 1972 FA Cup final and went on to manage the club.
Q 21In the 1974 Charity Shield, Billy Bremner was sent off for fighting which Liverpool player?
Kevin Keegan
Both men were banned; the match was the first Charity Shield played at Wembley and shown live on television.
Q 22Leeds lost the 1975 European Cup final 2-0 to which club?
Bayern Munich
A Peter Lorimer goal was disallowed after both officials had first signalled it, and the rioting that followed earned Leeds a European ban.
Q 23The 1975 European Cup final Leeds lost to Bayern was played at which stadium?
Parc des Princes
Leeds' semi-final route had gone through a Barcelona side captained by Johan Cruyff.
Q 14In 1970 Leeds chased a treble and lost the FA Cup final after a replay to which club?
Chelsea
That final has been called the most brutal game in English football history and is the root of the two clubs' rivalry.
Q 15Which Fourth Division club famously knocked Leeds out of the FA Cup in 1971?
Colchester United
Leeds recovered to beat Juventus in that season's Fairs Cup final, their second win in the competition.
Q 16Leeds' 1972 FA Cup final win, their first in the competition, came against which opponents?
Arsenal
Two days later Leeds lost their final league game at Wolves and with it the double.
Q 17Which Second Division club stunned Leeds in the 1973 FA Cup final?
Sunderland
Ian Porterfield scored the winner and Jim Montgomery made a legendary double save; Leeds also lost that season's Cup Winners' Cup final to AC Milan.
Q 18Christos Michas, referee of Leeds' 1973 Cup Winners' Cup final loss, was later banned by UEFA for what?
Fixing other matches
Despite Leeds' appeals no replay was ordered and Milan kept the trophy.
Q 19Don Revie left Leeds in 1974 to take which job?
England manager
He left having just won the club's second league title, five points clear of Liverpool.
Q 20Brian Clough's notoriously brief spell as Leeds manager in 1974 lasted how many days?
44
Jock Stein also lasted exactly 44 days in the job in 1978 before leaving to manage Scotland.
Q 24Which manager lasted just 44 days at Leeds in 1978 before leaving to take charge of Scotland?
Jock Stein
Stein had won the European Cup with Celtic in 1967; the Leeds board had sacked Armfield in July 1978 to appoint him.
Q 25Which Scottish midfielder did Howard Wilkinson sign from Manchester United for £300,000 in 1989 and make captain?
Gordon Strachan
He captained Leeds to the 1989-90 Second Division title and the 1991-92 First Division championship.
Q 26Which French striker did Leeds sign in January 1992, then sell to Manchester United for £1.2 million that November?
Eric Cantona
He was Leeds' top scorer when dropped; the champions failed to win a single away league game in 1992-93.
Q 27Which club did Leeds beat 3-2 to secure the last First Division title in 1991-92?
Sheffield United
Manchester United lost at Liverpool the same day, handing Leeds the title.
Q 28Leeds' 1992-93 Champions League exit came to which club in a tie dubbed the 'Battle of Britain'?
Rangers
Rangers won both legs; Leeds finished the season 17th and won no away league games at all.
Q 29Wilkinson's Leeds lost the 1996 League Cup final to which club?
Aston Villa
The poor display hastened Wilkinson's exit; he was sacked early the next season after a 4-0 home defeat by Manchester United.
Q 30George Graham left Leeds in October 1998 to manage which club, with assistant David O'Leary taking over?
Tottenham Hotspur
Graham's Leeds appointment had been controversial because of his FA ban for taking illegal payments from an agent.