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Leeds United Football Club is an English professional football club based in Leeds, West Yorkshire. The club was founded in 1919 after the closure of Leeds City FC and plays its matches at Elland Road. They play in the Premier League, the highest league of the English football system. At the end of the 2019/20 season, Leeds United were promoted from the Championship.

Leeds United won three English national championships in history. In addition, the club won the FA Cup once, the League Cup once, the Charity Shield twice and the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup twice. In 1975 Leeds lost in the European Cup I final to Bayern Munich. Most of the awards that Leeds United has won date back to the 1960s and 1970s, when the club was led by success coach Don Revie.

The club played continuously at the highest level from 1990 to 2004 and was allowed to call itself the last champion of the Football League First Division in 1992, when the club was led by Howard Wilkinson. After relegation to the second level in 2004, financial problems followed and the association was sold in 2007 to the English businessman Ken Bates. This resulted in a ten-point deduction, relegating Leeds to the third tier, League One, for the first time in its history. In 2010 the club was promoted back to the Championship under the leadership of Simon Grayson. Since June 2018, Leeds United has been led by Marcelo Bielsa. In the 2019/20 season, Leeds United became champions and promoted back to the Premier League after sixteen seasons.