Leeds United vs Huddersfield Town
A West Yorkshire derby: Revie's Leeds against the Terriers of the 1920s.
The West Yorkshire derbies are a series of football matches taking place between clubs from West Yorkshire, among them Leeds United and Huddersfield Town. Leeds United's relegation to League One in 2007 may have reignited this rivalry, and in the 2007–08 season only Huddersfield and Leeds of the three major West Yorkshire teams met each other in the third tier.
Quick Facts
- Derby
- West Yorkshire derby
- Clubs
- Leeds United, Huddersfield Town
- Third-tier meetings
- 2007–08 (League One)
Facts from the source article.
Background
Leeds United's best period of success was in the 1960s and 1970s under the management of Don Revie, who guided them to two league championships, a FA Cup, one League Cup, two Inter-Cities Fairs Cups and a Charity Shield. In 1992, Howard Wilkinson guided Leeds to their third top flight title, just two years after getting them promoted from the old Second Division.
Huddersfield Town were the first team in English football to win the First Division title three times in a row back in the 1920s – a feat only matched by Liverpool, Manchester United and Arsenal. Huddersfield spent 45 years outside of the top flight between 1972 and 2017. Under their manager David Wagner, Huddersfield won promotion to the Premier League for the first time by defeating Reading in the 2017 Championship play-off final.
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