How are the mighty fallen. Three times winners of the League title, twice Inter-Cities Fairs Cup champions and also winners of the FA and League Cups, Leeds Utd now languish in the third tier of English football for the first time.

Formed in 1919, the Whites have spent most of their controversial history in Divisions One and Two, only entering level three (League One) in 2007.

The arrival of manager Don Revie in 1961 sparked the football club's glory years. He assembled a squad comprising the legendary Billy Bremner, Johnny Giles, Norman Hunter, Allan Clarke, Peter Lorimer and Jack Charlton that carried all before them after winning promotion to the top flight in 1964.

Leeds Utd landed the League Championship in 1969, 1974 and 1992, the FA Cup in 1972, the League Cup in 1968 and the Fairs Cup in 1968 and 1971.
However, despite all the trophies won in 13 years under Revie, Leeds could and should have achieved so much more.

Leeds Utd was a runner-up in the League on five occasions, three times on goal average, lost in the FA Cup final three times, and once each in the League Cup, Fairs Cup, European Cup Winners Cup and European Cup finals.

Revie's departure in 1974 heralded the infamous 44-day reign of Brian Clough, an arch critic of Leeds.

A succession of managers then came and went, and it was Howard Wilkinson who eventually guided Leeds Utd back to the top as they won the Division Two title in 1990 and the League crown itself two years later.

In 2001 David O'Leary steered the big-spending Yorkshire club to the Champions League semi-finals, but then the dark clouds returned as the money started to run out and Leeds Utd were relegated in 2004.

Leeds Utd missed out on a return to the Premier League in 2006, losing to Watford in the play-off final. Then came a 10-point deduction for going into administration and relegation to League One, where, despite a further 15-point deduction at the start of the 2007-08 campaign, Leeds Utd fought their way to the play-off finals, only to lose to Doncaster Rovers at Wembley.