Neal

Thomas Walker/Tom

19-11-1927

1931-1936

LH

New Washington

28-11-1910

00-09-1936

He joined Leeds from Usworth Colliery in February 1931 as a nineteen year old 5ft 11ins, 11st 4lb trialist, who had already turned down Middlesbrough and East Fife. He made his League debut in April 1932 but the competition for the Wing-Half positions was such that he managed just twenty games in just over five seasons before leaving for Hull City in May 1936. (Leeds United Player Details)

Nettesonne

03-03-1921

1921-1921

IL

Nothing is known about the player, other than he was a trialist and only played his debut with the Leeds Reserves.

Newbold

27-11-1948

1948-1948

RH

Nothing is known about the player, other than he was a trialist and the only game he played was his debut with the Leeds Reserves.

Newey

Tom

19-04-2001

2000-2004

LB

Sheffield

31-10-1982

Newey was associated with Leeds United as a schoolboy from July 1993 when not yet eleven, becoming a trainee at the Academy in 2000 and turning professional in August 2002. He had progressed through the Juniors and became a Reserve team regular in the 2001-02 and 2002-03 seasons. Like many Juniors of his time, he suffered due to the large playing staff and the gulf between Central League football and the EPL. He was loaned out to try and obtain first team experience as there was a long queue for the first team left back spot. He went on a month's loan to Division Three club, Cambridge United, on 15th February 2003, making six League starts and one in the Football League Trophy before returning to Elland Road on 17th March 2003. Ten days later he was loaned to another Division Three team, Darlington, and there he scored once, at home to Hull on 21st April, in seven League starts before returning to Leeds on 4th May 2003. He was released by Leeds at the end of the 2002-03 season and was signed by Third Division, Leyton Orient, on 26th July 2003 on a free transfer. He was a regular in the first team and scored twice in his first season with goals at Torquay United on 6th September 2003 and at home to Mansfield Town on 17th January 2004. He remained first choice and scored his third goal at home to Rochdale on 30th August 2004 but lost his place in January 2005, and went on loan for a second time to fellow League Two team, Cambridge United, on 21st January 2005 until the end of the season. He started five League games and one from the bench before he signed on a free transfer on 11th March 2005. While at Brisbane Road he had scored three goals in thirty-four starts and twenty more from the bench, also starting two and coming off the bench twice in the F.A. Cup, having one start and one game from the bench in the League Cup and three starts in the Football League Trophy. He moved to Grimsby Town on a free transfer on 27th March 2005 and had a four year stay at Blundell Park, where he became a regular and a fan favourite and scored three goals in one hundred and fifty League games of which five were as a substitute and he scored once in the League Cup in five starts but did not find the net in six F.A. Cup starts and nine starts in the Football League Trophy. He was loaned to Rochdale from 25th March 2009, for the rest of the season and played two League games, one of which was as a substitute. He then moved to League Two side, Bury, on a free transfer on 28th August 2009 and signed a one year contract. He started twenty-nine League games and also came off the bench on three more occasions as well as starting one F.A. Cup tie and three Football League Trophy ties, but never found the net in his Gigg Lane stay. He went to what he claimed to be his hometown, when he joined Rotherham United, then of League Two, on 15th July 2010 on a free transfer and stayed for two seasons, Starting fifty-three League games and coming off the bench with a further five and also started four F.A. Cup, two League Cup and two Football League Trophy ties without scoring. His next move was not far, just across the Lincolnshire border to League One side, Scunthorpe United, on a free transfer, joining them in July 2012. He stayed for one season, starting forty-five League games and one F.A. Cup, two League Cup and one Football League Trophy games without scoring in any. He moved to Oxford United of League Two on 4th July 2013 and was a regular in his first season there, but lost his place in the second season and went on loan to Northampton Town for a month from 30th October 2014, starting two League games and one F.A. Cup tie, before returning. He had scored once in fifty-two League starts and also started five F.A. Cup, three League Cup and two Football Trophy ties for Oxford, when he signed for Northampton Town on a free transfer on 27th January 2015. However, he had only started three and come off the bench four times before injury in March 2015 brought an end to his playing career in May 2015. He then gained his Coaching qualifications an became the Coach to the Rotherham Youth Team in November 2015.

Nicholls

Ryan Rhys/Ryan

25-04-1990

1989-1995

IF

Cardiff

10-05-1973

Welsh Schoolboy International who join the Leeds Youth Scheme on leaving school in 1989, signing professional in July 1991. He progressed through the Juniors and into the Reserves and even toured Ireland with the first team and played in friendlies, but never played a League game. He missed a year through injury and on his return he was loaned to Norwegian side Stromsgodset, for six months, and there he started two League games but was released on his return. After a trial with Bristol City was thwarted by a change of manager, he joined his home town team, Cardiff City, as a non-contract player in January 1995. There he scored once in six League games and another six as a substitute before being released at the end of that season. He had suffered from injuries at both clubs and joined Southern Premier side Merthyr Tydfil for the 1995-96 season and then went into the Welsh League where he joined Aberystwyth Town for the start of the 1996-97 season. He went on to score twenty-seven goals in fifty-three starts and eleven games from the bench. After three seasons there he moved to Carmarthen Town during the 1998-99 season. He went on to score thirty-four goals in one hundred and one League starts and seven from the bench before retiring at an early age at the end of the 2003-04. He later managed Pontypridd Town.

Nicholson

Robin

29-02-1964

1964-64

CF

Nicholson played three games for the Leeds Reserves in 1963-64 before leaving on a free transfer in May 1964.

Nicholson

Stanley

29-12-1951

1951-52

IL

Middlesbrough

28-08-1931

He started his career with the famous Teeside Junior football South Bank team and signed for Middlesbrough in May 1949. However, he did not make the Boro first team and he moved to Leeds United on 23rd August 1951, when he was19 years old and stood 5'4". He never made the first team and he played just one game for the Reserves. He had trials with Hull Ciy, as an amateur in the pre-season of 1952-53, but never signed on for the Tigers. However he was next signed by Harlepool United in July 1958. There he scored once in seven League games before joining Horden Colliery.

Nicholson

Steven/Steve

03-04-1991

1988-1995

RB/RH/OR

Leeds

20-07-1971

Leeds born defender who join the Leeds Youth Scheme on leaving school in 1988, signing professional in July 1990. He progressed through the Juniors and into the Reserves starting as a substitute before his full debut. He scored what turned out to be the winning goal, after four minutes, in his debut as an outside right, but never played a League game. He was released by United at the end of the 1991-92 season.

Nightingale,

Albert

02-05-1953

1952-1956

IF

Threybergh

10-11-1923

26-02-2006

The extremely popular and oft-time brilliant Nightingale started in September 1941, with Sheffield United in the company of many fine players, but lost many of his best years to WW2, which saw him gaining experience at Bramall Lane and emerging as an obviously talent scoring forward. He scored just fourteen goals in sixty-two peace-time League games with the Blades before Huddersfield took him to Leeds Road in March 1948. He stayed with Town for three and a half years, scoring twenty goals in one hundred and nineteen League games before moving to Blackburn Rovers in October 1951. He had long been on the Leeds radar and one year later, after scoring five goals in thirty-five League games at Ewood Park he finally arrived at Elland Road on 9th October 1952. He made his debut two days later and became a Leeds regular and the three pronged attacking threat of Nightingale, Charles and Brook took Leeds to promotion at the end of the 1955-56 season. Unfortunately for Leeds and Albert it saw the end of his illustrious career as, in the first game back in the First Division, with Leeds 5-0 to the good at the end of the first half, he sustained a serious knee injury in the second half which despite much remedial treatment failed to respond. He scored forty-eight goals in one hundred and thirty-five games for Leeds.(Leeds United Player Details)

Nikiferov

Yuri Valeryevich/Yuri

11-11-1992

1992-1992

CH

Odessa, USSR

16-09-1970

Trialist from Ukraine who started his career in 1982 as a Junior with Odessa FC Chornomorets. He remained there until he was loaned to SK Odessa in 1987, where he played seven games before returning for the 1988 season in which he played once. He had two games with Dynamo Kiev in the 1988-89 season before returning to Odessa FC Chornomorets. He became a regular and scored seven goals in eighty-nine games and was called up for five Russian Under-Twenty-One games in 1990-91. He was capped four times at full level by Russia and also three times by Ukraine. This brought him to the attention of Spartak Moscow who he joined in 1993. He had been for a trial with Leeds United and started in one game for the Reserves in November 1992. He went on to score fifteen goals for Spartak Moscow in eighty-five games, as the club won the Russian Championship three times in four seasons, before leaving in 1996 to go to France with Sporting Club Gijon for two seasons and scored three goals in sixty-five games. He then moved to Holland and had four seasons at PSV Eindhoven, where he scored five goals in ninety-nine games. He had also scored six times in fifty-five games for the Russian full International team from 1993 until 2002. His next move took him to lowly Dutch Second Division side, RKC Waalwijk, where he scored once in twenty-nine games in the 2002-03 season and then in 2003-04 he joined Urawa Red Diamonds in Japan where he made twelve appearances, before retiring.

Nimmo

William Brown/Willie

17-02-1956

1956-1958

Gk

Forth, Lanarkshire

11-01-1934

00-00-1991

Starting with Edinburgh Thistle, he joined United from Alloa Athletic on 16th February 1956. He became a regular with the reserves as deputy to the consistent and ever-present Royden Wood. It was a thankless task and he eventually got his chance in February 1958 for his only first team appearance. He left for Doncaster Rovers on 14th March 1958. There he showed his true worth making one hundred and eighty-two League appearances, before leaving for Mansfield Town in July 1962, but he did not make the first team. (Leeds United Player Details)

Nistra

Alessandro

27-03-1990

1990-1990

Gk

Collesalvetti

10-07-1965

Trialist from Italy who started his career in 1982 as a Junior with Pisa. He remained there until he was loaned to Sorrento in July 1985 for the 1985-86 season, and there he started three League games before returning to Pisa. He was mainly an understudy keeper playing in the second team but he did start thirty-eight League games in the next four seasons. In February 1988 he was chosen for the first of his three caps by the Italian Under-Twenty-One team. He went for a trial with Leeds United and started in four consecutive games for the Reserves. He was never in contention for the first team. He returned to Italy and joined Ancona for the start of the 1990-91 season, forcing his way into their first team, making one hundred and thirty-nine League starts in five seasons. But that was the end of being first choice. He moved to Parma in the close season of 1995 and made two starts in four season before moving to Torino in the 1999 close season and made just one League start in two seasons, before retiring at the end of the 2000-01 season. He later became a goalkeeping coach.

Nixon

Paul

20-12-1983

1983-1984

IL

Seaham

23-09-1963

He was a trialist and played only in his debut game with the Leeds Reserves, scoring the Leeds first goal in that game. He is thought to be the player who later joined Bristol Rovers from Seaham Red Star in January 1989 and scored six goals in thirty-one League starts and thirteen more from the bench in his two season stay with the Pirates. He then emigrated to New Zealand became naturalised and represented that country.

Noble

Alan Hugh/Alan

26-08-1922

1922-1925

OR

Southampton

19-06-1900

01-04-1973

He joined United as an amateur in May 1922 from Bournemouth. While he played sixty League games for United at the top level, he was never a permanent fixture and had plenty of opposition for the Outside Right spot. He stayed at Leeds for three seasons before being released on a free transfer to Brentford where he became a Right-Half.(Leeds United Player Details)

Noble

Kenneth

06-11-1954

1954-1957

Gk

Sunderland

00-00-1936

He joined United as a Junior from Sunderland, where he had played with their Junior, in 1954. He went on to become first choice goalkeeper for the N.I.L.. and from there he played several games for the Leeds Reserves but left the club in the in the 1957 close season.

Noteman

Kevin Simon/Kevin

11-11-1986

1986-1989

CF

Preston

15-10-1969

While born in Preston he lived in Leeds from an early age and joined United as a Trainee in July 1986. He turned professional in June 1988 and duly progressed through the Junior team and Reserves but his only first team League game came as a substitute in the final game of the 1987-88 season. He moved to Doncaster Rovers in November 1989 for £10,000 and scored twenty goals in one hundred and six League games, one of which was as a substitute. His next move was to Mansfield Town for £25,000 in March 1992. He scored fifteen goals in seventy-seven League starts and another eighteen games from the bench before he returned to Doncaster Rovers on a free transfer in August 1995. He did not stay long, scoring once in four starts before moving to Chester City a month later. He remained with them until June 1997, scoring eighteen goals in sixty-eight League games, including eleven as a substitute.(Leeds United Player Details)

Nuttall

Richard

31-10-1981

1981-1982

LB

Nothing is known about the player, other than he played with the Juniors and also played eight games with the Leeds Reserves in the 1981-82 season.