Abel

Robert

02-09-1933

1931-1936

FB

Chorlton, Manchester

28-04-1912

00-09-1986

Signed in September 1931 from Manchester Junior Football, he played many Reserve games for Leeds but only one first team appearance. He left for Bradford City at the end of the 1935-36 season and there played fourteen League games before returning to Manchester with Stalybridge Celtic two years later. After one season with Stalybridge he moved to Hurst and although he joined the Armed Forces during the war he remained with them until he retired at the end of the 1945-46 season. (Leeds United Player Details)

Adam

James/Jimmy

22-08-1953

1951-1954

IF

Paisley

22-04-1931

An Inside Forward he was signed by Leeds from Penilee United in June 1951. He made spasmodic appearances for the Reserves before leaving for Mansfield Town in August 1954, never having played for the Leeds first team. He scored ten goals in thirty-nine League games for the Stags.

Adams

Michael Richard/Micky

17-11-1987

1987-1989

LB/OL

Sheffield

08-11-1961

England Youth International, he started with Gillingham, as an Apprentice, signing professional forms in November 1979. He scored five goals in eighty-five starts and seven League games as a substitute, mostly as a left-back, before moving to Coventry City in July 1983 for £75,000. At Coventry he played primarily at left-back but also in midfield. He scored nine goals in ninety League games, of which five were from the bench, before Leeds paid £110,000 for him in January 1987. He scored twice in seventy-three League games at Elland Road, of which one was as a substitute. Southampton paid £250,000 for his services on 6th March 1989 and there he scored seven goals in one hundred and forty-four League games of which three were as a substitute. He then moved to Stoke City in March 1994, but did not stay long, scoring three goals in ten League starts, and then moving to Fulham in July 1994. He went on to score eight goals in twenty-five starts and four games as substitute before hanging up his boots in June 1997 to concentrate on being manager, and he had a long and distinguished career for many years in that capacity.(Leeds United Player Details)

Addy

Michael/Mike

06-09-1961

1961-1964

WH

Knottingley

20-02-1943

England Youth International, he joined Leeds as a Junior from Ferrybridge Amateurs and turned professional in May 1962. He was part of the Leeds Junior squad that produced so many future internationals. He went on to make his first team debut in January 1962 in a League Cup tie but only added one more League Cup game and two League games, but played regularly with first the Juniors and then the Reserves. In June 1964 he joined Barnsley, where he scored five goals in fifty starts and one game from the bench in the League. He left in the summer of 1967 to join Non-League Corby Town and he saw out his career with them and Kettering Town. (Leeds United Player Details)

Ainley

Robert/Bob

12-05-1987

1986-1989

LB

Joined Leeds as an apprentice straight from school. He played regularly for the Juniors and occasionally for the Reserves but was released and never signed professional forms.

Ainsley

George Edward/George

29-03-1937

1936-1947

IF

South Shields

15-04-1915

00-04-1985

He started his career in his native town with South Shields St Andrew's and joined Sunderland in April 1932, and made his debut with them as a teenager in May 1933, playing four League games before moving to Bolton Wanderers in August 1936 for £2,500. He had played just seven League games for them when Leeds signed the 6ft 13st striker on 15th December 1936 and he made his first team debut just four days later. He scored thirty-four goals in ninety-six games for United, but like many others his career was decimated by WW2 but he still managed to score thity-five goals in sixty-three war-time games for Leeds. He left Leeds in November 1947 for Bradford Park Avenue, before retiring in 1949. He was a well-renowned Coach and Manager. (Leeds United Player Details)

Aizlewood

Mark

24-02-1987

1987-1989

WH

Newport

01-10-1959

A Welsh Schoolboy International, he joined his hometown team straight from school, when he joined them as an Apprentice. He signed professional forms with them in October 1977. He broke into the first team and had scored three goals in thirty-five starts and three games from the bench, when Luton Town saw his promise and signed him in April 1978 for £50,000. He scored three goals for the Hatters and made ninety-eight League appearances of which eight were as a substitute. Charlton Athletic signed him in November 1982 for £50,000 and there he went on to score nine goals in one hundred and fifty-two League starts. He had picked up two Welsh Under-twenty-one caps and had started to accumulate his thirty-nine full Welsh Caps when Leeds bought him in February 1987, for £200,000. He proved to be a solid player in midfield, and was apointed captain, but suffered at the hands of the Leeds fans, with some barracking him. He was sold to Bradford City for £200,000 in August 1989 after scoring three goals in seventy League games, of which five were as substitute. Again he gave dependable service but, after just one season in which he scored once in thirty-nine League starts, he moved to Bristol City in August 1990 for £125,000. At Ashton Gate he scored three goals in ninety-nine League starts and two games from the bench before moving back to Wales on a free transfer to Cardiff City in October 1993. He scored three goals in thirty-nine League starts. He finished his career playing in Non-League in the Welsh League.(Leeds United Player Details)

Alberry

William Edward/Ted

31-08-1946

1945-1947

CH/CF

Doncaster

21-07-1922

00-00-1978

Alberry started with his hometown club in the 1944-45 season and played one game as a guest, as a replacement centre-half for Frank Butterworth, in October 1945. He left Doncaster for Leeds in May 1946 and though he never played with the first team he did make plenty of appearances for the Reserves before leaving for Hull City in April 1947. He played one game foe the Tigers before later joining Gainsborough Trinity. (Leeds United Player Details)

Alderson

Thomas/Tom

31-01-1931

1930-1932

IF

West Auckland

2Qtr 1909

He started with West Auckland , had a trial with Bradford City and then went to Cockfield before joining Huddersfield Town in 1929. He did not make the first team before being transferred to Leeds in early November 1930. He played his first Reserve fixture a couple of months later and made his first team debut in March 1931, scoring twice in four games but with plenty of opposition for the strikers roles he moved to Luton Town in May 1932. At Kenilworth Road he scored five goals in fourteen League games before moving to Darlington in 1933 where he scored thirty-nine times in one hundred and sixteen League games in just under three seasons, before going to Chester before the start of the 1936-37 season and there he scored four times in forty-four League games before returning to Darlington and adding seven goals in thirty-five games. (Leeds United Player Details)

Allan

James/Jimmy

18-04-1927

1925-1928

FB

Airdrie

29-08-1899

He started his career with Glasgow Ashfield and joined Leeds from Airdrieonians in June 1925, after making thirty-two League appearances for them. He quickly established his place in the Leeds first team, making seventy League appearances before returning to Scotland, where he joined Third Lanark on 26th July 1928. He made thirty-three appearances for them in the 1928-29 season before joining Coventry City in the 1929-30 season, but he failed to make the first team. (Leeds United Player Details)

Allaway

Shaun

06-05-2002

2000-2004

Gk

Reading

16-02-1983

Shaun was a highly rated England Youth International, when Leeds beat off opposition from Tottenham Hotspur to sign him for £350,000 in March 2000. Unfortunately his broken hand, which deterred Spurs from signing him, mean he spent several months on the sidelines. He signed a four and a half year contract, but with Nigel Martyn, Paul Robinson and Danny Milosevic ahead of him in the pecking order, he never fulfilled his potential and was loaned out to Grimsby Town in August 2002 and Walsall in November 2003. The emerging Scott Carson also was ahead of him and played in the only game in which Allaway featured, on the bench for United’s final game in the EPL at Chelsea in May 2004. His contract was not renewed in June 2004. He had unsuccessful trials with Queens Park Rangers before signing a week-to-week contract with Slough Town, who wanted him for their televised FA Cup tie against Walsall. He took the gamble of dropping down because he thought the televised game would put him back in the shop window. It did. Wrexham tried to sign him but Slough would not release him from the three-month contract he had just signed. Because of that, he left The Rebels after twenty-five games and started the season at Staines despite Conference clubs Tamworth and Gravesend wanting to offer him contracts. He rejected their overtures because he did not want to be tied to a contract in case a League club came in for him and when that didn't happen he took matters into his own hands. He wrote to several clubs before Christmas and was offered trials by Wycombe Wanderers, Torquay United and Shrewsbury Town. Allaway, who played for England at all levels from Under-Fifteens to Under-Twenties, decided on Wycombe Wanderers because of a past association with John Gorman and in January 2006 he was given a week's trial by Wycombe Wanderers. He returned to Staines Town, scoring once in tenty-nine starts in the 2006-07 season and also found limited fame, when on 12th November 2007 Staines were featured on Sky Sports in an F.A. Cup Replay at home to Stockport County. Not only did this result in a £75,000 windfall for each club, but Staines Town completed the improbable upset as they won the match in a penalty shoot-out after the tie had ended 1-1 after extra-time. This was mainly due to two magnificent saves by Allaway which saw the Swans prevail in the penalty shoot-out by 4-3. He was the first choice keeper with Staines until his injury jinx again struck. He damaged his knee ligaments in a game at AFC Hornchurch barely two months after saving those two penalties in the shoot-out. It was hoped that, after almost two and a half years on the side-lines, he might make a come-back with Staines Town for the 2010-11 season. This did not happen, as the club and Allaway decided that it would be better if he made a come-back after he was fully fit. After being loaned to Abingdon United in 2010-11, he was given the No.1 jersey for the 2011-12 season and came through the pre-season friendlies unharmed, but his injuries still stopped any further appearances. He still trained with Staines and, in late October 2010, he was on the verge of signing for Reading Town but in early November he decided to remain at Staines. In the 2012 close season he signed for Thatcham Town.(Leeds United Player Details)

Allen

John William Alcroft/Jack

28-08-1920

1920-1923

CF

Sheffield

00-10-1899

19-11-1957

Starting as a trialist on 18th February 1922 from Prudhoe Castle, he made his debut on that day. He soon proved his worth and was signed on professional terms in the 1922 close season. While he only made two League appearances without scoring, he went on to impress in the United Reserves, always as an Outside Left, but he was released at the end of the 1923-24, when he went to Brentford. He had a highly successful career, mostly as a Centre Forward with the Bees, Sheffield Wednesday and Newcastle United where he won an F. A. Cup winners' medal. He later played with Bristol Rovers for a short time before returning to his native North-East to finish his League career with Gateshead and then on to Ashington.(Leeds United Player Details)

Allmark

Paul

11-09-1990

1990-1990

IF

Thought to be a trialist, he was twice unused on the bench before debuting as an eighty-fifth minute substitute in the third game at Everton on 11th September 1990. He did not make the teamsheet in the fourth game but started the fifth game and played all but three minutes of it. He came on as a substitute and played nine minutes of the sixth game and started the seventh and played fifty-eight minutes, but that amounted to his career at Leeds and he did not play any other League football.

Ambler

Roy

21-04-1956

1954-1959

OL

Stanley, Nr Wakefield

02-12-1937

A product of local football, he joined United from Outwood Juniors on 14th December 1954, when just seventeen. He had the adaptability to be able to play in most forward positions and score regularly. He progressed through the United Juniors, "A" team and Reserves, mostly at outside left or centre forward, but later featured more as an inside forward. Like most players of his age he served his National Service and at 5ft 9ins and 11st he was ideally built for his roles. He never made the first team but became a regular in the reserves, however, on 14-12-1954, he left Leeds for Shrewsbury Town, in search of regular senior football. He never really found it, but did score eight goals in twenty-nine League games at Gay Meadow before moving to Wrexham in May 1961. There he scored thirteen goals in twenty-one League games but soon returned to Yorkshire with York City in November 1962, scoring three goals in twelve League games. He did not stay long at Bootham Cresent, joining Southport in July 1963, where he failed to find the net in eleven League games before retiring at the end of the season.

Andersen

Emeka Clarence Akpuaka/Emeka

12-01-1995

1995-1995

Gk

Glostrup, Denmark

08-06-1971

The 6ft 2 1/2ins, 14st 4lb Danish Under-Nineteen International had spent his Junior career with Boldklubben Avarta and his first senior club was IF Skjold Birkerod and was given a trial by Leeds in January 1995, but it was hardly worth the while as in his only game for the Leeds Reserves the game was called off after thirty-five minutes due to frost. He moved from IF Skjold Birkerod to Brondby IF in July 1995, mostly as deputy to Mogens Krogh, and stayed there until January 2000 when he moved to Farum Boldklub (FCN II). He was there for eighteen months before joining FK Prespa of Kobenhaven, where he spent six years before finally rejoining BK Avarta in August 2007 where he helped the club to gain promotion to the Second Division and remained there until he retired in January 2011.

Andrews

Ian Edmund/Ian

04-01-1989

1989-1989

Gk

Nottingham

01-12-1964

He started as an apprentice with Leicester City, turning professional in December 1982. He went on to represent England Youth and played once for the England Under-Twenty-One team. He made one hundred and twenty-six League starts at Filbert Street, but had one spell on loan during that time, with Swindon Town in January 1984, making one League start. In June 1988 Celtic paid £300,000 to take him to Parkhead and he started five League games as deputy for the injured Packy Bonner. He was then loaned to Leeds on 15th December 1988, playing just one League game before returning to Celtic on 31st January 1989. He was sold to Southampton for £200,000 on 22nd December 1989. He started just ten League games before being sold to Bournemouth for £20,000 on 5th September 1994 and started sixty-four League games before being released on 31st May 1997. He returned to Leicester as player coach but never played for the first team in that time.(Leeds United Player Details)

Angus

24-11-1945

1945-1946

OR

An Outside Right he played in the 1945-46 season for the Reserves.

Annan

Richard

05-03-1985

1983-1986

LB

Leeds

04-12-1968

5ft 5ins 10st 4lb in 1985, he was educated at Hough Side High School and represented Leeds City Boys at the Under-Eleven, Twelve, Thirteen, Fourteen and Fifteen levels. He was given trials by Coventry City, Middlesbrough and York City but opted to join Leeds on Schoolboy forms in June 1983. After serving his Apprenticeship he signed professional forms in December 1986. He gave good service firstly to the Juniors and then the Reserves but he never made the United First Team and he joined Doncaster Rovers in October 1987. He did not make the first team with Doncaster either and after playing with Guiseley he moved to Crewe Alexandra in May 1992, but after scoring once in seventeen League starts and two games from the bench he returned to Guiseley at the end of the 1993-94 season and then spent the next ten years in Non-League football. He left Guiseley for Hyde United in August 1997 and scored three goals in fifty-two starts and thirteen more from the bench before leaving at the end of the 1998-99 season.

Arins

Anthony Francis/Tony

16-08-1980

1980-81

RB

Chesterfield

16-10-1958

Originally an Apprentice with Burnley from July 1986, he and Marshall Burke followed Jimmy Adamson from Burnley in May 1980 He scored twice in twenty-nine first-team starts at Turf Moor and after just one game as a substitute with the Leeds first team and instead established himself as a regular with the reserves, before leaving for Scunthorpe United in November 1981, where he scored once in twenty starts at the top level. (Leeds United Player Details)

Armand

John Edward/Jack/Snowy

20-12-1922

1922-1929

IF

Sabathu

11-08-1898

00-00-1974

He joined Leeds from West Stanley on 20th December 1922, leaving for Swansea Town on 7th May 1929. (Leeds United Player Details)

Armes

Samuel/Sam

05-10-1935

1935-1939

OR

New Seaham

30-03-1908

27-08-1958

After starting with Horden and then Dowdon Colliery, he joined Carlisle United in May 1930 and scored nineteen goals in seventy-six League games in two seasons before moving to Chester in June 1932, scoring thirteen goals in thirty-one League games before Blackpool took him on in January 1934 and he made four appearances for them before the end of the season. The 5ft 6 1/2ins, 11st winger was loaned to Wigan Athletic and Leeds had to pay both clubs when he joined them on 2nd October 1935. He made his Leeds debut in February 1936 and went on to scoreeight goals in seventy-nine League games, before losing his place to David Cochrane and leaving for Middlesbrough on 2nd February 1939, where he made three appearances before WW2. (Leeds United Player Details)

Armitage

Andrew Mark/Andy

16-10-1985

1984-1988

LB

Leeds

17-10-1968

5ft 10ins and 10st in 1985 He was a pupil at St Mary's School (Guiseley) and represented Leeds City Boys at the Under twelve, thirteen, fourteen and fifteen level and the West Yorkshire and the Yorkshire Schoolboys at Under-Fifteen level. He signed schoolboy forms for United in December 1984 and became an Apprentice in July 1985. He soon made the Junior and Reserve teams and scored his first goal for the Reserves in a 4-3 home win over Blackburn on 28th January 1986. He signed for Leeds as a Non-Contract player in August 1987 but left to join Rochdale in July 1988 where he started thirty-three League games and was a substitute on three other occasions. He left Rochdale at the end of the 1888-89 season and played for Guiseley.

Armitage

Leonard/Len

28-08-1920

1920-1923

CF

Sheffield

00-10-1899

29-12-1923

After playing initially with Wadsley Bridge, Sheffield Forge and Rolling Mills, Walkley Amateurs, he joined Leeds from Sheffield Wednesday on 11th June 1920, leaving for Wigan Borough in 1923. He later played with Stoke City, Rhyl Athletic and Port Vale. (Leeds United Player Details)

Armstrong

Christopher David/Chris

06-05-2002

2001-2004

CF

Ripon

08-11-1984

The 6ft 1 1/2ins tall and 13st 12lb striker joined Leeds from school in November 2001, and progressed through the Juniors and made his Reserve team debut in the final game of the 2001-02 season, when still only seventeen. It was not until the middle of the 2003-04 season that he started playing regularly for them, after signing professional in July 2003. He moved to Rochdale on 10th July 2004, on a free transfer, but did not stay long as he joined Queen of the South on 3rd August 2004, again on a free transfer. He started two and came off the bench in four Scottish League games and was once a substitute in the Scottish League Cup, before leaving for Stockport County on 11th January 2005. There he scored once in nine starts and two games as a substitute in League games before leaving on 9th May 2005. He moved over to Ireland where he started with St Patrick's Athletic in July 2005 and scored once in six League starts before moving to Galway United in January2006 and made four League starts while staying there until December 2007.

Armstrong

Joe

31-08-1957

1957-1959

LH

Newcastle

He joined Leeds fron Leslie Boys Club in May 1957 and played spasmodically for the Reserve team until he returned to the North East to join Gateshead in July 1959 but never played for the first team.

Armstrong

Joseph

04-02-1922

1922-1922

RB

He was signed on 31st January 1922 from Close Works in Wallsend, Newcastle. In his early Twenties he was 5ft 10ins and 11st. He played only in his debut game and left at the end of the 1921-22 season on a free transfer.

Arnold

James/Jim

10-02-1994

1994-1994

Gk

A teenage trialist from Redditch, he had a bad introduction, his first action was to pick the ball out of the net after eighty seconds, but he made few errors after that, in what turned out to be his only game for Leeds United Reserves.

Ashall

James/Jimmy

28-02-1953

1951-1961

FB

Temple Normanton

13-12-1933

Signed on a one month trial from Hasland Old Boys in October 1951, when only seventeen, then had to do his National Service. Ashall came through the Leeds Juniors, "A" team and Reserves before making his first team debut in October 1955. Like many other promising full backs that Leeds had on their books in that decade, he was faced with the challenge of trying to displace United's two consistent incumbent full backs in Jimmy Dunn and Grenville Hair. He prevailed and spent two seasons as the Leeds first choice after Jimmy Dunn's long tenacy came to an end making over ninety appearances. He left to join Non-League Weymouth in the close season of 1961. (Leeds United Player Details)

Ashurst

John/Jack

18-11-1986

1986-1988

CH

Renton

12-10-1954

Started as an Apprentice with Sunderland on leaving school. He signed professional forms for them in October 1972 and went on to score four goals in one hundred and forty League games, of which eleven were as a substitute. In October 1969 he moved to Blackpool for £110,000 and there scored three times in fifty-three League starts, in less than two seasons, before joining Carlisle United in August 1981 for £40,000. Again he remained an almost ever-present scoring twice in one hundred and ninety-four League starts before Billy Bremner, in part of acquisition of experienced players, brought him to Leeds in July 1986 for £35,000. He did his job at Leeds where he became captain and the pillar of the Leeds defence scoring in eighty-eight starts and one game from the bench. He left Leeds in November 1988, as new manager sought to improve his squad with younger players, and he signed for Doncaster Rovers for £10,000, where he was appointed captain and again gave good service. He scored once in seventy-three appearances before joining Bridlington Town in 1990. he returned to Doncaster to help them in a defensive crisis and scored once in another sixty-six starts before, at the age of thirty-eight, he moved to Rochdale where he ended his career with a goal in his only start.(Leeds United Player Details)

Aspin

Neil

02-09-1981

1981-1989

FB/CD

Gateshead

12-04-1965

After gaining Durham County Schools honours and having trials for the England Schoolboys, he joined Leeds as an apprentice from school and turned professional in October 1982. He quickly progressed through the Juniors and reserves, before making his first team debut on 2nd February 1982, when all the first choice defenders were unavailable and he was called upon to play as Centre half when still only sixteen. He went on to feature regularly in the first team scoring five goals in two hundred and three starts and four more as a substitute, mostly as a right back, before leaving for Port Vale in July 1989, where he again became a crowd favourite and scored three goals in three hundred and eighteen games, which included three as a substitute, mostly as a central defender.(Leeds United Player Details)

Atkinson

Joshua Whitehead/Josh

29-11-1924

1924-1928

WH

Blackpool

28-03-1902

00-00-1983

He joined Leeds from Blackpool on 7th May 1924, leaving for Barnsley in July 1928. (Leeds United Player Details)

Atkinson

Stephen/Steve

24-11-1982

1982-1983

CD

Belfast

5ft 11ins 10st 4lb at seventeen, he joined United as an Apprentice in July 1982, after attending Boys' Model School in Belfast and gaining Northern Ireland Youth international honours. He played with the Leeds Juniors and had a few games for the Reserves but no not reach first team level.