The following team was voted by the fans as 11 Legendary players (including Billy Bremner. Radebe is remembered, both back in Leeds and in South Africa, as a superstar when he played there between 1994 and 2005 as a defender in a very successful Leeds side. Players in bold won the Player of the Year award on more than one occasion. Generally, this means players that have played 100 or more first-class matches for the club. The following team was voted the greatest ever Leeds United team by supporters and announced on 10 April 2006 on the Leeds United website. After long 16yrs finally the wait is over our dreams have come true bak in the premier league come on @LUFC Congratulations to ElLoco an the Boys absolutely proud.#MOT @andrearadri pic.twitter.com/NnTmkd0cMF. Leeds is a club well-known to South African soccer fans through its association with Bafana Bafana legends Lucas Radebe and Phil Masinga. Players in bold won the Player of the Year award on more than one occasion [1], Players in bold attained international caps. It is now mathematically impossible for Leeds not to be promoted, either as champions or runners-up in the Championship, the second tier of top-flight football in England. Short in stature, but tough... 2. Postal: Blue Sky Publications (Pty) Ltd T/A TheSouthAfrican, PO Box 44354, Claremont, 7735, South Africa, United Kingdom– Blue Sky Publications Ltd – Company Registration Number: 04683692. There is an alternative version here [3] voted for by fans visiting fan sites. thesouthafrican.com is Each stone will be engraved with the legends keys stats and achievements during their career's with Leeds United. 1st Floor, Block B, North Park, Black River Park, 2 Fir Street, Observatory, Cape Town, 7925, South Africa The Yorkshire giants also had another South African-born player, Albert Johanneson, on their books in the 1960s. Known as Unsung Hero Award from 2015. Peter Lorimer. Some credit him with being the first black player to feature in an FA Cup final, when he represented Leeds against Liverpool at Wembley in 1965. As the Leeds United fans were chanting around the city on Friday night and Saturday morning: “[We’re] back where we know we belong”. [2] A formal dinner also took place to reward all the players voted into the team. South Africa– Blue Sky Publications (Pty) Ltd T/A TheSouthAfrican Number: 2005/028472/07. The Yorkshire giants … He appeared 771 times for the club from 1959 to 1976 and scored 115 goals. The South African Wikipedia ‘Il Loco’ is the affectionate fan’s name for the club’s Argentinian coach Marcel Bielsa. Last season they looked likely to be promoted until a late falter saw them slip out of title contention right at the death. Ironically, Huddersfield are a fellow Yorkshire club and strong rivals to Leeds. [5], For a list of every single player to have played for Leeds United, see, "Leeds Leeds Leeds 100 Greatest Leeds Players", "The Greatest Leeds United Team Unveiled", http://www.ozwhitelufc.net.au/greatest_players/team.html, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Leeds_United_F.C._players&oldid=981561159, Lists of association football players by club in England, Association football player non-biographical articles, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 3 October 2020, at 02:33. “Even allowing for the enforced break because of the coronavirus pandemic, it has been a campaign where Leeds have never really looked like repeating mistakes of previous seasons and they have not been outside the top two since November,” the BBC reported. Leeds is a club well-known to South African soccer fans through its association with Bafana Bafana legends Lucas Radebe and Phil Masinga.