Leeds United trophies are a subject that splits straight down the middle at Elland Road: the cabinet is heavier than most clubs outside the modern elite could dream of, and it has not been added to at the very top level since 1992. For a fanbase that has spent the last two decades yo-yoing between divisions, the honours list is both a source of enormous pride and a reminder of how long it has been.
Here is the complete picture of what the Whites have actually won, when they won it, and where the near misses came.
Leeds United trophies: the full honours list
Major honours
- First Division champions (3): 1968–69, 1973–74, 1991–92
- FA Cup (1): 1972
- League Cup (1): 1968
- Inter-Cities Fairs Cup (2): 1967–68, 1970–71
Second-tier titles
- Second Division champions (3): 1923–24, 1963–64, 1989–90
- Championship winners (2): 2019–20, 2024–25
Other silverware
- FA Charity Shield (2): 1969, 1992
That gives seven major honours in total, plus five promotions won as champions of the second tier and two Charity Shields. Almost all of the headline stuff arrived inside a single, remarkable decade.
The Don Revie era did most of the heavy lifting
Between the mid-1960s and the mid-1970s, Leeds were one of the two or three best teams in Europe, and it is that side which stocked the cabinet. Don Revie took over a Second Division club in 1961 and turned it into a machine built around Billy Bremner, Jack Charlton, Norman Hunter, Johnny Giles, Paul Reaney, Eddie Gray, Peter Lorimer and Allan Clarke.
The promotion came first, with the Second Division title in 1963–64. Then came the League Cup in 1968, beating Arsenal 1-0 at Wembley through a Terry Cooper strike. Weeks later Leeds added the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, the competition that eventually became the UEFA Cup and then the Europa League, seeing off Ferencváros over two legs.
The first league title followed in 1968–69, sealed with a famously stubborn goalless draw at Liverpool. The FA Cup arrived in 1972, an Allan Clarke header settling a bruising final against Arsenal. A second Fairs Cup came in 1971, edging Juventus on away goals. And the third piece of that run was the 1973–74 championship, when Revie’s team went 29 games unbeaten from the start of the season before he left for the England job.
1992 and the last time Leeds were champions of England
The other landmark is Howard Wilkinson’s 1991–92 title, which remains the last First Division championship ever awarded before the competition was rebranded as the Premier League that summer. Leeds had been promoted as Second Division champions only two years earlier in 1989–90, and Wilkinson built quickly around Gordon Strachan, Gary McAllister, Gary Speed, David Batty, Lee Chapman and, for the run-in, Eric Cantona.
Leeds followed it up by winning the Charity Shield that August in a 4-3 win over Liverpool, the game best remembered for a Cantona hat-trick. It is, to date, the most recent piece of senior silverware the club has lifted outside the second tier.
The near misses that still sting
Any honest accounting of Leeds United trophies has to include the finals that got away, because there are a lot of them.
- European Cup runners-up, 1975 — beaten 2-0 by Bayern Munich in a final in Paris that Leeds supporters have argued about ever since.
- European Cup Winners’ Cup runners-up, 1973 — a 1-0 defeat to AC Milan in Salonika.
- FA Cup runners-up, 1965, 1970 and 1973 — three Wembley defeats in nine years, including the 1973 loss to Sunderland.
- League Cup runners-up, 1996 — a 3-0 beating by Aston Villa.
- Fairs Cup runners-up, 1967 — Dinamo Zagreb won the two-legged final.
Add in five league runners-up finishes under Revie and you have the essential character of that era: relentlessly good, agonisingly short of the clean sweep it probably deserved. The 2001 European run, when Leeds reached the last four of the Champions League, is the closest a modern side has come to matching it, and we covered that campaign in full in our look back at Leeds United’s run to the Champions League semi-finals.
When did Leeds United last win a trophy?
Two answers, depending on how you count. The last major honour was the 1991–92 First Division title, followed by the 1992 Charity Shield. The most recent trophy of any kind was the Championship title in 2024–25, when Daniel Farke’s side finished on 100 points and took the trophy from Burnley on goal difference to return to the Premier League.
Before that, Marcelo Bielsa’s 2019–20 Championship winners ended a 16-year absence from the top flight. Both of those titles matter enormously to supporters, even if they sit in a different tier of the cabinet to a Fairs Cup or a league championship.
Where the club stands now
Leeds are into their second successive Premier League season after finishing 14th in 2025/26, with survival and consolidation the realistic short-term aim rather than silverware. The Carabao Cup remains the shortest theoretical route to ending the wait, and the Whites are already through to the third round.
For now, the honours board at Elland Road reads the way it has for more than 30 years. You can find the club’s own record of its history on the official Leeds United website, but the short version is simple enough: seven major honours, one extraordinary decade, and a fanbase still waiting for the eighth.
