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Leeds United Have Been Promoted To The Premier League After 16 Years by gmo10(m): 9:12am On Jul 18, 2020
Leeds United have been promoted to the Premier League after 16 years away.
Their place in the top flight for next season was confirmed by West Brom's 2-1 defeat at Huddersfield Town on Friday.
Argentine Marcelo Bielsa has led the Yorkshire side to promotion in his second season in charge after finishing third in the Championship in 2018-19.
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.
They had seemed set to win promotion last season only for back-to-back defeats by Wigan and Brentford to leave them third behind Yorkshire rivals Sheffield United, before a dramatic 4-3 play-off semi-final defeat by Derby.
After that setback, fans could have been forgiven for fearing the worst about the future of Bielsa and the talented group of players he had assembled.
But he opted to remain with the club and together they have reaped the rewards.

The lowest of lows

It has been a long and often painful journey back to the Premier League for Leeds and their fans, who had seen their team reach the semi-final of the Champions League in 2001.
The club was in a dreadful financial position when they were relegated to the Championship in 2004 and though Kevin Blackwell - the first of 15 managers employed by Leeds since they were last in the top flight - steadied the ship initially and nearly took them back up in 2005-06, they were placed into administration in 2007 and went down to League One.
Worse was to come in the form of a 15-point deduction to start the following campaign and it took them three seasons to eventually win promotion back to the second tier under the management of Simon Grayson.
The revolving door
Grayson eventually made way for Neil Warnock, who lasted just a year before Brian McDermott was brought in.
McDermott came with a good reputation after bringing success to Reading but controversial new owner Massimo Cellino decided he wanted a head coach, not a manager, when he took over in 2014 and appointed former Forest Green boss David Hockaday.
He lasted just six games, as did Hockaday's replacement Darko Milanic.
Neil Redfearn, Uwe Rosler and Steve Evans all quickly came and went before Garry Monk fell just short of getting the team into the play-offs in 2016-17 and promptly left.
Dane Thomas Christiansen started well but faded badly and was replaced by Paul Heckingbottom, who endured a difficult four months in charge.
'Back where we know we belong' - watch fans react to Leeds' promotion
El Loco brings stability
The appointment of world-renowned coach Bielsa in June 2018, by owner Andrea Radrizzani, brought a new spotlight to the club.
The veteran had been widely praised by Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola and former Spurs boss Mauricio Pochettino for his techniques and meticulous nature and had worked with Argentina, Chile and Athletic Bilbao during his long career.
Leeds started the 2018-19 season brilliantly with few teams able to cope with their high tempo pressing and incisive passing.
Even allowing for the controversy that occurred in January, when Bielsa admitted he had sent a member of staff to watch all the other clubs in the division train, they seemed set to end their long wait for promotion.
There was to be no denying them in 2019-20 though and they once more find themselves back in football's elite.
Source: BBC Sports
Re: Leeds United Have Been Promoted To The Premier League After 16 Years by Duru9(m): 9:20am On Jul 18, 2020
Welcome

Norwich and who is going down?
Re: Leeds United Have Been Promoted To The Premier League After 16 Years by paulolee(m): 9:25am On Jul 18, 2020
congrats
Re: Leeds United Have Been Promoted To The Premier League After 16 Years by ItsGoodToBeGood: 9:26am On Jul 18, 2020
Hope they will last in EPL

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