Leeds United's start compared to last 14 PL seasons with memorable photos and projected finish

Leeds are in their third consecutive season back in the country’s top division having ended a 16-year absence from the promised land through promotion as 2019-20 Championship champions under Marcelo Bielsa. Bielsa’s Whites then stormed to a ninth-placed finish in their first season back in the top flight in 2020-21 but the Elland Road outfit only avoided relegation on the final day of last season as part of a campaign which saw Bielsa sacked and replaced by Jesse Marsch. Leeds are currently 15th in the table but with a game in hand.

But how does United’s start to the current Premier League campaign compare to their hauls at this stage of the season after 14 games in all 14 of the club’s previous seasons in the Premier League, of which defending champions Leeds were founding members upon its creation for the 1992-93 campaign. Twelve years later, relegation then followed in 2004 after ups and downs in the top tier including the highs of fighting it out at the top of the tree at the turn of the Millennium.

Here, through some memorable photos, we take a look back at where Leeds were at the corresponding stage of all 14 of their previous Premier League seasons plus the projected finish for this campaign based on the current rate of points return and where that tally would have left them in the previous season.