Timeline

1989-1990

The eighties ended with a campaign that summed up the decade; fervent expectation mixed with high drama, coupled with some tremendous individual performances and no silverware. Arch-rivals Bradford....

1988-1989

A near five year wait was over as silverware returned to Headingley within three months of Malcolm Reilly and assistant coach Alan Agar taking over the reigns – but it was an encouraging start that....

1986-1987

A difference in for and against of 108 points was all that separated Leeds from relegation for the first time in their history at the end of an ‘annus horribilis’. A changing guard, poor recruitmen....

1985-1986

A campaign of extreme highs and devastating lows was encapsulated in the Loiners’ Challenge Cup run. A mammoth journey, which included two replayed ties, eventually fizzled out in the second half o....

1984-1985

This was a ‘might have been’ year for the Loiners, the club reaching three semi finals in the four cup competitions on offer but falling at every penultimate hurdle. It was also the season that ant....

1982-1983

At the turn of the calendar year, matters could not have looked much rosier for the Loiners. League leaders, not least by virtue of an astonishing away record in the West, and having qualified for ....

1981-1982

Never can a run of trophy success have ended in crueler fashion. Having garnered silverware in every campaign from 1966/7, Leeds’ sideboard was empty for the first time in almost a generation, but ....

1980-1981

Like the season before, the only solace for the Loiners came in the Yorkshire Cup; in a disappointing campaign which saw them end in their lowest league position since the re-introduction of two di....