Liverpool vs Leeds United Timeline & H2H Stats

Although some modern-day supporters might be surprised to learn it, there has long been something of a rivalry between Liverpool and Leeds United. It is based largely around the fact that the two clubs were both going for the biggest honours in the game in the 1960s and 1970s, with the Reds edging it out more often than not. When the Yorkshire club made it out of the Second Division and into the First Division, they almost immediately started looking to push for the title and finished in second place in the 1965-1966 season. The team that finished in the top spot? Liverpool.

That was the beginning of a ding-dong battle between the two sides that saw the Elland Road team end up either first or second eight times between their first title win in 1963-1964 and the final one of the period at the end of the 1973-1974 campaign. During that time, Liverpool won the title three times and finished as runners-up behind Leeds United twice. As the Yorkshire team dropped away, the Reds rose to the top of the English game and dominated the sport until the launch of the Premier League, with Leeds actually taking the final First Division title prior to the rebrand in 1992.

Liverpool the More Dominant Side

Although the 1960s and 1970s presented a period when Leeds United and Liverpool were wrestling for the top spot in the First Division, the majority of the history of the two sides is one in which the Merseysiders have been the more dominant team. This is especially true in the modern era, which is a period of time in which Leeds haven’t always even been in the top-flight. In fact, they were relegated out of it in 2004 and didn’t return for nearly two decades, with two League Cup games the only reason the sides even met one another on the football pitch, both of which Liverpool won.

In fact, between Leeds United’s victory at Elland Road on the 13th of April 2001 in the Premier League and the club’s win at Anfield in the same competition on the 29th of October 2022, they met 12 times, with the Reds winning nine of them and the two sides drawing the other three. That is a solid demonstration of how dominant the Merseyside club has been over the Whites in recent times, which is reflective of how good they’ve been in general. You need to look back to the mid-1990s to find a time when Leeds managed successive wins against Liverpool, whereas the Reds have managed it repeatedly during the same period.

Liverpool’s Full Match History Against Leeds United