47 Facts About Leeds City

1. Leeds City United retunr to Championship action today with the visit of Bolton Wanderers to Elland Road.

2. Leeds City United will fancy themselves to take advantage of any slip ups from their promotion rivals when they host struggling Bolton Wanderers at Elland Road.

3. Leeds City is an important regional centre for insurance and financial services and is the major shopping and commercial centre for West Yorkshire.

4. Leeds City originated as an Anglo-Saxon township on the north bank of the Aire.

5. Leeds City is one of our favourite cities in the UK and a place we actively keep our investment eye on.

6. Leeds City United set to make formal offer for Swansea City's Daniel James—reports.

7. Leeds City United fans are set to give Toby Nye a guard of honour as he makes one final journey past Elland Road.

8. Leeds City United set to make formal offer for Swansea City's Daniel James—reports.

9. Leeds City United were linked with bringing back their former captain a year ago.

10. Leeds City United have halted their interest in Bristol City winger Callum O'Dowda as they look to focus on signing Daniel James instead.

11. Leeds City United are to use football to help cut reoffending rates by teaching prisoners coaching badges.

12. Leeds City are said to be on the lookout for a new winger and James, at Swansea, is believed to be top of their wanted list.

13. Leeds City United look set to make a formal offer for Swansea City's Daniel James, according to reports.

14. Leeds City United signing Kiko Casilla admits Thibaut Courtois' arrival at Real Madrid shook up the club's goalkeepers.

15. Leeds City United remain confident of keeping their bright young attacking talent Jack Clarke, despite reports on Wednesday that two more of the Premier League big guns are plotting huge moves to sign him.

16. Leeds City United are set to make a formal offer for Swansea City's Daniel James, according to reports.

17. Leeds City brought the initiative to Leeds City when her own son, Yoshi Sanders, was a student there.

18. Leeds City is the second largest metropolitan district in the UK; extending 15 miles from east to west, and 13 miles from north to south.

19. Leeds City has the oceanic climate due to the Pennines and Atlantic Ocean.

20. Leeds City used to have a tram system, but this was removed in 1959.

21. Leeds City is home to a number of field hockey clubs that compete in the North Hockey League, Yorkshire Hockey Association League and BUCS leagues.

22. Leeds City United was formed in 1919 and plays at the 37,890-capacity Elland Road Stadium in Beeston.

23. Leeds City has the fourth largest student population in the country, and is therefore one of the UK's hotspots for night-life.

24. Leeds City is home to Phoenix Dance Theatre, who were formed in the Harehills area of the city in 1981, and Northern Ballet Theatre.

25. Leeds City is home to the refurbished Grand Theatre where the only national opera company outside London, Opera North, is based.

26. Leeds City was ranked at number seven, just behind Sheffield, but ahead of Bradford, Manchester and Liverpool.

27. Leeds City bus station is at Dyer Street and is used by bus services to towns and cities in Yorkshire, plus a small number of local services.

28. Leeds City is one of the principal hubs of the northern motorway network.

29. Leeds City will introduce a clean air zone from January 2020, which will charge the most polluting buses, coaches HGVs £50 a day to enter the city, while taxis and private hire vehicles which are not clean enough will be charged £12.50 a day.

30. Leeds City is one of only a few UK cities outside of London to have a significant number of high-rise buildings, the 112-metre tower of Bridgewater Place, known as The Dalek, is part of a major office and residential development and the region's tallest building; it can be seen for miles around.

31. In January 2011, Leeds City was named as one of five "cities to watch" in a report published by Centre for Cities.

32. Leeds City is an important centre for equity, venture and risk finance.

33. Leeds City has the most diverse economy of all the UK's main employment centres and has seen the fastest rate of private sector jobs growth of any UK city and has the highest ratio of public to private sector jobs of all the UK's Core Cities.

34. Leeds City has a climate that is oceanic, and influenced by the Pennines.

35. On 1 April 1925, the parish of Leeds City was expanded to cover the whole borough.

36. Leeds City was a manor and township in the large ancient parish of Leeds St Peter, in the Skyrack wapentake of the West Riding of Yorkshire.

37. Leeds City handled one sixth of England's export trade in 1770.

38. Leeds City developed as a market town in the Middle Ages as part of the local agricultural economy.

39. Leeds City has one of the most diverse economies of all the UK's main employment centres and has seen the fastest rate of private-sector jobs growth of any UK city.

40. Leeds City has given the world a series of literary greats.

41. Leeds City is home to the oldest continuously working public railway in the world.

42. The Leeds City United winger was a South African, and he became one of the most high profile black footballers to have ever played in the top flight of British football.

43. Leeds City United, after pinching Real Madrid's kit colours in the sixties to swap from blue and yellow to all white, decided they'd go one step further in 1975.

44. Leeds City was a vital cog in the Second World War effort.

45. Leeds City have lost four of their last five matches across all competitions.

46. Leeds City have seen outfield players Lewis Baker and Samu Saiz depart this month, and the Whites are yet to replace either.

47. Leeds City have not yet made a formal bid for James but, according to the Yorkshire Evening Post, one is expected to go in.