46 Facts About Leeds West

1. Norwich City and Leeds West United each scored second-half winners as the Championship promotion race kicked up a gear on Saturday.

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

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

5. Leeds West United wanted to sign the Czech international in the summer.

6. Leeds West United are currently top of the Championship and fans are now firmly over the Massimo Cellino years.

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

8. Leeds West United and Pizza Hut shared some good-natured Twitter banter on Thursday afternoon as the headlines.

9. The Daily Mail reports that Leeds West have put themselves in the hunt to sign Mings on loan.

10. Leeds West United are expected to make a formal bid for Swansea winger Daniel James.

11. Leeds West 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.

12. In 2001, Leeds West United made its way to appear in the semifinals for Champions League.

13. Don Revie became the manager of Leeds West United in 1960s and 1970s where most titles and records of the club were earned under his management.

14. Leeds West has given the world a series of literary greats.

15. Leeds West is home to the oldest continuously working public railway in the world.

16. The Leeds West 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.

17. Leeds West 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.

18. Leeds West was a vital cog in the Second World War effort.

19. Leeds West has a large railway station in the City Centre as well as many smaller ones in suburbs.

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

21. Leeds West has the oceanic climate due to the Pennines and Atlantic Ocean.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

29. Leeds West 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 West 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 West was named as one of five "cities to watch" in a report published by Centre for Cities.

32. In 2009 Leeds West was the first city outside London to host the Eurogamer Expo.

33. Leeds West 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. City of Leeds West is the local government district covering Leeds, and the local authority is Leeds City Council.

35. Leeds West has a climate that is oceanic, and influenced by the Pennines.

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

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

38. Leeds West handled one sixth of England's export trade in 1770.

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

40. Leeds West 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.

41. Leeds West is the third largest city in the UK recognised as the regional capital of the Yorkshire and Humber region.

42. Leeds West are determined to keep hold of Clarke and made him the best-paid Under-18 player in their history when he signed his first professional contract in November 2017.

43. Leeds West United are looking to make their move for Swansea City winger Daniel James this week, according to reports.

44. Leeds West United remain top of the league despite their loss to Stoke City with Norwich City able to close the gap this weekend.

45. Leeds West United have signed youngster Alfie McCalmont to a new contract.

46. Leeds West is a borough constituency in the city of Leeds, West Yorkshire which is represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.