Daniel Farke is the most recent manager to be given the responsibility of improving Leeds United’s fortunes after several outstanding ones have passed through the doors at Elland Road.

This season’s campaign in the second division appears to be exciting for the club, as the two-time Championship winner should make the Whites competitive.

Leeds was demoted from the Premier League the previous year, and with Farke in charge, they have the resources to be among the favourites to be promoted this year.

Leeds has had many interesting and amazing managers over the years, despite the German coach being the most recent to take the helm.

9Simon Grayson

84 wins

A longtime fan of Leeds United who graduated from the academy, Simon Grayson was named manager in 2008. When the team was still in League One, he was the mastermind behind an incredible giant-killing in the FA Cup third-round match, winning 1-0 against Sir Alex Ferguson’s Manchester United.

A few months later, Grayson led Leeds back into the Championship and secured promotion from League One with a thrilling victory over Bristol Rovers on the last day of the season. For Grayson, it would get better than that. For a few seasons, he held his spot in the second division, but a lack of funding caused him to lose many of his best players. Following a run of poor results, Ken Bates fired him in February 2012.

The 54-year-old won 84 of his 169 games as manager of Leeds, but his most recent managerial gig was with Bengaluru FC, an Indian team.

8Major Frank Buckley

87 wins

During his tenure as the club’s manager in the 1940s and 1950s, Major Frank Buckley managed 29 more games than Jimmy Armfield, although he won the same amount of games.

It was shortly after Christmas 1948 that he also found John Charles, one of Leeds’ two greatest players ever. To lift the club out of mediocrity, he employed some unconventional and innovative methods.

This included, among other things, prohibiting players from smoking two days prior to a game, raising admission prices, and playing dance music over the public address system during training days.

7Jimmy Armfield

87 wins

In 1974, Jimmy Armfield succeeded Brian Clough as manager of Leeds, taking over most of the renowned Don Revie squad in the process.

In 1975, he led Leeds to victory over Bayern Munich in the European Cup final in Paris. Although he is still considered by many to be among the greatest Leeds managers of all time, he would still be revered as a hero if he had defeated Franz Beckenbauer and company in that championship game.

6Raich Carter

90 wins

Raich Carter, who succeeded Buckley and went on to win three more games than his predecessor, is another incredibly well-known name connected to Leeds.

During his five-year tenure with the team, he won 90 of his 217 games. Under his leadership, Leeds finished second in 1956 and were promoted to Division 1 following a nine-year hiatus from the top flight.

They came in eighth place the next season, led by John Charles’ 38 goals. In the summer, he moved to Juventus, which cost Carter his job when Leeds finished 17th the next season without his goals.

5David O’Leary

101 wins

David O’Leary was Leeds’ assistant manager under George Graham before being appointed as his successor following Graham’s departure in 1998. O’Leary had a young group of talented individuals. Technically gifted players such as Lee Bowyer and Harry Kewell, who had struggled under Graham, became key components of one of Leeds’ most successful ever sides. His team reached the semi-final of the Champions League in 2001, having beaten Barcelona in the group stage and Deportivo La Coruna in the quarter-final.

ByAs a manager, O’Leary had never placed lower than five in the top flight and had received significant market backing as of June 2002. But in the summer of 2002, Peter Ridsdale fired O’Leary as Leeds’ manager and appointed Terry Venables in his place. This marked the official start of Leeds’ decline into administration and the third division.

But as Leeds boss, the 66-year-old won an amazing 101 of 203 games.

4Arthur Fairclough

111 wins

Arthur Fairclough, one of the club’s most influential figures in its early years, managed to win 111 of his 309 games. For Leeds’ first full season in the Football League, Fairclough succeeded Dick Ray as manager.

After three years in charge, Fairclough assembled a formidable squad that saw them promoted to the First Division in the 1923/24 season. Tom Jennings and Russell Wainscoat, two goal-scoring players, were also signed the following year.

In 1926–27, the team was relegated despite Jennings’ incredible 35 goals in 42 games. Fairclough resigned at the end of the season, allowing Ray to take over the team once more.

3Dick Ray

143 wins

Before Arthur Fairclough took over as manager of Leeds United in the 1919–20 Midland League season, Dick Ray was asked to join the original committee chosen to oversee the newly formed Leeds United after Leeds City was ejected from the Football League in October 1919.

The Leeds board brought Ray back as manager in July 1927 after Fairclough resigned as a result of Leeds’ relegation to the Second Division at the end of 1927. The likes of Billy Furness, Arthur Hydes, Tom Cochrane, George Milburn, and Jim Milburn were among the legendary players of that era that he helped shape.

During his time there, Leeds was fighting relegation when he resigned in March 1935, having experienced both promotion and relegation.

2Howard Wilkinson

178 wins

With 178 victories in 411 games as the club’s manager, the 80-year-old is rightfully ranked second on the list.

1Don Revie

395 wins

And who else? Not surprisingly, the guy with the statue outside of Elland Road takes first place. Without a doubt, Don Revie is the best Leeds manager in history. Between 1961 and 1974, he oversaw more than 700 games as the Whites’ manager.

Leeds won the First Division in 1968/1969 and the Second Division in 1963/1964 under Revie. In addition, he won the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup in 1968 and 1971, the League Cup in 1968, the FA Charity Shield in 1969, and the FA Cup in 1972.

In 740 games as Leeds’ manager, he won 394 of them. Sadly, Revie passed away in 1989, but his legacy at Elland Road has endured and always will.