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| 1897 | Holbeck Rugby Club buy Elland Road for £1,100 on the condition it remains a football ground for |
| | at least seven years and the catering rights go to Bentley's. |
| 1898 | 3,400 people in attendance, on 23 April as Hunslet beat Harrogate 1-0 in the West Yorkshire |
| | Cup Final. |
| 1902 | Leeds League side, Leeds Woodville, share the ground with Holbeck for the 1902-03 season. |
| 1904 | Holbeck go under and the ground is put up for sale. Leeds City sign lease on 13 October, for |
| | £4,500 and an annual rent of £75. Leeds City play their first game at Elland Road losing 2-0 to |
| | Hull City in a friendly. |
| 1905 | August sees work start on a 5,000 capacity stand on the west side of the ground. |
| 1906 | February and 3,961 square yards of land is bought on the Churwell and Geldard Road side of |
| | the ground for £420, from the Monk's Bridge Iron Company. |
| 1909 | Elland Road is chosen to host an amateur international between England and Ireland. |
| 1910 | The FA Cup semi-final between Barnsley and Everton comes. Although thousands are locked |
| | outside, as the capacity of 36,000 is reached, too much for a young Elland Road. |
| 1912 | Leeds City fall into the hands of the receiver and a shadow of doubt is cast over Elland Road.
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| 1914 | Elland Road and City saved, a Leeds business syndicate pays £1,000 and a yearly rent of £250.
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| 1915-18 | The Great War comes and Elland Road is used for army drilling and shooting practice
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| 1919 | Leeds City disbanded and plans afoot to turn Elland Road into a brickyard. |
| 1920's | The Terrace is covered with a barrel shaped roof and becomes known as the Scratching Shed.
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| | A brand new stand is built that runs down the East of Elland Road and called The Lowfields. |
| | The terrace behind the northern goal becomes known as the Spion Kop, after a hill in South |
| | Africa where 322 British soldiers lost their lives in the Boer War. Elland Road is chosen to stage |
| | further England trial games. |
| 1932 | A record crowd of 56,796, that stands for 35 years, as Leeds play Arsenal on 27 December in |
| | a 0-0 draw. |
| 1938 | Elland Road hosts the Rugby Championship final as Leeds RL play Hunslet in front of of 54,112. |
| 1939-45 | The second world war and Elland Road is requisitioned by the war office for administrative |
| | purposes |
| 1950 | Leeds play good neighbour as Huddersfield Town play two matches at Elland Road after their |
| | main stand was destroyed by fire. |
| 1953 | Floodlights costing £7,000 are switched on for the first time in a friendly with Hibernian |
| | on 9 November. |
| 1956 | A fire destroys the West Stand at Elland Road with damage estimated at £100,000. |
| 1957 | A new stand is opened in August afer an appeal rasies £60,000 and the rest comes from the |
| | Leeds City Council. |
| 1958 | West Stand again hit by fire but directors play at firemen and put it out early. |
| 1965 | BBC cameras shine on Elland Road for the first time as Leeds beat Everton 4-1 on 20 March. |
| 1967 | The record which still stands today is made with a crowd of 57,892 watching Leeds play |
| | Sunderland in a 5th round FA Cup replay on March 15. |
| 1968 | A new Kop, also now known as The Geldard is built complete with roof. This leaves 60 feet of |
| | spare land behind the goal so the pitch is moved 30 feet North. |
| 1970 | The Kop is linked with the West Stand and Lowfields Road with the North West Stand and |
| | North East Stand respectively at a cost of £200,000 each. |
| 1971 | Elland Road is re-seeded. Manager Don Revie calls on a Gypsy to lift a curse off of Elland Road |
| | and Leeds are banned from playing at home for four games because of crowd trouble, down to |
| | an appalling refereeing decision. |
| 1972 | On 30 September the Leeds United Sports and Souvenir Shop opens it's doors. |
| 1974 | The South Stand, complete with 16 executive boxes and a 4,000 capacity replaces the |
| | Scratching Shed at a cost of £500,000. |
| 1978 | Leeds are banned from staging a FA Cup tie at Elland Road for three seasons, the result of |
| | crowd trouble in a FA Cup game with Manchester City. |
| 1979 | The South Stand is shut down for a period, due to missiles being thrown in a game with |
| | Manchester City, this time in the league and later the Kop is closed for two games after |
| | objects were thrown on the pitch in a match against Nottingham Forest. |
| 1980 | Elland Road hosts the FA Cup semi final replay between West Ham and Everton and gets record |
| | gate reciepts of £346,483. |
| 1982 | Supergroup Queen play a gig at Elland Road. |
| 1985 | Bradford City play three games at Elland Road after a Tragic fire at Valley Parade and Elland |
| | Road stages a Great Britain v New Zealand Rugby League test match in November. |
| 1987 | Elland Road gets versatile with a Gaelic football match between Dublin and Mayo, a three-day |
| | Jehovah's witness convention and another rock concert with U2. |
| 1989 | An additional 16 executive boxes are built in the South Stand and the South Stand and East |
| | Stand are linked. |
| 1991 | September the South East corner was built attaching the South Stand and the Lowfields |
| | Stand together providing an end for visiting fans. |
| 1992 | The bulldozers drive up to Elland Road, to help make way for the biggest development so far. |
| 1994 | The mammoth East Stand replaces The Lowfields at a cost of £5.5m, with the biggest |
| | cantilever stand in the world, 25 extra Executive Boxes and over 17,000 seats. 7,000 seats are |
| | added to the kop making Elland Road an all seater stadium. |
| 1995 | The gate reciept record is broken again, as Elland Road stages another FA Cup semi. |
| | Tottenham play Everton making £1,006,000 in gate reciepts. |
| 1996 | Elland Road is chosen to host Group B qualifying rounds of Euro 96, hosting Spain, Romania, |
| | France and Bulgaria. |
| 1998 | A statue is erected in memory and honour of Billy Bremner and the new board at Leeds |
| | 'Leeds Sporting PLC' buy the ground back off the council. |
| 2000 | The highest average attendance ever at Elland Road, in 1999-00 with 40,118. |
| 2001 | The PLC make a concentrated effort to take Leeds United away from Elland Road. |
| 2004 | Financial difficulties means Elland Road is sold again, in a sell and leaseback arrangement. |
| | The West Stand is renamed The John Charles Stand after the Leeds United legend dies. |
| 2006 | The South Stand undergoes a refurb which includes the Billy's Bar And Brasserie and a |
| | complete modernisation of exhisting facilities. |
