Leeds United squad – Football Research Archive

Squad 1997/98

Season statistics: Wikipedia. The archive holds no team sheets for 1997/98, so these are Leeds United's league figures according to the club-season article on English Wikipedia, in the article's order. Players link to their page where the archive holds them, matched through Wikidata.

Checks that did not pass

league starts add up to 417; 38 matches need 418
players' league goals add up to 53; the club scored 57. The article lists no own goals, so the difference (4) is open until match scorers are read.

Leeds United 1997/98: league appearances and goals per player, according to Wikipedia
Player	Pos.	Apps	Starts	Sub	Goals	All apps	All goals
Nigel Martyn	GK	37	37	0	0	45	0
Gary Kelly	DF	34	34	0	0	41	0
David Robertson	DF	26	24	2	0	31	0
Alf-Inge Haaland	DF	32	26	6	7	37	0
Lucas Radebe	DF	27	26	1	0	33	1
David Wetherall	DF	34	33	1	3	41	0
Rod Wallace	FW	31	29	2	10	39	13
Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink	FW	33	30	3	16	40

Leeds United scored 57 league goals that season by the archive's results. A dash means the article gives no figure, not zero.

Includes data from Wikipedia (“1997–98 Leeds United A.F.C. season”, revision 1369533342, read 16 Oct 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikipedia is edited by volunteers; the archive treats it as a secondary source and checks it against its own records where it can.

Transfers 1997/98

Leeds United 1997/98: players joining, according to Wikipedia
Date	Player	From	Move
12 Jun 1997	Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink	Boavista	Transfer
12 Jun 1997	Alf-Inge Haaland	Nottingham Forest	Transfer
18 Jun 1997	Bruno Ribeiro	Vitória	Transfer
21 Jul 1997	David Hopkin	Crystal Palace	Transfer
25 Feb 1998	Martin Hiden	Rapid Vienna	Transfer
16 May 1998	Clyde Wijnhard	Willem II	Transfer

Leeds United 1997/98: players leaving, according to Wikipedia
Date	Player	To	Move
1 Jun 1997	Paul Evans	Released	Released
1 Aug 1997	Mark Ford	Burnley	Transfer
1 Aug 1997	Brian Deane	Sheffield United	Transfer
1 Aug 1997	Andy Couzens	Carlisle United	Transfer
18 Aug 1997	Ian Rush	Newcastle United	Transfer
20 Aug 1997	Tony Dorigo	Torino	Transfer
23 Sept 1997	Carlton Palmer	Southampton	Transfer
23 Sept 1997	Tony Yeboah	Hamburger SV	Transfer
11 Dec 1997	Andy Gray	Bury	Loan
5 Jan 1998	Pierre Laurent	Bastia	Transfer
5 Jan 1998	Richard Jobson	Manchester City	Transfer
21 Jan 1998	Richard Jobson	Southend United	Loan

According to Wikipedia: the transfer tables of the club-season article. Fees are held but not shown.

Former players

People in this archive whose Wikidata career includes a senior spell at Leeds United that has ended
Player	Years	Matches	Goals
Pascal Struijk	2019–2026	182	12
Archie Gray	2023–2024	Not held	Not held
Djed Spence	2023–2024	7	0
Georginio Rutter	2023–2024	57	6
Ben White	2019–2020	46	1
Eddie Nketiah	2019–2020	17	3
Chris Wood	2015–2017	83	41
Lewis Cook	2014–2016	80	1
Sam Byram	2012–2016	130	9
Ross Barkley	2013	4	0
Adam Smith	2012	3	0
James Milner	2002–2004	48	5

Not limited to the season above, and not the club's full list: only people who appear elsewhere in this archive are listed. Years and figures are the spells' own, across all competitions, as Wikidata records them.