| Club: | Leeds United |
| Season: | 2016–17 |
| Manager: | Garry Monk |
| Mgrtitle: | Head coach |
| Chairman: | Massimo Cellino |
| Stadium: | Elland Road |
| League: | Championship |
| League Result: | 7th |
| Cup1: | FA Cup |
| Cup1 Result: | Fourth round |
| Cup2: | EFL Cup |
| Cup2 Result: | Fifth round |
| League Topscorer: | Chris Wood (27) |
| Season Topscorer: | Chris Wood (30) |
| Highest Attendance: | (20 November 2016, Championship) |
| Lowest Attendance: | (20 September 2016, EFL Cup) |
| Average Attendance: | 27,699 |
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| Prevseason: | 2015–16 |
| Nextseason: | 2017–18 |
The 2016–17 season was Leeds United's seventh consecutive season in the Championship.[1]
Since returning to the Championship in 2010, most of Leeds' seasons had seen mid-table mediocrity, with occasional struggles against relegation, and very few promotion challenges. This season, however, would mark the point where they began to turn the corner. Former Swansea City manager Garry Monk took over as Leeds manager, and enjoyed a less-than-auspicious start, losing four of his first six matches in charge. Owner Massimo Cellino nearly sacked Monk, but having seen precious little success with his strategy of chopping and changing managers over the past three years, decided to give him longer.
Cellino was rewarded for his patience when Leeds' form dramatically improved thereafter, with a strong run of form taking them into the play-off places by early November, and even challenging for automatic promotion by the turn of the year, with the goals of Chris Wood, who had already impressed in the previous season, being crucial to their promotion challenge. While they remained in the play-off places until the final weeks of the seasons, an injury crisis combined with a barren spell for Wood saw the promotion challenge slowly unravel. They ultimately finished in 7th place with 75 points; in many seasons this would have been good enough for a play-off spot, but an exceptionally strong top six meant Leeds ultimately came nowhere close to securing a spot. Still, the season still marked only the third time since relegation from the Premier League in 2004 that Leeds had finished in the top half of the Championship.
Off the pitch, the season saw Cellino wind down his interest in the club, selling half of his shares to compatriot Andrea Radrizzani in January, before selling him the remainder after the season ended.
Appearances (starts and substitute appearances) and goals include those in the Championship (and playoffs), League One (and playoffs), FA Cup, EFL Cup and EFL Trophy.
| width=0% | Competition | width=0% | Starting position | width=0% | Final position | width=0% | First match | width=0% | Last match |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Championship | – | 7th | 7 August 2016 | 7 May 2017 | |||||
| FA Cup | Third round | Fourth round | 9 January 2017 | 29 January 2017 | |||||
| EFL Cup | First round | Fifth round | 9 August 2016 | 29 November 2016 |
See main article: article and 2016–17 EFL Championship.
See main article: 2016–17 FA Cup.
See main article: article and 2016–17 EFL Cup.
|-|colspan="14"|Players currently out on loan:|-|colspan="17"|Players who have been available for selection this season, but have now permanently left the club:Source: Sky Sports
| width=60 | Place | width=60 | Position | width=60 | Nationality | width=60 | Number | width=150 | Name | width=80 | Championship | width=80 | FA Cup | width=80 | EFL Cup | width=80 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | FW |  | 9 | Chris Wood | 27 | 0 | 3 | 30 | |||||||||
| 2 | FW |  | 11 | Souleymane Doukara | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |||||||||
| DF | 5 | Kyle Bartley | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |||||||||||
| MF |  | 19 | Pablo Hernández | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | ||||||||||
| 3 | FW |  | 10 | Marcus Antonsson | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | |||||||||
| MF | 15 | Stuart Dallas | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | |||||||||||
| DF | | 18 | Pontus Jansson | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | ||||||||||
| FW | 7 | Kemar Roofe | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |||||||||||
| 4 | Own Goal | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||||||||||||
| FW |  | 24 | Hadi Sacko | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||||||||||
| 5 | DF | 33 | Tyler Denton | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| MF | 27 | Alex Mowatt1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||||
| FW | | 29 | Alfonso Pedraza | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||
| MF | 23 | Kalvin Phillips | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||||
| MF | 25 | Ronaldo Vieira | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||||
| TOTALS | 61 | 2 | 6 | 70 | |||||||||||||
Last Updated: 7 May 2017
| width=60 | Nation | width=150 | Name | width=50 | width=50 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kalvin Phillips | 6 | 2 | |||||
| Liam Bridcutt | 7 | 1 | |||||
| Liam Cooper | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Pontus Jansson | 15 | 0 | ||||
| Luke Ayling | 10 | 0 | |||||
| Kyle Bartley | 12 | 0 | |||||
 | Ronaldo Vieira | 5 | 0 | ||||
| Pablo Hernández | 4 | 0 | ||||
| Eunan O'Kane | 4 | 0 | |||||
| Hadi Sacko | 4 | 0 | ||||
| Souleymane Doukara | 3 | 0 | ||||
| Robert Green | 3 | 0 | |||||
| Charlie Taylor | 3 | 0 | |||||
 | Gaetano Berardi | 2 | 0 | ||||
| Stuart Dallas | 2 | 0 | |||||
| Matt Grimes | 2 | 0 | |||||
| Alex Mowatt2 | 2 | 0 | |||||
| Chris Wood | 2 | 0 | ||||
| Sol Bamba1 | 1 | 0 | |||||
 | Modou Barrow | 1 | 0 | ||||
| Tyler Denton | 1 | 0 | |||||
| Lewie Coyle | 1 | 0 | |||||
| Alfonso Pedraza | 1 | 0 | ||||
 | Marco Silvestri | 1 | 0 |
1Bamba left club on 1 September 2016.
2Mowatt left club on 27 January 2017.
As of 29 April 2017
| Date | Matches Missed | Player | Reason | Opponents Missed | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 November 2016 | 1 | Pontus Jansson | vs Newcastle (H) | Rotherham (A) | |
| 9 December 2016 | 1 | Kalvin Phillips | vs Brighton (A) | Reading (H) | |
| 9 January 2017 | 2 | Pontus Jansson | vs Cambridge (FA) | Derby (A), Barnsley (A) | |
| 29 January 2017 | 1 | Liam Cooper | vs Sutton (FA) | Blackburn (A) | |
| 11 February 2017 | 1 | Liam Bridcutt | vs Cardiff (H) | Bristol City (H) | |
| 7 March 2017 | 2 | Kalvin Phillips | vs Fulham (A) | QPR (H), Brighton (H) | |
| 11 March 2017 | 2 | Luke Ayling | vs QPR (A) | Brighton (H), Reading (A) | |
| 1 April 2017 | 6 | Liam Cooper | Violent conduct vs Reading (A) | Brentford (A), Preston (H), Newcastle (A), Wolves (H), Burton (A), Norwich (H) | |
| 29 April 2017 | 3 | Pontus Jansson | vs Norwich (H) | Wigan (A) |