Football Trips to Leeds - Football Travel

“Marching On Together” rises around Elland Road before kick-off, but the song starts long before the players appear. It begins with city-centre pints, Holbeck murals, The Old Peacock across the road and that last roar before the whistle. At Football Travel, we build football trips to Leeds with flight, hotel and match access included, backed by our experience sending over 50,000 travellers since 2008.

From the city pint to the Elland Road walk

Leeds feels like a proper single-club city. Colours appear in windows, songs drift out of doorways, and street art turns the walk south into part of the ritual. A natural start is Whitelock’s Ale House, opened in 1715 in Turk’s Head Yard off Briggate, before the route moves through Holbeck and towards the floodlights. Our football trips to Leeds are built around that sense of arrival, not just the 90 minutes.

Start in the centre, where old tiled bars and terrace chatter set the tone without trying too hard.
Drop into Northern Monk Refectory in the Old Flax Store, where 20 taps and red-brick walls give the afternoon a local edge.
Continue past Holbeck Moor pedestrian subway, where “Fans Scene” by Andy Sykes, also known as Hexjibber, turns the route into a moving gallery.
Look out for Burley Banksy’s Leeds-themed utility boxes, murals and tribute pieces as scarves, food smells and songs pull everyone in the same direction.

The Elland Road walk is why this belongs among our more distinctive football weekends. It is not polished for visitors. It is lived in, painted on walls and carried by the crowd.

Inside Elland Road

Elland Road holds 37,645, and it still feels tight to the pitch in the best English way. The named areas honour Don Revie, Jack Charlton, John Charles and Norman Hunter, tying the place to the people who shaped its identity. Plans aim to raise capacity to around 53,000 while keeping the ground’s spirit intact, but even now the noise can hit like a wall.

The South Stand carries the memory of Norman “Bites Yer Legs” Hunter and is known for fierce, relentless backing.
The record crowd was 57,892 for an FA Cup fifth-round replay on 15 March 1967 against a visiting side from the North East.
For Premier League football in Leeds, demand can be intense, which is why official match tickets and our ticket guarantee give travellers real peace of mind.

We package the flight, hotel and guaranteed access together, so the focus stays on the game, the city and the sound. For many travellers, an English Premier League weekend here feels rawer and more personal than the bigger postcard destinations.

Songs, stories and local flavour

“Leeds, Leeds, Leeds”, better known as “Marching On Together”, is the heartbeat. For 2025/26, the order was adjusted so the Premier League anthem plays after the players enter, followed by the full song. That small change matters: it lets the home end take ownership of the final seconds before kick-off. These are the details we love building into a Leeds weekend.

The Old Peacock sits directly opposite Elland Road at 251 Elland Road, and its name still echoes the old “Peacocks” nickname.
Inside, you might find cask beer, craft options, ALAW Lager and Noi’s Thai food mixing with the hum of pre-game voices.
Local folklore says free tripe dressed with vinegar was served there in the 1960s, and some supporters once watched from the roof before the South Stand blocked the view in 1974.

Around the ground, the choices lean into proper football food: hot pies, Dirty Fries, Rollover hotdogs, brownies, brookies and vegan options. We have sent thousands of travellers into days like this, and our story since 2008 is shaped by weekends where the local details linger long after the result.

Rivalry weekends at full volume

Some fixtures turn Elland Road from loud to volcanic. The most emotional rivalry is often traced back to a bruising 1965 FA Cup semi-final, and BBC Sport has described the stadium as a “cauldron” for that meeting. Sir Alex Ferguson once said the famous red rivalry on Merseyside “never reaches the levels of Leeds”, which tells you plenty about the charge in the air.

Other old hostilities come from the physical football of the 1960s and 70s, while another rivalry grew fiercely during League One and Championship years, including a 2009 play-off semi-final second leg at Elland Road with 37,036 present. Our derby-focused football trips and FA Cup packages are ideal when you want the city at its loudest.

A football trip to Leeds is a pint glass on worn wood, a mural in Holbeck, a chorus rolling down Elland Road and a ground that still feels close enough to shake. We take care of the package; you step into the ritual from first song to final whistle.