Leeds United's Premier League survival confirmed upon West Ham defeat as next steps outlined — Leeds Live 10/5/26

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Leeds United will be playing in the Premier League next season after a tremendous return campaign back in the top flight

Isaac Johnson Leeds United reporter

Leeds United have officially secured Premier League survival following West Ham United’s 1-0 defeat to Arsenal this evening.

The result leaves the Hammers, sitting in 18th, an unassailable seven points off Leeds with two games to play. The Whites join Sunderland in breaking the two-year trend of promoted clubs going straight back down.

Leeds - who play Tottenham Hotspur tomorrow evening - reached 43 points with their 3-1 win over Burnley nine days ago, a tally with which no team has been relegated during the 20-team Premier League era.

Survival was, naturally, the club’s main aim this season despite the noble run to the FA Cup semi-finals. The 49ers invested more than £100m on 10 new signings in the summer, having maxed out spending limits.

Daniel Farke was on shaky ground in November but the board chose not to dismiss him ahead of the trip to Manchester City and his half-time ingenuity to switch to a back-three formation was ultimately the catalyst of revival form, confidence and results.

Leeds have lost just four of their last 22 league matches and two of those were against title challengers Arsenal and Manchester City. Their sole away defeat during this period was the excruciating 4-3 defeat to Newcastle United at St James’ Park in January.

Questions had been posed at the club’s recruitment team for their summer transfer activity after a concerning opening few months of the season. Dominic Calvert-Lewin and Lukas Nmecha, both free arrivals but with injury records, have scored 20 goals between them so far.

Anton Stach is a key starter while Noah Okafor, injured for tomorrow’s game, has found his stride with six goals in seven Premier League games. Gabriel Gudmundsson is arguably favourite for player of the season with Jaka Bijol and James Justin also regulars.

Lucas Perri and latterly, in January, Facundo Buonanotte blot the copy book but the rise in levels of Karl Darlow and Brenden Aaronson have compensated for these misfires.

The board are meanwhile aware that Farke’s contract expires in just over a year’s time. Any potential talks will only take place once the season has concluded.

After the trip to Tottenham, Leeds host Brighton & Hove Albion in their last home game of the season before the final day visit to West Ham, against whom they earned their 39-year wait for an FA Cup quarter-final win last month.

Leeds could still break the 50-point mark but regardless, the club will be keen to finish as high as possible with around a £3m difference in prize money for each final table position.

With new Squad Cost Ratio rules set to come in this summer, Leeds are set to be marginally worse off than they were last year so every bit of extra revenue helps. The club also earned around £1.5m for their progression through to the FA Cup semi-finals.

Leeds are expected to have a similar summer budget to 2025, albeit another influx of players is not anticipated. Meanwhile, the main construction of the expansion to Elland Road will begin upon the end of the campaign with preparation works already visible.

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