Date: Wednesday, 12^th February 1969.

Venue: Elland Road, Leeds.

Competition: First Division.

Score: Leeds United 2 Ipswich Town 0

Scorers: Leeds United: Belfitt, Jones. Ipswich Town: Nil.

Attendance: 24,229.

Teams:

Leeds United: Sprake; Reaney, Cooper; Bremner, Charlton, Hunter; O’Grady, Belfitt, Jones, Giles, E. Gray.

Ipswich Town: Best; Mills, Houghton; Morris, Baxter, Jefferson; Hegan (Viljoen), Barnard, Crawford, O’Rourke, Woods.

Referee: J. Finney (Hereford).

United were in hot pursuit of the men from Anfield and goals from Rod Belfitt and Mick Jones saw them leapfrog Liverpool and go top of the League. United had trailed Liverpool mainly due to postponements and just prior to this game they had been three points adrift with two games in hand. They had beaten Queens Park Rangers to leave them one point behind with a game in hand. Now they needed to beat Ipswich to take the lead and this they did to put them one point in front with equal games played. Such was their dominance for the rest of the season that they were never headed again and went on to win the championship for the first time.

Players:

David Best	Mick Mills	Billy Houghton
Chris Barnard/p>	Peter Morris	Billy Baxter
Derek Jefferson	Danny Hegan	Ray Crawford
John O'Rourke	Charlie Woods	Colin Viljoen

United goal-scorers:

Mick Jones

Rod Belfitt