Leeds claim they are leading an effort across Europe to ensure all the domestic campaigns are finished.
The FA has pulled the plug on non-league football, fuelling fears the EFL and Premier League may also not be completed.
Championship leaders Leeds are on course to end their 16-year exile from the top flight, which could earn them £250million, and are adamant the final nine league games must be played whenever football resumes.
Leeds chief executive Angus Kinnear said: “From a club perspective our first priority has been to the health and the wellbeing of our staff, players and the wider Leeds family and the second priority has been to maintain the integrity of the club’s business model.
“As part of this, we took the lead in what became a growing number of voices across the wider European football family, who asserted the importance of finishing this season, whatever the date, before we start the next.
“This will protect the individual club business models, the integrity of the individual leagues and the entire football pyramid.
“Importantly it will also honour the investments made by clubs and the endeavours of players, coaches and supporters over the last 37 games.”
Kinnear also praised the decision by Marcelo Bielsa, his staff, players and the senior management to defer their wages indefinitely, claiming this will help greatly when the club is losing “several million pounds a month”.
“In an age where professional footballers are much maligned, Leeds United have a team of men, who immediately appreciated the gravity of the situation and understood the part they could play,” he wrote in his weekly column in the Yorkshire Evening Post.
“Never has Billy Bremner’s mantra of ‘side before self’ been more enthusiastically embraced.”
However Kinnear claims there have still been casualties at Elland Road because they had to dump 45,000 pints of pre-match beer.
“Whilst we appreciate there are much bigger issues at stake, there was still heartbreak at the ‘criminal act’ of not being able to find a home for 45,000 pints, of what would have been, pre-match beer,” he said.
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