Leicester City F.C.

**Leicester City F.C.** are an English professional football club, based at King Power Stadium in Leicester. They won the 2015–16 Premier League, their first top tier title.

Some of the club's most famous players include Gary Lineker, Peter Shilton, Gordon Banks and Jamie Vardy. Their present manager is Steve Cooper

## Name

- 1884-1919 **Leicester Fosse F.C.**
- 1919-present **Leicester City F.C.**

## League position

|Season|League|Position|Notes|
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|2000/01|Premier League|13th||
|2001/02|Premier League|20th|Relegated|
|2002/03|First Division|2nd|Promoted|
|2003/04|Premier League|18th|Relegated|
|2004/05|EFL Championship|15th||
|2005/06|EFL Championship|16th||
|2006/07|EFL Championship|19th||
|2007/08|EFL Championship|22nd|Relegated|
|2008/09|EFL League One|1st|Champions|
|2009/10|EFL Championship|5th|Play Off Semi Finalist|
|2010/11|EFL Championship|10th||
|2011/12|EFL Championship|9th||
|2012/13|EFL Championship|6th|Play Off Semi Finalist|
|2013/14|EFL Championship|1st|Champions|
|2014/15|Premier League|14th||
|2015/16|Premier League|1st|Champions|
|2016/17|Premier League|12th||
|2017/18|Premier League|9th||
|2018/19|Premier League|9th||
|2019/20|Premier League|5th||
|2020/21|Premier League|5th||
|2021/22|premier league|8th||
|22/23|premier league|18th|relegated|

## European record

|style="color:white; background:#2B55DB;"|Season|style="color:white; background:#2B55DB;"|Competition|style="color:white; background:#2B55DB;"|Round|style="color:white; background:#2B55DB;"|Club|style="color:white; background:#2B55DB;"|Home|style="color:white; background:#2B55DB;"|Away|style="color:white; background:#2B55DB;"|Aggregate|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan=2|1961–62|rowspan=2|European Cup Winners' Cup|PR|Glenavon|bgcolor="#ddffdd" style="text-align:center;"|3–1|bgcolor="#ddffdd" style="text-align:center;"|4–1|bgcolor="#ddffdd" style="text-align:center;"|**7–2**|||
|1R|Atlético Madrid|bgcolor="#ffffdd" style="text-align:center;"|1–1|bgcolor="#ffdddd" style="text-align:center;"|0–2|bgcolor="#ffdddd" style="text-align:center;"|**1–3**|||||||
|1997–98|UEFA Cup|1R|Atlético Madrid|bgcolor="#ffdddd" style="text-align:center;"|0–2|bgcolor="#ffdddd" style="text-align:center;"|1–2|bgcolor="#ffdddd" style="text-align:center;"|**1–4**|||||
|2000–01|UEFA Cup|1R|Red Star Belgrade|bgcolor="#ffffdd" style="text-align:center;"|1–1|bgcolor="#ffdddd" style="text-align:center;"|1–3|bgcolor="#ffdddd" style="text-align:center;"|**2–4**|||||
|rowspan=5|2016–17|rowspan=5|UEFA Champions League|rowspan=3|GS|Porto|bgcolor="#ddffdd" style="text-align:center;"|1–0|bgcolor="#ffdddd" style="text-align:center;"|0–5|bgcolor="#ddffdd" style="text-align:center;" rowspan=3|**1st**||
|Club Brugge|bgcolor="#ddffdd" style="text-align:center;"|2–1|bgcolor="#ddffdd" style="text-align:center;"|3–0||||||||||
|Copenhagen|bgcolor="#ddffdd" style="text-align:center;"|1–0|bgcolor="#ffffdd" style="text-align:center;"|0–0||||||||||
|R16|Sevilla|bgcolor="#ddffdd" style="text-align:center;"|2–0|bgcolor="#ffdddd" style="text-align:center;"|1–2|bgcolor="#ddffdd" style="text-align:center;"|**3–2**|||||||
|QF|Atlético Madrid|bgcolor="#ffffdd" style="text-align:center;"|1–1|bgcolor="#ffdddd" style="text-align:center;"|0–1|bgcolor="#ffdddd" style="text-align:center;"|**1–2**|||||||
|rowspan=3|2020–21|rowspan=3|UEFA Europa League|rowspan=3|GS|Braga|bgcolor="#ddffdd" style="text-align:center;"|4–0|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;" rowspan=3|||
|AEK Athens|style="text-align:center;"||bgcolor="#ddffdd" style="text-align:center;"|2–1||||||||||
|Zorya Luhansk|bgcolor="#ddffdd" style="text-align:center;"|3–0|style="text-align:center;"|||||||||||
- Notes
- Goals by Leicester are listed first.
- PR: Preliminary round
- 1R: First round
- GS: Group stage
- R16: Round of 16
- QF: Quarter-final

### League

- **First Division/Premier League**(first tier)
    - **Champions:** 2015–16
    - Runners-up: 1928–29
- **Second Division/First Division/EFL Championship** (second tier)
    - **Champions (7):** 1924–25, 1936–37, 1953–54, 1956–57, 1970–71, 1979–80, 2013–14
    - Runners-up: 1907–08, 2002–03
    - **Play-off winners:** 1993–94, 1995–96
- **Third Division/Second Division/EFL League One** (third tier)
    - **Champions:** 2008–09

### Cup

- **FA Cup**
    - Winners: 2020–21
    - Runners-up: 1948–49, 1960–61, 1962–63, 1968–69

- **League Cup / EFL Cup**
    - **Winners:** 1963–64, 1996–97, 1999–2000
    - Runners-up: 1964–65, 1998–99

- **Charity Shield / FA Community Shield**
    - **Winners:** 1971,  2021
    - Runners-up: 2016

### Regional competitions

- **War League South**
    - **Champions:** 1942
- **Wartime Midland Cup**
    - **Winners:** 1941

## Infobox (football club)

- **clubname**: Leicester City F.C.
- **fullname**: Leicester City Football Club
- **nickname**: The Foxes
- **founded**: 1884 (as Leicester Fosse)
- **ground**: King Power Stadium, Leicester
- **capacity**: 32,262
- **owner**: King Power
- **chairman**: Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha
- **ceo**: Susan Whelan
- **manager**: Steve Cooper
- **sponsor**: King Power
- **league**: Premier league
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- **website**: http://www.lcfc.com