Leicester City Football Club is a professional football club based in Leicester in the East Midlands, England. The club competes in the Premier League, the top division of England's football league system, and plays its home matches at the King Power Stadium. The club was founded in 1884 as Leicester Fosse F.C., playing on a field near Fosse Road. They moved to Filbert Street in 1891, were elected to the Football League in 1894 and adopted the name Leicester City in 1919. They moved to the nearby Walkers Stadium in 2002, which was renamed the King Power Stadium in 2011. Leicester won the 2015–16 Premier League, their first top tier title, becoming one of seven clubs to have won the Premier League since its inception in 1992. A number of newspapers described Leicester's title win as the greatest sporting shock ever; multiple bookmakers had never paid out at such long odds for any sport.
| Full name | Leicester City Football Club |
| Nickname(s) | The Foxes |
| Founded | 1884, (as Leicester Fosse F.C.) |
| Ground | King Power Stadium |
| Ground Capacity | 32,261 |
| Owner | King Power |
| Chairman | Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha |
| Manager | Brendan Rodgers |
| League | Premier League |
| 2015–16 | Premier League, 1st (champions) |
About Leicester City
English club that won its first Premier League title in 2016. The club won its first League Cup in 1964.
Achievement of Leicester City
The team was runners-up in the Premier League in 1928-29, then didn't have another top two finish in the league until their 2016 title.
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Latest information about Leicester City updated on July 28 2021.
