Facts About Leicester City Football Club

Leicester city football club is England’s famous football club. It was started in 1884. Claude Puel is the manager of the club at present. Leicester city club is commonly known as The Foxes. They used to play in King Power Stadium. The leagues associated with the Foxes are Premier League, EFL Cup and FA Community Shield.

 

The club has participated in Premier League. In 2015-16 seasons the club won this title. Other great memories are four times participation in FA cup, three times winning of League cup. The club has also winner of European cup.The Foxes have record appearances in the FA cup finals.They won League cup in 1964.

 

In 1971 the Foxes won Charity shield and runners-up in FA cup. England 2 best goal keepers were from the Leicester city.Three players Gary Lineker, Alan Smith and Steve Lynex scored more than 150 goals in three seasons.

 

Club’s record till 2016:

1- Championship, old Second Division, Play-Off winners: 1994, 1996

2- League 1, old Third Division, champions: 2009

3- League Cup winners: 1964, 1997, 2000

4- League Cup runners-up: 1965, 1999

5- FA Cup runners-up: 1949, 1961, 1963, 1969

6- FA Community Shield, old Charity Shield, winners: 1971

7- FA Community Shield, old Charity Shield, runners-up: 2016

8- FA Premier League Academy champions: 2007

9- Premier League, old First Division, champions: 2016

10- Championship, old Second Division, champions: 1925, 1937, 1954, 1957, 1971, 1980, 2014
11- Championship, old Second Division, runners-up: 1908, 2003

 

The Foxes Squad consists of Ben Hamer, EldinJakupovic, Kasper Schmeichel, YohanBenalouane, Ben Chilwell, AleksandarDragovic, Christian Fuchs, Robert Huth, Josh Knight, Harry Maguire, Wes Morgan, Danny Simpson, Marc Albrighton, Daniel Amartey, Harvey Barnes, HamzaChoudhury, Demarai Gray, Vicente Iborra, Matty James, Andy ,Shinji Okazaki, Islam Slimani, George Thomas, Leonardo Ulloa and Jamie Vardy.