Leicester City Football Club

Leicester City Football Club is a professional football club based in the city of Leicester, East Midlands, England. The club competes in the Premier League, the top tier of English football, following promotion from the 2023–24 EFL Championship as league champions.

The club was founded in 1884 as Leicester Fosse F.C, and became known as Leicester City in 1919. They moved to Filbert Street in 1891, were elected to the Football League in 1894 and moved to the nearby King Power Stadium in 2002.

Leicester City have won one Premier League, one FA Cup, three League Cups and two FA Community Shields. They are currently one of only five teams to have won all three major domestic trophies since 2000, making them the 6th most successful club in English football this century. The club's 2015–16 Premier League title win attracted global attention, and they became one of seven clubs to have won the Premier League since its inception in 1992. Prior to this, Leicester's highest league finish was second place in the top flight in 1928–29.

The club has competed in seven European campaigns to date, reaching the UEFA Champions League quarter-finals in 2016–17 and UEFA Europa Conference League semi-finals in 2021–22. They have played in the FA Cup final five times, winning their first title in 2021. Leicester won the League Cup in 1964, 1997 and 2000 respectively, and were finalists in 1964–65 and 1998–99.