Leicester City FC is an English football club from the city of Leicester in the East Midlands.  The club was founded in 1884 as Leicester Fosse playing on a field near Fosse Road. They moved to Filbert Street in 1891 and played there for 110 years, before relocating to the nearby Walkers Stadium in 2002.  The club joined the Football Association in 1890 before joining the Midland League in 1891.  Leicester was elected to the Football League in 1894 but in 1919, when League football resumed after World War I, Leicester Fosse ceased trading due to financial difficulties. The club was reformed as Leicester City Football Club. In 1925, Leicester won the Second Division championship and remained in the top tier for ten years. Relegated in 1935, they bounced back again in 1937 only to be relegated once more in 1939.  When football resumed after the Second World War, Leicester remained a modest Second Division outfit. 1954 brought another Second Division championship followed by yet another immediate relegation. In 1957 City won the Second Division again and this time, having narrowly retained their staus during their first season in the top tier,  became established as a First Division side.  Under the management of Matt Gillies, the club had one of its most successful periods reaching the FA Cup final on two occasions, but lost in both 1961 and 1963. 

In 1964, when Leicester beat Stoke 4–3 on aggregate to win the League Cup for the first time. Leicester also reached the League Cup final the following year, but lost 3–2 on aggregate to Chelsea. After a bad start to the season, Matt Gillies resigned in November 1968. His successor, Frank O'Farrell was unable to prevent relegation, but the club reached the FA Cup final in 1969 for the third time, losing to Manchester City 1–0. In 1971, Leicester were promoted back to Division One. Unusually, due to Division One champions Arsenal's commitments in European competition, Division Two winners Leicester were invited to play FA Cup runners up Liverpool, beating them 1–0.  The club was relegated in 1978 but bounced back two years later as champions. Relegated after only one season before a return to the top tier this time for four seasons.  Promoted through the play-offs in 1994 once again their tenure in the top tier lasted one season.  It was the arrival of  Martin O'Neill in 1995 that secured an immediate return to the Premier League and this time the club  established themselves in the top flight  with four successive top ten finishes. O'Neill was also the first manager to win silverware for 26 years, winning the League Cup twice, in 1997 and 2000, ( Leicester were runners-up in 1999). The club therefore qualified for the UEFA Cup in 1998 and 2001, the club's first European competition since 1961. 

O'Neill's success made him a sought-after manager and Celtic lured him north of the border in 2000.   Leicester were relegated two seasons later and in October 2002 went into administration with debts of £30 million. They were relegated from the Championship at the end of the 2007–08 marking the 2008–09 season as Leicester's first season outside the top two tiers of English football.  They returned to the Championship as champions of the First Division the following year and in 2014 secured a return to the top tier of English football as champions.  Having narrowly avoided relegation in 2014-15, Leicester stunned the football world by defying the odds of 5000-1 to win the league title the following season under new coach Claudio Ranieri. Although he was the 2016 Premier League Manager of the Season and LMA Manager of the Year he was sacked by the club in February 2017, after a string of poor results. Mid-table finishes led to the appointment of Brenden Rodgers in 2019.  A fifth placed finished the followed season was followed by Leicester’s first FA Cup win when they beat Chelsea 1-0 in the final. Leicester finished eighth the following year, but a run of poor results resulted in the departure of Brenden Rodgers in February 2023. His replacement Dean Smith was unable to prevent an end to the club's nine-year run in the English Premiership at the end of the 2022-23 season.