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. Leicester won the 2015-16 Premier League title, their first top-level football championship. They were elected to the Football League in 1894 and adopted the name Leicester City in 1919.
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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. Leicester won the 2015-16 Premier League title, their first top-level football championship. They were elected to the Football League in 1894 and adopted the name Leicester City in 1919. Leicester reached the FA Cup final for the first time in their history in 1949, losing 3–1 to Wolverhampton Wanderers. In 1962, they were England’s representatives in the 1961–62 European Cup Winners’ Cup, but lost to double winners Tottenham Hotspur. They also reached the League Cup final the following year but lost 3–2 on aggregate to Chelsea. Leicester are one of only seven clubs to have won the Premier league since its inception in 1992. The team was dubbed ‘The Unbelievables’, a spin-off harking back to Arsenal’s undefeated team ‘The Invincibles’ The club’s previous highest finish was second place in the top flight, in 1928–29, then known as the First Division. Leicester’s first ever Football League game was a 4–3 defeat at Grimsby Town, with a first League win the following week, against Rotherham United at Filbert Street. In 1907–08 the club finished as Second Division runners-up, gaining promotion to First Division, but the club were relegated after a single season which included the club’s record defeat, a 12–0 loss against Nottingham Forest.
Under the management of Matt Gillies and his assistant Bert Johnson, Leicester remained in Division One until 1969, their longest period ever in thetop flight. In the winter of 1962, the club became nicknamed the ‘Ice Kings’, thanks to a sensational run of form on icy and frozen pitches. In 1964, Leicester beat Stoke City 4-3 on aggregate in the League League Cup to win the first piece of silverware in Leicester’s post-war history. After a bad start to the 1964-65 season, Leicester also reached League Cup finals for the first time, when they lost 3-2 to Stoke City on aggregate. The following year, Leicester were England’s representatives in the First Division during the 1964–63 season, and were eventually placed fourth, their best finish during the war. In 1966, Leicester were England’s representative in the First Division in the 1966–67 season, when the club won the League League Cup for the first time. The next season, they won the First League Cup for a second time, but were beaten 3-1 on aggregate by Stoke City in the semi-final of the League Championship. In 1969, Leicester won Division Two championship in 1954, with the help of Arthur Rowley, one of their most prolific strikers. In 1957, under Dave Halliday they returned in 1957, with Rowley scoring a club record 44 goals in one season.
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