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50 free Leicester City trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Leicester City were founded by old boys of Wyggeston School as Leicester Fosse, went bust in 1919, lost four FA Cup finals, and then in 2016 pulled off what many still call the greatest shock in sporting history. This quiz covers all of it: the 13-0 cup win and the 12-0 defeat, the 1929 near-miss, Arthur Rowley's 44 goals, Matt Gillies's Ice Kings and the whirl-and-switch system, the 1964 League Cup, the 1971 Charity Shield, Gary Lineker, Brian Little's three play-off finals, Martin O'Neill's two League Cups, administration and the Walkers Stadium, Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, Nigel Pearson's great escape, Claudio Ranieri, Jamie Vardy's 11 in a row, the Champions League quarter-final, the helicopter tragedy, the 9-0 at Southampton, Youri Tielemans at Wembley and the double relegation. Early questions suit anyone who has heard the Post Horn Galop; later ones are for Foxes who know their Double Decker from their Carling Stand: which club Frank McLintock came from, who scored the club's fastest goal, and what the crest's cinquefoil represents. Good for a supporters' club night or an East Midlands pub quiz. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the club, its stadium and its records, and each question shows its source.
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Q 01Leicester City were founded in 1884 under what name, taken from the road where they first played?
Fosse
The founders were old boys of Wyggeston School; the club became Leicester City in 1919 as the borough gained city status.
Q 02Leicester's record victory, 13-0 in an FA Cup qualifier in 1894-95, came against which club?
Notts Olympic
Their first Football League match that season was a 4-3 defeat at Grimsby Town.
Q 03Which East Midlands rival inflicted Leicester Fosse's record 12-0 defeat in 1908-09?
Nottingham Forest
They were relegated after that single season in the First Division.
Q 04In 1928-29 Leicester finished First Division runners-up by a single point to which club?
The Wednesday
It stayed their best league finish for 87 years, until 2016.
Q 05Leicester's first FA Cup final, in 1949, ended in a 3-1 defeat to which club?
Wolverhampton Wanderers
A week later a last-day draw kept them in the Second Division.
Q 06Which striker set Leicester's single-season scoring record with 44 goals in 1956-57?
Arthur Rowley
He is still the Football League's all-time record scorer; Chandler holds Leicester's overall record with 273.
Q 07Leicester's 1962-63 side earned the nickname 'the Ice Kings' for what?
Their form on frozen pitches
They led the First Division for much of the season and finished fourth, their best post-war placing at the time.
Q 08Leicester's first major trophy, the 1964 League Cup, was won 4-3 on aggregate over which club?
Stoke City
They lost the next year's final to Chelsea; manager Matt Gillies's 'whirl' and 'switch' system borrowed from the Austrian and Hungarian national teams.
Q 09Why did Leicester play in the 1961-62 Cup Winners' Cup despite losing the FA Cup final?
Won the League and Cup double
Tottenham's double meant Leicester became England's Cup Winners' Cup entrants.
Q 10Who managed Leicester in the 1969 FA Cup final, the season they were also relegated?
Frank O'Farrell
He had taken over from Gillies, who resigned in November 1968; the final was lost 1-0.
Q 11Whom did Second Division champions Leicester beat 1-0 to win the 1971 Charity Shield?
Liverpool
Steve Whitworth scored; the club later added the match to its official records, taking Graham Cross to 600 appearances.
Q 12Which Scottish manager, later famous at Rangers, won Leicester the 1980 Second Division title?
Jock Wallace
Wallace continued a line of successful Scottish managers at the club after Hodge and Gillies.
Q 13Which club bought Gary Lineker from Leicester in 1985?
Everton
Alan Smith followed him out two years later to Arsenal after Leicester were relegated.
Q 21Leicester's 2008-09 season in League One, their first outside the top two tiers, ended how?
As champions with two games to spare
Seven years later they were champions of England, one of the fastest rises in the game's history.
Q 22King Power, whose owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha bought Leicester in 2010, is what kind of business?
A Thai duty-free retailer
The Walkers Stadium became the King Power Stadium in July 2011.
Q 23Which former England manager was appointed by Leicester in October 2010 and left a year later?
Sven-Göran Eriksson
Q 14Which former Leicester striker's penalty beat Leicester in the 1992 play-off final for a Premier League place?
Mike Newell
They lost the next year's final 4-3 to Swindon before finally going up at the third attempt in 1994 by beating Derby.
Q 15Brian Little quit Leicester in November 1994 to manage which club?
Aston Villa
His successor Mark McGhee left just as abruptly a year later for Wolves, opening the door for Martin O'Neill.
Q 16Martin O'Neill ended Leicester's 33-year trophy wait with League Cups in which two years?
1997 and 2000
Both wins put Leicester into the UEFA Cup, their first European football since 1961; O'Neill left for Celtic in June 2000.
Q 17Leicester's 2002 move to the Walkers Stadium ended how many years at Filbert Street?
111
The new ground is less than 300 yards away and its address, Filbert Way, keeps the link.
Q 18Which Leicester-based company held the naming rights to the new stadium from 2002 until 2011?
Walkers, the crisp maker
Walkers had already sponsored the shirts from 1987 to 2001 and remain the club's official snack partner.
Q 19When Leicester went into administration in October 2002, roughly how much debt did the club have?
£30m
A consortium led by former striker Gary Lineker rescued the club, and its promotion that season prompted the introduction of points deductions for administration.
Q 20Which manager lasted only four matches at Leicester in 2007 after falling out with owner Milan Mandarić?
Martin Allen
Gary Megson followed and left after six weeks for Bolton; Ian Holloway then took the club down to League One.
He had been approached after a 6-1 defeat to bottom club Portsmouth; Nigel Pearson returned to replace him.
Q 24Beating Manchester United 5-3 in September 2014, Leicester became the first Premier League team to do what to United?
Come back from two goals down to win
United had led 3-1 before the collapse at the King Power.
Q 25How many points had Leicester taken from their first 29 games before their 2015 great escape?
19
No team with fewer than 20 points from 29 games had ever survived, and they had been bottom at Christmas.
Q 26Why did Leicester part company with Nigel Pearson in June 2015, weeks after the great escape?
His son's involvement in a scandal on a tour of Thailand
Pearson was later widely credited with laying the foundations of the title side that Claudio Ranieri inherited.
Q 27Jamie Vardy broke Ruud van Nistelrooy's record in 2015 by scoring in how many straight Premier League games?
11
He scored 13 goals during the run and finished the title season with 23 and the Golden Boot.
Q 28Leicester's 2016 title was sealed when Tottenham let a 2-0 lead slip in a match nicknamed what?
The Battle of the Bridge
Around 240,000 people lined the streets of Leicester for the victory parade a fortnight later.
Q 29What pre-season odds did bookmakers offer on Leicester winning the 2015-16 Premier League?
5,000-1
The resulting £25 million payout was the largest in British sporting history.
Q 30Which Spanish club did Leicester beat 3-2 on aggregate in the 2016-17 Champions League last 16?
Sevilla
Leicester are still the only team to keep clean sheets in each of their first four Champions League matches.