Leicester City Trivia
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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
Fosse came from the field beside Fosse Road where the club first played. After money troubles it was re-formed in 1919 as Leicester City, just as Leicester was granted city status.
Q 02Leicester's record victory, 13-0 in an FA Cup qualifier in 1894-95, came against which club?
Notts Olympic
Notts Olympic were beaten 13-0 in October 1894, in the very season that Leicester began life in the Football League by losing their first match 4-3 at Grimsby Town.
Q 03Which rival club inflicted Leicester's record defeat, a 12-0 league thrashing in April 1909?
Nottingham Forest
Nottingham Forest won so easily that the Football League held an inquiry, which heard that the already relegated Leicester players had spent the previous day at a former team-mate's wedding.
Q 04In 1928-29 Leicester finished First Division runners-up by a single point to which club?
The Wednesday
The Wednesday, as Sheffield Wednesday were then known, had only just escaped relegation a year earlier. Second place stayed Leicester's best finish until the 2016 title.
Q 05Leicester's first FA Cup final, in 1949, ended in a 3-1 defeat to which club?
Wolverhampton Wanderers
Wolverhampton Wanderers won 3-1 at Wembley, and a week later Leicester needed a last-day draw to stay in the Second Division by a single point.
Q 06Which striker, English league football's record scorer, hit a club-record 44 goals for Leicester in 1956-57?
Arthur Rowley
Arthur Rowley hit his 44 in 42 league games, yet a year later Leicester let him leave for Shrewsbury Town as player-manager, where he took his career total to a record 434 league goals.
Q 07Leicester's 1962-63 side earned the nickname 'the Ice Kings' for what?
Their form on frozen pitches
Their form on frozen pitches in the Big Freeze of 1962-63 took them top of the First Division and to the FA Cup final, but the double chase melted away into fourth place and defeat at Wembley.
Q 08Leicester's first major trophy, the 1964 League Cup, was won 4-3 on aggregate over which club?
Stoke City
Stoke City lost 4-3 over two legs to a Leicester side with Gordon Banks in goal. Three years later Leicester sold the World Cup winner to Stoke.
Q 09Leicester lost the 1961 FA Cup final yet played in Europe because winners Tottenham had done what?
Won the League and Cup double
Won the League and Cup double, so champions Tottenham went into the European Cup and beaten finalists Leicester took England's Cup Winners' Cup place, their first European campaign.
Q 10Which manager, later hired by Manchester United, led relegated Leicester to the 1969 FA Cup final?
Frank O'Farrell
Frank O'Farrell lost that final 1-0 to Manchester City and went down, but winning the Second Division title in 1971 earned him the Manchester United job.
Q 11Double winners Arsenal skipped the 1971 Charity Shield, so second-tier champions Leicester beat which FA Cup runners-up 1-0?
Liverpool
Liverpool lost to a tap-in from right-back Steve Whitworth, the only goal he scored in more than 350 games for Leicester.
Q 12Which Scottish manager, twice a treble winner with Rangers, led Leicester to the 1980 Second Division title?
Jock Wallace
Jock Wallace followed the title with an audacious bid to sign Johan Cruyff in January 1981, but three weeks of talks came to nothing.
Q 13Which club bought Gary Lineker from Leicester in 1985?
Everton
Everton, the reigning champions, got 40 goals from Lineker in his only season at Goodison Park before selling him on to Barcelona after the 1986 World Cup.
Q 21How did Leicester's first season in the third tier, 2008-09, end?
As champions with two games to spare
As champions with two games to spare, clinched by a 2-0 win at Southend under Nigel Pearson. Seven years later Leicester were champions of England.
Q 22King Power, whose owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha bought Leicester in 2010, is what kind of business?
A Thai duty-free retailer
A Thai duty-free retailer, King Power grew from one Bangkok shop in 1989 into a near-monopoly at Thailand's airports, and its profits bankrolled Leicester through owner loans of more than £100m.
Q 23Which former England manager was appointed by Leicester in October 2010 and left a year later?
Q 14Which former Leicester striker's penalty beat Leicester in the 1992 play-off final for a Premier League place?
Mike Newell
Mike Newell scored for Blackburn after David Speedie went down under Steve Walsh's challenge, then had a second penalty saved by Carl Muggleton late on.
Q 15Brian Little quit Leicester in November 1994 to manage which club?
Aston Villa
Aston Villa was the club where Little had spent his whole playing career. He resigned at Leicester the same month Villa sacked Ron Atkinson, and won the League Cup with them in 1996.
Q 16Martin O'Neill's Leicester ended a 33-year trophy wait in 1997 by beating which club in a League Cup final replay?
Middlesbrough
Middlesbrough led at Wembley until Emile Heskey equalised late in extra time, and Steve Claridge's extra-time goal won the replay at Hillsborough 1-0.
Q 17Which Leicester player scored the last ever goal at Filbert Street, in May 2002?
Matt Piper
Matt Piper, a 20-year-old academy winger, hit the winner in a 2-1 farewell after 111 years at the ground. It was his first Leicester goal, and the relegated club sold him to Sunderland that summer.
Q 18Which Leicester-based company held the naming rights to the new stadium from 2002 until 2011?
Walkers, the crisp maker
Walkers, the crisp maker, nearly had its name on the 'Walkers Bowl', but that title was scrapped after fans complained and the ground opened as the Walkers Stadium.
Q 19Leicester's 2003 promotion after entering administration led the Football League to bring in which penalty?
Ten-point deduction
Ten-point deduction: the automatic penalty for entering administration was agreed in September 2003, so that nobody could repeat Leicester's feat of shedding debts of about £30m and still going up.
Q 20Which manager lasted only four matches at Leicester in 2007 after falling out with owner Milan Mandarić?
Martin Allen
Martin Allen left by mutual consent on 29 August 2007, three months after being hired. Leicester used three permanent managers that season and dropped into the third tier for the first time.
Sven-Göran Eriksson
Sven-Göran Eriksson arrived nine days after a 6-1 defeat at Portsmouth left Leicester in the Championship's relegation zone, and left a year later after the promotion favourites won only five of their first 13 league games.
Q 24What Premier League first did Leicester achieve by beating Manchester United 5-3 in 2014?
Come back from two goals down to win
Come back from two goals down to win: United led 3-1 after an hour, then Leicester scored four times in 21 minutes, two of them penalties.
Q 25Which summer signing was voted Leicester's Player of the Year in their 2015 great escape season?
Esteban Cambiasso
Esteban Cambiasso, a Champions League winner with Inter, joined on a free transfer at 34. Leicester were bottom with 19 points from 29 games, then won seven of their last nine to stay up.
Q 26Leicester sacked Nigel Pearson weeks after the 2015 great escape, in the fallout from what?
A players' tour scandal
A players' tour scandal: the club said only that the working relationship was 'no longer viable', having already sacked three young players, the manager's son James among them, over a video made on a goodwill tour of Thailand.
Q 27Whose Premier League record did Jamie Vardy break in 2015 by scoring in 11 consecutive matches?
Ruud van Nistelrooy
Ruud van Nistelrooy's run of 10 fell when Vardy scored against Manchester United, the Dutchman's old club. Nine years later Van Nistelrooy became Vardy's manager at Leicester.
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
The Battle of the Bridge ended 2-2 after Eden Hazard's late equaliser, with a record nine Tottenham players booked as their title chase fell apart.
Q 29What pre-season odds did bookmakers offer on Leicester winning the 2015-16 Premier League?
5,000-1
5,000-1 was the opening price, and when Leicester won the title Britain's bookmakers were left paying out an estimated £25 million.
Q 30Which Spanish club did Leicester beat 3-2 on aggregate in the 2016-17 Champions League last 16?
Sevilla
Sevilla won the first leg 2-1 despite a Kasper Schmeichel penalty save. Leicester sacked Claudio Ranieri the next day, then won the return 2-0 to reach the quarter-finals.