Stadium guide

Leicester City stadium guide for visitors

Champions of England in 2016 at pre-season odds of 5,000–1, and in the third tier ten years later. A Premier League stadium with a League One fixture list.

7 min read Facts last checked 29 Aug 2026

The short version. Leicester City play at the King Power Stadium, capacity 32,259. In 2016 they won the Premier League at pre-season odds of 5,000–1, the most improbable result in the history of English football. Ten years later they are in League One, the third tier. Both of those sentences are true and neither is a misprint.

The King Power Stadium from the air: a modern enclosed blue and white bowl with LCFC picked out in the seats and LEICESTER CITY along the outside of the roof, standing beside the River Soar with large car parks around it — The King Power Stadium, opened in 2002 for a Premier League club, beside the River Soar. The building has not changed; the division has. Photo by Arne Müseler, CC BY-SA 3.0 DE, via Wikimedia Commons.

Champions of England, and then this

In the 2015–16 season Leicester City won the Premier League. Before the season started bookmakers had priced it at 5,000–1. It produced the largest payout in British sporting history, around £25 million, and it remains the result every neutral in the world remembers.

What happened next is the reason to come now:

Champions League quarter-finals in 2016–17, and the FA Cup in 2021.
Relegated from the Premier League in 2023, after nine seasons up.
Championship champions in 2024, and straight back up.
Relegated again in April 2025.
Relegated from the Championship in April 2026 — with a six-point deduction for breaching profit and sustainability rules along the way — and into the third tier for the first time since 1992.

Ten years from champions of England to League One. Nothing in this series comes close, and there is no guarantee the ground stays at this level for long in either direction.

Why that makes it worth visiting

A thirty-two-thousand all-seater Premier League stadium, built in 2002, hosting third-tier football. The building has not changed. The trophies are still in the cabinet. The prices and the opposition have not stayed where they were.

This series has argued repeatedly that the gap between a club's history and its current league position is what makes a ground interesting — Braunschweig's forgotten title, Magdeburg's European trophy, Notts County's 1862. Leicester is the sharpest version available anywhere in Europe right now, because the history is ten years old rather than fifty.

It is also, for exactly that reason, one of the easier big grounds to get into in England. That combination does not last.

Getting there

On foot: about fifteen minutes from Leicester station, south along the River Soar. The ground is close to the middle of the city.
By train: Leicester is around an hour and ten minutes from London St Pancras, and about an hour from Birmingham.
Pairing: Nottingham is half an hour away, which puts Notts County's Meadow Lane and Nottingham Forest's City Ground — three hundred metres apart — within easy reach. Three grounds, one weekend, one hotel.
Match ticket and transport: as everywhere in England, not included.

Tickets

The English pattern: no document demanded, no fan card, sale online through the club. Away allocations are routed through the visiting club, so as a neutral you buy a home seat.

Thirty-two thousand places against third-tier opposition makes most fixtures obtainable. Early-season enthusiasm and any promotion run-in will tighten it. Buy ahead rather than assuming walk-up; this is not Accrington.

The alcohol rule

Under the Sporting Events (Control of Alcohol etc.) Act 1985 you may not drink alcohol within sight of the pitch. Beer is sold in the concourse behind the stands, sale stops around fifteen minutes before kick-off, and resumes at half-time.

Every visitor arriving from Germany gets caught by this once. Do the drinking in a pub beforehand.

Where away fans sit

Visiting supporters have their own section with the allocation set per fixture. English grounds segregate more strictly and more visibly than continental ones. Neutrals should take a home seat and keep their reactions moderate.

The ground itself

Opened in 2002, a clean, enclosed, four-stand bowl for 32,259 with no running track and good sightlines throughout. Comfortable, modern, and honestly rather anonymous as a building — it belongs to the same generation as Wolfsburg's and Magdeburg's.

What is not anonymous is the context. Outside the ground is a memorial to the club's owner and four others who died when a helicopter crashed leaving the stadium after a match in October 2018. It is treated seriously by supporters and visitors should treat it the same way.

Eating and drinking at the ground

English football catering: pies, chips, burgers, Bovril. Concourse beer only. Card payment throughout.

Leicester before the match

The bronze statue of Richard III in Leicester: a figure in plate armour standing on a rough stone plinth, holding a sword low in one hand and raising a crown above his head with the other, with a brick wall and trees behind — Richard III, holding the crown, outside the cathedral where he was reinterred in 2015. He had spent the previous 530 years under what became a council car park. Photo by amanderson2, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

What to see

King Richard III Visitor Centre — in 2012 the remains of Richard III, killed at Bosworth in 1485, were found under a council car park in this city. The centre is built over the grave itself and covers the search, the identification by DNA and the reburial. It is one of the strangest and best small museums in England.
Leicester Cathedral — where he was reinterred in 2015, a few minutes' walk away.
The Golden Mile on Belgrave Road — Leicester has one of the largest South Asian populations in Britain, and this street is the result: sari shops, jewellers and some of the best Gujarati vegetarian food in Europe.
Jewry Wall — a substantial standing fragment of Roman masonry, among the tallest surviving Roman walls in the country.

What to eat and drink

Gujarati vegetarian food — on Belgrave Road. Order a thali and let them bring it. This is the single best meal available in the English series so far.
Walkers crisps — made in this city, and the reason the club's stadium was called the Walkers Stadium before the current sponsor.
Red Leicester — the cheese, orange and crumbly, named after the county.
Cask bitter — the English pub standard, served cool from a handpump.

Common questions

Were the odds really 5,000–1?

Yes, pre-season, from major British bookmakers. The payout was around £25 million and was the largest in British sporting history.

How did they end up in League One?

Relegated from the Premier League in 2023, promoted straight back, relegated again in 2025, then relegated from the Championship in 2026 with a points deduction for financial rule breaches along the way. Their lowest level since 1992.

How hard is a ticket?

Easier than at any point in the last decade. A Premier League-sized ground with third-tier opposition is exactly the situation this series keeps recommending.

Can I pair it with anything?

Nottingham is half an hour away and has two grounds three hundred metres apart. That is the best three-ground weekend in England.

Champions of England in 2016, third tier in 2026, and a king found under a car park down the road. Add the King Power to your bucket list and put Nottingham on the same weekend.