Some good news for Leicester fans | OneFootball

You will not need telling that this has been a very poor season for Leicester City. Reflecting this in recent days, this site has been awash with negative stories about the Foxes. Relegation, for the second time in three seasons, is looking more and more likely, and there is a toxic environment surrounding the club. In these dark times - without forgetting the real trouble City are now in on and off the pitch - it is worth reminding City fans of the success the club has achieved.

The list of achievements is long. Premier League Champions (2016), Five times FA Cup finalists, winning the competition once (in 2021), five times League Cup finalists, winning the trophy three times (in 1964, 1997 and 2000), three times finalists in the Charity Shield, winning once (in 2021), once a quarter finalist in the Champions League (2017), and promoted from the second tier 13 times, eight times as Champions.

That’s a total of five major trophies (top-tier championship, FA Cup and League Cup) all but one of them won in the last 30 years. Compare that with the record of this year’s FA Cup quarter finalists. The winning exploits of Manchester City, Aston Villa and Nottingham Forest are well-known. All three have won the top European trophy as well as countless domestic honours. Preston’s achievements are less well-known because they happened so long ago. For the record, North End won the top-flight championship twice (both in the nineteenth century) and the FA Cup twice.

The other four quarter finalists, though, have won no major honours in the game. Not one. Bournemouth haven’t come close, Brighton were a Gordon Smith missed chance away from winning the FA Cup in 1983, and Palace and Fulham have also been runners-up. Other than that, nothing.

In total, only 24 clubs have ever won English football’s top division and only six teams have won all three of the holy trinity: the Premier League, FA Cup and League Cup. Five are the usual suspects: Manchester United, Manchester City, Arsenal, Liverpool and Chelsea. The other is, yes you’ve guessed it, Leicester City.

So, in the current gloomy period it is important to put things into perspective. As I wrote in my book on Leicester City’s history, had someone said to me in 2014 that ‘your club will, in little more than a decade, win the Championship twice, the Premier League, the FA Cup, the Community Shield as well as getting to a Champions League quarter-final and the semi-final of another European competition but they will also be relegated twice’ I, along with the vast majority of Foxes’ fans, would have been thrilled at the prospect.