{"id":184987,"date":"2025-10-02T12:13:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T12:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/184987\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T12:13:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T12:13:09","slug":"susan-whelan-leicester-city-ceo-steps-down-after-15-years-with-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/184987\/","title":{"rendered":"Susan Whelan: Leicester City CEO steps down after 15 years with club"},"content":{"rendered":"

Susan Whelan has left her role as Leicester City chief executive after 15 years with the club.<\/p>\n

In her time in the job, Leicester rose from England’s second tier to win a previously unfathomable Premier League title in 2015-16 before going on to also claim the FA Cup for the first time in 2021.<\/p>\n

While she was involved in a decade of unprecedented success at the Foxes, which included bringing Champions League football to the King Power Stadium, the club has most recently suffered two relegations in three years.<\/p>\n

The threat of points deductions for alleged breaches of spending rules have also hung over the club in recent years.<\/p>\n

While Leicester successfully argued against being punished on their return to the Premier League last season, the most recent case brought against them by the English Football League remains unresolved.<\/p>\n

Those relegations, the tightening of budgets and on-field struggles have seen sections of Leicester’s support turn against<\/a> both Whelan and director of football Jon Rudkin.<\/p>\n

Leicester chairman Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha has taken over from Whelan on an interim basis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Susan Whelan has left her role as Leicester City chief executive after 15 years with the club. In…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184988,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-184987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}