{"id":622450,"date":"2026-04-22T00:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T00:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/622450\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T00:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T00:24:08","slug":"leicester-city-relegated-to-league-one-10-years-after-premier-league-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/622450\/","title":{"rendered":"Leicester City relegated to League One 10 years after Premier League title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Former Premier League champion Leicester City will be playing in the third tier of English football next season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\"><a class=\"Link_link__kR0xA Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2016-05-05\/twenty-years-until-next-leicester-says-ranieri\/7385566\" data-component=\"Link\" data-uri=\"coremedia:\/\/article\/7385566\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Leicester, which sealed the unlikeliest title win of the Premier League era in 2016 at odds of 5,000 to 1<\/a>, needed a victory overnight to maintain hope of avoiding relegation, but drew 2-2 with Hull.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The Midlands club, which also <a class=\"Link_link__kR0xA Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2021-05-16\/leicester-city-fa-cup-triumph-chelsea-wembley\/100142258\" data-component=\"Link\" data-uri=\"coremedia:\/\/article\/100142258\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">won the FA Cup in 2021<\/a> and played in England&#8217;s top flight last season, is second to last in the second-tier Championship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Relegation comes after Leicester was docked six points in February for breaching the English Football League&#8217;s financial rules when it earned promotion in the 2023-24 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Earlier this month, it lost its bid to overturn that punishment, leaving it mired in the relegation zone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">It is a dramatic fall after Leicester&#8217;s fairytale-like title triumph 10 years ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">It had spent the 2014-15 season battling relegation from the top flight and only an unlikely winning run in the final weeks of that campaign saved them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/radio\/programs\/abc-sport-daily\" data-component=\"FullBleedLink\" class=\"RelatedCard_link__rsgR9 FullBleedLink_root__lTw_U interactive_focusContext__yRhc_ interactive_defaults__AKxUU FullBleedLink_showVisited__g3Xvz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ABC Sport Daily podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP RelatedCard_synopsis__cFwMW Typography_sizeMobile14__u7TGe Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">ABC Sport Daily is your daily sports conversation. We dive into the biggest story of the day and get you up to speed with everything else that&#8217;s making headlines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">What followed was a remarkable title charge that saw it finish 10 points clear of Arsenal at the top of the standings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">In 142 years of existence, Leicester has played just one season in the third tier of English football, winning the League One title in 2008-09 and was promoted back to the Championship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Slipping down the football pyramid is costly mainly because of the decreasing broadcast revenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">In the 2023-24 season, League One clubs&#8217; average total revenue was $17 million, which was about one-quarter of Championship clubs&#8217; average revenue, according to Deloitte.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The average revenue for Premier League clubs that season was $422 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">AP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Premier League champion Leicester City will be playing in the third tier of English football next season.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622451,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,53744,221561,1614,301714,85,301715],"class_list":["post-622450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-league-one","tag-leicester-city","tag-premier-league","tag-relegation","tag-sports","tag-third-tier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622450","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=622450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}