Contents
- 1 Honours
- 2 Players
- 3 Goals
- 4 Matches
- 5 Team
- 6 Attendance
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Honours
- Football League Division One
- Football League Division Two
Players
- Most appearances - all players with 400 or more appearances
|
Name |
Period |
Games |
Goals |
| 1 |
Graham Cross |
1961-1975 |
599 |
37 |
| 2 |
Sep Smith |
1929-1949 |
586 |
85 |
| 3 |
Adam Black |
1920-1935 |
557 |
4 |
| 4= |
Hugh Adcock |
1923-1935 |
460 |
52 |
| 4= |
Mark Wallington |
1972-1985 |
460 |
0 |
| 6 |
Willie Frame |
1933-1950 |
459 |
0 |
| 7 |
Steve Walsh |
1986-2000 |
449 |
62 |
| 8 |
Arthur Chandler |
1932-1935 |
419 |
273 |
| 9 |
John Sjoberg |
1958-1973 |
413 |
19 |
| 10 |
Steve Whitworth |
1969-1979 |
400 |
1 |
- Youngest first-team player - Ashley Chambers, 15 years 203 days (v Blackpool, 15 September 2005)
- Oldest first-team player - Joe Calvert, 40 years 313 days (v Southampton, 13 December 1947)
- Oldest debutant - Les Ferdinand, 36 years 265 days (v Southampton, 16 August 2003)
- Longest first-team career - Sep Smith (19 years 249 days, 1929-1949)
- Most consecutive first-team appearances - Mark Wallington (331, 1975-1982)
- First Leicester players to receive an international cap - Dick Jones and Alf Watkins (both for Wales v Scotland, 19 March 1898)
- First Leicester player to receive an international cap for England Horace Bailey (v Wales, 16 March 1908)
- Most international caps received while at Leicester - John O’Neill (39 caps for Northern Ireland, 1980-86)
- Most international caps for England received while at Leicester - Gordon Banks (37 caps, 1963-1967)
- Highest transfer fee paid - £5 million (to Wolverhampton Wanderers for Ade Akinbiyi, 2000)
- Highest transfer fee received - £11 million (from Liverpool for Emile Heskey, 2000)
Goals
- Most goals scored- all players with more than 100 goals scored
|
Name |
Goals |
Games |
Average |
| 1 |
Arthur Chandler |
273 |
419 |
0.65 |
| 2 |
Arthur Rowley |
265 |
321 |
0.83 |
| 3 |
Ernie Hine |
156 |
259 |
0.6 |
| 4 |
Derek Hines |
117 |
317 |
0.37 |
| 5 |
Arthur Lochhead |
114 |
320 |
0.36 |
| 6 |
George Dewis |
113 |
203 |
0.56 |
| 7 |
Gary Lineker |
103 |
209 |
0.49 |
- Most goals scored in one game - 6 by John Duncan (v Port Vale, 25 December 1924) and Arthur Chandler (v Portsmouth, 20 October 1928)
- Most goals scored in a season - 44 by Arthur Rowley (1956/57)
- Youngest goalscorer - David Buchanan, 16 years 192 days (v Oldham Athletic, 1 January 1979)
- Oldest goalscorer - Arthur Chandler, 39 years 32 days (v Wolverhampton Wanderers, 29 December 1934)
- Quickest goal - 9 seconds by Matty Fryatt (v Preston North End, 15 April 2006)
Matches
- Biggest win - 13-0 (v Notts Olympic, 13 October 1894)
- Biggest league win - 10-0 (v Portsmouth, 20 October 1928)
- Biggest cup win - 8-1 (v Coventry City, League Cup Quarter-final, 1 December 1964)
- Biggest defeat - 0-12 (v Nottingham Forest, 21 April, 1909)
- Biggest cup defeat - 1-7 (v Sheffield Wednesday, League Cup 3rd Round, 27 October 1992)
- Highest scoring draw - 6-6 (v Arsenal, 1930)
- Most consecutive wins - 7 (on four occasions)
- Most consecutive defeats - 8 (from March-May 2001)
- Most consecutive draws - 6 (on three occasions)
Team
- Most league goals scored in a season - 109 (from 42 games, Second Division, 1956-57)
- Fewest league goals scored in a season - 26 (from 42 games, First Division (old), 1977-78)
- Most league wins in a season - 26 (from 46 games, First Division (new), 2002-03)
- Fewest league wins in a season - 5 (from 42 games, First Division (old), 1977-78) and from 38 games, Premier League, 2001-02)
- Most league defeats in a season - 25 (from 42 games, First Division (old), 1977-78) and from 42 games, Premier League 1994-95)
- Fewest league defeats in a season - 6 (on 3 occasions)
- Most league draws in a season - 21 (from 46 games, Championship , 2004-05)
- Fewest league draws in a season - 4 (on 5 occasions)
- Most league points in a season (2 pts for a win) - 61 (from 42 games, Second Division, 1956-57)
- Most league points in a season (3 pts for a win) - 92 (from 46 games, Championship, 2002-02)
- Fewest league points in a season (2 pts for a win) - 22 (from 34 games, Second Division, 1903-04 and from 42 games, First Division (old), 1977-78)
- Fewest league points in a season (3 pts for a win) - 28 (from 38 games, Premier League, 2001-02
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