City won promotion in their first season with this crest and played Premier League football with it in 2003/04. The 2016–17 campaign was also the first season in 15 years that Leicester qualified for European football. Featuring a full colour enamel finish and metal alloy with silver style finish, it's the perfect way to declare your loyalty. McGhee left the club unexpectedly in December 1995, while Leicester were top of the First Division, to take charge of Wolverhampton Wanderers.

On 30 June 2015, Nigel Pearson was sacked, with the club stating "the working relationship is no longer viable. Though Hodge was originally also titled "secretary/manager" he has retrospectively been named as the club's first official "manager. Graham Cross holds the record for the most Leicester appearances, with the defender playing 600 games between 1960 and 1976, increased from 599 following the club's decision to incorporate the 1971 Charity Shield into official records. On 5 July 2011, Leicester City confirmed the Walkers Stadium would now be known as King Power Stadium. Leicester City's Player of the Year award is voted for by the club's supporters at the end of every season.Rumours began emerging some days later that players had been meeting with the owners to discuss Ranieri's sacking without Ranieri knowing, which sparked widespread outrage over social media, but these were never proven. In the 2023–24 EFL Championship season, the club made its best ever start to a league season, and the best in the competition's history (since being known as the Championship). That's just to do with when I grew up probably, but the only quibble I had with the title win was that the - to my eyes - rather bland modern incarnation was the one that found fame around the world. The modern-day crest, introduced in 2010, features a fox with white cheeks, while the design of the font for the words ‘Leicester City Football Club’ surrounding the fox head was changed.

On 11 April 2007, Rob Kelly was sacked as manager and Nigel Worthington appointed as caretaker manager until the end of the season. The club, however, was celebrating a week later when a draw on the last day of the season ensured survival in Division Two. Under O'Neill, Leicester qualified for the 1996 Football League play-offs and beat Crystal Palace 2–1 in the final through a 120th-minute Steve Claridge goal to gain promotion to the Premier League.Leicester have also played in seven European competitions to date, notably reaching the UEFA Champions League quarter-finals in 2016–17 and the UEFA Europa Conference League semi-finals in 2021–22. LCFC are the 1st team in Champions League history to keep clean sheets in their opening 4 games in the competition" (Tweet) – via Twitter.