2022–23 Leicester City F.C. season

The 2022–23 season was the 118th season in the existence of Leicester City Football Club, the club's ninth consecutive season in the Premier League, and 49th season in top flight football. In addition to the league, they also competed in the season's editions of the FA Cup and EFL Cup.

Leicester City

2022–23 season

Owner

King Power

Chairman

Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha

Manager

Brendan Rodgers
(until 2 April)^[1]
Mike Stowell and Adam Sadler
(caretaker, from 2–10 April)
Dean Smith
(from 10 April)^[2]

Stadium

18th (relegated)

Top goalscorer

League:
Harvey Barnes (13)
All:
Harvey Barnes (13)

Highest home attendance

32,226 vs Manchester United
(1 September 2022, Premier League)

Lowest home attendance

League:
30,813 vs Fulham
(3 January 2023, Premier League)
All:
15,081 vs Newport County
(8 November 2022, EFL Cup)

Home colours

Away colours

Third colours

← 2021–22

2023–24 →

This is the first season since 2010–11 to not feature Kasper Schmeichel, who departed to Nice in the summer.

The club's relegation to the Championship was confirmed when Everton defeated Bournemouth on the final day of the league season. Leicester City became the second former champions of the Premier League era to be relegated.

Management team Edit

The management team from the start of the season until 2 April 2023.

Position	Name
Manager	Brendan Rodgers
Assistant manager	Chris Davies
First team coaches	Kolo Touré (until 29 November 2022)^[3]
First team coaches	Adam Sadler
First team coach & Goalkeeper coach	Mike Stowell
First team set-piece coach	Lars Knudsen (from 29 August 2022)^[4]

Management team from 10 April 2023.

Position	Name
Manager	Dean Smith
Assistant managers	Craig Shakespeare
Assistant managers	John Terry
First team coach	Adam Sadler
First team coach & Goalkeeper coach	Mike Stowell
First team set-piece coach	Lars Knudsen

Kits Edit

Home

Home 2023–24

Away

Third

Goalkeeper 1

Goalkeeper 2

Goalkeeper 3

Goalkeeper 2023–24

Players Edit

Squad information Edit

Players and squad numbers as of 28 May 2023. Appearances include all competitions.^[5]
Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No.	Player	Position(s)	Date of birth (age)	Signed in	Contract ends	Signed from	Apps	Goals
Goalkeepers
1	Danny Ward	GK	(1993-06-22)22 June 1993 (aged 30)	2018	2025	Liverpool	47	0
12	Alex Smithies	GK	(1990-03-05)5 March 1990 (aged 33)	2022	2024^[6]	Cardiff City	0	0
31	Daniel Iversen	GK	(1997-01-19)19 January 1997 (aged 26)	2018	2025^[7]	Youth Academy	17	0
41	Jakub Stolarczyk	GK	(2000-12-19)19 December 2000 (aged 22)	2019	2026	Youth Academy	0	0
Defenders
2	James Justin	LB / LWB / RB / RWB / CB	(1998-02-23)23 February 1998 (aged 25)	2019	2026	Luton Town	83	5
3	Wout Faes	CB	(1998-04-03)3 April 1998 (aged 25)	2022	2027^[8]	Reims	36	1
4	Çağlar Söyüncü	CB	(1996-05-23)23 May 1996 (aged 27)	2018	2023	SC Freiburg	132	4
5	Ryan Bertrand	LB	(1989-08-05)5 August 1989 (aged 33)	2021	2023	Southampton	11	0
6	Jonny Evans	CB	(1988-01-03)3 January 1988 (aged 35)	2018	2023	West Bromwich Albion	152	7
15	Harry Souttar	CB	(1998-10-22)22 October 1998 (aged 24)	2023	2028^[9]	Stoke City	12	0
16	Victor Kristiansen	LB	(2002-12-16)16 December 2002 (aged 20)	2023	2028^[10]	Copenhagen	14	0
18	Daniel Amartey	RB / CB	(1994-12-21)21 December 1994 (aged 28)	2016	2022	Copenhagen	145	3
21	Ricardo Pereira	RB / RWB	(1993-10-06)6 October 1993 (aged 29)	2018	2026	Porto	124	9
23	Jannik Vestergaard	CB	(1992-08-03)3 August 1992 (aged 30)	2021	2024	Southampton	23	0
27	Timothy Castagne	RB / LB / RWB / LWB / CB	(1995-12-05)5 December 1995 (aged 27)	2020	2025	Atalanta	112	5
33	Luke Thomas	LWB / LB	(2001-06-10)10 June 2001 (aged 22)	2020	2024	Youth Academy	86	2
34	Lewis Brunt	CB	(2000-11-06)6 November 2000 (aged 22)	2021	2025	Aston Villa	4	0
Midfielders
7	Harvey Barnes	LW	(1997-12-09)9 December 1997 (aged 25)	2016	2025	Youth Academy	187	44
8	Youri Tielemans	CM	(1997-05-07)7 May 1997 (aged 26)	2019	2023	Monaco	195	28
10	James Maddison	AM	(1996-11-23)23 November 1996 (aged 26)	2018	2024	Norwich City	203	55
11	Marc Albrighton	RW / LW / RWB / LWB	(1989-11-18)18 November 1989 (aged 33)	2015	2024	Aston Villa	295	19
22	Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall	CM	(1998-09-06)6 September 1998 (aged 24)	2017	2027^[11]	Youth Academy	80	5
24	Nampalys Mendy	DM	(1992-06-23)23 June 1992 (aged 31)	2016	2023	Nice	118	1
25	Wilfred Ndidi	DM	(1996-12-16)16 December 1996 (aged 26)	2017	2024	Genk	237	11
26	Dennis Praet	CM	(1994-05-14)14 May 1994 (aged 29)	2019	2023	Sampdoria	90	4
29	Hamza Choudhury	DM	(1997-10-01)1 October 1997 (aged 25)	2015	2023	Youth Academy	84	2
42	Boubakary Soumaré	DM	(1999-02-27)27 February 1999 (aged 24)	2021	2026	Lille	60	0
44	Sammy Braybrooke	CM	(2004-03-12)12 March 2004 (aged 19)	2022	2026	Youth Academy	1	0
47	Kasey McAteer	CM	(2001-11-22)22 November 2001 (aged 21)	2021	2025	Youth Academy	4	0
57	Will Alves	AM	(2005-05-04)4 May 2005 (aged 18)	2022		Youth Academy	2	0
Attackers
9	Jamie Vardy	ST	(1987-01-11)11 January 1987 (aged 36)	2012	2024	Fleetwood Town	426	170
14	Kelechi Iheanacho	ST	(1996-10-03)3 October 1996 (aged 26)	2017	2024	Manchester City	206	56
17	Ayoze Pérez	SS / RW / AM	(1993-07-29)29 July 1993 (aged 29)	2019	2023	Newcastle United	114	15
20	Patson Daka	ST	(1998-10-09)9 October 1998 (aged 24)	2021	2026	Red Bull Salzburg	74	15
37	Tetê (on loan)	RW	(2000-02-15)15 February 2000 (aged 23)	2023	2023	Shakhtar Donetsk	14	1

Transfers Edit

In Edit

Date	Position	Player	From	Fee	Team	Ref.
12 August 2022	GK	Alex Smithies	Cardiff City	Free Transfer	First team	^[6]
1 September 2022	CB	Wout Faes	Reims	Undisclosed	First team	^[8]
20 January 2023	LB	Victor Kristiansen	Copenhagen	Undisclosed	First team	^[10]
30 January 2023	FW	Nathan Opoku	Syracuse University	Undisclosed	Under-23s
31 January 2023	CB	Harry Souttar	Stoke City	Undisclosed	First team	^[12]

Out Edit

Date	Position	Player	To	Fee	Team	Ref.
30 June 2022	RB	Vontae Daley-Campbell	Cardiff City	Released	Under-23s	^[13]^[14]
30 June 2022	DM	Callum Hulme	Wythenshawe Town		Under-23s	^[13]^[15]
30 June 2022	GK	Eldin Jakupović	Everton		First team	^[13]^[16]
30 June 2022	CF	Will Russ	Fleetwood Town		Under-23s	^[13]^[17]
30 June 2022	RW	Tyrese Shade	Swindon Town		Under-23s	^[13]^[18]
30 June 2022	CF	Jacob Wakeling	Swindon Town		Under-23s	^[13]^[19]
20 July 2022	CF	Jack Butterfill	Barnsley	Free transfer	Under-23s	^[20]
3 August 2022	GK	Kasper Schmeichel	Nice	Undisclosed	First team	^[21]
31 August 2022	CB	Wesley Fofana	Chelsea	Undisclosed	First team	^[22]
1 September 2022	CM	Callum Wright	Blackpool	Undisclosed	Under-23s	^[23]

Loans in Edit

Date	Position	Nationality	Player	From	Date until	Ref.
29 January 2023	RW		Tetê	Shakhtar Donetsk	End of season	^[24]

Loans out Edit

Date	Position	Player	To	Date until	Team	Ref.
26 July 2022	CM	Khanya Leshabela	Crewe Alexandra	31 January 2023	Under-23s	^[25]
28 July 2022	CB	Ben Nelson	Rochdale	6 January 2023^[a]	Under-23s	^[26]^[27]
10 August 2022	CM	Hamza Choudhury	Watford	End of season	First team	^[28]
15 August 2022	GK	Jakub Stolarczyk	Fleetwood Town	13 January 2023^[b]	First team	^[29]^[30]
19 August 2022	CF	Josh Eppiah	Northampton Town	End of season	Under-23s	^[31]
26 August 2022	GK	Brad Young	Notts County	6 January 2023^[c]	Under-23s	^[32]
31 August 2022	CF	George Hirst	Blackburn Rovers	8 January 2023^[d]	Under-23s	^[33]^[34]
8 January 2023	CF	George Hirst	Ipswich Town	End of season	Under-23s	^[34]
17 January 2023	CB	Ben Nelson	Doncaster Rovers	End of season	Under-23s	^[35]
23 January 2023	GK	Jakub Stolarczyk	Hartlepool United	End of season	First team	^[36]
31 January 2023	CF	Nathan Opoku	OH Leuven	End of season	Under-23s	^[37]
31 January 2023	SS	Ayoze Pérez	Real Betis	End of season	First team	^[38]
31 January 2023	RM	Marc Albrighton	West Bromwich Albion	End of season	First team	^[39]
31 January 2023	AM	Kasey McAteer	AFC Wimbledon	End of season	Under-23s	^[40]

^ On 6 January, Nelson's loan at Rochdale was cut short.
^ On 13 January, Stolarczyk was recalled from his loan at Fleetwood.
^ On 6 January, Young returned from loan due to injury.
^ On 8 January, Hirst was recalled back from his loan at Blackburn, and joined Ipswich on loan.

Pre-season and friendlies Edit

On 5 June, Leicester City announced their first pre-season friendly, in Belgium against Oud-Heverlee Leuven.^[41] Ten days later, a trip to Preston North End was also confirmed, along with a behind-closed-doors meeting with Notts County.^[42] On 16 June, a home friendly match against Sevilla was revealed.^[43] A fifth friendly, away to Derby County was also confirmed as part of the clubs preparations for the new season.^[44] The schedule was completed with the addition of Hull City away.^[45]

Win Draw Loss Fixtures

9 July 2022 Friendly	Leicester City	1–2	Notts County	Sileby
13:00 BST	Barnes 31'	Report	Mitchell 41' Baldwin 78'	Stadium: Leicester City Training Ground Attendance: 0 (behind closed doors) Referee: John Brooks

16 July 2022 Friendly	OH Leuven	3–3	Leicester City	Leuven, Belgium
14:00 CEST	Al-Taamari 1' Nsingi 12' Malinov 58' Kukharevych 91'	Report	Dewsbury-Hall 51' Daka 59' Vardy 101'	Stadium: Den Dreef Referee: Matonga Simonini
Note: Match was played in three periods of 40 minutes each.

20 July 2022 Corendon Cup	Hull City	0–4	Leicester City	Kingston upon Hull
19:45 BST		Report	Daka 29' Barnes 47' Fofana 51' Maddison 84'	Stadium: MKM Stadium Referee: Seb Stockbridge

23 July 2022 Friendly	Derby County	1–3	Leicester City	Derby
13:00 BST	Barkhuizen 65'	Report	Iheanacho 55' Daka 79' Wright 86'	Stadium: Pride Park Stadium Attendance: 9,805

23 July 2022 Friendly	Preston North End	1–2	Leicester City	Preston
15:00 BST	Ledson 16' McCann 49' Storey 59' Whiteman 70' Evans 82'	Report	Vardy 12' Barnes 18' Fofana 80'	Stadium: Deepdale Attendance: 4,553 Referee: Jarred Gillett

31 July 2022 Friendly	Leicester City	1–0	Sevilla	Leicester
18:00 BST	Dewsbury-Hall 68'	Report	Montiel 51' Munir 65' Jordán 74' Salas 82'	Stadium: King Power Stadium Referee: Stuart Attwell (England)

Competitions Edit

Overall record Edit

Competition	First match	Last match	Starting round	Final position	Record
Competition	First match	Last match	Starting round	Final position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %
Premier League	7 August 2022	28 May 2023	Matchday 1	18th	38	9	7	22	51	68	−17	023.68
FA Cup	7 January 2023	28 February 2023	Third round	Fifth round	3	2	0	1	3	2	+1	066.67
EFL Cup	23 August 2022	10 January 2023	Second round	Quarter-finals	4	2	1	1	6	2	+4	050.00
Total					45	13	8	24	60	72	−12	028.89

Source: Soccerway

Premier League Edit

League table Edit

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
16	Nottingham Forest	38	9	11	18	38	68	−30	38
17	Everton	38	8	12	18	34	57	−23	36
18	Leicester City (R)	38	9	7	22	51	68	−17	34	Relegation to EFL Championship
19	Leeds United (R)	38	7	10	21	48	78	−30	31
20	Southampton (R)	38	6	7	25	36	73	−37	25

Source: Premier League
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) If the champions, relegated teams or qualified teams for UEFA competitions cannot be determined by rules 1 to 3, rules 4.1 to 4.3 are applied – 4.1) Points gained in head-to-head record between such teams; 4.2) Away goals scored in head-to-head record between such teams; 4.3) Play-offs^[46]
(R) Relegated

Results summary Edit


Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
38	9	7	22	51	68	−17	34	5	4	10	23	27	−4	4	3	12	28	41	−13

Source: Premier League

Results by round Edit

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38
Ground	H	A	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H
Result	D	L	L	L	L	L	L	W	L	D	W	W	L	W	W	L	L	L	L	D	W	W	L	L	L	L	D	L	L	L	L	W	D	D	L	L	D	W
Position	11	15	19	20	20	20	20	19	20	19	19	17	18	14	13	13	13	13	15	14	14	13	14	14	15	16	17	19	19	19	19	17	18	16	18	19	18	18

Source: Premier League
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss; P = Postponed

Matches Edit