2019–20 Leicester City F.C. season

Leicester City 2019–20
Club information
Manager	Brendan Rodgers
League Season information
Final League position	Premier League
Cup placements
FA Cup	Quarter-finals
EFL Cup	Semi-finals
Season statistics
Top goalscorer	Jamie Vardy (21)
Biggest away win	9–0 v Southampton, Premier League, 25 October 2019
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The 2019–20 Leicester City season is the club's 115th season in the English football league system and their 52nd (non-consecutive) season in the top tier of English football. This is their 6th consecutive season in the Premier League. They also competed in the FA Cup and EFL Cup.

Transfers

Transfers in

Date	Position	Nationality	Name	From	Fee	Team
1 July 2019	RB		James Justin	Luton Town	£6,000,000	First team
4 July 2019	SS		Ayoze Pérez	Newcastle United	Undisclosed	First team
5 July 2019	RB		Vontae Daley-Campbell	Arsenal	Free transfer	Under-23s
	CF		George Hirst	OH Leuven	Undisclosed	Under-23s
	RW		Ali Reghba	Bohemian	Undisclosed	Under-23s
8 July 2019	CM		Youri Tielemans	Monaco	Undisclosed	First team
29 July 2019	RB		Mitchell Clark	Aston Villa	Free transfer	Under-23s
2 August 2019	GK		Chituru Odunze	Vancouver Whitecaps	Undisclosed	Academy
8 August 2019	CM		Dennis Praet	Sampdoria	Undisclosed	First team
9 August 2019	MF		Callum Hulme	Bury	Undisclosed	Under-23s
27 August 2019	CB		Darragh O'Connor	Wexford	Undisclosed	Under-23s

Loans in

Date from	Position	Nationality	Name	From	Date until	Team
31 January 2020	CB		Ryan Bennett	Wolverhampton Wanderers	30 June 2020	First team

Loans out

Date from	Position	Nationality	Name	To	Date until	Team
22 July 2019	GK		Daniel Iversen	Rotherham United	30 June 2020	Under-23s
2 August 2019	CB		Josh Knight	Peterborough United	30 June 2020	Under-23s
	CF		Ryan Loft	Carlisle United	30 June 2020	Under-23s
7 August 2019	LW		Layton Ndukwu	Southend United	8 January 2020	Under-23s
16 August 2019	CM		Andy King	Rangers	5 January 2020	First team
21 August 2019	CF		Islam Slimani	Monaco	30 June 2020	First team
23 August 2019	CM		Adrien Silva	Monaco	30 June 2020	First team
2 September 2019	CB		Sam Hughes	Salford City	23 January 2020	Under-23s
3 September 2019	RW		Fousseni Diabaté	Amiens	30 June 2020	First team
	RW		Rachid Ghezzal	Fiorentina	30 June 2020	First team
13 January 2020	CM		George Thomas	ADO Den Haag	30 June 2020	Under-23s
16 January 2020	CM		Andy King	Huddersfield Town	30 June 2020	First team
27 January 2020	CM		Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall	Blackpool	30 June 2020	Under-23s
28 January 2020	CF		Admiral Muskwe	Swindon Town	30 June 2020	Under-23s
30 January 2020	RB		Mitch Clark	Port Vale	30 June 2020	Under-23s
31 January 2020	CB		Filip Benković	Bristol City	30 June 2020	First team

Transfers out

Date	Position	Nationality	Name	To	Fee	Team
1 July 2019	CF		Dylan Bollard	Free agent	Released	Academy
	GK		Max Bramley	Barwell	Released	Under-23s
	LW		Kairo Edwards-John	Stratford Town	Released	Under-23s
	DF		George Heaven	Stratford Town	Released	Academy
	CM		Leon James	Ratchaburi Mitr Phol	Released	Academy
	CF		Jozsef Keaveny	AEK Larnaca	Released	Academy
	LW		Davide Lorenzo	Free agent	Released	Under-23s
	CM		Habib Makanjuola	Free agent	Released	Under-23s
	FW		Alassane Meite	Fujairah	Released	Under-23s
	CF		Harrison Myring	Doncaster Rovers	Released	Academy
	CF		Shinji Okazaki	Huesca	Released	First team
	RB		Louis Ramsay	Billericay Town	Released	Under-23s
	CM		Lamine Kaba Sherif	Accrington Stanley	Released	Under-23s
	RB		Danny Simpson	Huddersfield Town	Released	First team
1 August 2019	CB		Elliott Moore	Oxford United	Undisclosed	Under-23s
5 August 2019	CB		Harry Maguire	Manchester United	£80,000,000	First team
8 August 2019	LB		Callum Elder	Hull City	Undisclosed	First team
30 August 2019	CB		Alex Pașcanu	CFR Cluj	€600,000	Under-23s
9 January 2020	CB		Lukáš Hušek	AC Sparta Prague	Undisclosed	Under-23s
13 January 2020	CF		Raúl Uche	Real Valladolid	Undisclosed	Under-23s

Kits

Home

Away

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First team squad

• This section lists players who were in Leicester's first team squad at any point during the season
• Asterisks (*) indicates player left mid-season
• Double asterisk (**) indicates player left on loan mid season
• Hash symbol indicates player retired mid-season
• Italics indicate loaned player

No.	Nationality	Name	Position	Joined	Signed from
Goalkeepers
1		Kasper Schmeichel	GK	2011	Leeds United
12		Danny Ward	GK	2018	Liverpool
35		Eldin Jakupović	GK	2017	Hull City
Defenders
2		James Justin	RB	2019	Luton Town
3		Ben Chilwell	LB / LM	2015	Youth
4		Çağlar Söyüncü	CB	2018	Freiburg
5		Wes Morgan	CB	2012 (winter)	Nottingham Forest
6		Jonny Evans	CB	2018	West Bromwich Albion
16		Filip Benković**	CB	2018	Dinamo Zagreb
18		Daniel Amartey	CB / RB / CM / DM	2016 (winter)	Copenhagen
21		Ricardo Pereira	RB	2018	Porto
28		Christian Fuchs	LB / CB	2015	Schalke 04
29		Ryan Bennett	CB	2020 (winter)	Wolverhampton Wanderers (loan)
Midfielders
7		Demarai Gray	LW / RW / CF	2016 (winter)	Birmingham City
8		Youri Tielemans	CM	2019	Monaco
10		James Maddison	AM	2018	Norwich City
11		Marc Albrighton	RM / LM	2014	Aston Villa
15		Harvey Barnes	AM / CM / RM / LM	2016	Youth
20		Hamza Choudhury	CM	2015	Youth
22		Matty James	CM	2012	Manchester United
23		Adrien Silva**	CM	2017	Sporting CP
24		Nampalys Mendy	CM	2016	Nice
25		Wilfred Ndidi	DM	2017 (winter)	Genk
26		Dennis Praet	AM	2019	Sampdoria
31		Rachid Ghezzal**	LW / RW	2018	Monaco
37		Andy King**	CM	2006	Youth
Forwards
9		Jamie Vardy	ST/CF	2012	Fleetwood Town
13		Islam Slimani**	ST	2016	Sporting CP
14		Kelechi Iheanacho	ST	2017	Manchester City
17		Ayoze Pérez	RW / ST	2019	Newcastle United
27		Fousseni Diabaté**	RW / LW / ST	2018	Gazélec Ajaccio