Leicester City in freefall: 2016 champions now fear League One drop | OneFootball

The Foxes were sanctioned by the EFL, had points deducted, and are now fighting near the bottom of the table.

In the 2015/16 season, what is remembered as the greatest shock in modern football took place: modest Leicester City won the Premier League, the league with the best teams in all of England and the biggest budgets in world football. However, ten years later, their reality is completely the opposite.

After suffering two relegations from the Premier League, and amid many financial and boardroom problems, Leicester’s current situation is more complicated than one might think. The English Football League (EFL) sanctioned them with a six-point deduction for breaching the competition’s financial rules, and they fell into the relegation zone.

Leicester are 22nd out of 24 in the Championship standings, and are one of the three teams that, as things stand today, would be relegated. Setting aside Sheffield Wednesday, on -5 points and already relegated, Leicester are level with Oxford United on 41 points at the bottom of the table.

Portsmouth (42 pts), West Bromwich (45 pts) and Blackburn Rovers (47 pts) are the other teams near the bottom, with five matches left to play. Of those five, two will drop to the third tier of English football. For Leicester, the good news is that they still have two direct rivals left to face: Portsmouth and Blackburn.

In any case, it is a reality that would have been hard to imagine for Leicester years ago, when, with players like Jamie Vardy, Riyad Mahrez and N’Golo Kanté, they dominated English football.

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