Leicester City's Outstanding Season Quiz

Answer: They'd never won it

Prior to the 2015-16 season, the highest they had finished in their 132-year history was 2nd in 1928.

Answer: 5000-1

Leicester City finished just 14th in their previous season, 2014-15. This title win by Leicester City was the longest-odds winner of a football competition in living memory. Other labels: "the biggest single price winner in history" (i.e. a one-off not an accumulator), "the biggest upset in sporting history".

Answer: Jamie Vardy

Vardy scored 24 goals for Leicester in 2015-16, the equal second-most in the Premier League with Sergio Aguero (Manchester City) ... behind Harry Kane with 25 gaols (Tottenham Hotspur).

Answer: Italian

Ranieri was born in Rome in 1951. He has supported the Roman club AS Roma since he was a boy. He was sacked as manager of the Greek national team in November 2014, after they lost at home to Faroe Islands, and was appointed manager of Leicester City in July 2015.

He was previously a manager in the Premier League - manager of Chelsea from September 2000 to May 2004, when he was sacked by Roman Abromivich (who had acquired the Chelsea club in June 2003). He did not win any titles or cup competitions during those four seasons.

Answer: 1st

A year earlier, on Christmas Day 2014, Leicester were bottom of the Premier League, which highlights the strong change/reversal in the club's fortunes.

Answer: Arsenal

Arsenal v Leicester City finished 2-1. Arsenal were the only team to do this in the 2015-16 season, and were one of only two teams to beat Leicester in the entire Premier League season (the other loss was Liverpool v Leicester 1-0 in December 2015).
Back in September 2015, Leicester City v Arsenal had finished 2-5.

Answer: Swansea City

Swansea are one of four Welsh teams to play in the English league system, along with Wrexham, Newport County and Cardiff City. However, Swansea were the only Welsh club to play in the top division of English football, the Premier League.

Answer: Tottenham v Chelsea 2-2

Tottenham needed to win all three of their remaining matches to deny Leicester the title, but they squandered a 2-0 lead against Chelsea to draw 2-2. Worse still for the London club, they lost their final two matches, which meant that their local-rivals Arsenal overtook them to finish 2nd.

Answer: Danny Drinkwater

Drinkwater is the only English midfielder mentioned, as Jamie Vardy is a striker and Mahrez and Morgan are French and Jamaican respectively. The last game of the season was Chelsea v Leicester 1-1.

Answer: 81

Even though Leicester had only lost three games all season, they still had the least number of points for a Premier League winner since Manchester United in 2010-11 (80 pts).