Guest CityFan 06 Posted 23 July 2016 Posted 23 July 2016 Our current home stadium was built & opened in 2002, 14 years ago today. - Average home crowds have never dropped below 20,000, even when we were relegated to League One in 2008 for the first time in our history. - The record attendance stands at 32,242, which was the home game against Sunderland in the 2015/16 Premier League season. - The stadium has seen two supporter groups, the Fosse Boys & Union FS - On 21 September 2014, Leicester went on to produce one of the greatest comebacks in Premier League history, as we won 5-3 against Manchester United at the King Power Stadium. - On 7 May 2016, Leicester City lifted the 2015–16 Premier League trophy following a 3–1 win versus Everton, less than a week after officially becoming champions. Classical Italian singer-songwriter Andrea Bocelli performed live before the match. - The stadium was known as the Walkers Stadium until 2011, where it was renamed the King Power Stadium. - In 14 years, the ground has seen three promotions/three titles, a great escape and special cup nights. We have also seen last minute winners and big victories in every sense. - The stadium is currently the host of the Champions of England, after Ranieri's team won the Premier League title in 2015/16. - The 2016/2017 season will see us compete in Europe, so Champions League nights will be on the way as the stadium's hosts Leicester as competitors for the first time. What are your thoughts on our 14 years at Filbert Way?
Spudulike Posted 23 July 2016 Posted 23 July 2016 ...and loads of other stuff including full internationals. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Power_Stadium
Fox92 Posted 23 July 2016 Posted 23 July 2016 Ferguson v Fruend springs to mind, what a moment to recollect.
Sol thewall Bamba Posted 23 July 2016 Posted 23 July 2016 A lot more history here than we give it credit for!
promised land Posted 23 July 2016 Posted 23 July 2016 Then and now pics Sol the wall Bamba. This was taken this morning before setting off to Scotland.
SystonFox Posted 23 July 2016 Posted 23 July 2016 Sheffield Wednesday 08. What a terrible day. Everton 16. What a fantastic occasion. i keep saying it but ; We've come a long long way together. i had a season ticket from 05-10. Sk1 of the Kop. Saw some right crap during that time. Best at game I have ever seen at the KP? Spurs at home in the cup 06. 2-0 down after 30 mins, last minute de Vries winner live on bbc. yes there have been better games (Man u 5-3), the odd 6-0 win in the champo, league titles lifted but at the time Spurs at home was legendary. greatest player I've seen at the KP? Mahrez. The times I saw Cambiasso last season he wasn't exactly on song. Kante this season was good but Mahrez absolute game changer absolute legend. Vardy is up there too. Also zsolt lazscko against Cov at home looked the closest thing to Messi I've ever seen. great memories of the stadium. Some sour ones too. to top it off the most recent time I was inside the stadium Kasabian played a gig and it was off the hook, mental!
Guest CityFan 06 Posted 23 July 2016 Posted 23 July 2016 We've had a lot of history here and it's only been 14 years (relatively new in the context of football stadiums), so hopefully more history will made as the KP continues to be our home for many years. We do well to create the atmosphere we do, and have done well over the years. Going back to the League One days, we still had home fans turning up in numbers and L1 being the main section of noise back then, always helped the noise levels and continue to do so. The owners continue to invest in the stadium with improvements season on season.
Corky Posted 23 July 2016 Posted 23 July 2016 The place actually feels like home now. The ground is full, the crowd is noisy and that helps massively. For years we sat in a stadium that had 10k empty seats, little atmosphere and poor football. Now we've got excitement and the crowd feed off it and play a huge part in it. For too long it looked like an identikit bowl and sounded flat, now it provides a fantastic atmosphere and is packed out and that original image is thankfully disappearing and being positively replaced.
Guest CityFan 06 Posted 23 July 2016 Posted 23 July 2016 33 minutes ago, Corky said: The place actually feels like home now. The ground is full, the crowd is noisy and that helps massively. For years we sat in a stadium that had 10k empty seats, little atmosphere and poor football. Now we've got excitement and the crowd feed off it and play a huge part in it. For too long it looked like an identikit bowl and sounded flat, now it provides a fantastic atmosphere and is packed out and that original image is thankfully disappearing and being positively replaced. Great post & I agree entirely. We've now established ourselves a reputation as one of the best home crowds in English football for noise - what'd be even more impressive now though would be if we did the same without clappers. It's seems to me the stadium is progressively getting more character, Union FS have been a real help in this with flags, their positive intent on atmosphere and also helping to regain the 'Kop End' feel. With possible expansion in years to come, that will then give it, it's own uniqueness.
StanSP Posted 23 July 2016 Posted 23 July 2016 earliest/strongest memories of the King Power are (before our current time in the Premier League) : Craig Hignett rescuing a point for City vs Arsenal (Ashley Cole got sent off for a 2-footed tackle on Ben Thatcher). Also fondly remember Ian Walker making one of the best saves from a Gilberto (?) overhead kick. Lilian Nalis vs Leeds. One of the best victories we've had at the stadium I think. Absolutely annihilated them. Mark De Vries scoring the winner vs Tottenham in the 3rd round of the FA Cup. Remember jumping around the room with guests in the house when he slotted it in And sadly some less happier memories like getting trounced by Villa and Chelsea 5-0 and 4-0 respectively. Pretty sure we were 0-0 at half-time with Villa, too!!
urban.spaceman Posted 23 July 2016 Posted 23 July 2016 Had a season ticket at for the last few seasons at Filbert Street and so was devestated to leave; had a ST for the few 3 or 4 seasons at the Walkers and it took me a long, long time to adapt - completely hated it at first - hard to forget the atmosphere from the old East Stand when there really was no comparison at first. Then some idiot (me) decided to go to Uni, putting myself on an enforced diet of Leicester City by moving to the middle of Wales, also condemning my Dad to the same terrible fate (we've always gone together and would never have it any other way). So for the last decade I've only really managed between 5-10 a season because a) I'm poor and b) I have to work on Saturdays. In the last couple of years something special has happened though - it might be the clappers or just the euphoria of being back in the PL and what happened this season, I don't know. But the atmosphere is truly amazing. I hope to at some point get a season ticket again (yes I know how unlikely that is). I hope they manage to expand capacity at some point as it's very, very much needed!! One thing I'll never forget is being 3-0 down to Villa, then a fan runs on to confront Ian Walker who just punches him to the ground! The only time I've ever left a game early - we conceded 2 more after I left I think.
The Doctor Posted 23 July 2016 Posted 23 July 2016 2 hours ago, StanSP said: earliest/strongest memories of the King Power are (before our current time in the Premier League) : Craig Hignett rescuing a point for City vs Arsenal (Ashley Cole got sent off for a 2-footed tackle on Ben Thatcher). Also fondly remember Ian Walker making one of the best saves from a Gilberto (?) overhead kick. Lilian Nalis vs Leeds. One of the best victories we've had at the stadium I think. Absolutely annihilated them. Mark De Vries scoring the winner vs Tottenham in the 3rd round of the FA Cup. Remember jumping around the room with guests in the house when he slotted it in And sadly some less happier memories like getting trounced by Villa and Chelsea 5-0 and 4-0 respectively. Pretty sure we were 0-0 at half-time with Villa, too!! That villa game... Didn't they score all five in about ten minutes? Abiding memory will probably be when forest came to town giving it the big I am because they'd loaned Ramsey, and King just made him look like a conference player.
Guest CityFan 06 Posted 23 July 2016 Posted 23 July 2016 Some memories I recall is - Sheff Wed (h) in 2008. I remember it, just as I am writing this. The away end was packed with orange away tops, it was a sunny day and I was in the Family Stand. We started well but we declined as the match went on, eventually losing 1-3. I remember it being a really important day to get a result. Also, Howard's header v Leeds in the last minute. That was the best I've seen the Kop celebrating any goal. Forest at home, 3-0 win. The celebrations were superb. Union FS debut in SK1 v Charlton back in 2013.
AKCJ Posted 23 July 2016 Posted 23 July 2016 Wasyl's Belgian friends. Roberto Carlos' freekick. Super Stevie Howard's header.
sdb Posted 23 July 2016 Posted 23 July 2016 Have grown to love it. So much history in that 14 year stretch, which is incredible really given how much dross it also saw in the early years. Hope we we build upon it now. Make it more unique.
Spudulike Posted 23 July 2016 Posted 23 July 2016 It's all about memories. I'll take the memory of the Vardy record breaker to my grave. I hope that Top wasn't being serious with that new stadium quote. Don't want another ground move in my lifetime.... not now after what we lived through this season.
FuchingKante Posted 23 July 2016 Posted 23 July 2016 5 hours ago, Corky said: The place actually feels like home now. The ground is full, the crowd is noisy and that helps massively. For years we sat in a stadium that had 10k empty seats, little atmosphere and poor football. Now we've got excitement and the crowd feed off it and play a huge part in it. For too long it looked like an identikit bowl and sounded flat, now it provides a fantastic atmosphere and is packed out and that original image is thankfully disappearing and being positively replaced. Even back then I still loved it, felt special
Guest CityFan 06 Posted 23 July 2016 Posted 23 July 2016 1 hour ago, Spudulike said: It's all about memories. I'll take the memory of the Vardy record breaker to my grave. I hope that Top wasn't being serious with that new stadium quote. Don't want another ground move in my lifetime.... not now after what we lived through this season. Agree, I personally think we need to keep our current ground for many more years to come. History will contiune to build over time & with expansion too, we need to stay I think.
Guest CityFan 06 Posted 23 July 2016 Posted 23 July 2016 1 hour ago, sdb said: Have grown to love it. So much history in that 14 year stretch, which is incredible really given how much dross it also saw in the early years. Hope we we build upon it now. Make it more unique. There's many options with expansion at the KP (as far as I know), so it will look potentially excellent with additional tiers.
tyfox Posted 24 July 2016 Posted 24 July 2016 I remember Howard's last min header v Leeds it was my sons first ever game and I remember saying to him "keep the faith son" right before we was awarded a corner. The rest is history. We were in the kop too.
Izzy Posted 24 July 2016 Posted 24 July 2016 3 minutes ago, Dawko said: Ticket from first game I love the way you've tip-exed your real name out on the ticket there Mr Dawkins
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