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2017–18 Leicester City F.C. season

2017–18 season
Leicester City players warming up before a Premier League match Manchester United in August 2017
King Power
Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha
Craig Shakespeare(Until 17 October)Claude Puel(From 25 October)
King Power Stadium
9th
Quarter-finals(knocked out by Chelsea)
Quarter-finals(knocked out by Manchester City)
League: Jamie Vardy (20)All: Jamie Vardy (23)

Home colours

Away colours

The 2017–18 Leicester City season was the club's 113th season in the English football league system and its 50th (non-consecutive) season in the top tier of English football. This season saw Leicester City participate in the Premier League for the fourth consecutive season as well as the FA Cup and EFL Cup. The season covered the period from 1 July 2017 to 30 June 2018.

Date	Position	Name	From	Fee
1 July 2017	CB	Sam Hughes	Chester	Free
1 July 2017	CB	Harry Maguire	Hull City	£17,000,000
6 July 2017	DM	Vicente Iborra	Sevilla	£15,000,000
19 July 2017	GK	Eldin Jakupović	Hull City	Undisclosed
3 August 2017	CF	Kelechi Iheanacho	Manchester City	£25,000,000
8 August 2017	RW	George Thomas	Coventry City	Undisclosed
1 January 2018	CM	Adrien Silva	Sporting CP	£22,000,000
9 January 2018	CF	Fousseni Diabaté	Gazélec Ajaccio	£2,000,000

Date	Position	Name	To	Fee
30 June 2017	CB	Marcin Wasilewski	Wisła Kraków	Released
30 June 2017	CM	Michael Cain	Whitehawk	Released
30 June 2017	CB	David Domej	1. FC Nürnberg II	Released
30 June 2017	LM	Brandon Fox	Tamworth	Released
30 June 2017	CB	Cédric Kipré	Motherwell	Released
30 June 2017	DM	Matty Miles	Eynesbury Rovers	Released
30 June 2017	CF	Kairo Mitchell	Nuneaton Town	Released
12 July 2017	GK	Ron-Robert Zieler	VfB Stuttgart	Undisclosed
15 August 2017	SS	Tom Lawrence	Derby County	Undisclosed
31 August 2017	CM	Danny Drinkwater	Chelsea	£35,000,000

Start date	Position	Nationality	Name	From	End date	Ref.
31 August 2017	CB		Aleksandar Dragović	Bayer Leverkusen	30 June 2018

Start date	Position	Name	To	End date
14 July 2017	AM	Bartosz Kapustka	SC Freiburg	30 June 2018
31 July 2017	LB	Callum Elder	Wigan Athletic	30 June 2018
11 August 2017	LW	Harvey Barnes	Barnsley	30 June 2018
18 August 2017	CB	Elliott Moore	Oud-Heverlee Leuven	January 2018
31 August 2017	DM	Nampalys Mendy	Nice	30 June 2018
29 January 2018	CF	Leonardo Ulloa	Brighton & Hove Albion	30 June 2018
30 January 2018	CF	Ahmed Musa	CSKA Moscow	30 June 2018
31 January 2018	CM	Andy King	Swansea City	30 June 2018
31 January 2018	CF	Islam Slimani	Newcastle United	30 June 2018

No.	Name	Position	Joined	Signed from
1	Kasper Schmeichel	GK	2011	Leeds United
12	Ben Hamer	GK	2014	Charlton Athletic
17	Eldin Jakupović	GK	2017	Hull City
2	Danny Simpson	RB	2014	Queens Park Rangers
3	Ben Chilwell	LB / LM	2015	Youth
5	Wes Morgan	CB	2012 (winter)	Nottingham Forest
6	Robert Huth	CB	2015	Stoke City
15	Harry Maguire	CB	2017	Hull City
16	Aleksandar Dragović	CB	2017	Bayer Leverkusen (loan)
28	Christian Fuchs	LB / CB	2015	Schalke 04
29	Yohan Benalouane	CB	2015	Atalanta
31	Callum Elder	LB	2013	Youth
33	Elliott Moore	CB	2016	Youth
7	Demarai Gray	LW / RW / CF	2016 (winter)	Birmingham City
11	Marc Albrighton	RM / LM	2014	Aston Villa
14	Adrien Silva	CM	2017	Sporting CP
18	Daniel Amartey	CM / CB / RB / DM	2016 (winter)	Copenhagen
21	Vicente Iborra	DM	2017	Sevilla
22	Matty James	CM	2012	Manchester United
25	Wilfred Ndidi	DM	2017 (winter)	Genk
26	Riyad Mahrez	LW / RW / AM	2014 (winter)	Le Havre
32	Harvey Barnes	AM / CM / RM / LM	2016	Youth
8	Kelechi Iheanacho	CF	2017	Manchester City
9	Jamie Vardy	CF	2012	Fleetwood Town
20	Shinji Okazaki	CF / AM	2015	Mainz 05
30	George Thomas	RW / LW / CF	2017	Coventry City
33	Fousseni Diabaté	RW / LW / CF	2018	Gazélec Ajaccio

Leicester City announced five pre-season friendlies against Burton Albion, Luton Town, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Milton Keynes Dons and Borussia Mönchengladbach.

On 14 June 2017, the 2017–18 season fixtures were announced. Leicester City played in the first Premier League fixture that opened the season on Friday.

In the FA Cup, Leicester City entered the competition in the third round and were drawn away to Fleetwood Town.

Leicester City entered in the second round of the competition with an away trip to Sheffield United. A home tie against Liverpool was confirmed for the third round. Another home tie was drawn for the fourth round with Leeds United the visitors. A third consecutive home tie in the competition was announced for the quarter-finals, against Manchester City.

.mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}Rnk	No	Pos	Nat	Name	Premier League	FA Cup	League Cup	Total
1	9	FW		Jamie Vardy	20	2	1	23
2	26	MF		Riyad Mahrez	12	0	1	13
3	8	FW		Kelechi Iheanacho	3	4	1	8
4	20	FW		Shinji Okazaki	6	0	1	7
5	19	FW		Islam Slimani	1	0	4	5
6	7	MF		Demarai Gray	3	0	1	4
7	21	MF		Vicente Iborra	3	0	0	3
8	15	DF		Harry Maguire	2	0	0	2
11	MF		Marc Albrighton	2	0	0	2
33	MF		Fousseni Diabaté	0	2	0	2
11
10	MF		Andy King	1	0	0	1
25	MF		Wilfred Ndidi	0	1	0	1
13	FW		Ahmed Musa	0	0	1	1
Own goals	3	0	0	3
Total	56	9	10	75

Leicester's annual award ceremony, including categories voted for by the players and supporters, was held on 1 May 2018. The following awards were made:

Column 1	Column 2
Player of the Year Award	Harry Maguire
Young Player of the Year Award	Wilfred Ndidi
Players' Player of the Year Award	Harry Maguire
Academy Player of the Year Award	Connor Tee
Development Squad Player of the Season	Hamza Choudhury
Goal of the Season Award	Jamie Vardy vs. West Brom, 10 March 2018
Performance of the Season	vs. Southampton, 13 December 2017

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