The King Power Stadium is the home of Leicester City, a modern all-seater bowl a short walk from the club's former Filbert Street ground near the River Soar. It has a compact, tightly-bowled design that keeps the atmosphere dense even at a relatively modest capacity. Blue and gold banners and King Power branding reflect the Thai ownership that transformed the club's fortunes. On European or title-race nights it has produced some of the loudest, most disbelieving crowds English football has seen in the last decade.
Opened in 2002 as the Walkers Stadium, replacing Filbert Street just a few hundred yards away, the ground was renamed King Power Stadium in 2011 after the club's Thai owners, who later purchased the stadium outright in 2013. It witnessed one of sport's greatest stories — Leicester's 5,000-1 Premier League title in 2016 — a run built on a squad and manager few expected to survive relegation, let alone win the league. The stadium has also hosted Champions League football, a first for the club, during that same historic season. It remains a symbol of football's capacity for the impossible.
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