Leicester City F.C. Leicester City F.C. Leicester City Football Club is an English professional football club based in Leicester. The club competes in the Premier League, England's top division of football, and plays its home games at the King Power Stadium. The club was founded in 1884 as Leicester Fosse F.C., playing on a field near Fosse Road. They moved to Filbert Street in 1891, were elected to the Football League in 1894 and adopted the name Leicester City in 1919. They moved to the nearby Walkers Stadium in 2002, which was renamed the King Power Stadium in 2011. Leicester won the 2015–16
New York City FC Stadium site. In February 2017, it was reported that New York City FC had expressed interest in having its own soccer-specific stadium at a site within Belmont Park in Elmont, New York just outside the city limits in Nassau County. The club participated in site development talks in January 2017, though they did not enter active negotiations. Belmont Park had previously been the proposed stadium site for the New York Cosmos of the Division II North American Soccer League, but the Cosmos proposal was rejected by the Empire State Development Corporation in December 2016. On August 17, 2017, partners from the