1994–95 Leicester City F.C. season

Leicester City finally made it back to the top flight after a seven-year exile and two successive Wembley playoff final defeats. Even with one of the country's most sought-after young managers in Brian Little, they were still tipped to go straight back down to the First Division. They would ultimately have a very shaky to indifferent start to the season, winning just two of their first 10 games, yet one of them being perhaps their finest performance of the season. On 16 October, they were 4-1 leaders against Southampton by 82 minutes; however, their leaky defense would be evident for the rest of the season (they eventually conceded 80 league goals and only kept four clean sheets all season) and within the final two minutes of that game, they conceded two goals to only narrowly win the game 4-3. By the time manager Brian Little moved to Aston Villa in November, the Foxes looked doomed, and Little's successor Mark McGhee was unable to prove the pundits wrong. Leicester were never out of the bottom two after November and were relegated with just 6 wins and only Ipswich Town below them. The sale of key player Mark Draper at least gave the club a cash windfall to reduce the financial impact of relegation.

Final league table


Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Blackburn Rovers (C)	42	27	8	7	80	39	+41	89	1995–96 UEFA Champions League Group stage
2	Manchester United	42	26	10	6	77	28	+49	88	1995–96 UEFA Cup First round
3	Nottingham Forest	42	22	11	9	72	43	+29	77
4	Liverpool	42	21	11	10	65	37	+28	74
5	Leeds United	42	20	13	9	59	38	+21	73
6	Newcastle United	42	20	12	10	67	47	+20	72
7	Tottenham Hotspur	42	16	14	12	66	58	+8	62
8	Queens Park Rangers	42	17	9	16	61	59	+2	60
9	Wimbledon	42	15	11	16	48	65	−17	56
10	Southampton	42	12	18	12	61	63	−2	54
11	Chelsea	42	13	15	14	50	55	−5	54
12	Arsenal	42	13	12	17	52	49	+3	51
13	Sheffield Wednesday	42	13	12	17	49	57	−8	51
14	West Ham United	42	13	11	18	44	48	−4	50
15	Everton	42	11	17	14	44	51	−7	50	1995–96 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup First round ¹
16	Coventry City	42	12	14	16	44	62	−18	50
17	Manchester City	42	12	13	17	53	64	−11	49
18	Aston Villa	42	11	15	16	51	56	−5	48
19	Crystal Palace (R)	42	11	12	19	34	49	−15	45	Relegation to 1995–96 Football League First Division
20	Norwich City (R)	42	10	13	19	37	54	−17	43
21	Leicester City (R)	42	6	11	25	45	80	−35	29
22	Ipswich Town (R)	42	7	6	29	36	93	−57	27

Updated to games played on 14 May 1995.
Source: Premier League
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
¹ Everton qualified for the Cup Winners' Cup as FA Cup winners.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Results Summary

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
42	6	11	25	45	80	−35	29	5	6	10	28	37	−9	1	5	15	17	43	−26

Source: Statto

Results by round

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38	39	40	41	42
Ground	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	A	A	A	H	A	A	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	H	A
Result	L	L	L	D	L	W	D	D	L	W	L	L	L	L	W	L	D	L	D	L	D	L	L	L	W	L	D	D	L	D	L	L	L	L	L	W	L	L	L	W	D	D
Position	18	21	22	20	21	20	18	19	20	18	18	19	21	21	20	21	21	21	21	21	21	21	22	22	22	22	22	21	22	22	22	22	22	22	22	21	21	21	21	21	21	21

Source: Statto.com
Ground: A = Away; H = Home. Result: D = Draw; L = Loss; W = Win; P = Postponed.

Results

Leicester City's score comes first^[1]

Legend

Win	Draw	Loss

FA Premier League

Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
21 August 1994	Newcastle United	H	1-3	20,048	Joachim
23 August 1994	Blackburn Rovers	A	0-3	21,050
27 August 1994	Nottingham Forest	A	0-1	21,601
31 August 1994	Queens Park Rangers	H	1-1	18,695	Gee
10 September 1994	Wimbledon	A	1-2	7,683	Lowe
17 September 1994	Tottenham Hotspur	H	3-1	21,300	Joachim (2), Lowe
24 September 1994	Everton	A	1-1	28,003	Draper
3 October 1994	Coventry City	H	2-2	19,372	Roberts (2)
8 October 1994	Chelsea	A	0-4	18,397
15 October 1994	Southampton	H	4-3	20,020	Blake (2), Roberts, Carr
24 October 1994	Leeds United	A	1-2	28,547	Blake
29 October 1994	Crystal Palace	H	0-1	20,022
5 November 1994	West Ham United	A	0-1	18,780
20 November 1994	Manchester City	H	0-1	19,006
23 November 1994	Arsenal	H	2-1	20,774	Lowe, Seaman (own goal)
26 November 1994	Norwich City	A	1-2	20,657	Draper
3 December 1994	Aston Villa	H	1-1	20,896	Gee
10 December 1994	Newcastle United	A	1-3	34,400	Oldfield
17 December 1994	Blackburn Rovers	H	0-0	20,559
26 December 1994	Liverpool	H	1-2	21,393	Roberts
28 December 1994	Manchester United	A	1-1	43,789	Whitlow
31 December 1994	Sheffield Wednesday	H	0-1	20,624
2 January 1995	Ipswich Town	A	1-4	15,803	Roberts
14 January 1995	Crystal Palace	A	0-2	12,707
25 January 1995	Manchester City	A	1-0	21,007	Robins
4 February 1995	West Ham United	H	1-2	20,375	Robins
11 February 1995	Arsenal	A	1-1	31,373	Draper
22 February 1995	Aston Villa	A	4-4	30,825	Robins, Roberts, Lowe (2)
25 February 1995	Coventry City	A	2-4	20,633	Lowe, Roberts
4 March 1995	Everton	H	2-2	20,447	Draper, Roberts
8 March 1995	Queens Park Rangers	A	0-2	10,189
11 March 1995	Nottingham Forest	H	2-4	20,423	Lowe, Draper
15 March 1995	Leeds United	H	1-3	20,068	Roberts
18 March 1995	Tottenham Hotspur	A	0-1	30,851
1 April 1995	Wimbledon	H	3-4	15,489	Robins, Willis, Lawrence
5 April 1995	Norwich City	H	1-0	15,992	Parker
8 April 1995	Sheffield Wednesday	A	0-1	22,551
15 April 1995	Manchester United	H	0-4	21,281
17 April 1995	Liverpool	A	0-2	36,012
29 April 1995	Ipswich Town	H	2-0	15,248	Whitlow, Lowe
6 May 1995	Chelsea	H	1-1	18,140	Willis
14 May 1995	Southampton	A	2-2	15,101	Parker, Robins

FA Cup


Round	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Goalscorers
R3	7 January 1995	Enfield	H	2-0	17,351	Oldfield, Roberts
R4	30 January 1995	Portsmouth	A	1-0	14,928	Roberts
R5	18 February 1995	Wolverhampton Wanderers	A	0-1	28,544

League Cup


Round	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Goalscorers
R2 1st Leg	21 September 1994	Brighton & Hove Albion	A	0-1	11,041
R2 2nd Leg	5 October 1994	Brighton & Hove Albion	H	0-2 (lost 0-3 on agg)	14,258

Squad

^[2] Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Gavin Ward
2	DF	Simon Grayson
3	DF	Mike Whitlow
4	DF	Jimmy Willis
5	DF	Steve Walsh (captain)
6	FW	Mark Robins
7	FW	Julian Joachim
8	MF	Mark Blake
9	FW	Iwan Roberts
10	MF	Mark Draper
11	FW	Ian Ormondroyd
12	DF	Richard Smith
14	DF	Nicky Mohan
15	DF	Brian Carey
18	MF	Garry Parker

No.	Position	Player
19	DF	Colin Hill
20	MF	David Oldfield
21	MF	Lee Philpott
22	DF	Jamie Lawrence
23	FW	Emile Heskey
24	DF	Neil Lewis
25	FW	David Lowe
26	FW	Phil Gee
27	FW	Lee Ellison
29	MF	Sam McMahon
30	MF	Ian Thompson
31	DF	Scott Eustace
32	GK	Russell Hoult
33	GK	Kevin Poole

Left the club during season

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No.	Position	Player
22	MF	Gary Mills (to Notts County)
16	MF	Franz Carr (to Aston Villa)
6	MF	Steve Agnew (to Sunderland)

No.		Position	Player
17		MF	Steve Thompson (to Burnley)
34		DF	Mike Galloway (on loan from Celtic)

Transfers

In

Date	Pos	Name	From	Fee
7 July 1994	DF	Nicky Mohan	Middlesbrough	£330,000
22 July 1994	MF	Mark Draper	Notts County	£1,250,000
12 August 1994	FW	Lee Ellison	Darlington	Free transfer
11 October 1994	MF	Franz Carr	Sheffield United	£100,000
6 January 1995	DF	Jamie Lawrence	Doncaster Rovers	£125,000
16 January 1995	FW	Mark Robins	Norwich City	£1,000,000
10 February 1995	MF	Garry Parker	Aston Villa	£300,000

Out

Date	Pos	Name	To	Fee
25 July 1994	DF	Tony James	Hereford United	Free transfer
12 August 1994	DF	Colin Gibson	Blackpool	Free transfer
26 September 1994	MF	Gary Mills	Notts County	£50,000
11 January 1995	MF	Steve Agnew	Sunderland	£250,000
10 February 1995	MF	Franz Carr	Aston Villa	£250,000
24 February 1995	MF	Steve Thompson	Burnley	£200,000

Transfers in:

£3,105,000

Transfers out:

£750,000

Total spending:

£2,355,000

References

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