When Leicester won away

The team formed in 1886 by workers at the Dial Square workshop in the Royal Arsenal armaments factory in Woolwich famously played south of the river - but when Leicester Fosse first made the trip to face Woolwich Arsenal nine years later, they didn’t have to cross the Thames.

When the Union FS party boat from Blackfriars to Putney arrived for Leicester City’s first away game of the 2024/25 season, it docked close to where another boat ended its journey hours before our first victory at Craven Cottage on Saturday 21st March 1914.

Selhurst Park may be a tough place to go, and a tough place to get to, but Crystal Palace has a rich history of contests and spectacles that have drawn visitors from far and wide.

Leicester City didn’t play Ipswich Town at all until Boxing Day 1961, when we travelled to Portman Road to face the team that would win the First Division title for the first and only time the following April.

So in the 1962/63 season, our first away win over Ipswich came against the reigning champions of England.

When most Leicester City fans think of Southampton away, the number nine comes to mind.

But it was a number one who made his mark at The Dell in 1967, while a Saints striker made more than one mark after Leicester’s first visit back in the 19th century.