Leicester City have incredibly been relegated to League One for the second time in the club's history. The Foxes' fate was confirmed following a 2-2 draw with promotion-chasing Hull City on Tuesday night.

Gary Rowett's side knew they needed to beat the Tigers at King Power Stadium to keep their slim survival hopes alive. However, the East Midlands side failed to win and therefore will now play their football in the third tier next season. Liam Millar opened the scoring just 18 minutes into the match - Asmir Begovic hashing a clearance as the Canadian trundled into his box with the ball and curled it into his far corner.

Jordan James gave Leicester fans a glimmer of hope from the penalty spot early into the second-half when Abdul Fatawu was brought down in Hull's box by Lewis Koumas, before Luke Thomas flipped the game on its head minutes later, volleying unmarked in the centre of the box.

Clinical as ever, however, Oli McBurnie levelled matters for the Tigers 63 minutes in - blasting with power from close range.

It's a drastic fall from grace for the Foxes, who 10 years ago next week were crowned Premier League champions and five years ago next month won the FA Cup. Even as recent as 2022 Leicester were playing in a European semi-final against Roma.

But the 2022/23 relegation from the Premier League has proven to be catastrophic, with City forced to sell and let go some of their best players, including James Maddison, Harvey Barnes, Caglar Soyuncu and Youri Tielemans.

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While the Foxes bounced back to the top flight at the first time of asking by winning the Championship in 2023/24, the long-term damage had already started and there was still clear discontent from the fans to the board and those behind-the-scenes.

Last season, Leicester endured a nightmare campaign in the Premier League and even became the first top-flight side in history to go nine home matches without a goal in a spell between December 2024 and May 2025.

They ended the season down in 18th on 25 points from their 38 matches, 13 points behind 17th-place Tottenham. It was a dour campaign for the Foxes, who lost a joint club record 25 league games.

At the start of 2025/26, Leicester were dubbed as one of the favourites to win automatic promotion by some, and an impressive start on paper followed with City sitting in third with 12 points from the first seven matches.

However, their season started to fall apart in October when the Foxes followed up a five-game winless run with just three wins in nine heading into the New Year and it saw them drop firmly down into the bottom half.

Then in February, Leicester were slapped with a six-point deduction by the EFL for breaching Profit and Sustainability (PSR) rules and that led to fears the club could now drop into the third tier for the first time since 2009.

Gary Rowett was hired as the club's manager in mid-February in an attempt to turn the tide following the dismissal of Marti Cifuentes, but the ex-Oxford United and Millwall man has been unable to make a real impact.

Indeed, the Foxes won just one in 10 under Rowett - including Saturday's dire defeat at Portsmouth - heading into the game against Hull, and now back-to-back relegations has been confirmed.

It means Leicester have got to prepare for a first third-tier campaign since 2008/09, when they won the division at a canter with Nigel Pearson the club's manager and Milan Mandaric as chairman.

Now, with Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha 'Top' at the helm instead, many Leicester supporters fear that they won't have a repeat of that League One title-winning campaign and instead could be facing a long spell in the third tier.