It’s been a record-breaking season for Leicester City in 2024/25. But unfortunately, it’s for all the wrong reasons.
Leicester set an unwanted Premier League record on Sunday, becoming the first team in the competition’s history to lose seven home league matches in a row without scoring a goal.
Alarmingly, strikes from Rasmus Hojlund, Alejandro Garnacho and Bruno Fernandes also saw Leicester surpass 1000 goals conceded at the quickest rate of any Premier League side.
Every single week the Foxes seem to set a new horrific record, and only Southampton have shipped more goals than their tally of 65 in the first 29 matches.
But perhaps more worryingly, Ruud van Nistelrooy can enter the competitions hall of shame by failing to do thing in the final months of the season.
Leicester, Southampton and Ipswich can become worst bottom three in Premier League history
The gap between sides coming up from the Championship and those already established in the Premier League is widening every year.
In 2023/24, Sheffield United, Burnley and Luton Town were immediately relegated back to the second-tier after only winning promotion in the season prior.
Unfortunately, promoted clubs find themselves in a familiar position in 2024/25, with Leicester, Southampton and Ipswich Town all rooted into the bottom three.
Indeed, it’s going to take a miracle in the last nine games for either of Ipswich or Leicester, and neither look likely to pull off a great escape.
As pointed out on BBC Radio 5 Live, this is the worst bottom three in Premier League history, collecting just 43 points between them in 28 games.
| Position | Team | Played MP | Won W | Drawn D | Lost L | For GF | Against GA | Diff GD | Points Pts |
| 18 |  IpswichIpswich | 29 | 3 | 8 | 18 | 28 | 62 | -34 | 17 |
| 19 |  LeicesterLeicester | 29 | 4 | 5 | 20 | 25 | 65 | -40 | 17 |
| 20 |  SouthamptonSouthampton | 29 | 2 | 3 | 24 | 21 | 70 | -49 | 9 |
Ipswich, Southampton and Leicester need to win 23 points from their remaining matches collectively to match the 66 points attained by the bottom three last term.
If they don’t, they will become the worst-ever bottom three to be relegated from the Premier League in terms of points.
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Two factors will cost Leicester City place in Premier League
13 losses from 14 games has placed Leicester on the brink of creating more unwanted history, and perhaps this landslide could have been avoided.
It all started in the summer of 2024 when Steve Cooper got recruitment horribly wrong, with the £25 million of Oliver Skipp being a huge failure along with the loan of Odsonne Edouard.
Director of Football Jon Rudkin has also been slammed by the supporters for his awful transfer strategy, which has seen Leicester lost £190 million worth of players for nothing.
The final nail in the coffin, meanwhile, was replacing Cooper with Van Nistelrooy, whose lack of managerial expertise and ability to adapt have been exposed.
Leicester are set to be relegated to the Championship, and it’s all down to a mix of owner Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha, Cooper, Van Nistelrooy and Rudkin.