In 2015-16, Leicester City shocked the sporting world by winning the Premier League title despite starting the season as 5000/1 underdogs.
Claudio Ranieri led a team that had spent the majority of the previous season rooted to the bottom of the table to arguably the most remarkable title victory in football history.
With Christian Fuchs recently being named head coach of League Two outfit Newport County, we’ve found ourselves wondering what else happened to that remarkable team. Take a look what we found here:
Kasper Schmeichel
- Position: Goalkeeper
- Age: 39
The 2015-16 season was Schmeichel’s fifth with Leicester City and he would go on to play at the King Power for a further six seasons, racking up a total of 479 appearances in all competitions and cementing his place as a bona fide legend of the club.
He moved to Nice in 2022 and spent one season with the Ligue 1 club, followed by a year with Anderlecht in the Belgian Pro League. He’s currently Celtic’s first-choice goalkeeper, having joined the Glaswegian club in 2024, winning the Scottish Premiership and League Cup in his first season at Celtic Park.
Ritchie de Laet
- Position: Right Back
- Age: 36
Having played a handful games in the first half of the season for Leicester City before moving to Middlesbrough, Ritchie de Laet achieved a unique double salvo in the 2015/16 season, earning himself a Premier League winners medal as well as promotion from the Championship in the same campaign.
He left the club that summer to join Aston Villa where he featured in just eight league games in three years before spending five years with his hometown club Royal Antwerp. He retired from playing in 2024 but remains with the Belgian Pro League club as an academy coach.
Danny Simpson
- Position: Right Back
- Age: 38
After ousting Ritchie de Laet from the right-back berth, Simpson proved to be a dependable option for the Foxes for a handful of seasons before falling out of favour and spending brief spells with Huddersfield and Bristol City in the Championship.
He worked as a TV pundit in 2022 then spent a spell with Macclesfield in the Northern Premier League, before facing YouTuber Danny Aarons in a charity boxing bout in Dublin in 2024. He recently opened a restaurant in his hometown of Salford.
Wes Morgan
- Position: Centre Back
- Age: 41
Another certified Foxes legend, Morgan was captain of this Leicester side and alongside Schmeichel featured in every single minute of the campaign. In doing so he became only the third outfield player in Premier League history to play in every minute of a title-winning season.
He remained at the King Power for the rest of his playing career, retiring in 2021 with a total of 323 appearances and 14 goals for the club. He earned a Master’s degree course at UCFB in MSc Sports Directorship and now works as the National Academy Scout for his other former club, Nottingham Forest.
Robert Huth
- Position: Centre Back
- Age: 41
Huth joined Leicester permanently in the summer of 2015 after enjoying a successful loan spell during the previous campaign. The Foxes would prove to be his final club as he retired in 2018 having made over 400 career appearances, including 93 at Leicester.
He earned a degree in Sports directorship from the University of Salford and returned to the King Power for a spell to work as Loans Manager, leaving in 2024. He’s since been spotted playing in Stoke City and Chelsea legends fixtures.
Christian Fuchs
- Position: Left Back
- Age: 39
A fine signing for Leicester in the summer of 2015, Fuchs enjoyed an excellent first campaign in England and stayed with the club for a total of six years, playing over 150 times before moving the USA to join Charlotte FC in 2021.
After completing his playing career, Fuchs stayed with the Major League Soccer club as assistant manager before making a surprise return to the UK in November 2025 to take his first head coach role with League Two outfit Newport County.
Jeffrey Schlupp
- Position: Left Back/Midfielder
- Age: 32
Having come through the academy at Leicester, Schlupp found himself in and out of the team in the title-winning 2015-16 campaign. His versatility proved vital to boss Claudio Ranieri and he was named the club’s Young Player of the Year at the end of the season.
He joined Crystal Palace in 2017 and remained at Selhurst Park for eight years, making 220 Premier League appearances for the Eagles. After enjoying a loan spell at Celtic, he joined Norwich City on a free transfer in 2025.
N’Golo Kante
- Position: Central Midfielder
- Age: 34
Kante spent just one, glorious season at the King Power, featuring in 37 of the team’s Premier League appearances in this season after joining from Caen in the summer of 2014. He was one of four Leicester players named in the PFA Team of the Year at the end of the season.
He won the Premier League once more in the following season after joining Chelsea in the summer of 2016 and he would also win the FA Cup, Champions League, Europa League and Club World Cup during a seven year spell at Stamford Bridge. He joined Al-Ittihad in 2023, winning the Saudi Pro League and the King’s Cup in the 2024-25 campaign.
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Danny Drinkwater
- Position: Central Midfielder
- Age: 35
One year after Kante moved to Stamford Bridge he was joined by his former Leicester City colleague Danny Drinkwater, but the two were unable to replicate the excellent partnership that they formed at the King Power as first-team opportunities were limited for the former Manchester United academy graduate.
Drinkwater made only 12 appearances in five years at Stamford Bridge, spending time out on loan at Burnley, Aston Villa, Kasimpasa and Reading before retiring in 2022. He now works as a property developer.
Andy King
- Position: Central Midfielder
- Age: 37
Another player who ended up playing the majority of his career at Leicester, King had already been with the club for ten years when the club lifted the Premier League trophy in 2016 and he remained there for another four years, although that spell would include loans to Swansea, Derby, Rangers and Huddersfield.
After 55 appearances in the Championship for Bristol City, King retired in 2021 and has since returned to the club with which he was synonymous during his playing days. He’s currently working as a first-team coach at Leicester under current boss Marti Cifuentes.
Marc Albrighton
- Position: Winger
- Age: 36
Having joined Leicester City from fellow Midlands outfit Aston Villa just one year earlier, Albrighton was one of the key members of the title-winning team and stayed with the Foxes for another eight years before eventually retiring in 2024.
Like his former Foxes team-mate Wes Morgan, Albrighton has since returned to his roots and taken up an academy coaching job with his first club, Aston Villa. He also featured for Wrexham Red Dragons in the TST seven-a-side tournament in North Carolina in the summer of 2025.
Riyad Mahrez
- Position: Winger
- Age: 34
The creative force behind this Leicester outfit, Mahrez scored 18 goals and assisted a further ten in this memorable campaign and his performances even saw him win the BBC African Footballer of the Year award and finish seventh in the running for the Ballon d’Or.
He remained at Leicester for two more seasons before joining Manchester City where he won a further four Premier League titles in five seasons as well as a Champions League, two FA Cups and three EFL Cups. He’s currently in his third season with Saudi Pro League outfit Al-Ahli, where he won the AFC Champions League in 2024-25.
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Demarai Gray
- Position: Winger
- Age:
The only January signing to regularly feature in the 2015-16 season, the 20-year old Gray was a useful bench option in the final stages of the campaign before establishing himself as a regular starter in following seasons.
After 10 goals in 133 Premier League appearances, Gray moved to Bayer Leverkusen and then spent spells with Everton and Al-Ettifaq. Still only 29, he returned to boyhood club Birmingham City in 2025. He’s also earned 29 caps with Jamaica since 2023, scoring seven goals.
Nathan Dyer
- Position: Winger
- Age: 37
Dyer signed for Leicester on a season-long loan for this campaign and played 12 times having been a regular for Swansea City in the previous six campaigns. He scored just one goal for the Foxes but it was a vital one – a last-gasp winner in a comeback win over Aston Villa.
He completed four more campaigns with the Swans before announcing his retirement in 2021. He now works as a sports agent with ICM Stellar Sports where he helps young players cope with the pressures of the modern game.
Jamie Vardy
- Position: Striker
- Age: 38
The face of Leicester City’s magical story, just four years prior to Leicester lifting the Premier League trophy Vardy had been playing in non-league for Fleetwood Town. He became the first player to score in eleven consecutive Premier League games and ended the campaign with 24 goals in 36 appearances.
He would go on to rack up a pleasingly even 200 goals in 500 appearances for the club in all competitions before joining Serie A outfit Cremonese for the 2025-26 season, scoring goals against the likes of Atalanta and Juventus in the Italian top flight.
Shinji Okazaki
- Position: Striker
- Age: 39
Although not as prolific as Mahrez and Vardy, Okazaki established himself as a key member of the title-winning team after joining from Mainz in the summer of 2015. He stayed at Leicester until 2019 before playing in Spain with Huesca and Cartagena and ending his career in Belgium with Sint-Truiden.
A legend with the Japan national team having scored 50 goals in 119 caps for the Samurai Blue, Okazaki took over as manager of Basara Mainz in 2024. Basara are a sixth-tier German football club that he himself helped to set up in 2014 while playing in the Bundesliga for Mainz.
Leonardo Ulloa
- Position: Striker
- Age: 39
Ulloa had been one of Leicester’s key players in the 2014-15 campaign, scoring 11 goals but he found himself used more as a substitute in the 2015-16 season. He still chipped in with six important goals and he played another 20 times for the club in the following two seasons.
The Argentinian striker moved to Pachuca in 2018 before finishing his career with Rayo Vallecano in 2021. He has arguably the strangest post-football career of this squad as he now works with Madrid-based confectionary company Sweet Monkey while doing some player representation work.
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