Leicester City In 100 Players: Teddy King

Club Historian John Hutchinson reviews the careers of 100 of the most outstanding players to represent Leicester Fosse and Leicester City in the Club’s 138 year history - continuing with Teddy King, who played a key role both as a player and as a coach between 1905 and 1932.

2022-07-28T11:26:00.000Z

by John Hutchinson

Published

28 Jul, 2022

Leicester City In 100 Players: Teddy King

Club Historian John Hutchinson reviews the careers of 100 of the most outstanding players to represent Leicester Fosse and Leicester City in the Club’s 138 year history - continuing with Teddy King, who played a key role both as a player and as a coach between 1905 and 1932.

John Hutchinson

2022-07-28T11:26:00.000Z

Leicester City In 100 Players: Teddy King

Club Historian John Hutchinson reviews the careers of 100 of the most outstanding players to represent Leicester Fosse and Leicester City in the Club’s 138 year history - continuing with Teddy King, who played a key role both as a player and as a coach between 1905 and 1932.

John Hutchinson

2022-07-28T11:26:00.000Z

Leicester City In 100 Players: Teddy King

Club Historian John Hutchinson reviews the careers of 100 of the most outstanding players to represent Leicester Fosse and Leicester City in the Club’s 138 year history - continuing with Teddy King, who played a key role both as a player and as a coach between 1905 and 1932.

John Hutchinson

2022-07-28T11:26:00.000Z

Leicester City In 100 Players: Teddy King

Club Historian John Hutchinson reviews the careers of 100 of the most outstanding players to represent Leicester Fosse and Leicester City in the Club’s 138 year history - continuing with Teddy King, who played a key role both as a player and as a coach between 1905 and 1932.

John Hutchinson

2022-07-28T11:26:00.000Z

In 1911/12, the annual Fosse photo album described Teddy (Edwin) King as a player ‘who has had a long stay with the Fosse, is a local player who had played for the first team in all three half-back positions with success.’

By this time Teddy was 27 and, despite having joined Leicester as a professional five seasons earlier, he had made relatively few first team appearances before becoming a regular in 1910/11 at the age of 26.

Despite these unremarkable beginnings, Teddy went on to become something of a Club legend, first as a player and then, from 1922, as a coach for the next 10 years. Unlike some of his team-mates, he was never a big name star player, but he was admired by the fans not only because of his long service and loyalty to the Club, but also because of his versatility.

This saw him play in seven positions in his 357 games, including centre-forward in 1914/15 when he was the Club’s top scorer.

While at the Club, he experienced promotion to the top flight in 1908, relegation in 1909 and re-election in 1915. This was followed by four seasons of wartime football, the demise of Leicester Fosse and the creation of Leicester City in 1919.

He was a regular for newly-named City for the first three seasons after the war, and while on the coaching staff, was at the Club when it was promoted to the First Division in 1925 and were runners-up in 1929. In many ways, he was synonymous with the Club’s story for the first part of the 20th century.

The Club’s archives, courtesy of his family, contain Teddy’s contracts with Leicester Fosse and Leicester City.

His first contract was worth £1 a week, and he had to pay for expenses incurred in training and travelling. This rose to £2 per week and, when he became an established first teamer, he earned £4 a week and £6 a week in the post-world war seasons.

Leicester City's archives also include evidence of the high regard that Teddy was held in by all at Filbert Street.

When he left the club in 1932, the manager and three directors each wrote glowing references for his future employment.

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