Stat Pack: Coventry City vs. Leicester City

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Stat Pack: Coventry City vs. Leicester City

We travel down the M69 on Saturday to tackle Coventry City, with both sides hoping to go one further than our last encounter and seal all three points.

2026-01-15T15:00+00:00

by Sam Stevens & Dave Smith

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15 Jan, 2026

Stat Pack: Coventry City vs. Leicester City

We travel down the M69 on Saturday to tackle Coventry City, with both sides hoping to go one further than our last encounter and seal all three points.

Sam Stevens & Dave Smith

2026-01-15T15:00+00:00

Stat Pack: Coventry City vs. Leicester City

We travel down the M69 on Saturday to tackle Coventry City, with both sides hoping to go one further than our last encounter and seal all three points.

Sam Stevens & Dave Smith

2026-01-15T15:00+00:00

Stat Pack: Coventry City vs. Leicester City

We travel down the M69 on Saturday to tackle Coventry City, with both sides hoping to go one further than our last encounter and seal all three points.

Sam Stevens & Dave Smith

2026-01-15T15:00+00:00

Stat Pack: Coventry City vs. Leicester City

We travel down the M69 on Saturday to tackle Coventry City, with both sides hoping to go one further than our last encounter and seal all three points.

Sam Stevens & Dave Smith

2026-01-15T15:00+00:00

That goalless stalemate at King Power Stadium is the precursor for this weekend’s clash at Coventry Building Society Stadium – the 90th meeting between the pair.

With the help of Dave Smith, who co-authored Of Fossils & Foxes, we’ve taken a look at the numbers and landmarks behind Saturday’s latest instalment of the M69 Derby.

Previous Encounters

We retain the historical edge, having recorded 38 victories against the Sky Blues, and we have also lost just once in the last nine league meetings between the sides. Saturday’s hosts have tasted victory 26 times, with 25 draws.

The most recent clash was also a stalemate, coming earlier this season in September, when neither side could find the back of the net in LE2. That followed an eventful pair of Championship encounters in 23/24, with Leicester winning 2-1 on the opening day of the season at King Power Stadium, before Coventry claimed a 3-1 success at Coventry Building Society Arena in January 2024. Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall was a key figure across those fixtures, scoring three goals in total, including both on Filbert Way and a penalty in the away defeat for 10-man City.

Coventry’s last away win in Leicester, meanwhile, remains the 3-1 Premier League success in 2001, with us yet to suffer a home loss to the Sky Blues since leaving Filbert Street in 2002.

Landmark Moments

Few past encounters carry the significance of the April 1969 meeting at Highfield Road. After a late penalty awarded to Leicester was controversially overturned with the ball already on the spot, Coventry went on to score the decisive goal, and we were relegated by a single point – with the Sky Blues surviving at our expense.

Other notable contests include Leicester’s emphatic 8-1 League Cup victory in December 1964, a tie that still stands as the heaviest defeat either side has inflicted on the other, with four different Foxes on the scoresheet. An extraordinary match at Filbert Street in October 1977 saw all three goals scored from the penalty spot. Mick Coop’s double for Coventry overcame Jon Sammels' effort for the Foxes, while Dennis Rofe also missed from the spot in that fixture. Fourteen red cards, on the other hand, have been shown across the history of the fixture.

Played For Both & Top Scorers

Across more than a century of meetings, a long list of players have represented both clubs. Among the most recognisable names are James Maddison, Kasper Schmeichel, Steve Walsh, Gerry Daly, Julian Joachim, Gary McAllister and Martyn Waghorn, while Brian Alderson and Dion Dublin both found the net for each side in this fixture during their careers.

When it comes to goals in the rivalry, Arthur Chandler remains Leicester’s leading scorer against Coventry, with eight goals – a remarkable tally that has stood since the 1920s. For the Sky Blues, Tom English holds the record with four goals, including the only post-war hat-trick in the history of the fixture.

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