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Stat Pack: Leicester City vs. Blackburn Rovers

We return to King Power Stadium this weekend for a lunchtime kick-off against Blackburn Rovers in the Sky Bet Championship.

2025-10-31T12:00+00:00

by Sam Stevens & Dave Smith

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31 Oct, 2025

Stat Pack: Leicester City vs. Blackburn Rovers

We return to King Power Stadium this weekend for a lunchtime kick-off against Blackburn Rovers in the Sky Bet Championship.

Sam Stevens & Dave Smith

2025-10-31T12:00+00:00

Stat Pack: Leicester City vs. Blackburn Rovers

We return to King Power Stadium this weekend for a lunchtime kick-off against Blackburn Rovers in the Sky Bet Championship.

Sam Stevens & Dave Smith

2025-10-31T12:00+00:00

Stat Pack: Leicester City vs. Blackburn Rovers

We return to King Power Stadium this weekend for a lunchtime kick-off against Blackburn Rovers in the Sky Bet Championship.

Sam Stevens & Dave Smith

2025-10-31T12:00+00:00

Stat Pack: Leicester City vs. Blackburn Rovers

We return to King Power Stadium this weekend for a lunchtime kick-off against Blackburn Rovers in the Sky Bet Championship.

Sam Stevens & Dave Smith

2025-10-31T12:00+00:00

The 12:30pm GMT fixture sees the Foxes look to bounce back from successive away defeats with a clash against Rovers, who have proven stubborn visitors in recent years.

City will be aiming to continue their strong home form this term, as they take on a side with which they share over a century of competitive history. From early 20th-century clashes to dramatic play-off encounters and modern Championship meetings, we take a look at the fixture with the help of Dave Smith, Of Fossils & Foxes co-author…

Previous Encounters

Saturday’s meeting marks the 102nd clash between City and Blackburn across all competitions. Of those, 82 have come in the second tier, along with one Play-Off Final – won by Rovers – at Wembley in 1992. The Foxes have secured 36 victories in the series to date, with the honours shared on several notable occasions down the years.

More recent meetings have provided plenty of goals. The 2023/24 season saw City record a commanding 4-1 win at Ewood Park in October 2023 — courtesy of goals from Wout Faes, Jamie Vardy, Kelechi Iheanacho and Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall — before Rovers responded with a 2-0 success in LE2 in May 2024. That win made it back-to-back away triumphs for the Lancashire club in Leicester.

The two sides also met in the 2022/23 Emirates FA Cup Fifth Round, with Blackburn edging a 2-1 victory as Sammie Szmodics and Tyrhys Dolan cancelled out Iheanacho’s reply. Our last Carabao Cup tie, meanwhile, came in 1998, having sealed a 1-0 win in the fifth round when Neil Lennon struck the decisive goal.

Over the decades, the fixture has been shaped by periods of dominance from both sides. Leicester enjoyed emphatic wins at Filbert Street in the 1920s, including 6-0 and 4-0 scorelines, while Blackburn have also recorded their share of high-scoring successes, most notably a 5-0 top-flight victory at Ewood Park in 1959. The Play-Off Final of 1992, meanwhile, remains one of the defining chapters of Leicester-Blackburn encounters, as Kenny Dalglish’s side earned promotion at Wembley after a fiercely contested campaign that saw Leicester take a league double earlier that season.

Landmark Moments

Arthur Rowley’s hat-trick in a 6-0 Filbert Street win in October 1956 remains Leicester’s only post-war treble against Rovers, while Andy McEvoy’s four-goal haul for Blackburn in the 1963/64 season remains equally notable to those in Lancashire.

The fixture has seen just a single red card – to Leicester’s Mike Newell at Ewood Park in 1988 – and remarkably, no Blackburn player has ever been sent off, nor scored an own goal against the Foxes. Penalty drama, however, has featured regularly, with both clubs converting eight spot-kicks apiece in post-war meetings. Among them, Rowley holds the record with four for City, while both Mike Newell and Paul Dickov netted penalties for Rovers against their former side.

There have been several unique moments too. Leicester goalkeeper Carl Muggleton became one of a select few shot-stoppers to save a penalty at Wembley when he denied Newell in that 1992 Play-Off Final.

Past clashes also featured some landmark occasions. A record crowd of 68,147 packed Wembley for that Play-Off showdown, while in the 1953/54 campaign, Leicester finished just a single point ahead of Blackburn to claim the Second Division title – a slender margin that proved decisive in denying Rovers promotion.

Played For Both & Top Scorers

It’s a fixture rich in shared history, with an extensive list of players to have represented both clubs. Among them are Foxes favourites and familiar names such as Paul Dickov, Mike Newell, Paul Gallagher, Keith Gillespie and Robbie Savage, alongside others including Derek Dougan, Callum Davidson, Tim Flowers, Nils-Eric Johansson, Ben Marshall, Tom Lawrence, and Yakubu. George Hirst, who joined Blackburn on loan in 2022, and Callum Wright, who arrived at Leicester from Rovers in 2018, are among the most recent connections.

On the goalscoring front, two legendary Arthurs — Chandler and Rowley — stand as Leicester’s joint-leading scorers in the fixture, each finding the net 11 times against Rovers. Andy McEvoy leads the way for Blackburn with 10 goals, while a rare group of players, including Dickov, Newell, and Dougan, have scored for both sides in these meetings.

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