Stat Pack: Leicester City vs. Wrexham AFC

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Stat Pack: Leicester City vs. Wrexham AFC

We return to King Power Stadium on Tuesday evening for a Sky Bet Championship clash with Wrexham AFC – the first league meeting between the two sides in decades.

2025-09-29T15:00+01:00

by Sam Stevens & Dave Smith

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29 Sep, 2025

Stat Pack: Leicester City vs. Wrexham AFC

We return to King Power Stadium on Tuesday evening for a Sky Bet Championship clash with Wrexham AFC – the first league meeting between the two sides in decades.

Sam Stevens & Dave Smith

2025-09-29T15:00+01:00

Stat Pack: Leicester City vs. Wrexham AFC

We return to King Power Stadium on Tuesday evening for a Sky Bet Championship clash with Wrexham AFC – the first league meeting between the two sides in decades.

Sam Stevens & Dave Smith

2025-09-29T15:00+01:00

Stat Pack: Leicester City vs. Wrexham AFC

We return to King Power Stadium on Tuesday evening for a Sky Bet Championship clash with Wrexham AFC – the first league meeting between the two sides in decades.

Sam Stevens & Dave Smith

2025-09-29T15:00+01:00

Stat Pack: Leicester City vs. Wrexham AFC

We return to King Power Stadium on Tuesday evening for a Sky Bet Championship clash with Wrexham AFC – the first league meeting between the two sides in decades.

Sam Stevens & Dave Smith

2025-09-29T15:00+01:00

The two clubs have met just eight times in all competitions, with six of those coming in the second tier. Nevertheless, City have the edge in the head-to-head record, winning four matches, while three have ended in draws and just one won by Tuesday's visitors.

With the Red Dragons on the rise following their recent surge up the EFL, this contest is a first meeting of these two teams since 1982. Ahead of this next encounter with Wrexham, with the help of Dave Smith, Of Fossils & Foxes co-author, we take a look at some of the numbers behind our latest second-tier outing this week…

Previous encounters

The very first meeting came in 1960, when City ran out 2-1 winners in an FA Cup third round tie at The Racecourse Ground. Albert Cheesebrough and Ken Leek found the net in front of a bumper crowd of 22,561, while Don Weston replied for the hosts. That remains the highest attendance to have watched a Leicester-Wrexham fixture.

Across the eight encounters, there have been only 10 goals scored in total, with no player ever netting more than once. That leaves a long list of one-goal scorers for both sides, underlining just how tight these games have traditionally been.

Landmark moments

There have been no hat-tricks, no penalties, no own goals, and no red cards in any of the previous meetings. Just two debutants have featured across the years: Kevin Reed for Leicester in 1978, when his only appearance for the Club saw him strike the crossbar with a looping effort, and Simon Hunt for Wrexham in 1981, who went on to make over 100 appearances for the Red Dragons.

In terms of transfers, the most notable links come this year, with both Danny Ward and Conor Coady moving from Leicester to Wrexham over the summer. Looking further back, the Foxes signed striker Kevin Russell from Wrexham in 1989 for a reported £175,000 fee. Four former Foxes have also managed the Welsh club: Bobby Roberts, Brian Carey, Brian Little, and Gary Mills with varying degrees of success.

Played for both & top scorers

Beyond Ward and Coady, there’s a decently-sized list of players who have represented both clubs, including Robert Alleyne, Lewis Brunt, Ritchie De Laet, Mike Hooper, Matty James, Jason Jarrett, David Lowe, Frank Sinclair, Kevin Russell, and Gavin Ward.

When it comes to the goals, it’s finely balanced. For Leicester, single strikes against Wrexham came from the likes of Cheesebrough, Leek, Trevor Christie, Derek Strickland, Martin Henderson, Eddie Kelly, and Stewart Hamill. For the Red Dragons, Weston, Davis, and Micky Thomas are also all one-goal men in the fixture.

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