In September, the Foxes will commence their seventh-straight Premier League campaign, having recorded three consecutive top-half finishes as well as winning the title during that period.
Their 38-game league season will start with a trip to West Bromwich Albion and is scheduled to end in May, and they will take on three teams that all have a story of their own following their promotion to the top flight.
Leeds United
Marcelo Bielsa’s Leeds United were the first side to secure their spot in the 2020/21 Premier League after winning the Championship with 93 points.
They won 12 of their final 14 matches and scored 30 goals in the process to secure top tier football for the first time since 2004.
They had previously made the play-offs during the 2018/19 Championship campaign, but were beaten by Frank Lampard’s Derby County over two legs in the semi-finals.
Their manager, Bielsa, has built a reputation as one of the game’s best coaches having previously worked with Argentina and Chile at international level, as well as Athletic Bilbao, Marseille, Lazio and Lille.
The 65-year-old former Newell’s Old Boys defender was appointed Leeds manager in 2018 and said: “I have always felt it was important to wait for the right project to come along and so when a club with Leeds United's history made me an offer, it was impossible to turn down.”
As Bielsa pointed out, Leeds’ history is a rich one. They have won three First Division titles, four Second Division titles, as well as the League Cup in 1968, the FA Cup in 1972 and the FA Charity Shield (Community Shield) on two occasions.
Aside from domestic football, they reached the European Cup Final in 1975 under the stewardship of Jimmy Armfield, only for their side – which included Billy Bremner and Norman Hunter – to lose out to Bayern Munich in the final in Paris.
Leeds play at Elland Road, which has a current capacity of 37,890, but its record attendance saw 57,892 people attend a fixture versus Sunderland when standing was permitted.
City’s last trip to the West Yorkshire ground resulted in a 1-0 Championship win thanks to David Nugent’s 87th-minute strike.
Their current squad includes talented midfielder Kalvin Phillips, experienced Spaniards Kiko Casilla and Pablo Hernández, Macedonia playmaker Ezgjan Alioski and ex-Chelsea striker Patrick Bamford.
Bamford, who joined Leeds in 2018 from Middlesbrough, finished as his side’s top scorer in the 2019/20 Championship with 16 goals to his name.
West Bromwich Albion
It has taken West Bromwich Albion just two years to make a return to the Premier League following their second-place berth during the 2019/20 Championship campaign.
In 2017/18, the Baggies finished bottom of the Premier League table, and were unfortunate not to gain promotion at the first attempt after a play-off defeat by rivals Aston Villa over two legs.
However, under ex-West Ham United and Croatia manager Slaven Bilić, they collected 83 points and gained promotion on the final day of the 2019/20 season following a 2-2 draw with Queens Park Rangers.
Bilić took the helm in the summer of 2019 and won his first match in charge – a 2-1 victory at Nottingham Forest – thanks to goals from Kyle Edwards and Matt Phillips.
The 51-year-old was born in Split and started his playing career at Hajduk Split before a spell in Germany was followed by transfers to West Ham and then Everton.
He returned to Hajduk Split for one last year as a player before managing his former side for a season. Bilić then managed Croatia’s Under-21s and the senior team over the space of eight years before returning to club football.
The Baggies have been particularly successful in the FA Cup – a competition that they have won five times, with their last triumph coming in 1968.
In addition, they won the First Division in 1920 and the League Cup in 1966, as well as three Second Division titles and two FA Charity Shields.
West Brom’s home, the Hawthorns, has a capacity of 26,850, but like Elland Road attracted a huge crowd in 1937 when 64,815 fans watched their outfit face Arsenal.
Originally opened in 1900, it has undergone several renovations, and has proved to be a productive ground for City, who have won on their last four Premier League visits there.
Their squad, meanwhile, includes the talented Brazilian attacker, Matheus Pereira, seasoned forwards Charlie Austin and Hal Robson-Kanu and former Tottenham Hotspur midfielder Jake Livermore.
In 2019/20, Pereira scored eight goals in the Championship, and registered a further 16 assists, while Austin (11) and Robson-Kanu (10) both finished the season with double figures.
Fulham
Fulham’s 2-1 success against Brentford in the play-off final sealed an instant return to the Premier League, with the triumph coming courtesy of a brace from full-back Joe Bryan.
The Wembley tie went to extra-time after a goalless 90 minutes of normal time, but with 105 minutes on the clock, Bryan bent a fine free-kick into the bottom corner before adding a second with three minutes to play.
Henrik Dalsgaard pulled a goal back for Brentford deep into injury time in extra-time, but Bryan’s double was enough to earn a win in the Championship Play-Off Final.
Scott Parker succeeded former City boss Claudio Ranieri in February 2019 as Fulham manager, and while the London outfit were relegated from the Premier League, it took Parker just one season to regain their top-flight status.
The 39-year-old had a playing career that spanned two decades, starting at Charlton Athletic before spells at Chelsea, Newcastle United, West Ham United, Tottenham Hotspur and, finally, Fulham, where he retired.
He has been capped 18 times at senior level for England, while he has also represented his nation’s Under-16s, Under-18s and Under-21s sides on a combined 18 occasions also.
One of Fulham’s most memorable runs to a cup final saw them draw with Roma in the group stages of the newly-formed 2009/10 UEFA Europa League, before they beat 2009 winners Shakhtar Donetsk in the Round of 32 over two legs.
They then remarkably dismissed Italian giants Juventus over two legs in the Round of 16, producing a phenomenal comeback to win 4-1 at Craven Cottage in the second match against a side that included Fabio Cannavaro, Alessandro Del Piero and David Trezeguet.
After a quarter-final success against VfL Wolfsburg and a win against Hamburger SV in the last-four, they were eventually beaten by Atlético Madrid in extra-time in Hamburg following a brace from Diego Forlán.
Atléti’s side on the day included David de Gea, Raúl García and Sergio Agüero, while future Foxes Mark Schwarzer and Paul Konchesky played for Roy Hodgson's side.
Meanwhile, Fulham have won two second tier and third tier titles, the UEFA Intertoto Cup in 2002 and were runners-up in the 1975 FA Cup Final, where they lost out to West Ham at Wembley in front of an attendance of 100,000 people.
They play their home games at the characterful Craven Cottage, which currently holds 25,700 fans and plans for an expansion to 30,000 are set to take place over two years.
A key member of their current squad, Aleksandar Mitrović, scored 26 goals in the Championship to fire his side to fourth place, and eventually the Premier League.
Ex-City midfielder Anthony Knockaert, meanwhile, now has three Premier League promotions to his name after helping the Foxes, Brighton & Hove Albion and Fulham reach England’s top flight.