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2012–13 Leicester City F.C. season

Leicester City
2012–13 season
Chairman Vichai Raksriaksorn
Manager Nigel Pearson
Football League Championship 6th
FA Cup Fourth Round
League Cup Second Round
Top goalscorer League: David Nugent (14)
All: David Nugent (16)
Highest home attendance 29,560 (vs. Watford, Championship Play-offs, 9.5.2013)
Lowest home attendance 8,560 (vs. Burton Albion, League Cup, 28.8.2012)

The 2012–13 season was Leicester City F.C.'s 108th season in the English football league system and their 61st (non-consecutive) season in the second tier of English football. It was their fourth consecutive season in the Championship.

Leicester began with a promising first half of the season and sat in second place at the beginning of February. However, a dramatic downturn in form which saw the Foxes win just 2 of their following 16 games saw Leicester not only drop out of the automatic promotion places, but the play-offs as well and they began the final game of the season against local rivals Nottingham Forest in eighth place. The Foxes won 2–3 with a dramatic late winner from Anthony Knockaert, and coupled with Bolton Wanderers failing to win, Leicester took the final play-off spot and finished sixth.

Leicester eventually lost to Watford in the play-off semi-final though, after a dramatic winner deep into injury time by Troy Deeney, which came as the result of a counter-attack from Anthony Knockaert's missed penalty (which would have sent Leicester through to the final).

Note: This section does not include close season transfers or pre-season match results, which are listed in their own sections below.

On 28 April 2012, it was announced on the official Leicester City website that the new kit supplier for the 2012–13 season would be Puma.

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