The legendary figures of Leicester City’s 2016 Premier League title-winning squad are etched in immortality at the King Power Stadium.
Leciester have swung from the sublime to the ridiculous since then. This season’s struggles have left Gary Rowett’s beleaguered team in very real danger of relegation to League One in the coming weeks.
As the Foxes approach the tenth anniversary of that miraculous 5,000-1 success, the contrast between past glory and present reality is stark.
It was on May 2 2016 – the day after Leicester drew 1-1 at Manchester United – that Tottenham’s 2-2 draw at Chelsea mathematically confirmed Claudio Ranieri’s history-makers as champions with two games to spare.
Almost a decade on from their historic triumph, the members of that iconic Leicester squad have navigated vastly different paths. While a select few are still competing at the highest level of the game, several others have transitioned into interesting second careers following their retirement from professional football.
We take a detailed look at what has happened to every member of that squad.
Kasper Schmeichel – Celtic
At 39, Kasper Schmeichel is the oldest of the Leicester City title winning squad still playing, although he may well bring the curtain down on a glittering career this summer.
Schmeichel was Celtic’s No.1 this season, until suffering an injury that requires two operations and up to a year of recovery.
Speaking on CBS sports in March, Schmeichel said: “I could have potentially played my last ever football game… It’s very very hard to wrap my head around at the moment.”
Claudio Ranieri, Christian Fuchs and Kasper Schmeichel pose with the Premier League trophy in 2016(Image: Adrian Dennis/AFP/Getty Images)
Mark Schwarzer- BBC Pundit
Back-up goalkeeper Mark Schwarzer was already 43 when Leicester lifted the title and retired at the end of that famous season.
He has since moved into punditry as a regular fixture on BBC Five Live as a co-commentator. He also works as a co-commentator on Bundesliga matches.
He previously worked for Australian channel Optus Sport, which held the rights to Premier League matches in Australia until 2025.
Ben Hamer- Queens Park Rangers
Leicester City’s third choice stopper during the 15/16 season, Hamer has forged a reputation as a dependable understudy goalkeeper at Championship level.
It is a role he has held at Huddersfield, Derby, Swansea, Watford and Sheffield Wednesday since leaving the Foxes.
He is now one of several goalkeeping options at Queens Park Rangers, making seven appearances this season.
Danny Simpson- Stretford Paddock FC
Danny Simpson came through the academy at Manchester United, before playing for a further 11 clubs in his professional career.
He now plays for 12th tier Stretford Paddock FC; a club run by the YouTube channel of the same name focused on Simpson’s first club.
He made his debut for the club last month, having previously retired in 2024.
He also took part in a ‘Misfits Boxing Match’ at the 3 Arena in Dublin in 2024, drawing in a bout with YouTuber Danny Aarons.
Ritchie De Laet- Interior Wrapping advisor and ‘Masters of Madness’ Star
An important figure in the first half of the season before a loan move to Middlesbrough, De Laet left Leicester permanently in the summer of 2016.
De Laet ended his career with first club Royal Antwerp. In 2023, he formed part of the squad that won the club’s first league title in 66 years and made it a domestic double with a Belgian Cup victory.
He is an advisor for an interior wrapping company in Belgium and has regularly featured in the ‘Masters of Madness’ football tournament.
Wes Morgan- Kick it Out Board Member and MsC in Sporting Directorship
Wes Morgan lifted the Premier League title for Leicester, having played every minute during the campaign.
He has since gone on to become an influential figure in the game, sitting on boards with the PFA and Kick it Out. He has also achieved an MsC in Sporting Directorship from UCFB.
Morgan has ambitions to use his master’s degree writing: “I now have aspirations to pursue the senior management side in the game,” in his LinkedIn bio.
Leicester City legend Wes Morgan lifts the Premier League trophy in 2016(Image: Getty Images)
Robert Huth- Public Speaker and Pundit
Robert Huth made his loan move from Stoke a permanent one at the beginning of the title winning campaign.
He holds the record for most appearances by a German player in the Premier League and retired with Leicester in 2018.
He has since moved into public speaking as well as sometimes working as a pundit and featuring on podcasts.
Daniel Amartey- Free Agent
The first January reinforcement brought in during that season, Amartey remained at Leicester until 2023.
Upon leaving Leicester he joined Besiktas but left the Turkish giants in acrimonious circumstances.
Besiktas claim Amartey ran away from moves to both Eyupspor and an unnamed Saudi Arabian club.
His contract was terminated in Istanbul as a result in 2024, and he is yet to find a new club.
Marcin Wasilewski- Polish TV Pundit
Wasilewski spent four years at Leicester City, but found his role limited in the club’s title winning campaign.
He retired in 2020, having ended his career with hometown club Wisla Krakow, in a season where the club narrowly avoided relegation from the Ekstraklasa.
He now appears on Polish TV as a pundit, regularly taking part in ViaPlay Poland’s coverage of the Premier League.
Yohan Benalouane- Investor and TED speaker
Benalouane only played a small role in Leicester’s title winning season but has gone on to have a very different career after retirement.
He co-founded investment company Origins Fund in 2024, alongside French World Cup winner Blaise Matuidi. They currently have 22 companies in their investment portfolio.
Benalouane also gave a talk at the TEDxEcolePolytechnique event in Paris in 2024, about lessons that can be taken from sport into business.
Christian Fuchs- Newport County Manager
Christian Fuchs left Leicester in 2021 to join Charlotte FC, having made 152 appearances at the King Power Stadium.
Fuchs had previously stated that he would settle Stateside after his playing career, due to his wife working for Goldman Sachs in New York.
His coaching career began in the US with his final club, before he took his first senior head coach role with League Two strugglers Newport County.
Fuchs has impressed since taking over in South Wales, steering the club away from the relegation zone with four games left to play.
Christian Fuchs of Leicester City kisses the Premier League Trophy (Image: Getty Images)
Danny Drinkwater- Property Developer
Danny Drinkwater is another member of the Leicester title winning squad who has pivoted to a second career away from football.
Drinkwater is now a property developer, raising eyebrows in 2022 when he posted an Instagram story captioned, “on site today.”
He regularly shares updates on property on Instagram but has not given up on football entirely.
He now plays for Wythenshawe FC’s Veterans alongside other former Premier League Stars such as Joleon Lescott, Papiss Cisse and Stephen Ireland.
N’Golo Kante- Fenerbahce
Kante only spent a single season in Leicestershire, but his time at the club was the beginning of the Frenchman forging a reputation as one of the world’s best midfielders.
Kante won the Champions League and Premier League with Chelsea, before moving to Al-Ittihad in 2023. He has made nine appearances for Fenerbahce, since a January 2026 move.
Kante is the vice-captain of France, having earned 67 caps for the national team. Barring injury, he will likely be the elder statesman of Didier Deschamps squad at the World Cup this summer.
Matty James- Wrexham
James played a key role in the great escape under Nigel Pearson, but injury meant he missed the entire title winning campaign.
His Leicester career ended with loan spells at Barnsley and Coventry, before James joined Bristol City permanently in 2021.
He now plays for Wrexham, having been an integral part of the club’s promotion from League One. He has made 31 appearances in North Wales this season, despite missing two months of the season with a toe injury.
Andy King- Leicester City first team coach
A Leicester City legend, King spent 16 years at Leicester having joined the club’s academy following his release by Chelsea.
King spent a few years away from Leicester at the end of his playing career but rejoined the club as U18 Head Coach in 2024.
He was promoted to the first-team staff under Ruud Van Nistelrooy before twice stepping into the top job on a caretaker basis this season.
He managed four games as caretaker manager in January and February, before the appointment of current boss Gary Rowett.
Gokhan Inler- Udinese Technical Director
Inler’s only season at Leicester City was the 15/16 season, in which he made five appearances.
He had four different spells at Turkish clubs after leaving the Foxes, twice playing for Besiktas either side of stints at Istanbul Basaksehir and Adana Demirspor.
In 2024, he rejoined former club Udinese as technical director.
Jeffrey Schlupp- Norwich City
Utility man Schlupp has earned a reputation throughout his career for incredible versatility.
He has mainly featured as left-back since leaving Leicester in spells at Crystal Palace, Celtic and current club Norwich City.
The 33-year-old has endured an injury hit campaign in Norfolk, limiting him to only nine appearances this season.
Riyad Mahrez- Al Ahli
The man plucked from Ligue 2 Le Havre, Mahrez scored 17 goals and made 11 assists during that famous campaign.
His move to Manchester City remains Leicester’s third largest ever sale behind only Harry Maguire and Wesley Fofana.
He won 10 major honours during his time at Man City, before a move to the Saudi Pro League with Al-Ahli in 2023. He won the AFC Champions League with the Jeddah based club last season.
Mahrez remains Algeria’s star man and will lead his country out at their first World Cup since 2014 this summer.
Riyad Mahrez enjoyed a successful four-year spell with the Foxes. (Photo by Plumb Images/Leicester City FC via Getty Images)
Marc Albrighton- Marc Albrighton Centre of Development
The foil for Riyad Mahrez on the opposite flank, Albrighton brought the curtain down on 10 years at the King Power Stadium in 2024.
In his final season at the club, Albrighton won the Championship title under Enzo Maresca, as one of only two men to feature in both that team and the Premier League title winning side.
Albrighton founded the Marc Albrighton Centre of Development in 2015, to give children an opportunity to get into football in his hometown of Tamworth.
He has since dedicated more time to that post-retirement, undertaken some punditry work and featured in several charity matches.
Demarai Gray- Birmingham City
Leicester triggered the £3.7 million release clause in Gray’s Birmingham City contract in January 2016, and he made 12 appearances before the end of his debut campaign.
He left Leicester in 2021, joining Bayer Leverkusen. Gray would return to England only a year later with Everton, before a move to Steven Gerrard’s Al Ettifaq in Saudi Arabia.
Gray left the Saudi club at the end of last season, returning to boyhood club Birmingham City. He has made 23 appearances so far this season, scoring five goals.
Nathan Dyer- Football Agent
Dyer spent a single season on loan at the King Power Stadium, scoring a solitary goal in 12 appearances.
He spent 11 years of his career at Swansea City, after being reintegrated to the squad in South Wales following his single season in Leicestershire.
Dyer now works as a football agent, with CAA Stellar. He represents several players associated with his former club, including Coventry City captain Matt Grimes.
Jamie Vardy- Cremonese
Arguably Leicester’s greatest ever player, the Jamie Vardy story is one of the most iconic in English football.
He left The Foxes in 2025, as the club’s third highest ever goalscorer having managed 200 goals in 500 appearances, including nine in the Premier League last season.
He joined newly promoted Serie A side Cremonese last summer and has scored five goals as the club battle against relegation.
The Lombardy based outfit currently sit 17th in Serie A, level on points with the drop.
Shinji Okazaki- FC Basara Mainz manager
Often painted as the unsung hero of that famous campaign, Okazaki may have only scored five goals in 15/16, but he was one of the club’s best performers.
He ended his career with Japanese owned Belgian club Sint-Truiden in 2024. He has since moved into management with German sixth tier side FC Basara Mainz.
Okazaki founded the club in 2014 in the town of his former club, and they look to give footballing opportunities to Japanese people in Germany.
Andrej Kramaric- TSG Hoffenheim
Kramaric arrived in Leicester with a big reputation in 2015, having scored 37 goals in 42 games for Rijeka in his native Croatia.
He failed to settle at the King Power Stadium, making only 15 appearances before joining German side Hoffenheim.
Kramaric has gone on to become a legend at the Rhein-Neckar-Arena scoring 154 goals, to lead the club’s all-time scoring charts. He is now into his 11th season with the club.
He is also still a Croatia international, earning 114 caps, including an appearance in the 2018 World Cup final.
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Leonardo Ulloa- Dessert Company
Leonardo Ulloa was another who scored key goals throughout Leicester’s title winning campaign, notching six times in 29 appearances.
He returned to former club Brighton on loan from Leicester in 2018, before spells at Pachuca and Rayo Vallecano.
Since retirement in 2021, Ulloa has moved into the world of confectionery in his adopted home Madrid. He has worked for Sweet Monkey since 2023, a company that manufactures desserts and sweets.
Joe Dodoo- Alfreton Town
Dodoo’s hattrick against Bury in the league cup earned him a solitary Premier League appearance in the Foxes victorious campaign.
He has enjoyed a nomadic career, with spells at Rangers, Bolton and Doncaster alongside a host of other clubs after leaving Leicester.
He signed for Alfreton Town at the beginning of this season making 23 appearances in the National League North so far this season.
During an 814-day spell without a club, Dodoo launched a YouTube channel called “Train Elite Football.”
Claudio Ranieri- Senior Advisor at Roma
The man who made it all happen for Leicester, Ranieri will forever be adored at the King Power Stadium.
At 74, Ranieri is still working in football, with a senior advisory role at Roma. He has transitioned into this role having ended his third spell as head coach at his hometown club last season.
Ranieri reportedly turned down the opportunity to become head coach of the Italian national team in June 2025, choosing to remain at Roma in his advisory role.
Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha and Craig Shakespeare
The final words of this article must go to Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha and Craig Shakespeare.
Both Khun Vichai and Shakespeare have sadly passed away but their contributions to that incredible campaign will never be forgotten by anybody associated with Leicester City.