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During the 1983–84 English football season, Leicester City F.C. competed in the Football League First Division.

Season summary

In the 1983–84 season, Leicester had a poor start with six successive league defeats which represented the Foxes' worst start to a season and labelled them as early relegation favourites. After going out of the League Cup though, their form picked up with only 2 defeats in their next 15 league games from the end of October until the end of January. Their relegation worries were formally avoided when Leicester beat Nottingham Forest 2-1 at Filbert Street on 5 May with 2 games to spare and the Foxes finished the season in a fairly comfortable 15th place.

Final league table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
13	Sunderland	42	13	13	16	42	53	−11	52
14	Norwich City	42	12	15	15	48	49	−1	51
15	Leicester City	42	13	12	17	65	68	−3	51
16	Luton Town	42	14	9	19	53	66	−13	51
17	West Bromwich Albion	42	14	9	19	48	62	−14	51

Source: World Football
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored

Results

Leicester City's score comes first^[1]

Legend

Win	Draw	Loss

Football League First Division

Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
27 August 1983	Notts County	H	0–4	14,838
31 August 1983	Luton Town	H	0–3	11,929
3 September 1983	West Bromwich Albion	A	0–1	12,016
6 September 1983	West Ham United	A	1–3	22,131	Lineker
10 September 1983	Tottenham Hotspur	H	0–3	15,886
17 September 1983	Coventry City	A	1–2	12,377	Lineker
24 September 1983	Stoke City	H	2–2	10,215	Jones, Lineker
1 October 1983	Birmingham City	A	1–2	15,212	Lineker
19 October 1983	Norwich City	A	1–3	13,780	Eastoe
22 October 1983	Ipswich Town	A	0–0	14,944
29 October 1983	Everton	H	2–0	10,953	A Smith, Ramsey
5 November 1983	Watford	A	3–3	15,807	Lynex (2, 1 pen), Banks
12 November 1983	Manchester United	H	1–1	24,409	Lynex
19 November 1983	Aston Villa	A	1–3	19,024	Lynex (pen)
26 November 1983	Arsenal	H	3–0	14,777	Lineker, Lynex, A Smith
30 November 1983	Southampton	H	2–1	14,181	A Smith, Lineker
4 December 1983	Nottingham Forest	A	2–3	23,248	Jones, A Smith
10 December 1983	Wolverhampton Wanderers	H	5–1	10,969	Lineker, A Smith (3), Lynex
18 December 1983	Sunderland	A	1–1	16,993	Hazell
26 December 1983	Queens Park Rangers	H	2–1	17,460	Lineker, Lynex
27 December 1983	Liverpool	A	2–2	33,664	A Smith, Banks
31 December 1983	West Bromwich Albion	H	1–1	15,128	Lynex (pen)
2 January 1984	Stoke City	A	1–0	13,728	A Smith
14 January 1984	Notts County	A	5–2	10,607	MacDonald, Lineker (3), Peake
21 January 1984	Coventry City	H	1–1	16,262	Lineker
4 February 1984	Birmingham City	H	2–3	13,770	A Smith (2)
11 February 1984	Tottenham Hotspur	A	2–3	28,410	Lineker (2)
25 February 1984	Ipswich Town	H	2–0	11,399	A Smith, O'Neill
3 March 1984	Watford	H	4–1	13,295	Peake (2), Lineker, A Smith
10 March 1984	Manchester United	A	0–2	39,473
17 March 1984	West Ham United	H	4–1	13,533	Hazell, Lynex (2, 1 pen), Lineker
20 March 1984	Everton	A	1–1	15,142	Lineker
24 March 1984	Luton Town	A	0–0	10,509
31 March 1984	Norwich City	H	2–1	11,278	A Smith (2)
7 April 1984	Southampton	A	2–2	17,455	Lineker (2)
14 April 1984	Aston Villa	H	2–0	13,366	O'Neill, Banks
18 April 1984	Liverpool	H	3–3	26,553	Peake, Lynex, Lineker
21 April 1984	Queens Park Rangers	A	0–2	12,360
28 April 1984	Arsenal	A	1–2	24,143	Lineker
5 May 1984	Nottingham Forest	H	2–1	16,600	Lynex, Lineker
7 May 1984	Wolverhampton Wanderers	A	0–1	7,405
12 May 1984	Sunderland	H	0–2	12,627

FA Cup


Round	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Goalscorers
R3	7 January 1984	Crystal Palace	A	0–1	11,497

League Cup


Round	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Goalscorers
R2 1st leg	5 October 1983	Chelsea	H	0–2	7,798
R2 2nd leg	25 October 1983	Chelsea	A	2–0 (lost 3-4 on pens)	15,666	A Smith, English

Squad

[1] Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
-	GK	ENG	Mark Wallington
-	MF	NIR	Paul Ramsey
-	DF	SCO	Bobby Smith
-	MF	SCO	Kevin MacDonald
-	MF	ENG	Ian Banks
-	DF	ENG	Larry May
-	DF	NIR	John O'Neill
-	MF	ENG	Steve Lynex
-	FW	ENG	Gary Lineker
-	FW	ENG	Alan Smith
-	FW	ENG	Robbie Jones


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
-	MF	SCO	Ian Wilson
-	MF	ENG	Andy Peake
-	DF	SCO	David Rennie
-	FW	ENG	Tommy English
-	GK	ENG	Mark Grew
-	DF	SCO	Tommy Williams
-	DF	ENG	Bob Hazell
-	FW	ENG	Peter Eastoe (on loan from West Brom)
-	DF	ENG	Andy Feeley
-	GK	ENG	Ian Andrews
-	MF	ENG	Rob Kelly

References

^ "Leicester City results for the 1983-1984 season - Statto.com". Archived from the original on 27 November 2015. Retrieved 13 August 2012.

[1] "Leicester City results for the 1983-1984 season - Statto.com". Archived from the original on 27 November 2015. Retrieved 13 August 2012.

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