The King Power Stadium is a football stadium which hosts home matches of English football club Leicester City. The all-seater stadium, inaugurated in July 2002, holds 32,262 and has the 19th largest stadium capacity in England. The stadium is named after King Power, a company owned by club owner Vichai Raksriaksorn. Prior to this it was known as the Walkers Stadium, through a sponsorship deal with Walkers Crisps.
Read more about King Power Stadium: Naming
Famous quotes containing the words king, power and/or stadium:
“The King himself is to be feared as the lion.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Without the power of the Industrial Union behind it, Democracy can only enter the State as the victim enters the gullet of the Serpent.”
—James Connolly (1870–1916)
“It’s no accident that of all the monuments left of the Greco- Roman culture the biggest is the ballpark, the Colosseum, the Yankee Stadium of ancient times.”
—Walter Wellesley (Red)