Ask any Manchester United fan, a lot can happen in 90 seconds. Liverpool fans will say the same about a six-minute span. Imagine the highs and lows that a football club sees over a decade.

For Leicester City, that roller coaster was reality from 2013-2023. To understand where the Foxes are entering the 2023-24 season, it’s worth a look back at what the club has been through the last 10 years.

The look back starts in May 2013, when Leicester won the final match of the Championship’s regular season to confirm a berth in the promotion playoffs. They went toe-to-toe with Watford through 180 minutes, and appeared to be headed toward extra time and penalties for a spot in “the richest game in football,” only for chaos to ensue.

A result like that could be devastating for a club long-term, but Leicester were quick to respond the following season, winning the Championship and earning automatic promotion to the Premier League in 2014. Their first season back in the top flight was predictably filled with struggles, but wins in seven of the last nine matches saw them avoid relegation, although the club would part ways with manager Nigel Pearson in the summer.

New manager Claudio Ranieri had his work cut out for him as the 2015-16 season, with the Foxes pegged among the relegation favorites. Their odds of winning the Premier League were 5,000/1, but one of the great underdog stories in sports history received its fitting ending as Leicester ended the season as champions of England. The actual title-winning moment may have been anti-climactic, with a Chelsea-Spurs draw being the result that officially secured the title, but Leicester proved their mettle over the course of the campaign, especially with the performances of Jamie Vardy and Riyad Mahrez.

The fairytale continued into 2016-17; Leicester won their Champions League group, and ultimately reached the quarterfinals. More top-half finishes in the league would follow, along with an FA Cup victory in 2021. But despite the ultimate highs from 2015 through 2017, the Foxes couldn’t quite make a second trip to Europe’s top club competition.

Then came 2022-23, of which the Premier League portion started with a draw, but was then followed by six straight losses. The team would recover to be in the middle of the table by the World Cup break, but was never higher than 13th as the results kept going south. Manager Brendan Rodgers was sacked in April, with Dean Smith brought in to keep the club from going down. Leicester entered Matchday 38 with a chance of survival, but Everton’s win over Bournemouth confirmed the Foxes would be headed back to the Championship after nine seasons.

So Leicester City now begins a new season Sunday in the second tier of the English system, with the main goal being promotion. Historically, some clubs have shown great resolve to regain Premier League status after only one year away. The task is now Leicester’s to see if they’ll join that category, and if another eventful decade awaits them.