Is This The Greatest Of The Unlikely Championship Winners Ever?

Leicester City win the Premier League: their remarkable title by the numbers

2. Leicester City was a 5,000-1 long shot to win the Premier League before this season. Those are the same odds you could have gotten on 15-seed Cal State Bakersfield to win this year's NCAA tournament. English bookmaker William Hill would give you 5,000-1 odds that Elvis Presley will be found alive. By comparison, the longest preseason odds to win this year's World Series were 500-1 (Philadelphia Phillies, Atlanta Braves), and the longest odds to win next season's Super Bowl are 200-1 (Cleveland Browns).

3. Leicester City paid around $80 million in transfer fees for its entire squad, over $500 million less than Manchester City paid for its current team. City paid $84 million for midfielder Kevin De Bruyne alone in the summer of 2015.

• Since Blackburn won the Premier League in 1994-95, Leicester are the only team to win besides Arsenal, Chelsea, Man City and Man United.

• According to a story published by Bloomberg on April 28, a William Hill spokesman said Leicester City's title will cost the bookmaker nearly $3 million and may cost bookmakers nearly $15 million across the U.K. He also said that, going forward, William Hill will no longer offer title odds higher than 1,000-1. (Darren Rovell has since assessed the bookies' losses at around $11.4 million.)

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Did You Know - Leicester City Football Club

10 things to know about Leicester City -- and the city of Leicester

Started from the bottom, now they're here

• There are many reasons why Leicester City's rise to the top of Premier League table is so improbable. But paramount among them: The team wasn't even in the Premier League two years ago and was in danger of being relegated back to the Football League Championship, the second-tier league in the English soccer system. Just seven years ago, the Foxes were in Football League One, the third-tier league. The Foxes were dead-last in the Premier League last season for 4 1/2 months between late-November and mid-April, including a 13-game winless streak, which was the longest in the league. They staved off relegation by winning seven of their last nine matches, but no one saw that as a sign of things to come. If anything, most pundits had them fighting off relegation again this season.

Where in the world is Leicester?

Well, first of all, if you're talking about the city and not the football club, Leicester is a city in the East Midlands of England and the county town of Leicestershire. The East Midlands region of England consists of Leicestershire, Derbyshire, Northamtonshire, Nottinghamshire, Rutland and most of Lincolnshire. If none of that makes much sense to you, it's a 100-mile drive north on the M1 motorway if you're in London, or you could hop on the East Midlands Train from London and get there in a little over an hour. Leicester has a population of about 330,000, which would put it on par with Corpus Christi, Texas, or Riverside, California. Leicester, which was known for its hosiery factories in the 19th century, was a finalist for the UK City of Culture Award in 2013 but lost to Kingston upon Hull.

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