Leicester City roundup: top-flight absence and the question over Martin

Leicester's standing: outside the top flight

Leicester City are conspicuous by their absence from this season's Premier League table. According to the current standings, the Foxes are not among the 20 clubs making up the top flight, and their campaign is instead unfolding in the EFL — where the early weeks have already made for painful reading.

BBC Sport's EFL takeaways column, written by Aaron McLean and published on Saturday evening, was headlined Foxes pain and Burnley suffer hangover. The detail sits in the column itself, but the framing is clear: Leicester's start has been grim enough to lead the national EFL roundup.

The Martin question

Attention has already turned to the dugout. A separate BBC Sport article, published earlier on Saturday evening, carried this headline:

"'That's a sackable performance' - what next for Martin at Leicester?" — BBC Sport, 5 September 2026

FanTribe has not independently verified the reporting behind the piece, and no decision over Martin's future has been confirmed by the club. What is beyond dispute is the temperature of the national coverage, which is now openly asking what comes next for Martin and describing at least one performance in sackable terms.

The view from the top flight

The division the Foxes are missing from is taking shape without them. According to the Premier League table, Manchester City sit top with six points from two wins, Arsenal are second, also on six, and Hull City — level on points at this early stage — third. The same table lists Coventry City and Ipswich Town among its 20 clubs: a top-flight landscape that, for now, has no place in it for Leicester.

Fan sentiment

FanTribe's own club tracker currently registers zero Leicester City fans on the platform — a striking number for a club of this size, and a gap the Blue Army can close. With scrutiny intensifying around the club, there has rarely been a better moment for Foxes supporters to add their voices to our community data.

The tone of the outside coverage suggests those voices would not be cheerful ones. When the BBC leads its EFL roundup with "Foxes pain" and pairs it with a question about Martin's future, it points to a supporter base with plenty to get off its chest.

What comes next

The weeks ahead will be defined by how Leicester respond on the pitch. The BBC's questions about Martin will be answered either by results that quieten them or by events at the club that pre-empt them — and, on the evidence of Saturday's coverage, neither outcome can be discounted.

For now the facts are simple: Leicester are absent from the Premier League table, the national coverage of their season has been bleak, and their FanTribe fan count stands at zero, waiting to be built.