Doncaster Rovers 2-1 Leicester City: result and report

Championship · Saturday 17 December 2011

Result

Doncaster Rovers 2-1 Leicester City

Championship · Saturday 17 December 2011, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-1

Doncaster Rovers · Leicester City · Championship predictions

Doncaster Rovers 2-1 Leicester City: match report

Doncaster Rovers won against Leicester City 2-1 in the Championship on Saturday 17 December 2011. The half-time score was 0-1.

David Nugent opened the scoring in the 38th minute. Doncaster Rovers's goals came from Billy Sharp (63') and Billy Sharp (66'). Leicester City scored through David Nugent (38').

Discipline: Doncaster Rovers received no yellow cards; Leicester City received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Doncaster Rovers were 23rd on 16 points from 21 and Leicester City 9th on 30 points from 21. Doncaster Rovers went on to finish that season 24th with 36 points, and Leicester City 9th with 66.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Doncaster Rovers wins, 2 draws and 2 for Leicester City.

Going into the match Doncaster Rovers's last five read L-W-L-D-L and Leicester City's D-L-W-D-W.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 38'Goal · David NugentLeicester City · 0-1
  • 63'Goal · Billy SharpDoncaster Rovers · 1-1
  • 66'Goal · Billy SharpDoncaster Rovers · 2-1
  • 73'Yellow card · Steve HowardLeicester City

Head-to-head

4 meetings: Doncaster Rovers 0, draws 2, Leicester City 2.

Team news

Doncaster Rovers line-up

Gary Woods, Sam Hird, Hérita N'Kongolo Ilunga, Simon Gillett, James Coppinger, Patrick McCarthy, Giles Barnes, Marc-Antoine Fortune, James O'Connor, Brian Stock, Habib Beye

Leicester City line-up

Kasper Schmeichel, Lee Peltier, Paul Konchesky, Paul Gallagher, Andy King, Lloyd Dyer, Steve Howard, David Nugent, Sol Bamba, Sean St. Ledger, Richard Wellens