Leicester City 5-1 Doncaster Rovers: result and report

Championship · Saturday 11 December 2010

Result

Leicester City 5-1 Doncaster Rovers

Championship · Saturday 11 December 2010, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-1

Leicester City · Doncaster Rovers · Championship predictions

Leicester City 5-1 Doncaster Rovers: match report

Leicester City defeated Doncaster Rovers 5-1 in the Championship on Saturday 11 December 2010. It was 1-1 at half-time.

Billy Sharp opened the scoring in the 6th minute. Leicester City's goals came from Paul Gallagher (45', penalty), Richie Wellens (61'), Kyle Naughton (69'), Darius Vassell (75') and Martyn Waghorn (90+4'). Doncaster Rovers scored through Billy Sharp (6').

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

Going into the game Leicester City were 14th on 26 points from 20 and Doncaster Rovers 12th on 27 points from 19. Leicester City went on to finish that season 8th with 68 points, and Doncaster Rovers 21st with 48.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Leicester City win, 1 draw and 0 for Doncaster Rovers.

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 6'Goal · Billy SharpDoncaster Rovers · 0-1
  • 45'Penalty goal · Paul GallagherLeicester City · 1-1
  • 55'Yellow card · Wayne ThomasDoncaster Rovers
  • 61'Goal · Richie WellensLeicester City · 2-1
  • 69'Goal · Kyle NaughtonLeicester City · 3-1
  • 75'Goal · Darius VassellLeicester City · 4-1
  • 90+4'Goal · Martyn WaghornLeicester City · 5-1

Head-to-head

2 meetings: Leicester City 1, draws 1, Doncaster Rovers 0.

Team news

Leicester City line-up

Chris Weale, Miguel Vítor, Kyle Naughton, Curtis Davies, G. Cunningham, Paul Gallagher, Andy King, Darius Vassell, Roman Bednar, Richard Wellens, Yuki Abe

Doncaster Rovers line-up

Neil Sullivan, Shelton Martis, Wayne Thomas, Sam Hird, John Oster, James Coppinger, Patrick McCarthy, James Hayter, James O'Connor, Brian Stock, David Healy