After two ascents, two descents, but above all one championship title is over: Jamie Vardy no longer goes to the second English league with Leicester City. The striker, who in the 2015/16 season he was playing the club for 13 years, shot to the Premier League champion, announced his farewell, but wants to continue his career.
In a video that Vardy spread on Thursday (April 24, 2025) on his channels on social media, he announced the decision. “I was here for so long that I really thought it would never end”said Vardy in the clip, which shows many of the most beautiful moments from more than a decade at Leicester. “This is a very difficult decision for me because Leicester has become a second home for me.
In the 2013/14 season, Vardy led the club to the Premier League with 16 goals and ten assists, two years later he became top scorer with 24 goals – and ensured that Leicester was one of the title wearers of the English top league. The stars at the time like N’Golo Kantè or Riyad Mahrez all went in the following years, Vardy has remained. Now he still wants to have new experiences at the age of 38.
Vardy says goodbye after his second Leicester descent
“Nine years ago we did the impossible and won the Premier League. We triumphed in the FA Cup and came to the quarter -finals of the Champions League – these are memories that will last all my life”Vardy said in the two -minute video. The former striker thanked teammates, trainers, responsible, employees and fans – but also apologized.
“You took me to my heart and inspired me to be the best version of myself”so Vardy. “But what I regret and why I am really dismayed is that I don’t say goodbye to you after a better season. I didn’t want to end my career here.” With only 18 points from 33 games, Leicester has been the second relegated team after FC Southampton since last weekend.
Jamie Vardy: “This is not my career end”
It is the second time that Vardy does not pack the relegation in the Premier League with the club. Two years ago, his team suffered from his crisis that Leicester had no chance. Vardy scored three goals at the time, so far there are only seven in this season-apart from that, he has always scored at least 13 goals in the league since the 2013/14 season, three times he even cracked the 20 goal mark.
Vardy scored 198 times for Leicester in 496 competitive games. In the case of five outstanding games, the club legend will probably break through the 500-game sound wall, and it will above all give everything you can to do the 200 goals. And then? “This is not my end of my career yet, I want to continue what I love, and I still have the ambition to achieve a lot”said Vardy. But no longer in Leicester.