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Leicester City was honored for their scarcely believable 2015/16 season by winning Team of the Year at the 2016 BBC Sports Personality of the Year awards.
#SPOTY Team of the Year pic.twitter.com/93LVGHebME
— Leicester City (@LCFC) December 18, 2016
As we all know, the Foxes defied all expectations and stormed their way to the Premier League title, winning the league by a robust 10 points. Needless to say, they were deserving winners of the award.
Wes Morgan accepted the award and spoke for the team.
"It’s a huge honour to receive this award. What we achieved was absolutely incredible. No one thought we could."
"It was something that people thought was impossible but we proved it was possible."
"I want to thank everyone behind the scenes at Leicester. A big thank you to our fans too for their loyal support."
Sir Claudio Ranieri was also honored at the awards, winning Coach of the Year.
The 2016 BBC #SPOTY Coach of the Year, everyone! pic.twitter.com/ZgUZ7IGdv8
— Leicester City (@LCFC) December 18, 2016
"It’s fantastic to take this award here in England. I can say only again thank you to my players, the chairman and my staff."
"Of course, without our fans, it was impossible to win the title. Thank you to everybody!" - Claudio Ranieri, gracious as ever in his acceptance of the award
Lastly, Jamie Vardy was a finalist for Sports Personality of the Year, but lost out to tennis star Andy Murray.
To celebrate, please enjoy these pictures and tweets of the team soaking in the awards ceremony atmosphere.
Team of the year #SPOTY @LCFC pic.twitter.com/B4mV8ogiP5
— Christian Fuchs (@FuchsOfficial) December 18, 2016
Massive achievement congratulations to the team #SPOTY pic.twitter.com/BUWxgIeMKU
— Wes Morgan (@Wes5L1nk) December 18, 2016
Great achievement for everyone involved in leicester. Had a great night at #spoty #lcfc pic.twitter.com/fxaf1Vvxwv
— Ben Chilwell (@BenChilwell) December 18, 2016
Amazing night at the #spoty awards. Congratulations to everyone nominated, the boss and @vardy7 it's a great honour to be part of this team
— Danny Simpson (@dannysimpson) December 18, 2016
Thanks to everyone involved with @LCFC for helping us to win #SPOTY team of the year.. it's been one to remember pic.twitter.com/TXvDRKCnSg
— Andy King (@10_kingy) December 18, 2016
Proud to be part of the team of the year. An honour to meet the legend & one of the greatest athletes of all time @MichaelPhelps #SPOTY pic.twitter.com/PQxq5LqpMJ
— Kasper Schmeichel (@kschmeichel1) December 18, 2016
Congratulations, Foxes! You deserve all this and more.