Leicester City's grieving players will take to the field for the first time since the death of the club's owner in a helicopter crash when they visit Cardiff City for a Premier League game on Saturday.

The two teams said Tuesday the match will go ahead as planned in the Welsh capital, with a minute's silence before kick-off and players wearing black armbands as a mark of respect for Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha and four other people who were killed.

Leicester's players have been visibly affected by the incident and have spent Monday and Tuesday attending commemorative events to pay tribute to Srivaddhanaprabha - the club's popular Thai chairman whose helicopter left the King Power Stadium after a Premier League game against West Ham on Saturday and crashed moments later.

Leicester's English League Cup match against Southampton, scheduled for Tuesday, had been cancelled, while games involving the club's women's team were also called off in wake of the crash.

Leicester opened a book of condolence inside a specially erected marquee in memory of Srivaddhanaprabha on Tuesday, as more supporters and people from the wider community arrived at the stadium to pay their respects.

Foxes striker Jamie Vardy and his wife, Rebekah, wept as they placed a wreath among an ever-growing shrine.

Leicester goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel was in tears as floral tributes were laid inside and outside the King Power Stadium on Monday.

Former club managers Claudio Ranieri and Nigel Pearson joined the voices of condolence.

"I was terribly shaken by the news. He was a good man and always had a positive word for everyone. His positivity and ability to make everybody love him was clear for all to see," Ranieri, who led Leicester to the EPL title in 2016, told Sky Sport Italia.

Pearson, credited with saving Leicester from relegation in 2015 before he was sacked after disagreements with the board, said Srivaddhanaprabha's "quiet yet authoritative aura, presence and personality have had an immeasurable influence on English football."