List of Stoke City F.C. records and statistics

Below are statistics and records related to Stoke City Football Club. Stoke City F.C. is an English association football club based in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. The club was formed in 1863 as Stoke Ramblers F.C., and played their first competitive match in November 1883, when they entered the First Round of the 1883–84 FA Cup they. In 1888 They joined the inaugural Football League thus becoming founding members. The club was renamed Stoke City F.C. in 1925, and they moved to Britannia Stadium in 1997.

Statistics correct as of match played 30 October 2011.

Honours

League

Football League Championship

Runners-up: 2007–08

Football League Second Division: 3

Champions: 1932–33, 1962–63, 1992–93
Runners-up: 1921–22
Third Place: (Promoted) 1978–79
Play-off Winners: 2001–02

Football League Third Division North: 1

Champions: 1926–27

Football Alliance: 1

Champions: 1890–91

Birmingham & District League: 1

Champions: 1910–11

Southern League Division Two: 2

Champions:1909–10, 1914–15
Runners-up: 1910–11

The Central League (Reserves): 3

Champions: 1927–28, 2003–04
Division Two Champions: 1991–92

United Soccer Association (as Cleveland Stokers)

Runners-up: 1967 (Eastern Division)

Cups

FA Cup

Runners-up: 2010–11
Semi-finalists: 1898–99, 1970–71 (3rd place), 1971–72 (4th place)

League Cup: 1

Winners: 1971–72
Runners-up: 1963–64

Football League Trophy: 2

Winners: 1992, 2000

Watney Cup: 1

Winners: 1973

Staffordshire Senior Cup: 13

Winners: 1878, 1879, 1904 (Shared), 1914, 1965, 1969 (Shared), 1971, 1975, 1976, 1982, 1993, 1995, 1999
Runners-up: 1883, 1886, 1895, 1901, 1903, 2003, 2006, 2011

Birmingham Senior Cup: 2

Winners: 1901, 1914
Runners-up: 1910, 1915, 1920, 1921

Isle of Man Trophy: 3

Winners: 1987, 1991, 1992
Runners-up: 1985

Bass Charity Vase: 5

Winners: 1980, 1991, 1992, 1995, 1998
Runners-up: 1890, 1894, 1990, 1996

FA Youth Cup

Runners-up: 1983–84

Player records

Appearances

Most appearances in total (League & Cup) – 592 Eric Skeels (1959–76)
Most League appearances – 507 Eric Skeels (1959–76)
Most appearances in total (Including war-time) – 675 John McCue (1940–60)
Most Consecutive Appearances – 148 Tony Allen (1960–63)
Youngest Player – Peter Bullock 16 years, 163 days v Swansea City 19 April 1958
Oldest Player – Stanley Matthews 50 years, 5 days v Fulham 6 February 1965
First Substitute – Keith Bebbington in 1965 who replaced Dennis Viollet
Most Substitute Appearances For The Club – 60 Karl Henry (2001–06)

Top 20 most appearances

#	Name	Apps	Years
1	Eric Skeels	592	1959–1976
2	John McCue	542	1946–1960
3	Bob McGrory	511	1921–1935
4	Denis Smith	482	1968–1982
5	Peter Fox	477	1978–1993
6	Alan Bloor	474	1961–1977
7	Tony Allen	473	1957–1970
8	Frank Bowyer	436	1937–1960
9	John Marsh	433	1967–1979
10	Frank Mountford	425	1946–1957
11	Alan Dood	416	1972–1982
12	John Sellars	413	1946–1958
13	Harry Davies	410	1922–1937
14	Harry Sellars	394	1923–1935
15	Peter Dobing	372	1963–1973
16	Stanley Matthews	355	1932–1965
17	William Spencer	354	1926–1936
18	Harry Oscroft	349	1950–1959
19	John Ritchie	343	1962–1975
20	Bill Asprey	341	1954–1965

Goalscoring

Leading Goalscorer (League & Cup) – 171 John Ritchie (1963–75)
Leading Goalscorer (League only) – 140 Freddie Steele (1934–49)
Leading Goalscorer (Including war-time) – 282 Tommy Sale (1930–47)
Leading Goalscorer (FA Cup) – 19 Freddie Steele
Leading Goalscorer (League Cup) – 18 John Ritchie
Most Goals In a Season – 38 Charlie Wilson & Arthur Griffiths
Most Goals In a Season (League only) – 33 Freddie Steele
Most Goals In a single match – 7 Neville Coleman v Lincoln City 23 February 1957
Most matches Scored In Consecutively – 7 (7 Goals) Mike Sheron

Top 20 overall goalscorers

#	Name	Goals	Years
1	John Ritchie	171	1963–1975
2	Freddie Steele	159	1933–1949
3	Frank Bowyer	149	1937–1960
4	Charlie Wilson	118	1925–1930
5	Johnny King	113	1953–1961
6	Harry Oscroft	107	1950–1959
7=	Harry Davies	101	1950–1959
7=	Tommy Sale	101	1930–1946
8	Jimmy Greenhoff	97	1969–1976
9=	Peter Dobing	94	1963–1973
9=	Joe Schofield	94	1891–1899
10	William Maxwell	84	1895–1900
11	Peter Thorne	80	1997–2001
12	Harry Burrows	79	1965–1974
13=	Alf Smith	72	1903–1915
13=	Mark Stein	72	1992–1997
14	Jimmy Broad	67	1921–1924
15=	Terry Conroy	66	1967–1979
15=	Dennis Viollet	66	1962–1967
16	Robert Liddle	64	1928–1938
17=	Stanley Matthews	62	1932–1965
17=	William Smith	62	1909–1913
18	Wayne Biggins	59	1989–1994
19	Joe Johnson	57	1931–1937
20	Amos Baddeley	56	1907–1913

Internationals

Most capped player – 37 Gordon Banks
First player to be capped – Edward Johnson for England 1880
First Scottish player to be capped – Tommy Hyslop 1896
First Welsh player to be capped – Mart Watkins 1902
First Irish player to be capped – James Sheridan 1905

Transfers

Record transfer fee paid – £10 million to Tottenham Hotspur for Peter Crouch August 2011
Record transfer fee received – £4.5 million from VfL Wolfsburg for Tuncay Şanlı January 2011

Progression of record fee paid

Date	Player	Bought from	Fee
August 1966	Jimmy Greenhoff	Birmingham City	£100,000
January 1974	Alan Hudson	Chelsea	£240,000
November 1974	Peter Shilton	Leicester City	£325,000
February 1982	Sammy McIlroy	Manchester United	£350,000
July 1989	Ian Cranson	Sheffield Wednesday	£450,000
December 1999	Brynjar Gunnarsson	Örgryte IS	£600,000
August 2005	Sambégou Bangoura	Standard Liège	£900,000^[1]
January 2008	Ryan Shawcross	Manchester United	£1,000,000^[2]
January 2008	Leon Cort	Crystal Palace	£1,200,000^[3]
August 2008	Dave Kitson	Reading	£5,500,000^[4]
August 2009	Robert Huth	Middlesbrough	£6,000,000^[5]
August 2010	Kenwyne Jones	Sunderland	£8,000,000^[6]
August 2011	Peter Crouch	Tottenham Hotspur	£10,000,000^[7]

Progression of record fee received

Date	Player	Sold to	Fee
November 1966	John Ritchie	Sheffield Wednesday	£70,000
May 1972	Mike Bernard	Everton	£120,000
December 1975	Alan Hudson	Arsenal	£225,000
September 1977	Peter Shilton	Nottingham Forest	£250,000
July 1980	Garth Crooks	Tottenham Hotspur	£600,000
July 1982	Adrian Heath	Everton	£700,000
October 1989	Peter Beagrie	Everton	£750,000
November 1993	Mark Stein	Chelsea	£1,500,000
July 1997	Mike Sheron	Queens Park Rangers	£2,750,000
August 2009	Seyi Olofinjana	Hull City	£3,000,000^[8]
January 2011	Tuncay Şanlı	VfL Wolfsburg	£4,500,000^[9]

Managerial records

First full-time manager: Thomas Slaney who was in charge for nine years (1874 to 1883)
Longest serving manager: Tony Waddington 17 years (764 matches) (June 1960 to March 1977)

Team records

Matches

First recorded match: Stoke Ramblers 1–1 E.W Mays XV, Friendly, 17 October 1868
First match at the Victoria Ground: Stoke 2–1 Talke Rangers, Friendly, 28 March 1878
First FA Cup match: Stoke 1–2 Manchester, First Round, 10 November 1883
First Football League match: Stoke 0–2 West Bromwich Albion, 8 September 1888
First League Cup match: Stoke City 1–3 Doncaster Rovers, Second Round, 18 October 1960
First European match: Stoke City 3–1 Kaiserslautern, First Round, 13 September 1972
Last match at Victoria Ground: Stoke City 2–1 West Bromwich Albion, Division One, 4 May 1997
First match at the Britannia Stadium: Stoke City 1–1 Rochdale, League Cup, 1st Round 2nd Leg, 27 August 1997
First League match at the Britannia Stadium: Stoke City 1–2 Swindon Town, Division One, 30 August 1997
First match in the Premier League: Bolton Wanderers 3–1 Stoke City, 18 August 2008^[10]

Record wins

Record win: 26–0 v Mow Cop 1877
Record League Win: 10–3 v West Bromwich Albion, First Division, 4 February 1937
Record Premier League Win: 4–0 v Newcastle United, 19 March 2011^[11]
Record FA Cup Win: 11–0 v Stourbridge, First Round, 26 September 1914
Record League Cup Win: 6–2 v Chelsea, Third Round, 22 October 1974
Record home Win: 9–0 v Plymouth Argyle, Second Division, 17 December 1960
Record away Win: 6–0 v Bury, Second Division, 13 March 1954

Record defeats

Record League defeat: 0–10 v Preston North End, First Division, 14 September 1889
Record Premier League defeat: 0–7 v Chelsea, 25 April 2010^[12]
Record FA Cup defeat: 0–8 v Wolverhampton Wanderers, Quarter Final, 22 February 1890
Record League Cup defeat: 0–8 v Liverpool, Fourth Round, 24 November 2000
Record home defeat: 0–7 v Birmingham City, Division One, 10 January 1997
Record away defeat: 0–10 v Preston North End, First Division, 14 September 1889

Sequences

Longest sequence of League wins: 8 (30 March 1895 – 21 September 1895)
Longest sequence of League defeats: 11 (6 April 1985 – 17 August 1985)
Longest sequence of League draws: 5 (1 September 1973 – 15 September 1973), (21 March 1987 – 11 April 1987), (12 August 2006 – 12 September 2006)
Longest unbeaten run: 25 (5 September 1992 – 20 February 1993)
Longest run without a win: 17 (15 September 1984 – 22 December 1984), (22 April 1989 – 14 October 1989)
Longest run without a draw: 46 (30 March 1895 – 14 November 1896)
Longest successive scoring run: 21 (24 December 1921 – 22 April 1922)
Longest successive non-scoring run: 8 (29 December 1984 – 16 March 1985)
Longest run without a clean sheet: 34 (22 December 1888 – 3 October 1891)
Longest run of clean sheets: 7 (6 November 2006 – 9 December 2006) achieved by Steve Simonsen

Attendances

Record League attendance at the Victoria Ground: 51,380 v Arsenal, 29 March 1937
Record FA Cup attendance at the Victoria Ground: 50,736 v Bolton Wanderers, 2 March 1946
Record League attendance at the Britannia Stadium: 27,604 v Hull City, 3 April 2010
Record League Cup attendance at the Britannia Stadium: 27,109 v Liverpool, 29 November 2000
Record FA Cup attendance at the Britannia Stadium: 28,218 v Everton, 5 January 2002
Record away attendance: 84,569 v Manchester City 3 March 1934

Season-by-season performance

Main article: List of Stoke City F.C. seasons

Stoke City F.C. in Europe

Stoke have competed in European competitions on three occasions firstly in 1972 then in 1974 and by reaching the 2011 FA Cup Final, Stoke qualified for the 2011–12 UEFA Europa League.^[13]

1972–73

Main article: 1972–73 UEFA Cup

Round	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Goalscorers
1st Round 1st Leg	13 September 1972	1. FC Kaiserslautern	Victoria Ground	3 – 1	22,182	Conroy 51', Hurst 72', Ritchie 85'
1st Round 2nd Leg	27 September 1972	1. FC Kaiserslautern	Betzenbergstadion	0 – 4	18,000

Stoke lost 5–3 on aggregate

1974–75

Main article: 1974–75 UEFA Cup

Round	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Goalscorers
1st Round 1st Leg	18 September 1974	Ajax	Victoria Ground	1 – 1	37,398	Smith 76'
1st Round 2nd Leg	2 October 1974	Ajax	Olympic Stadium	0 – 0	29,000

Stoke eliminated on away goal rule

2011–12

Main article: 2011–12 UEFA Europa League

Round	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Goalscorers
3rd Qualifying Round 1st Leg	28 July 2011	Hajduk Split	Britannia Stadium	1 – 0	26,322	Walters 3'
3rd Qualifying Round 2nd Leg	4 August 2011	Hajduk Split	Stadion Poljud	1 – 0	29,548	Shotton 90+1'
Play-off Round 1st Leg	18 August 2011	FC Thun	Arena Thun	1 – 0	7,850	Pugh 19'
Play-off Round 2nd Leg	25 August 2011	FC Thun	Britannia Stadium	4 – 1	24,148	Upson 25', Jones 31', 72', Whelan 38'
Group match 1	15 September 2011	Dynamo Kiev	Dynamo Stadium	1 – 1	14,500	Jerome 55'
Group match 2	29 September 2011	Beşiktaş	Britannia Stadium	2 – 1	23,551	Crouch 15', Walters 78'
Group match 3	20 October 2011	Maccabi Tel Aviv	Britannia Stadium	3 – 0	22,756	Jones 12', Jerome 24', Shotton 32'
Group match 4	3 November 2011	Maccabi Tel Aviv	Bloomfield Stadium	2 – 1	10,368	Whitehead 51', Crouch 64'
Group match 5	1 December 2011	Dynamo Kiev	Britannia Stadium	1 – 0	23,774	Jones 81'
Group match 6	14 December 2011	Beşiktaş	BJK İnönü Stadium	1 – 3	29,000	Fuller 29'
Round of 32 1st leg	16 February 2011	Valencia	Britannia Stadium	–
Round of 32 2nd leg	23 February 2011	Valencia	Estadio Mestalla	–

References

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Books

Lowe, Simon: "Stoke City The Modern Era - A Complete Record" (Desert Island Books, ISBN 1874287392)
Matthews, Tony: "The Encyclopedia of Stoke City " (Lion Press, 1994, ISBN 1859831001

External links

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