List of Stoke City F.C. records and statistics explained

Stoke City Football Club is an English professional association football club based in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.

Founded as Stoke Ramblers in 1863 the club changed its name to Stoke in 1878 and then to Stoke City in 1925 after Stoke-on-Trent was granted city status. They are the second oldest professional football club in the world, after Notts County, and are one of the founding members of the Football League.^[1] They currently play in the Football League Championship, the second tier of English football. They have never been lower than the third tier.

Their first, and to date only major trophy, the League Cup was won in 1972, when the team beat Chelsea 2–1. The club's highest league finish in the top division is 4th, which was achieved in the 1935–36 and 1946–47 seasons. Stoke played in the FA Cup Final in 2011, finishing runners-up to Manchester City and have reached three FA Cup semi-finals; in 1899 then consecutively in 1971 and 1972. Stoke have competed in European football on three occasions, firstly in 1972–73 then in 1974–75 and most recently in 2011–12. The club has won the Football League Trophy twice, in 1992 and in 2000. The club's record appearance maker is Eric Skeels, who made 597 appearances between 1959 and 1976, and the club's record goalscorer is John Ritchie, who scored 176 goals in 351 appearances from 1962 to 1975.

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

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: 1991–92, 1999–2000

Watney Cup

1

• Winners: 1973

Staffordshire Senior Cup

15

• Winners: 1877–78, 1878–79, 1903–04 (shared), 1913–14, 1933–34, 1964–65, 1968–69 (shared), 1970–71, 1974–75, 1975–76, 1981–82, 1992–93, 1994–95, 1998–99, 2016–17
• Runners-up: 1882–83, 1885–86, 1894–95, 1900–01, 1902–03, 2002–03, 2005–06, 2010–11

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

Player records

See also: List of Stoke City F.C. players.

Appearances

• Most appearances in total (League & Cup) – 597 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 – Emre Tezgel 16 years, 112 days v Leyton Orient 9 January 2022
• 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 – 98 Peter Crouch (2011–2019)

Top 20 most appearances

width=5%	Rank	width=14%	Name	width=12%	Years	width=10%	League	width=10%	FA Cup	width=10%	League Cup	width=10%	Other	width=10%	Total
1	Eric Skeels	1960–1976	507	43	38	9	597
2	John McCue	1946–1960	502	40	0	0	542
3	Bob McGrory	1921–1935	479	32	0	0	511
4	Denis Smith	1968–1982	407	29	34	23	493
5	Alan Bloor	1961–1978	388	38	37	19	482
6	Peter Fox	1978–1993	409	22	32	14	477
7	Tony Allen	1957–1970	417	30	26	0	473
8	Ryan Shawcross	2007–2021	401	25	19	8	453
9	Jackie Marsh	1967–1979	355	32	35	22	444
10	Frank Bowyer	1948–1960	398	38	0	0	436
11	Frank Mountford	1946–1958	391	34	0	0	425
12	Alan Dodd	1972–1985	374	15	25	4	418
13	John Sellars	1946–1958	384	29	0	0	413
14	Harry Davies	1922–1938	389	22	0	0	411
15	Harry Sellars	1923–1935	370	25	0	0	395
16	Peter Dobing	1963–1973	307	22	40	8	377
17	Stanley Matthews	1932–1965	318	37	0	0	355
18	Billy Spencer	1925–1938	338	16	0	0	354
19	John Ritchie	1962–1974	269	27	38	17	351
20	Harry Oscroft	1950–1959	326	23	0	0	349

Goalscoring

• Leading Goalscorer (League & Cup) – 176 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
• Leading Goalscorer (Premier League only) – 45 Peter Crouch
• 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

width=5%	Rank	width=14%	Name	width=12%	Years	width=10%	League	width=10%	FA Cup	width=10%	League Cup	width=10%	Other	width=10%	Total
1	John Ritchie	1962–1974	135	15	18	8	176
2	Freddie Steele	1933–1949	140	19	0	0	159
3	Frank Bowyer	1948–1960	137	12	0	0	149
4	Charlie Wilson	1925–1930	112	8	0	0	120
5	Johnny King	1953–1961	106	7	0	0	113
6	Harry Oscroft	1950–1959	103	4	0	0	107
7=	Jimmy Greenhoff	1969–1976	76	11	9	6	103
7=	Tommy Sale	1930–1949	98	5	0	0	103
8	Harry Davies	1922–1937	92	9	0	0	101
9	Peter Dobing	1963–1973	82	3	9	1	95
10	Joe Schofield	1891–1899	81	8	0	5	92
11	William Maxwell	1895–1900	74	10	0	1	85
12	Peter Thorne	1997–2001	65	0	6	9	80
13	Harry Burrows	1965–1973	68	5	3	0	76
14	Arthur Watkin	1913–1925	61	13	0	0	74
15=	Alf Smith	1903–1915	67	5	0	0	72
15=	Mark Stein	1991–1997	54	0	8	10	72
16=	Jimmy Broad	1921–1924	62	5	0	0	67
16=	Terry Conroy	1967–1979	49	8	8	2	67
17	Dennis Viollet	1962–1967	59	4	3	0	66
18	Bobby Liddle	1928–1938	61	3	0	0	64
19	Wayne Biggins	1989–1995	52	0	4	7	63
20=	Stanley Matthews	1932–1965	54	8	0	0	62
20=	William Smith	1909–1913	57	3	0	2	62
20=	Jonathan Walters	2010–2017	43	11	6	2	62

Internationals

• Most capped player – 81 Glenn Whelan
• 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 – £18.3 million to Porto for Giannelli Imbula February 2016
• Record transfer fee received – £20 million from West Ham United for Marko Arnautović July 2017

Progression of record fee paid

Date	Player	Bought from	Fee
September 1894	George Clawley	Crewe Alexandra	£10
August 1897	Jimmy McGeachan	Bolton Wanderers	£150
March 1903	Ted Holdcroft	Burslem Port Vale	£500
August 1919	David Brown	Dundee	£1,200
August 1921	Jimmy Broad	Millwall	£2,500
August 1929	Wilf Kirkham	Port Vale	£2,800
March 1933	Jack Palethorpe	Reading	£3,000
August 1938	Patrick Gallacher	Sunderland	£5,000
August 1947	Jimmy McAlinden	Portsmouth	£7,000
August 1947	Tommy Kiernan	Celtic	£8,500
October 1949	Leslie Johnston	Celtic	£9,000
August 1951	Alan Martin	Port Vale	£10,000
August 1951	Sammy Smyth	Wolverhampton Wanderers	£25,000
August 1962	Eddie Clamp	Arsenal	£35,000
August 1963	Peter Dobing	Manchester City	£37,500
March 1965	Roy Vernon	Everton	£40,000
April 1967	Gordon Banks	Leicester City	£52,000
August 1969	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	£480,000
August 1994	Paul Peschisolido	Birmingham City	£580,000
December 1999	Brynjar Gunnarsson	Örgryte IS	£600,000
August 2005	Sambégou Bangoura	Standard Liège	£900,000^[2]
January 2008	Ryan Shawcross	Manchester United	£1,000,000^[3]
January 2008	Leon Cort	Crystal Palace	£1,200,000^[4]
August 2008	Dave Kitson	Reading	£5,500,000^[5]
August 2009	Robert Huth	Middlesbrough	£6,000,000^[6]
August 2010	Kenwyne Jones	Sunderland	£8,000,000^[7]
August 2011	Peter Crouch	Tottenham Hotspur	£10,000,000^[8]
August 2015	Xherdan Shaqiri	Inter Milan	£12,000,000^[9]
February 2016	Giannelli Imbula	Porto	£18,300,000^[10]

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 1976	Alan Hudson	Arsenal	£225,000
September 1977	Peter Shilton	Nottingham Forest	£250,000
July 1980	Garth Crooks	Tottenham Hotspur	£600,000
January 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^[11]
January 2011	Tuncay	VfL Wolfsburg	£4,500,000^[12]
July 2015	Steven Nzonzi	Sevilla	£7,000,000^[13]
July 2015	Asmir Begović	Chelsea	£8,000,000^[14]
July 2017	Marko Arnautović	West Ham United	£20,000,000^[15]

All-Time XI & Hall of Fame members

In the final match of the 2012–13 season, as part of the club's official celebration of their 150th anniversary, supporters cast votes to determine the greatest ever Stoke City team.^[16]

• Gordon Banks (1967–72)
• Jackie Marsh (1967–79)
• Ryan Shawcross (2007–21)
• Denis Smith (1968–82)
• Mike Pejic (1968–76)
• Stanley Matthews (1932–47) & (1961–65)
• Alan Hudson (1974–76) & (1984–85)
• Jimmy Greenhoff (1969–76)
• Peter Hoekstra (2001–04)
• Mark Stein (1991–93) & (1996–97)
• Ricardo Fuller (2006–12)

Bench

• Asmir Begović (2010–2015)
• Lee Dixon (1986–88)
• Neil Franklin (1939–50)
• Terry Conroy (1967–79)
• John Ritchie (1962–66) & (1969–75)

Manager

• Tony Waddington (1960–77)

English Football Hall of Fame membersA number of Stoke City players have been inducted into the English Football Hall of Fame:^[17]

• Gordon Banks (2002 inductee)
• Stanley Matthews (2002 inductee)
• Peter Shilton (2002 inductee)
• Geoff Hurst (2004 inductee)

Football League 100 LegendsThe Football League 100 Legends is a list of "100 legendary football players" produced by The Football League in 1998, to celebrate the 100th season of League football.^[18]

• Gordon Banks
• Neil Franklin
• Geoff Hurst
• Stanley Matthews
• Jimmy McIlroy
• Peter Shilton
• Neville Southall

PFA Team of the Year

The following have been included in the PFA Team of the Year whilst playing for Stoke :

• 1975 Peter Shilton, Alan Hudson (1st tier)
• 1976 Alan Hudson (1st tier)
• 1979 Mike Doyle, Howard Kendall (2nd tier)
• 1986 Keith Bertschin (2nd tier)
• 1986 Lee Dixon (2nd tier)
• 1991 Wayne Biggins (3rd tier)
• 1992 Vince Overson, Wayne Biggins (3rd tier)
• 1993 Vince Overson, Mark Stein (3rd tier)
• 1997 Mike Sheron (2nd tier)
• 1999 Graham Kavanagh (3rd tier)
• 2000 Graham Kavanagh (3rd tier)
• 2001 Graham Kavanagh (3rd tier)
• 2008 Ryan Shawcross, Liam Lawrence, Ricardo Fuller (2nd tier)

Managerial records

See also: List of Stoke City F.C. managers.

• 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^[19]

Record wins

• Record win: 26–0 v Mow Cop, Staffordshire Senior Cup, 1877
• Record League Win: 10–3 v West Bromwich Albion, First Division, 4 February 1937
• Record Premier League Win: 6–1 v Liverpool, 24 May 2015^[20]
• 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, Football League, 14 September 1889
• Record Premier League defeat: 0–7 v Chelsea, Premier League, 25 April 2010^[21]
• 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, First Division, 10 January 1998
• Record away defeat: 0–10 v Preston North End, Football League, 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 Bet365 Stadium: 30,022 v Everton (17 March 2018)^[22]
• Record League Cup attendance at the Bet365 Stadium: 27,109 v Liverpool, 29 November 2000
• Record FA Cup attendance at the Bet365 Stadium: 28,218 v Everton, 5 January 2002
• Record away attendance: 84,569 v Manchester City 3 March 1934

Season-by-season performance

See main article: List of Stoke City F.C. seasons.

Stoke City F.C. in Europe

See main article: Stoke City F.C. in European football.

References

Books

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

External links

• Stoke City History
• Stoke City Honours
• Stoke City Records

Notes and References

1. Web site: 150 Celebration Tiles . Stoke City F.C. . 11 May 2016 . This is just one of the ways in which the Club will be marking this landmark in their history as the second oldest Football League club and the oldest in the Premier League. . bot: unknown . https://web.archive.org/web/20160603120033/http://www.stokecityfc.com/news/article/150-tiles-339189.aspx . 3 June 2016 .
2. News: Potters complete Bangoura signing. 18 May 2011. BBC Sport. 30 August 2005.
3. News: Shawcross ties up £1m Stoke move. 18 May 2011. BBC Sport. 18 January 2008.
4. News: Stoke break record to land Cort. 18 May 2011. BBC Sport. 14 January 2008.
5. News: Stoke seal £5.5m Kitson transfer. 18 May 2011. BBC Sport. 18 July 2008.
6. News: Huth completes £5m Stoke switch. 18 May 2011. BBC Sport. 27 August 2009.
7. News: Stoke sign Kenwyne Jones for club record £8m. 18 May 2011. BBC Sport. 12 August 2010.
8. News: Crouch Seals Club Record Transfer . 1 September 2011 . stokecityfc.com . 31 August 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20111027182236/http://www.stokecityfc.com/page/NewsDetail/0%2C%2C10310~2438170%2C00.html . 27 October 2011 .
9. Web site: Xherdan Shaqiri: Stoke City sign Inter Milan winger for £12m. BBC Sport. 11 August 2015.
10. Web site: Transfer deadline day: Stoke City sign Giannelli Imbula from Porto. BBC Sport. 1 February 2016.
11. News: Hull seal £3m Olofinjana signing. 18 May 2011. BBC Sport. 6 August 2009.
12. News: Stoke striker Tuncay moves to German club Wolfsburg. 18 May 2011. BBC Sport. 31 January 2011.
13. Web site: Steven Nzonzi: Stoke City sell midfielder to Sevilla for £7m. BBC Sport. 9 July 2015.
14. Web site: Chelsea set to complete signing of Asmir Begovic from Stoke for £8m. The Guardian. 18 July 2015.
15. Web site: Marko Arnautovic: West Ham sign Stoke City and Austria forward for £20m. BBC Sport. 29 July 2017.
16. Web site: Introducing Your 'Greatest XI'. Stoke City F.C. . 14 May 2013.
17. Web site: Hall of Fame — National Football Museum . . 14 May 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20071114114919/http://www.nationalfootballmuseum.com/halloffame.htm . 14 November 2007 . dead .
18. News: Sport: The Football League 100 legends . The Football League . 7 April 2008 . 14 May 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110319163840/http://www.football-league.co.uk/page/History/HistoryDetail/0%2C%2C10794~1284229%2C00.html . 19 March 2011 .
19. News: Bolton 3–1 Stoke. 18 May 2011. BBC Sport. Owen. Phillips. 16 August 2008.
20. News: Steven Gerrard: Stoke City v Liverpool – BBC Sport. 24 May 2015. BBC Sport. 24 May 2015.
21. News: Chelsea 7 – 0 Stoke. 18 May 2011. BBC Sport. 25 April 2010.
22. Web site: Stoke 1–2 Everton. BBC Sport.