List of Stoke City F.C. records and statistics

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

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

Summarize Timeline Top Qs Fact Check

• 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)

Rank	Name	Years	League	FA Cup	League Cup	Other	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

• 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

Rank	Name	Years	League	FA Cup	League Cup	Other	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=	Peter Crouch	2011–2019	46	5	9	2	62
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

• 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

• 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

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]

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]

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 members

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

Football League 100 Legends

The 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]

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)

• 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)

• 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 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 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

• 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

• 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