List of Stoke City F.C. records and statistics
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. 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
- Champions: 1932–33, 1962–63, 1992–93
- Runners-up: 1921–22
- Third Place: 1978–79
- Play-off Winners: 2001–02
- Champions: 1926–27
- Champions: 1890–91
- Champions: 1910–11
- Champions:1909–10, 1914–15
- Runners-up: 1910–11
Cups
League Cup: 1
- Winners: 1971–72
- Runners-up: 1963–64
Watney Cup: 1
- Winners: 1973
- Winners: 1877–78, 1878–79, 1903–04, 1913–14, 1933–34, 1964–65, 1968–69, 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
- Winners: 1901, 1914
- Runners-up: 1910, 1915, 1920, 1921
Bass Charity Vase: 5
- Winners: 1980, 1991, 1992, 1995, 1998
- Runners-up: 1890, 1894, 1990, 1996
Player records
Appearances
- Most appearances in total – 597 Eric Skeels
- Most League appearances – 507 Eric Skeels
- Most appearances in total – 675 John McCue
- Most Consecutive Appearances – 148 Tony Allen
- 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 – 98 Peter Crouch
Top 20 most appearances
| 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– | 396 | 24 | 19 | 8 | 447 |
| 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 – 176 John Ritchie
- Leading Goalscorer – 140 Freddie Steele
- Leading Goalscorer – 282 Tommy Sale
- Leading Goalscorer – 19 Freddie Steele
- Leading Goalscorer – 18 John Ritchie
- Leading Goalscorer – 44 Peter Crouch
- Most Goals In a Season – 38 Charlie Wilson & Arthur Griffiths
- Most Goals In a Season – 33 Freddie Steele
- Most Goals In a single match – 7 Neville Coleman v Lincoln City 23 February 1957
- Most matches Scored In Consecutively – 7 Mike Sheron
Top 20 overall goalscorers
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 |
| January 2008 | Ryan Shawcross | Manchester United | £1,000,000 |
| January 2008 | Leon Cort | Crystal Palace | £1,200,000 |
| August 2008 | Dave Kitson | Reading | £5,500,000 |
| August 2009 |  Robert Huth | Middlesbrough | £6,000,000 |
| August 2010 |  Kenwyne Jones | Sunderland | £8,000,000 |
| August 2011 | Peter Crouch | Tottenham Hotspur | £10,000,000 |
| August 2015 |  Xherdan Shaqiri | Inter Milan | £12,000,000 |
| February 2016 |  Giannelli Imbula | Porto | £18,300,000 |
Progression of record fee received
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.- Gordon Banks
- Jackie Marsh
- Ryan Shawcross
- Denis Smith
- Mike Pejic
- Stanley Matthews &
- Alan Hudson &
- Jimmy Greenhoff
- Peter Hoekstra
- Mark Stein &
- Ricardo Fuller
- Asmir Begović
- Lee Dixon
- Neil Franklin
- Terry Conroy
- John Ritchie &
;English Football Hall of Fame members
A number of Stoke City players have been inducted into the English Football Hall of Fame:
- Gordon Banks '
- Stanley Matthews '
- Peter Shilton '
- Geoff Hurst '
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.
- Gordon Banks
- Neil Franklin
- Geoff Hurst
- Stanley Matthews
- Jimmy McIlroy
- Peter Shilton
- Neville Southall
PFA Team of the Year
Managerial records
- First full-time manager: Thomas Slaney who was in charge for nine years
- Longest serving manager: Tony Waddington 17 years
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
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
- 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
- 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
- Longest sequence of League defeats: 11
- Longest sequence of League draws: 5,,
- Longest unbeaten run: 25
- Longest run without a win: 17,
- Longest run without a draw: 46
- Longest successive scoring run: 21
- Longest successive non-scoring run: 8
- Longest run without a clean sheet: 34
- Longest run of clean sheets: 7 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
- 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
Stoke City F.C. in Europe
Books
- Lowe, Simon: "Stoke City The Modern Era - A Complete Record"
- Matthews, Tony: "The Encyclopedia of Stoke City " (Lion Press, 1994,