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

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

More information Rank, Name ...

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

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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

More information Rank, Name ...

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=	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

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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

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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]

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Progression of record fee received

More information Date, Player ...

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]

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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 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]

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)

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]