Stoke City F.C.
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Stoke City Football Club is a professional association football club based in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England. The team competes in the EFL Championship, the second level of the English football league system.
The Stoke team of 1877–78
Stoke City fans celebrate following promotion to the Premier League, 4 May 2008.
Stoke moved to the all-seater ground now known as the Bet365 Stadium in 1997.
Stoke fans at the 2011 FA Cup Final
Potteries derby
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In English football, the Potteries derby is the local derby between the two major clubs in the city of Stoke-on-Trent – Port Vale and Stoke City, first contested in 1882. Port Vale plays at Vale Park whilst Stoke play at the bet365 Stadium, the two grounds are separated by roughly 4.3 miles (6.9 km). The fans of each club both consider the other to be their main rivals; this has led to a heated atmosphere at these matches. One study in 2019 ranked it as the joint-28th biggest rivalry in English professional football, level with the Manchester derby. The two teams have met in 92 competitive first-team fixtures, including 44 English Football League, six FA Cup and two Football League Trophy fixtures, with the remaining 40 meetings coming in regional cup competitions.
The derby match played on 13 March 1920
Leigh Richmond Roose pictured in a Stoke team photograph c.1904.
Wilf Kirkham scored nine derby goals, eight for Vale and one for Stoke, in a ten-year professional career in the city.
Stanley Matthews in 1962