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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
Graph showing Stoke City F.C.'s progress through the English football league system 1888 to the present. Stoke City Football Club is an English professional football club based in the city of Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. The club was formed in 1863 and played their first competitive match in November 1883 in the FA Cup.
In 1925, Stoke-on-Trent was granted city status and this led the club to change its name to Stoke City F.C. [17] The 1930s saw the debut of club's most celebrated player, Stanley Matthews . Matthews, who grew up in Hanley , was an apprentice at the club and made his first appearance in March 1932, [ 18 ] against Bury , at the age of 17. [ 19 ]
Follow live coverage as Stoke City face Preston North End in the Championship today. An increasingly competitive second tier in English football remains an intense and exciting competition, with ...
Stoke City fans celebrate following promotion to the Premier League on 4 May 2008. On 23 May 2006, Coates completed his takeover of Stoke City, marking the end of Gunnar Gíslason's chairmanship of the club. [118] Coates chose former manager Tony Pulis as Boskamp's successor in June 2006. [119]
The 2021–22 season was Stoke City's 105th season in the Football League, the 45th in the second tier and eighth in the Championship. [1]Stoke had a busy summer transfer window with the permanent departure of 13 players, which enabled O'Neill to make several new additions to his squad.
Following the international break Stoke put in a poor performance away at newly promoted Oxford United losing 1–0, Idris El Mizouni scoring just after half time. [19] [20] Head coach Steven Schumacher was sacked two days later along with his coaching staff. [21]
Stoke City F.C. is an English association football club based in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. The club was formed in 1863 as Stoke Ramblers F.C., and played their first competitive match in November 1883, when they entered the First Round of the 1883–84 FA Cup. In 1888 they joined the inaugural Football League thus becoming founding members.