25 Facts About Stoke FC

Stoke FC City Football Club is an English professional football club based in Stoke FC-on-Trent, Staffordshire.

The club's nickname is The Potters, after the pottery industry in Stoke FC-on-Trent, and their traditional home kit is a red-and-white vertically striped shirt, white shorts and stockings.

Stoke FC City was founded during the 1860s under the title of Stoke FC Ramblers in 1863.

Stoke FC Ramblers were formed in 1868 by Henry Almond who had been a student at Charterhouse school where a dribbling form of the game was popular.

Stoke FC arrived in the region to become an apprentice with the North Staffordshire Railway Company and, wishing to continue playing the game that he had enjoyed whilst at school, established the first formal association football club in the region.

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Stoke FC were one of the twelve founding members of the Football League when it was introduced in 1888.

In 1890 Stoke FC failed to be re-elected and joined the Football Alliance, which they won and thus were re-elected to the Football League.

Stoke FC joined the club in 1952 as a coach, before being promoted to assistant manager in 1957.

Stoke FC competed in the UEFA Cup in 1972 and 1974 losing at the first attempt to 1.

Stoke FC finished the season with only 17 points, with just three wins all season.

Jordan's tenure in charge was short, leaving the club less than a year after joining, and Stoke FC opted to re-appoint Lou Macari only 12 months after he had left.

Stoke FC did not last long though, and was replaced by Chris Kamara in January 1998.

Stoke FC became the first Icelandic-owned football club outside of Iceland.

On 23 May 2006, Coates completed his takeover of Stoke FC City, marking the end of Gunnar Gislason's chairmanship of the club.

Stoke FC managed to turn the Britannia Stadium into a "fortress", making it difficult for teams to pick up points there.

Stoke FC made it to the quarter-finals of the FA Cup for the first time since 1972, defeating York City, Arsenal and Manchester City before losing out to eventual winners Chelsea.

Stoke FC was replaced by Paul Lambert, who could not prevent the club ending their 10-year spell in the Premier League.

Stoke FC played a home League match against Middlesbrough at Vale Park whilst repair work was on-going.

The Stoke FC End Stand was improved in 1979 and through the 1980s more improvements were made.

Stoke FC struggled at first to adjust to their new surroundings and were relegated to the third tier in the first season at the new ground.

Stoke FC have had problems with football hooliganism in the 1970s through the early 2000s, due to the actions of the "Naughty Forty" firm which associated itself with the club and was formed by supporter Mark Chester.

In November 2008, a group of Stoke FC fans was forced by the Greater Manchester Police to leave Manchester before a league match against Manchester United.

In 1908, Stoke FC lost their League status and were able to finally revert to red and white and when they re-joined the league in 1919 the rule was scrapped.

Since then, Stoke FC have forever used red and white striped shirts, with the only time when they diverted from this was for two seasons in the mid-1980s, which saw them wear a pin-striped shirt.

Stoke FC's first club crest was a stylised "S" which was used by players in 1882 who would stitch the crest on to their shirts; however, this practice soon faded away.

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