Stoke City Football Club is an English professional football club based in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. Founded as Stoke Ramblers in 1863, the club changed its name to Stoke Football Club in 1878 and then to Stoke City in 1925. Stoke were one of the twelve founding members of the Football League in 1888. The team competes in the Championship, the second tier of English football. Their home ground is the 30,089 all-seater, bet365 Stadium.
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Stoke City Football Club is an English professional football club based in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. Founded as Stoke Ramblers in 1863, the club changed its name to Stoke Football Club in 1878 and then to Stoke City in 1925. Stoke were one of the twelve founding members of the Football League in 1888. The team competes in the Championship, the second tier of English football. Their home ground is the 30,089 all-seater, bet365 Stadium. Stoke’s traditional rivals are Midlands clubs West Bromwich Albion and Wolverhampton Wanderers. Their local rivals are Port Vale with whom they contest the Potteries derby. 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’s nickname is ‘The Potters’, named after the pottery industry in Stoke, and their traditional home kit is a red and white vertically striped shirt, white shorts and stockings. They have won the League Trophy twice, in 1992 and in 2000, and the League Cup once, in 1972, when they beat Chelsea 2-1 in the semi-final of the competition. The first documented match was in October 1868, against a scratch team brought together for the occasion by E. W May. In August 1885 the club turned professional, playing at the Athletic Club ground, which soon became known as the Victoria Ground.
Stoke spent 15 seasons in the First Division before 1907 with severe financial problems. Stoke went bankrupt at the end of the 1907–08 season and entered non-league football, playing in Birmingham & Southern League and the Birmingham & District League until 1914, when the First World War meant the First League was suspended for four years. During the wartime period, Stoke entered the Lancashire Primary and Secondary leagues and re-joined the league in August 1919. In 1919 the club became the owners of the Victoria ground, followed by the construction of the Butler Street stand, which increased the overall capacity of the ground to 50,000. In 1925, Stoke was granted city status and this led to the club becoming Stoke City. In the same year the club adopted their traditional red-and-white striped kit. Stoke City was founded during the 1860s under the title of Stoke Rambler, often claimed to have been in 1863. However, there has been a significant amount of uncertainty regarding the origins of the club and the precise year that it was established. In 1878 the club dropped the suffix from its title and become known as Stoke Football club. In September 1885, the team played at the Victoria Cricket Club ground; however they switched to a nearby ground at Sweetings Field in 1875 to cope with rising attendances. In December 1868 the club’s first recorded away match was at Congleton, a rugby club that were convinced to play a one-off fixture under association rules, in December 1869.
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