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Port Vale Football Club are a professional football club based in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, England, which compete in EFL League Two, the fourth tier of the English football league system. Vale are named after the valley of ports on the Trent and Mersey Canal. They have never played top-flight football, and hold the record for the most seasons in the English Football League (112) without reaching the first tier. After playing at the Athletic Ground in Cobridge and The Old Recreation Ground in Hanley, the club returned to Burslem when Vale Park was opened in 1950. Outside the ground is a statue of Roy Sproson, who played 842 competitive games for the club. The club's traditional rivals are Stoke City, and games between the two are known as the Potteries derby.
Frank Stokes was an English professional footballer who played as a full back. He made more than 250 appearances in the Football League playing for Burslem Port Vale and Small Heath / Birmingham between 1898 and 1910. In between these two spells he spent 1901 to 1903 at Reading, and helped the club to finish second in the Southern League in the 1902–03 season. He played in several England trials but was never selected.
John William Bowman was an English football player and manager.
Thomas Clare was an English international footballer, who played at right-back, and football manager.
Harry Clement Croxton was an English footballer who played as a half-back. He made 206 appearances and scored 11 times for Burslem Port Vale in two spells from 1901 to 1911. He spent 1905 to 1908 at Stoke, making 24 league and cup appearances, scoring one goal.
Westley Howard Harvey was an English footballer who played as a centre forward for Aston Villa, Burslem Port Vale and Manchester City in the Football League in the 1890s and early 1900s. He played in the Southern League for Watford, and was also on the books of Walsall Town Swifts, Small Heath, West Bromwich United, Burton United, Darlaston and Glentoran.
Neville Patrick Chamberlain is an English former footballer. A forward, he scored 73 goals in 296 league games in a ten-year professional career in the Football League.
Philip Smith was an English footballer who played at centre-forward for Burslem Port Vale, Crewe Alexandra, Chelsea, Burnley, and Stalybridge Celtic. He was killed in action during World War I.
Edward Williams was a footballer who played for Burslem Port Vale at the start of the 20th century.
Leonard Jones was a footballer who played as a forward in the Football League for Burslem Port Vale in the early 1900s.
Alex Crombie was an English footballer who played as a winger for Reading and Burslem Port Vale at the start of the 20th century.
Hugh Walley was a footballer who played as a left winger for Burslem Port Vale and Burton Swifts in the 1900s.
Arthur Shelley was a footballer who made one appearance as a defender for Burslem Port Vale in October 1905.
Ebenezer Grant was an English footballer who played five games in the English Football League for Burslem Port Vale in 1906.
William Henry Bradbury (1884–1966) was an English footballer who played at half-back for Burslem Port Vale, Stoke, Aberdare, Oldham Athletic, Scunthorpe United, Rochdale and Burton Town.
George Boote was an English football goalkeeper who played in the Football League for Burslem Port Vale and Stoke.
Hugh Edward Holdcroft was an English footballer who played in the Football League for Burslem Port Vale and Stoke in the early 1900s.
Ben Davies was a footballer in the 19th century for Port Vale.
The 1906–07 season was Burslem Port Vale's ninth consecutive season of football in the English Football League. The club resigned from the league on 14 June 1907.
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