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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.
George Youds (1872–1937) was an English footballer who played at left-back. He played 53 league games in the English Football League for Burslem Port Vale.
Meshach Dean was an English footballer who played for Burslem Port Vale in the 1890s.
C. McAlpine was an English footballer who played for Burslem Port Vale.
Daniel Robertson Ramsay was an English professional footballer who played in the English Football League for Stoke, Northwich Victoria and Burslem Port Vale. He played in Stoke's first ever Football league team.
Robert McCrindle was a Scottish footballer who played at centre-half for Burslem Port Vale and Luton Town in the 1890s. He played 183 games for Burslem Port Vale, scoring six goals; however, 72 were friendlies. He received a call-up to the Scotland national side in 1899 but could not play the game due to a fixture clash.
Fred Farrington was an English footballer who played at half-back for Burslem Port Vale between 1888 and 1894. He served as club captain in the 1892–93 season.
Charles Garner was a footballer who played one game for Burslem Port Vale in December 1892.
Levi Higginson was a footballer who played as a goalkeeper for Burslem Port Vale in the early 1890s.
W. Jones was a footballer who played on the wing for Burslem Port Vale in the early 1890s.
W. Downwood was a 19th-century footballer who played in defence for Burslem Port Vale.
John Henry Nash was an English footballer who played as a forward for Burslem Port Vale in the 1890s.
Joshua Randles was an English footballer who was a one club man for Burslem Port Vale between 1885 and 1899.
William Reynolds was an English footballer who played as a centre-forward for Burslem Port Vale between 1882 and 1892.
Francis McGinnes was a Scottish footballer. He was described as 'the best centre-forward that ever left Scotland'. A prolific goalscorer, he was Burslem Port Vale's best player. He died suddenly just before they started their first season in the Football League in 1892–93.
John Edward Evans, also known as "Jammer", was an English footballer who played in the Football League for Bury, Burslem Port Vale and Stoke.
Edward Henry May was an English footballer who played for Notts Rangers, Burslem Port Vale, Notts County, and Nottingham Forest in the 1880s and 1890s.
The 1892–93 season was Burslem Port Vale's first season of football in the English Football League. The club were founding members of the Football League Second Division, the First Division having been in operation for four seasons before 1892–93. A learning curve for the club, it marked the first of four seasons of struggle in what was rapidly becoming the second tier of the strongest league in the world. This learning curve was punctuated by the biggest league defeat in the club's history, a 10–0 humiliation in a snowstorm at home to Sheffield United on 10 December 1892, still a Football League record for a home defeat.
References
- 1 2 3 Kent, Jeff (1996). Port Vale Personalities. Witan Books. p. 166. ISBN 0-9529152-0-0.
- ↑ Johnny Lander at the English National Football Archive (subscription required)
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