Port Vale Football Club is an professional football club situated in Burslem, Stir up on-Trent, Britain, which contends in EFL League One. Vale is the main English Football League club not to be named after a spot; their name being a reference to the valley of ports on the Trent and Mersey Waterway. They have never played first class football, and hold the records for the most seasons in the English Football League (111) and in the subsequent level (41) without arriving at the main tier.After playing at the Athletic Ground in Cobridge and The Old Entertainment Ground in Hanley, the club got back to Burslem when Vale Park was opened in 1950. Outside the ground is a sculpture to Roy Sproson, who played 842 serious games for the club. The club's customary adversaries are Stoke City, and games between the two are known as the Stonewares derby.
Subsequent to becoming one of the more conspicuous football clubs in Staffordshire, Burslem Port Vale were welcome to become pioneer individuals from the Football Association Second Division in 1892. They burned through 13 non-successive seasons in the division, accentuated by two seasons in the Midland League, before they surrendered because of monetary troubles and entered liquidation in 1907. The name of Port Vale went on in the North Staffordshire Federation League, and this new club were sufficiently fruitful to be reestablished into the Football Association in 1919. They burned through 16 non-sequential seasons in the Subsequent Division, accentuated by bringing home the Third Division North championship in 1929-30, preceding dropping once more into the third level any more stay toward the finish of the 1935-36 mission. The 1953-54 season saw director Freddie Steele's "Iron Drapery" safeguard win both a Third Division North title and a semi-last spot in the FA Cup. They neglected to expand on this achievement in any case, despite the fact that they proceeded to complete as heroes of the main Fourth Division season under Norman Low's stewardship in 1958-59.
The club had little accomplishment all through the 1960s and 1970s, notwithstanding being momentarily overseen by Stanley Matthews, and had to apply for re-appointment in the wake of disrupting FA norms on unlawful installments in 1968. Gordon Lee directed the club to advancement back to the Third Division the accompanying season, where they would stay until assignment toward the finish of the 1977-78 mission. John McGrath controlled the club to advancement in 1982-83, however he withdrew after assignment became unavoidable the accompanying season. His right hand, John Rudge, moved forward to turn into the club's longest-serving and best chief, driving the club from 1983 to 1999. Under his authority Port Vale won advancements in 1985-86, 1988-89 and 1993-94, lifted the League Trophy Prize in 1993 and arrived at a post-war record finish of eighth in the second level in the 1996-97 season.
After Rudge's rule finished the club entered a downfall, slipping into the fourth level while two times entering organization in 2003 and 2012. The decay was captured when director Micky Adams accomplished programmed advancement from Association Two in the 2012-13 season, however they were consigned once more into Association Two toward the finish of the 2016-17 season after a bombed explore different avenues regarding a mainland staff and playing style. Carol Shanahan purchased the club in 2019 and supervisor Darrell Clarke got advancement out of the League Two end of the season games toward the finish of the 2021-22 season.
