Stoke City F.C: The club state they are the most seasoned professional Football League Club on the planet, existing starting around 1863.
Proof for establishment in 1863 is given by "The Book of Football"(1905), which names four pioneer players, and a date of 1863 while examining Stir up City. That date was embraced by the ongoing club for commemoration festivities in 1963 and 2013, and remembered for the ongoing peak. Anyway the 1863 date is questioned. The earliest realized paper reports of Stoke City under the name Stoke Ramblers, in 1868, expressed that Stoke Ramblers had been shaped that season, and a portion of the subtleties in these reports might have been utilized in the 1905 book in the portrayal of the occasions professed to be in 1863.
The club went through a consolidation in 1878, when it became referred to just as Stoke, and was sold in 1908, yet refounded soon after. Contemporary reports called this refounded club, "new"
