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Stoke City
Source OpenFootballUpdated Founded 1863Ground bet365 StadiumSeasons held 10
Current manager not recorded. Wikidata gives no head coach spell for Stoke City that is still open, so none is shown.
Source OpenFootballUpdated Founded 1863Ground bet365 StadiumSeasons held 10
Stoke City are based in Stoke-on-Trent, with their foundation recorded in 1863. A League Cup victory in 1971/72 sits alongside earlier Second Division championships in the honours record. A Football Alliance title also appears in the pre-Premier League record. Detailed league coverage here begins with 1992/93, before Stoke's Premier League entry.
Stoke won a further Second Division championship in 1992/93. The Victoria Ground remained home through the subsequent years, before the club moved to the stadium now recorded as bet365 Stadium. That ground history places the change at the start of 1997/98.
The later Premier League return opened with Stoke in 12th place. An improvement in the following campaign came with a higher points total and a less negative goal difference. The next seasons finished lower, though without a relegation.
A winning stretch from November into December covered 4 league matches during that period. The following season included a longer unbeaten sequence, running from November to late December. It reached 10 matches, though the final league placing remained outside the top half.
Stoke then reached 9th place and repeated that finish in the following campaigns. The middle season brought their highest points return and best goal difference in the archive. A 6–1 home victory against Liverpool belongs to that campaign, the club's widest league win here.
Their final top-half season matched the earlier position without repeating the best points total, and its goal difference was negative rather than positive. The next campaign ended lower, with fewer points and a more negative goal difference than the preceding season. During the later campaign, Stoke went without a win for 13 league matches between January and May.
Stoke's final season returned 33 points, below every earlier campaign of this Premier League spell. Relegation followed in 2017/18, their latest covered season, with a finish of 19th.
Coverage Premier League matches only, in the seasons the archive publishes; cups and European matches are not included. Team sheets (line-ups, minutes, cards) are held for 2025/26 only. History and all-time records refer to this archive's coverage, not the club's entire existence. Manager and ground histories may have gaps; no missing spells are inferred.
Sources Football Research Archive data, Wikidata (CC0), Facts from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Stoke City F.C.)Figures up to 16 Oct 2026Approved 17 Oct 2026
Stoke City finished as high as 9th and as low as 19th in 10 completed Premier League seasons held, and went down after 2017/18.
| Season | Position | Clubs | Points | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017/18 | 19th | 20 | 33 | Relegated |
| 2016/17 | 13th | 20 | 44 | Not held |
| 2015/16 | 9th | 20 | 51 | Not held |
| 2014/15 | 9th | 20 | 54 | Not held |
| 2013/14 | 9th | 20 | 50 | Not held |
| 2012/13 | 13th | 20 | 42 | Not held |
| 2011/12 | 14th | 20 | 45 | Not held |
| 2010/11 | 13th | 20 | 46 | Not held |
| 2009/10 | 11th | 20 | 47 | Not held |
| 2008/09 | 12th | 20 | 45 | Not held |
Data cutoff 15 Oct 2026, 07:31 BSTMetrics league position, points
Source: Wikidata (CC0), Q18736, revision 2554418962, checked 15 Oct 2026. The ground comes from the ground history below.
| Ground | When | Seasons here | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|
| Victoria Ground | until 1996/97 | None in the archive | Wikipedia, “Stoke City F.C.”, revision 1380454474 |
| bet365 StadiumAlso Britannia Stadium | from 1997/98 | 2008/09 to 2017/18 (10) | Wikidata Q18736, revision 2554418962Wikipedia, “Stoke City F.C.”, revision 1380454474 |
Dates come from Wikidata's home venue statements where they carry start and end dates, and otherwise from the club's English Wikipedia article. A move between seasons is dated by season. Matches count at a ground by these dates; the archive holds the venue of each match only for 2025/26.
League results for the 10 seasons below. It is not a complete club history: cups and European matches are not included.
| Season | Competition | Position | Ground | P | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017/18 | Premier League | 19th of 20 | bet365 Stadium | 38 | 7 | 12 | 19 | 35 | 68 | −33 | 33 | Relegated |
| 2016/17 | Premier League | 13th of 20 | bet365 Stadium | 38 | 11 | 11 | 16 | 41 | 56 | −15 | 44 | |
| 2015/16 | Premier League | 9th of 20 | bet365 Stadium | 38 | 14 | 9 | 15 | 41 | 55 | −14 | 51 | |
| 2014/15 | Premier League | 9th of 20 | bet365 Stadium | 38 | 15 | 9 | 14 | 48 | 45 | +3 | 54 | |
| 2013/14 | Premier League | 9th of 20 | bet365 Stadium | 38 | 13 | 11 | 14 | 45 | 52 | −7 | 50 | |
| 2012/13 | Premier League | 13th of 20 | bet365 Stadium | 38 | 9 | 15 | 14 | 34 | 45 | −11 | 42 | |
| 2011/12 | Premier League | 14th of 20 | bet365 Stadium | 38 | 11 | 12 | 15 | 36 | 53 | −17 | 45 | |
| 2010/11 | Premier League | 13th of 20 | bet365 Stadium | 38 | 13 | 7 | 18 | 46 | 48 | −2 | 46 | |
| 2009/10 | Premier League | 11th of 20 | bet365 Stadium | 38 | 11 | 14 | 13 | 34 | 48 | −14 | 47 | |
| 2008/09 | Premier League | 12th of 20 | bet365 Stadium | 38 | 12 | 9 | 17 | 38 | 55 | −17 | 45 | Promoted |
Positions and points are calculated by the archive from the results, after any sourced points adjustment (*). Promoted and relegated are inferred only by comparing adjacent seasons the archive publishes.