Port Vale Football Club is a professional association football club based in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, England. The team compete in League Two.
Port Vale is one of the few English league clubs not to be named after a geographical location, their name being a reference to the valley of ports on the Trent and Mersey Canal.
They have never played top-flight football & hold the records for the most seasons in the English Football League.
After playing at the Athletic Ground in Cobridge & The Old Recreation Ground in Hanley, the club returned to Burslem when Vale Park was opened in 1950. Outside the ground is a statue to 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.
