Honours
Football League Division Two (now League One) (3)
- 1932 – 33, 1962 – 63, 1992 - 93
Football League Division Three North (now League Two) (1)
Football League Cup (1):
- 1971 – 72 vs. Chelsea, 2 – 1
Leading Goalscorer
John Ritchie: 176 Goals
Like Matthews, Ritchie had two spells with Stoke. His was either side of three years at Sheffield Wednesday. After signing from Kettering, he scored 81 goals in 135 appearances at the Victoria Ground from 1963 through 1966.
Tony Waddington, then-manager of Stoke, bought Ritchie without seeing him play and surprised the player and football, by selling him to Sheffield Wednesday for £80,000 in November 1966. It was, Waddington conceded soon after, a mistake. Ritchie scored at just under a goal every other game at Hillsborough but in 1969, returned to Stoke.
Between then and 1974, Ritchie scored another 95 goals in 216 appearances, bringing his total to 176 goals for the club in 351 appearances. His career ended when he suffered a broken leg in September 1974, and a double leg fracture in 1975.
Ritchie died in February 2007.
Greatest Moment
4th March 1972, Wembley Stadium. Back in the day, Stoke City had a decent side. Liverpool, Arsenal, Leeds; they were the big names of English football but the Potters could match them anyway they chose to.
Chelsea were favourites to win the match, having won the FA Cup two years previous, as well as the 1971 European Cup Winners Cup. The Blues played with swagger and style, with the panache that the Kings Road expected.
City had other ideas. Terry Conroy gave them a fifth-minute lead and Chelsea only recovered their poise when Peter Osgood equalised on the stroke of half-time. Stoke, beaten by Arsenal in the 1971 FA Cup semi-final made the most of their appearance at Wembley with George Eastham scoring the winner to secure the club’s only major honour to date.
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