[1] An expanded league saw an extra four new clubs added to the division, in addition to the replacement for Doncaster Rovers, who failed to gain re-election the previous season.

Vale lost seventeen of their nineteen away games, never drawing a match away from home, and conceded more on their travels than any other side in the league.

[1] Harry Mountford was the club's top scorer with 15 goals, with Robert Carter, Philip Smith, George Price also contributing significantly to the scoring tally.

The club's directors, therefore, decided to sell right-half Harry Croxton and inspirational striker Adrian Capes to Stoke in November 1905.

[1] In the County cups, Vale knocked out local rivals Stoke (Reserves) at home by 5–0 and 3–0 scorelines before receiving 7–0 and 5–1 thumpings at Birmingham and Burton United respectively at the semi-final stages.