[6] The two clubs have long league histories, with Stoke City's officially stated founding date being in 1863 and Port Vale claiming to have been formed in 1876.

[11] The first meeting in a national competition came on 15 October 1887, with a George Lawton goal on the hour mark giving Stoke a 1–0 home win in the first round of the FA Cup.

[18] Both clubs were though forced to resign their Football League memberships due to financial troubles in 1907 and 1908, meaning that scheduled Second Division derby matches on 7 September 1907 and 4 January 1908 never took place.

[22] Stoke were voted back into the Football League in 1915, though World War I delayed their re-entry until 1919, at which stage Vale also won re-election at the expense of the expelled Leeds City.

[23] The first Football League Potteries derby match took place at the Old Recreation Ground on 6 March 1920, when 22,697 spectators witnessed a 3–0 Stoke victory.

[24] Despite now being the top club in the area for the first time, the Port Vale board of directors agreed in principle to amalgamate with Stoke City in April 1926.

[28] Stanley Matthews joined Port Vale as general manager, but his spell in Burslem went disastrously wrong, with the club forced to apply for re-election to the Football League in 1968 as punishment for making illegal payments to players – Stoke City were one of 39 clubs that voted to admit the Vale, opposing just nine who voted to remove them from the competition.

[22] Stoke were relegated from the top flight in 1985, whilst John Rudge further closed the gap when he took the Valiants back into the third tier the following year.

[33] Hostilities were resumed on 23 September 1989, with Stoke and Vale playing out a 1–1 draw in front of the highest crowd (27,004) at the Victoria Ground since the visit of Liverpool seven years earlier.

[37] Though Stoke gained a point in the return fixture – with 35 people arrested for fighting in Burslem, City went on to be relegated as they slipped to a division below the Vale for the first time in 64 years.

[39] The 1992–93 season saw five derby games as the two promotion-chasing clubs were drawn against each other in the FA Cup and Football League Trophy, in addition to their two Second Division fixtures.

[36] The first encounter came in the league at the Victoria Ground on 24 October, when Mark Stein converted a controversial penalty he had won following a foul by goalkeeper Paul Musselwhite to give the home side a 2–1 win.

[42] The replay was held amidst torrential rain at Vale Park eight days later, in a game which saw Steve Foley hospitalise Neil Aspin with a knee-high challenge before the Valiants went into half-time with a 2–1 lead thanks to goals from Martin Foyle and Andy Porter.

[44] The 1992–93 series of derby games continued, with Stoke looking to defend their 1992 Football League Trophy title in the Area semi-finals clash under the floodlights at the Victoria Ground on 3 March.

The visitors claimed their first competitive victory at the Victoria Ground since 1927, with Robin van der Laan the game's only goalscorer after Stein hit the post with a first-half penalty and also had a goal ruled out for offside; Vale would go on to beat Stockport County in the final.

[49] The two teams had to wait until 14 March 1995 for their first meeting of the 1994–95 season, with goals from Tony Naylor and Lee Sandford securing a 1–1 draw that did little to ease both side's fears of relegation.

[51] The two sides met in the third match of the 1995–96 season and Ian Bogie beat Carl Muggleton at his near post to give Vale a third consecutive away derby victory.

[53] Beaten in the 1996 play-offs, Stoke remained undefeated in the 1996–97 derby games, first drawing 1–1 on a sunny Sunday Burslem afternoon on 13 October after a late Lee Mills header cancelled out Kevin Keen's opener.

[56] Stoke's league form collapsed at the end of the following month, however, and they entered the return fixture on 1 March 1998 just one place above Vale in the relegation zone.

[59] In September 2000, with Port Vale in an increasingly perilous financial state, Stoke's Icelandic owners were reportedly looking to merge the two clubs.

[60] The two teams met on 17 September, though only 8,948 fans were in attendance at Vale Park to witness a 1–1 draw as Marc Bridge-Wilkinson and Kyle Lightbourne found the net within the game's opening quarter of an hour.

[62] A crowd of 22,133 came to the Britannia Stadium to see the two derby rivals play out another 1–1 draw, with Dave Brammer finding an equaliser to cancel out James O'Connor's opener.

[66] With Stoke having lost to Walsall in the 2001 Second Division play-off semi-finals, the two derby rivals met again for two league fixtures in the 2001–02 campaign.

[34] The return fixture at the Britannia Stadium on 10 February 2002 was witnessed by 23,019 supporters, with Vale hoping to derail their rival's promotion push.

[73][74] Stoke, meanwhile, experienced ten seasons of Premier League football under the ownership of local billionaire Peter Coates, also reaching the 2011 FA Cup final.

[76] Upon Stoke's relegation from the Premier League in 2018, a group of Vale fans arranged for a plane to fly over the bet365 Stadium, towing a banner saying "WE STOOD THERE LAUGHING – PVFC".

Source for matches before 1999: Kent, Jeff: "The Potteries Derbies" (Witan Books, 1998, ISBN 0-9529152-3-5) These are the major footballing honours of Port Vale and Stoke City.

[100] Prominent players of this period include Tommy Clare, who represented England during his time at Stoke, though would both start and end his professional career at Vale.

[105] Before McCarron, John Lumsdon was the last player to have joined Port Vale on loan from Stoke City, having made the move in March 1978.