Stoke-on-Trent Rugby Union Football Club is a rugby union club located to the east of Barlaston near Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
The first XV currently play in Regional 1 Midlands, a fifth tier league in the English rugby union system.
When league rugby was introduced in 1987, Stoke-on-Trent was placed in Midlands Division 1 and won promotion to Area 4 North in their first season.
[1] They won immediate promotion back to Area 4 North and stayed there until they were placed in a new fifth tier – Courage League Division 5 – following a league structure by the RFU.
They remained in the North Division until another restructure in 1996 saw them move back to the fourth tier - National 4 North - but after just a single season they were relegated to Midlands Division 1.