For the football

Football (soccer)

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 club, see Stoke City F.C.

Stoke City F.C.

Stoke City Football Club is an English professional football club based in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire that plays in the Premier League. Founded in 1863, it is the oldest club in the Premier League, and considered to be the second oldest professional football club in the world, after Notts...

The Stoke Potters are a British Speedway

Motorcycle speedway

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 team currently competing in the National League

Speedway National League

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. The team races at Loomer Road Stadium

Loomer Road Stadium

Loomer Road Stadium is a sports stadium situated in Chesterton, Staffordshire. Today, it hosts mainly motorcycle speedway and occasionally stock car racing, but in the past it has been the venue for greyhound racing...

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In the late 1940s, early 1950s and the early 1960s, the club was based in Sun Street in Hanley, and were originally known as the Hanley Potters when crowds of over 12,000 were attracted but became the Stoke Potters when the five towns mereged to become Stoke. Hanley won the National League Division Three

Speedway National League Division Three

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in 1949.

Th Sun Street track operated a few times before the war.

The Loomer Road track was home to Stoke from 1973 when they were known for one season as Chesterton Potters. In 1996 it was home to the Cradley Heath team displaced from their base at Dudley Wood Stadium, Cradley Heath

In December 2008 the Stoke Promoter, Dave Tattum, sanctioned a brand new, supporter based official website. www.potterspower.com was released to signal a new era for the Potters.

November 2010 saw a major decision taken by the Clubs Promotion. The team were to withdraw from Premier League racing to drop a division and compete in the National League, speedway's third tear.
The club had struggled financially for the last couple of seasons and the move was made in order to stabalise finances and hopefully get on a sure footing to make a return to the Premier League in a couple of seasons or so.

External links

• Potterspower website