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Port Vale Football Club is a professional football club based in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, England, which competes in EFL League One.

Vale is the only English Football League club not to be named after a place; their name being a reference to the valley of ports on the Trent and Mersey Canal. They have never played top-flight football, and hold the records for the most seasons in the English Football League (111) and in the second tier (41) without reaching the first tier.

• Full name: Port Vale Football Club
• Nicknames: The Valiants; The Valeites (no longer used)
• Founded: 1876