STOKE CITY FOOTBALL CLUB LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2027-02-28 (in 9mo)
Last filed for 2025-05-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-09-06 (in 4mo)
Last made up 2025-08-23
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£26M
+267.8% vs 2024
Net assets
-£157M
-18.5% vs 2024
Employees
332
+11% vs 2024
Profit before tax
-£28M
-9.5% vs 2024
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-05-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-05-31 | 2025-05-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £32,271,000 | £35,438,000 | |
| Operating profit | -£26,236,000 | -£29,537,000 | |
| Profit before tax | -£25,862,000 | -£28,307,000 | |
| Net profit | -£28,626,000 | -£24,482,000 | |
| Cash | £6,940,000 | £25,522,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | -£129,555,000 | -£155,641,000 | |
| Net assets | -£132,483,000 | -£156,965,000 | |
| Equity | -£132,483,000 | -£156,965,000 | |
| Average employees | 299 | 332 | |
| Wages | £27,775,000 | £26,513,000 |
Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2024-05-31 | 2025-05-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | -81.3% | -83.3% | |
| Net margin | -88.7% | -69.1% | |
| Return on capital employed | 20.3% | 19.0% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 449.7% | 422.9% | |
| Current ratio | 0.14x | 0.18x |
Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- RSM UK Audit LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The financial statements therefore have been prepared on a going concern basis as the Company's ultimate owner, John Coates, has agreed to continue to support the Company's funding requirements to enable the Company to meet its obligations as they fall due for 12 months from the date of signing these financial statements.”
Significant events
- “On 8 July 2024 Stoke City Holdings Limited and its subsidiaries were demerged from bet365 Group Limited to John Coates.”
- “On 21 November 2025, Premier League clubs voted to introduce Squad Cost Ratio regulations, replacing the current Profit and Sustainability rules from the start of the 2026/27 season.”
- “On 21 July 2025 the Football Governance Act passed into law establishing the Independent Football Regulator.”
- “Subsequent to the year end, the Company has acquired and committed to acquire player registrations at an initial cost of £11,356,000 (2024: £5,125,000). The Company has also realised £7,346,000 (2024: £77,000) on the disposal of player registrations and whose net book value at the year end was £3,381,000 (2024: £1,760,000).”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
4 active · 18 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HEATH, David Thomas | Secretary | 2025-05-23 | — | — |
| COATES, John Fitzgerald | Director | 2015-07-02 | Jan 1970 | British |
| COATES, Peter | Director | — | Jan 1938 | British |
| SMITH, Richard Kingsley | Director | 2010-05-18 | May 1966 | British |
Show 18 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BAILEY, Ian David | Secretary | 1998-02-26 | 2007-04-06 |
| GOODMAN, Martin | Secretary | 2011-10-31 | 2016-12-31 |
| PELLING, John David | Secretary | 2017-02-10 | 2025-05-23 |
| POTTS, Michael James | Secretary | — | 1998-02-04 |
| SILK, Karen | Secretary | 2007-05-22 | 2011-10-14 |
| ADALSTEINSSON, Elfar | Director | 1999-11-12 | 2000-12-31 |
| DOONA, Paul Ernest | Director | 1997-02-20 | 1999-02-24 |
| EDWARDS, David Joseph | Director | 1994-09-07 | 1999-11-12 |
| GISLASON, Gunnar Thor | Director | 1999-11-12 | 2006-05-22 |
| HUMPHREYS, Keith Ashley | Director | — | 2015-06-15 |
| KENYON, Robert David | Director | — | 1994-09-07 |
| LEE, Robert Clive | Director | 1992-07-20 | 1993-10-31 |
| MOORS, Michael Eric | Director | 1994-09-07 | 1997-01-21 |
| RAWLINS, Philip | Director | 2000-03-23 | 2013-12-17 |
| SCHOLES, Anthony John | Director | 2010-05-18 | 2022-01-12 |
| SIGURVINSSON, Asgeir | Director | 1999-11-12 | 2006-05-19 |
| THORISSON, Stefan Geir | Director | 2001-01-01 | 2006-05-19 |
| WRIGHT, Paul John | Director | — | 1994-09-07 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr Anthony John Scholes | Individual | Significant influence | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2022-01-12 |
| Stoke City Holdings Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100% | 2016-04-06 | Active |
| Mr John Fitzgerald Coates | Individual | Significant influence | 2016-04-06 | Active |
| Mr Peter Coates | Individual | Significant influence | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 261 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2022-09-12 MA Memorandum articles
- 2022-09-12 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-02 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-09-05 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-06-05 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2025-06-04 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2025-01-29 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-09-05 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-01-30 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-09-06 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2023-03-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-09-12 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2022-09-12 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2022-09-01 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2022-04-07 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-01-20 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-01-20 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2021-09-06 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-05-25 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2020-09-03 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2019-12-17 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2019-09-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 4
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 1
- Officers resigned
- 1
last 12 months
last 24 months
last 12 months
last 12 months
Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.
Year-on-year
FY2024 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-05-31 vs 2024-05-31
-
Turnover
+9.8%
£32,271,000 £35,438,000
-
Cash
+267.8%
£6,940,000 £25,522,000
-
Net assets
-18.5%
-£132,483,000 -£156,965,000
-
Employees
+11%
299 332
-
Operating profit
-12.6%
-£26,236,000 -£29,537,000
-
Profit before tax
-9.5%
-£25,862,000 -£28,307,000
-
Wages
-4.5%
£27,775,000 £26,513,000
Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers