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Stoke City and Port Vale are meeting in the second round of the Checkatrade Trophy.

Vale's first team will host Stoke's under-21s at Vale Park on a date to be confirmed in the week beginning December 3.

It's the first time the two clubs will have met competitively at any kind of senior level since a League One clash at the Britannia Stadium in February 2002.

It will be the first meeting at Vale Park since the corresponding league game that season which finished 1-1 thanks to goals from Steve McPhee and Chris Iwelumo for Vale and Stoke, respectively, in October 2001.

The tie is Stoke's first in the knockout stages an under-21 team and comes after they came second in their group and Vale topped theirs.

Stoke graduated from the group stage after drawing at Carlisle on Tuesday evening before winning a penalty shoot out academic to their qualification.

Boss Kevin Russell included Sam Clucas as one of the two over-age players he is permitted to play in the Checkatrade Trophy this season.

(Image: Phil Greig / Stoke City FC)

Clucas played the full 90 minutes by way of stepping up his return to serious first-team contention following his long-term knee injury.

Charlie Adam, Moritz Bauer and goalkeeper Jakob Haugaard have previously appeared as over-age players for Stoke City in the Checkatrade this season to supplement the efforts of regulars like Harry Souttar, Lesse Sorensen, Ollie Shenton and Tyrese Campbell.