Gallery: Port Vale players’ summer training over the years

A selection of images from the OVF archives showing Port Vale players training over the years.

We are grateful to Paul Humphreys and AS Photos for many of these images.

Vintage training sessions

One from the early 1930s and a few from the 1950s and 1960s.

1990 training session

A couple of clippings of Port Vale’s training towards the end of the 1989-90 season (and yes Darren Hughes is wearing a really old Vale shirt for the training session)

2003 training session

Players including new signing Andreas Lipa warm-up on the pitch

2012 training session

Coach Rob Page put the players through their paces around Westport Lake.

2013 training session

The 2013 session includes a couple of trialists you may remember.

2021 training session

Darrell Clarke takes charge of things in the summer of 2021.

2023 training session

Andy Crosby rallies the troops during open training.

2025 training session

We’re not sure exactly what the collective noun is… but a multitude of Darren Moore signings last summer.