This paper is concerned with event-triggered sliding mode control (SMC) for uncertain stochastic systems subject to limited communication capacity. We consider the stochastic perturbation, exogenous disturbance and the network-induced communication constraints in a whole framework of SMC design. The measurable output is adequately sampled for periodic computation of a designed event trigger. Network-induced delays are characterized in the transmission over a shared network communication from sensor to controller. An event-triggered zero-order-hold (ZOH) is employed to keep receiving and sending the delayed measurement for control updating, and a state observer is designed to estimate the system state and to facilitate the design of sliding surface. Then, based on the measurement and observer’s outputs, a novel SMC law is presented. The stochastic stability for the overall closed-loop system is analyzed, and the exogenous disturbance is attenuated in an sense. Furthermore, the presented event-triggered SMC methods are successfully applied to multi-loop control case considering shared communication limitation. Simulation results are provided to verify the effectiveness of the proposed design scheme.