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Sunderland Association Football Club was founded in 1879 [1] as Sunderland & District Teachers Association Football Club by James Allan. [2] They turned professional in 1885. [3] Sunderland won their first Football League championship in the 1891–92 season two years after joining the league.
Under Moyes, Sunderland made the worst ever start to a Premier League season, taking just two points from their opening 10 matches. [103] The club was relegated for the first time in 10 years at the end of 2016–17, finishing bottom of the table, [ 104 ] and Moyes resigned. [ 105 ]
In the 2004–05 season, Sunderland finished at the top of the table in Division One, now rechristened the Football League Championship, and thus returned to the Premier League. [154] The 2005–06 season was poor for Sunderland, as they failed to win a home game before Christmas and were eventually relegated with a new record lowest points ...
Sunderland Association Football Club, are a professional football club based in Sunderland, North East England.They were announced to the world by the local newspaper, The Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette on 27 September 1880 as Sunderland & District Teachers Association Football Club [1] following a meeting of the Teachers at Rectory Park school in Sunderland on 25 September 1880.
The 2016–17 season was Sunderland's 138th season in existence, and their tenth consecutive season in the Premier League. [2] Along with competing in the Premier League, the club also participated in the FA Cup and EFL Cup. The season covered the period from 1 July 2016 to 30 June 2017.
Stokoe took Sunderland into European competition for the first time in their history, but they were knocked out in the second round of the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup by Sporting Clube de Portugal. [7] Len Ashurst led Sunderland to their first League Cup final, which they lost 1–0 to Norwich City, but relegation brought him the sack at the end of ...
The season's modest goal became to avoid setting a new low for the fewest points in a Premier League season, a record Sunderland themselves held. Not only was the new record set, but they also broke Stoke City's 21-year record for the lowest points under the three-point-win system.
Sunderland remained in the football league for 106 years, albeit in different divisions, until 1996 when they were promoted to the Premier League, which replaced the Football League's First Division at the top of the English football league system in 1992. [2] Since then the club has been relegated back into The Football League on four occasions.