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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.
Sunderland Association Football Club is a professional football club based in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England, which competes in the Championship, the second tier of English football. Formed in 1879, [ 2 ] the club has won six top-flight titles (1892, 1893, 1895, 1902, 1913, and 1936) in the First Division , and finished runners-up five times.
The Foundation of Light (Previously called the SAFC Foundation) is a Registered Charity in the United Kingdom, and is the independent charitable foundation of professional football club Sunderland A.F.C. It is the biggest football charity in the UK. [1] It was founded on 6 September 2001 by Sunderland chairman Bob Murray.
The 2024–25 season is the 146th season in the history of Sunderland Association Football Club and their third consecutive season in the Championship. The club are participating in the Championship, the FA Cup, and the EFL Cup.
Sunderland Association Football Club, an English association football club based in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, was founded in 1879. [1] They joined The Football League in the 1890–91 season replacing Stoke who had failed to be re-elected, making Sunderland the first new club to join the league since its inauguration in 1888.
On May 18, the club confirmed a further two friendlies, against local sides Gateshead and South Shields. [70] In June, a sixth pre-season opposition was added, with a trip to Hartlepool United planned. [ 71 ]
In 2000, the club merged with an independent Sunderland Ladies club and the Sunderland A.F.C. men's club to become Sunderland Women's FC after winning promotion to the top tier FA Women's Premier League National Division for the first time. [12] [13] The new club was originally financed as part of the established professional Sunderland A.F.C ...
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.