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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's first team, nicknamed the Black Cats, have competed in a number of nationally contested leagues, and their record against each club faced in those competitions is summarised below. Sunderland played their inaugural league fixture as part of the 1890–91 Football League on 13 September 1890 against Burnley . [ 4 ]
Halliday improved his goal scoring to 43 goals in 42 games the following season, [27] an all-time Sunderland record for goals scored in a single season. [6] The club's sixth league championship came in the 1935–36 season under Scottish manager Johnny Cochrane. [28]
They were relegated after a single campaign but won promotion as Champions again in the 1998–99 season acquiring 105 points on the way, a second tier record at the time. Sunderland gained just 15 points in the 2005–06 season, which set the record for the lowest number of points in a top flight season for 3 points for a win, which has since ...
Sunderland are now unbeaten in three games after Michael Beale's side won against Preston North End at the Stadium of Light. Nazariy Rusyn got his first senior goal for the Black Cats after a ...
Sunderland competed in the Charity Shield for a second successive season, this time against Manchester City who had won the League title in 1936–37; Sunderland were beaten 2–0. [58] Their FA Cup success looked set to continue in the 1937–38 season , when they reached the semi-finals, but they were beaten 3–1 by Huddersfield Town , to ...
Alf Common, the first player to be transferred for £1,000, when he was bought by Middlesbrough from Sunderland in 1905 Sunderland Association Football Club was founded in 1879, and turned professional in 1886. This list contains all players that have played 100 or more first-class matches for the club. However, some players who have played fewer matches are also included. This includes ...
Behind are Sunderland, Sheffield Wednesday and Norwich City all with five. The third tier record is held by Plymouth Argyle . [ 5 ] Winning League 1 in the 2022-23 season moved them to outright holders, ahead of Portsmouth , Bristol City , Doncaster Rovers , Wigan Athletic and Hull City .