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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.
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 ]
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.
Statue of former Sunderland manager Bob Stokoe, who took the club to their second FA Cup victory in the 1972–73 season. 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]
On 16 October 1880 the Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette announced that the club's name had been changed to Sunderland Association Football Club; and non-teachers were allowed to join. [7] They turned professional in 1885, the same year that the club recruited a number of Scotsmen, their first internationally capped players. [8]
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.
Sunderland Association Football Club was founded in September 1880 as Sunderland and District Teachers Association Football Club. [1] After turning professional in 1886, the club appointed Tom Watson as their first manager, and under Watson the team won the Football League First Division three times in four seasons. [2]