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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 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.
This became the 'Football in the Community' initiative in the early 1990s, which Sunderland were involved in from the beginning. [1] In September 2001, Sunderland chairman Bob Murray announced the separation of Sunderland's charitable and community work from the mainstream club activity, and the independent SAFC Foundation was created. [4]
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]
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 ...
A Love Supreme is an independent fanzine created for the supporters of English football club Sunderland AFC, written by the fans, for fans.The first issue was launched on March 21, 1989, when Sunderland played Chelsea at Roker Park.
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]