Sunderland AFC

Sunderland Association Football Club is an English football club, founded in 1879. The club plays its home games at the Stadium of Light in Sunderland. This stadium is in use since 1997. Nearly a century before the club played home games at Roker Park.

The club was founded under the name Sunderland & District Teachers Association, but if the name quickly changed to Sunderland Association Football Club. There were also players, which were not a teacher. In 1885 the club became a professional club and in that year also the first Scots arrived at the club.

In 1887 the club split into two clubs, because attracting many paid professional players kept the local heroes from the first team. The local men founded a private team,Sunderland Albion FC. In 1890, one of the two teams admitted to the Football League. A playoff was played and Sunderland AFC won that match. Sunderland Albion continued as an amateur club and disappeared into obscurity.

In the early years of the Football League club Sunderland was the northernmost and they had to often the opponents travel fee. Sunderland lost only one home game In six seasons and they were the first team that had become three times Dutch champion.

In 2005/06 the club relegated to the second division. There seemed to go wrong after the first 4 games were lost. The club continued under the guidance of trainer Roy Keane the way up in. A few games before the end the club was already sure of promotion to the Premier League. On the last day, the title was still won, after point loss by League-leader Birmingham City, Luton Town and the own profit on.



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 * 2 Sunderland in Europe
 * 3 selection 2012/2013
 * 4 notable former players
 * 4.1 Dutch
 * 4.2 Belgian
 * 5 external link
 * 1R = first round
 * 1/8 = 1/8th final
 * PUC = points UEFA coefficients
 * Emanuele Giaccherini
 * Julio Arca
 * Jim Baxter
 * Arnau Caldentey
 * Raich Carter
 * Michael Chopra
 * Brian Clough
 * Tore André Flo
 * Trevor Ford
 * Bobby Gurney
 * Craig Gordon
 * Asamoah Gyan
 * Charlie Hurley
 * Liam Lawrence
 * Jason McAteer
 * Ally McCoist
 * Jimmy Montgomery
 * Phil Kevin Lambert
 * Niall Quinn
 * Claudio Reyna
 * Kieran Richardson
 * Gary Rowell
 * Stéphane Sessègnon
 * Stefan Schwarz
 * Len Shackleton
 * Thomas Sørensen
 * Stanislav Varga
 * Dave Watson
 * Dwight Yorke
 * Loek Ursem
 * Boudewijn Zenden
 * Edwin Zoetebier
 * Simon Mignolet