", "Sunderland break League One attendance record", "What is Sunderland's home attendance record? “He’s got people around him that can offer good advice and they can maybe build the platform for next season if they go up, and I’m pretty sure that there will be investment in the club.”, Lincoln City have made an emergency loan signing after goalkeeper Alex Palmer was ruled out of the clash with Sunderland. It chronicled Sunderland A.F.C. [88] The record-low 15-point performance was surpassed in the 2007–08 season by Derby County, who finished on 11 points. [184], Conversely, sections of fans share a mutual friendship with Dutch club Feyenoord; this was developed after Wearside shipbuilders found jobs in Rotterdam during the 1970s and 80s. [148], To coincide with the move from Roker Park to the Stadium of Light in 1997, Sunderland released a new crest divided into four quarters; the upper right and lower left featured their traditional red and white colours, but the ship was omitted. Sunderland play their home games at the 49,000-capacity all-seater Stadium of Light having moved from Roker Park in 1997. [228], The first sponsor to appear on Sunderland kits was Cowie's, the business group of then chairman Tom Cowie, between 1983 and 1985. [172] One of the oldest Sunderland chants is "Ha'way the lads" which was sung at Sunderland games as far back as the 1960s. [218][219][220][221], As well as club nicknames, names have been used to define memorable periods in the club's history. Traditionally, Sunderland's main rivals are Newcastle United with whom they contest the Tyne–Wear derby. [30] This was the closest the club has come to winning the league title and the FA Cup in the same season.[31]. [15][16] Their goalkeeper Ned Doig set a 19th-century world record by not conceding any goals in 87 of his 290 top division appearances (30%). Watch the League One match on Saturday, March 20, 2021. Speaking to Football Fan Cast, he said: “I think the new owner recognises the potential of the club and we’ve seen that through the people he’s brought into the club to support him. Following the demolition of Roker Park, playwright Tom Kelly and actor Paul Dunn created a one-man play called I Left My Heart at Roker Park about a fan struggling with the move and what the stadium meant for him; the show had its first run in 1997, and has been revived since. [208], In 2018, Netflix released an eight-part documentary called Sunderland 'Til I Die. For Sunderland, the immediate post-war years were characterised by significant spending; the club paid £18,000 (£641 thousand today) for Carlisle United's Ivor Broadis in January 1949. A special constable was killed while patrolling the stadium. [79], Not all fans were satisfied with the move. Find out with YouGov's Premier League profiles", https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/paolo-di-canio-fascist-can-1796086, "A Love Supreme — The Independent Sunderland Football Club Fanzine", "Roker Report shortlisted as a finalist in Football Blogging Awards - we need YOUR votes! Prediction: Lincoln City 1 – 1 Sunderland AFC Level on points at the end of the regular season, both sides have only won one game in their last five. [192], Sunderland have recently created affiliations with several African clubs including Ghana's Asante Kotoko,[193] Egypt's El-Ittihad El-Iskandary,[194] and South Africa's Bidvest Wits. [90] Under Keane, the club rose steadily up the table with an unbeaten run of 17 games[91] to win promotion to the Premier League,[92] and were named winners of the Championship after beating Luton Town 5–0 at Kenilworth Road on 6 May 2007. [61] They were without their FA Cup Final winning manager Bob Stokoe, who had resigned because of health problems at the start of the season. Mackie was also suspended for three months for his involvement in the affair. 0.05. The "Team of All Talents" moniker was used during Sunderland's successful period in the 1890s,[5] and Sunderland were known as the "Bank of England club" during the 1950s. Mai 2021, mit allen Statistiken und wichtigen Ereignissen, ständig aktualisiert. View the latest comprehensive Sunderland AFC match stats, along with a season by season archive, on the official website of the Premier League. Stadium expansion in 2000 saw the capacity increase to 49,000. He continued to take part until the match finished, but collapsed at home afterwards and died in hospital four days later from diabetes mellitus and heart failure 'accelerated by the rough usage of the opposing team'. The statistics shown for each player include any goals they may have scored in the following competitions in the current season: The FA Cup, League One, EFL Cup. The operation failed when a judge ruled CCTV footage from the pub inadmissible. Detailed info on Squad, Results, Tables, Goals Scored, Goals Conceded, Clean Sheets, BTTS, Over 2.5, and more. [165][166][167], A song Sunderland fans sing every game and has been described as the anthem of the club is a rendition of "Can't Help Falling in Love" by Elvis Presley, with "Sunderland" being sung repeatedly after "but I can't help falling in love with you. League One Live-Kommentar für AFC Sunderland vs. Northampton Town am 9. Head to Head Blackpool vs Sunderland AFC. [187], A few days before a game, in 1994, police snatched a pile of weapons and drugs worth thousands of pounds, and were preparing for a showdown with Nottingham hooligans. The club came within one game of promotion back to the First Division in the 1962–63 season. Umbro returned for five seasons between 2007 and 2012, before Adidas became the club's kit manufacturer for the first time in 2012. Sunderland beat Charlton Athletic in the final stages of the season, where they clinched promotion with a game to spare. MARTIN HARVEY 19 September 1941 – 25 November 2019. [121] Eight games into the 2015–16 season he resigned from the position. [152] The club's third stadium was Horatio Street in Roker, the first Sunderland stadium north of the River Wear; the club played a single season there before another move,[153] this time to Abbs Field in Fulwell for two seasons. Following a 3–3 draw against Bolton, Grayson was sacked,[131] and Wales head coach Chris Coleman replaced him in November 2017. Sunderland allow a lot of shots for a side challenging for automatic promotion. [12][13][14], Important to Campbell's success in attack were other "Team of All Talents" players from Scotland: Jimmy Hannah and Jimmy Millar—the many players who came from Scotland to play in England in those days were known as the Scotch Professors. [217], Before this when the team still played at Roker Park, they were known as the Rokerites. However, they regained the title in the 1894–95 season, ending the season five points ahead of Everton, with Campbell becoming league top scorer for the third time. After the league's resumption, Sunderland came close to winning another championship in the 1922–23 season, when they were runners-up to Liverpool. [158] The report recommended that all major stadiums must be converted to an all-seater design. Sunderland have also been Football League Cup finalists in 1985 and 2014. ️ bit.ly/2wLJrSq They won the game 9–1; Billy Hogg and George Holley each scored hat-tricks, while Arthur Bridgett scored two. [223] As of October 2014 John O'Shea is the most capped player for the club, making 100 appearances for the Republic of Ireland.[223]. [145] In 1972 the badge was changed,[146] removing the black cat but still including a ship, a football and the background of red and white stripes. Sunderland's biggest ever win in the FA cup was against Fair field (a non-league team) and the final score was 11–1. Some football was still played as a morale boosting exercise, in the form of the Football League War Cup. Sunderland plays in League One, the third tier of English football. The club have played in red and white-striped shirts and black shorts for nearly the entirety of its history. 10 Sunderland players have scored 100 goals or more in league competitions. by schoolmaster James Allan in what has commonly been believed to be October 1879.
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