Sunderland AFC
Sunderland AFC | ||||
Basic data | ||||
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Surname | Sunderland Association Football Club | |||
Seat | Sunderland , England | |||
founding | 1879 | |||
owner | Stewart Donald | |||
Website | safc.com | |||
First soccer team | ||||
Head coach | Phil Parkinson | |||
Venue | Stage of light | |||
Places | 49,000 | |||
league | EFL League One | |||
2019/20 | 8th place | |||
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The AFC Sunderland (officially: Sunderland Association Football Club ) - also known as The Black Cats - is an English football club from Sunderland in northeast England . The club won 6 first division titles (1892, 1893, 1895, 1902, 1913 and 1936) and twice the FA Cup (1937 and 1973).
history
The association was founded in 1879 under the name Sunderland & District Teachers Association . Seven years later, now under the name Sunderland Association Football Club , the club turned professional and recruited the first "foreign" players from Scotland . The AFC later became the first football team to become three English champions ; the Scot Johnny Campbell was the top scorer several times.
In 2003 they were relegated from the Premier League and played in the Football League Championship for two years . After the 2004/05 season , the club rose as champions of the Football League Championship back to the Premier League, rose immediately after the 2005/06 season as 20th again. A seven-member Irish consortium called the Drumaville Consortium bought the club in 2006 from the ownership of Bob Murray. Niall Quinn as a member of this association was used as a coach. After poor performance in the league he was followed by Roy Keane as coach; Quinn himself took over the post of club president. In the same season , AFC Sunderland was promoted to the Premier League. In the 2007/08 season the class was held in 15th place.
In March 2013 Paolo Di Canio took over the coaching position. Di Canio was controversial because of his clear commitment to Italian fascism . As a result, David Miliband resigned as Vice-President and Chairman of the Supervisory Board in protest. Di Canio was sacked in September 2013 after a verbal argument with several players revealed the deep rifts in the team. Di Canio had previously publicly criticized players several times. He was succeeded by Gustavo Poyet .
In July 2016 David Moyes took over the coaching position. With him, Sunderland AFC rose as the bottom of the table in the 2016/17 season from the Premier League with 24 points. After the end of the season, goalkeeper Jordan Pickford , who had worked in the youth department of Sunderland AFC since he was eight, moved to Everton for a record sum of 34 million euros . A season later they rose as bottom of the table from the second highest English league. This season was documented in the Netflix series Sunderland 'til I Die . As a result, Ellis Short, the US owner, sold the club to an international consortium of investors led by English entrepreneur and football manager Stewart Donald.
In the 2018/19 season, Northern Irish striker Will Grigg moved from second division Wigan Athletic to lower-class AFC Sunderland for around 4.6 million euros . It was the most expensive transfer of a player to a League One club to date. The team finished 5th in the league and lost in the promotion playoffs against Charlton Athletic .
Dates and names
titles and achievements
English Cup (FA Cup): 2
- 1937 (3-1 against Preston North End ) and 1973 (1-0 against Leeds United )
FA Cup finalist: 2
- 1913 (0-1 against Aston Villa ) and 1992 (0-2 against Liverpool FC )
League Cup Finalist: 2
- 1985 (0: 1 against Norwich City ) and 2014 (1: 3 against Manchester City )
Charity Shield winner: 1
- 1936
Former players (selection)
- Johnny Campbell (1890-1897)
- Bobby Gurney (1925-1950)
- Billy Bingham (1950-1958)
- Charlie Hurley (1957-1969)
- Jimmy Montgomery (1960-1977)
- Brian Clough (1961-1964)
- Colin Todd (1966-1971)
- Bobby Kerr (1966-1979)
- Ian Porterfield (1967-1977)
- David Watson (1970-1975)
- Gary Rowell (1972-1984)
- Ally McCoist (1981-1983)
- Bary Venison (1981-1986)
- Gary Bennett (1984-1995)
- Frank Gray (1985-1989)
- Gordon Armstrong (1985-1995)
- Peter Davenport (1990-1993)
- Kevin Ball (1990-1999)
- Michael Gray (1992-2004)
- Andy Melville (1993-1999)
- Dariusz Kubicki (1994–1997)
- Alex Rae (1996-2001)
- Niall Quinn (1996-2002)
- Kevin Phillips (1997-2003)
- Thomas Sørensen (1998-2003)
- Gavin McCann (1998-2003)
- Thomas Helmer (1999-2000)
- Stefan Schwarz (1999-2003)
- Kevin Kilbane (1999-2003)
- Julio Arca (2000-2006)
- Tore André Flo (2002–2003)
- Dean Whitehead (2004-2009)
- Dwight Yorke (2006-2009)
- Jonny Evans (2007-2008)
- Kenwyne Jones (2007-2010)
- Lorik Cana (2009-2010)
- Darren Bent (2009-2011)
- Jordan Pickford (2011-2017)
Manager (trainer)
Interim trainers are not included in this list.
Period | Trainer |
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1889-1896 | Tom Watson |
1896-1899 | Robert Campbell |
1899-1905 | Alex Mackie |
1905-1928 | Bob Kyle |
1928-1939 | Johnny Cochrane |
1939-1957 | Bill Murray |
1957-1964 | Alan Brown |
1965-1968 | Ian McColl |
1968-1972 | Alan Brown |
1972-1976 | Bob Stokoe |
1976-1988 | Jimmy Adamson |
1978-1979 | Billy Elliott |
1979-1981 | Ben Knighton |
1981-1984 | Alan Durban |
1984-1985 | Len Ashurst |
1985-1987 | Lawrie McMenemy |
1987-1991 | Denis Smith |
1991-1993 | Malcolm Crosby |
1993 | Terry Butcher |
1993-1995 | Mick Buxton |
1995-2002 | Peter Reid |
2002-2003 | Howard Wilkinson |
2003-2006 | Mick McCarthy |
2006 | Niall Quinn |
2006-2008 | Roy Keane |
2008-2009 | Ricky Sbragia |
2009-2011 | Steve Bruce |
2011-2013 | Martin O'Neill |
2013 | Paolo Di Canio |
2013-2015 | Gustavo Poyet |
2015 | Dick Advocaat |
2016-2017 | David Moyes |
2017 | Simon Grayson |
2017-2018 | Chris Coleman |
2018-2019 | Jack Ross |
2019– | Phil Parkinson |
literature
- Paul Days, John Hudson, Bernard Callaghan, Paul Callaghan: Sunderland AFC: The Official History 1879–2000 . Business Education Publishers Ltd., Sunderland 1999, ISBN 978-0-9536984-1-7 , pp. 336 .
- Garth Dykes, Doug Lamming: All the Lads: A Complete Who's Who of Sunderland AFC Polar Print Group Ltd., Leicester 1999, ISBN 978-1-899538-14-0 , pp. 480 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Louise Taylor: Paolo Di Canio confirmed as new Sunderland manager . The Guardian , March 31, 2013. Retrieved April 1, 2013
- ↑ David Miliband quits Sunderland FC in Di Canio protest . The Guardian, April 1, 2013. Retrieved April 1, 2013
- ^ Louise Taylor: Sunderland sack Paolo Di Canio after training-ground row with players . The Guardian , September 22, 2013.
- ↑ Poyet takes over the "Black Cats" . kicker.de, October 8, 2013.
- ↑ Tim Beyer: And should he be English? . Zeit Online, July 11, 2018. Retrieved February 23, 2019.
- ^ Sunderland 'Til I Die, and the plight of the merely-very-good football player . The Guardian , February 10, 2019. Retrieved February 23, 2019
- ^ Sunderland AFC to change ownership . Press release AFC Sunderland dated April 29, 2018
- ↑ Cult striker Will Grigg ensures transfer record . Berliner Zeitung, February 1, 2019. Retrieved February 23, 2019.