Sunderland AFC

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Sunderland AFC
The logo since 1997
Basic data
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

Sunderland and Aston Villa appeared in an early football painting by Thomas MM Hemy in 1895

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

The coat of arms of Sunderland AFC from 1972 to 1997

titles and achievements

English championship : 6

English Cup (FA Cup): 2

FA Cup finalist: 2

League Cup Finalist: 2

Charity Shield winner: 1

  • 1936

Former players (selection)

Kevin Phillips scored over 100 league goals for Sunderland between 1997 and 2003

Manager (trainer)

Peter Reid coached Sunderland AFC from 1995 to 2002

Interim trainers are not included in this list.

Period Trainer
1889-1896 EnglandEngland Tom Watson
1896-1899 ScotlandScotland Robert Campbell
1899-1905 ScotlandScotland Alex Mackie
1905-1928 IrelandIreland Bob Kyle
1928-1939 ScotlandScotland Johnny Cochrane
1939-1957 ScotlandScotland Bill Murray
1957-1964 EnglandEngland Alan Brown
1965-1968 ScotlandScotland Ian McColl
1968-1972 EnglandEngland Alan Brown
1972-1976 EnglandEngland Bob Stokoe
1976-1988 EnglandEngland Jimmy Adamson
1978-1979 EnglandEngland Billy Elliott
1979-1981 EnglandEngland Ben Knighton
1981-1984 WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Alan Durban
1984-1985 EnglandEngland Len Ashurst
1985-1987 EnglandEngland Lawrie McMenemy
1987-1991 EnglandEngland Denis Smith
1991-1993 EnglandEngland Malcolm Crosby
1993 EnglandEngland Terry Butcher
1993-1995 EnglandEngland Mick Buxton
1995-2002 EnglandEngland Peter Reid
2002-2003 EnglandEngland Howard Wilkinson
2003-2006 IrelandIreland Mick McCarthy
2006 IrelandIreland Niall Quinn
2006-2008 IrelandIreland Roy Keane
2008-2009 ScotlandScotland Ricky Sbragia
2009-2011 EnglandEngland Steve Bruce
2011-2013 Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Martin O'Neill
2013 ItalyItaly Paolo Di Canio
2013-2015 UruguayUruguay Gustavo Poyet
2015 NetherlandsNetherlands Dick Advocaat
2016-2017 ScotlandScotland David Moyes
2017 EnglandEngland Simon Grayson
2017-2018 WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Chris Coleman
2018-2019 ScotlandScotland Jack Ross
2019– EnglandEngland 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

Commons : Sunderland AFC  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Louise Taylor: Paolo Di Canio confirmed as new Sunderland manager . The Guardian , March 31, 2013. Retrieved April 1, 2013
  2. ↑ David Miliband quits Sunderland FC in Di Canio protest . The Guardian, April 1, 2013. Retrieved April 1, 2013
  3. ^ Louise Taylor: Sunderland sack Paolo Di Canio after training-ground row with players . The Guardian , September 22, 2013.
  4. ↑ Poyet takes over the "Black Cats" . kicker.de, October 8, 2013.
  5. ↑ Tim Beyer: And should he be English? . Zeit Online, July 11, 2018. Retrieved February 23, 2019.
  6. ^ Sunderland 'Til I Die, and the plight of the merely-very-good football player . The Guardian , February 10, 2019. Retrieved February 23, 2019
  7. ^ Sunderland AFC to change ownership . Press release AFC Sunderland dated April 29, 2018
  8. ↑ Cult striker Will Grigg ensures transfer record . Berliner Zeitung, February 1, 2019. Retrieved February 23, 2019.