Sunderland Association Football Club is an English professional football club based in the city of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear. Since its formation in 1879, the club has won six top-flight titles, a total only bettered by five other clubs. They have also won the FA Cup twice and been runners-up twice, as well as winning the FA Charity Shield in 1936. Sunderland play their home games at the 49,000-capacity all-seater Stadium of Light having moved from Roker Park in 1997. The club have a long-standing rivalry with nearby club Newcastle United, with whom they have contested the Tyne–Wear derby since 1898.
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Sunderland Association Football Club is an English professional football club based in the city of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear. Since its formation in 1879, the club has won six top-flight titles, a total only bettered by five other clubs. They have also won the FA Cup twice and been runners-up twice, as well as winning the FA Charity Shield in 1936 and being finalists the following year. Sunderland play their home games at the 49,000-capacity all-seater Stadium of Light having moved from Roker Park in 1997. The club have a long-standing rivalry with nearby club Newcastle United, with whom they have contested the Tyne–Wear derby since 1898. Sunderland joined The Football League for the 1890–91 season, becoming the first new club to join the league since its inauguration in 1888. They were declared the \”Team of All Talents\” by William McGregor, the founder of the league, after a 7–2 win against Aston Villa. In the 1891–92 season, they became the first team to score 100 goals in a season, a feat not matched until 1919–20, when West Bromwich Albion set a new record. Sunderland came close to winning a third successive league championship in the 1893–94 season, finishing second behind Aston Villa, but they regained the title in the 1894–95 season. They won their fourth league title in 1901–02, beating Everton by a three-point margin. They followed up this with a victory in the Sheriff Shield, followed up with a second-place finish in 1900–01, and were finalists for the League Cup in 1985 and 2014.
Sunderland have played in red and white-striped shirts and black shorts for nearly the entirety of its history, with the club’s home ground being in Newcastle Road from 1886 until 1898. From 1886 to 1898, Sunderland’s home ground was in Newcastle road. In 1898, the team moved to what would become their home ground for almost a century, Rokers Park, which had a capacity of 30,000. However, over the following decades it was continually expanded, and at its peak it would hold an official crowd of over 75,000 on 8 March 1933 in a sixth round FA Cup replay against Derby County. Tom Watson became Sunderland’s first manager when he was appointed in 1888, and he took the club to three English League championship titles in three seasons. In 1895, the whole Sunderland lineup in the 1895 World Championship was made from entirely Scottish players. The many players who came from Scotland to play in England in those days were known as the Scotch Professors. The wealthy miner Samuel Tyzack, who alongside and shipbuilder Robert Turnbull funded the club, often pretended to be a priest while scouting for players in Scotland, as Sunderland’s recruitment policy in Scotland enraged many Scottish fans. After taking Sunderland to three championships, Watson resigned at the end of the 1895–96 season, in order to join Liverpool. He was replaced as manager by Scotsman Alex Mackie, who went on to join Bristol City.
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