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Sunderland Association Football Club is a professional football club, based at the Stadium of Light in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, in North-East England. They moved to the Stadium of Light in 1997 after 99 years at Roker Park. They play in the Premier League. Before the Second World War, Sunderland were league champions six times - in 1892, 1893, 1895, 1902, 1913, and most recently in 1936, when they became the last team wearing striped shirts to win the league. They were elected into the football league in 1890, becoming the first team to join after the league's birth in 1888. Sunderland stayed in the top flight until 1958, a record which only Arsenal has bettered since, in 1992. The club won their first FA Cup in 1937 with a 3-1 victory over Preston North End.

In 117 years while still being rated as 76 in the top division, they have played over 4700 league games, of which they have won 41%, drawn 24% and lost 35%. Sunderland has an all-time positive league goal-difference of over 600.

Sunderland last won the league in 1936. Since then, their highest league finish was 3rd in 1950, although they did reach seventh in consecutive seasons at the turn of the 21st century. Since they were first relegated in 1958, Sunderland has not spent longer than 6 years in a division without being promoted or relegated.

Glasgow born Sunderland-based school teacher James Allan started the 'Sunderland and District Teachers Association Football Club' formed Sunderland A.F.C. on 17 October 1879. On 16 October 1880 the club changed its name to "Sunderland Teachers Association football Club" still having the Teachers bit remained, but the statement which announced this indicated that the club opened its membership to all in order to relax financial troubles and increase the pool of players available to it. Sunderland Teachers AFC became Sunderland AFC on limited company status. Sunderland enjoyed an extremely "unhealthy" rivalry with Sunderland Albion F.C. which confusingly had the same initials as that of Sunderland AFC, until their demise in the early 20th century. Ironically it was James Allan who founded Albion after being voted off from the Committee of Sunderland AFC, although he had formed Albion prior to the meeting.

Sunderland was admitted into The Football League for the 1890-91 season, replacing Stoke. It was for the first time a new club had joined the league since its inauguration in 1989. During the late 19th century they were still famously declared as the "Team of All Talents" by William McGregor, the founder of the league, after a 6-1 over Aston Villa at Perry Barr and between 1892 and 1902 the team won the league three times and were runners-up a further three times. In 1913, Sunderland again won the league and lost their first FA Cup Final 1-0 to Aston Villa. It was the closest the club has ever gone to The Double. Following their relegation new hope was given to the club by ex-player Niall Quinn, along with the Irish Drumaville Consortium, successfully launched a bid to buy out former chair Bob Murray in July 2006. The consortium appointed former Manchester United captain Roy Keane, a former international team mate of chairman Niall Quinn, as their new manager. Quinn had been in charge for the first few games of the season in a disastrous start. However, under Keane the club rose steadily up the table with an unbeaten run of seventeen games from the start of 2007. Along with Birmingham City FC, Sunderland clinched promotion to the FA Premier League for the upcoming 2007-2008 season, following Derby County's 2-0 defeat to Crystal Palace on April 29th. Roy Keane was informed that Sunderland AFC had been promoted. On May 6th 2007 Sunderland was crowned winners of Championship after beating Luton Town 5-0 at Kenilworth Road.

Promoted to the Premier League, their first game was at home against Tottenham which they won 1-0 due to an injury time goal from Michael Chopra just 13 seconds from the final whistle. Their second game was a 2-2 draw against fellow Premier League new boys Birmingham City, Michael Chopra and Stern John scoring the goals.

In 2000 following a poll on the official SAFC website, Sunderland confirmed the football club's traditional nickname of "The Black Cats". There is a long historical link between Black Cats and Sunderland; including the "Black Cat Battery", a battery gun based on the River Wear, according to Sunderland AFC. This link is reinforced by folklore in which the black cat is said to bring luck.

Raine's "Eye Plan" shows two and ultimately four of the gun batteries on the south side of the Wear which guarded the river mouth during the Napoleonic wars. This battery site later evolved into Militia Barracks during the course of the nineteenth century. In 1805 the battery was manned by local militia, the Sunderland Loyal Volunteers, one of whom was a cooper by trade named Joshua Dunn. He, it was said, "fled from the howling of an approaching black cat, convinced by the influence of the full moon and a warming dram or two that it was the devil incarnate". From that point onwards the John Paul Jones Battery was known as the Black Cat Battery. A Sunderland supporter Billy Morris took a Black Cat to the 1937 FA Cup Final in his top pocket as a good luck charm, it worked as Sunderland brought home the trophy for the first time.

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