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Sunderland A.F.C. was established as a professional football club in 1879. It is a current participant of the English Premier League season where it qualified from the 13th position in the last season's league table. There is one peculiar feature that might be traced throughout the team's history: all major club's achievements have been attained before WW II. Still Sunderland A.F.C. has managed to attain awareness and recognition also after the war years, winning the FA Cup in 1973 and rushing to the final match in the League Cup (1985).

Sunderland is based on Stadium of Light, Tyne and Wear, the overall visitor capacity of which approximates 49000. Before 1997 the club has taken the Roker Park as the chief ground. The most expected and attended by the fans matches are with Newcastle United, the club's strategic rivals. The competition between Sunderland A.F.C. live streaming and its constant opposition is frequently called Tyne-Wear Derby.

Officials. Sunderland A.F.C. is headed by Ellis Short. The chief coach is Martin O'Neill. The current team leader is Lee Cattermole.

Supporters, who traditionally lived in Tyne and Wear area and watched all matches of Sunderland online video, have given an official nickname to the club – the Black Cats. This name is derived from the historical Black Cat Battery which used to defend the area during the Napoleonic war. This could not but be reflected on the club's official crest: the two black cats holding the shield headed by the motto in Latin: Consectatio Excellentiae, translated as 'In Pursuit of Excellence'.

Sunderland A.F.C. employs red, black and white colors in its home kit: red shirt with white stripes, totally black socks and black shorts with red stripes. Guest uniform is all about sky-blue and dark-blue colors, but for the socks which are white with blue trimming.

The glorified club's history has seen a few personal record-breaking transfers. Thus, the most successful and profitable transfer ever made by Sunderland A.F.C. live stream is the sale of Darren Bent to Aston Villa in 2011. The total sum of transfer equaled to £24 million. The largest cost the club ever paid for a player is £12 million; such amount was paid for Steven Fletcher who had been bought from Wolverhampton Wanderers in August, 2012.