Sunderland West End F.C.

Sunderland West End Football Club is a football club based in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England. They are currently members of the Northern League Division Two and play at the Ford Quarry Hub.

Sunderland West End
Full nameSunderland West End Football Club
GroundFord Quarry, Sunderland
ChairmanDave Young
LeagueNorthern League Division Two
2019–20Northern League Division Two (season abandoned)

History

Sunderland West End played in the inaugural Wearside League season in 1892–93, finishing bottom after winning just one game in eighteen. In the following season, West End again finished bottom with one win. Sunderland West End returned to the Wearside League in the 1900–01 season, finishing third, before finishing just one point behind league winners Sunderland Rovers in the 1901–02 season.[1] On 10 December 1904, Sunderland West End suffered a 9–0 defeat against Bradford City in the FA Cup sixth qualifying round.[2] In the first full season after the culmination of World War I, West End finished fourth, before finishing second, behind Seaham Harbour, in the 1920–21 season. The club finished fourth for four consecutive seasons thereafter, before a decline in the second half of the 1920s saw the club play their final campaign in the league in the 1929–30 season, finishing second from bottom.[3]

In 2011, Houghton Town changed their name to Sunderland West End, signalling the first time in 81 years a club by the name of Sunderland West End had competed in the Wearside League. West End finished runners-up in the 2018–19 Wearside League season, gaining promotion to the Northern League Division Two.[4] Sunderland West End entered the FA Vase for the first time in 2019–20.[5]

Ground

The club currently play at the Nissan Sports Complex in Sunderland.[6]

Records
  • Best FA Cup performance: Sixth qualifying round, 1904–05
  • Best FA Vase performance: Second qualifying round, 2019–20

References
  1. "Wearside League 1892–1919". Non-League Matters. Retrieved 14 July 2019.
  2. "Bradford City v Sunderland West End, 10 December 1904". 11v11. Retrieved 14 July 2019.
  3. "Wearside League 1919–1960". Non-League Matters. Retrieved 14 July 2019.
  4. Sunderland West End at the Football Club History Database
  5. "The Buildbase FA Vase First Round Qualifying" (.ashx). The Football Association. Retrieved 14 July 2019.
  6. "Sunderland West End". Northern League. Retrieved 14 July 2019.

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