Finished 7th in the 2025/26 Premier League at 14-12-12. The 2026/27 Premier League season opens away at Ipswich Town on Sat Aug 22, 2026.
Data as of 2026-08-05 · results through the 2025/26 season
2025/26 finish
7th
54 points
Premier League
Record (W-D-L)
14-12-12
38 matches
Goals scored
42
17th most of 20
Goals conceded
48
4th fewest of 20
Goal difference
-6
14th best of 20
Most-used starting XI
Premier League 2025/26 · 38 matches · most common formation 4-2-3-1 (21 of 38)
The eleven players with the most 2025/26 league starts, each shown in the line he most often started in, with his season start count. This is a record of last season, not a predicted lineup: team sheets come from the openfootball public-domain archive and cover the 2025/26 season in full. Rows follow the source team sheets, so a player used across several roles appears in his most common one.
Betting stats: goals, BTTS and clean sheets
Premier League 2025/26 · 38 matches · counts of what happened, not predictions
Record
Count
Rate
Over 2.5 goals
17 of 38
45%
Both teams scored (BTTS)
18 of 38
47%
Clean sheets
11 of 38
29%
Failed to score
13 of 38
34%
Draws
12 of 38
32%
Home record (W-D-L)
9-6-4
Away record (W-D-L)
5-6-8
Against the top five
Record vs the top-5 finishers of the 2025/26 Premier League
Opponent
Finished
W-D-L
Goals
Arsenal
1st
0-1-1
2-5
Manchester City
2nd
0-1-1
0-3
Manchester United
3rd
0-1-1
0-2
Aston Villa
4th
0-1-1
4-5
Liverpool
5th
0-1-1
1-2
All five
0-5-5
7-17
2026/27 opening fixtures
First five league fixtures · head-to-head is all Premier League meetings in our archive
Date
Fixture
Sunderland W-D-L
Last meeting
Sat Aug 22
Ipswich Town v Sunderland
2-0-2 in 4
Ipswich 5-0 Sunderland
Sat Aug 29
Sunderland v Fulham
5-7-10 in 22
Sunderland 1-3 Fulham
Sat Sep 5
Brentford v Sunderland
1-0-1 in 2
Brentford 3-0 Sunderland
Sat Sep 12
Sunderland v Arsenal
2-10-18 in 30
Arsenal 3-0 Sunderland
Sat Sep 19
Manchester City v Sunderland
5-4-19 in 28
Sunderland 0-0 Man City
Closing form, 2025/26
Premier League · last ten matches · sequence WLWWLLDDWW (oldest first)
Date
Result
Venue
2026-05-24
Sunderland 2-1 Chelsea
W
H
2026-05-17
Everton 1-3 Sunderland
W
A
2026-05-09
Sunderland 0-0 Man United
D
H
2026-05-02
Wolves 1-1 Sunderland
D
A
2026-04-24
Sunderland 0-5 Nott'm Forest
L
H
2026-04-19
Aston Villa 4-3 Sunderland
L
A
2026-04-12
Sunderland 1-0 Tottenham
W
H
2026-03-22
Newcastle 1-2 Sunderland
W
A
2026-03-14
Sunderland 0-1 Brighton
L
H
2026-03-03
Leeds 0-1 Sunderland
W
A
Season history
Last six seasons, competition named on every row, from our own match archive
Season
Competition
Finish
W-D-L
GF
GA
GD
Pts
2025/26
Premier League
7th
14-12-12
42
48
-6
54
2024/25
Championship
4th
21-13-12
58
44
+14
76
2023/24
Championship
16th
16-8-22
52
54
-2
56
2022/23
Championship
6th
18-15-13
68
55
+13
69
Squad
Current first-team squad · as of 2026-08-05
Show full squad (38 players)
#
Player
Position
Age
1
A. Patterson
Goalkeeper
25
21
S. Moore
Goalkeeper
35
22
R. Roefs
Goalkeeper
22
31
M. Ellborg
Goalkeeper
22
5
D. Ballard
Defender
26
12
T. Meunier
Defender
34
13
L. O'Nien
Defender
31
15
O. Alderete
Defender
29
17
Reinildo
Defender
31
20
N. Mukiele
Defender
28
23
J. Seelt
Defender
22
32
T. Hume
Defender
23
33
L. Hjelde
Defender
22
34
A. Alese
Defender
24
48
J. Jones
Defender
19
99
B. Kindon
Defender
18
8
A. Browne
Midfielder
30
11
C. Rigg
Midfielder
18
21
H. Diarra
Midfielder
21
27
N. Sadiki
Midfielder
21
28
E. Le Fée
Midfielder
25
34
G. Xhaka
Midfielder
33
37
J. T. Bi
Midfielder
20
40
J. Whittaker
Midfielder
19
52
Jenson Jones
Midfielder
19
59
A. Lightfoot
Midfielder
97
C. Dinsdale
Midfielder
18
7
C. Talbi
Attacker
20
9
A. Abdullahi
Attacker
21
9
B. Brobbey
Attacker
23
10
N. Angulo
Attacker
22
14
R. Mundle
Attacker
22
18
W. Isidor
Attacker
25
24
S. Adingra
Attacker
23
46
F. Geragusian
Attacker
18
47
T. Ogunsuyi
Attacker
19
57
T. Tuterov
Attacker
20
95
F. Scott
Attacker
18
Injuries and availability
Current season
Not yet connected
No injury feed for the current season
StatusThis block stays empty rather than stale
Where these numbers come from
Results, tables, head-to-head and betting stats. Our own match archive of Premier League and Premier League finals through 2025/26, derived from final scores. Every block names its competition and window.
2026/27 fixtures. The openfootball public-domain fixture file (CC0 1.0).
Starting XI. openfootball 2025/26 team sheets (CC0 1.0); the construction is stated under the graphic.
Squad. API-Football (api-sports.io). Injury data for the current season is not yet in our data plan, so that block renders empty rather than out of date.
Information, not betting advice. This page reports what happened: results, goal counts and team-sheet history from stated sources over stated windows. The betting stats are counts of past outcomes. It contains no picks, no projections and no recommendations.