Sunderland Association Football Club (, ) is an English professional
football club based in the
North East city of
Sunderland in the larger metropolitan area of
Tyne and Wear. The club is currently playing in the
Premier League, the top league of English football. Since its formation in 1879, the club has won six top-flight
First Division (now the
Premier League) titles (1892, 1893, 1895, 1902, 1913, and 1936), a total only bettered by five other clubs, and has finished runners-up five times. The club has also won the
FA Cup twice (1937 and 1973) and been runners-up twice (1913 and 1992), as well as winning the FA Community Shield in 1936 and being finalists the following year. Sunderland have also been
Football League Cup finalists in 1985 and 2014.