Sunderland West End Football Club is a football club based in

Sunderland Sunderland () is a port city in Tyne and Wear, England. It is the City of Sunderland's administrative centre and in the Historic counties of England, historic county of County of Durham, Durham. The city is from Newcastle-upon-Tyne and is on t ...

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, England. They are currently members of the and play at the Ford Quarry Hub.

History

Sunderland West End played in the inaugural

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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. On 10 December 1904, Sunderland West End suffered a 9–0 defeat against

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in the

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sixth qualifying round. In the first full season after the culmination of

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, 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. 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

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Division Two. Sunderland West End entered the

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for the first time in 2019–20. The club has been in the Northern League Div 2 since finishing 17th 2019/20 and 20/21 during Covid Seasons. Since then 9th 2021/22, 20th 2022/23 and 20th 2023/24.

Ground

The club currently play at the Ford Quarry Hub in Sunderland.

Records

*Best

performance: Sixth qualifying round, 1904–05 *Best

performance: Second qualifying round, 2019–20

References

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