Source OpenFootballUpdated Founded 1879Ground Stadium of LightSeasons held 18
Season statistics: Wikipedia. The archive holds no team sheets for 2011/12, so these are Sunderland's league figures according to the club-season article on English Wikipedia, in the article's order. Players link to their page where the archive holds them, matched through Wikidata.
| Player | Pos. | Apps | Starts | Sub | Goals | All apps | All goals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Craig Gordon | GK | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Phil Bardsley | DF | 31 | 29 | 2 | 1 | Not held | 2 |
| Wayne Bridge | DF | 8 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 10 | 0 |
| Michael Turner | DF | 24 | 23 | 1 | 0 | 29 | 0 |
| Wes Brown | DF | 20 | 20 | 0 | 1 | Not held | 1 |
| Lee Cattermole | MF | 23 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 27 | 0 |
| Sebastian Larsson | MF | 32 | 32 | 0 | 7 | Not held | 8 |
| Craig Gardner | MF | 30 | 22 | 8 | 3 | Not held | 3 |
| Fraizer Campbell | FW | 12 | 6 | 6 | 1 | Not held | 2 |
| Connor Wickham | FW | 16 | 5 | 11 | 1 | Not held | 1 |
| Kieran Richardson | MF | 29 | 26 | 3 | 2 | Not held | 3 |
| Matthew Kilgallon | DF | 10 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 0 |
| Jack Colback | MF | 35 | 29 | 6 | 1 | Not held | 2 |
| David Vaughan |
The article lists 2 own goals by opponents in Sunderland's favour. Sunderland scored 45 league goals that season by the archive's results. A dash means the article gives no figure, not zero.
Includes data from Wikipedia (“2011–12 Sunderland A.F.C. season”, revision 1369399547, read 16 Oct 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikipedia is edited by volunteers; the archive treats it as a secondary source and checks it against its own records where it can.
| MF |
| 22 |
| 17 |
| 5 |
| 2 |
| Not held |
| 2 |
| John O'Shea | DF | 29 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 34 | 0 |
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| Ji Dong-Won | FW | 19 | 2 | 17 | 2 | Not held | 2 |
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| David Meyler | MF | 7 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 9 | 0 |
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| Titus Bramble | DF | 8 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 1 |
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| Keiren Westwood | GK | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 0 |
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| Oumare Tounkara | FW | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| Simon Mignolet | GK | 29 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 35 | 0 |
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| James McClean | MF | 23 | 20 | 3 | 5 | Not held | 6 |
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| Sotirios Kyrgiakos | DF | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
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| Jordan Cook | FW | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| Ahmed Elmohamady | MF | 18 | 7 | 11 | 1 | Not held | 1 |
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| Stéphane Sessègnon | MF | 36 | 36 | 0 | 7 | Not held | 8 |
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| Ryan Noble | FW | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
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| Craig Lynch | FW | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| Louis Laing | DF | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| John Egan | DF | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| Nicklas Bendtner | FW | 28 | 25 | 3 | 8 | Not held | 8 |
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| Asamoah Gyan | FW | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
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| Anton Ferdinand | DF | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
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| Total | 510 | 43 |
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| Player | Years | Matches | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amad Diallo | from 2022 | Not held | Not held |
| Lutsharel Geertruida | 2025–2026 | 28 | 0 |
| Marc Guiu Paz | 2025 | 2 | 0 |
| Antoine Semenyo | 2020 | 7 | 1 |
| Jordan Pickford | 2011–2017 | 31 | 0 |
| Danny Welbeck | 2010–2011 | 26 | 6 |
| Jordan Henderson | 2008–2011 | 71 | 4 |
| Paul Heckingbottom | 1996–1999 | 0 | 0 |
| Sam Allardyce | 1980–1981 | 25 | 2 |
Not limited to the season above, and not the club's full list: only people who appear elsewhere in this archive are listed. Years and figures are the spells' own, across all competitions, as Wikidata records them.