Sunderland 1 – 2 Portsmouth, 2008/09 – Football Research Archive

Sunderland 1 – 2 Portsmouth

Source OpenFootballUpdated 15 Oct 2026, 07:31 BSTSource changed on or before 15 Oct 2026Kickoff 8 Nov 2008, 15:00 GMT

Sunderland

1 – 2Half time 1 – 0

Portsmouth

Match statistics

According to football-data.co.uk. Referee: S Bennett.

Aggregate match statistics according to football-data.co.uk
Statistic	Sunderland	Portsmouth
Shots	9	10
Shots on target	6	5
Corners	8	3
Fouls committed	8	10
Yellow cards	2	1
Red cards	0	0

Yellow cards exclude the first yellow when a player is sent off for a second yellow. Missing values are not held.

Source file, line 114; read 16 Oct 2026, 06:47 BST.

Kickoff

8 Nov 2008, 15:00 GMT

Published as 15:00 Europe/London

Ground

Stadium of Light

Sunderland's home ground on that date, from its ground history. The source does not give the venue.

Attendance

37,712

According to Wikipedia

Referee

Matchday 12

Goals

According to “2008–09 Sunderland A.F.C. season”

–GoalDjibril CisséSunderland

Scorers are listed for Sunderland only: the article gives no scorers for the other side, or they do not add up to its score.

According to “2008–09 Portsmouth F.C. season”

4′GoalDjibril CisséSunderland1 – 0
51′GoalNadir BelhadjPortsmouth1 – 1
89′Goal, penaltyJermain DefoePortsmouth1 – 2

According to Wikipedia: the scorers and minutes in the clubs' season articles, shown because each article's score equals this archive's and the scorers add up to it. The two clubs' articles list them differently, so both are shown. Own goals are listed under the side they counted for.

Includes data from Wikipedia (“2008–09 Sunderland A.F.C. season”, revision 1376545853, read 16 Oct 2026; “2008–09 Portsmouth F.C. season”, revision 1372554883, 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.

Coverage

What this archive holds for this match

Held: the result, aggregate match statistics (shots, corners, fouls), goalscorers and minutes (according to Wikipedia), attendance (according to Wikipedia). Not held: full event data, team sheets, bookings, match officials, venue. Absence here is not zero.

Sources

Result: OpenFootball
Scorers, attendance, referee: English Wikipedia, the clubs' season articles (secondary source, CC BY-SA 4.0), each checked against the stored result before use
Data last updated: 15 Oct 2026, 07:31 BST (the archive's last successful import)
Source file last changed: on or before 15 Oct 2026
This record last changed: 15 Oct 2026, 07:26 BST
Last correction: None

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