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2018-19 Northern League fixtures

The Northern League has published its 2018-19 fixtures. We kick off the season at home to Newcastle Benfield, which should be a cracker, followed by a visit to the Glebe Sports Ground for an evening match against newly promoted Whickham.

Please click here for a complete list of our league fixtures. Some evening matches may be 7:45 kick offs. I'll look to update the times if they are. So far, all our evening kick off times are 7:30pm.

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The Awards

Sunderland RCA's end of season Awards Evening was held on Saturday, 9 June at the Grosvenor Casino - in Sunderland city centre. After such a terrific season it felt that every player deserved an award. And, thanks to tremendous efforts from the management team and Mark Cowan and Carl Morris in particular, it was a bumper night. Thanks everyone who came and thanks to our many sponsors for your support during the year and on the night. It makes the difference. Thanks, too, to Gordon Armstrong - a great RCA supporter - for presenting the awards. The night, though, was principally about the players. Well done to them all.

Mrs Margaret Swales, Greg Swansbury and Gordon Armstrong. Greg was joint winner of the Management Player of the Season award, sponsored by Kitchen Magic.

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Mark returns and welcome Alex

Mark Davison and Sunderland RCA manager Martin Swales

Terrific news for RCA fans: we welcome strikers Mark Davison and Alex Ramshaw to Meadow Park.

Mark returns to the club for the third time, having played for Spennymoor, Washington and Morpeth Town. Always popular, always in the goals, it's great to have Mark - and his family - back with the club.

Alex Ramshaw

Also adding to the excitement as we build for the new season is Alex Ramshaw, who has joined us from neighbours Seaham Red Star.

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Our Swaz named Manager of the Season

Our manager, Martin Swales, has been named Non League Manager of the Season by Mark Carruthers in the Sunday Sun.

Congratulations Martin. It’s the icing on the cake of a fantastic season.

Mark Carruthers comments that RCA “have finished above some big-name clubs and it has been down to Swales’ ability to get the most out of his players and their willingness to do everything their manager asks of them.”

Mark also mentioned the outstanding season from Dylan Elliot in the Young Plsyer of the Year category.

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New website for the Northern League

The Ebac Northern League’s new website will be available on the afternoon of Tuesday, 22 May.

The website will be at www.northernfootballleague.org

The site has a new design and is more accessible for mobile devices. It retains many of the features of the current site, including data from previous seasons. However, a number of new features have been added to the new site for the 2018/19 season:

the details of forthcoming fixtures will include a map for the home ground
league tables will be automatically updated as the results are posted
the results for individual games will include goalscorers, times of goals, significant incidents such as red cards and missed penalties, the referee and the attendance
photographs and graphics will also be included in news section
the links section to the clubs in the league will include links to each club’s website as well its social media outlets such as Twitter and Facebook.

The League welcome comments that people have on the new website. These can be sent to: feedback@northernfootballleague.org

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Presentation Night

Sunderland RCA's presentation night is to be held on Saturday, 9 June, at the Grosvenor Casino - RCA's home shirt sponsor.

The event - which will celebrate a fantastic season for the club, where we equaled our best ever finish in the Northern League Division One - will run between 7 and 11pm and is only £5 per ticket, which includes buffet and a pint.

The awards will be presented by Sunderland AFC legend, Gordon Armstrong.

Everyone welcome.

Grosvenor Casino
6 Lambton Street
Sunderland
SR1 1TP

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Match preview

Reece Noble in action against Guisborough Town last season.

As the season draws to a close, Sunderland RCA have three matches at home in the coming week:

On Saturday, 28 April, we host Guisborough Town, with a 3pm kick-off. No guarantees, but recent matches between the two sides have been cracking encounters with goals, goals, goals. Last season, in the corresponding fixture, RCA were beaten 4-2 by Guisborough, and this season, at the KGV, RCA won a thrilling match 4-3 with terrific goals from Nathan O'Neill and Colin Larkin, who grabbed a brace apiece.