Club news items from previous seasons are held in the Archive area.
There are a couple of late fixture updates for our pre-season.
The fixture with AFC Killingworth is now reversed and will be played away, with a 7:00pm kick off:
Thursday, 19 July 2018 - 7:00pm
AFC Killingworth v Sunderland RCA
Amberley Park
Killingworth
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE12 6SE
On Saturday, 21 July we play Billingham Synthonia at Meadow Park with a 3:00pm kick off.
Luke Richardson weighs up his options as Mark Davison overlaps in the second half of the match.
Saturday, 14 July 2018
In weather as absurd for football as it was for Stanley, RCA took on Esh Winning in their third pre-season friendly, on the 4G playing surface at North Durham Academy. Foreign holidays, the Durham Miners Gala, England and Belgium vying for third place in the World Cup and an emergency hospital admission meant RCA's squad and coaching presence were thin. So: fair play to those who turned out for a match that lacked the glamour of last Thursday, but was nonetheless an important step to match readiness for the season kick off on Saturday, 4 August at home to Newcastle Benfield. It also extended new Assistant Manager Mark Cowan's 100% record! For Saturday's match Mark was assisted by Peter Elliott.
Nathan O'Neill - scorer of RCA's late penalty - fires in an acrobatic first half shot.
For more photos from the match please click here.
Please click here for Connor Lamb’s match report.
Sunderland RCA welcomed Sunderland AFC under 23s to Meadow Park for what promised to be a contest as keenly fought as last season's pre-season friendly.
After a fairly even first half hour, where RCA created a couple of good openings through Page and Callen, the match burst into life in the 37th minute when Benji Kimpioka scored a terrific six-minute hat-trick to give SAFC a three-nil half-time lead.
The visitors added a fourth in the second half, before RCA responded well to score two goals in the final five minutes, with Reece McEwan slotting home from inside the penalty area, and Nathan O'Neill scoring from the penalty spot.
Thanks very much to all involved at Sunderland AFC for making the match possible.
The 2017-18 season marked the end of an off-the-field era for Sunderland RCA: super supporter Simon Mears has hung up his camera and put away his reporter's notebook, bringing to an end a period when we have enjoyed extremely well written match reports, praised for their objectivity and analysis by the opposition, and super match action photos. Simon also contributed news items and maintained the fixtures list on the club website. Thanks very much, also, to Simon for his Twitter and Facebook work, carried out with diligence and professionalism. All in all, a tremendous amount of high quality work for the club.
From next season, Simon will be ground hopping, but I'm sure we will see a lot of him when and where RCA are playing.
You might not know but Sunderland RCA run a very exciting football predictions competition through the season, the Lucky 7, which simply requires you to predict the results of 7 Premier league games to win an excellent cash prize of at least £150.00 each week, for a stake of £1.00 a line with rollovers reaching several hundred. It's done by email so if you would like to enter or learn more send email Colin Wilson at wilsonjohncolin@gmail.com for more details and to get on board.
You have to be in it to win it!
New signing Alex Ramshaw, who has joined us from Seaham Red Star, in action on the wing in the first half of the friendly with Northumbria Police.
Dylan Elliott opened the scoring in last Saturday's 8 - 0 win over Northumbria Police at Nissan, converting a cross from Mark Davison on 15 minutes. Clayton Davis was the provider for Sparky to score two minutes later. In the second half, RCA ran riot. Jonathan Davis's goal five minutes after the restart was followed by four from the unstoppable Luke Page with Jak Ashton scoring with the last kick of the game.
In a draw that guarantees a Ryhope club will play Clitheroe away in the Preliminary Round of the FA Cup, we play at home to Ryhope CW on Saturday, 11 August.
The Preliminary Round match away to Lancashire club Clitheroe will be played on 25 August.
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.
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.
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.
Also adding to the excitement as we build for the new season is Alex Ramshaw, who has joined us from neighbours Seaham Red Star.
Sunderland RCA, Meadow Park
Beechbrooke, Ryhope
Sunderland SR2 0NZ
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