Sunderland 2000s squad
Every player who appeared for Sunderland in the 2000s — 196 in all, with their career-at-club league appearances and goals. Michael Gray made the most appearances (363). Kevin Phillips scored the most (113).
| Player | Pos | Apps | Goals | Legend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Michael Gray | DF | 363 | 16 | 83 |
| Kevin Phillips | FW | 208 | 113 | 83 |
| Niall Quinn | FW | 203 | 61 | 82 |
| Julio Arca | MF | 167 | 23 | 82 |
| Darren Williams | DF | 200 | 4 | 81 |
| Thomas Sørensen | GK | 171 | 0 | 81 |
| Phil Bardsley | DF | 174 | 7 | 81 |
| Kieran Richardson | MF | 134 | 14 | 80 |
| Dean Whitehead | MF | 185 | 13 | 80 |
| Marcus Stewart | FW | 102 | 31 | 80 |
| Daryl Murphy | MF | 110 | 14 | 80 |
| Danny Collins | DF | 149 | 3 | 80 |
| Jody Craddock | DF | 146 | 2 | 80 |
| Alex Rae | MF | 114 | 12 | 80 |
| Allan Johnston | MF | 87 | 19 | 79 |
| Grant Leadbitter | MF | 111 | 11 | 79 |
| George McCartney | DF | 134 | 0 | 79 |
| Darren Bent | FW | 58 | 32 | 79 |
| Kenwyne Jones | FW | 94 | 26 | 79 |
| Chris Makin | DF | 121 | 2 | 78 |
| Gavin McCann | MF | 116 | 8 | 78 |
| Stephen Elliott | FW | 81 | 22 | 78 |
| Nyron Nosworthy | DF | 114 | 0 | 77 |
| Craig Gordon | GK | 88 | 0 | 77 |
| Kevin Kilbane | DF | 113 | 8 | 77 |
| Gary Breen | DF | 107 | 7 | 77 |
| Liam Lawrence | MF | 73 | 10 | 77 |
| Nicky Summerbee | MF | 94 | 7 | 77 |
| Danny Dichio | FW | 76 | 17 | 76 |
| Jack Colback | MF | 115 | 4 | 76 |
| Stephen Wright | DF | 92 | 2 | 76 |
| Mart Poom | GK | 58 | 1 | 75 |
| David Connolly | FW | 39 | 13 | 75 |
| Anton Ferdinand | DF | 85 | 0 | 75 |
| Márton Fülöp | GK | 44 | 0 | 74 |
| Paul Butler | DF | 79 | 3 | 74 |
| Steed Malbranque | MF | 102 | 1 | 74 |
| John Oster | MF | 68 | 5 | 74 |
| Steven Caldwell | DF | 76 | 4 | 74 |
| Ross Wallace | MF | 53 | 8 | 74 |
| Sean Thornton | MF | 49 | 9 | 74 |
| Kevin Kyle | FW | 93 | 13 | 74 |
| Jordan Henderson | MF | 71 | 4 | 73 |
| Thomas Myhre | GK | 37 | 0 | 73 |
| Djibril Cissé | FW | 35 | 10 | 73 |
| Rachael Laws | GK | 36 | 0 | 73 |
| Andy Reid | MF | 68 | 4 | 73 |
| Michael Turner | DF | 68 | 1 | 73 |
| Darren Ward | GK | 33 | 0 | 72 |
| Kelvin Davis | GK | 33 | 0 | 72 |
| Jason McAteer | MF | 53 | 5 | 72 |
| Chris Brown | FW | 66 | 9 | 72 |
| Stefan Schwarz | DF | 62 | 3 | 72 |
| Carlos Edwards | MF | 50 | 5 | 72 |
| Michael Chopra | FW | 39 | 8 | 72 |
| Don Hutchison | MF | 40 | 8 | 72 |
| Darren Holloway | DF | 59 | 0 | 71 |
| Jeff Whitley | MF | 68 | 2 | 71 |
| Joachim Björklund | DF | 57 | 0 | 71 |
| Liam Miller | MF | 57 | 3 | 71 |
| Boudewijn Zenden | MF | 47 | 4 | 71 |
| Carl Robinson | MF | 45 | 4 | 71 |
| Paul Thirlwell | MF | 77 | 0 | 70 |
| Jürgen Macho | GK | 22 | 0 | 70 |
| Fraizer Campbell | FW | 58 | 6 | 69 |
| Dwight Yorke | FW | 59 | 6 | 69 |
| Phil Babb | DF | 48 | 0 | 69 |
| Ben Alnwick | GK | 19 | 0 | 69 |
| Emerson Thome | DF | 44 | 2 | 69 |
| Tommy Miller | MF | 33 | 3 | 68 |
| Tommy Smith | MF/FW | 35 | 4 | 68 |
| Tore André Flo | FW | 29 | 4 | 67 |
| Tobias Hysén | MF | 26 | 4 | 67 |
| Darren Byfield | FW | 17 | 5 | 67 |
| Claudio Reyna | MF | 28 | 3 | 67 |
| Anthony Le Tallec | MF/FW | 27 | 4 | 67 |
| Stern John | FW | 16 | 5 | 67 |
| Michael Proctor | FW | 38 | 3 | 66 |
| John Mensah | DF | 34 | 1 | 66 |
| Anthony Stokes | FW | 36 | 3 | 66 |
| Andy Welsh | MF | 25 | 2 | 65 |
| Lorik Cana | DF | 31 | 0 | 65 |
| Jon Stead | MF/FW | 35 | 2 | 65 |
| Éric Roy | MF | 27 | 1 | 64 |
| Justin Hoyte | DF | 27 | 1 | 64 |
| Thomas Butler | MF | 31 | 0 | 64 |
| Paulo da Silva | DF | 24 | 0 | 63 |
| Paul McShane | DF | 24 | 0 | 63 |
| Dickson Etuhu | MF | 20 | 1 | 62 |
| Danny Higginbotham | DF | 22 | 3 | 62 |
| David Meyler | MF | 25 | 0 | 62 |
| Stanislav Varga | DF | 21 | 1 | 62 |
| Steve Bould | DF | 21 | 0 | 62 |
| Matt Piper | MF | 24 | 0 | 62 |
| Andy Gray | FW | 21 | 1 | 61 |
| David Bellion | FW | 20 | 1 | 61 |
| Teemu Tainio | MF | 21 | 0 | 61 |
| Jonny Evans | DF | 18 | 1 | 61 |
| Neill Collins | DF | 18 | 1 | 61 |
| Colin Healy | MF | 20 | 0 | 61 |
| Sam Aiston | MF | 20 | 0 | 61 |
| Graham Kavanagh | MF | 14 | 1 | 60 |
| Michael Reddy | FW | 10 | 2 | 60 |
| David Healy | MF | 13 | 1 | 60 |
| Andy Marriott | GK | 2 | 0 | 60 |
| Michael Ingham | GK | 2 | 0 | 60 |
| Rory Delap | MF | 12 | 1 | 60 |
| Danny Simpson | DF | 14 | 0 | 59 |
| Michael Bridges | MF/FW | 11 | 1 | 59 |
| Darren Carter | MF | 10 | 1 | 59 |
| Roy O'Donovan | FW | 17 | 0 | 59 |
| El Hadji Diouf | MF | 14 | 0 | 58 |
| Pascal Chimbonda | DF | 13 | 0 | 58 |
| Patrick Mboma | FW | 9 | 1 | 58 |
| Christian Bassila | MF | 13 | 0 | 58 |
| Stewart Downing | MF | 7 | 3 | 57 |
| Lewin Nyatanga | DF | 11 | 0 | 57 |
| Mark Lynch | DF | 11 | 0 | 57 |
| Kenny Cunningham | DF | 11 | 0 | 57 |
| Lilian Laslandes | FW | 12 | 0 | 57 |
| Alan Stubbs | DF | 10 | 1 | 57 |
| Rade Prica | FW | 6 | 1 | 56 |
| Talal El Karkouri | DF | 8 | 0 | 55 |
| Patrice Carteron | DF | 8 | 1 | 55 |
| Greg Halford | DF | 8 | 0 | 55 |
| Ian Harte | DF | 8 | 0 | 55 |
| Calum Davenport | DF | 8 | 0 | 55 |
| Ben Clark | DF | 8 | 0 | 55 |
| Martin Woods | MF | 7 | 0 | 55 |
| Robbie Elliott | DF | 7 | 0 | 55 |
| Alan Quinn | MF | 6 | 0 | 55 |
| Jamie Chandler | MF | 4 | 2 | 54 |
| Andy Cole | FW | 7 | 0 | 54 |
| Martyn Waghorn | FW | 6 | 0 | 54 |
| Quinton Fortune | DF/MF | 5 | 0 | 54 |
| Simon Johnson | MF | 5 | 0 | 54 |
| Ryan Noble | FW | 5 | 0 | 53 |
| Tal Ben Haim | DF | 5 | 0 | 53 |
| Chris Lumsdon | MF | 4 | 0 | 53 |
| Brian Deane | FW | 4 | 0 | 53 |
| Clive Clarke | DF | 4 | 0 | 53 |
| Chris Black | MF | 3 | 0 | 52 |
| Jordan Cook | FW | 3 | 0 | 52 |
| Colin Cooper | DF | 3 | 0 | 52 |
| Dan Smith | DF | 3 | 0 | 52 |
| Richie Ryan | MF | 2 | 0 | 51 |
| Neil Wainwright | MF | 2 | 0 | 51 |
| Thomas Helmer | DF | 2 | 0 | 51 |
| Kevin Cooper | MF | 1 | 0 | 50 |
| Arnau Riera | MF | 1 | 0 | 50 |
| Carsten Fredgaard | MF | 1 | 0 | 50 |
| Jonjo Dickman | MF | 1 | 0 | 50 |
| Russell Anderson | DF | 1 | 0 | 49 |
| Peter Hartley | DF | 1 | 0 | 49 |
| Craig James | DF | 1 | 0 | 49 |
| Milton Núñez | FW | 1 | 0 | 49 |
| Trevor Carson | GK | 0 | 0 | 47 |
| Joe Murphy | GK | 0 | 0 | 47 |
| Chris Porter | GK | 0 | 0 | 47 |
| Nick Colgan | GK | 0 | 0 | 47 |
| Euan McLean | GK | 0 | 0 | 47 |
| Michal Misiewicz | GK | 0 | 0 | 47 |
| Nicolás Medina | MF | 0 | 0 | 44 |
| Alex Rodriguez | MF | 0 | 0 | 44 |
| Stuart Holden | MF | 0 | 0 | 44 |
| Billy Dennehy | MF | 0 | 0 | 44 |
| Brendan McGill | MF | 0 | 0 | 44 |
| William Mocquet | MF | 0 | 0 | 44 |
| Conor Hourihane | MF | 0 | 0 | 44 |
| Adam Reed | MF | 0 | 0 | 44 |
| Keith Graydon | MF | 0 | 0 | 44 |
| David Duke | MF | 0 | 0 | 44 |
| Gerry Harrison | MF | 0 | 0 | 44 |
| Glen Lacey | MF | 0 | 0 | 44 |
| Mark Convery | MF | 0 | 0 | 44 |
| Nathan Luscombe | MF | 0 | 0 | 44 |
| Robbie Weir | MF | 0 | 0 | 44 |
| Sean Taylor | MF | 0 | 0 | 44 |
| Mark Maley | DF | 0 | 0 | 44 |
| Cliff Byrne | DF | 0 | 0 | 44 |
| Jack Pelter | DF | 0 | 0 | 44 |
| Mark Rossiter | DF | 0 | 0 | 44 |
| Baki Mercimek | DF | 0 | 0 | 44 |
| Jean-Yves Mvoto | DF | 0 | 0 | 44 |
| Michael Kay | DF | 0 | 0 | 44 |
| Michael Liddle | DF | 0 | 0 | 44 |
| Patrick Collins | DF | 0 | 0 | 44 |
| Simon Ramsden | DF | 0 | 0 | 44 |
| David Dowson | FW | 0 | 0 | 44 |
| Kevin Smith | FW | 0 | 0 | 44 |
| Dene Shields | FW | 0 | 0 | 44 |
| Oumare Tounkara | FW | 0 | 0 | 44 |
| Bernt Haas | DF | — | — | 39 |
| Neil Teggart | FW | — | — | 39 |
| Jordan Nobbs | MF | — | — | 39 |
| Lee Cattermole | MF | — | — | 39 |
Sunderland through the decades
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