Head-to-Head: Nottingham Forest vs Sunderland

Nottingham Forest vs Sunderland is a less routine English matchup in which the home setting and the size of the result can reshape the story. Forest won 5–0 at the Stadium of Light on 24 April 2026, but Sunderland had won 1–0 at the City Ground on 27 September 2025 and had also won 1–0 there on 30 December 2017. Future meetings will test whether either side can turn a striking result into a repeatable advantage.

Past matches, Nottingham Forest vs Sunderland

24 April 2026 Regular Season - 34

Sunderland

0 - 5

Nottingham Forest

Stadium of Light
27 September 2025 Regular Season - 6

Nottingham Forest

0 - 1

Sunderland

The City Ground
19 July 2024 Club Friendlies 3

Nottingham Forest

1 - 1

Sunderland
30 December 2017 Regular Season - 25

Nottingham Forest

0 - 1

Sunderland
12 September 2017 Regular Season - 7

Sunderland

0 - 1

Nottingham Forest

Stadium of Light

Match center

Sunderland

0 - 5

24 April 2026

Nottingham Forest

Starting eleven

Substitutes Sunderland

17
D
18
F
31
G
3
D
6
D
13
M
7
F
50
M
12
F

Nottingham Forest Substitutes

M
16
D
4
D
25
M
22
F
9
G
27
F
14
M
24
F
29

Match events

45'

90'

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17'
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T. Hume Own Goal
31'
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C. Wood Normal Goal (Asst: M. Gibbs-White)
34'
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M. Gibbs-White Normal Goal (Asst: Igor Jesus)
37'
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Igor Jesus Normal Goal
46'

R. Mandava C. Rigg
46'

N. Dominguez I. Sangare
50'

Morato Cunha
51'

Habib Diarra Yellow Card
51'

Nicolás Domínguez Yellow Card
58'

Elliot Anderson Yellow Card
60'

Igor Jesus Yellow Card
63'

Daniel Ballard Goal cancelled
65'

W. Isidor H. Diarra
67'

R. Yates Igor Jesus
67'

L. Netz O. Hutchinson
69'

Neco Williams Yellow Card
75'

Granit Xhaka Yellow Card
76'

Ryan Yates Yellow Card
88'

T. Awoniyi C. Wood
90'
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E. Anderson Normal Goal (Asst: T. Awoniyi)

Stats for this game

Matchup Nottingham Forest VS Sunderland

A fixture of sharp reversals

The dated record offers no single simple script. Sunderland won 1–0 at the City Ground on 30 December 2017, and repeated that scoreline against Forest at the City Ground on 27 September 2025. Nottingham Forest answered with a 5–0 win at the Stadium of Light on 24 April 2026, an emphatic away performance that changed the emphasis without erasing Sunderland’s capacity to frustrate them.

Setting and response matter

This is why the matchup remains interesting across changing competitive contexts. Forest can use intensity and forward pressure to seize control, while Sunderland’s route is to make the game narrower and turn home support or a big occasion into defensive belief. None of these dated results settles how a future contest must look, and that uncertainty is central to the fixture’s appeal. A future meeting should ask whether Forest can find the same attacking separation or Sunderland can restore the low-margin resistance that shaped their victories.