England's "old 7" Sunderland is only one game away from returning to the Premier League after 8 years

Liverpool and Manchester United are tied for first place with 20, Arsenal third with 13, Manchester City fourth with 10, Everton fifth with nine, Aston Villa sixth with seven, Sunderland and Chelsea joint seventh with seven. England's "old seven" Sunderland is only one game away from returning to the Premier League after 8 years.

In addition to winning the English top flight seven times, Sunderland has also won the FA Cup twice, and is an old powerhouse in English football, nicknamed the "Black Cat".

In the second leg of the Championship promotion play-off semi-finals, Sunderland hosted Lampard's Coventry, and the aggregate score between the two sides in regular time was 2-2, entering extra time, Sunderland completed the countdown and advanced to the promotion play-off final with an aggregate score of 3-2, and will start a "promotion" showdown with Sheffield United at Wembley Stadium, which was also praised by fans and the media as a "100 million pound matchup", because promotion to the Premier League is equivalent to earning 100 million pounds.

Sunderland was relegated to the Championship at the bottom of the Premier League in the 2016-17 season, and was relegated to the League One at the bottom of the Championship in the 2017-18 season. Sunderland returned to the Championship after four seasons in League One before losing to Luton Town in the semi-finals of the promotion play-offs in 2022-23 and are just one game away from returning to the Premier League. Whether Black Cat can return to the Premier League after 8 years, we will see the real chapter at Wembley Stadium at 22 o'clock in the evening on May 24, Beijing time!