During the 2009/10 Premiership season we have no fewer than 19 players Playing for other clubs that were previously Sunderland FC players.
- Gavin McCann
- Kevin Phillips
- Teemu Tainio
- El-Hadji Diouf
- Pascal Chimbonda
- Ben Alnwick
- Dickson Etuhu
Louis Saha<-- brain fart moment thanks for the correction guys- Thomas Sorensen
- Danny Higginbotham
- Danny Collins
- Dean Whitehead
- Liam Lawrence
- Rory Delap
- Greg Halford
- Jody Craddock
- Paul McShane
- Kevin Kilbane
- Tommy Smith
- Stephen Caldwell