Stadium of Light
Premier League
Sunday, May 12, kick off 15:00
Tickets
United have got 2,282 tickets in the South Stand. They cost £35 for adults, £19 for over 65s and £10 for under 16s.
All tickets have been sold and posted out.
Home-end tickets are on sale to people who have previously bought home-end tickets from Sunderland.
TV
Sky Sports 2 and Sky Sports 2HD will show the match live, with the show starting at 14:00
Weather
According to the BBC, it will be raining and cloudy with average temperatures of 7C/45F.
Travel
We recommend: Take the Megabus or, if you go by train, take option 3 there and option 3 back.
Car – £40 
If you are using a sat nav or an internet routeplanner, use the destination postcode SR5 1SU.
The journey takes about two-and-half hours each way and petrol will be roughly £20 each way.
The basic route is: Take the M62 to J29 and join the M1 northbound. Get off at J62 and follow the A690 and signs for Sunderland city centre.
Parking – free
Because the ground is so close to the city centre, it is hard to find spots nearby for cheap and that won’t have you queuing to leave for ages.
When you arrive in town, you’ll see signs for Matchday Parking and they will lead you two sights at the University of Sunderland but they will probably charge you £5, it’s a 10-minute walk to the ground and getting out afterwards will be a nightmare.
We recommend you use the free park-and-ride service. You park at Sunderland Enterprise Park and then buses leave every five minutes from 1.30pm and regularly afterwards after the game until everyone has been taken back.
To reach Sunderland Enterprise Park, leave the M1 at J65 and take the second exit onto the A1231.
Keep going for six miles over five roundabouts and the enterprise park is signposted.
Train – £69.30
If you buy your ticket on the day, it will cost you £69.30.
Ask for an off-peak return ticket. It will be valid for any of the following routes.
Manchester to Sunderland
Option 1 (4:31)
Leave Piccadilly*: 06:30
Arrive Leeds: 08:30
Leave: 08:40
Arrive Newcastle: 10:28
Transfer to the Metro
Leave 10:35
Arrive Sunderland: 11:01
*by replacement bus
Option 2 (3:55)
Leave Piccadilly: 08:05
Arrive Newcastle: 11:17
Transfer to the Metro
Leave: 11:35
Arrive Sunderland: 12:01
Option 3 (3:16)
Leave Victoria: 08:38
Arrive York: 10:41
Leave: 10:53
Arrive Newcastle: 11:50
Leave: 12:00
Arrive Sunderland: 12:21
Option 4 (3:41)
Leave Piccadilly: 09:20
Arrive Newcastle: 12:15
Transfer to Metro
Leave: 12:35
Arrive Sunderland: 13:01
Option 5 (3:16)
Leave Victoria: 10:05
Arrive York: 11:39
Leave: 11:48
Arrive Sunderland: 13:21
Option 6 (3:40)
Leave Piccadilly: 10:21
Arrive Newcastle: 13:12
Transfer to Metro
Leave: 13:35
Arrive Sunderland: 14:01
Option 7 (3:16)
Leave Victoria: 10:38
Arrive York: 12:39
Leave: 12:53
Arrive Newcastle: 13:51
Leave: 14:00
Arrive Sunderland: 14:21
The ground is a 15 minute walk from the station.
Leave the station by WH Smith, turn left and walk down High Street West. Turn left again into Fawcett Street.
This leads to the Wear Bridge. Cross the bridge, and turn left into Millennium Way.
Sunderland to Manchester
Option 1 (3:02)
Leave Sunderland Metro: 17:02
Arrive Newcastle Metro 17:30
Leave Newcastle: 17:40
Arrive York: 18:36
Leave: 18:45
Arrive Victoria: 20:04
Option 2 (3:42)
Leave Sunderland: 17:26
Arrive Newcastle: 17:48
Leave: 17:59
Arrive York 18:56
Leave: 19:15
Arrive Piccadilly: 21:08
Option 3 (3:17)
Leave Sunderland Metro: 17:47
Arrive Newcastle Metro: 18:15
Leave Newcastle 18:25
Arrive York: 19:28
Leave: 19:45
Arrive Victoria: 21:04
Option 4 (3:41)
Leave Sunderland Metro: 18:32
Arrive Newcastle Metro: 19:00
Leave Newcastle: 19:10
Arrive Piccadilly: 22: 13
Option 5 (3:02)
Leave Sunderland Metro: 19:02
Arrive Newcastle Metro: 19:30
Leave Newcastle: 19:40
Arrive York: 20:36
Arrive Victoria 22:04
Option 6 (3:39)
Leave Sunderland: 19:28
Arrive Newcastle: 19:52
Leave: 20:08
Arrive Piccadilly: 23:07
Matchday coaches
The Betty Bus, Champion Sport Tours and Thomas Chook Travel have all sold out.
Public coaches – £14
National Express is running two coaches to the game and two back
Going
Leave Chorlton Street: 08:15, 11:30
Arrive Sunderland: 11:15, 14:30
Journey time: 3:00, 3:00
One-way cost: £12:50, £17
Sunderland Coach Station is on Park Lane, which is a two-minute walk from Sunderland Train Station and a 15-minute walk to the ground.
Walk up Park Lane, turn right onto Holmeside and then a left onto Fawcett Street. Keep going up and cross the bridge. The ground is on your left.
Coming back
Leave Sunderland: 17:30, 18:30
Arrive Chorlton Street: 20:35, 22:40
Journey time: 3:05, 4:10*
*changing at Leeds
Megabus is running two coaches to and one coach from this match.
Going
Leave Shudehill: 06:40, 08:30
Arrive Sunderland: 09:40, 11:55
Journey time: 3:00, 3:25
One-way cost: £7, £7
Sunderland Coach Station is on Park Lane, which is a two-minute walk from Sunderland Train Station and a 15-minute walk to the ground.
Walk up Park Lane, turn right onto Holmeside and then a left onto Fawcett Street. Keep going up and cross the bridge. The ground is on your left.
Coming back
Leave Sunderland: 21:05
Arrive Shudehill: 00:10
Journey time: 3:05
One-way cost: £7
Cheers Vitty for all your hard work again this season. Nice one mate.
Cheere for all your hard work again this season Vitty.
Might want to add that if (albeit a HUGE if) we win the league, reds might want to make sure they can get on the later trains / coaches as I’m sure they’ll want to be there for the celebrations.
Also, any ideas on any pubs for a good sing song?
What pubs are the best to go to?
Thanks for the info been excellent all season
Just got myself a spare for this, happy days. Pretty sure if the league was in our hands I wouldn’t have been offered it, but bring it on. As mentioned above great website much appreciated. Pubs?
Lads
If you are getting the train and buying a ticket on the day, dont pay the £69.30 Manchester to Sunderland return.
Get a split ticket, buy two seperate return tickets, 1) Manchester to York return for £29. Then, 2) York to Sunderlan return for £27, total £56, saving £13. You dont have to change trains by the way.
Dont mention the N word in the Lambton Worm!!
anyone traveling from the the Coventry area got any advice on getting to sunderland and back, im at uni so a cheap wy would be brilliant!
We were in the wheat sheaf last season 5 mins from the ground. Its a home fans pub but they were more than welcoming they even joined in when we sang the shearer song
any kind soul got a spare for a desperate red?
amar, if you had posted earlier i could have got you a lift sorted from birmingham but my m8 has got a full car now , but before lift was sorted we were looking at the megabus leaves bham 0630 arr 11.55 and 10.05 arr 15.15 and the one back to manchester at 21.05 then get the 1st one from manchester to bham on monday 06.10 arr back in bham 09.10 (approx) as there is no megabus back from sunderland to bham your looking at about £40.00 for this, there are direct trains from bham there and back on sunday and if you got a railcard it will be discounted from the £90.00 (approx) full fare .Hope this helps or you could always get yer thumb out!
anyone?……..still desperate
not the only one who wants a ticket, make the effort to go and i bet you pick one up.
iv got 2 spare but need come collect from me as not traveling
Jack Walsh, you don’t have to ask for a ticket several times on every thread. Do you see anyone else doing that? Maybe tone it down a bit.
agreed oli
oli,fair enough.
did feel a bit of a div but i was desperate,sorted now though.
comment duly noted though.
thanks to yourself and especially vitty and all who contribute to reds away,excellent site-cheers
Kev. Where abouts do you live? I will take those spares if they are still available
Is the wetherspoons in town the pub to go to?
@patrick been to the wetherspoons in Sunderland a few times when utd are in town not to clever to be honest,wheatsheaf will be the best bet.close to the ground,sky tv,beers decent and cheap.
Any beer in the ground today??
Gutted. Just gutted.
I’m ill with it, just ill.
Viva Ken Barlow…………
Sitting in bed still in a state of shock! We came so close to that title despite bein written off! For me that was probably one of the best away days I have been, full of true reds that all believed we could win it! Why can’t every away be like that! Feel for the players those last couple of minutes, heartbreaking moments!
Oh well, flight to Belfast at 7am! It’s what we do. So proud to be a Red!!
Ireland bound in the morning, good away today even stayed till the end Oli ha. Looking forward to Ireland and Norway also possibly south africa. Roll on next season, Man United will never die.
Proud of our fans yesterday, potential to be down in the dumps damp squid, but was positive from the off, most regulars seemed to get tickets, certainly all the ones I know( would have loved to have seen the reaction of any that voluntarily give up their tickets yesterday when the title was within grasp), that sick feeling at the end gave us some insight of how a Bayern fan felt in 99, a lot to be positive about next season and beyond on and off the pitch.
Came across this on my mobile internet reading reaction later on after the game, one of the articles was a minute by minute description of the day, it shows a few in the media noticed the difference between our regular away support compared to that at City.
the United end are in good voice. Their performance at the Etihad was almost as disgraceful as that of the players, mainly because an alarming number of tickets ended up in corporate hands. But there’s no glory to hunt today, so most tickets are in the right hands.
Belfast should be every bit as good as a Euro away, fairly cheap trip and a tribute to a true legend.
Surely it’ll be a heavily reduced allocation at sunderland next season as standing was as usual.
Forever and ever, we’ll follow the boys
Very proud of our club yesterday. Heads held high, amazingly away end, players were professional and did all they could, and we put a lot of pressure on City with our early goal.
Only Fergie could have taken this relatively average squad to the last seconds of the season still competing. Amazingly De Gea, Young, Smalling, Jones, Cleverly, Welb etc were all in their first full seasons as United players in what was always supposed to be a transition year. With a few tweaks/ fresh blood, plus Vidic back, we will be in good shape next year. While we aren’t going to go and compete with Madrid/ City etc in the transfer market, our targets will be very strong additions if we deliver them. Biggest worries are a) reliance on Scholes still and b) our European performances.
Fans were great yesterday, totally agree with oli with regards how far we have come with this injury ridden and depleted squad.
Oli I may be wrong so i’m merely asking your opinion as I was in the very last row in the top tier but there was what seemed like some really young lads on that lower tier,surely too young to be lp members
As it was great to see true fan there yesterday surely we as the fans should petition for a new ticketing system
I know plenty not in LP who walked into first 15 rows with no ticket checks. Sunderland stewards making a mockery of their own system.
What are you wanting to petition for exactly re new ticket system? Doesn’t help to talk about new systems without saying what they are.
Don’t see any reason why we should get a reduced allocation at Sunderland next season as not 1 steward asked the section were I was to sit down. Maybe some commonsense was used knowing how intense the game was.
Great away trip, pity the impossible did not happen.
Was there any trouble at the game?
I was proud to be in that away end yesterday, from the second we got there everyone believed and got behind the team. Gutted it didn’t work out but we and the team certainly did our bit.
I was using a LP members ticket so was at the front but didn’t get any hassle from stewards, they seemed more interested in trying to get the home fans to sit.
Roll on next season…
Robert, a little trouble outside near the buses but to be expected with emotions running high and those idiots taunting us rather than staying behind to clap there own team off the pitch
Proud to be red yesterday. Thought it was a great away end, all believing, all getting behind the team, loads of familiar faces there, as it should be. We or the team couldn’t have done any more.
Agree with what you say Oli & Paul, there’s alot to be positive about and hopefully this will force us to dip in to the transfer market for the midfield personnel we need, as has been needed for the last 2 seasons now
The stewards seemed to have a bit of common sense and from what I could see everyone adhered to what they were told. I’m hoping they don’t reduce our allocation again, as getting our away end seated yesterday with all that was riding on it was never going to happen and pretty naive of them to think it would. Any teams supporters in that position would have done exactly the same.
Bit of mither outside (not much) with them coming out celebrating like they had won something just to wind us up.
Still feel sick though.
If someone is in need I have 2 spares for the HG testimonial. In Belfast now and could meet up somewhere….
fv £20 each
Alex
Happy to meet you to collect the 2 if still available.
I’m in Belfast.
Can collect later tonight or tomorrow.
Cheers
Looking forward to going to Belfast tomorrow to honour Harry Gregg. Also looking forward to the tour on Wednesday with George Best’s sister. Forget yesterday. We’ll never die.
Yep you can have the Red Polka.
Send me an email mualexfc@hotmail.com
Tix gone.
Anyone know where all the reds will meet up. Is there any decent bar outside the ground?
Anyone know if this testimonial game is on tv?
Armani …live MUTV
Future reference; had a great cheap friendly top drink in the deaf club about 5 mins walk from the ground. A wee bit like the ex servicemans and again, so cheap.
Pay a quid in and no of us even had a bit of a sing song at one point. (No, they weren’t all deaf either)
Future reference; had a great cheap friendly top drink in the deaf club about 5 mins walk from the ground. A wee bit like the ex servicemans and again, so cheap.
Pay a quid in and 6 of us even had a bit of a sing song at one point. (No, they weren’t all deaf either)