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Nebraska Soccer's Eleanor Dale Signs with Sunderland AFC

The former Husker All-American and Big Ten Forward of the Year will continue her professional career with a new club. Eleanor Dale is off to Sunderland AFC.

Kaleb Henry

Former Nebraska forward Eleanor Dale poses with a Sunderland AFC scarf after signing to play for the Black Cats.
Former Nebraska forward Eleanor Dale poses with a Sunderland AFC scarf after signing to play for the Black Cats. / @SAFCWomen on X
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Nebraska soccer's Eleanor Dale is back home and continuing along with her professional career, now on another team.

Sunderland AFC Women announced Friday that Dale had signed the former Husker forward. The Black Cats pick up Dale after she played last season with Everton.

Dale appeared in just six games for Everton without scoring a goal. Everton played in the Women's Super League, the top league in England.

Sunderland is in the Championship, the second tier in England.

“Eleanor is a striker we have admired for some time now,” head coach Mel Reay said. “She spent the latter part of last season with Everton after a record-breaking stint in university football in the United States. Eleanor is a natural goalscorer with great physical presence, who can use both feet and is strong in the air. We are excited to be able to add her kind of quality to our creative forward line.”

At Nebraska, Dale was a First-Team All-American and the Big Ten Forward of the Year while rewriting the NU record books. She scored 28 goals as a senior, adding five assists, while leading the Huskers to the NCAA Elite Eight.

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Kaleb Henry
KALEB HENRY

Kaleb Henry is an award-winning sports reporter, covering collegiate athletics since 2014 via radio, podcasting, and digital journalism. His experience with Big Ten Conference teams goes back more than a decade, including time covering programs such as the Nebraska Cornhuskers, Oregon Ducks, and USC Trojans. He has contributed to Sports Illustrated since 2021. Kaleb has won multiple awards for his sports coverage from the Nebraska Broadcasters Association and Midwest Broadcast Journalists Association. Prior to working in sports journalism, Kaleb was a Division I athlete on the Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville Track and Field team where he discussed NCAA legislation as SIUE's representative to the Ohio Valley Conference Student-Athlete Advisory Committee. 

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