Nickname: The Magpies
Formed: 1878
Ground: St James Park
Manager: Rafa Benitez
Captain: Jamal Lascelles
Newcastle United were founded in 1892 and the club has been at St James Park ever since, making it one of the longest-serving football grounds in English football.
The Magpies joined the Football League in 1893, drawing 2 – 2 with Woolwich Arsenal in their first game. The club went on to become one of the country’s most prominent clubs over the next fifteen years, winning three league titles and an FA Cup.
Though one of the best supported clubs in England, the Toon Army have been starved of success since 1969’s Inter Cities Fairs Cup (now the Europa League).
Since the inception of the Premier League, the club has moved between the top flight and second tier. Kevin Keegan breathed new life into the club with a title challenge that fell away following a 3 – 4 defeat at Liverpool, in one of the Premier League’s finest matches.
In 2015/16, the club fell into the Championship, relegated by fierce local rivals Sunderland. Rafa Benitez has rebuilt the squad in 2016/17 with the aim of returning to the Premier League as quickly as possible.
Honours
Football League Division One (now Premier League) (4):
- 1904–05, 1906–07, 1908–09, 1926–27
Football League Division Two (now Championship) (3)
- 1964–65, 1992–93, 2009–10
FA Cup winners (2):
- 1910 v Barnsley, 1 – 1, 2 – 0
- 1924 v Aston Villa, 2 – 0 • 1932 v Arsenal, 2 – 1
- 1951 v Blackpool, 2 – 0 • 1952 v Arsenal, 1 – 0
- 1955 v Manchester City, 3 – 1
Inter-City Fairs Cup (1):
- 1969 v Ujpest Dozsa, 3 – 0, 3 – 2 (6 – 2 on aggregate)
Leading Goalscorer
Alan Shearer, 206 goals in 404 appearances
Alan Shearer, a Geordie by birth, returned to St James Park having learned his trade at Southampton and honed his reputation as one of English football’s finest strikers at Blackburn. His £15m fee made Shearer the most expensive footballer in the world.
He went on to surpass Jackie Milburn’s record of 200 goals and scored his final goal in the 4 – 1 win at Sunderland. It was his final match as a player, an injury bringing his career to a premature end.
Greatest Moment
17th September 1997, St James Park. Barcelona arrived on Tyneside in the Champions League and were blown away by Newcastle’s verve and abundance of attacking skill. Faustino Asprilla opened the scoring from the penalty spot and added two more either side of half-time.
Luis Enrique pulled one back with 17 minutes to go but a second from Luis Figo was too little, too late as Newcastle recorded one of the most famous wins in the club’s history.
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