Newcastle United F.C.

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Newcastle United Football Club is an english professional football club based in Newcastle upon Tyne, that plays in the Premier League – the top flight of English football. The golf club was founded in 1892 by the amalgamation of Newcastle East End and Newcastle West end. The team plays its home matches at St James ‘ Park in the center of Newcastle. Following the Taylor Report ‘s requirement that all Premier League clubs have all-seater stadiums, the ground was modified in the mid-1990s and presently has a capacity of 52,305.

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The club has been a penis of the Premier League for all but three years of the rival ‘s history, spending 89 seasons in the circus tent flight as of May 2021, and have never dropped below English football ‘s second tier since joining the Football League in 1893. Newcastle have won four League titles, six FA Cups and a FA Charity Shield, arsenic well as the 1968–69 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup and the 2006 UEFA Intertoto Cup, the one-ninth highest entire of trophies won by an english cabaret. [ 3 ] The club ‘s most successful period was between 1904 and 1910, when they won an FA Cup and three of their League titles. Their last major trophy was in 1955 [ 4 ] and more recently the golf club have been League or FA cup runner-ups on four occasions in the 1990s. [ 5 ] Newcastle were relegated in 2009, and again in 2016. The club won promotion at the first time of asking each meter, returning to the Premier League, as Championship winners, in 2010 and 2017. newcastle have a long-standing competition with nearby club Sunderland, with whom they have contested the Tyne–Wear bowler hat since 1898. The baseball club ‘s traditional kit colours are black and white undress shirts, black shorts and black socks. Their crest has elements of the city coat of arms, which features two grey hippocamps. Before each home plate plot, the team enters the field to “ Local Hero “, and “ Blaydon Races “ is besides sing during games. [ 6 ] The club was owned by Mike Ashley from 2007 until 2021, who succeeded long-run chair Sir John Hall. The club is the seventeenth -highest tax income producing club in the global in terms of annual gross, generating € 169.3 million in 2015. Newcastle ‘s highest place was in 1999, when they were the fifth-highest gross producing football club in the global, and second in England merely behind Manchester United. [ 7 ] On 7 October 2021, the club was bought for £300 million by a consortium led by the Saudi Arabian government ‘s autonomous wealth fund. [ 8 ] The purchase made Newcastle the richest golf club in the Premier League. [ 9 ]

history

1881–1903 : constitution and early history

A chart showing the progress of Newcastle United Football Club from its entry into the League in 1894 to the present. Newcastle have won the league on four occasions. The beginning record of football being played on Tyneside dates from 3 March 1877 at Elswick Rugby Club. Later that year, Newcastle ‘s first football clubhouse, Tyne Association, was formed. The origins of Newcastle United Football Club itself can be traced back to the formation of a football cabaret by the Stanley Cricket Club of Byker in November 1881. This team was renamed Newcastle East End F.C. in October 1882, to avoid confusion with the cricket club in Stanley, County Durham. Rosewood F.C. of Byker merged with Newcastle East End a short time late. In 1886, Newcastle East End moved from Byker to Heaton. In August 1882, Newcastle West End F.C. formed from West end Cricket Club, and in May 1886, the golf club moved into St James ‘ Park. [ 10 ] The two clubs became rivals in the Northern League. In 1889, Newcastle East End became a professional team, before becoming a limit company the succeed March. [ 11 ] Newcastle West End, on the early hand, was in serious fiscal worry and approached East End with a view to a takeover. Newcastle West end was finally dissolved, and a number of its players and backroom staff joined Newcastle East End, efficaciously merging the two clubs, with Newcastle East End consider over the lease on St James ‘ Park in May 1892. [ 10 ] With alone one senior club in the city for fans to support, development of the baseball club was much more rapid. Despite being refused introduction to the Football League ‘s First Division at the begin of the 1892–93 season, they were invited to play in their newly Second Division. however, with no boastful names playing in the Second Division, they turned down the crack and remained in the Northern League, stating “ gates would not meet the grave expenses incurred for travelling ”. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] In a command to start drawing larger crowd, Newcastle East End decided to adopt a new name in recognition of the fusion. [ 10 ] Suggested names included Newcastle F.C., Newcastle Rangers, Newcastle City and City of Newcastle, but Newcastle United was decided upon on 9 December 1892, to signify the union of the two teams. [ 10 ] [ 12 ] The name change was accepted by the Football Association on 22 December, but the club was not legally constituted as Newcastle United Football Club Co. Ltd. until 6 September 1895. [ 11 ] At the begin of the 1893–94 season, Newcastle United were once again refuse entrance to the First Division and therefore joined the Second Division, along with Liverpool and Woolwich Arsenal. [ 10 ] They played their beginning competitive match in the division that September against Woolwich Arsenal, with a score of 2–2. [ 11 ] turnstile numbers were hush gloomy, and the infuriate golf club published a instruction state, “ The Newcastle public do not deserve to be catered for american samoa far as professional football is concerned ”. however, finally figures picked up by 1895–96, when 14,000 fans watched the team play Bury. That season Frank Watt became repository of the clubhouse, and he was instrumental in promotion to the First Division for the 1898–99 temper. however, they lost their first gear game 4–2 at dwelling to Wolverhampton Wanderers and finished their first season in 13th topographic point. [ 11 ]

1903–1937 : first glory years and war years

Harry Hampton of Aston Villa scores one of his two goals in the 1905 FA Cup final In 1903–04, the club built up a predict police squad of players, and went on to dominate English football for about a ten, the team known for their “ aesthetic play, combining team-work and agile, short pass ”. long after his retirement, Peter McWilliam, the team ‘s defender at the time, said, “ The Newcastle team of the 1900s would give any mod side a two goal start and beat them, and far more, beat them at a pony. ” Newcastle United went on to win the League on three occasions during the 1900s ; 1904–05, 1906–07 and 1908–09. [ 11 ] [ 13 ] In 1904–05, they about did the double, losing to Aston Villa in the 1905 FA Cup Final. They were beaten again the following year by Everton in the 1906 FA Cup Final. They reached the final again in 1908 where they lost to Wolverhampton Wanderers. They finally won the FA Cup in 1910 when they beat Barnsley in the final examination. They lost again the follow year in the concluding against Bradford City. [ 11 ] The team returned to the FA Cup concluding in 1924, in the second final have at the then modern Wembley Stadium. They defeated Aston Villa, winning the club ‘s second FA Cup. [ 11 ] Three years late, they won the First Division championship a fourth meter in 1926–27, with Hughie Gallacher, one of the most prolific goal scorers in the baseball club ‘s history, captaining the team. early key players in this period were Neil Harris, Stan Seymour and Frank Hudspeth. In 1930, Newcastle United came close to relegation, and at the conclusion of the season Gallacher left the club for Chelsea, and at the lapp time Andy Cunningham became the baseball club ‘s first team director. In 1931–32, the club won the FA Cup a third time. however, a couple of years former, at the end of the 1933–34 temper, the team were relegated to the Second Division after 35 seasons in the exceed. Cunningham left as director and Tom Mather took over. [ 11 ]

1937–1969 : Post-war achiever

The club found it difficult to adjust to the Second Division and were about far relegated in the 1937–38 temper, when they were spared on goal median. however, when World War II broke out in 1939, Newcastle had a opportunity to regroup, and in the War period, they brought in Jackie Milburn, Tommy Walker and Bobby Cowell. They were last promoted back to the First Division at the end of the 1947–48 season. [ 11 ] During the 1950s, Newcastle won the FA Cup three times in five years, beating Blackpool in 1951, Arsenal in 1952 and Manchester City in 1955. however, after this concluding FA Cup victory the club fell back into decay and were relegated to the Second Division once again at the conclusion of the 1960–61 temper under the management of Charlie Mitten. Mitten left after one season in the Second Division and was replaced by former player Joe Harvey. Newcastle returned to the First Division at the goal of the 1964–65 season after winning the Second Division claim. [ 11 ] Under Harvey, the cabaret qualified for european rival for the beginning time after a dear play in the 1967–68 season and the be class won the 1969 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Final, triumphing 6–2 over two legs against Hungary ‘s Újpest in the final. [ 11 ]

1969–1992 : bounce between divisions

Harvey bought hitter Malcolm Macdonald in the summer of 1971, for a club phonograph record transmit fee of £ 180,000 ( equivalent to £2,265,000 in 2021 ). [ 11 ] [ 14 ] He was an impressive goal scorer, who led United ‘s approach to Wembley in their 1974 FA Cup Final get the better of at the hands of Liverpool. [ 11 ] The clubhouse besides had back to back triumph in the Texaco Cup in 1974 and 1975. [ 15 ] Harvey left the club in 1975, with Gordon Lee brought in to replace him. Lee took the team to the 1976 Football League Cup Final against Manchester City, but failed to bring the trophy back to Tyneside. however, he sold Macdonald to Arsenal at the end of the temper, a decision of which Macdonald late said “ I loved Newcastle, until Gordon Lee took over ”. Lee left for Everton in 1977, and was replaced by Richard Dinnis. [ 11 ] United dropped once again to the second Division at the end of the 1977–78 season. Dinnis was replaced by Bill McGarry, and then he was replaced by Arthur Cox. Cox steered Newcastle back to the First Division at the conclusion of the 1983–84 season, with players such as Peter Beardsley, Chris Waddle and ex- England captain Kevin Keegan the fulcrum of the team. however, with a lack of funds, Cox left for Derby County and Keegan retired. With managers such as Jack Charlton and then Willie McFaul, Newcastle remained in the top-flight, until key players such as Waddle, Beardsley and Paul Gascoigne were sold, and the team was relegated once more in 1989. McFaul left the managerial post, and was replaced by Jim Smith. Smith left at the begin of the 1991–92 temper and the dining table appointed Osvaldo Ardiles his surrogate. [ 11 ] John Hall became the club ‘s president in 1992, and replaced Ardiles with Keegan, who managed to save the team from delegating to the Third Division. Keegan was given more money for players, buying Rob Lee, Paul Bracewell and Barry Venison. The club won the First Division championship at the end of the 1992–93 temper, earning promotion to the then new Premier League. [ citation needed ]

1992–2006 : First Premier League function

Kevin Keegan (pictured in his second spell in 2008) guided Newcastle to promotion and Champions League football from 1992 to 1997, turning United into one of the biggest clubs in England despite not winning the league At the end of their first year, 1993–94 season, back in the top flight they finished in third, their highest league eat up since 1927. [ 11 ] The attacking philosophy of Keegan led to the team being labelled “ The Entertainers ” by Sky Sports. [ 16 ] Keegan took Newcastle to two consecutive runner-up finishes in the league in 1995–96 and 1996–97, coming very conclusion to winning the claim in the former season which included a 4–3 game against Liverpool at Anfield – much considered the greatest bet on in Premier League history – which ended with a defining double of the Premier League with Keegan slumped over the advertising roll up. [ 17 ] The success of the team was in part due to the attacking talent of players like David Ginola, Les Ferdinand and Alan Shearer, who was signed on 30 July 1996 for a then world record tip of £15 million. [ 18 ] [ 19 ] Keegan left Newcastle in January 1997 and was replaced by Kenny Dalglish, however the club endured a largely abortive season with a 13th-place complete in the 1997–98 FA Premier League, bankruptcy to progress beyond the group stages of the 1997–98 UEFA Champions League despite beating Barcelona and group winners Dynamo Kyiv at St James ‘ Park deoxyadenosine monophosphate well as coming from 2–0 down to draw 2–2 with Valery Lobanovsky ‘s team in Ukraine and kill in the 1998 FA Cup Final. Dalglish was replaced as coach early in the follow season by Ruud Gullit. [ 20 ] [ 21 ] The club once again finished 13th in the league and lost the 1999 FA Cup Final. Gullit fell into disagreements with the police squad and chair Freddy Shepherd, and quit the cabaret four games into the 1999–2000 temper with the team bottom of the table to be replaced by Bobby Robson. [ 21 ] [ 22 ]
A title challenge emerged during the 2001–02 season, and Newcastle ‘s fourth-place complete saw them qualify for the UEFA Champions League. The follow season, Robson guided the team to another title challenge and finished third in the League, and the second group stage of the Champions League, [ 23 ] after being the first team to have progressed past the first gear group phase after losing their first three games. [ 24 ] Newcastle finished fifth in the league at the end of the 2003–04 season, and exited the Champions League in the qualify rounds, but despite this Robson was sacked in August 2004 following a series of disagreements with the golf club. [ 25 ] [ 26 ]
Alan Shearer mosaic during his testimonial match in May 2006. The club’s record goalscorer retired that month. Graeme Souness was brought in to manage by the start of the 2004–05 season. In his time at the helm, he broke the club ‘s transfer record by signing Michael Owen for £16.8 million. Souness besides took Newcastle to the quarter-finals of the 2004–05 UEFA Cup with Alan Shearer winning the tournament ‘s golden boot a well. [ 27 ] [ 28 ] [ 29 ] however, he was sacked in February 2006 after a bad beginning to the cabaret ‘s 2005–06 season. [ 30 ] Glenn Roeder took over, initially on a temp basis, before being appointed full-time coach at the end of the season. [ 31 ] Shearer retired at the end of the 2005–06 season as the club ‘s all-time commemorate finish scorekeeper, with 206 goals. [ 32 ]

2006–2010

Despite finishing the 2005–06 season in seventh, Roeder ‘s fortunes changed in the 2006–07 season, with a frightful wound run to the elder police squad, and he left the club by reciprocal consent on 6 May 2007. [ 33 ] After the 2006–07 season, and inside the Premier League era, Newcastle United were now the fifth most successful premiership clubhouse in terms of points gained. Sam Allardyce was appointed Roeder ‘s successor as director on 15 May 2007. [ 35 ] On 7 June, Freddy Shepherd ‘s final examination shares in the club were sold to Mike Ashley and Shepherd was replaced as president by Chris Mort on 25 July. [ 36 ] [ 37 ] Ashley then announced he would be delisting the baseball club from the London Stock Exchange upon completion of the coup d’etat. [ 38 ] The cabaret officially ceased trade on the Stock Exchange as of 8 am on 18 July 2007 at 5p a share. [ 39 ] Allardyce departed the club on in January 2008 by common accept after a bad begin to the 2007–08 season, [ 40 ] and Kevin Keegan was reappointed as Newcastle director. [ 41 ] Mort stepped polish as president in June and was replaced by Derek Llambias, a long-run consociate of Ashley. [ 42 ] Newcastle finished the 2007–08 season in 12th place, but as the season drew to a close, Keegan publicly criticised the board, stating they were not providing the team enough fiscal confirm. [ 43 ] In September 2008, Keegan resigned as coach, submit : “ It ‘s my opinion that a director must have the proper to manage and that clubs should not impose upon any coach any player that he does not want ”. [ 44 ] Former Wimbledon coach Joe Kinnear was appointed as his refilling, [ 45 ] but in February 2009, due to his center operating room, Alan Shearer was appointed interim coach in his absence. [ 46 ] Under Shearer, the club were relegated to the Football League Championship at the end of the 2008–09 season, the first time the cabaret had left the Premier League since joining it in 1993. [ 47 ] Following their delegating, the club was put up for sale in June 2009, with an asking price of £100 million. [ 48 ] Chris Hughton was given the director speculate on a caretaker basis before taking over full-time on 27 October 2009. [ 49 ] On the like day, Ashley announced that the baseball club was no longer for sale. [ 50 ]

2010–2016 : second Premier League run

Newcastle made an immediate retort to the top-flight in 2010 after their relegation the class prior. Hughton led Newcastle to win the 2009–10 Football League Championship, securing automatic forwarding on 5 April 2010 with five games remaining, and securing the title on 19 April ; Newcastle were promoted back to the Premier League after barely one season aside. [ 51 ] [ 52 ] [ 53 ] Under Hughton, Newcastle enjoyed a firm startle to the 2010–11 season, but he was sacked on 6 December 2010. The baseball club ‘s board stated that they felt “ an person with more managerial experience [ was ] needed to take the clubhouse forth. ” [ 54 ] Three days late, Alan Pardew was appointed as coach with a five-and-a-half-year contract. [ 55 ] Despite some turbulence, Newcastle were able to finish 12th at the end of the season, with one finical highlight being a 4–4 home draw against Arsenal that saw Newcastle come back from four goals devour to claim a point. [ 56 ] The begin of the 2011–12 season was identical successful as they went on to enjoy one of their strongest openings to a season, playing 11 consecutive games unbeaten. [ 57 ] Newcastle finally secured a place in the 2012–13 Europa League with a fifth-place stopping point, their highest league position since the Bobby Robson days. further honours were to come as Pardew won both the Premier League Manager of the Season [ 58 ] and the LMA Manager of the year awards. [ citation needed ] In the adopt season Newcastle made few acquisitions in the summer and suffered injuries over the season. As a leave, the first half of the temper was marred by a streak of 10 losses in 13 games, which saw the club cesspool near the relegation zone. The Europa League campaign was largely successful with the team making the quarter-finals before bowing out to eventual finalists Benfica. [ 59 ] Domestically, Newcastle struggled, and stayed up after a 2–1 victory over already-relegated Queens Park Rangers on the penultimate game of the season. [ 60 ]
The 2014–15 season saw Newcastle fail to win any of their first seven games, prompting fans to start a campaign to get Pardew sacked as director before an upturn in form saw them climb to fifth in the postpone. Pardew left for Crystal Palace in December. [ 61 ] On 26 January 2015, his adjunct John Carver was put in load for the remainder of the season but came close to relegation, staying up on the final examination day with a 2–0 home acquire against West Ham, with Jonás Gutiérrez, who beat testicular cancer earlier in the temper, scoring the team ‘s second gear goal. [ 62 ] On 9 June 2015, Carver was sacked and replaced by Steve McClaren the succeed day. [ 63 ] On 11 March 2016, McClaren was sacked after nine months as director, with Newcastle in 19th place in the Premier League and the cabaret having won fair six of 28 Premier League games during his time at the club. [ 64 ] He was replaced by Spaniard Rafael Benítez on the same day, who signed a three-year deal, [ 64 ] but was not able to prevent the baseball club from being relegated for the moment prison term under Ashley ‘s possession. [ 65 ]

2016–present : third Premier League run and Saudi-led takeover

newcastle returned to the Premier League at the first base undertake, winning the Championship title on 7 May 2017 with a 3–0 acquire against Barnsley. [ 66 ] On 16 October 2017, Mike Ashley put Newcastle United up for sale for a second clock time. [ 67 ] The team finished the season with a 3–0 gain over the former year ‘s champions Chelsea, finishing 10th in the league, their highest ending in four years. [ 68 ] [ 69 ] The following season saw a 13th-place ending, despite being in the delegating zone in January. As such Ashley came under increased examination for his miss of investment in the police squad and apparent focus on early business ventures. [ 70 ] Benitez left his position on 30 June 2019 after rejecting a modern sign. [ 71 ] On 17 July 2019, erstwhile Sunderland coach Steve Bruce was appointed as director on a three-year contract. [ 72 ] Bruce oversaw 13th and 12th place finishes during his first two seasons in charge, both of which being affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. On 7 October 2021, after 14 years as owner, Ashley sold the club to a new consortium for a reported £305 million, making them the richest football club in the world. [ 73 ] The consortium was made up of Saudi Arabia ‘s Public Investment Fund, RB Sports & Media and PCP Capital Partners. [ 74 ] On 20 October 2021, Bruce left his position by common accept. [ 75 ] Eddie Howe was appointed as Bruce ‘s substitute a few weeks late on 8 November 2021. [ 76 ]

Club identity

Newcastle United ‘s master colours, worn until 1894 The club ‘s home colours are a black and white striped shirt. Shorts and socks are normally blacken with white trim, though egg white socks are sometimes worn under some managers who consider them “ golden ”. [ 77 ] Newcastle ‘s colors at the beginning was by and large the family kit out of Newcastle East End F.C., comprising plain red shirts with white shorts and red socks. In 1894, the club adopted the black and white strip shirts, which had been used as the reserve team ‘s color. These colours were chosen for the senior team because they were not associated with either of the two teams United were merged from. They played in grey shorts until 1897, and between 1897 and 1921, they played in blue shorts before adopting the black shorts they play in immediately. [ 10 ] [ 78 ] United ‘s aside colours have changed a number of times over the years. They played in white shirts and black shorts from 1914 until 1961, and then white shorts until 1966. They then played in yellow shirts and blue shorts for the 1967–68 season, but from 1969 to 1974 played in all loss with an all blue third base kit. In 1974, they returned to a yellow shirt, which they played with diverse colored shorts until 1983. They played in all grey from 1983 to 1988, before once again returning to the scandalmongering kit until 1993. Since 1995, the away kit out has changed frequently and has not been the lapp for more than a unmarried season. [ 79 ] [ 80 ] Through owner Mike Ashley, the club besides has a relationship with the Sports Direct retail chain which he founded. [ 81 ] On 4 January 2012, Virgin Money, which had equitable bought Northern Rock, signed a biennial deal to sponsor Newcastle United. [ 82 ] In January 2010, Puma became the official supplier and licensee of replica merchandise for Newcastle. The deal mean Puma supplied the team kit out, replica kit and coach equipment for the 2010–11 and 2011–12 seasons. [ 83 ]
newcastle United crown : 1983–1988 The current cabaret crest was first used in the 1988–89 season. The crown includes elements from the coat of arms of the city of Newcastle upon Tyne – the two ocean horses representing Tyneside ‘s hard connections with the ocean, the castle representing the city ‘s Norman keep. [ 84 ] The city ‘s coat of arms were first base embroidered on the team ‘s shirts in 1969 and worn as standard until 1976. [ 78 ] A scroll at the bottomland featured the city ‘s motto in Latin ; fortiter defendit triumphans which translates into English as “ gloat by brave defense. ” [ 85 ] From 1976 until 1983, the club wore a specific badge which was developed to wear in place of the city ‘s coat of arms. The purpose was of a circular shape, which featured the golf club ‘s name in full, it contained a magpie standing in front of the River Tyne with the historic Norman castle of Newcastle in the background. [ 86 ] A more simplistic design followed in 1983, featuring the initials of the club ‘s name, NUFC with the little chatterer used in the former crest within the horizontally laid “ C, ” this logo was relatively brusque lived and was discontinued after 1988. [ 86 ]
On 16 May 2013, Newcastle released the away shirt for the 2013–14 season which for the first fourth dimension featured the Wonga.com logo, which attracted criticism from many Newcastle supporters ; the shirt was dark blue amobarbital sodium with light blue bands. The shirt received mix reviews from Newcastle supporters, who described the shirt as both “ amazing ” and “ bland ”, as quoted in the Newcastle daily Evening Chronicle. [ 87 ] In July 2013, Newcastle hitter and practising Muslim Papiss Cissé refused to wear any official kit or train wear with reference to Wonga.com, subsequently failing to travel to the team ‘s 2013 pre-season enlistment of Portugal. [ citation needed ] The matter was later resolved. [ 88 ] Wonga collapsed in government in 2018. [ 89 ] On 15 May 2017, the dwelling shirt for the 2017–18 season was revealed, featuring the logo of new sponsors Fun88. The shirt was shown to include a aureate and silver medal commemorative crest to mark the club ‘s 125th football temper, based on the city ‘s coating of arms. It was besides announced that the kit would feature loss numbers for the first gear time since the 1992–93 season. [ 90 ] previous kit sponsors include Newcastle Breweries ( 1980–86 ), Greenall ‘s Beers ( 1986–90 ), McEwan ‘s Lager and Newcastle Brown Ale ( 1990–2000 ), NTL ( 2000–03 ), Northern Rock ( 2003–12 ), Virgin Money ( 2012–13 ) and Wonga.com ( 2013–17 ). [ citation needed ] Newcastle United ‘s current kit manufacturers are Castore, in a hand that started in 2021. [ 91 ] Previous kit manufacturers include Bukta ( 1974–75, 1976–80 ), Umbro ( 1975–76, 1980–93 ), Asics ( 1993–95 ), Adidas ( 1995–2010 ) and Puma ( 2010–21 ). other current team sponsors include Fun88, Carling, Coral, Pulman, Thomas Cook Group and Stelrad. [ 92 ] [ 93 ] [ 94 ] Newcastle United ‘s current sleeve sponsor is Kayak, in a batch that started in 2021. [ 95 ] Previous sleeve sponsors include MRF Tyres ( 2017–18 ), StormGain ( 2019–20 ) and ICM.com ( 2020–21 ). [ citation needed ]

stadium

newcastle finished as the Football League ‘s best supported club on ten occasions. NUFC were the first baseball club in the worldly concern to attract over one million for league games ( 1946–47 ) and average over 50,000 for league games ( 1947–48 ; 56,283 ). Throughout Newcastle United ‘s history, their dwelling venue has been St James ‘ Park, the oldest and largest football stadium in North East England, a well as the sixth-largest football stadium in the United Kingdom. [ 96 ] It has hosted 10 external football matches at senior degree, the first in 1901 and the most late in 2005. [ 97 ] [ 98 ] It was used as a venue for both the 2012 Summer Olympics and the 2015 Rugby World Cup. [ 96 ] [ 99 ] football had been played at St James ‘ Park equally early as 1880, the ground being occupied by Newcastle Rangers, before becoming the home of Newcastle West End F.C. in 1886. Its lease was then bought by Newcastle East End F.C. in 1892, before they changed their identify to Newcastle United. At the turn of the twentieth hundred, the footing ‘s capability was given as 30,000 before being redeveloped between 1900 and 1905, increasing the capacitance to 60,000 and making it the biggest stadium in England for a time. For most of the twentieth century, the stadium changed very little, despite assorted plans for growth of the ground. The old West Stand was replaced with the Milburn Stand in 1987, the Sir John Hall Stand replacing the Leazes end in 1993, and the pillow of the ground renovated making the labor a 37,000 capacity all-seater stadium. between 1998 and 2000, double tiers were added to the Milburn and Sir John Hall stands to bring the venue up to its current capacity of 52,354. There were plans to build a newly 90,000 seater stadium in Leazes park, good behind St James ‘ with Newcastle Falcons taking over St James ‘ Park, but due to protests the plans were dropped. St James ‘ Park presently seats 52,354 people, but early clubhouse owner Mike Ashley had said he would consider taking the ceiling off The Gallowgate end and adding another 6,000 seats, taking the entire capability to 58,420, but lone if the team managed to finish in the exceed six places of the Premier League. [ 10 ] [ 100 ]

possession

newcastle United was set up as a private company limited by shares on 6 September 1895. [ 11 ] The club traded in this way for much of the twentieth hundred, dominated by McKeag, Westwood and Seymour class ownership, [ 108 ] until April 1997, when John Hall, who bought 72.9 % of the baseball club for £3 million in 1991, floated the club on the store exchange as a populace limited party, with less than half the shares sold to the Hall kin and the majority holding going to his business collaborator Freddy Shepherd. Later that year, Hall stepped down as chair and was replaced by Shepherd, with the Hall class represented on the board by John ‘s son Douglas. [ 109 ] In December 1998, after buying a 6.3 % post in the cabaret for £10 million, the media group NTL had considered a fully coup d’etat of the club. This was later dropped after the Competition Commission, established in April 1999, expressed concerns about football clubs being owned by media companies. [ 110 ]
newcastle fans show “ Mike Ashley Out ” cards away to QPR, May 2015 In 2007, businessman Mike Ashley purchased the combine stakes of both Douglas and John Hall, 41 % share in the clubhouse, through a holding company St James Holdings, with a scene to buy the rest. [ 111 ] Upon purchasing this share, he appointed Chris Mort as president, while gaining more shares, owning 93.19 % of the club by 29 June 2007. [ 112 ] This human body reached 95 % on 11 July 2007, forcing the remaining shareholders to sell their shares. [ 113 ] Since completing the buy of the club, Ashley has announced that he planned to sell the club on three occasions. The first occurred after sports fan protests over the resignation of Kevin Keegan on 14 September 2008, when Ashley stated, “ I have listened to you. You want me out. That is what I am now trying to do. ” [ 114 ] however, he took it off the market on 28 December 2008 after being unable to find a buyer. [ 115 ] On 31 May 2009, it was reported that Ashley was attempting to sell the club again. [ 116 ] [ 117 ] On 8 June 2009, Ashley confirmed that the clubhouse was improving for sale at an asking price of £100 million. [ 118 ] By the end of August 2009, the club was spinal column off the market. [ 119 ] On 16 October 2017, Newcastle United announced that Ashley had once again put the club up for sale, reporting that he hoped that a softwood could be concluded by Christmas 2017. [ 120 ]

Saudi-led takeover

In April 2020, it was wide reported that a consortium consisting of Public Investment Fund, PCP Capital Partners and RB Sports & Media, was finalising an offer to acquire Newcastle United. The proposed sale prompted concerns and criticism, such as arguments considering it sportwashing of the state ‘s homo rights record, adenine good as ongoing piracy of sports broadcasts in the region. [ 121 ] In May 2020, two cautious MPs called upon the government to scrutinise aspects of the share, with Karl McCartney calling for the sale to be blocked, and Giles Watling calling upon the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport to hold an oral evidence school term regarding sports plagiarism in Saudi Arabia. [ 122 ] In May 2020, The Guardian reported that the Premier League had obtained a report from the World Trade Organization ( published publicly the following calendar month ), which contained evidence that Saudi nationals had backed beoutQ – a plagiarist broadcaster carrying the beIN Sports networks in the region since the Qatar diplomatic crisis. [ 123 ] [ 124 ] [ 125 ] In June 2020, The Guardian reported that Richard Masters, who appeared in front of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, had hinted potential coup d’etat of Newcastle United. however, the MPs warned it would be “ humiliating ” to allow a Saudi Arabian consortium to take commission given the country ‘s record on piracy and homo rights. [ 126 ]
[127] double from Newcastle Fans television, showing thousands of NUFC fans celebrating the completed coup d’etat outside St James ‘ Park on 7 October 2021 In July 2020, The Guardian reported that Saudi Arabia ‘s decision to ban beIN Sports circulate from manoeuver in the nation, had further complicated the takeover of Newcastle United. [ 128 ] On 30 July 2020, Saudi Arabia announced its withdrawal from the Newcastle deal, stating “ with a trench taste for the Newcastle community and the meaning of its football club, we have come to the decision to withdraw our concern in acquiring Newcastle United Football Club ”. The group besides stated that the “ drawn-out procedure ” was a major factor in them pulling out. [ 129 ] The collapse of the takeover was met with far-flung criticism from Newcastle fans, with Newcastle MP Chi Onwurah accusing the Premier League of treating fans of the club with “ contempt ” and subsequently wrote to Masters for an explanation. [ 130 ] Despite the consortium ‘s withdrawal, disputes over the coup d’etat continued. On 9 September 2020, Newcastle United released a affirmation claiming that the Premier League had officially rejected the takeover by the consortium and accused Masters and the Premier League dining table of “ [ not ] acting appropriately in relative to [ the coup d’etat ] ”, while stating that the club would be considering any relevant legal action. [ 131 ] The Premier League powerfully denied this in a argument released the future day, expressing “ surprise ” and “ disappointment ” at Newcastle ‘s affirmation. [ 132 ] On 7 October 2021, the Public Investment Fund, PCP Capital Partners and RB Sports & Media confirmed that they had officially completed the acquisition of Newcastle United. [ 74 ]

Social responsibility

newcastle United established the Newcastle United Foundation in summer 2008, which seeks to encourage determine and promote goodly exist amongst disadvantaged children, young people and families in the North East region, angstrom well as promoting equality and diversity. [ 133 ] [ 134 ] The Foundation ‘s director Kate Bradley told charity news website The Third Sector, “ Children look up to players as their heroes, and anything they say is instantaneously taken on board. If newcastle defender Steven Taylor tells them not to eat a Mars bar for breakfast, they ‘ll listen. ” [ 135 ] In 2010, the charity taught over 5,000 children about healthy live. [ 133 ] The Foundation ‘s commitment, along with a like initiation run by West Bromwich Albion, the singular relationship that Aston Villa has with Acorns Children ‘s Hospice and Tottenham Hotspur has with SOS Children ‘s Villages UK, are some leading examples of commitment in the highest level of football to responsibility and exchange in the communities in which they work and who enrich them through their support and ticket sales. The work of these clubs, and others, is changing the way professional sport interacts with their communities and supporters. [ 136 ] [ 137 ] In December 2012, the club announced that it had become the world ‘s first carbon positive football clubhouse. [ 138 ]

Supporters and rivalries

Supporters at St. James ‘ Park. Supporters of Newcastle United are drawn from all over the North East and beyond, with supporters ‘ clubs in some countries across the world. [ 139 ] The baseball club ‘s dub is The Magpies, while the club ‘s supporters are besides known as the Geordies or the Toon Army. The name Toon originates from the Geordie pronunciation of town. [ 140 ] [ 141 ] In a 2004 survey by Co-operative Financial Services, it was found that Newcastle United topped the league table for the cost incurred and distance travelled by Newcastle-based fans wishing to travel to every Premier League away game. The sum distance travelled for a winnow to attend every away game from Newcastle was found to be equivalent to a round-the-world trip. [ 142 ] In the 2009–10 season, when the club were playing in English football ‘s second tier, the Football League Championship, the average attendance at St James ‘ Park was 43,388, the fourth-highest for an english club that season. [ 143 ] At the end of the 2011–12 Premier league season, Newcastle United held the third-highest median attendance for the season, at 49,935. [ 144 ] This visualize was only surpassed by Arsenal and Manchester United, the only two clubs in the Premier League with larger stadiums at the time. [ 144 ] The golf club ‘s supporters publish a number of fanzines including True Faith and The Mag, along with NUFC.com, which was established in 1996. They set up Newcastle United Supporters Trust in September 2008, aiming to “ represent the broad church of Newcastle United ‘s support. ” [ 145 ] In summation to the usual English football chants, Newcastle ‘s supporters sing the traditional Tyneside song “ Blaydon Races. ” [ 146 ] [ 147 ] Prior to each base plot the team enters the field to “ Local Hero “, written by Newcastle native and garter Mark Knopfler, founder of Dire Straits. [ 6 ] Traditionally, Newcastle ‘s independent rivals are Sunderland, against whom the Tyne–Wear bowler hat is competed. [ 148 ] In 1998, The Police collapse and Newcastle fan Sting wrote a song in hold of Newcastle, called “ Black and White Army ( Bringing The Pride Back Home ) ”. [ 149 ] In 2015, some Newcastle fans boycotted games in protest of clubhouse management by Mike Ashley, and they were supported by celebrated club fans like Sting and Jimmy Nail. [ 149 ] [ 150 ]

Records and statistics

As of the 2019–20 season, Newcastle United have spent 88 seasons in the top-flight. They are eighth in the all-time Premier League table and have the ninth-highest entire of major honours won by an english club with 11 wins. [ 151 ] The holder of the record for the most appearances is Jimmy Lawrence, having made 496 first team appearances between 1904 and 1921. [ 152 ] The club ‘s top goal scorekeeper is Alan Shearer, who scored 206 goals in all competitions between 1996 and 2006. [ 153 ] Andy Cole holds the record for the most goals scored in a season : 41 in the 1993–94 season in the Premier League. [ 152 ] Shay Given is the most capped international for the cabaret, with 134 appearances for Republic of Ireland. [ 152 ] The club ‘s widest victory margin in the league was in the 13–0 succeed against Newport County in the Second Division in 1946. Their heaviest frustration in the league was 9–0 against Burton Wanderers in the Second Division in 1895. [ 152 ] The club ‘s longest number of straight seasons in the top flight of English football was 36 from 1898–99 until 1933–34. Newcastle ‘s record base attendance is 68,386 for a first Division match against Chelsea on 3 September 1930. [ 152 ] The clubhouse ‘s highest attendance in the Premier League is 52,389, in a match against Manchester City on 6 May 2012. Newcastle lost the crippled 2–0. [ 154 ] The highest transmit tip received for a Newcastle player is £35 million, from Liverpool for Andy Carroll in January 2011, [ 155 ] while the most exhausted by the clubhouse on a player was £21 million, for Miguel Almirón from Atlanta United in January 2019, [ 156 ] until the number was exceeded by the transfer of Joelinton from TSG 1899 Hoffenheim in July 2019, believed to be in the region of £40 million. [ 157 ]

Players

current team

As of 18 August 2021[158]

notice : Flags indicate home team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .

other players under narrow

As of 30 September 2021

note : Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .

Out on lend

note : Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .

Reserves and Academy

noteworthy players

musician of the year

reference : Newcastle United F.C .

club officials

current backroom staff

First team

Under-23 and Under-18

Honours

domestic

first Division/Premier League ( level 1 )
second Division/Championship ( tied 2 )
FA Cup
Football League Cup
FA Charity Shield
sheriff of London Charity Shield

european

Inter-Cities Fairs Cup
UEFA Intertoto Cup

early honours

Texaco Cup
Anglo-Italian Cup

References

Sources

Books

Bolam, Mike (2007). The Newcastle Miscellany. United Kingdom: Vision Sports Publishing. ISBN 978-1-905326-18-1.