1896 Derby County (h)
4-2 (2-2)
Friendly
Stott(1-2,4-2), Lennox(2-2), Collins(65)
Goodall(6), McMillan(7)
8,000
Following a fifth place finish in Division Two, Newcastle played a series of friendlies - including this notable win over the First Division runners-up.

Drawing attention to the size of the crowd for a friendly near the end of the season, The Athletic News reporter wrote that, 

"this liberal patronage clearly proves that the Tyneside public are always willing to turn out in strong force to watch first-class talent."

Newcastle wore their change kit of dark blue shorts and light blue shirts, while the visitors were clad in their customary white shirts.

Team: Henderson, McDermid, Foyers, Miller, Stott, Adams, Lennox, Collins, Thompson, Aitken, Wardrope.

1903 sunderland (h)
1-0 (0-0)
Division One
32pts, 14th/18
McColl(49)
26,500
Arguably the most important ever derby fixture, as United prevented the mackems from collecting the points that would have seen them claim the First Division title.

That instead went to Sheffield Wednesday by a solitary point and there were Owls fans among the SJP crowd to confirm their title success at first hand.

1904 Hearts (Scotland) (a)
3-2 (0-0)
Friendly
Appleyard(1-0,2-0), Orr(3-0)
Smith(3-1pen,85)
6,000
Beginning a five match post-season tour of Scotland, United visited Tynecastle for a midweek kickabout but played with ten men for most of the first half after George Thompson was injured.

The Edinburgh Evening News reported that at half time the teams: 

"crossed over without leaving the field, Newcastle resumed with 11 men, a substitute for Thompson being allowed".

United then took a three goal lead before slackening off in the closing stages and allowing the Jambos to reduce the arrears:

"Birnie fisting the ball in a tussle with Porteous, the referee gave a penalty kick, which none of the Hearts would take. Two of the Newcastle men offered to oblige, and Smith was finally induced to take the kick, beating Watts, who fell, amid laughter."  

Team: Watts, Carr, Birnie, Gardner, Aitken, McWilliam, Thompson (sub identity tbc), Howie, Appleyard, Orr, Templeton.

1908 Wolves (n) 1-3 (0-2)
FA Cup Final
Howie(73)
Hunt(40), Hedley(43), Harrison(85)
65,000
The Crystal Palace jinx struck for a third time as top-flight United were beaten by Division Two Wolves, although Jimmy Howie scored our first-ever goal in an FA Cup Final.

Winning captain Billy Wooldridge collected the trophy from Lord Mayor of London, Sir John Bell while disgruntled Toon fan Gladstone Adams was inspired to invent windscreen wipers after encountering snow showers on his return car journey to the North East.

1910 Bristol City (a)
3-0 (1-0)
Division One
P36, 44pts, 4th/20
og(Young)(23), Stewart(50,85)
4,000
Two days after their FA Cup Final against Barnsley ended in a 1-1 draw, a much-changed Magpies side won for the first time at Ashton Gate.

Newcastle's hectic week continued with a 0-4 defeat at Aston Villa 48 hours later, before their Cup replay success over Barnsley a day later.

1914 Derby County (h)
1-1 (1-1)
Division One
37pts, 11th/20
Hibbert(19)
Barnes(14)
16,000
Derby were already assured of relegation before this season closer but came close to victory despite playing a man short for the majority of the afternoon.

1922 Glasgow Rangers (Scotland) (a)
1-1 (1-0)
Friendly
Harris(1-0)
Gallacher(1-1)
18,000
This was a benefit for Andy Cunningham, who would later serve Newcastle in both a playing and managerial capacity.

Goalscorer for the home side was Celtic's Patsy Gallacher, who guested with the permission of the Scottish FA.

Legend has it that "the Mighty Atom" wore his green and white hoops beneath the Rangers blue shirt - and revealed his true colours at full time!

1925 Notts County (a)
0-2 (0-1)
Division One
48pts, 6th/22
Davis(43), Widdowson(65)
7,000
Horace Cope missed two penalties for County, firing wide and then having the second saved by Bill Bradley. 

The season ended with Newcastle finishing a disappointing sixth. With five games to go United were level on points with leaders Huddersfield (having played three more games), but lost all but one of them.

1927 Hull City (a)
0-3 (0-1)
Friendly
Martin(8,87), Wyper(55)
7,000
This Hull Hospital Cup Match on a Monday night (6.30pm kick-off) at City's Anlaby Road ground raised £400.

The Magpies missed the chance to level at 1-1 when Tom McDonald's penalty kick came back off the crossbar.

Team: Wilson, Maitland, Hudspeth, McKenzie, Spencer, Harris, Urwin, Currie, Gallacher, McDonald, Lang.

1931 Arsenal (h)
1-3 (1-1)
Division One
P41, 35pts, 18th/22
Lang(20)
Jones(32), Hulme(46,88)
21,747
United were already clear of any relegation worries as they lost their final home game - the tenth time that they'd been beaten at Gallowgate that season.

1936 Blackpool (h)
1-0 (1-0)
Division Two
P41, 46pts, 8th/22
Weaver(81)
12,000
Newcastle gained almost instant revenge against the Tangerines, having conceded six goals without reply at Bloomfield Road just three days previously. 

This was first of just two games for centre half Ernie Hall, who kept his place for a season-closing visit to Plymouth Argyle but was never called upon again.

1938 Chesterfield (a)
0-2 (0-0)
Division Two
P40, 36pts, 14th/22
Spedding(52), Ponting(90)
6,311
United lost at Saltergate in a restaged game, after the first match in December was halted on 75 minutes due to fading light. 

The Spireites had led 1-0 at that time.

1953 Bolton Wanderers (h) 2-3 (0-2)
Division One
P41, 35pts, 19th/22
Harvey(56), Hannah(65) 
Lofthouse(8,20,54pen)
34,824
Joe Harvey scored his only goal of the season for the third consecutive campaign. With a game to go, United were safe by a point - Derby and Stoke unable to catch us.

1955 Blackpool (h)
1-1 (0-1)
Division One
P40, 41pts, 10th/22
Broadis(57)
Mortensen(11)
41,380
A third successive draw for FA Cup finalists Newcastle continued their tradition of indifferent pre-Wembley league results.

Trailing to an effort from South Shields native Stan Mortensen, Jackie Milburn took an 18th minute penalty kick but sent it way over the Blackpool crossbar. 

1956 Hartlepools United (a) 3-6 (0-5)
Friendly
Mitchell(1-5pen), Keeble(2-5),  Cummings(85)
Johnson(5,18,19,2-6), Lumley(7), Robinson(33) 
7,206
Newcastle provided the opposition in a testimonial for inside forward Tommy McGuigan, who played over 300 games during eight years at the Victoria Ground.

Ken Johnson struck four times for 'Pools.

Team: Thompson, Lackenby, McMichael, Scoular, Stokoe, Casey, White, Cummings, Keeble, Curry, Mitchell.

1959 Burnley (a)
2-2 (1-1)
Division One
P41, 40pts, 12th/22
Allchurch(14), Curry(74)
Pilkington(1), Cheesebrough(76), 
15,132
Bill Curry's fifth goal in four games helped United to a point at Turf Moor.

1959 At Gallowgate meanwhile, the Northumberland Senior Cup Final went to Blyth Spartans, who beat Ashington 2-1.

Behind at half time to a Hewitson effort, Blyth levelled through Stamper before Nickalls won it on 89 minutes.  

1964 Norwich City (h)
2-0 (1-0)
Division Two
45pts, 8th/22
Iley(25), Cummings(56)
12,256
Debut on the wing for 17 year-old apprentice Geoff Allen in the final game of the season.

1973 Everton (h) 0-0 (0-0) Division One P41, 45pts,6th/22 22,390 Having beaten Liverpool at SJP five days before, almost 15,000 fans stayed away from this midweek meeting with the other scousers.

1979 Blackburn Rovers (a)
3-1 (1-1)
Division Two
P38, 37pts, 12th/22
Withe(41,50,69)
McKenzie(45)
4,902
The sparse crowd present for this rearranged game saw relegation confirmed for the hosts, managed by ex-Magpie John Pickering.

Peter Withe opened the scoring before Duncan McKenzie levelled just before the interval for Rovers, who also included future Newcastle defender John Bailey in their line-up.

Two more Withe goals after the break though decided the matter as United won their first game in six and our number nine netted the first Toon league treble since Alan Gowling's hat trick against Everton in January 1976.

1981 Blackburn Rovers (a) 0-3 (0-2)
Division Two
P41, 40pts, 11th/22
Lowey(9pen), Burke(33), Speight(68)
10,609
Ten days after a 0-0 home stalemate with Howard Kendall's Rovers side, United were well beaten in Lancashire.

1987 Chelsea (h)
1-0 (1-0)
Division One
P39, 46pts, 17th/22
Goddard(71)
21,962
"Sarge" struck again with his eighth goal in nine games, as our safety was virtually assured.

1990 Swindon Town (h)
0-0 (0-0)
Division Two
P44 77pts, 3rd/24
26,548
Victory could have seen Newcastle challenging Leeds and Sheffield United for an automatic promotion place, but a draw against the fourth-placed Robins meant that a play-off position was now most likely.
Youtube footage is online here

1992 Portsmouth (h)
1-0 (0-0)
Division Two
P45, 49pts, 20th/24
Kelly(86)
25,989
With just two games to play, the upturn in our fortunes caused by Kevin Keegan's arrival had ebbed away.

Suffering five successive losses, Newcastle were all aboard the Oblivion Express and heading for Division Three at full speed.

A nervous afternoon had seen numerous near misses at either end, but visiting 'keeper Alan Knight was en route to registering a clean sheet when former Fratton favourite Mick Quinn arrived in place of Kevin Brock.

With four minutes left, Kelly headed on Ray Ranson's long punt forward and when Quinn completed the one two by hooking the ball back into Kelly's path, he buried a rising right footer from 12 yards in the Gallowgate goal.

Cue absolute bedlam - and with results the following Saturday meaning that our 2-1 win away at Leicester didn't affect the relegation places, this remains the most important goal ever scored by a Newcastle player.
Youtube footage is online here

Right said Ned

1993 mackems (h)
1-0 (1-0)
Division One
P43, 87pts, 1st/24
Sellars(10)
30,364
Terry Butcher brought his self-proclaimed "red and white commandos" to a rain-soaked SJP and clumsily gave away a free kick outside the box at the Leazes End.

Up stepped Scott Sellars to crack it in off a post and send United a step closer to the Premier League.

The end of the match saw the first unfurling of the "Champions" flag, paid for by United fans and a rousing chorus of "Terry Butcher on the dole" as the unwashed were left just a point above the relegation zone.
Youtube footage is online here

Full time celebrations are online here

1998 Tottenham Hotspur (a) 0-2 (0-1)
Premier League
P35, 40pts, 15th/20
Klinsmann(31), Ferdinand(73)
35,874
Les Ferdinand found the net but fellow old boy David Ginola was tormentor-in-chief at White Hart Lane.

Keith Gillespie appeared as a 49th minute sub but hobbled off just four minutes later after a vicious lunge from future Toon coach Colin Calderwood - who ended the afternoon by confronting furious away fans at pitchside.

Elsewhere, Arsenal's 2-0 victory at Barnsley guaranteed Newcastle a place in the Cup Winners Cup competition - whether we won or lost the FA Cup Final.

Despite that boost though, relegation was still a possibility with three games remaining, United just three points clear of the Premiership drop zone.
PL highlights are online here

2000 The reserves were clattered 0-3 by Blackburn Rovers at Ewood Park.

2004 Chelsea (h)
2-1 (1-1)
Premiership
P34, 53pts, 5th/20
Ameobi(44), Shearer(48)
Cole(5)
52,016
Cracking strikes either side of half-time eclipsed Joe Cole's effort and gave United arguably their best win of the season.

The 78th minute substitution of Jonathan Woodgate was almost lost amid the clamour, but this was to be the defender's final game for Newcastle and by August he was posing in a Real Madrid shirt for the cameras.
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PL highlights are online here

2005 A penalty conversion from ex-Magpie striker Michael Bridges set the mackems on their way to a 2-1 victory in the wear-Tyne reserve derby at Durham.

Sean Thornton's effort just before the interval looked to have sealed a mackem victory, only for Jamie McClen to give the Magpies some hope soon after the restart.

United never really looked like levelling though and ended their away league programme with two wins in fourteen attempts.
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2006 News broke from SJP that the next full-time manager of Newcastle United would be Glenn Roeder - if agreement could be reached with the FA over a timetable for his permanent appointment, given that he lacked the necessary coaching qualifications.

They eventually did - and he was.

2014 United reserves rounded off their U21 league season in typical fashion, losing 1-2 after taking an early lead against Arsenal. Lubo Satka got the goal.
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2015 Swansea City (h)
2-3 (1-1)
Premier League
P34, 35pts, 14th/20
Perez(20), De Jong(87)
Oliveira(45+2), Sigurdsson(49), Cork(71)
46,884
A seventh successive loss left United just five points above the relegation zone - the first time a Magpies side had suffered a septet of successive top flight losses since 1977/78.

Richard Dinnis was the man who couldn't save the sinking ship as United were relegated in 1978 and this time John Carver was the one trying to rearrange the deckchairs.
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PL highlights are online here

2022 United's slim hopes of sneaking into the PL2 Division Two promotion playoffs ended with a fourth consecutive defeat, beaten 2-4 by Southampton at SJP.

Elliot Dickman's side had leaked goals at an alarming rate and that trend continued as Saints' teenage prospect Tyler Dibling hit a first half treble. Late consolations came from Dylan Stephenson and Isaac Westendorf.
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2025 Newcastle U21s exited from the PL2 playoffs at the last 16 stage, beaten 1-2 by Arsenal at the Meadow Park home of National League side Boreham Wood.

Trailing at half time to a penalty, United levelled through Scott Bailey straight after the interval - only to lose when the Gunners won and converted their second spot kick of the tie in the final seconds.
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