1896 Grimsby Town (h)
3-0 (1-0)
Division Two
P6, 6pts, 10th/16 
Stott(1-0), Aitken(2-0pen,3-0)
5,000

1903 Manchester City (h)
1-0 (0-0)
Division One
P7, 11pts, 2nd/18 
Appleyard(75) 
19,730
The Citizens made their ninth unsuccessful visit to Tyneside, losing for the eighth time.

1908 Preston North End (h)
2-0 (1-0)
Division One
P8, 13pts, 2nd/20 
Stewart(42), Higgins(89) 
26,000

1914 Manchester City (a)
1-1 (0-1)
Division One
P8, 8pts, 6th/20 
Pailor(61)
Barnes(3) 
25,000

1925 Manchester United (a)
1-2 (0-1)
Division One
P9, 8pts, 16th/22 
Seymour(55) 
Rennox(15), Thomas(70)
40,000
What the Yorkshire Post called "a splendid struggle" went the way of the hosts, with extended protests from Manchester United 'keeper Alf Steward that Stan Seymour had kicked the ball out of his hands for the equaliser falling on deaf ears.

Facing Blackburn Rovers at Ewood Park two days later, Newcastle travelled to Lytham post-match, sending word to Tyneside for a quartet of replacement players due to a crop of injuries. 

1928 Hearts (Scotland) (h)
0-1 (0-0)
Friendly 
Battles(70)
20,000 (HMFC records claim 23,000)
The fabulously-named Barney Battles junior scored the only goal of the game for the Jambos in this midweek afternoon kickabout.

This game coincided with the visit of King George V and Queen Mary to Tyneside to perform opening ceremonies at the Shipley Art Gallery, Heaton Secondary School....and the Tyne Bridge.

Team: Wilson, Maitland, Thomson, Harris, Wood, McDonald, Urwin, Boyd, Gallacher, McCurley, Lang.

1931 Middlesbrough (h)
3-1 (1-0)
Division One
P8, 8pts, 15th/22 
Boyd(43,60), Lang(62)
Pease(73)
41,569
A header and an overhead kick extended Jimmy Boyd's scoring start to the season, taking his total to seven in eight games.

1934 The Army (a)
5-2 (5-0)
Friendly 
Kelly(10,25,43), Shankley(40), Leighton(45)
Armitt(47), Brock(50)
Played at Catterick Camp.

1936 Leicester City (h)
1-0 (0-0)
Division Two
P10, 11pts, 10th/22 
Cairns(56)
35,000 
There was a debut for Tom Mooney following his signing from Airdrieonians.

1942 York City (a) 3-4 (2-2) Wartime Carr 3 O'Donnell 4 4,000 Arsenal's Eddie Carr bagged a hat-trick as a wartime guest player for United, but the Minstermen still ran out winners at Bootham Crescent. 1953 Wolverhampton Wanderers (h) 1-2 (1-0) Division One P13, 10pts, 16th/22  Mulgrew(8) Smith(81), Swinbourne(88)  39,913 Newcastle's fifth successive home defeat was played in front of a crowd that had shrunk from 61,000 a month earlier. Tom Mulgrew's first - and only - senior goal for the club had looked enough to break the losing run, only for a clearance by Jimmy Scoular to rebound off Charlie Crowe and give Wolves a fortunate equaliser. 1955 Hearts (Scotland) (h) 2-2 (0-0) Friendly  Keeble(86), Mitchell(88)  Young(66), Murray(78) 22,542 United's involvement in the short-lived Anglo Scottish League began - although opposition from both FA's meant that the games were downgraded to friendlies and not all were actually played.  Team: S.Mitchell, Brennan (Keery 64), Batty, Scoular, Stokoe (Waugh 73), Crowe, Tait, Milburn, Monkhouse, Keeble, Mitchell.

1956 Linfield (a)
4-1 (2-0)
Friendly 
Milburn(2), Hannah(12,76) Mitchell(48) 
Weatherup(61) 
35,000 
United visited Belfast to christen Windsor Park's new floodlights - installed at a cost of £15,000 and switched on by Prime Minister Basil Brooke.

Jackie Milburn's appointment as player boss of Linfield came the following June, Jimmy Hill moving to Gallowgate at the same time. 

Team: Simpson, Keith, Batty, Scoular, Stokoe, Crowe, White, Eastham, Milburn, Hannah, Mitchell.

1959 Nottingham Forest (h) 2-1 (0-0)
Division One
P12, 11pts, 14th/22 
og(Whare)(55), White(59)
Imlach(74) 
33,764 
"United scramble and scrape" wrote the Sunday Sun; the hosts gifted two goals by the generous visiting defence.

Bill Whare headed an Ivor Allchurch centre past his goalkeeper Chick Thomson, before Thomson collided with Allchurch when in pursuit of a cross, leaving Len White to walk the ball into an empty Leazes net. 

This was the only senior appearance that 18 year-old right winger Grant Malcolm made for Newcastle, while the visiting side included future Magpie Jim Iley.

1960 Colchester United (a) 1-4 (0-3)
League Cup 1st Round 
Neale(46)
Williams(2), King(4,85), P.Wright(44)
9,130 
Newcastle's debut in the League Cup saw them beaten by the third tier U's at Layer Road in the very first meeting of the two sides.

Magpies boss Charlie Mitten fielded all but two of the side beaten 0-2 at Aston Villa in Division One the previous Saturday, but Bryan Harvey's error gave Tommy Williams an easy chance to open the scoring.

Martyn King almost immediately doubled Colchester's lead before Peter Wright put them three ahead on half time.

Duncan Neale shot home from distance at the start of the second half, but the hosts didn't panic and another rick by Harvey on a wet pitch gave his second of the tie.

	1964 Leyton 0rient (h) 5-0 (3-0) Division Two P12, 16pts, 2nd/22  Iley(1), Robson(26,49), Anderson(39,80) 28,454
1970 Arsenal (h) 1-1 (0-0) Division One P12, 13pts, 10th/22  Robson(53) Graham(69)  38,024
1979 Preston North End (h) 0-0 (0-0) Division Two P10, 14pts, 1st/22  25,154 A poor game on a Wednesday evening at Gallowgate but United still went a point clear at the top of the league.

1981 Derby County (h)
3-0 (2-0)
Division Two
P9, 15pts, 6th/22 
Varadi(5,34), Wharton(62)
17,224 
On a day when nothing went right for the Rams, Dave Swindlehurst contrived to miss the target from the penalty spot on 73 minutes. 

Imre Varadi got his first home goals following a treble at Ninian Park the previous week, while Kevin Todd debuted as a substitute.

1984 Bradford City (a) 
1-0 (0-0)
(4-1 on aggregate)
League Cup 2nd Round 2nd Leg
Waddle(63)
10,210
Following a 3-1 success at Gallowgate in the first leg, Newcastle won at Valley Parade to qualify for the Third Round of the League Cup for the first time in eight seasons.

Former United reserve trialist Gary Haire was in the City lineup and shot against a post in the early exchanges.

The third tier Bantams also included SJP old boy Chris Withe and future Magpies John Hendrie and Peter Jackson. 

1987 Heavy rain in Hertfordshire left the Vicarage Road pitch unplayable in the opinion of referee John Martin -  who called off United's Division One visit to Watford just three hours before kick-off.

Magpies boss Willie McFaul heading off to watch the Derby versus Nottingham Forest match instead.

1988 The significant outlay on new players and just one win in the opening seven Division One games saw Willie McFaul relieved of his position after three years as first team manager.

Youth coach Colin Suggett was installed as caretaker boss 48 hours ahead of a League Cup trip to Sheffield United.

Magpies Chairman Gordon McKeag said:

"We have a person in mind but he is with another club and as yet I have not had time to speak to his Chairman."

That was strongly rumoured to be former Newcastle boss Arthur Cox, but he opted to remain with Derby County - amid claims that Rams Chairman Robert Maxwell had rejected an approach for his manager. 

1990 Middlesbrough (h)
1-0 (1-0)
(1-2 on aggregate) 
League Cup 2nd Round
2nd Leg
Anderson(17)
12,778 
Despite winning at SJP with a John Anderson goal, United were eliminated after a 0-2 loss at Ayresome Park in the first leg.

And to complete a frustrating evening for Newcastle boss Jim Smith, striker Mick Quinn managed to get himself sent off. 

1992 Tranmere Rovers (h) 1-0 (1-0)
Division One
P10, 30pts, 1st/24 
Kelly(37)
30,137
On the tenth day of the tenth month, a rejuvenated United made it ten wins from ten league games at a packed SJP.

The vital goal came after Gavin Peacock dinked a cross to the back post for David Kelly to head home his eighth goal of the season.

With thousands locked out, Newcastle made the remaining home games all-ticket, placing terrace season tickets on sale that were quickly snapped up. 
Youtube footage is online here

1999 Alan Shearer was cheered by a stadium full of mackems after scoring a spectacular overhead kick for Kevin Keegan's England in a 2-1 friendly win over Belgium at the SoS.

2002 Northumberland FA celebrated the official opening of their new Whitley Park HQ by staging a friendly match between Newcastle reserves and Berwick Rangers.

A ninety minute stint from guest player Paul Gascoigne, couldn't help the Borderers from slipping to defeat in a game of few chances won by Michael Chopra's first half effort.
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2004 In the first staging of "The Match", a team of ex-pros beat an alleged celebrities XI in front of a claimed 40,000 fans at SJP.

Shown live on Sky, the celebs were picked after a week of televised trials and Big Brother style viewer voting, as they were cooped up in United's Academy.

In the game, goals from Gary Pallister and Ally McCoist won it for Bobby Robson's team, with Wilkes scoring for the non-entities.

Legends team 2004: Bruce Grobbelaar (Peter Bonetti), Viv Anderson, Nigel Winterburn, Rob Lee, Gary Pallister (Ray Houghton), Philippe Albert, Paul Gascoigne (Ally McCoist), Bryan Robson, Trevor Francis (Ian Wright), Peter Beardsley, Chris Waddle (Matt Le Tissier).

2005 Despite leading 2-0 with just 13 minutes to play at, Tommy Craig's reserves only clung on for a point at Kingston Park against Blackburn Rovers.

Michael Chopra and Martin Brittain put the home side ahead, but debutant 'keeper Tim Krul conceded twice in the closing stages as his defence went AWOL. 
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2006 Newcastle's Steven Taylor was sent off in England U21s crucial qualifying play-off second leg in Germany but his side won 2-0 to qualify for the European Championships.

2007 Joey Barton completed 90 minutes of a private game against Rangers at SJP - his third outing in eight days following two reserve appearances.

Fielding ex-Magpie Amdy Faye, Rangers led through Rory Loy at half time before Chris Burke made it 2-0 just before the hour.

Mark Doninger reduced the arrears nine minutes later, before Alan Gow's effort clinched victory for Walter Smith's side.

2015 Newcastle's Tim Krul damaged his right knee playing for Holland in a 2-1 win in Kazakhstan, leaving the stadium on crutches.

Krul fell awkwardly on the artificial turf leaving Steve McClaren with a headache ahead of the game against Norwich City.

Karl Darlow had a foot injury while Freddie Woodman was on loan at Crawley Town, with Rob Elliot the only available senior 'keeper.

2017 Ex-Magpie Steve Watson became the manager of National League side Gateshead, a first "number one" role after coaching at Sheffield Wednesday, Huddersfield Town, Birmingham City and Macclesfield Town.

2019 Miguel Almiron saw red for Paraguay for the second time in just six months, dismissed this time for two yellow bookings during a friendly against Serbia.

Ex-Magpie Alexander Mitrovic scored the only goal in a friendly staged in Krusevac.

2022 West Bromwich Albion sacked ex -Magpie boss Steve Bruce and coaches, Steve Agnew and Stephen Clemence. 

They were less than halfway through 18 month deals at the Championship side.

2023 A 1-1 draw away to Port Vale ended the U21s' interest in the EFL Trophy for another year, but Ellis Stanton's late equaliser was their first goal in five ties.

That led to a penalty shootout against the League One side that United lost 2-3 despite two saves from Aidan Harris.
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2024 An unexpected success for Magpies goalkeeper Odysseas Vlachodimos, part of a Greek side that defeated England 2-1 at Wembley in the Nations League.

Club colleague Anthony Gordon faced him for an hour, while Tino Livramento and Nick Pope remained benched for England.

2025 International Magpies in action included Bruno Guimaraes (Brazil), Nick Woltemade (Germany) and Anthony Elanga (Sweden) but none of them netted for their countries.