1907 Freiburg (Germany) (a)
8-1 (?-?) 
Friendly 
Hall 5, Dodds 2, Higgins
scorer tbc
Crowd tbc
United's post-season continental tour saw the reigning Division One champions face their German equivalents. 

Alex Hall led the way with five goals, the striker having joined from Edinburgh side St.Bernards weeks earlier and having not appeared competitively for the Magpies.  

1911 Fortuna Dusseldorf (Germany) (a)
7-0 (4-0)
Friendly 
Dutton 4, Kelly 2, Duncan
Crowd tbc
48 hours after opening their German tour with a 5-0 win in Cologne, Newcastle made the short journey on to Dusseldorf.

1924 Real Sociedad (Spain) (a)
3-0 (3-0)
Friendly 
Cowan(1-0), Keating(2-0,3-0)
Crowd tbc
Three years after their first visit to San Sebastian, the Magpies returned to the Atocha Stadium to reprise their winning scoreline.

Wilf Low and Tom McDonald remained from the XI who had played in May 1921.

Team: Bradley, Russell, Hunter, MacKenzie, Spencer, J.Gibson, Low, Cowan, Keating, McDonald, Mitchell.

1942 Gateshead (h)
6-2 (2-1)
Wartime
Stubbins 5, Donaldson
scorers tbc
3,500
Albert Stubbins scored five times at SJP, a week after guesting - and scoring - for the mackems in a 2-2 draw with Bradford Park Avenue.

He'd expected to remain with the red and whites to play in their War Cup Semi-Final against Grimsby Town at Roker Park, only for United's Directors to recall him for the fixture against Gateshead.

1945 sunderland (h)
5-0 (3-0)
Wartime
Wayman 3, Milburn, Stubbins
10,217
24 hours after VE day, a second public holiday found United and their wearside rivals facing each other in a 3pm start at SJP.

1951 Stade Rennais (France) (h)
1-1 (1-0)
Friendly 
G.Robledo(42)
Prouff(65pen) 
12,222 
Four days after the end of their league season, United faced French opposition at SJP, in a friendly staged as part of the Festival of Britain celebrations.

The Magpies included winger Hugh Cameron, following his acquisition from Torquay United.

The game kicked off at 6pm on a Wednesday evening, with the visitors including five French internationals in their line-up.

Fellow French side Strasbourg were due to face United, but bad weather grounded their flight. Rennes - already in the UK for games at Huddersfield, Blackpool and Carlisle - stepped in and travelled to Tyneside.

Team: Fairbrother, Cowell, Batty, Harvey, Brennan, Crowe, Walker, Taylor, Robledo, Hannah, Cameron.

1951 Jackie Milburn was absent from the Magpies side, scoring the winner for England in a 2-1 defeat of Argentina at Wembley - less than a fortnight after netting a brace there in the FA Cup Final win over Blackpool.

1956 Ausburg City XI (Germany) (a)
4-2 (2-1)
Friendly 
Keeble(28),Hannah(2-1)  White(63,85)
Schmelzinger(25), Schlump(68)
26,000
Newcastle rounded off their post season continental jaunt against a combined FC Augsburg and TSV 1847 Schwaben side under lights at the Rosenau stadium in Bavaria.

1977 International XI (h)
2-5 (0-3)
Friendly 
Burns(67), T.Craig(78pen)
Dalglish(28,0-3), Mills(0-2,57,84)
14,000 
A testimonial organised to benefit former player and manager Joe Harvey saw him take charge of Newcastle once more, facing Don Revie's select XI.

Former Magpie Malcolm Macdonald broke off from filming BBC's  Superstars programme to appear, while future Toon bosses Kenny Dalglish and Graeme Souness arrived from Celtic and Middlesbrough respectively.

Also coming from Ayresome Park for the night were John Craggs, and David Mills while Bob Moncur journeyed from Carlisle.

Newcastle fielded a full-strength side and had an injury scare when goalkeeper Mick Mahoney had to go off with a head injury.

However he was deemed fit enough to return for Newcastle's final home league game against Aston Villa five days later.

Veteran defender David Craig was unable to appear for the Magpies due to fitness problems.

Team: Mahoney (McFaul 35), Blackhall, Kennedy, Cassidy, McCaffery (Bird), Nulty, Barrowclough, Cannell, Burns, Oates, T.Craig.

1979 Cognac (France) (a)
2-1 (1-0)
Friendly 
Shoulder(15), Withe(56)
Castellan(66) 
1,500
24 hours after rounding off their season with a 2-0 home win over Wrexham, Newcastle played this friendly as part of British Week in the Cognac region of France.

The game took place at the Parc Des Sports home of the local Rugby Union side.

1979 At Gallowgate meanwhile, United's reserve side concluded their season with 0-1 defeat by Everton in the Central League.

19 year-old forward Imre Varadi netted the only goal of the game for the Toffees.

1983 Hull City (a)
2-3 (1-3)
Friendly 
Varadi(9,50)
Mutrie(23,42), Marwood(37pen)
5,431
Trialist Steven Higgins made his sole senior appearance in this kickabout, the Gateshead full back coming off the bench at half time.

The Tigers scorers at Boothferry Park included ex-Blyth Spartans striker Les Mutrie and future Gunner and Owl Brian Marwood. Billy Askew and a certain Steve McClaren also featured for the hosts, who were celebrating promotion to the Third Division. 

Team: Thomas, Anderson, Wharton, McCreery, Clarke, Carney (Higgins 46), Keegan, McDonald, Varadi, McDermott (Martin 68), Waddle (Ferris).

1987 Nottingham Forest (a) 1-2 (0-2)
Division One 
47pts, 17th/22
Gascoigne(70) 
Foster(35), Pearce(41pen)
17,788
The season ended in the sunshine with United snoozing (quite literally in the case of boss Willie McFaul on the visitors bench).

A meaningless game was rather more charged off the field though, with "scabs" chants directed at home fans - a reference to the conduct of a section of Nottinghamshire miners in the strike of 1984-85.

A post-match pitch invasion by away fans saw their advance on the Trent End halted by a cordon of police horses and seats ripped out and thrown on the pitch from the section of the Executive stand United fans occupied.

Meanwhile other Toon fans became upwardly mobile, climbing the floodlight pylon that was sited on the away terrace.
Youtube footage is online here

1993 Leicester City (h)
7-1 (6-0)
Division One 
96pts, 1st/24
Cole(5,40,66), Lee(13),
Kelly(28,34,45)
Walsh(82)
30,129
Having already sealed promotion and the First Division title, United signed off in memorable style in front of an incredulous SJP.

Brian Kilcline and Barry Venison collected the trophy before kick-off and the Magpies then proceeded to christen their new Asics shirts with six goals in front of the Gallowgate End.

A seventh followed after the break as Andy Cole continued his hat trick and the whole ground rocked to the strains of the "gets the ball, scores a goal" song for some time. 

Rather less tuneful was Sir John Hall's post -match rendition of "We are the Champions" caught by TV microphones.

Also on hand to join in the celebrations were local band Lindisfarne, who performed from a lofty perch above the Leazes End as the new Sir John Hall Stand began to take shape. 
Youtube footage is online here

Team: Srnicek, Venison, Beresford (Peacock 53), Robinson, Scott, Howey (Kilcline 60), Lee, Cole, Kelly, Clark, Sellars.

All told, United scored 92 goals and finished up with a goal difference of +54.

Final League Table:

1995 Goals from Jimmy Crawford and Malcolm Allen gave the reserves a 2-0 win over Oldham Athletic, clinching promotion to the First Division as champions. 

Due to building work at Oldham's Boundary Park, the game was played at Stalybridge Celtic's Bower Fold home. 

2003 A Friday night friendly to round off a mixed season for the Reserves who met Ashington at Portland Park. This was to be our final visit to the now-demolished ground.

The home crowd joined the players in a pre-match minute's silence in tribute to hit-and-run victim Kirsty Sawyer, whose family benefited from the gate receipts.
NUFC.com match report

2004 Wolves (h)
1-1 (1-0)
Premiership
P36, 54pts, 6th/20
Bowyer(38)
Ganea(70)
52,139
A downcast Alan Shearer blamed himself for not securing the three points, after having his 82nd minute penalty saved as we stumbled to our 15th draw of the season.