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The Never-Ending Tour

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  NUFC.com in 2025/26:

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Celtic (a) SOLD OUT
Espanyol (h) Public sale now
Atletico Madrid (h)
SOLD OUT
Aston Villa (a) details awaited

2025/26:
Take five 

Several readers have contacted us regarding the 2025/26 Newcastle United season ticket terms and conditions and the clause regarding occupancy that is now included.

We're happy to share this for anyone who is unaware:

4.6 Further, your Season Ticket shall not be eligible for renewal and shall be terminated for the subsequent season if your Season Ticket has been unused for 5 (five) individual Matches in the Season (these need not be consecutive). 

Your Season Ticket shall be determined as having been used for the Season if you have met any of the following criteria: (i) you have attended the individual Match in person by successfully scanning in at the turnstiles at the Ground; (ii) you have successfully transferred your ticket for the Match in accordance with clause 4.4; and/or (iii) you have requested a re-sale of your Season Ticket for the individual Match in accordance with clause 4.2 of these Terms and Conditions (regardless of whether your ticket was then sold by the Club as a result).

Find the full season ticket terms and conditions
here

Update:
Sca Toon?

Whilst working to close the Anthony Elanga deal and continuing dialogue with Burnley over James Trafford, The Times claim that Newcastle have also contacted Serie A side Atalanta over defender Giorgio Scalvini.

The 21 year-old centre half is an international colleague of Sandro Tonali and rated at £30m. Rumours of interest from the Magpies surfaced in the Italian media last month and now appear more concrete, amid claims that United have monitored Scalvini for the last two years.    

Update:
Teen trio: one in 

Sky Sports report that Newcastle have completed a move for Alfie Hutchinson from Rangers, the first of three signings set to boost the club's Academy squad.

The 16 year-old right-sided attacker was spotted on Tyneside earlier in the week and official confirmation of his arrival is now expected in the coming days. 

Also tipped for a switch from Ibrox to Gallowgate is fellow 16 year-old Scottish youth international
Oliver Goodbrand, whose favoured position is at left full back.

Updates are also awaited on United's proposed acquisition of Isaac Moran, following news that the England youth international had rejected a contract offer from current club Liverpool. The central midfielder is also 16.

Update:
Elanga: news awaited

Thursday night brought reports that an increased bid from Newcastle United for Anthony Elanga had been agreed with his current club Nottingham Forest.

Having failed with a £45m offer recently for the 23 year-old Swedish international winger, it's now claimed that a revised figure in the region of £55m has been more successful.

An international colleague of Alexander Isak, Elanga was pictured in the company of William Osula earlier this week, complete with social media comments suggesting that a move to Gallowgate could be in the offing. 

RGR:
Get your kicks on day 66 

Mark Allison aka Run Geordie Run continues his progress towards Colorado on his charity effort in the USA, with Saturday seeing his regular roadside audience of cattle augmented by rabbits and a very friendly dog.

Mark is fundraising for St. Benedicts Hospice and donations are within touching distance of £23,000

If you can help to boost that total, please do so online here. Find the RGR blog here

2025/26:
Fur coat, no signings 

Newcastle United's new third kit was released on Tuesday morning, a promotional video premiering on Monday night but then taken offline within 24 hours.

That was prompted by a Japanese fan in the video displaying a flag deemed to be disrespectful to Korean nationals - a country Newcastle visit later this month....

A re-cut version of the video appeared later on Tuesday. 

The 2025/26 third and home kits are available here

Following on from the rail-themed kit launch last season, the new promo includes current senior players and fans, plus SJP old boys Jonas Gutierrez and Tino Asprilla - the latter clad in a fur coat as he was back in 1996.

Giveaway:
Compo
winner

The latest addition to the range of Toon-themed bucket hats by Football Bobbles is this Lee model, inspired by United's distinctive 1997/98 change kit and with a nod to next season's third shirt.

These are available to purchase
here now and there's a special offer for NUFC.com readers of a half-price Kelly bucket hat with orders of the Lee bucket only.

To take advantage of that, add a Lee bucket hat to the online shopping basket and use promo code NUFC.com - that will prompt a Kelly hat to add at checkout. 

We had a Lee bucket hat up for grabs, asking you to identify the ex-Magpie who was a Wembley scorer for his previous club, an England U21 midfielder, a scoring debutant for Newcastle in 1997 and subsequently loaned to Sheffield United.

It was of course Des Hamilton, which most folks knew - although Tartan pair Paul Dalglish and Stephen Glass both inexplicably cropped up among those suggested.

The winning entry came from Ann Richardson


Old boys:
Comings & goings 

This week's unlikely lads in transit include Mike Williamson joining the Rangers coaching staff, Salomon Rondon making a loan switch from Mexicans Pachuca to Spaniards Real Oviedo and Massadio Haidara finding a new club in the shape of Turks Kocealispor.

Jonjo Shelvey meanwhile has joined Championship side Hull City for the start of pre-season training. 

SJP old boys with new clubs/jobs include:

Tom Allan Darlington
Kieran Aplin
Whitley Bay
Alun Armstrong
Gateshead M
Jean-Alain Boumsong
Auxerre C
Mark Boyd Carlisle City AM
Kyle Cameron Bromley
Lewis Cass
Harrogate Town
Stephen Clemence Blackpool C
Stuart Findlay
Hearts
Stan Flaherty
Hampton & Richmond
Massadio Haidara Kocealispor
Lloyd Kelly Juventus
Oisin McEntee Hearts
Joe Oliver Hebburn Town
John Robertson Ross County AM
Salomon Rondon Real Oviedo (loan)
Josh Scott
Darlington
Jonjo Shelvey training with Hull City tbc
Freddie Woodman Liverpool
Mike Williamson Rangers C
Callum Williams FC Hartlepool

Free agents leaving SJP:

Josh Donaldson
James Huntley
Jamal Lewis
Lloyd Kelly
Harry Powell
Rory Powell
John Ruddy
(possibility of new terms)
Ellis Stanton
Jay Turner-Cooke

Callum Wilson (possibility of new terms)

Former Magpies leaving their clubs include:

Graeme Carrick Boro C
Andy Carroll
Bordeaux
Nicky Deverdics
Blyth Spartans
Damien Duff
Shelbourne M
Paul Dummett
Carlisle United
Fraser Forster Spurs
Dwight Gayle
Hibernian (retired) 
Jeff Hendrick Derby County
JJ Hooper Blyth Spartans
Tim Krul Luton Town
Greg Olley
Gateshead
Jonjo Shelvey Burnley
Steven Taylor Al Qabila
Ben Tozer Forest Green Rovers (retired)
Jonathan Woodgate
Boro C
Jack Young Wycombe Wanderers

2025/26:
Korea
tickets on sale

Tickets for Newcastle's pre-season matches in South Korea are now on sale to season ticket holders and members.

Eddie Howe's side will take part in the Coupang Play Series against a local XI and fellow Premier League side Spurs.


They face Team K League on Wednesday July 30th (8pm local time) at the 42,000 capacity Suwon World Cup Stadium (above). Adult tickets cost £72.

That's followed by a kickabout against Spurs on Sunday August 3rd (8pm local time) at the 65,000 capacity Seoul World Cup Stadium (above). Adult tickets cost £77.

The two venues are around 25 miles from each other.

General sale is from 10am on Monday July 7th - sales to all supporters will close at 5pm on Tuesday July 8th.

United's pre-season schedule consists of these six public matches, preceded by a behind closed doors friendly:

Sat 19.07.2025 Celtic (Scotland) (a)
Sun 27.07.2025 Arsenal (n) in Singapore
Wed 30.07.2025 Team K League (South Korea) (a)
Sun 03.08.2025 Spurs (n) in South Korea
Fri 08.08.2025 Espanyol (h) (Spain) (h)
Sat 09.08.2025 Atletico Madrid (Spain) (h)

2025/26:
Familiar foes for U21s 

Newcastle U21s will again play in the EFL Trophy this season - taking their place in the 64 club competition for a ninth successive season.

Thursday's Group Stage draw placed the Magpies second string in Northern Section Group F, alongside
Harrogate Town, Huddersfield Town and Mansfield Town.

Newcastle will play each of those sides away from home, having travelled to Harrogate in 2021 and Mansfield in both 2021 and 2024. They've not previously faced Huddersfield in this competition. 

Sky Sports will televise all the ties, with round dates tbc.

Games are played over 90 minutes, with a penalty shootout staged if the scores are tied then and the winners of that receiving a bonus point.

The Magpies were successful last season in a shootout against Bradford City, but haven't claimed maximum points in this competition since back in 2018.

NUFC confirm that the U21s will enter the Premier League International Cup for the first time since 2019/20 - pitting them against European sides. Games are all in the UK.

And the Magpies second string will also take part in the National League Cup once again, having participated in last season's maiden staging of the competition.

Draw dates for those two competitions are still tbc.   

 







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Tickets/Fixtures
Season 2025/26


NUFC ticketing website online here

NUFC Box Office opening times: 

0344 372 1892 line manned:
Monday to Friday: 10am to 5pm
Home games: 10am to 30 minutes from KO
Away games: Three hours from KO to KO


Milburn Stand Box Office manned:
Wednesdays only: 10am to 5pm
Home games: 10am to half time


Future STs:
No additional sale, none planned, no waiting list in operation.

2025/26 ST prices online here

2025/26 ST home cup scheme: 
closed on Fri 27.06.2025 @ 5pm

Cup Scheme FAQs online here

Cup Scheme Ts & Cs online here


ST home cup pricing: 
CL: £60 & £70
FA
: £30 & £35
CC:
£20 & £25

CL Cup Scheme payments taken on: 
(Tue 01.07.2025)
Fri 01.08.2025
Mon 01.09.2025
Wed 01.10.2025

2025/26 Memberships
- ££ unchanged.


SJP seating plan
online here  

Away ticket transfers are possible between 72 hours and five hours before kick-off (times can occasionally vary).

Home ticket transfers are possible between three weeks and one hour before kick-off. 

More info online here

Away tickets:
The PL-wide £30 away ticket price cap for adults will apply in 2025/26.

All
2025/26 Champions League away ticket prices will be pegged at €50.

Away ticket FAQ is online here

2025/26 season Magpie Movers are now on sale via NUFC for £25 (no concessions).

For the first time, they are open to Mags+ members in addition to ST holders. NUFC press release is online
here


Wed 09.07.2025 Aug & Sep PL live TV picks due
@ no specific time. 


TBC ??.07.2025 Team tbc (?)
@ venue tbc, KO tbc. Friendly. Behind closed doors.

Sat 19.07.2025 Celtic (Scotland) (a)
@ Parkhead, 3pm. Friendly. SOLD OUT, member ballot closed. Allocation: 10,000 (paper tickets). £25 adults.

Sat 26.07.2025 U21s v Hull City (h) @ venue tbc, 1pm. Friendly. Behind Closed Doors.

Sun 27.07.2025 Arsenal (n) @ National Stadium, Singapore, 7.30pm local time (12.30pm BST). Friendly. £64 adults. Tickets available online
here  

Wed 30.07.2025 Team K League (South Korea) (a) @ Suwon World Cup Stadium, South Korea, 8pm local time (Noon BST). Friendly. £72 adults. ST holder/member sale now, public sale Mon 07.07.2025, 10am. 

Sun 03.08.2025 Spurs (n) @ Seoul World Cup Stadium, South Korea. 8pm local time (Noon BST). Friendly.  £77 adults. ST holder/member sale now, public sale Mon 07.07.2025, 10am.

Sun 03.08.2025 U21s v South Shields (a) @ First Cloud Arena, 3pm. Friendly.


Fri 08.08.2025 RCD Espanyol (Spain) (h) @ SJP, 7.30pm. Friendly. Public sale now.

Sat 09.08.2025 Atletico Madrid (Spain) (h)
@ SJP, 4pm. Friendly. SOLD OUT.

Sat 16.08.2025
Aston Villa (a) @ Villa Park, 12.30pm. Premier League. Live on TNT Sports. Ticket sale details tbc. 

Thu 28.08.2025 CL League stage draw.

Mon 01.09.2025 Transfer window closes.

Sun 24.05.2026 PL ends. 

NUFC live on TV:
Sat 16.08.2025 Villa (a) 12.30pm TNT

CL League stage match dates:

1: Tue 16.09/Wed 17.09/Thu 18.09.2025
2: Tue 30.09/Wed 01.10.2025
3: Tue 21.10/Wed 22.10.2025
4: Tue 04.11/Wed 05.11.2025
5: Tue 25.11/Wed 26.11.2025
6: Tue 09.12/Wed 10.12.2025
7: Tue 20.01/Wed 21.01.2026
8: Wed 28.01.2026

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Live TV release dates:  

Aug
by Wed 09.07.2025
Sep by Wed 09.07.2025
Oct by Wed 20.08.2025
Nov by Wed 17.09.2025
Dec by Wed 15.10.2025
Jan by Wed 15.10.2025
Feb by Wed 17.12.2025
Mar by Wed 21.01.2026
Apr by Wed 04.03.2026
MW35 by Wed 25.03.2026
MW36 by Wed 01.04.2026
MW37 by Wed 08.04.2026
MW38 after Sun 17.05.2026

(The only PL games not televised live in the UK during 2025/26 will be 3pm Saturday KOs. All games rescheduled to Sunday due to European commitments will be shown). 

Carabao Cup:
(NUFC enter in Round 3: draw takes place on or around Wed 27.08.2025). 

R3:
w/c Mon 15.09.2025 / 22.09.2025*
R4: w/c Mon 27.10.2025
QF: w/c Mon 15.12.2025
SF1: w/c Mon 12.01.2026
SF2: w/c Mon 02.02.2026
F: Sun 22.03.2026

* NUFC tie will be played in w/c 22.09

FA Cup: 
(NUFC enter in Round 3: draw takes place on or around Sun 07.12.2025).

R3: Sat 10.01.2026
R4: Sat 14.02.2026
R5: Sat 07.03.2026
QF: Sat 04.04.2026
SF: Sat 25.04.2026
F: Sat 16.05.2026

Vertu (EFL) Trophy Northern Group F:
Round dates and order tbc

Date tbc Harrogate Town (a)
Date tbc Huddersfield Town (a)
Date tbc Mansfield Town (a)

Premier League International Cup:

Details tbc

National League Cup:
Details tbc

U19 Youth League:
League fixtures replicate the first six in the CL (not eight). The competition then moves to a knockout phase from the last 32. 

FA Youth Cup:
NUFC U18s enter in Round 3, ties be played on or before Sat 13.12.2025.

Other events @ SJP:

Sat 09.08.2025 NUWFC v Atletico Madrid Femenino (Spain), 1pm. Friendly.

Euro 2028 - date(s) awaited.

Winter transfer window:

Thu 01.01.2026-Mon 02.02.2026 @ tbc

International Magpies
National Service

2025/26
International breaks:

01.09-09.09.2025
06.10-14.10.2025
10.11-18.11.2025
21.12-18.01.2026 AFCON
23.03-31.03.2026

11.06.2026-19.07.2026 World Cup

 
Coxy's Corner

Whoops, He did it Again...


What's this all about then?
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for a rambling explanation of sorts....
 

On This Day in History
6th July


Born Or Died:

1984 Death of Lawrie Crown, 86. 
(1926-27)


 

What Else?

1988 Paul Gascoigne completed his £2m move from Newcastle to Tottenham Hotspur. 

Manchester United boss Alex Ferguson later claimed in his autobiography that Gazza reneged on a verbal agreement to join them, in order to join fellow old boy Chris Waddle in N17:

"We spoke to him the night before I went on holiday. He says 'Go and enjoy yourself Mr Ferguson, I'll be signing for Manchester United'.

"So I went on my holidays but Martin Edwards rang and said 'I've got some bad news - he signed for Tottenham. They bought a house for his mother and father in the north east and that swung it'.

"I think it was a bad mistake, and Paul admits it...we had a structure of players who could have helped him and it could have given him some discipline."

1995 Winger David Ginola joined Newcastle from PSG for £2.5m, as the club's close season spending moved to £12.5m, following the earlier acquisitions of striker Les Ferdinand from QPR (£6m) and defender Warren Barton from Wimbledon. (£4m).

United had originally approached the Parisians for George Weah, only for the Liberian striker to the join AC Milan at an inflated price, amid talk of legal action from a cuckolded United. 

The Ginola deal was then agreed and the legal threat was forgotten - with subsequent transfers between the two clubs bringing the likes of Didier Domi, Laurent Robert and Sylvain Distin to SJP.

1998 Magpies custodian Shaka Hislop returned to London - where he spent the first two years of his life -sealing a freedom of contract move to West Ham United.

2000 Former Newcastle striker Mark McGhee ended his enforced period of exile and joined another ex-Mag, Ray Clarke, on the scouting staff of Gordon Strachan's Coventry City.

2003 Celtic were linked with goalkeeper Steve Harper while the press indulged in more Patrick Kluivert for Newcastle speculation.

2004 A year later... outgoing rumours had Gary Speed and Steve Harper moving to Teesside while Patrick Kluivert was still heading the list of possible incomings.

2005 Wind forward another 12 months and porky Paddy had already been and gone, departing from Tyneside with a greatly enhanced bank account.

2007 United defender David Edgar was having a tough time at the U20 World Cup with Canada. Having been beaten by Chile in their opener, Austria defeated them 0-1 to leave them with slim qualification hopes.

2008 Hot on the heels of rumours claiming Mike Ashley had held takeover talks with US investors InterMedia Partners, rumours of a £300m bid from The Saudi Binladen Group emerged. Nothing further was heard.

2009 As speculation regarding the future ownership of Newcastle United continued, club MD Derek Llambias commented that:

"There have been more than two bids at £100m. At the moment, we are in the hands of lawyers, and it is all ongoing. We are giving interested parties all the help that they need."

2009 Meanwhile, the first team squad began their pre-season training camp at Carton House (near Dublin) under the leadership of interim manager Chris Hughton.

However, the previous management team of Alan Shearer, Iain Dowie and Paul Ferris had mapped out the programme that was followed some weeks earlier, in the expectation that they would be in charge.

2012 Coventry City midfielder Gael Bigirimana signed a five year deal at United. The Burundi -born youngster had moved to England with his family as a child, joining the Sky Blue Academy at the age of 11.

2013 The three year career of James Perch at SJP ended as Championship side Wigan Athletic signed him for an undisclosed fee. He agreed a four year deal at the DW Stadium.


2017
Central defender Florian Lejeune became United's second Summer signing several weeks it was first predicted.

The French-born 26 year-old joined from Spaniards Eibar on a five year contract after his claimed €10M release clause was met.

2021 Steve Bruce's squad began pre-season clad in Castore training kit for the first time - less than a week after they were confirmed as successors to previous supplier, Puma.

2024
Two Magpies remained involved at the Euros after England's Quarter Final victory over Switzerland in Dusseldorf.

Despite the best efforts of Fabian Schar, the Swiss slipped out in a penalty shootout after 120 minutes left the two sides locked at 1-1.

Schar coolly dispatched his penalty but a flawless set of spot kicks from Gareth Southgate's side saw them 5-3 victors.

Anthony Gordon remained on the bench throughout, while Kieran Trippier played 78 minutes.