Newcastle United F.C.
| Full name | Newcastle United Football Club | |||
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| Founded | 1881 (as Stanley F.C.) 1882 (as East End F.C.) 1892 (as Newcastle United F.C.) | |||
| Ground | St James' Park | |||
| Capacity | 52,305[1] | |||
| Owners |
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| Chairman | Yasir Al-Rumayyan | |||
| Head coach | Eddie Howe | |||
| League | Premier League | |||
| 2024–25 | Premier League, 5th of 20 | |||
| Website | newcastleunited | |||
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Newcastle United Football Club is a professional association football club based in Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England. The club competes in the Premier League, the top tier of English football. Since the formation of the club in 1881, when Newcastle East End absorbed the assets of Newcastle West End to become Newcastle United, the club has played its home matches at St James' Park. Located in the centre of Newcastle, it currently has a capacity of 52,305.[3]
The club have been a member of the Premier League for all but three years of the competition's history, spending 93 seasons in the top flight as of May 2025, and have never dropped below English football's second tier since joining the Football League in 1893. The club has a long-standing rivalry with nearby Sunderland. Newcastle have won four League titles, six FA Cups, one League Cup and an FA Charity Shield, as well as the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, the ninth-highest total of trophies won by an English club.[4] The club's most successful period was between 1904 and 1910, when they won an FA Cup and three of their League titles. More recentl,y the club have been League or FA Cup runners-up 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 time, returning to the Premier League, as Championship winners, in 2010 and 2017. In October 2021, a consortium led by the Public Investment Fund, the sovereign wealth fund of Saudi Arabia, became majority owners of Newcastle United.[6] In 2025, the club won the 2024–25 EFL Cup, the club's first trophy in nearly 56 years, and their first domestic trophy since 1955.
Newcastle's traditional kit colours are black-and-white striped shirts, black shorts and black or white socks. Their crest has elements of the city coat of arms, which features two grey hippocamps. Before each home game, the team enters the field to "Going Home", with "Blaydon Races" also being sung during games.[7]
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- ^ "Premier League Handbook 2022/23" (PDF). 19 July 2022. p. 24. Archived (PDF) from the original on 5 August 2022. Retrieved 11 April 2023.
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- ^ Ogden, Mark (2 January 2020). "Newcastle are a Premier League club with huge support, so why have they been miserable for so long?". ESPN. Retrieved 21 October 2021.
- ^ "Newcastle United: Saudi Arabian-backed takeover completed". BBC Sport. 7 October 2021. Retrieved 11 August 2024.
- ^ Anthony Bateman (2008). "Sporting Sounds: Relationships Between Sport and Music". p. 186. Routledge