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Team
Overview
Stadium:
St James Park
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Honours:
UEFA Fairs Cup: 1969
League
Winners: 1905,
1907, 1909, 1927
FA
Cup:
1910,
1924, 1932, 1951, 1952, 1955
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In 1905, the Magpies won
the championship for the first time and almost
did the double, losing in the FA Cup final to
Aston Villa at Crystal Palace. The following
season, United were again beaten in the Cup
final, but in 1907 lifted the championship again.
That season also saw Newcastle go out of the
FA Cup to Crystal Palace, then a non-league
side, in one of the great upsets of the competition.
United also lost the 1908 FA Cup final, but
picked up another league title in 1909, despite
an amazing 9-1 defeat by arch-rivals Sunderland
at St. James' Park. In 1910, the FA Cup finally
came to Tyneside, following United's win over
Barnsley in a replay at Goodison. Only a few
teams have ever matched the stranglehold Newcastle
had on the game in their heyday of 1903-1912.
Newcastle entered European comeptition for the
first time in 1968 by participating in the UEFA
Fairs Cup - and winning it
10 years later, the club was relegated from
the top flight and they stayed there for six
years until they won promotion back to the first
division. In this newxt spell in the top flight,
they signed Keving Keegan ,and produced great
players such as Paul Gascgoine, Chris Waddle
and Peter Beardsley but as the stars left, so
did the clubs fortune and they were again relegated
in 1989.
With relegation to the old third division looking
likely, new owner Sir John Hall employed Kevin
Keegan as manager. After leading the club to
safety, Keegan's first full season saw promotion
to the New F.A Carling Premiership as Newcastle
one the new First Division with relative ease.
In
their maiden Premiership season Newcastle finished
3rd, their highest finishing place since 1927.
After taking Newcastle so close to the title
in 1995/96, Keegan became dissolusioned and
quit after a Cup defeat to Charlton midway through
the 96/97 campaign.
Keegan's predecessors, Ruud Gullit and Kenny
Dalglish both made little impression and Newcastle
again began to wane (even coming close to a
relegation scrap under Dalglish).
Enter Geordie Sir Bobby Robson, the former Barcelona,
PSV & England manager guided Newcastle to
the Champions League in just two years and has
made an inspirational mark on the club.
With Sir Bobby at the helm, the immediate future
looks bright for Newcastle, but whether or not
he can break the 76 year wait for a League Championship
remains to be seen.
QUICK
FACT
Striker
Alan Shearer is the first player to score
100 Premiership goals for two different
clubs, Newcastle & Blackburn Rovers. |
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