NEWCASTLE
UNITED F.C
RECORDS
Newcastle United Football Club (also known as The Magpies or
The Toon, and often abbreviated to NUFC) is a professional association football
club based in Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear. The club was founded in 1892
by the merger of Newcastle East End and Newcastle West End, and has played at
its current home ground, St James' Park, since the merger. The ground was
developed into an all-seater stadium in the 1990s and now has a capacity 52,339.
The club has been a member of the Premier League for all but two years of the
competition's history, and never dropped below the English football's second
tier, since joining the Football League in 1893. In 2007, long term chairman and
owner Freddy Shepherd sold his share in the club to Mike Ashley.They have won
four First Division titles and six FA Cups in their long history, as well as the
1969 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup and the 2006 UEFA Intertoto Cup. Newcastle United
has the eighth highest total of major honours won by an English club. The club's
most successful period was between 1904 and 1910, when they won and FA Cup and
three of their First Division titles.They have a fierce local rivalry with
Sunderland. The Tyne–Wear derby between Newcastle United and Sunderland has been
played since 1898. The club's traditional kit colours are black and white
striped shirts, black shorts and black socks. Their traditional crest takes
elements of the city coat of arms which features two seahorses.
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THE NEWCASTLE UNITED
PLAYERS AND BOBBY WEBBER
United, Newcastle
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