1896 Sunderland (a)
1-1 (0-1)
Friendly 
Wardrope(1-0)
Wilson(1-1) 
6,000
This Tyne-wear derby at the Newcastle Road ground was a benefit for home forward John Campbell. Within a year he'd joined United.

Team: Watt, White, McDermid, Miller, Scott, Adams, Lennox, Aitken, Smellie, Wardrope, Nicholson.

1899 Derby County (h)
2-0 (2-0)
Division One
P4, 7pts, 3rd/18
Peddie(2), Wardrope(35) 
19,000
The Rams stayed overnight at the Grand Hotel in Tynemouth, where "the beneficial breezes were inhaled" according to one reporter. And a fat lot of good that did them.

1905 Derby County (h)
0-1 (0-0)
Division One
P6, 4pts, 11th/20
Richards(65)
31,600
Newcastle spurned the chance of salvaging a point when visiting goalkeeper Harry Maskrey was equal to Ronald Orr's penalty kick.

1907 Chelsea (a)
0-2 (0-0)
Division One
P5, 4pts, 15th/20
Windridge(53), Bridgeman(90)
20,000
According to the Athletic News reporter, the Magpies played with "the majestic calm of a team imbued with the idea that they had their opponents 'set.' They were never flurried, but were just cool and clever. Their one mistake was that they declined to hustle."

1911 Manchester City (h)
1-0 (0-0)
Division One
P5, 6pts, 6th/20
Stewart(49) 
11,000
James "Tadger" Stewart's fourth goal of the season ensured victory against a City side who were a man short for 80 minutes after Billy "Lot" Jones broke his nose in a collision with Bill McCracken.

1914 Sunderland (h)
0-1 (0-0)
Friendly 
Philip(79)
6,738 
The fourth Archibald Hospital Cup match went the way of the visitors, who collected the silverware for the third time - all four games having ended in single goal victories.

Tyneside and Wearside hospitals shared gate receipts of £181, ten shillings and ninepence.

Team: Lawrence, Hampson, Hudspeth, Hewitson, Low, Hay, Douglas, Higgins, Hibbert, Booth, Goodwill.

1922 Preston North End (h)
3-1 (2-1)
Division One
P7, 9pts, 3rd/22
Harris(9,32), McDonald(62)
Rawlings(44pen)
35,000 
This was the first of two senior appearances for perennial reserve winger Eddie Richardson, who joined United from South Shields.

1933 Birmingham (h)
0-0 (0-0)
Division One
P7, 6pts, 18th/22
22,000
Just a solitary victory from their opening seven games left the Magpies in eighteenth position, just two points off the foot of the table.

1939 Leeds United (h)
2-2 (1-1)
Friendly
W.Scott(15), Pearson (2-1pen)
Powell(1-1), Hargreaves(2-2)
4,300
Days after the Football League had been curtailed due to the outbreak of war, Newcastle played one of a number of friendly matches arranged before the first War League began in October 1939.

Team: Swinburne, Craig, Fairhurst, Gordon, Denmark, Woodburn, Park, Stubbins, Scott, Cairns, Pearson.

	1944 Sunderland (a) 0-2 (0-0) War League Whitelum(57,0-2) 18,000 A defeat on wearside during the sixth wartime season.
1950 Arsenal (h) 2-1 (1-1) Division One P10, 15pts, 1st/22 Milburn(43), Taylor(51)  Logie(33) 66,926 United extended their unbeaten start to ten games and topped the Division One table.

1953 Sheffield Wednesday (a) 0-3 (0-3)
Division One
P10, 7pts, 17th/22
Jordan(4,25), Marriott(10)
29,271 
The Newcastle defence continued to concede goals at an alarming rate, two from Clarrie Jordan and one from Jack Marriott making it 3-0 well before half time and 13 in three games.

1961 Southampton (a) 0-1 (0-1) Division Two P9, 6pts, 20th/22 O'Brien(34pen) 20,064 George Dalton's poor tackle in the area was punished as United's winless run lengthened to six league matches.
	1964 Blackpool (a) 0-3 (0-1) League Cup 2nd Round Ball(28pen), Horne(83pen), Lea(85) 13,670 Second tier United were knocked out by top tier opposition at Bloomfield Road.

1967 Sheffield United (a)
1-2 (0-1)
Division One
P9, 8pts, 13th/22
Robson(75pen) 
Carlin(30), Reece(85)
16,387
The Blades went ahead when debutant Willie Carlin headed home - Newcastle having opted not to pursue his signature when a Carlisle player due to his lack of height.... 

1970 Inter Milan (Italy) (a) 1-1 (1-0)
Fairs Cup 1st Round
1st Leg
Davies(43)
Cella(84)
14,460
A battling performance in the San Siro saw the home side resort to violent tactics in their attempts to combat Newcastle and striking talisman Wyn Davies in particular.

The Welsh forward was booked for moaning to the referee about the rough treatment he received, but had the last laugh when putting United ahead. 

Joe Harvey said afterwards, "I'm over the moon, I would have settled for this result before we left England."

1972 Leeds United (h)
3-2 (2-2)
Division One
P10, 11pts, 9th/22
Smith(1), Tudor(7), Macdonald(61) 
Clarke(2), Jones(8)
38,964 
A seesaw game at SJP covered by BBC Match of the Day which saw four goals scored in the first eight minutes.

Jinky Smith had an epic game and after lashing home on 35 seconds laid on both his Newcastle's goals - Supermac smashing in the winner from Tommy Gibb's cross with the help of a great dummy from Stewie Barrowclough.
Youtube footage is online here

	1975 Birmingham City (a) 2-3 (1-3) Division One P9, 9pts, 9th/22 T.Craig(14), Nulty(75) Withe(1,12), Francis(17pen) 31,166 Future Magpie Peter Withe found the net.
1978 Orient (h) 0-0 (0-0) Division Two P7, 7pts, 12th/22 26,361 A third scoreless draw in just four games left Newcastle languishing in twelfth spot.

1981 Shrewsbury Town (h)
2-0 (1-0)
Division Two
P5, 6pts, 18th/22
Wharton(42), Shinton(59) 
13,783
Kenny Wharton and Bobby Shinton scored the goals but Newcastle's hero was Imre Varadi, who was inspirational throughout and deserving of the great ovation when limping off late in the game.

1982 The Reserves travelled to Old Trafford and won
3-2, thanks to goals from Chris Waddle, Chris Hedworth and trialist Gary Haire.

Over 4,000 were present to see Peter Beardsley net for Manchester United during his brief spell on their books.

1986 Bradford City (a)
0-2 (0-0)
League Cup 2nd Round
1st Leg 
Abbott(59pen), Goodman(69)
6,384 
Following the tragic events of May 1985 which forced the temporary closure of Valley Parade, this tie was played at The Odsal Stadium, home of Bradford Northern Rugby League Club.

Newcastle fans were better behaved than their Leeds counterparts, who ran riot in the previous game at Odsal and set a mobile chip van alight.

1987 Blackpool (a)
0-1 (0-1)
League Cup 2nd Round
1st Leg 
Cunningham(45)
7,959 
The Seasiders took a one goal lead to SJP after former Magpie Tony Cunningham capitalised on a misjudged Gazza backpass.

1992 Middlesbrough (h)
0-0 (0-0)
League Cup 2nd Round
1st Leg 
25,814 
There was a debut for £575,000 midfield signing Robert Lee, who wisely turned down a move to the smoggies in favour of joining United.

2000 Charlton Athletic (h)
0-1 (0-1)
Premiership
P7, 10pts, 7th/20
Stuart(8)
50,866
Following an unimpressive 2-0 midweek victory over Leyton Orient in the League Cup, the visit of Alan Curbishley's side brought another listless home performance.

Lomana LuaLua debuted and almost set up Alan Shearer towards the end but an apathetic crowd trudged home after the defeat, while manager Bobby Robson kept his players in the dressing room for an hour,
NUFC.com match report
PL highlights are online here

Debutant Lua Lua

2001 West Ham (a)
0-3 (0-1)
Premiership
P5, 8pts, 9th/20
Hutchison(18), Di Canio(53), Kanoute(82)
24,810
Newcastle 11 game unbeaten record in league and cup was well and truly blown away in this Sunday afternoon Sky game. 

The visitors were denied a blatant penalty when Christian Dailly felled Robbie Elliott but the rubbish that followed couldn't be excused; Glenn Roeder's side strolling to victory and ex-Magpie goalkeeper Shaka Hislop untested during the entire game.
NUFC.com match report
PL highlights are online here

2002 Michael Chopra shot the Reserves ahead against Leeds United at Gateshead Stadium, only for the visitors to net three times in 17 second half minutes. 

Joe Kendrick got one back before future Magpie James Milner scored to seal a 4-2 away win.
NUFC.com match report

2007 West Ham (h)
3-1 (2-1)
Premier League
P6, 11pts, 5th/20
Viduka(2,41), N'Zogbia(76)
Ashton(32)
50,104
Newcastle recovered from an awful defeat at Derby in their previous outing, against a Hammers side for whom old boy Craig Bellamy was missing through injury. 

All three goals came from crosses down the left, Charles N'Zogbia delivering the first two before rounding things off by getting on the end of an Obafemi Martins pull back. 
NUFC.com match report
PL highlights are online here

2012 Norwich City (h)
1-0 (1-0)
Premier League
P5, 8pts, 10th/20
Ba(19)
49,402
United won a Sunday Premier League game after Europa League participation at the third time of asking, sending former boss Chris Hughton away pointless.

Demba Ba bagged his 20th Toon goal, but questionable onfield decision making in first half added time almost cost United dear.

Awarded a penalty, a collective team decision to entrust duties to a clearly reluctant Papiss Cisse saw him reprise an awful pre-season effort, hoofing the ball high over the bar.
NUFC.com match report
PL highlights are online here

2015 Sheffield Wednesday (h) 0-1 (0-0)
Capital One Cup 3rd Round
McGugan(76)
33,986
An awful loss for Steve McClaren who had called for loyalty and "blind faith" in his pre-match platitudes. A decent crowd saw a pitiful exit after the club had claimed they would focus their intentions more on the cups.

The Owls fielded a second choice Championship XI while McClaren used many of his first team squad in a bemusing 4-6-0 line-up; Siem de Jong the falsest of false nines.... 
NUFC.com match report

2020 Morecambe (a)
7-0 (5-0)
Carabao Cup 3rd Round
Joelinton(5,31), Almiron(20), Murphy(27), Hayden(45+2), Lascelles(51), og(Lavelle)(90+1)
Diagouraga(33)
BCD
United recorded their biggest victory in 50 years of League Cup participation - typically coming behind closed doors.

The Magpies never looked back after Joelinton shot home on five minutes. Miguel Almiron, Jacob Murphy and Joelinton again extending that lead before the hosts had Toumani Diagouraga red-carded just after the half hour.

Jamaal Lascelles made it half a dozen shortly after the break, before a late own goal rounded off the rout.
NUFC.com match report

2023 A ten-man Magpies U21 side were denied victory in PL2 by a 97th minute goal at Brighton's academy in Lancing.

Leading through Lewis Miley's 34th minute effort, Ben Dawson's side were left a man short by the 56th minute dismissal of Lucas De Bolle but looked like hanging on before Albion struck in time added on.
NUFC.com match report 

2023 The U18s scored three goals without reply against Blackburn Rovers at Whitley Park, Trevan Sanusi, Joe Brayson and Darren Palmer all netting.

The visitors were awarded two penalties but wasted both - one hitting the goal frame and the other saved by goalkeeper Aidan Harris.

2024 Amazing news from South West London that heavy rain had caused a sink hole to appear in the Plough Lane pitch, meaning that United's Carabao Cup tie against AFC Wimbledon was postponed

The scale of the damage ruled out any play for the immediate future, prompting a request to the EFL for the fixture to be reversed. It was played a week later at SJP.