1980 Trelleborgs FF (Sweden) (a)
1-1 (?-?)
Friendly
Shinton 
scorer tbc 
1,000
The home goal looked well offside and Ray Clarke and Brian Ferguson both hit the Swedes' crossbar as Bill McGarry's tough pre-season continued.

1992 A Newcastle reserve XI were in pre-season friendly action against a Wensleydale Football League XI.

The game was played on the sports field in the North Yorkshire town of Middleham - details still tbc.

1993 Hartlepool United (a) 2-0 (2-0)
Friendly 
Sellars(17), Beardsley(43)
6,000 
Mark Robinson joined the injured list after just two minutes, following a scything tackle from Ian McGuckin. 

An outraged Keegan vowed never to return to Victoria Park and later inherited the defender after becoming Fulham boss. McGuckin was immediately shipped off back to Hartlepool.

Ex-mackem 'keeper Tim Carter conceded both goals in the first half to the great amusement of the travelling support and failed to reappear for the second period.

Team: Wright, Venison, Beresford, Scott, Howey, Robinson (Watson 2), Sellars (Elliott 74), Beardsley, Papavasiliou, Bracewell, , Lee. Sub n/u: Kilcline.
Youtube footage is online here

1996 Blyth Spartans & Gateshead (h)
6-0 (2-0)
Friendly
Kitson(20,22), Lee (53,86), Ferdinand (63,78)
13,593
A possibly unique fixture at SJP, with Newcastle facing two different teams in one game.

First up was a Blyth Spartans side including old boy Bruce Halliday, before neighbours Gateshead took to the field for the second half, with ex-Mag Jeff Wrightson playing.

A benefit match for drug charities in the Blyth area, the original venue of Croft Park had been ruled out due for fears of congestion due to the large numbers attending.

The game served as a warm-up ahead of United's pre-season games in Thailand, Singapore and Japan.

Team: Srnicek (Hislop 46), D.Peacock (Barton 46), Howey (Watson 46), Albert (Elliott 46), Huckerby (Barrett 23[Holland 46]), Beardsley, Lee, Clark (Batty 46), Ginola (Crawford 72), Kitson (Ferdinand 46) Asprilla (Gillespie 46).

1999 Reading (a)
2-2 (0-2)
Friendly
Coppinger(63pen), Robinson(82)
Caskey(7), Williams(20)
16,884
With United quickly trailing the Royals on their debut at the Madejski Stadium, manager Ruud Gullit opted to being himself off the bench to show his flagging troops what was required. 

Gullit's display was inspirational and his superb long ball to Paul Robinson saw him fouled in the box, fellow former Quaker James Coppinger scoring from the spot.

Robinson himself then levelled to spare our blushes in front of a big away following, including many Southern exiles.
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2000 NUFC.com's dynamic duo were seemingly the only ones who knew United would be training at Georgetown University, Washington DC that afternoon.

Reed Ackerman and his lad also turned up after driving down from New York and the four of us were invited by Bobby to take shelter from the rain in the dug-out. 

We were later joined by another trio, all of whom sat out the session through injury:

Cort, Ferguson & Dyer: crockery

2002 GVVV Veenendaal (Holland) (a)
4-0 (4-0)
Friendly
Dyer(11), Viana(24,37), Robert(43)
The third of Newcastle's four low profile friendlies against Dutch sides was staged in a small town midway between Utrecht and Arnhem. 

Hugo Viana netted his first (and second) goals for the club as United made it 17 strikes without conceding. 
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2003 Birmingham City (a) 
2-1 (1-0)
Friendly
Shearer(37pen), Ameobi(75)
Devlin(73pen)
Cunningham(36)
14,600
The first game of the Asia Cup in Kuala Lumpur saw Alan Shearer shoot United ahead from the penalty spot after Craig Bellamy was upended by Kenny Cunningham. 

Premiership ref Rob Styles red-carded Cunningham, much to the dismay of Blues' boss Steve Bruce.

Titus Bramble also conceded a penalty (but stayed on the field) with Paul Devlin netting to level, only for a Shola Ameobi header to put United into the final.

Sir Bobby called it a "jolly good workout". NUFC.com match report

2006 New Magpies signing Damien Duff was presented to the media at SJP, having been greeted on the steps of the Milburn Stand by an enthusiastic Tyneside crowd.

Flanked by Freddy Shepherd and Glenn Roeder, when asked why he'd chosen United ahead of other top flight clubs (notably Tottenham) Duff told reporters that:

"It feels special. Playing here with Chelsea and Blackburn it was an unbelievable place to come as an away player, it’s probably the most passionate place in England to play. That is one of the many factors why I wanted to come here.

"It took a couple of days - I spoke to the gaffer and the lads here like Scott Parker, Steve Carr and Shay Given, but at the end I listened to my heart.

"Maybe there are a lot of Liverpool supporters in Ireland saying ‘Why didn’t you sign for us?’ but my heart told me to come to Newcastle United.

"I hope we can bring success. Obviously we’re not kidding ourselves, it’s a massive job ahead of us and we know we’re not going to be challenging for the Premier League this year. But I’m here for five years and hope to do great things."

2007 United's reserve side beat Northern League side Newcastle Benfield 3-2 at Sam Smiths Park, thanks to goals from Kazenga LuaLua, James Marwood and Mark Bertram. 
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2009 Alan Shearer's big mate Rob Lee spoke to the The Daily Express about the continuing managerial limbo that the number nine found himself in at SJP:

"I speak to Alan every day and he’s frustrated to say the least. He’s coming to the end of his tether now. He’s waited for ages and been told that things were due to happen, but nothing has and he’s very frustrated.

"He organised all the pre-season games at the end of last season but he also had targets in mind that he wanted to bring in to the club. Now it looks like he will miss out on them.

"I’m amazed he hasn’t already told Newcastle that he doesn’t want the job any more, but there will come a point where he says, ‘You’re too late’.

2010 Norwich City (a)
1-2 (0-1)
Friendly
Ameobi(47)
C.Martin(39,75)
13,195
Debuting their all-blue Puma change kit, United were beaten by the Championship new boys at Carrow Road.

Trailing to a Chris Martin effort caused by a sloppy Ryan Taylor back pass, Shola Ameobi came off the bench to level the scores.

However, the Canaries winner came City's Chris Martin and United's Mike Williamson jointly headed a cross beyond Tim Krul.

Faroe Islands midfielder Jóan Símun Edmundsson made a senior bow for United as a substitute.
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2013 Goals from Rolando Aarons, Jonathyn Quinn and Michael Richardson earned the reserves a 3-1 win at Workington on our first visit to West Cumbria in six years.
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2016 United's U21s made it four friendly wins out of four, winning the Steel Cup by beating PSV 1-0 at Corby Town's Steel Park.

The only goal of the game came from defender Kyle Cameron, who was clad in a protective face mask.
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2018 Hull City (a)
2-2 (1-1)
Friendly
Joselu(15), Perez(86)
Kane(41), Evandro(62)
6,288
Debutant Ki Sung-yueng came off the bench to deliver the corner that led to Ayoze Perez netting a late equaliser at the KCOM Stadium.

Despite leading through Joselu's strike, Rafa's under-strength side had looked set for defeat at the hands of the second tier Tigers.
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2021 United's U23s continued pre-season with a 3-1 win over National League North side Darlington at Blackwell Meadows.

Goals came from Dylan Stephenson's brace and one from Tom Allan.
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