1903 Blackburn Rovers (a)
1-3 (0-2)
Division One 
P33, 30pts, 15th/18
McColl(90) 
Bowman(20,75), McClure(25)
9,000 
Bill Appleyard debuted in the penultimate game of the season, as Rovers confirmed top-flight survival - United having done so in the previous game.

1903 Despite Newcastle's first team being at Ewood Park, there was First Division football at SJP, in the shape of a wear-tees derby.

The mackems ran out 2-1 winners in front of 26,000 fans, with the alternative venue needed after Roker Park's closure due to crowd trouble in a previous fixture.

1908 sunderland (h)
1-3 (0-1)
Division One 
P37, 42pts, 2nd/20
Howie(80) 
Holley(40), Low(57), Bridgett(65)
50,000
A week before their FA Cup Final meeting with Wolves, Newcastle surrendered both points to their lowly local rivals. 

1914 Sheffield United (a)
0-2 (0-0)
Division One 
P37, 36pts, 11th/20
Fazackerley(46), Gillespie(49)
17,000
The Blades would go on to finish in tenth, ahead of Newcastle on goal difference.

1923 South Shields (a)
1-0 (0-0)
Friendly 
McDonald(83) 
Ingham Cup Final 1st leg.

1924 Bolton Wanderers (a)
1-0 (1-0)
Division One 
P40, 44pts, 8th/22
J.Low(36) 
20,000

1925 Bolton Wanderers (h)
0-1 (0-0)
Division One 
P41, 48pts, 5th/22
D.Jack(22)
8,000

1928 Everton (a)
0-3 (0-1)
Division One 
P38, 37pts, 14th/22
Weldon(14), Critchley(55), Dean(70)
28,266
This victory for the Champions-elect at Goodison Park included Dixie Dean's 51st goal of the season - he was to make 60.

1930 Liverpool (h)
3-1 (2-1)
Division One 
P38, 32pts, 20th/22
Hill(8), Weaver(36),
Gallacher(49) 
Smith(33)
40,000
A vital win kept Newcastle a point above second-bottom Grimsby Town with four games to play.

Ahead early on before being pegged back, United regained the lead when the injured and immobile Sammy Weaver got his head to a cross.

1931 Leicester City (a)
1-3 (0-3)
Division One 
P40, 35pts, 17th/22
Bedford(80) 
Chandler(11), Adcock(15), Lochhead(45)
12,000

1933 Aston Villa (a)
0-3 (0-1)
Division One 
P39, 47pts, 4th/22
Wood(28), Brown(67,85)
25,000

1936 Southampton (a)
3-1 (2-0)
Division Two 
P39, 44pts, 7th/22
J.Smith(15,23), Ware(50)
Holt(78)
6,670
Victory at The Dell clinched a fifth league double of the season for United.

Writing in The Sunday Sun, former Magpie Colin Veitch was unimpressed, observing "there were some moments when Newcastle players invited disaster to their side by attempts at cleverness that were made to look ludicrous by their lack of success."

1938 Norwich City (a)
1-1 (0-1)
Division Two 
P38, 34pts, 16th/22
Imrie(51pen) 
Furness(25)
22,500

1949 Middlesbrough (a)
2-3 (2-1)
Division One 
P39, 50pts, 2nd/22
Milburn(12), Mitchell(39) 
McCrae(15),
Hardwick(50pen,86pen)
43,000
Four days after scoring the only goal of the game at SJP, Jackie Milburn was on target once again but finished on the losing side at Ayresome Park.

It was a vital derby win for the hosts as they sought to avoid relegation. They did, by a point.

1949 A crowd of 14,000 were at Gallowgate to see Hexham Hearts inflict a 3-0 victory on Blyth Spartans in the Northumberland Senior Cup Final.

Hexham hero was former Newcastle reserve Steve Howdon, who struck after 18,47 and 62 minutes. Hearts custodian Maurice Edgar had also previously been on United's books.

1951 Bolton Wanderers (h) 0-1 (0-1)
Division One 
P39, 45pts, 5th/22
Lofthouse(44)
39,099
Nat Lofthouse grabbed the only goal of the game at SJP against a United side who were ten days away from an FA Cup Final date with Blackpool.

1953 Portsmouth (a)
1-5 (1-1)
Division One
P40, 35pts, 15th/22
Keeble(1)
og(Woollard(30),
Scoular(46), Vaughan(70), Henderson(75), Phillips(78)
27,835 
Bermudan-born right back Arnold Woollard made his debut at Fratton Park in place of Frank Brennan, but turned a Charlie Vaughan shot into his own net. 

Vic Keeble scored for United after 35 seconds, but it was all Pompey after that, future Magpie Jimmy Scoular among the scorers. "It could have been 10-1" admitted Magpies director Stan Seymour.

1953 Brennan's absence was due to national team duty, playing for Scotland in a 2-2 draw with England at Wembley.

In opposition to him - and scoring both home goals - was Ivor Broadis, who would become a club colleague at SJP within months. 

1955 Manchester United (h) 2-0 (0-0)
Division One 
P37, 38pts, 11th/22
Hannah(52), White(69) 
35,569
Albert Scanlon was in the visiting line-up and would become a Magpie some five years later.

1959 Leeds United (h)
2-2 (0-1)
Division One 
P39, 37pts, 15th/22
Allchurch(54), Curry(90) 
Revie(23), Peyton(46)
19,321
Bobby Mitchell continued to fill in to good effect for the Magpies at left half back.

1960 Sheffield Wednesday (a) 0-2 (0-1)
Division One 
P40, 44pts, 6th/22
Fantham(37), Froggatt(61)
33,332 
Wednesday's second goal was scored by Redfern Froggatt, who netted for the Owls at SJP some 13 years earlier. 

1960 While the first teams met at Hillsborough, the Reserve sides did battle at St. James'.  Ken Hale scored for United in a 1-1 draw.

1964 Scunthorpe United (a) 0-2 (0-0)
Division Two 
P41, 43pts, 7th/22
Lawther(85), Ellis(89)
6,648 
There was a debut at the Old Showground for Frank Clark, who inherited the number 3 shirt from George Dalton and remained an ever-present in the side until September 1965.

1966 Manchester United's Reserve side were the visitors to SJP and inflicted a sound 0-3 beating on the Magpies.

Teenage midfielder Stewart Fellows caught the eye in just his third Central League outing, but would leave the club a year later without breaking into the first team squad.

The Stockton-born youngster later played for York City and Kings Lynn Town.

1973 Manchester City (a)
0-2 (0-1)
Division One 
P39, 42pts, 7th/22
Booth(45), Marsh(66)
25,156
This Wednesday night reverse at Maine Road extended United's winless league run to six games, The Journal match reporter observing that, "the pace of Newcastle's drive for Europe has dropped to a slow march."

1979 Notts County (h)
1-2 (0-1)
Division Two 
P36, 34pts, 12th/22
Withe(82) 
Hooks(14), O'Brien(59pen)
12,017
Wallsend native Paul Hooks opened the scoring for the visitors as United played for the third time in five days for this rearranged fixture.

Manager Bill McGarry commented:

"I felt sorry for the crowd, who kept up their support despite the setbacks. They deserve any award going."

1981 Derby County (a)
0-2 (0-1)
Division Two 
P39, 39pts, 11th/22
Wilson(41), McFarland(54) 
14,139 
Defeat at the Baseball Ground left United still searching for their first goal away from home since January - their tally of just 26 from 39 league games the lowest of all 92 clubs.

1987 Manchester United (h) 2-1 (1-1)
Division One 
P37, 43pts, 16th/22
Roeder(12), Goddard(80) 
Strachan(41) 
32,706 
An estimated 6,000 fans were locked out and missed a gritty performance by the 10 man Magpies, for whom Peter Beardsley was making a farewell appearance before leaving for Liverpool.

He provided a cross from which Glenn Roeder headed the hosts ahead before departing through injury on 35 minutes.

John Anderson was then forced off after a scything tackle from Norman Whiteside, Peter Jackson soon exacting revenge and prompting a scuffle for which Keith Hackett booked him.

With Liam O'Brien in their line-up, the Red Devils levelled thanks to a long range thumper from Gordon Strachan, only for Paul Goddard to beat Gary Walsh at the Gallowgate End - equaling a club record by netting in his seventh successive game.
Youtube footage is online here (part 1)
Youtube footage is online here (part 2)
Youtube footage is online here (part 3)

1988 Prolific striker John Robertson joined United from Hearts in a £750k deal.

However he had to wait until the following season for his debut, as Newcastle's remaining five games potentially affected issues at both ends of the table. 

1990 After many months of disagreement, fan boycotts and newspaper editorials, John Hall was co-opted onto the Newcastle board, by a clearly reluctant Gordon McKeag and his dwindling band of supportive shareholders.

1992 Millwall (h)
0-1 (0-0)
Division Two
P43, 46pts, 21st/24 
Allen(78)
23,821 
Midfielder Peter Garland debuted following a £35,000 move from Spurs, on a day when future Magpie Malcolm Allen netted to deepen our plight at the wrong end of Division Two. United were just a point above Plymouth, two above Port Vale and three off Brighton who had a game in hand.
Youtube footage is online here

1998 Manchester United (a) 1-1 (1-1)
Premier League
P34, 40pts, 15th/20
Andersson(11)
Beckham(38)
55,194 
David Beckham equalised Andreas Andersson's opener, but Newcastle should have won at Old Trafford for the second time in weeks, to accompany their FA Cup semi-final success against Sheffield United.

Solskjaer was dismissed for hacking down Robert Lee, who was clean through on goal. However, the draw was certainly a moral victory and effectively robbed Fergie & Co. of the title, as Arsenal romped to victory over Wimbledon to take a decisive advantage.
PL highlights are online here

Andersson scoring at Old Trafford?
We couldn't believe it either...

2004 Aston Villa (a)
0-0 (0-0)
Premiership
P33, 50pts, 5th/20
O'Brien(10-professional foul)
40,786
Despite being a man short for 80 minutes, United dug out a point against odious David O'Bleary's Villans, who included ex-Magpie Nobby Solano and future Souness recruit Ronny Johnsen.
NUFC.com match report
PL highlights are online here

2010 The grounding of UK flights due to the Icelandic volcanic ash cloud left plans for United's possible Championship title-clincher at Plymouth quite literally up in the air.

A 410 mile coach journey to Home Park would hardly be the ideal preparation for a game United just needed to draw.

2015 A memorable win for the U18s, beating Arsenal 6-0 at Little Benton. 

Jamie Holmes hit a 20 minute treble, Luke Charman, Jamie Cobain and Kyle Cameron also netting.

2017 Ex-Newcastle Academy player Adam Rundle's goal gave Northern League Hebburn Town a 1-0 win over a youthful Magpie XI in a friendly encounter at Victoria Road West.
NUFC.com match report

2022 A third successive PL2 defeat for the U23s damaged their play-off hopes, beaten 2-4 by Wolves at Molineux. Lucas De Bolle and Isaac Westendorf netted.
NUFC.com match report

2024 United abandoned attempts to arrange a pre-season tour of the USA, after no suitable financial package could be agreed on.