1897 Glasgow Rangers (Scotland) (h)
3-1 (0-1)
Friendly 
Connell(55), Lennox(2-1), Smellie(3-1)
Hyslop(35) 
7,000
The third of five post-season home friendlies against Scottish sides ended in a home win, despite Andy Aitken missed the target from the penalty spot with the score 1-1.

1899 Hibernian (Scotland) (h)
2-2 (0-1)
Friendly 
Aitken(52), Macfarlane(2-1)
Douglas(30), Porter(2-2) 
2,000
A week after losing 0-2 in Edinburgh, United hosted their Scottish opponents at SJP.

Wet weather leading up to the 6pm kickoff left the pitch in a poor state and affected the crowd.
 
Team: Watts, Bailey, Knifton, Ghee, Veitch, Carr, Stott, Aitken, McFarlane, Niblo, Wardope.

1901 sunderland (h)
0-2 (0-1)
Division One 
P33, 37pts, 7th/18
W.Hogg(25), R.Hogg(70)
20,000
Victory on Tyneside took the mackems two points clear at the top but Liverpool would win their last two games to clinch the title.

1906 Stoke (h)
5-0 (1-0)
Division One 
P35, 39pts, 7th/20
Howie(35), J.Rutherford(50,53), Orr(55),  Veitch(90) 
12,000 
Three days after their FA Cup Final defeat by Everton, United returned to winning ways in the league.

Captain Ijichi plus 150 officers and crew from the Japanese battleship "Kashima" (newly built on the Tyne at Armstrong Whitworths of Elswick) were special guests at the game and watched from the Centre Paddock. 

They returned for the next home game, and saw United score another three goals.

1907 Glasgow Rangers (a)
0-3 (0-0)
Friendly
Livingstone(55), McDonald(0-2),
W.Kivlichan(0-3)
10,000
24 hours after a 0-1 defeat to Leith in Edinburgh, recently-crowned league champions Newcastle lost at Ibrox.

Team: Sinclair, McCracken, Carr, Liddell, Speedie, Jobey, Rutherford, Howie, Appleyard, Orr, Gosnell.

1909 Blackburn Rovers (a)
4-2 (2-1)
Division One 
P36, 53pts, 1st/20
Rutherford(1-1,2-1,4-2), Allan(3-1)
Davies(10, 3-2pen)
7,000
Already confirmed as League champions, United secured what was only their second victory in a dozen visits to Ewood Park.

The Lancashire Post reporter wrote of Newcastle that: "The Northerners are a pretty and powerful eleven. Their well conceived movements are executed in masterly style, the team operating with splendid unison."

1915 Notts County (a)
0-1 (0-0)
Division One
P37, 30pts, 15th/20 
Henshall(62)
11,000
Newcastle's final away trip of the season saw them make it ten league trips away from St James' Park without a victory since a 4-2 Boxing Day success on wearside. 

1920 Manchester City (a)
0-0 (0-0)
Division One 
P41, 43pts, 7th/22
25,000

1926 Everton (a)
0-3 (0-3)
Division One 
P41, 40pts, 10th/22
Dean(15,65,72)
20,517
A second successive hat trick for Dixie Dean, following his triple salvo in a 3-3 draw on Tyneside the previous December.

To complete United's misery, Frank Hudspeth blasted a late penalty kick high over the bar.

1937 Bradford City (h)
2-0 (2-0)
Division Two 
49pts, 4th/22
Rogers(10), Smith(39) 
10,000 
17-year-old Arnold Grundy got one of only two Toon starts in this win, at left half. The season ended with a run of five wins and United finishing a respectable fourth.

By contrast, defeat for the Bantams meant that their relegation to the Third Division (North) was confirmed.

1948 Tottenham Hotspur (a) 1-1 (0-1)
Division Two 
P41, 54pts, 2nd/22
Sibley(46)
og(Cowell)(30)
44,164
This point at White Hart Lane confirmed United's return to the First Division, in second place behind Birmingham City. 

John Jordan missed a 20th minute penalty for Spurs, while  Newcastle goalscorer Joe Sibley had guested for the hosts in wartime football.

A few miles away at Wembley Stadium that same afternoon, Manchester United beat Blackpool 4-2 to win the FA Cup final.

1948 At Gallowgate meanwhile, a 3-0 victory over Bury saw United's reserve side lift the Central League title.

Andy Donaldson(2) and Tommy Thompson were on target.

1954 Chelsea (a)
2-1 (0-0)
Division One 
38pts, 15th/22
White(56), Mitchell(68)
Parsons(55) 
46,991
United ended the season with a victory at Stamford Bridge - their first away success since beating the smoggies at Ayresome Park on Christmas Day 1953.

The home side had three efforts disallowed; two for handball and one for a foul, although their opener from Eric Parsons had looked suspiciously offside.

Half time guest was US evangelical preacher Billy Graham, who took time off from a series of public speaking engagements at Harringay to address the crowd.

1962 Bobby Moncur signed full professional forms for Newcastle, during the short managerial reign of Norman Smith.

1963 Newcastle Reserves were beaten 0-2 at SJP in the Central League by their Bolton Wanderers counterparts.

That avenged a Magpies win over the Trotters by the same margin at Burnden Park just a month previously in the same competition.

1965 Manchester City (h)
0-0 (0-0)
Division Two 
57pts, 1st/22
35,600
After the excitement of the previous home game when promotion was won, almost 25,000 less home fans saw a memorable season conclude.

Newcastle duly became Second Division champions but that was only confirmed by Northampton Town drawing 1-1 at home to Portsmouth later the same day and finishing one point behind the Magpies.

In reality the silverware was always heading to Tyneside, with the Cobblers needing to not only beat Pompey but also overturn an inferior goal difference of 20.

That did mean that no public presentation of the trophy took place and it belatedly came to Tyneside on May 29th, when chairman Lord Westwood, manager Joe Harvey and captain Stan Anderson received it at the Football League annual meeting in London, returning to the north east by train.

1971 West Ham United (h)
1-1 (1-1)
Division One 
P40, 39pts, 11th/22
Tudor(38) 
Hurst(43)
22,790 
John Tudor stuck out a foot to prod home Tommy Gibb's cross at the Leazes End, before Harry Redknapp's run took him into the box and he laid the pass on for Geoff Hurst to finish from close range.

This game marked the first return of Bryan "Pop" Robson to Tyneside since what was a controversial £120,000 departure to the Hammers just two months earlier.

His every move was booed by unforgiving home fans and he missed a late chance to win the game for his new side.
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1974 Burnley (h)
2-1 (1-1)
Texaco Cup 
Macdonald(31), Moncur(103) 
Fletcher(25)
36,076
Texaco Cup success came against the Clarets in extra time of this one-legged final.

Captain Bobby Moncur volleyed home Jimmy Smith's cross to win it, before accepting the silverware from Sir Alf Ramsay.

Future Magpie Geoff Nulty appeared for Burnley as did Ray Hankin - who would later join the backroom staff at Gallowgate.

1976 Tottenham Hotspur (a) 3-0 (0-0)
Division One 
39pts, 15th/22
Burns(62), Macdonald(66,81)
29,649
A decent end to the season, although progress in both domestic cup competitions had detracted from United's league campaign.

1982 Grimsby Town (h)
0-1 (0-0)
Division Two 
P38, 56pts, 9th/22
Brolly(50)
14,065
United were in the midst of a disastrous sequence that saw them drop to ninth. 

Six defeats and a draw ensured a mediocre finishing position, while worse was to follow, with four-goal stuffings at the hands of Blackburn and QPR in the next two games. 

1991 West Ham United (a)
1-1 (1-0)
Division Two 
P42, 57pts, 12th/24
Peacock(15)
Dowie(63) 
24,195 
Our unbeaten run was extended to five games as the influence of recently-appointed boss Ossie Ardiles began to be seen. 

Even the staunchly southern "Daily Mail" was moved to comment that the game was a "classic exposition of footballing skills."

Gavin Peacock gave the Magpies a half time lead but future assistant boss Iain Dowie for a Hammers side including Chris Hughton.
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1996 A young Red Devils reserve side that had already won the Pontins League Division One title beat Jeff Clarke's second string 0-2.

The game was played at Bury's Gigg Lane ground.

1999 Wimbledon (a)
1-1 (1-1)
Premiership
P35, 44pts, 12th/20
Shearer(18)
Hartson(24)
21,172
Alan Shearer netted for a fourth successive game but United's winless run following FA Cup Semi Final success was extended to three games after this tepid encounter at Selhurst Park.

Some geezer called Kinnear was in charge of the Wombles and got his boat race on the programme cover. Gertcha.
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2001 The reserves ended their season in style with a 5-1 win at Bradford City. Lomana LuaLua, Diego Gavilan(2), Colin McMenamin and Stuart Green were all on target.
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2003 Newcastle debutant Darren Ambrose netted for the reserves just before the half hour against Manchester United at SJP.

Colin Heath then levelled for the visitors, before injuries to Stephen Brennan and Carl Cort then left the Magpies down to ten men midway through the second half.

Heath then rapidly capitalised on his side's numerical advantage to net what turned out to be the winner in front of 3,000 fans.
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2004 A winning goal in second half added time gave our reserves a 2-1 success in a rescheduled fixture away to the smoggies second string at Rockcliffe Park. 

Lewis Guy and Matty Pattison netted.
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2005 Manchester United (a) 1-2 (1-0)
Premiership
P33, 38pts, 14th/20
Ambrose(27)
Rooney(57), Brown(75)
67,845
A breathtaking strike from Wayne Rooney saved a mediocre Manchester United from their first home defeat of the season as a patched-up Toon side threatened a major shock.

Darren Ambrose had given us a deserved lead at half-time with a well-taken goal after 27 minutes, seizing on a poor clearance from 'keeper Tim Howard.

Rooney was about to substituted with almost an hour gone following a dead leg in the first half, but when Peter Ramage headed infield, Rooney hit a stunning volley that flew past Given into the top corner.

Even then we looked like holding out for a point, which was the least a spirited display deserved, but Wes Brown beat a static Shola Ameobi to head the winner from a corner.
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2006 It proved to be lucky thirteen for Tommy Craig and his young Magpies as they extended their season-long unbeaten record on home territory, beating Bolton Reserves by a solitary Carl Finnigan goal.
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2007 Having put a spoke in the wheel of both Manchester United and the Smoggies, the reserves were unable to withstand the challenge of Bolton, who claimed the title after a deserved 3-1 victory at Leyland. 

David Edgar headed home a late consolation from a James Troisi corner.
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2010 Ipswich Town (h)
2-2 (1-1)
Championship
P45, 99pts, 1st/24
Carroll(26), Ameobi(84pen)
Wickham(42), Walters(90+4)
52,181
Despite a late and ludicrously offside goal, United managed to make it through the whole season unbeaten on home soil, with Roy Keane's Tractor Boys unable to spoil the Championship party.

Town twice came from behind to prevent United notching up their 30th win of the season and breaking the 100 point barrier.
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2017 Preston North End (h)
4-1 (2-1)
Championship
P44, 88pts, 2nd/24
Perez (7,67), Atsu(45), Ritchie(65pen)
Hugill(14)
Gallagher(64-handball)
50,212
United achieved a Premier League return at the first time of asking with two games to spare, completing a seasonal treble over Preston North End.

Satisfaction rather than euphoria was the order of the day at full time and while the players were applauded as they saluted the fans, the biggest cheers were reserved for Rafa Benitez as he took to the field to acknowledge the backing he'd received.
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2021 Liverpool (a)
1-1 (0-1)
Premier League
P33, 36pts, 15th/20
Willock(90+5)
Salah(3)
United made it four games unbeaten despite spending most of the visit to Anfield trailing, before Joe Willock came off the bench to level in the final seconds of added time.

His equaliser followed a controversial VAR call denying fellow substitute Callum Wilson what looked like a leveller moments earlier.
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2023 The U21s concluded their PL2 season with a 4-1 victory against Derby County at their temporary base of Loughborough University Stadium.

Jamie and Lewis Miley both scored, Amadou Diallo (pen) and Michael Ndiweni got the others while goalkeeper Max Thompson was red-carded for a foul, Will Brown saving the resultant free-kick and then a penalty.
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2024 Crystal Palace (a)
0-2 (0-0)
Premier League
P33, 50pts, 7th/20
Mateta(55,88)
25,002
Newcastle's four match unbeaten run disappeared at Selhurst Park, the Magpies second best to the energetic Eagles, notably Eberechi Eze.
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