The club was founded in 1892 by fusing Newcastle East End and Newcastle West End. The team’s home stadium is St James’ Park, located in the heart of Newcastle. The Taylor Report’s suggestion that all Premier League clubs have all-seat stadiums led to the stadium’s modification in the middle of the 1990s, increasing its capacity to 52,305.
As of May 2022, the club has played in the Premier League for all but three of the league’s history, spending 90 seasons there.
1881–1903: Early History and Formation
Graph detailing Newcastle United Football Club’s development since joining the League in 1894. Four times, Newcastle has won the league.
A game of football was first noted on Tyneside on March 3, 1877, at the Elswick Rugby Club. Tyne Association, Newcastle’s first football club, was founded later that year. Newcastle United Football Club’s beginnings might be linked to the Stanley Cricket Club of Byker’s establishment of a football team in November 1881.
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First Glory Years and War Years: 1903–1937
The club assembled a talented team of players in 1903–04, and the side, famed for its “artistic play, combining teamwork and rapid, short passing,” went on to dominate English football for almost a decade. Long after he had retired, the team’s defender at the time, Peter McWilliam, said, “The Newcastle side of the 1900s would give any current side a two-goal lead and defeat them, and furthermore, beat them at a trot.” Throughout the 1900s, Newcastle United won the League three times: in 1904–05, 1906–07, and 1908–09.
1937–1969: Post-war Achievement
The club struggled to adapt to the Second Division and came dangerously close to being further relegated in the 1937–1938 season before being spared on goal average. Newcastle had an opportunity to recuperate, though, when World War II started in 1939. During that time, they added Jackie Milburn, Tommy Walker, and Bobby Cowell.
