Newcastle United Football Club (also known as The Magpies and The Toon) is an English football club, based in Newcastle upon Tyne, which plays in the Football League Championship. The current manager is Chris Hughton, who succeeded short-term boss Alan Shearer, at the end of the 2008-2009 season.
The club was founded in 1892 after the merger of two local clubs, Newcastle East End and Newcastle West End. Since their founding year, the club have pl...
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Newcastle United Football Club (also known as The Magpies and The Toon) is an English football club, based in Newcastle upon Tyne, which plays in the Football League Championship. The current manager is Chris Hughton, who succeeded short-term boss Alan Shearer, at the end of the 2008-2009 season.
The club was founded in 1892 after the merger of two local clubs, Newcastle East End and Newcastle West End. Since their founding year, the club have played at their home ground of St. James' Park. They have won the First Division Championship four times and the FA Cup six times, though their last league success was in 1927. In European competition the most notable honour the club has won is the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, in 1969.
The club's traditional kit colours are black and white striped shirts, with black shorts and socks. Supporters of Newcastle United refer to themselves as the Toon Army.
Newcastle have a long-standing rivalry with neighbouring Sunderland with whom they have contested...
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