Newcastle United F.C.
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Newcastle
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Newcastle
United Football Club (often abbreviated to NUFC) is an English
professional association football club based in Newcastle upon Tyne.
The club was founded in 1892, by the merger of Newcastle East End
and Newcastle West End,
and has played at its current home ground, St James' Park, since. The ground was developed
into an all-seater stadium
in the mid-1990s and now has a capacity of 52,387.[1] The club has been a member of the Premier League for all but two years of the
competition's history, and has never dropped below English football's second
tier since joining the Football League in
1893. In 2007, long term chairman and owner Sir John Hall
sold his share in the club to Mike Ashley.
In 2013, after an underpar season, the club appointed Joe Kinnear as their football director after a
strong connection with Mike Ashley.
They have won
four League
Championship titles and six FA Cups, as well as the 1969
Inter-Cities Fairs Cup and the 2006 UEFA Intertoto
Cup. Newcastle United has the ninth highest total of major honours
won by an English club.[2] The club's most successful period was
between 1904 and 1910, when they won an FA Cup and three of their First
Division titles. The club is the twentieth
richest club in the world in terms of annual revenue, generating €115.3m in
2012.
They have a
fierce local rivalry with Sunderland, and the two clubs have engaged in the
Tyne–Wear derby
since 1898. The club's traditional kit colours are black and white striped
shirts, black shorts and black socks. Their traditional crest takes elements of
the city coat of arms, which
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