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Record away league victory: 8–0 v. Sheffield United, Premier League, 24 September 2023 [3] Record away FA Cup victory: 9–0 v. Southport, FA Cup, 1 February 1932 [4] [note 1] Record UEFA Champions League victory: 4–1 v. PSG, UEFA Champions League, 4 October 2023 [5]
List of English football champions Football League First Division (1888–1992) Premier League (1992–present) Leicester City celebrate winning the 2015–16 Premier League Country England Founded 1888 Number of teams 24 winners Current champions Manchester City (2023–24) Most successful club Manchester United (20 championships) The English football champions are the winners of the top ...
Newcastle United F.C. first played European football with their appearance in the 1968–69 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, a competition which they won. Their first Champions League appearance came in 1997–98. Newcastle's first and last appearance in the Cup Winners' Cup came in 1998–99.
At the end of the 2022–23 season, the club sealed qualification for the Champions League for the first time in 20 years. [84] The season was the subject of the Amazon Prime Video documentary We Are Newcastle United. [85] [86] [87] In the 2023–24 season, Newcastle were eliminated in the group stages of the Champions League. [88]
United finished the 2002–03 season third in the Premier League, [43] but lost their Champions League qualifier and played in the 2003–04 UEFA Cup instead, reaching the semi-final. [44] In 2003–04, Newcastle finished fifth in the Premiership, [45] lower than in previous seasons, and outside of Champions League contention.
Real Madrid hold the record for the most goals conceded by a Champions League-winning team, conceding 23 goals in 17 matches in 1999–2000. Benfica achieved the highest-ever goals conceded-per-game ratio for Champions League-winning in the history of the competition (1.57), the club conceded 11 goals in 7 matches in 1961–62.
Newcastle have spent 90 years in the top flight of English Football. A chart showing the progress of Newcastle United Football Club from its entry into the Football League in 1894 to the present. Since promotion into the Premier League in the year after the league's inception, NUFC have spent two seasons outside of the top flight.
With 48 continental trophies won, English football clubs are the third-most successful in European football, behind Italy (50) and Spain (67). In the top-tier, the UEFA Champions League, a record six English clubs have won a total of 15 titles and lost a further 11 finals, behind Spanish clubs with 20 and 11, respectively. [1]