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Newcastle United Football Club are an English professional football team based in Newcastle upon Tyne. They play in the Premier League and are historically the seventh most successful club in English football.[3] This takes into account all results since the beginning of English league football in 1888.
- For the Australian club, see Newcastle United Jets.
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Full name | Newcastle United Football Club | ||
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Nickname(s) | The Magpies, The Toon | ||
Founded | 1892 | ||
Ground | St James' Park Newcastle upon Tyne England | ||
Capacity | 52,387[1] | ||
Chairman | Freddy Shepherd[2] | ||
Manager | Sam Allardyce | ||
League | Premier League | ||
2006–07 | Premier League, 13th | ||
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The club formed in 1892 after the merger of two local clubs, Newcastle East End and Newcastle West End, and has since played at St James' Park, the old Newcastle West End ground in the city. Newcastle United supporters refer to themselves as the "Toon Army". Newcastle's traditional local rivals are Sunderland, with whom they have contested the Tyne-Wear derby since 1898.