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Newcastle United is an English professional association football club based in Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear. Formed by a merger between Newcastle East End and Newcastle West End in 1892, the club was elected to the Football League, which they entered in 1893. Newcastle are England's equal-eighth most successful club of all time,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title = Football : Running Total of Trophies )〕 four times League champions (in 1905, 1907, 1909 and 1927) and six times FA Cup winners (in 1910, 1924, 1932, 1951, 1952, and 1955). Newcastle have played in England's top league from 1898-1935, 1948-61, 1965-78, 1984-89, 1993-2009 and since 2010, playing in the second flight at all other times. Newcastle also won the 1909 Charity Shield〔(Statto: 1909 Charity Shield ) Retrieved 2 Oct 2011〕 the 1968–69 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, the 2006 Intertoto Cup, have been FA Cup runners-up seven times and League Cup runners-up once (in 1976). == The creation (1881-1895) == The first record of football being played on Tyneside dates from 3 March 1877 at Elswick Rugby Club. Later that year, Newcastle's first association football club, Tyne Association, was formed. The origins of Newcastle United Football Club itself can be traced back to the formation of a football club by the ''Stanley Cricket Club'' of Byker in November 1881. They won their first match 5-0 against Elswick Leather Works 2nd XI. The team was renamed ''Newcastle East End F.C.'' in October 1882, to avoid confusion with the cricket club in Stanley, County Durham. Shortly after this, another Byker side, Rosewood FC, merged with East End to form an even stronger side. Meanwhile, across the city, West End Cricket Club began to take an interest in football and in August 1882, they formed Newcastle West End F.C.. West End played their early football on their cricket pitch, but in May 1886, the club moved into St James' Park. The two clubs became rivals in the Northern League. In 1889, Newcastle East End became a professional team, before becoming a limited company the following March. West End soon became the city's premier club. East End were anxious not to be left behind and lured Tom Watson into becoming the club secretary/manager in the close season of 1888 and from that point, never looked back; Watson made several good signings, especially from Scotland, and the Heaton club went from strength to strength, while West End's fortunes slipped dramatically. The region's first league competition was formed in 1889 and the FA Cup began to cause interest. Ambitious East End turned professional in 1889, a huge step for a local club, and in March 1890, they made an even more adventurous move by becoming a limited company with capital of 1,000 pounds in ten shilling notes. During the spring of 1892, in a season during which their results were at an all-time low, and in which they had lost to their bitter rivals, East End, five times, West End found themselves in serious trouble. They approached East End with a view to a take over, the directors having decided that the club could no longer continue. What actually happened was that West End wound up, while some of its players and most of its backroom staff joined East End. East End also took over the lease on St. James' Park in May 1892.〔 With only one senior club in the city for fans to support, development of the club was much more rapid. Despite being refused entry to the Football League's First Division at the start of the 1892–93 season, they were invited to play in their new Second Division. However, with no big names playing in the Second Division, they turned down the offer and remained in the Northern League, stating "gates would not meet the heavy expenses incurred for travelling".〔〔 In a bid to start drawing larger crowds, Newcastle East End decided to adopt a new name in recognition of the merger.〔 Suggested names included Newcastle F.C., Newcastle Rangers, Newcastle City and City of Newcastle, but ''Newcastle United'' was decided upon on 9 December 1892, to signify the unification of the two teams.〔 The name change was accepted by the Football Association on 22 December, but the club was not legally constituted as Newcastle United Football Club Co. Ltd. until 6 September 1895.〔 At the start of the 1893–94 season, Newcastle United were once again refused entry to the First Division and so joined the Second Division, along with Liverpool and Woolwich Arsenal.〔 They played their first competitive match in the division that September against Woolwich Arsenal, with a score of 2–2.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「History of Newcastle United F.C.」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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