With a capacity of 52,350, St James’ Park is one of the largest stadiums in the UK, meaning fans of LCFC will be travelling to Tyneside in numbers for this fixture.
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Newcastle United vs Leicester City Head-to-Head
You’d have to go back to 1894 to find the first-ever clash between Newcastle United & Leicester, which came in the old Second Division. The teams met in the top flight for the first time in 1908/09, as NUFC claimed victory home & away versus the Foxes. They took to the pitch in the FA Cup quarter-finals the following season as the Magpies went on to clinch a maiden FA Cup title.
Newcastle Utd faced Leicester City in the 1947 FA Cup Fifth Round, after which the two sides wouldn’t meet in this competition until 2015. The first-ever Premier League fixture between NUFC & LCFC took place in the 1994/95 season, with the Magpies running out 3-1 winners both home & away.
Alan Shearer scored a second-half hat-trick in this fixture in February 1997, handing Newcastle United a 4-3 win at St James’ Park.
More recently, in November 2015, Jamie Vardy opened the scoring as Leicester City recorded a 3-0 triumph on Tyneside. The Foxes were again 3-0 winners on their visit to Newcastle on New Year’s Day 2020, thanks to goals from Ayoze Pérez, James Maddison & Hamza Choudhury.
Newcastle United vs Leicester City Stats & Mutual Connections
These players have represented both of these teams over the years:
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Nolberto Solano amassed more than 300 appearances during his seven years with NUFC. The Peru midfielder joined Leicester City in January 2010, though he would play just 13 times for the Foxes before switching to Hull City.
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Newcastle Utd signed Spanish forward Ayoze Pérez in 2014, for a small fee of just £1.5m. He moved to Leicester in 2019 for a fee in the region of £30m and he racked up 114 appearances before being released from the club at the end of the 2022/23 season.
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Harvey Barnes made his senior debut for LCFC in 2016 and went on to play 187 times for the first-team. The England international winger sealed a £40m transfer to Newcastle United in the summer of 2023 following Leicester City’s relegation from the Premier League.
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