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1899–1900 Newcastle United F.C. season

season of football team

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ22098050 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1899–1900 season was Newcastle United's second season in the Football League First Division, the top flight of English football at the time. Newcastle finished the season in 5th place.

Appearances and goals

Competitions

Win

Draw

Loss

Void

League

FA Cup

Friendlies

Matches

League

The match against Glossop on 1 January was abandoned and replayed on 14 March.

FA Cup

The match against Southampton on 10 February was abandoned after 55 minutes due to a heavy snowstorm.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “1899–1900 Newcastle United F.C. season” is season of football team. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Newcastle, United and season, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1899, 1900—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Newcastle, United and season is the immediate research focus.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q22098050. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1899 and 1900.

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This entry incorporates text from “1899–1900 Newcastle United F.C. season” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.