Newcastle United Football Club is an English professional football club based in Newcastle upon Tyne, that plays in the Premier League – the top flight of English football.

The club was founded in 1892 by the merger of Newcastle East End and Newcastle West End.

The club has been a member of the Premier League for all but three years of the competition's history, spending 90 seasons in the top flight as of May 2022, and have never dropped below English football's second tier since joining the Football League in 1893.

Newcastle have won four League titles, six FA Cups and a FA Charity Shield, as well as the 1968–69 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup and the 2006 UEFA Intertoto Cup, the ninth highest total of trophies won by an English club.

Newcastle were relegated in 2009, and again in 2016.

The club won promotion at the first time of asking each time, returning to the Premier League, as Championship winners, in 2010 and 2017