In its 132-year history, Newcastle United has been the champion of England four times, winning six trophies in the FA Cup. In this century, the club experienced a lot of ups and downs as it moved several times to the Championship. The ambitions of this team increased significantly after Newcastle United was sold to an investment fund from Saudi Arabia in early October 2021 for £305 million.
The Magpies have returned to the Champions League after two decades and they desire to be at the top of English football in the coming years. It is not easy because the Premier League is the best in the world in which other teams also invest a lot of money. Newcastle is known as a team that plays attractive football in whose matches we can often see many goals, so they are a good choice for betting.
You can bet on this and other teams from the Premier League on numerous betting sites with the best betting offers in the UK. In the previous season, Newcastle scored as many as 85 goals, making them the fourth most efficient team in the Premier League. On this occasion, we will talk about the players who marked the history of this club with their goal-scoring skills.
10. Tom McDonald – 83 Goals
The Scottish player started his career in one of the two biggest clubs there, Glasgow Rangers, with whom he won two titles, but played a minor role in those achievements. However, his career was marked by the games he played during his ten-year stay in Newcastle. In the period from 1921-1931, McDonald played 285 games and scored 83 goals. He won the FA Cup with Newcastle in 1924, while he won the championship title in the 1926/27 season, which was also the last title for Newcastle.
9. George Robledo – 91 Goals
Robledo played for Newcastle in the period from 1939-1943 and during that time he played 166 games in which he scored 91 goals. He was born in Chile but immigrated to England with his family when he was only five years old. He entered the history not only of Newcastle but also of the strongest English football league because in the 1951/52 season, he was the top scorer with 33 goals. In doing so, he became the first player to be the top scorer in the First Division without being British.
In the same season, he scored the decisive goal to win against Arsenal in the FA Cup and that goal was later painted on the cover of the album John Lennon, Walls and Bridges from 1974. It was the second related trophy for Robledo in the mentioned competition.
8. Pop Robson – 97 Goals
Robson was born in Sunderland, from where the club of the same name and biggest rival Newcastle is. Pop started his senior career in Newcastle, where he spent nine years from 1962-1971 and scored 97 goals in 246 games. It is particularly interesting that he played for Sunderland and Carlisle United on three occasions and later led those teams as a coach. He also sat on the bench of Hartlepool, Manchester United and Leeds. In Sunderland, he also tried out as a chief scout.
7. Bobby Mitchell – 113 Goals
Mitchell played for the Magpies from 1949-1961 and during that time he made 410 appearances, making him the fifth most-capped player for Newcastle of all time. Playing for Newcastle, he scored 113 goals and was nicknamed “Bobby Dazzler” by the fans. Bobby won the FA Cup three times with Newcastle in 1951, 1952 and 1955.
6. Peter Beardsley – 121 Goals
Peter Beardsley started his youth career in Newcastle and later played for this team on two occasions during his senior career. He first stayed in Newcastle from 1983-1987 and then returned to the club in 1993 and stayed there until 1997. Beardsley played 326 games for Newcastle, scoring 121 goals. In the period from 2001 to 2018, we had the opportunity to watch him as an assistant and temporary manager in the first team, and he also led the Newcastle reserve team.
5. Malcolm Macdonald – 121 Goals
“Supermac” played for Newcastle from 1971-1976 and during that time he was the top scorer of the Magpies five times. He played 326 games for this team in which he scored 121 goals and in the 1975/76 season, he was the top scorer in the First Division. His greatest success with Newcastle was the 1974 FA Cup final in which Liverpool won convincingly 3-0. The nickname ‘Supermac’ from the fans was just earned against that team on his Newcastle home debut when Macdonald scored a hat-trick.
4. Hughie Gallacher – 143 Goals
Gallacher played for Newcastle from 1925-1930 and during that time he played 174 games in which he scored 143 goals. He scored a goal every 110 minutes which is the best performance in the club’s history. He won the First Division championship with Newcastle in the 1926/27 season. It will be remembered that the fans at St. James Park once sang the following song to him:
“Do ye ken hughie gallacher the wee scots lad,
The best centre forward Newcastle ever had,
If he doesn’t score a goal then wu’ll put him on the dole,
and wu’ll send him back to Scotland where he came from.”
3. Len White – 153 Goals
Len White played for the Magpies from 1953-1962 and during that time he played 269 games scoring 153 goals which put him in third place as Newcastle’s all-time top goalscorer. White had a great goalscoring performance during his time at Newcastle despite being overshadowed by Jackie Milburn, the man who comes second on this list. Len especially stood out in the 1954/55 season, when he contributed with his goals to Newcastle winning the sixth and so far the last trophy in the FA Cup.
2. Jackie Milburn – 201 Goals
Jackie Milburn spent 14 years in Newcastle as he played for this team from 1943-1957 and scored 201 goals during that time. He achieved this feat by making 399 appearances for the Magpies. Milburn won three FA Cups with Newcastle. In the 1950/51 season, he led the team to the FA Cup trophy with eight goals in eight games including both goals in a 2-0 final win over Blackpool. The following season, he did not repeat that performance, but Newcastle again won the trophy in the aforementioned competition. Milburn won his third FA Cup trophy and his last with Newcastle in the 1954/55 season, when Newcastle beat Manchester City 3-1 in the final and Milburn scored a goal in the first minute of that match.
1. Alan Shearer – 206 Goals
The best scorer in the history of Newcastle United is the legendary Alan Shearer, who scored 206 goals wearing this team’s shirt. He made 405 appearances for the Magpies, which puts him sixth on the all-time list of most capped players for Newcastle. He stayed at the St. James Park club from 1996-2006. Shearer was born in Newcastle and this team came from Blackburn Rovers in 1996 in a transfer that was then a world record since it was 15 million pounds. Shearer won the Premier League title in the 1994/95 season and at the same time with 34 goals he won the Golden Boot for the second time in a row after scoring 31 goals the previous season. After moving to Newcastle, he scored 25 goals and won that recognition for the third time in a row.
Shearer was the top scorer at UEFA Euro 1996 as well, where he led England on home soil with five goals, but his national team was eliminated by Germany in the semi-finals on penalties. He played in two FA Cup finals with Newcastle and was defeated both times. Newcastle was first defeated by Arsenal 2-0 in 1998, and a year later Manchester United was better than the Magpies with an identical score. Alan Shearer is the best scorer in the history of Newcastle and also the best goalscorer in the history of the Premier League, having scored as many as 260 goals.
