Probing Newcastle United’s 2012/13 fixture list (and the Europa League)

Posted on June 18th, 2012 | |

Well, the Premier League fixture list was released this morning, with Newcastle once again taking on the might of North London in our opening fixture.

Last time it was Arsenal at home in our opening fixture, but this time the Magpies will be greeting Tottenham at St James’ Park on the 18th August. Tottenham, of course, drew 2-2 in the corresponding home fixture at St James’ Park last season, with our opening game against the other North London titans ending as a 0-0 draw. The London theme will continue after that with the Magpies making the trip to West London’s Stamford Bridge to face Chelsea in their second Premiership game of the season.

Other salient points include the fact that the Magpies will be playing no less than a visit from Chris Hughton’s turkey pluckers of Norwich on the 22nd September. Another point of interest is the games taking place during yet another African Cup of Nations, which will be taking place for a second year on succession. This time the competition will be taking place in South Africa between 19 January and 10 February. This will almost certainly see us without key players, Demba Ba, Papiss Cisse and Cheick Tiote, if indeed they are still at the club by that time! Hopefully, the unstoppable force that is Shola Ameobi will be inexplicably passed over by Nigeria once again for this competition.

This means that the ACoN will take place during Newcastle’s games against Reading (Home), Aston Villa (Away), Chelsea (Home), and finally, Tottenham (Away) on the 9th February.

The climax of the season will also have a distinct London flavour. Our final three games will see will see two trips to the capital, with games against West Ham and Queen’s Park Rangers on the fourth and twelfth of May respectively, with the season finally culminating in a visit to Tyneside from the Arsenal.



Newcastle United Europa Cup fixtures

With our fifth place finish, Newcastle United should be dropping straight into at the play off phase of the competition there (“PO” on the UEFA site’s table). If you examine this closely along with the Premiership fixture list, it will almost certainly mean that the Magpies will be playing no less than five games in the opening fifteen days of the season, with the lads facing a qualifier over two legs on 23rd and 30th August to enter the Europa League’s group stages. This means that along with their Premiership itinerary, United will be facing games on the 18th, 23rd, 25th and 30th August, as well as 1st September.

Welcome to Europe!



Newcastle United’s full list of 2012/13 Premiership fixtures

18th Tottenham (H)

25th Chelsea (A)

September

1st Aston Villa (H)

15th Everton (A)

22nd Norwich (H)

29th Reading (A)

October

6th Man Utd (H)

20th Sunderland (A)

27th West Brom (H)

November

3rd Liverpool (A)

10th West Ham (H)

17th Swansea (H)

24th Southampton (A)

27th Stoke (A)

December

1st Wigan (H)

8th Fulham (A)

15th Man City (H)

22nd QPR (H)

26th Man Utd (A)

29th Arsenal (A)

January

1st Everton (H)

12th Norwich (A)

19th Reading (H)

29th Aston Villa (A)

February

2nd Chelsea (H)

9th Tottenham (A)

23rd Southampton (H)

March

2nd Swansea (A)

9th Stoke (H)

16th Wigan (A)

30th Man City (A)

April

6th Fulham (H)

13th Sunderland (H)

20th West Brom (A)

27th Liverpool (H)

May

4th West Ham (A)

12th QPR (A)

19th Arsenal (H).

Howay the Lads!

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