The Newcastle United players completed their opening pre-match friendly on Saturday.
A 3-0 win over Darlington behind closed doors at the KNOX United training ground.
There were 22 Newcastle United players involved in total, as Eddie Howe played two completely different elevens in each half.
Newcastle United (first half): Nick Pope, Leo Shahar, Alex Murphy, Sven Botman, Lewis Hall, Jacob Ramsey, Joe Willock, Sean Steur, Jacob Murphy, William Osula, Harvey Barnes
Newcastle United (second half): Ewen Jaouen, Mason Miley, Miodrag Pivaš, Luke Craggs, Dylan Charlton, Rory Finneran, Anthony Munda, Sean Neave, Trevan Sanusi, Park Seung-soo, Vakhtang Salia
Joe Willock and Will Osula both scored in the first half, Sean Neave after the break.
As you can see, the second half eleven was almost entirely made up of Under 21 players.
So what about the Newcastle United players who were unavailable on Saturday?
Fabian Schar, Lewis Miley and Tino Livramento are coming back from injury and weren’t involved, neither was Joelinton for whatever reason.
Completing the entire team of Newcastle United players who weren’t able to be involved, you also have Bazoumana Toure, Dan Burn, Bruno, Yoane Wissa, Nick Woltemade, Malick Thiaw and Anthony Elanga. All of these seven given extra time off due to their World Cup involvement.
Five weeks today we see Newcastle United take on Liverpool in their opening Premier League match. A very busy period of time as we see who is available for when the season kicks off, especially with more transfer activity inevitable, in and out…
Newcastle United matches to note:
Saturday 18 July 2026
Newcastle United 3 Darlington 0 (Willock, Osula, Neave with the goals)
Saturday 25 July 2026
Gateshead v Newcastle United friendly 12.30pm (The first summer NUFC first team friendly to be played in front of fans.)
Wednesday 29 July 2026
Bristol City v Newcastle United friendly 7.30pm
Saturday 8 August 2026
Valencia v Newcastle friendly 9pm local time (8pm UK time)
Wednesday 12 August 2026
Newcastle v Everton pre-season friendly with 5.15pm kick-off at Murrayfield.
Saturday 15 August 2026
Newcastle United v Bayer Leverkusen friendly at St James’ Park, 3pm.
Sunday 16 August 2026
Newcastle United v Strasbourg friendly at St James’ Park, 4pm.
Sunday 23 August 2026
Newcastle v Liverpool 4.30pm – United’s first Premier League match of the season
Wednesday 26 August 2026
Carabao Cup second round match, opposition and time TBC (Draw will be made in second week of August after first round matches have been played)
Saturday 29 August 2026
Spurs v Newcastle (5.30pm) Sky Sports
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Premier League transfer window closes at 11pm.
Saturday 5 September 2026
Newcastle v Bournemouth 12.30pm TNT Sports
Monday 14 September 2026
Leeds v Newcastle (8pm) Sky Sports
(Please note, should either club reach the Carabao Cup third round and be scheduled to play against a club participating in this season’s UEFA Champions League, the match will revert to Saturday 12 September and take place at 12:30pm)
Saturday 19 September 2026
Newcastle v Hull (3pm) No live TV