A major trophy has eluded Newcastle United for over five decades. It will have to change that when it faces an in-form Liverpool in the League Cup final at Wembley on Sunday.
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Newcastle United last won a major trophy, the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup on June 11, 1969. It beat Hungarian side Ujpest 6-2 on aggregate, becoming the second English side to win the tournament after Leeds United.
The Inter-Cities Fairs Cup was the predecessor to the Europa League.
Newcastle has never won the League Cup, coming closest to winning it as recently as 2023. Sportstar looks at what happened the last time Newcastle United played in the League Cup final.
Manchester United crushed Newcastle United’s hopes of claiming a first domestic trophy for nearly 70 years with a clinical 2-0 victory in the League Cup final at Wembley on Sunday.
While much of the build-up focused on Newcastle’s first appearance in a major final since 1999, Erik ten Hag’s resurgent United claimed the club’s first silverware since winning the Europa League under Jose Mourinho in 2017.
There was little between the sides in a scrappy first half but the English season’s first silverware was effectively decided in the space of six minutes towards halftime.
Newcastle was stunned when Brazilian Casemiro met a superb Luke Shaw free kick in the 33rd minute and headed past Loris Karius. The goal was allowed to stand after a VAR check for offside.
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Six minutes later Newcastle was left totally deflated when the in-form Marcus Rashford was played in down the left and his shot deflected over a helpless Karius, the goal later being credited to the unfortunate Botman.
Newcastle looked dangerous occasionally when Allan Saint-Maximin got on the ball but its lack of goals in recent months was evident as it huffed and puffed.
Joelinton headed one chance over and Dan Burn’s header whistled wide on the stroke of halftime but by that stage, the writing was on the wall for a familiar near miss for Newcastle.
