1994–95 Newcastle United F.C. season

Newcastle United

1994–95 season
Chairman	Sir John Hall
Manager	Kevin Keegan
Stadium	St James' Park
FA Premier League	6th
FA Cup	Sixth Round
League Cup	Fourth Round
UEFA Cup	Second Round
Top goalscorer	League: Peter Beardsley (13) All: Peter Beardsley, Andrew Cole (15)
Highest home attendance	35,626 (vs. Leeds United & Crystal Palace)
Lowest home attendance	27,208 (vs. Barnsley)
Average home league attendance	33,935
Home colours Away colours Third colours
← 1993–94 1995–96 →

This article covers the squad and match results for the 1994–95 season at the English football (soccer) club Newcastle United F.C. Newcastle United participated in the FA Premier League, finishing in 6th place.

Season summary

Newcastle United made the best start to any top division season in their history, winning their first six games to go top. The first team had built up a reputation for playing an attacking, almost cavalier, brand of football under Kevin Keegan – their occasionally leaky defence was not a major problem, as the team could almost always score more than they conceded. In a shock move in January 1995, however, hugely influential striker Andy Cole joined Manchester United for £6 million plus £1 million midfielder Keith Gillespie, who joined Newcastle. Fans were saddened and confused with Keegan for selling Cole, leading to Keegan publicly confronting fans at St James' Park explaining his reasons on the day of the transfer.

By Christmas, Newcastle were no longer title favourites but still looked certain of a UEFA Cup place. But things failed to improve in the new year, and the sale of Cole seemed to accelerate their fall from grace. A sixth-place finish in the final table meant that they just missed out on another European campaign, but they were given hope of a fresh chase for honours next time round thanks to the close season signings of David Ginola and Les Ferdinand.

The 1994–95 season also saw the arrival of Marc Hottiger, Philippe Albert, Paul Kitson and Keith Gillespie, as well as the late and close season departures of Barry Venison, Alex Mathie, Mike Jeffrey and Paul Bracewell.

Appearances, goals and cards

(Substitute appearances in brackets)

No.	Pos.	Name	League		FA Cup		League Cup		UEFA Cup		Total		Discipline
			Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1	GK	Pavel Srníček	38	0	5	0	5	0	4	0	52	0	?	2
2	DF	Barry Venison	28	1	5	0	2	0	1	0	36	1	?	0
3	DF	John Beresford	33	0	4	1	5	0	4	0	46	1	?	0
4	MF	Paul Bracewell	13 (3)	0	3	0	0 (1)	0	0	0	16 (4)	0	?	0
5	MF	Ruel Fox	40	10	5	0	2	1	4	1	51	12	?	0
6	DF	Steve Howey	29 (1)	1	4	0	4	0	3	0	40 (1)	1	?	0
7	MF	Robert Lee	35	9	4	1	2	0	3	4	44	14	?	1
8	MF	Peter Beardsley	34	13	3	0	3	0	4	2	44	15	?	0
9	FW	Andy Cole	18	9	1	0	5	2	3	4	27	15	?	0
10	MF	Lee Clark	9 (10)	1	2	1	3	0	1 (2)	0	15 (12)	2	?	0
11	MF	Scott Sellars	12	0	0	0	3	0	4	1	19	1	?	0
12	DF	Marc Hottiger	38	1	4	1	5	0	4	0	51	2	?	0
14	FW	Alex Mathie	3 (6)	1	0	0	1 (2)	0	0	0	4 (8)	1	?	0
15	DF	Darren Peacock	35	1	5	0	4	0	4	0	48	1	?	0
18	MF	Steve Guppy	0	0	0	0	0 (1)	0	0	0	0 (1)	0	?	0
18	MF	Keith Gillespie	15 (2)	2	3	2	0	0	0	0	18 (2)	4	?	0
19	DF	Steve Watson	22 (5)	4	0 (1)	0	3 (1)	0	1 (2)	1	26 (9)	5	?	0
20	DF	Alan Neilson	5 (1)	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	6 (1)	0	?	0
21	FW	Malcolm Allen	0 (1)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0 (1)	0	?	0
26	DF	Robbie Elliott	10 (4)	2	3 (1)	0	0	0	0	0	13 (5)	2	?	0
27	DF	Philippe Albert	17	2	0	0	3	1	4	0	24	3	?	1
28	FW	Paul Kitson	24 (2)	8	4 (1)	3	3	1	0	0	31 (3)	12	?	0
30	GK	Mike Hooper	4 (2)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4 (2)	0	?	0
31	FW	Mike Jeffrey	0	0	0	0	1	1	0 (2)	0	1 (2)	1	?	0

Coaching staff

Position	Staff
Manager	Kevin Keegan
Assistant Manager	Terry McDermott
First Team coach	Arthur Cox

Transfers

In

Date	Pos.	Name	From	Fee
1 August 1994 [1]	DF	Marc Hottiger	FC Sion	£600,000
2 August 1994	MF	Steve Guppy	Wycombe Wanderers	£150,000
3 August 1994	MF	Jason Drysdale	Watford	£425,000
10 August 1994	DF	Philippe Albert	Anderlecht	£2,700,000
26 September 1994	FW	Paul Kitson	Derby County	£2,225,000
10 January 1995	MF	Keith Gillespie	Manchester United	Part-exchange for Andy Cole
1 March 1995 [2]	MF	Jimmy Crawford	Bohemians	£75,000
Unknown	GK	John Burridge	Aberdeen	Free

• Total spending: £6.175m

Out

Date	Pos.	Name	To	Fee
16 June 1994	DF	Matty Appleby	Darlington	Free
19 June 1994	FW	Alun Armstrong	Stockport County	£35,000
22 July 1994	DF	Mark Robinson	Swindon Town	£600,000
25 November 1994	MF	Steve Guppy	Port Vale	£225,000
December 1994	MF	Nikki Papavasiliou	OFI Crete	£25,000
12 January 1995	FW	Andy Cole	Manchester United	£6,250,000 + Keith Gillespie
24 February 1995	FW	Alex Mathie	Ipswich Town	£500,000
23 March 1995	DF	Jason Drysdale	Swindon Town	£340,000
23 May 1995	MF	Paul Bracewell	Sunderland	£50,000
Unknown	GK	John Burridge	Dunfermline Athletic	Free

• Total income: £8.025m

Competitions

  Win   Draw   Loss

Pre-season

Match	1	2	3	4	5	6
Result	1–2	2–0	3–4	1–1 (Pens: 6–5)	1–3	5–2

League

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21
Result	3–1	4–0	5–1	3–1	4–2	3–2	1–1	2–0	1–1	1–0	2–1	0–2	2–1	0–0	2–3	1–1	2–4	3–1	0–0	0–0	1–2
Position	3rd	1st	1st	1st	1st	1st	1st	1st	1st	1st	1st	1st	1st	1st	3rd	3rd	3rd	3rd	3rd	3rd	4th

Round	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38	39	40	41	42
Result	0–0	1–1	0–0	2–1	2–0	0–3	2–1	3–1	2–0	0–2	2–0	1–0	1–3	1–1	3–0	0–2	1–2	0–0	3–3	0–1	3–2
Position	5th	5th	4th	4th	3rd	3rd	3rd	3rd	3rd	3rd	3rd	3rd	3rd	3rd	3rd	4th	5th	5th	5th	5th	6th

FA Cup

Match	1	2	3	4	5
Result	1–1	2–1	3–0	3–1	0–1

League Cup

Match	1	2	3	4	5
Result	2–1	1–0	2–0	1–1	0–2

UEFA Cup

Match	1	2	3	4
Result	5–0	5–2	3–2	0–1

Matches

Pre-season

League

FA Cup

League Cup

UEFA Cup

References

External links

• FootballSquads – Newcastle United – 1994/95
• Newcastle United Football Club – Fixtures 1994–95
• Transfers (Keegan) – Senior / Reserve Arrivals & Departures
• The Great career – Profile
• Newcastle United 1994–1995 – statto.com
• Player Index – premierleague.com
• Season Details – 1994–95 – toon1892