Newcastle United Football Club is a professional football club based in Newcastle upon Tyne, that plays in the Premier League. The club was founded in 1892 by the merger of Newcastle East End and Newcastle West End. The team plays its home matches at St. James' Park. The ground was adjusted in the mid-1990s and currently has a capacity of 52,305.
Newcastle has won 4 League titles, 6 FA Cups and a Charity Shield, as well as the 1969 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup and the 2006 UEFA Intertoto Cup, the ninth highest total of trophies won by an English club The club's most successful period was between 1904 and 1910 when they won an FA Cup and three of their League titles. Newcastle was downgraded in 2009, and again in 2016. The club won promotion at the first time of asking each time returning to the Premier League as Championship winners in 2010 and 2017.
The club has been owned by Mike Ashley since 2008, succeeding long-term chairman Sir John Hall. The club is the 17th-highest revenue producing club in the world in terms of annual revenue-generating €169.3 million in 2015. Newcastle's highest placing was in 1999 when they were the fifth-highest revenue-producing football club in the world, and second in England only behind Manchester United.