Newcastle vs. Aston Villa: Head-to-head record and past meetings

Head-to-head record

Previous meetings: 178

Draws: 40

Newcastle wins: 77

A regular fixture in the top flight ever since the late 1800s, Aston Villa and Newcastle United met for the 177th time across all competitions when they clashed at St James' Park in the Premier League in January 2026.

Unai Emery's Villans were in desperate need of a win to keep their title challenge alive, and thanks to a brilliant long-ranger from Emiliano Buendia in the first half, as well as a late sealer from Ollie Watkins in the second, the Lions ran out 2-0 victors on Tyneside.

The pair have since met in the fourth round of the FA Cup, with Newcastle running out 3-1 winners at Villa Park.

The Magpies hold the overall bragging rights by a fair distance, coming out on top on 77 occasions, while Villa have won 61 scraps in this fixture, with the teams sharing the spoils a further 40 times.

Newcastle have also edged the head-to-head column in recent years - even if they have failed to triumph in any of the last three - taking six wins over Villa from their last 10 encounters, including a run of three in a row before April 2025.

The Magpies also scored at least three goals in each of those Premier League victories; 5-1 at home in August 2023, 3-1 at Villa Park in January 2024 and 3-0 at St James' Park on Boxing Day 2024.

However, Villa's first win in that nine-match sequence was an equally emphatic one - 3-0 on their own patch in April 2023 - and there have been a whopping 20 goals scored across the last six Premier League meetings between the two clubs.

That 3-0 success for the Lions is just one of six that they have managed in their last 26 clashes with Newcastle across all competitions, though, and both sides have one over each other in FA Cup finals.

Indeed, Aston Villa conquered Newcastle 2-0 in the 1905 showpiece thanks to two Harry Hampton goals, but the Magpies got their revenge 19 years later, winning by the same scoreline in the final of the 1923-24 edition at Wembley.

Hampton netted 11 times in meetings between Aston Villa and Newcastle, only below two other Lions strikers in Joe Bache (13) and Billy Walker (12) for the most documented all-time goals in this particular fixture.