Nottingham Forest vs. Newcastle: Head-to-head record and past meetings

Nottingham Forest and Newcastle United battled to a 1-1 draw at the City Ground in the Premier League on Sunday afternoon.

The Magpies appeared set to claim a 1-0 victory thanks to Harvey Barnes' strike, but Elliot Anderson's late goal against his former club secured a dramatic 1-1 draw for the Tricky Trees.

Here, Sports Mole takes a closer look at the head-to-head record and previous meetings between Newcastle and Nottingham Forest.

Head-to-head record

Previous meetings: 121

Newcastle wins: 58

Draws: 28

Nott'm Forest wins: 35

A head-to-head that has now taken place on 121 occasions across all competitions, Newcastle United unsurprisingly boast the bragging rights, having collected 58 wins compared to just 35 for Nottingham Forest.

The Magpies have largely had the Garibaldi's number in recent times, conquering their Nottinghamshire foes in seven of their last nine matches across the Premier League and EFL Cup, although their five match winning run came to an end in May 2026.

Newcastle United looked set to make it six straight wins as they led 1-0 in the final minutes at the City Ground, but a late goal from former Magpies midfielder Anderson sealed a 1-1 draw.

Newcastle visited the City Ground three times in 2024, and on all three occasions Howe's men came out on the correct end of the scoreline, earning a pair of 3-2 and 3-1 Premier League wins either side of a penalty-shootout success in the EFL Cup.

Slaying Forest at the City Ground on those three occasions saw Newcastle earn three slices of revenge - one for each Chris Wood goal - in their shock 3-1 home loss to Nuno Espirito Santo's side in December 2023, where the ex-Magpies man scored all three of his side's goals.

However, the Reds have to go even further back to August 2018 for their last home win over Newcastle - a 3-1 EFL Cup second-round success - while their most recent league triumph against the Magpies at the City Ground was achieved in the 2016-17 Championship season.

Incredibly, this fixture had not once ended in a draw in the current millennium until their most recent meeting in May 2026, as there had been a winner and loser in each of their first 19 matches across all competitions - counting penalty-shootout successes as a win - since a goalless Premier League game in 1996.

Forest and Newcastle are no strangers to meeting one another in knockout circumstances, and the most thrilling of such fixtures undoubtedly came in the 2011-12 EFL Cup third round, where the Magpies won 4-3 in extra time thanks to a Fabricio Coloccini effort in the 122nd minute.

In terms of individual contributions, ex-Forest winger Ian Storey-Moore boasts more documented goals in this fixture than any other player with eight, while Albert Shepherd struck six for Newcastle.