Newcastle United 2026/27 Premier League squad reduced as six first-team stars omitted
Newcastle United’s 2026/27 Premier League squad list has been confirmed.
Newcastle United will be running with the smallest senior squad in the Premier League this season.
That’s according to the official 25-man squad lists published by the Premier League following the closure of the transfer window.
Clubs are permitted to name a maximum of 25 senior players in their squad to be eligible to play in Premier League matches. Any player not included in the list and born before January 1, 2005 is ineligible to play for the club in the Premier League.
Following the departures of Anthony Gordon, Sandro Tonali, Bruno Guimaraes, Kieran Trippier, Emil Krafth, John Ruddy, Alex Murphy, Aaron Ramsdale and Nick Woltemade over the summer, Newcastle have been left with a senior squad of just 19 players. No Premier League club has a smaller squad list, with only Everton (also 19) having a squad list with six vacant spaces.
For context, Manchester City and Chelsea, who regularly pad out their squads with young players and academy graduates, only have 20 players named in their 25-man squad lists.
Newcastle’s reduced squad size is due to five of the club’s eight summer signings being too young. Any player born on or after January 1, 2005 is omitted from the squad list. As such, Ewen Jaouen, Bazoumana Toure, Sean Steur, Aladji Bamba and Matias Fernandez-Pardo are listed as Under-21s players and don’t take up a squad place.
20-year-old midfielder Lewis Miley is another first-team player not included in the squad due to his age. It gives Newcastle room to potentially expand its squad in January or even with free transfers, but as things stand, Matthias Jaissle is running with a young squad this season.
Newcastle’s 19-man squad list includes goalkeepers Nick Pope and Mark Gillespie. Pope was made available to leave the club this summer and hasn’t featured in any of the seven matchday squads in pre-season or competitive games since Jaissle’s appointment.
Gillespie signed for Newcastle six years ago but has mostly been used as a training ground goalkeeper and has not featured in the Premier League. Premier League guidance dictates that any contracted senior player eligible to be named in a squad should be named, provided there is a space available.
Premier League squads must also include no more than 17 players who aren’t home-grown. While none of Newcastle’s summer signings were home-grown, only Lukas Hornicek, Amar Dedic and Nico Gonzalez added to the non-home-grown quota - which stands at just eight players.
On his squad, Jaissle said: “I think now we have a well-balanced squad. The lads were doing good in the pre-season, they showed their quality, and I think they still have potential to even do better.
“Therefore, we made the decision that this is the final squad.”
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NUFC senior squad list
Goalkepeers: Lukas Hornicek, Nick Pope*, Mark Gillespie*
Defenders: Sven Botman, Dan Burn*, Amar Dedic, Lewis Hall*, Tino Livramento*, Fabian Schar, Malick Thiaw
Midfielders: Joelinton, Anthony Elanga*, Nico Gonzalez, Jacob Murphy*, Harvey Barnes*, Jacob Ramsey*, Joe Willock*
Forwards: Yoane Wissa, William Osula*
*home-grown players
NUFC U21s list
First team players: Ewen Jaouen, Aladji Bamba, Matias Fernandez-Pardo, Lewis Miley*, Sean Steur, Bazoumana Toure
Players out on loan: Antonio Cordero, Ousmane Diabate, Rory Finneran*, Sean Neave*, Anthony Munda*
Under-21s players with first-team experience: Leo Shahar, Trevan Sanusi, Park Seung-soo, Miodrag Pivas, Matheos Ferreira, Vakhtang Salia, Dylan Charlton, Mason Miley
Academy players: Chukwudi Afumuzor, Sam Alabi, Scott Bailey, Theo Benjamin, Guy Bloomer, Christian Boothe, Afner Ca, Jack Callaghan, Luke Craggs, Roman Dowell, Jake Durrant, Johnny Emerson, Aaron Epia, Kyle Fitzgerald, Luke Gilligan, Oliver Goodbrand, Fraser Harper, Aidan Harris, Kyle Healy-Matthews, Oliver Holland, Alfie Hutchison, Henry Johnson, Tyler Jones, Jayden Kouossu, George Mair, Michael Mills, Isaac Moran, Noah Morgan, Leon Mukumbira, Ethan Ndiweni, Thomas Old, Jack Patterson, Samuel Pinnington, Alfie Seldon, Kyran Thompson, Mo Waddani, Alexander Walpole, Logan Watts, Kacey Wooster, Lesecond Yeutembip, Baran Yildiz