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CITY 1 NEWCASTLE 0 League Division 1 14th October 1899 Attendance 25,000 Scorer Ross City C Williams, Read, Jones, Moffatt, Smith, Holmes, Meredith, Ross, Gilespie, F Williams, Threlfall

SHEFFIELD UNITED 3 CITY 0 League Division 1 7th October 1899 Attendance 18,000 Scorers ??? City C Williams, Read, Jones, Moffatt, Smith, Holmes, Meredith, Ross, Gilespie, F Williams, Dougal

CITY 5 THE KAFFIRS 3 Friendly 4th October 1899 Attendance ??? Scorers ??? The Kaffirs Adolph, Brown, Apolis, Kennie, Solomomn, Davids, Kortie, Lakey, Able, Stephen, Martin  

CITY 1 WOLVERHAMPTON WANDERERS 1 League Division 1 30th September 1899 Attendance 14,000 Scorers City Ross Wolves ??? City C Williams, Read, Jones, Moffatt, Smith, Holmes, Meredith, Ross, Gilespie, F Williams, Dougal

CITY 5 NOTTS COUNTY 1 League Division 1 23rd September 1899 Attendance 22,000 Scorers City Ross 2, Moffatt, Smith, Gillespie County ??? City C Williams, Read, Jones, Moffatt, Smith, Holmes, Meredith, Ross, Gilespie, F Williams, Dougal

BURY 1 CITY 4 League Division 1 16th September 1899 Attendance 13,000 Scorers City Meredith, Ross, F Williams, Leonard Bury ??? City C Williams, Read, Jones, Moffatt, Smith, Holmes, Meredith, Ross, Gilespie, F Williams, Leonard

STOKE CITY 0 CITY 1 Friendly (benefit for Jack Eccles) 11th September 1899 Attendance 4,000

CITY 4 DERBY COUNTYY 0 League Division 1 9th September 1899 Attendance 22,000 Scorers City Meredith 2, Ross, Gillespie Derby ??? Ref T Armitt City C Williams, Read, Jones, Moffatt, Smith, Holmes, Meredith, Ross, Gilespie, F Williams, Dougal

BLACKBURN ROVERS 4 CITY 3 League Division 1 2nd September 1899 Attendance 10,000 Scorers City Meredith, Ross, F Williams Rovers ??? City C Williams, Ray, Jones, Moffatt, Smith, Holmes, Meredith, Ross, Gilespie, F Williams, Dougal

1899/1900 SEASON REVIEW Newly promoted City opened their First Division campaign at Blackburn where they lost 4-3. However at a packed, newly refurbished, but not quite resplendent Hyde Road, guest Lord Arthur J Balfour, who would later become Prime Minister, Continue reading 1899/1900→