2015–16 Newcastle United F.C. season
First team squad

2015–16 Newcastle United F.C. season

Section Title: First team squad
Table Section Text: None

No.	Name	Nationality	Position (s)	Date of birth (Age)	Signed	Signed from	Signing fee

Goalkeepers

1	Tim Krul	Netherlands	GK	3 April 1988 (aged 27)	2006	Netherlands ADO Den Haag	Free

21	Rob Elliot	Republic of Ireland	GK	30 April 1986 (aged 29)	2011	England Charlton Athletic	£300k

26	Karl Darlow	England	GK	8 October 1990 (aged 24)	2014	England Nottingham Forest	£3m

41	Freddie Woodman	England	GK	4 March 1997 (aged 18)	2014	England Newcastle United Academy	Free

Defenders

2	Fabricio Coloccini	Argentina	CB	22 January 1982 (aged 33)	2008	Spain Deportivo de La Coruña	£10.3m

3	Paul Dummett	Wales	LB / CB	26 September 1991 (aged 23)	2010	England Newcastle United Academy	Free

15	Jamaal Lascelles	England	CB	11 November 1993 (aged 21)	2014	England Nottingham Forest	£4m

18	Chancel Mbemba	Democratic Republic of the Congo	CB	8 August 1994 (aged 21)	2015	Belgium Anderlecht	£8.5m

19	Massadio Haïdara	France	LB	2 December 1992 (aged 22)	2013	France Nancy	£2m

22	Daryl Janmaat	Netherlands	RB	22 July 1989 (aged 26)	2014	Netherlands Feyenoord	£5m

27	Steven Taylor	England	CB / RB	23 January 1986 (aged 29)	2003	England Newcastle United Academy	Free

33	Curtis Good	Australia	CB / LB	23 March 1993 (aged 22)	2012	Australia Melbourne Heart	£300k

35	Liam Gibson	England	LB	25 April 1997 (aged 18)	2016	England Newcastle United Academy	Free

37	Ľubomír Šatka	Slovakia	CB	2 December 1995 (aged 19)	2014	England Newcastle United Academy	Free

40	Callum Williams	England	CB	4 February 1997 (aged 18)	2016	England Newcastle United Academy	Free

42	Jamie Sterry	England	CB	21 November 1995 (aged 19)	2015	England Newcastle United Academy	Free

43	Kevin Mbabu	Switzerland	CB	19 April 1995 (aged 20)	2013	Switzerland Servette	£1m

Midfielders

4	Jack Colback	England	CM	24 October 1989 (aged 25)	2014	England Sunderland	Free

5	Georginio Wijnaldum	Netherlands	AM / RW	11 November 1990 (aged 24)	2015	Netherlands PSV	£14.5m

7	Moussa Sissoko	France	CM / AM / RW	16 August 1989 (aged 25)	2013	France Toulouse	£1.8m

8	Vurnon Anita	Netherlands	DM / RB	4 April 1989 (aged 26)	2012	Netherlands Ajax	£6.7m

10	Siem de Jong	Netherlands	AM / SS	28 January 1989 (aged 26)	2014	Netherlands Ajax	£7.5m

11	Yoan Gouffran	France	LW / ST	25 May 1986 (aged 29)	2013	France Bordeaux	£500k

12	Jonjo Shelvey	England	CM	27 February 1992 (aged 23)	2016	Wales Swansea City	£12m

16	Rolando Aarons	England	LW	16 November 1995 (aged 19)	2014	England Newcastle United Academy	Free

20	Florian Thauvin	France	RW / LW	26 January 1993 (aged 22)	2015	France Marseille	£12m

23	Henri Saivet	Senegal	LW / CM	26 October 1990 (aged 24)	2016	France Bordeaux	£5m

24	Cheick Tioté	Ivory Coast	DM	21 June 1986 (aged 29)	2010	Netherlands Twente	£3.5m

25	Andros Townsend	England	RW / LW	16 July 1991 (aged 24)	2016	England Tottenham Hotspur	£12m

35	Gaël Bigirimana	England	DM	22 October 1993 (aged 21)	2012	England Coventry City	£1m

47	Daniel Barlaser	Turkey	CM	18 January 1997 (aged 18)	2015	England Newcastle United Academy	Free

Forwards

9	Papiss Cissé	Senegal	ST	3 June 1985 (aged 30)	2012	Germany Freiburg	£9m

17	Ayoze Pérez	Spain	ST	29 July 1993 (aged 22)	2014	Spain Tenerife	£1.6m

28	Seydou Doumbia	Ivory Coast	ST	31 December 1987 (aged 27)	2016	Italy Roma	Loan

29	Emmanuel Rivière	France	ST	3 March 1990 (aged 25)	2014	France Monaco	£6.3m

32	Adam Armstrong	England	ST	10 February 1997 (aged 18)	2014	England Newcastle United Academy	Free

36	Ivan Toney	England	ST	16 March 1996 (aged 19)	2015	England Northampton Town	£500k

44	Callum Roberts	England	ST	14 April 1997 (aged 18)	2014	England Newcastle United Academy	Free

45	Aleksandar Mitrović	Serbia	ST	16 September 1994 (aged 20)	2015	Belgium Anderlecht	£13m

Sentence(s)

In 2015, Newcastle signed Florian Thauvin from Marseille for £12m.

final_sentence: In 2015, Newcastle signed Florian Thauvin from Marseille for £12m.