The last time Newcastle actually took the field in a Champions League fixture, however, was some time after that. That’s what the records will tell you, anyway. ![]() Seventeen years later, Hughes remains the last Newcastle player to kick a football in a Champions League game. Milivoje Ćirković of the Serbian side stepped up next, sent Shay Given the wrong way, and dumped the Magpies out of Europe. The miss, coming in sudden death of the shootout, would prove costly. Wednesday 27 August, 2003, to be precise - at the end of an energy-sapping Champions League third qualifying round second leg between Newcastle United and Partizan Belgrade. ![]() ![]() It was a mild August evening on Tyneside when Aaron Hughes blazed a penalty high over the bar and into the sea of black-and-white-clad supporters behind the goal.
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