| Club: | Newcastle United |
| Season: | 1897–98 |
| Manager: | Selection committee (overseen by Frank Watt) |
| Stadium: | St James' Park |
| League: | Football League Second Division |
| League Result: | 2nd (Promoted) |
| Cup1: | FA Cup |
| Cup1 Result: | Second round |
| League Topscorer: | Jack Peddie (16) |
| Season Topscorer: | Jack Peddie (18) |
| Highest Attendance: | 24,959 (vs. Burnley) |
| Lowest Attendance: | 4,000 (vs. Loughborough & Grimsby Town) |
| Average Attendance: | 11,905 |
| Pattern La1: | _black_stripes |
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| Pattern B2: | _collar |
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| Prevseason: | 1896–97 |
| Nextseason: | 1898–99 |
The 1897–98 season was Newcastle United's fifth season in the Football League Second Division. Newcastle finished the season in second place and were promoted to the First Division when the division was expanded from 16 to 18 teams.
| Pos. | Name | League | FA Cup | Test Matches | Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | |||
| GK | Charlie Watts | 30 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 39 | 0 | |
| DF | Jimmy Jackson | 27 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 36 | 3 | |
| DF | Billy Lindsay | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 0 | |
| DF | Jim Lockley | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
| DF | Thomas Stewart | 10 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 | |
| DF | John White | 20 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 1 | |
| MF | Andy Aitken | 23 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 31 | 9 | |
| MF | Jack Carr | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
| MF | Tommy Ghee | 28 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 37 | 2 | |
| MF | Jack Ostler | 26 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 34 | 2 | |
| FW | John Allan | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| FW | Ronald Allan | 24 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 4 | |
| FW | John Campbell | 21 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 27 | 12 | |
| FW | John Harvey | 23 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 34 | 9 | |
| FW | Malcolm Lennox | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | |
| FW | William Milne | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| FW | Tom Niblo | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| FW | Jack Peddie | 20 | 16 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 24 | 18 | |
| FW | James Stott | 26 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 35 | 2 | |
| FW | Billy Smith | 10 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 14 | 6 | |
| FW | Willie Wardrope | 26 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 35 | 14 | |
| Round | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | |
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| Result | 4–1 | 3–2 | 3–1 | 3–2 | 0–3 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 0–2 | 1–0 | 4–0 | 3–1 | 1–3 | 3–2 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 3–1 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 4–2 | 1–3 | 3–0 | 3–1 | 4–1 | 2–0 | 4–0 | 5–2 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 0–1 | |
| Position | 4th | 5th | 4th | 4th | 5th | 4th | 3rd | 3rd | 4th | 3rd | 3rd | 2nd | 3rd | 3rd | 3rd | 3rd | 3rd | 3rd | 3rd | 2nd | 3rd | 2nd | 2nd | 2nd | 2nd | 2nd | 2nd | 2nd | 2nd | 2nd |