Editing Andy Cole (section)

===Newcastle United===
In February 1993, Division One leaders [[Newcastle United F.C.|Newcastle United]] broke their club transfer record by paying £1.75&nbsp;million to sign Cole. He then scored 12 goals in as many league matches as Newcastle cruised to the Division One title and won promotion to the Premier League. His 12 goals included two hat-tricks, the first against [[Barnsley F.C.|Barnsley]] on 7 April, the second on the final day of the season in a 7–1 hammering of [[Leicester City F.C.|Leicester City]].<ref>[http://www.nufc.com/html/1992-93.html Stats 1992–93] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100114130008/http://www.nufc.com/html/1992-93.html |date=14 January 2010 }} NUFC.com, 5 September 2009</ref> He also scored the first of the club's two goals in their 2–0 promotion clinching win over [[Grimsby Town F.C.|Grimsby Town]] at [[Blundell Park]] on 4 May.<ref>[http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/archive/Celebrate-Newcastle-s-return-to-the-Premier-League-by-reliving-their-last-promotion-under-Kevin-Keegan-in-1993-with-classic-images-plus-reports-and-features-from-our-archive-article381627.html Celebrate Newcastle's return to the Premier League by reliving their last promotion under Kevin Keegan in 1993 with classic images plus reports and features from our archive – Archive]. MirrorFootball.co.uk. Retrieved 8 May 2012.</ref>

After [[David Kelly (association footballer)|David Kelly]] was sold to [[Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C.|Wolverhampton Wanderers]], manager [[Kevin Keegan]] brought in [[Peter Beardsley]] as Cole's strike partner for the [[1993–94 FA Premier League|1993–94 Premier League campaign]].

Cole scored 34 goals in 40 matches during Newcastle's first Premier League season as they finished third, and qualified for the [[UEFA Europa League|UEFA Cup]] for the first time since the 1970s. His first top division goal was in a 1–1 draw against defending league champions [[Manchester United F.C.|Manchester United]] at [[Old Trafford]] on 21 August 1993.<ref>{{cite web |title=Live Match Commentary |url=https://www.premierleague.com/match/672|work=Premier League |date=21 August 1993 |access-date=30 October 2020}}</ref> This was Newcastle's first goal in the Premier League.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.statbunker.com/football/btb/index.php?PL=match&MatchID=2977 |title=21 August 1993 Man Utd vs Newcastle |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130619082935/http://www.statbunker.com/football/btb/index.php?PL=match&MatchID=2977 |archivedate=19 June 2013 |website=Statbunker.com |accessdate=8 May 2012 }}</ref> Exactly three months later, Cole scored all three goals as Newcastle defeated [[Liverpool F.C.|Liverpool]] 3–0 at home.<ref>{{cite web |title=Live Match Commentary |url=https://www.https/ |work=Premier League |date=21 November 1993 |access-date=30 October 2020 |archive-date=19 August 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130819141428/http://https/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> Another emphatic hat-trick followed against [[Coventry City F.C.|Coventry City]] in late February and with [[Peter Beardsley]] almost as lethal as his strike partner.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20010126025700/http://www.nufc.com/html/1993-94.html Stats 1993–94] NUFC.com, 15 October 2009</ref> Cole scored 41 total goals in all competitions – breaking the club's goalscoring record which had been set by [[Hughie Gallacher]] nearly 70 years earlier (Gallacher still holds the record for the highest number of league goals in a season with 36).<ref>{{cite news |title=Newcastle United's Greatest: The goal-scoring great Andy Cole |url=https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/newcastle-uniteds-greatest-goalscoring-great-7153811|work=The Chronicle |date=21 May 2014 |access-date=30 October 2020}}</ref><ref name="gallacher-18864062">{{cite news |title=Newcastle United's record crowd, with thousands locked out, and the return of a centre-forward hero |url=https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/history/newcastle-united-record-attendance-gallacher-18864062 |work=The Chronicle |access-date=30 October 2020}}</ref> Cole scored in 26 different Premier League appearances for Newcastle in 1993–94, which is a season record in the competition by a player.<ref>{{cite web |title=Most Goal Involvements in a Premier League Season |url=https://theanalyst.com/eu/2022/03/most-goal-involvements-in-a-premier-league-season/ |website=The Analyst |date=21 March 2022}}</ref>

Cole was subsequently voted [[PFA Young Player of the Year]] for that season.<ref>{{cite web|title=Premier League icon: Andy Cole|url=https://totalfootballmag.com/features/premier-league-features/premier-league-icon-andy-cole/|date=21 November 1993|access-date=30 October 2020|archive-date=7 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201107025159/https://totalfootballmag.com/features/premier-league-features/premier-league-icon-andy-cole/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Cole then scored 9 goals in 18 Premier League matches for Newcastle after the start of the [[1994–95 FA Premier League|1994–95 season]], and also scored a hat-trick against [[Royal Antwerp FC|Royal Antwerp]] in the [[1994–95 UEFA Cup|UEFA Cup]].<ref name="euro">{{cite news |title=Euro goal king Cole |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/low/football/champions_league/1592777.stm |work=BBC Sport |publisher=British Broadcasting Corporation |date=11 October 2001 |access-date=6 August 2007 }}</ref>

In all, Cole scored 68 goals in 84 matches for Newcastle, giving him a strike rate of 81%. Cole's last goal for Newcastle United came in the 1–1 home draw with [[Ipswich Town F.C.|Ipswich Town]] on 26 November 1994.<ref>[http://www.nufc.com/html/1994-95.html Fixtures 1994–95] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100114133739/http://nufc.com/html/1994-95.html |date=14 January 2010 }} NUFC.com, 25 June 2009</ref>