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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