Newcastle’s Carabao Cup Draw Puts Them Back at the Ground Where They Put Four Past Everton

Newcastle United will travel to Hill Dickinson Stadium for the Carabao Cup fourth round in the week commencing October 26, after Wednesday night’s draw pitted the Magpies against Everton once again. On paper it reads as a straightforward last-16 tie. Look a little closer at the history between these two sides in this competition, and it’s a much more interesting draw than the bracket suggests.Start with the most recent meeting between the clubs at that ground.

Newcastle’s only previous visit to Hill Dickinson came last season, and it wasn’t close — the Magpies were already 3-0 up at half-time on their way to a 4-1 win. Everton will get a chance to put that result right on their own patch, in a competition where hosting rights actually matter.

Then there’s the longer history. The last time these two clubs met in the League Cup before Wednesday’s draw was the third round back in 2002, when Everton needed penalties to see off Newcastle after a 3-3 draw. It’s a small footnote now, but it’s a reminder that this fixture in this competition has a habit of going to the wire.

The bigger context, though, is where each club sits in the competition’s recent pecking order. Newcastle won the Carabao Cup in 2024-25, ending a long wait for silverware, and went on to reach the semifinals as holders in 2025-26 before losing to Manchester City. Everton, despite 141 years of history, have never lifted this trophy at all. A tie against a club with that recent pedigree is exactly the kind of test that would mean something if the Toffees are serious about finally changing that.

Both clubs arrived at Wednesday’s draw the hard way. Newcastle needed a Joe Willock winner at Millwall’s Den to get through the third round, while Everton required an 80th-minute goal from Carlos Alcaraz just to beat Wolves at home. Neither performance suggested a side cruising toward the last 16, which only raises the stakes for the tie itself — an away trip that’s far from a formality for Matthias Jaissle’s side against a Merseyside outfit that will fancy its chances of a different result the second time around at home.