Revealed! Newcastle United’s arbitration date with the English Premier League

Newcastle United fans now know when the club go head-to-head with the Premier League in their private arbitration.

It was revealed today, at the totally separate Competition Appeals Tribunal case hearing, that the top flight and Mike Ashley’s United will lock horns on January 3.

It had not previously been known when the arbitration would take place, with the last joint statement from the club and the league only specifying it would progress in “early 2022”.

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The arbitration itself centres around the way the Premier League applied its owners’ and directors’ test when assessing a bid - something that in the eyes of the club was rejected, although no official decision was ever revealed.

Nick De Marco QC, along with Shaheed Fatima will represent the club at the arbitration hearing next year.

De Marco is in attendance at the CAT hearing, representing the interests of the football club in the matter with St James Holdings Limited represented by Daniel Jowell QC.

Ashley is attempting to force through the blocked £300m+ sale of the club to the PCP Consortium, who agreed a deal to buy the club in spring 2020.

The consortium is comprised of the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia, Reuben Brothers and Amanda Staveley and Mehrdad Ghodoussi’s PCP Capital Partners.