Alan Pardew

On 6 December 2010, following the sacking of Hughton, Peter Beardsley was appointed Caretaker Manager with his assistant Steve Stone. They were previously in charge of the reserve team.

On 9 December 2010, Alan Pardew was appointed as the next permanent manager of Newcastle United on a five and a half year contract.

On 11 December 2010, Pardew recorded an impressive 3–1 home victory over Liverpool for his first game in charge of the club,and a few matches later they recorded a 5–0 win over his former club West Ham United in the club's first home game of 2011.

On 8 January 2011, Newcastle suffered a crushing blow in the FA Cup, losing 3-1 to Stevenage.

16 January 2011 saw Pardew's first Tyne/Wear derby in charge saw the Magpies gather a point after a disappointing 1-1 draw, Newcastle were on the front foot for much of the game and a 50th minute back heel goal from skipper Kevin Nolan gave the away team a 1-0 lead, but Asamoah Gyan saved Sunderland from defeat with a 94th minute goal after Steve Harper deflected a shot from Phil Bardsley into the path of the Ghanaian and Sunderland gained the point.

Newcastle would continue their undefeated form, but not how they would have like. On January 22, 2011 Newcastle faced Tottenham at St. James' Park, the game would be very much end to end throughout, until Fabricio Coloccini opened the scoring giving Newcastle a 1-0 lead. However another injury time goal from the opposition meant Newcastle had dropped another 2 points, manager Alan Pardew has stated that the team had "commited too many bodies forward to try and get a second".

On 31 January 2011, striker Andy Carroll was sold to Liverpool to replace striker Fernando Torres for a club record of £35 million plus 25% of Liverpool's next sale

5 February 2011 saw Newcastle pull off a remarkable comeback against Arsenal at St James' Park. Theo Walcott gave Arsenal a 1-0 lead inside just 43 seconds, Johan Djourou put Arsenal 2-0 up on 3 minutes, then Robin van Persie added insult to injury with a 3rd goal inside the 10th minute. Arsenal went in at half time 4-0 up after another goal from van Persie, however early in the second half Arsenal's Abou Diaby was shown a straight red card for pushing Midfielders Joey Barton and Kevin Nolan after what he felt to be a bad tackle in which replays showed was legal. It was all downhill for Arsenal from there. Barton slipped a cooly taken penalty in to make 4-1, then Leon Best made it 4-2 with a thumping close range effort not long after a goal he scored just before had been judged offside. Another penalty gave Newcastle hope with Barton scoring again, and the returning midfielder Cheik Tioté scored a phenomenal volley from 30 yards to give Newcastle a well deserved point with the final score being a massive 4-4. This was the first time any Barclays Premier League had ever come back from being 4-0. Newcastle were not beaten by Arsenal in 2010/11 season (League) having beating them 1-0 at the Emirates Stadium earlier in the season under Chris Hughton's management.

On 10 February 2011, former Finland international Shefki Kuqi joined Newcastle for the remainder of the season.