The Tyne-Wear derby returns to St James' Park on Sunday, December 6, with a 2pm kick-off, and Newcastle United's ticket timetable starts next week. Mags Members get a 24-hour window to enter the ballot from Monday, November 9.
Ballot dates
The ballot opens at 12pm on November 9 and closes at 12pm on Tuesday, November 10. It runs on Wednesday, November 11, with notifications sent before 11am.
Successful members then have a seat selection window from 12pm that Wednesday until 12pm on Friday, November 13.
What follows the ballot
Season ticket holder forwarding and resale open at 4pm on Friday, November 13. The Mags Member Sale then starts at 10am on Monday, November 16.
How to buy
All of these phases run through Newcastle United's on-sale schedule, and the club's published dates do not list a general sale for this fixture. The schedule does not give prices either, so check the listing on the day. Fans can also browse current listings for Newcastle United vs Sunderland on Infotickets.
What to watch
The key detail is how short the entry window is. Twenty-four hours is all members get, and it closes at midday on a Tuesday.
Winners also need to act: seat selection lasts two days, from Wednesday to Friday. Anyone who misses out in the ballot has the November 16 sale as the next listed step.
Newcastle's run of home fixtures around this date is busy. The Magpies host Manchester United on December 2, four days before the derby, and that match's member sale opens on November 9, the same day this ballot starts. Members chasing both games will need to keep track of two separate timetables in the same week.
A derby in December on a Sunday afternoon will not be short of demand. Start with the ballot and mark midday on Tuesday in the diary.