Having won the league and cup double in last season’s Arngrove Northern League, Newcastle Blue Star has now won every division and cup competition it has ever entered, including the FA Vase, and becomes the first ever team to be promoted in to the national pyramid.

Blue Star will also make a statement in August on a total restructure of the club’s organisation, as they prepare for their first season in the national system.

The major step up in Blue Star’s ambition has been spearheaded by Secretary Jim Anderson and Chairman Derek Sayers, who both have more than 25 years of dedicated service to the club.

Blue Star have risen from modest foundations as a social team winning the FA Sunday League Cup to become one of the north-east’s most recognised non-league names.

Since November 2004 Director of Football, Bob Morton, has guided the club from Arngrove Northern League Two as champions to League One, where they won the league and cup double, before today’s announcement that they will join the Unibond League.

He said: “Today represents a historic day for Newcastle Blue Star and for north-east non-league football.

“Kingston Park is a fantastic facility, unrivalled in the non-league system and a fitting home for such an ambitious club as Blue Star in what promises to be an exciting period for the team and the region.”