Hull City captain Robert Koren will be unavailable for up to five weeks after fracturing his foot, the Premier League club announced on Thursday.

The 32-year-old Slovenian midfielder underwent an X-ray at the start of the week, having carried the injury for several weeks.

He will now miss this weekend's Premier League game at Newcastle United, as well as subsequent matches against West Ham United, Aston Villa and Everton.

"We think Robert will be out for four or five weeks because he's fractured his right foot," Hull manager Steve Bruce told the club website, www.hullcityafc.net.

"That is a bitter blow to us. He did it a couple of weeks ago and to be fair, he's played with it.

"But last Saturday it was worse and so we scanned it and X-rayed it and those have revealed a hairline fracture to one of the bones in his foot."