Rating
38
Below average — bottom 3% · Glicko-2 1174 ±106
Record
22-1-92
19.1% of 115 matches in the last five years
Average margin
-16.7
17.5 for, 34.2 against
Home advantage
+8.7
Points per match better at home
Attack
-31%
17.5 scored per match, against the placed field's average
Defence
-29%
34.2 conceded per match; positive is fewer than average
- Head coach
- Stephen Jones
- Captain
- George McGuigan
- Founded
- 1877
- League
- Premiership Rugby
- Ground
- Kingston Park
- Capacity
- 10,200
- Based in
- Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England
From Wikipedia, read 2026-08-20. Not an input to any forecast — the rating does not know who is coaching.
Gloucester Rugby2026-06-06 · away21–54lost
Sale Sharks2026-05-30 · home45–42won
Bath Rugby2026-05-16 · away12–69lost
Harlequins2026-05-10 · home17–76lost- Bristol Rugby2026-04-24 · home19–52lost
Newest first, from Newcastle Falcons's own point of view. Home and away are as the record stores them; a fixture the record does not mark neutral is listed as one side's home, which is right for a league round and wrong for a final played at a third ground.
Biggest win: 45-10 v Worcester Warriors
Heaviest defeat: 14-85 v Bristol Rugby
Below average — bottom 3%
Box is the middle half of the ranked field, line is the median, dot is Newcastle Falcons. The scale is this domain's own and does not compare across the two.
Teams that play alike sit close together. The two axes hold 68% of the variation between teams. Component 1 (45%) rises with more average margin and win rate. Component 2 (23%) rises with more high-scoring matches, less close matches.
58 of 82 teams sit too close together to name without covering another team's point, so they are drawn unlabelled. Every dot is still a link to that team, and its name is in the tooltip.
- 1Southland0.66
- 2Biarritz Olympique0.99
- 3Fijian Drua1.17
- 4Black Lion1.27
- 5Worcester Warriors1.32
Distance in the projection above, nearest first.