Rating
17
Below average — bottom 2% · Glicko-2 1040 ±114
Record
20-1-96
17.1% of 117 matches in the last five years
Average margin
-17.2
17.7 for, 34.9 against
Home advantage
+9.1
Points per match better at home
Attack
-31%
17.7 scored per match, against the placed field's average
Defence
-35%
34.9 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 2026-10-19. Not an input to any forecast — the rating does not know who is coaching.
Scarlets2026-10-17 · away14–47lost
Exeter Chiefs2026-10-11 · away28–34lost
Leicester Tigers2026-10-03 · home19–24lost
Northampton Saints2026-09-25 · away26–59lost
Gloucester Rugby2026-06-06 · away21–54lost
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 2%
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 72% of the variation between teams. Component 1 (46%) rises with more average margin and win rate. Component 2 (25%) rises with more high-scoring matches and margin swing.
52 of 84 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 hovering one names it.
- 1Southland0.80
- 2Biarritz Olympique1.06
- 3Black Lion1.08
- 4Worcester Warriors1.35
- 5Fijian Drua1.39
Distance in the projection above, nearest first.