    the newcastle falcons (formerly gosforth fc/newcastle gosforth until 1996) is an english rugby union team that has recently returned to the aviva premiership as of 29 may 2013 after a season in the rfu championship. the club was established in 1877history of the club, newcastle-falcons.co.uk and played under the name of gosforth football club until 1990. the name was then changed to newcastle gosforth and the club began to play at kingston park stadium in kingston park, newcastle upon tyne. at the start of the professional era the club adopted its current name of newcastle falcons. the falcons is currently the only professional rugby club in north east england, with one premiership and four domestic cups to their name. it also boasted a number of home-grown internationals including jonny wilkinson, jamie noon, geoff parling, toby flood, mathew tait and lee dickson. ==history== === early years === the original gosforth football club was founded in 1877 by a group of old boys of durham school, in whose colours of green and white hoops the club played until the mid-1990s. the name gosforth came from one of the suburbs of newcastle upon tyne. in 1955, the club moved to a new ground at north
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