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| Full name | Falcons / Valke | |
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| Union | Falcons Rugby Union | |
| Emblem(s) | Falcon | |
| Founded | 1947 | |
| Region | Eastern Gauteng | |
| Ground(s) | Barnard Stadium, Kempton Park (Capacity: 7,000) | |
| CEO | Ettienne de Lange | |
| President | Jan Wiegand | |
| Coach(es) | JP Immelman | |
| Captain(s) | Dwayne Pienaar | |
| League(s) | Currie Cup First Division | |
| 2022 | Finals: DNQ 5th on log | |
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The Falcons – better known by their Afrikaans name the Valke and now known as the Hino Valke for sponsorship reasons – are a South African rugby union team in Gauteng province that participates in the annual Currie Cup tournament.
Their home ground is Barnard StadiuminKempton Park, to which they have returned in 2009.[1][2] The Falcons have operated from Bosman StadiuminBrakpan and Pam Brink StadiuminSprings. They occasionally still host matches at Bosman Stadium. The Falcons draw players from Ekurhuleni and other municipalities to the east and south of Johannesburg.
The Falcons Rugby Union was founded in 1947 as the Eastern Transvaal Rugby Football Union. After the 1995 World Cup, rugby was declared a professional sport in South Africa, after which the Eastern Transvaal Rugby Football Union merged with the Vaal Triangle Rugby Union to form the Gauteng Falcons Rugby Union. It is one of only fourteen Provincial Unions in the country.
In2006 the Falcons were the Vodacom Cup champions,[3] the first cup won in the history of the union.
Falcons Rugby (Pty) Ltd is the arm responsible for the Falcons Brand and the operation of the Professional Rugby Team, which competes in two high-profile competitions in South African Rugby:
The Community Rugby arm, known historically as the Amateur Union, maintains the structure and development of the amateur Rugby set-up for the region, and includes:
The following players were included in the Falcons squad for the 2024 SA Cup First Division:[5]
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