Bio

Former Newcastle Falcons captain Callum Chick made the switch to fellow Gallagher Premiership side Northampton Saints ahead of the 2025/26 season. 

The back rower’s move to cinch Stadium at Franklin’s Gardens ended a 16-year association with his boyhood club that saw him clock up more than 150 senior appearances.

Chick played over 1,000 minutes of Gallagher Premiership rugby in the four seasons prior to arriving in Northampton and racked up a century of appearances in the league, alongside gaining a wealth of experience across both the domestic and European competitions with Newcastle.

Chick’s first season of professional rugby came in 2015/16, a campaign that would end with him winning the Junior World Championship alongside past and present Saints; Tom West (#2091) and Harry Mallinder (#1950).

The 6’ 3’’, 118kg forward enjoyed something of a breakthrough season the following term, earning a first Premiership start and scoring his first try in the European Challenge Cup.

From there, Chick became a mainstay of Falcons’ side and that club form was rewarded with a senior England call-up in 2021 – where Chick made his debut against the USA, before earning a second cap against Canada the following week, and a third appearance for England would come a year later in an uncapped clash with Barbarian F.C.

After captaining Falcons on occasion, Chick took over the role permanently in 2023/24 – a season that ended with him winning the Ken Lockerbie trophy at the club’s end-of-season awards, voted for by the club’s founder members.

Chick led by example in the No. 8 shirt in 2024/25, starting all 15 of Newcastle’s Premiership games, while also featuring in the league’s top ten players for post-contact metres made (173, 5th), turnovers won (12, 8th) and carries (217, 10th).