Leadgate Exiles, a Roman Catholic team and one of two in the village of Leadgate (the others being Leadgate Park), played at a ground over the road from St. Mary & St. Joseph's Chapel in the 1880s and 90s. The facilities were extremely basic and was likely just a marked field (though even this came into disrepute - contemporary newspapers suggests there were often complaints at the lack of markings leading to relocated matches).

Much of the team consisted from a sizeable Irish population, likely thanks to the collieries that lay nearby. They played in the Northern Combination League in 1897 alongside a number of extensive population centres south of the Tyne. At the end of this season they left the Northern League and presumably disbanded.