football club Newcastle United Jets Football Club, normally known as Newcastle Jets, is an australian professional soccer club based in Newcastle, New South Wales. It competes in the nation ‘s premier competition, the A-League, under license from The australian Professional Leagues ( APL ). once under license by Football Australia. [ 1 ] The club was formed in 2000 when it joined the National Soccer League ( NSL ) and was one of only three early NSL clubs to join in the formation of the A-League. Newcastle Jets have won one A-League championship, after defeating rivals Central Coast Mariners 1–0 in the 2008 A-League Grand Final. [ 2 ] In 2009, Newcastle competed in the AFC Champions League for the first meter, reaching the round of golf of 16. In May 2015, FFA revoked Newcastle ‘s license after owner Nathan Tinkler placed the club into voluntary government. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] A newly A-League club was formed for the 2015–16 temper, under the same name and semblance. [ 5 ]

The club plays home games at McDonald Jones Stadium. An affiliate youth team competes in the National Youth League and in the National Premier Leagues NSW competition. A women ‘s team competes in the W-League. The Youth team ‘s matches are played at No.2 Sportsground and Wanderers Oval. The Womans team play at Newcastle International Sports Centre and No. 2 Sportsground .

history [edit ]

early years [edit ]

newcastle United was formed in 2000 by Cypriot-Australian businessman Con Constantine from the remnants of the Newcastle Breakers. [ 6 ] The Breakers were dissolved when Soccer Australia revoked its NSL license at the conclusion of the 1999–2000 season. At the formation of Newcastle United the home grate was moved spinal column to where Newcastle KB United played, now known as McDonald Jones Stadium. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] The Newcastle United baseball club were reasonably successful, competing in two of the last three Final Series and finishing second gear in the League behind Perth Glory in the 2001–02 season. [ 9 ] The club renamed itself to the Newcastle United Jets Football Club and launched a new badge at the starting signal of the new national league, the A-League. This was done to try and create and project a new image of the club and to avoid confusion with the English club Newcastle United. The name “ Jets ” is a citation to RAAF Base Williamtown, located fair 20 kilometres north of Newcastle. The club ‘s logo depicts three F/A-18 Hornets, which the Royal Australian Air Force has based at Williamtown. Former England and Australia director Terry Venables was reported as favored to become the team ‘s technical film director, including reports from the Jets, but this was confirmed by Venables ‘ agent as a ‘no-go ‘. [ 10 ] alternatively, the clubhouse signed Richard Money for the 2005–2006 season. In 2006 Money was replaced with Nick Theodorakopoulos after Money returned to England to take the director ‘s job at Walsall. In October 2006 after recording no wins during the Pre-Season Cup and during the first seven rounds of A-League matches, Theodorakopoulos became the first coach to be sacked in the club ‘s A-League ‘s history. His assistant Gary van Egmond was the caretaker passenger car for the remainder of the 2005–06 season, and later signed a shrink to remain as the coach of the Jets for the next three years. The golf club surprised many observers in the australian game by signing Ned Zelic, a musician who was seen to have severed connections with Australia after being dropped from the national team. Reports suggested the Jets were attempting to bring erstwhile Liverpool and England striker Stan Collymore out of retirement. [ 11 ] Director of Football Remo Nogarotto confirmed the golf club had made a bid to lure Collymore to the A-League for a four-match node stint ; however, the move had broken down within 24 hours of it being made populace. [ 12 ] With the leadership of Gary van Egmond Newcastle has achieved the highest number of points out of all clubs in their last fourteen games and have besides scored the most goals. As a result of their good form under van Egmond, crowd in Newcastle have reached all time highs for soccer – culminate in a crowd of over 24,000 for their home final against Sydney FC on 2 February 2007. Newcastle were finally eliminated in the preliminary final by Adelaide, the game going to penalties after finishing at 1 all. Vaughan Coveny and Stuart Musialik missed their attempts in a shoot-out that ended up at 4–3 in privilege of Adelaide, costing Newcastle their place in the grand concluding and a position in the asian Champions League .

Champions of Australia [edit ]

Season 3 of the A-League saw a total of Newcastle ‘s biggest stars of the previous season leave the club. captain Paul Okon retired, fan favorite Milton Rodriguez returned to Colombia and Johnny Warren Medal winner Nick Carle moved to Turkey to link up with Gençlerbirliği S.K. . New recruits included Joel Griffiths ‘ twin brother Adam and former european Golden Boot winner Mario Jardel. Although significant exhilaration surrounded the capture of Jardel, as clock went by it was obvious he was well past his prime and received little plot clock time. Throughout the temper asterisk striker Joel Griffiths broke the record for most goals in a regular season by scoring 12 in 21 rounds. [ 13 ] The Jets started the season well without losing in their first gear 5 matches. Following this good start the Jets struggled for consistency until the end of the season, frequently winning against choice enemy but losing some vital home plate games. Wins in the last three contest rounds saw the Jets move up the run to peer points with the Central Coast Mariners, finishing the season in irregular place due to inferior goal deviation. The Jets went on to play the Mariners in the two legged Major Semi Final. The Jets won the first leg at home 2–0 thanks to a first-half header from Adam Griffiths and a late penalty from his brother Joel. The game had its bonny share of controversy as Mariners hitter John Aloisi had a apparently lawful goal forbid and besides missed a penalty. [ 14 ] Steeled by the defeat in the first leg, the Mariners overturned the 2–0 deficit and led 2–0 at the end of 90 minutes of the second peg thanks to goals from Sasho Petrovski and Adam Kwasnik. Seven minutes into excess clock time Petrovski scored again to send the Mariners into their second Grand Final in three years. [ 15 ]
Newcastle Jets Squadron Banner before the 2007–08 Grand Final The Jets qualified for their first A-League Grand Final by beating Queensland Roar 3–2 after supernumerary time in the 2008 Preliminary Final on 17 February 2008. [ 16 ] The Jets led 1–0 until abstruse into injury clock time when the Roar were awarded a penalty which Reinaldo successfully converted, sending the peer into extra time. A few minutes into excess prison term the Jets were awarded a penalty arsenic well, as Song Jin-Hyung was brought down in the box. Joel Griffiths was successful from the blemish to restore the 1-goal advantage and a few moments belated Tarek Elrich sealed passage into the Grand Final with a well timed changeable to score his first A-League goal. Although the Roar received another late punishment it was excessively late to stop the Jets ‘ demonstrate into the Grand Final. The Jets defeated the Central Coast Mariners in the 2007–08 A-League Grand Final, becoming A-League Champions for the first clock. The game was sealed with a solitary confinement Joel Griffiths strike early in the second half. In his last bet on of professional soccer Tony Vidmar made a mistake near the halfway occupation to gift Griffiths with an opportunity which he grasped with both hands. The game was marred by a deep punishment appeal for handball. Mariners goal keeper Danny Vukovic had come up for the corner and was indeed infuriated by Mark Shield ‘s decision that he slapped his hand away, earning himself a drawn-out ban and govern himself out of the early rounds of following temper. [ 17 ] Both the Jets and Mariners qualified to take partially in the 2009 AFC Champions League .

AFC Champions League [edit ]

2009 [edit ]

In order to rebuild the team for the Champions League the Jets, identical much in want of several new players, signed Perth defender Nikolai Topor-Stanley in early January 2008. [ 18 ] But the sign of Topor-Stanley would prove to be the Jets ‘ sole gain on the transplant market for several weeks, and fans grew even more disgruntled as the Jets were confirmed as the 2009 A-League “ Wooden Spooners ” with a 2–0 passing to Adelaide United in mid-january. An promote 2–1 succeed over Perth Glory in the Jets ‘ final examination home game of the A-League 2008-09 season lightened the mood reasonably, but when the Jets crashed in a 4–0 capitulation at the Sydney Football Stadium the follow week, things were looking gloomy. And the video alone grew bleak as the ill-famed player exodus continued and the club lost Socceroos defender Mark Milligan to Shanghai Shenhua, [ 19 ] along with Jesper Hakansson, who left the club after agreeing to a common result. [ 20 ] Talisman and captain Joel Griffiths besides agreed to move to Asia, although alone on a annual loan to Beijing Guoan. [ 21 ] The first ten-spot days of February saw the Jets engage in a surprisingly successful confuse of transfer activeness to bolster their police squad for the at hand Champions League before 11 February date by which clubs are required to submit their squad lists. Acting on an pressing need to improve their attack stocks, the Jets announced simultaneously the sign of Dutchman Donny de Groot from De Graafschap along with former Sydney FC and Central Coast Mariners hitter Sasho Petrovski. [ 22 ] Next, the Jets reinforced their precarious defense by obtaining the signatures of talented early FC Thun and Melbourne Victory defender Ljubo Miličević, [ 23 ] who had been battling depression since being released by the Victory, veteran centre-back Angelo Costanzo from Adelaide United, and young Sydney FC left-back Nikolas Tsattalios. [ 24 ] [ 25 ] These signings were followed by the surprise announcement that the Jets had secured the services of early S.S. Lazio forward Fabio Vignaroli on a six-month contract. [ 26 ] In a further hike for the depth of its team, the baseball club signed three local players on six-month deals with the option for an extension into the 2009–10 A-League temper : early Newcastle United midfielder Mitchell Johnson and strikers Peter Haynes and Joel Wood. [ 27 ] After the deviation of high performance coach Ian Crook, the Jets signed former Sydney FC boss Branko Culina as their newfangled Technical Director. [ 28 ] The Jets got off to a bad start, losing 2–0 to Beijing Guoan in Beijing. however, they rebounded with a 2–0 defeat of Ulsan Hyundai Horang-i back in Newcastle. After a epic 1–1 draw in Japan against Nagoya Grampus, they lost 1–0 in the return repair. then, on 6 May, the Jets grabbed two goals in the death two minutes to defeat Beijing in Newcastle 2–1. The Jets qualified for the end 16 by defeating Ulsan Hyundai 1–0 away from home with Jason Hoffman scoring his introduction goal to seal the succeed. The Jets faced Pohang Steelers in their orotund of 16 fixture on 24 June, crashing out of the competition 6–0 to the hands of the South Koreans .

2019 [edit ]

The Newcastle Jets will return to the asian Champions League in 2019, 10 years after their last appearance .

Čulina tenure [edit ]

After the success of the 2007–08 season, a count of Jets players left the clubhouse, including Mark Bridge and Stuart Musialik to Sydney FC and Joe Marston Medal winner Andrew Durante and Troy Hearfield to Wellington Phoenix. Although rumor persisted about captain Jade North and Adam Griffiths wishing to leave the club after being a contribution of the Socceroos team that faced Singapore and China, both chose to remain with the Jets for the 2008–09 season. [ 29 ] [ 30 ] [ 31 ] The even season proved to be a calamity for the Jets. The team won entirely four out of twenty-one matches and were rooted to the bed of the ladder, missing the finals for the first time, and collecting their foremost wooden smooch. Preparations for the play along season were thrown into tumult when championship-winning coach Gary van Egmond left the golf club for a lucrative job with the Australian Institute of Sport. That created a populace rift between the club and FFA over FFA ‘s potential engagement in inducing vanguard Egmond to break his contract by taking up the raw position. The relationship between owner and FFA fell to the degree where the club has threatened legal action against both the FFA and van Egmond for gap of contract. [ 32 ] Former cabaret technical director, Branko Čulina, was named as his refilling on 30 June 2009. In the 2009-10 Season, the Jets qualified for the finals series after coming sixth in the regular season. In the first week of the finals the Jets by chance defeated Gold Coast in a penalty shoot-out 6 goals to 5, after the full time score had been 0–0. In the second week, they played Wellington Phoenix. The full moon time seduce was 1–1, but in extra meter, Paul Ifill scored the equal achiever for Wellington followed by a goal from Eugène Dadi, putting the Jets out of the competition. anterior to Newcastle ‘s round 4 game against Brisbane Roar, it was revealed that the club was under meaning fiscal tension and was unable to pay staff and musician wages on time. That resulted in the golf club seeking either a loan or an overture on their quarterly partake of the A-League television distribute. [ 33 ] It was announced by the club and Football Federation Australia that the governing torso would provide a short-run aid package, making indisputable the club made it through their next few games and back into fiscal viability. [ 34 ] After weeks of speculation about the future of the Jets, it was announced by the FFA on 22 September, before the team ‘s midweek game against Gold Coast United, that businessman Nathan Tinkler would buy a majority share in the Jets, saving the baseball club from ruin. Tinkler had a positive influence at the Jets. A raw price for tickets included a free season spend for children younger than 15, a syndicate guide for 11 home games with reserved grandstand for $ 100, and general admission for $ 10. The clubhouse gained the Hunter Medical Research Institute as a new sponsor, and its logo appeared on the presence of the players shirts. The Institute said it would donate $ 5000 for every goal scored at home and $ 2500 for an away goal. The club set up a modern administration position, extended the sign of coach Branko Čulina until March 2015, and unveiled a $ 2.5 million blueprint for the football department. [ 35 ] It was confirmed that the Jets would host Los Angeles Galaxy, which included big-name players such as David Beckham and Landon Donovan, for a friendly in November 2010. [ 36 ] The Jets won the match 2–1. [ 37 ] During the January remove window, the Jets announced the sign of Ryan Griffiths, the brother of Newcastle Jets legend Joel Griffiths, for the remainder of the temper and the 2011–2012 season. With the future of North Queensland Fury in doubt, the Newcastle Jets signed Chris Payne for the 2011–2012 season. 16 December 2010 saw the inaugural address meet of the raw Football Advisory Board put in place by new owner Nathan Tinkler. The display panel included outstanding names from Newcastle ‘s soccer history, community members, and the president of the united states of Northern NSW Football. [ 38 ] The Jets finished the 2010–11 season in seventh position, narrowly missing out on the finals serial on the last day of the even season .

The Return of avant-garde Egmond [edit ]

On 4 October 2011, the cabaret terminated the contract of coach Branko Čulina, a well commencing the process of applying to the FFA to have the three-year “ pavilion ” contract of ( Čulina ‘s son ) Jason set aside. [ 39 ] [ 40 ] Although no one reason was cited for the decision it was believed that an argument was reached between Branko, CEO Robbie Middleby, and owner Nathan Tinkler, regarding the nepotist nature of Jason ‘s sign, adenine well as “ medical advice ”. Middleby stated : “ The decision to terminate the contracts was made after a long deliberation by the Newcastle Jets ’ Advisory Board ”. While Tinkler stated that “ Jason ’ s wound could mean the Jets are without their pavilion player for up to three seasons – not a good leave for the club, supporters, sponsors and players. ” [ 41 ] The Jets appointed Gary van Egmond as Čulina ‘s replacement. [ 42 ] In April 2012, Nathan Tinkler announced that he would hand second the Newcastle Jets A-League license to the FFA, because of his mounting fiscal difficulties. [ 43 ] The Federation said that Tinkler ‘s Hunter Sports Group could not just hand back its license, and was breaching a bind compress by walking aside from the Jets. [ 44 ] On 1 May, after face-to-face talks between Tinkler and FFA president Frank Lowy, it was announced that Tinkler would remain the owner of the club. [ 45 ]
At the end of the 2011–12 A-League season, Gary van Egmond started a clean-out by getting rid of the majority of Branko Čulina ‘s police squad. That including fan-favourites Jeremy Brockie, Tarek Elrich, Labinot Haliti and Nikolai Topor-Stanley. Van Egmond implemented his possession-based expressive style by signing many young talents such as James Brown, Scott Neville and Craig Goodwin. The Jets went unbeaten throughout the entire 2012–13 pre-season, with wins over defending champions Brisbane Roar and rivals Central Coast Mariners. On 21 September 2012, the Jets signed former England international and Premier League colossus Emile Heskey as their pavilion player for the 2012–13 temper. Heskey signed for a annual deal but hoped to extend his persist. He wore the number 9 jersey throughout his time in Newcastle. The Jets lost their first game of the temper against Adelaide United, but then went on to beat Sydney FC, rivals Central Coast Mariners and Melbourne Victory, to sit second behind Adelaide on finish remainder after round 4. During the January transplant window, the Jets released brazilian international Tiago Calvano, due to his lack of game prison term and falling out of favor with head passenger car Gary vanguard Egmond. The Jets replaced Tiago with attacking midfielder Zenon Caravella, and signed local endowment Andrew Hoole to his first professional contract after he impressed in the round 15 match against the Brisbane Roar. On 31 January 2013, club master and foundation player Jobe Wheelhouse, terminated his compress because he wanted a break from football. Ruben Zadkovich wore the captain ‘s arm band for the rest of the season. The Jets finished 8th, missing out on the finals for the third year in a row. [ 46 ] During the follow season, van Egmond was sacked after 15 matches, due to poor results and a miss of harmony within the police squad .
On 5 May 2014, Phil Stubbins signed a biennial coach condense at the Jets. The club hoped that Stubbins ‘ attack brain would bring achiever, along with a act of fresh signings, such as Argentinians Jeronimo Neumann and Marcos Flores, Australian international David Carney, and the club ‘s highest-ever goal scorekeeper, Joel Griffiths. [ 47 ] A poor start to the season saw CEO Robbie Middleby and president Ray Baartz release from their positions during a mid-season break. [ 48 ] On 10 January 2015, three days after Middleby and Baartz resigned, Newcastle owner Nathan Tinkler took the clubhouse off the market and was appointed chair. [ 49 ] On 29 January 2015, Newcastle players Kew Jaliens, Billy Celeski, Adrian Madaschi, David Carney and Joel Griffiths were released. [ 50 ] Stubbins started rebuilding the baseball club, bringing in imports Lee Ki-je and Enver Alivodic, along with signing defender Nigel Boogaard. The Jests ended the season at the bottomland of the postpone with entirely three wins, making it their worst-ever season. [ 51 ] On 21 May, Football Federation Australia terminated the club ‘s license after the Jets failed to settle debts and pay problems. [ 52 ] On 21 May 2015, the FFA issued a license for a new team in Newcastle, indicating that the newfangled entity would continue to hold the Newcastle Jets ‘ mention and colours, and would continue to play its games at Hunter Stadium. All players, along with the administration staff, were issued new contracts. The coaching staff, however, underwent a performance review by FFA. consequently, on 26 May, Phil Stubbins, along with colleague coaching staff Mark Jones, James Pascoe and Jess Vanstrattan, all had their contracts terminated by the FFA, which wanted a clean start for the club. The FFA began the rebuilding procedure by setting up three forums : a business forum, a members ‘ forum and a supporters ‘ forum, so that fans could voice their opinions about the club ‘s restructure. On 18 June 2015, the FFA appointed former Fulham adjunct coach, Scott Miller as the club ‘s head coach. Former Melbourne Victory adjunct coach, Jean-Paul de Marigny was appointed as Miller ‘s senior assistant. On Thursday 10 September 2015, the Club announced its modern major presenter, Inspirations Paint. Acting CEO, David Eland said, “ To get a sword like Inspirations Paint behind the club is absolutely fantastic. They are Australia ’ randomness largest and leading network of paint stores, founded here in 1979. I think it ’ s a bless that the residential district are starting to re-align with their club. ” [ 53 ] On Tuesday 14 June 2016, it was announced that the FFA had completed the sale of the golf club to the Ledman Group, a leading high-tech LED signage manufacturer, hustler and sports business, headquartered in Shenzhen, China. The Ledman Group was valued at over one billion australian dollars on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange. The Ledman Group was an official collaborator of the chinese Super League and China League ( Division Two ), and had a strategic partnership with the Chinese Football Association. [ 54 ] [ 55 ] In September 2016, Scott Miller was dismissed by the clubhouse. late that month, the club announced that former club assistant and fitness coach, Mark Jones, would take the reins for the 2016-17 season. however, his coaching tenure at Newcastle was brought to an end after a 2–0 away loss to Sydney FC, which saw the baseball club receive their second wooden smooch in three seasons. On Friday 30 September 2016, the cabaret announced Inspirations Paint had re-signed as a Major Sponsor for a further year. Newcastle Jets Chief Executive Officer, Lawrie McKinna, announced the news recently at the plunge of # TheJetsHouse diametric Hunter Stadium in Broadmeadow – a painted dwelling which has been decked out in Jets colours and brand by the Inspirations Paint for the entirety of the Club ’ s Hyundai A-League 2016/17 campaign. [ 56 ]

Merrick era [edit ]

2017–18 season [edit ]

On 9 May 2017, Ernie Merrick was named as Newcastle ‘s modern passenger car for the future two A-League seasons after previously managing A-League teams Melbourne Victory and Wellington Phoenix, managing a sum of 241 A-League games, and winning the 2006–07, 2008–09 titles. [ 57 ] [ 58 ] After the announcement Merrick stated :

I believe that the clubhouse has all the necessary ingredients for on-field success, with a strong effect of adept quality players, a very competent staff, excellent facilities, and most importantly a wealth of extremely passionate fans. [ 59 ]

Merrick ‘s inaugural A-League equal as coach was on 7 October 2017, against F3 Derby rivals Central Coast Mariners, with the Mariners having won the former meet 2–0 at home. Newcastle won the bet on 1–5, beating the Mariners by four goals and making it the largest F3 Derby victory. [ 60 ] [ 61 ] [ 62 ] After Newcastle ‘s first game, they followed up by going five games undefeated, losing their beginning game of the temper on 18 November 2017, to 2016–17 champions, Sydney FC in round 7. [ 63 ] [ 64 ] Between rounds 7 and 24 Newcastle achieved 10 wins, 3 draw, and 3 losses, before losing three games on the trot, scoring entirely two and conceding ten. [ 65 ] In the final game of the regular season Newcastle again played F3 Derby rivals, Central Coast, playing them for a third base meter during the season. After three back-to-back losses Newcastle made both A-League and F3 bowler hat history, beating the Mariners 2–8, winning by the highest margin in the F3 bowler hat, a feat they achieved in orotund 1 of the season. Playing in the highest marking A-League match, winning all three F3 Derby matches during the 2017–18 season and complete in second position and qualify for the AFC Champions League for a second time. [ 66 ] [ 67 ] [ 68 ] After one of the most successful regular seasons in Newcastle Jets history, director Ernie Merrick signed on for a foster season extending his contract to the end of the 2019–20 A-League season. [ 69 ] Newcastle played Melbourne City at home in the semi-final of the A-League finals, winning 2–1, with goals to Riley McGree and Jason Hoffman. Newcastle reached their second A-League Grand Final in history. [ 70 ] Newcastle were defeated in the 2017–18 A-League Grand Final by Melbourne Victory, losing 1–0. [ 71 ] Dimitri Petratos was named Newcastle Jets musician of the season. [ 72 ] After a very successful temper in the A-League, Andrew Nabbout, a former Newcastle player, and Dimitri Petratos, Newcastle musician of the season and joint fortunate boot achiever for Newcastle, were named in the australian police squad for the 2018 FIFA World Cup. Nabbout playing two of the three group stage matches ( France, Denmark ). [ 73 ] [ 74 ]

2018–19 season [edit ]

Before the start of the 2018–19 A-League season, Newcastle signed New Zealand international Matthew Ridenton from colleague A-League clubhouse Wellington Phoenix on a detached transfer which reunited him with former Phoenix boss Ernie Merrick. [ 75 ] [ 76 ] The Jets besides announced the signings of brazilian striker Jair Eduardo, erstwhile Melbourne Victory winger Mitch Austin, attacker Kaine Sheppard and goalkeeper Lewis Italiano anterior to the startle of the season. [ 77 ] [ 78 ] [ 79 ] [ 80 ] Newcastle enjoyed their best ever run in the FFA Cup, beating Queensland side Gold Coast Knights 0–1 in the Round of 32. [ 81 ] In the Round of 16, the Jets went down to fellow A-League english Melbourne City 0–1. [ 82 ]

Carl Robinson era [edit ]

2019–20 season [edit ]

After a poor start to the season where the Jets only won 2 of their beginning 13 A-League matches and sat at the bottom of the postpone, Ernie Merrick was sacked as coach. [ 83 ] Newcastle Jets Women coach Craig Deans and Qiang Li were named joint-caretaker managers the same day. On 6 February, former Vancouver Whitecaps coach Carl Robinson was named as the club ‘s new head coach signing a hand until the end of the 2022–23 season. [ 84 ] The club won 4 of their first 7 league matches under Robinson ‘s stewardship, losing only once, before the FFA announced that the 2019–20 A-League season would be postponed until far notice due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia and New Zealand on 24 March 2020. [ 85 ] On 4 January 2021, it was reported that the Jets ‘ license had been terminated and absentee owner Martin Lee, who had not injected any funds into the club since October 2019 and had failed to pay cabaret debts, had been removed. The Jets will be controlled for an interim period by investors from other A-League clubs, to whom a newly license has been granted. australian Professional Leagues commissioner Greg O’Rourke confirmed that the club can continue to play in A-League and W-League competitions despite the uncertainty. [ 86 ] [ 87 ]

Colours and badge [edit ]



Newcastle United Strip 2000–04

Period Kit manufacturer A-League kit partners
Shirt (major)
2005–2011 Reebok Centrebet
2011–2014 ISC Hunter Ports
2014–2015 BLK Castle Quarry Products
2015–2016 Beachwood Homes
2016–2017 Inspirations Paint
2017–2020 VIVA Ledman
2021 Apelle Inspirations Paint
2021– VIVA Port of Newcastle

The club ‘s traditional colours are aristocratic and red ; colours besides worn by the Newcastle Knights rugby league team in the region. When Newcastle joined the A-League the baseball club changed its coloring material to a gold jersey with a united states navy and red trim and united states navy aristocratic shorts and socks. The kit was markedly different to the new jersey worn by the original NSL club which was about entirely loss and blue. The away jersey was white with gold sleeves, gold shorts and white socks. The golf club ‘s jersey for the 2009–10 season retained the base kit blueprint, however, the away strip revert to something more historic, in light of the cabaret ‘s one-tenth anniversary. The jersey featured blue and crimson, with white and gloomy shorts and socks, in line with the old Newcastle United strips. In early 2011, the new Tinkler Sports Group revealed that Newcastle ‘s colours would revert to the blue and crimson wear by Newcastle United. The decisiveness was besides made to combined colours with the Newcastle Knights who became a cousin club due to the shared ownership. [ 88 ] The 2011–12 season aside kit was revealed to be a black and flannel, with the lapp stripped blueprint of the home kit out. The Jets wore the bootleg and whiten kit until the stopping point of the 2012–13 temper. It was after the conclusion of that season when it was announced that Newcastle Jets members would vote for the sides new off kit out. The first of three options was an emerald jersey with a brown and ashen band going diagonally across the shirt, based on KB United, a team that represented Newcastle in the NSL. The moment was a white jersey that featured red down the sides, and blue on the back at the base of the shirt. The final choice was a dark grey new jersey, with a loss and blue diagonal stripe, the same design as the first choice. After members chose the emerald greens new jersey, the club revealed a fresh dwelling kit. similar to the home shirt from the previous two seasons, the red and blue stripes became slightly thinner, featuring five stripes on the presence of the jersey, opposed to three stripes on the former kit. The stripes were largely replaced on the back of the shirt with a solid aristocratic, so far stripes silent featured at the bottom. The three jets from the club ‘s crest were besides added to the binding of both the home and aside kits, located just underneath the neck. [ 88 ] A simpleton blue and loss logo with the name “ Newcastle United ” was used during the club ‘s time in the NSL. After joining the A-League, a new logo was designed to incorporate the new name “ Newcastle United Jets ”. The name change was done so to project a newly image for the club and to prevent confusion with the english side Newcastle United The name “ Jets ” is a reference to RAAF Base Williamtown, located barely 20 kilometres north of Newcastle. The golf club ‘s logo besides depicts three F/A-18 Hornets, which the Royal Australian Air Force had based at Williamtown .

stadium [edit ]

western digest of Newcastle International Sports Centre McDonald Jones Stadium, at the Newcastle International Sports Centre, is the home plate reason of the Newcastle Jets and is the family of the Newcastle Knights. It has a capacity of 33,000. The stadium is located in the suburb of Broadmeadow. The record crowd for a soccer match in Newcastle was set at Ausgrid Stadium on 2 February 2007 in the second leg of the 2006-07 A-League minor semi final against Sydney FC, in front of 24,338 people. [ 89 ] This broke the record set earlier that season on New Years Day, where a crowd of 20,980 turned up to see a 2–0 loss against the lapp resistance. [ 90 ] Prior to that plot the soccer attendance phonograph record for a match in Newcastle stood for 52 years, set when Australia played Rapid Vienna. This upgrade is a leave of Australia gaining rights to hold the finals of the 2015 AFC asian Cup in Australia between 4 and 26 January 2015. Newcastle may be one of the venues for this event, and minimum standards set by FIFA hateful EAS is inadequate for this function. The newest upgrade involved demolishing the western grandstand and replacing it with one like to the east, a well as placing seated areas on the hill at either end of the ground. This upgrade cost around $ 60 million, of which $ 50 million was provided by the State Government. [ 91 ] This upgrade means the Jets attendance figures can grow vastly, and will besides qualify the Jets to host any Grand Finals they reach in the future .

Supporters [edit ]

The main active supporter group of the Newcastle Jets is the Squadron Novocastria, which was formed in anticipation of the first always A-League plot between Newcastle and Adelaide United. [ 92 ] The Squadron began standing behind the goals on the Southern Hill, however because of the layout of the stadium and FFA regulations requiring them to be located in a in full seated area, they moved to Bay 2 of the easterly Grandstand at McDonald Jones Stadium. Standard songs/chants include, “ We go by bring and sea ”, “ The Newy Boys go one by one ” and “ When The Jets Go Flying In ”. The Squadron have besides started a raw custom of singing the chorus to the INXS sung “ Never Tear Us Apart “ before the start of the game and second half. As the cabaret ‘s performances improved throughout the 2006–07 season the Squadron grew quickly and continued to grow throughout the 2007–08 season. In the concern of increasing active voice support participation during the 2013–14 Season, and after months of negotiation with club, stadium and security, the Squadron initiated a move from their Bay 2 location, to the other side of the stadium in Bay 60. [ 93 ] This took effect for the first time for the visit of the Western Sydney Wanderers on 31 January 2014. The Newcastle Herald reported that this was to avoid clashes with opposition fans. [ 94 ] Before the get down of the 2014–15 Season the Squadron threatened to boycott the destine active supporter bay ascribable to measures introduced by the FFA, which meant that the area would be a “ members only ” area. The Squadron believed this would adversely affect the big demographic of young people regularly joining the Squadron, along with other issues. [ 95 ] however through negotiation with the club the Squadron ensured that all fans, members or not were able to join the Squadron on matchday and sol the boycott was avoided. [ 96 ] [ 97 ] For the 2016–17 A-League season, the Squadron, with fiscal documentation from the Jets, moved to the southern end of McDonald Jones Stadium in a bid to improve active support at home games. In late 2016, a modern athletic supporter group, the Newcastle City Legionaries ( NCL ) was formed by previous founders of the Squadron. The group sits in Bay 1, a general entree bay of McDonald Jones Stadium, and aims to be a “ traditional ” supporter group, by engaging in “ english style ” active support ( i.e. no capo, and anybody can start chants ). [ 98 ] The group has received praise from Lawrie McKinna, who credited the group with engaging with the herd, and creating a great standard atmosphere. [ 99 ] On 22 April 2017, the Squadron announced that they would be ceasing active patronize, due to harsh FFA restrictions regarding active support. [ 100 ] [ 101 ] [ 102 ] The Squadron returned in December 2018 .

Rivalries [edit ]

due to its geographic proximity, Newcastle shares a strong competition with Central Coast Mariners. Known as The F3 Derby, the first meet between the teams resulted in a tough semi-final tie in the 2005 Oceania Club Championship reservation contest ( held in May 2005, anterior to the start of the inaugural address A-League season ), when star Mariners striker Nik Mrdja broke the leg of Newcastle defender Andrew Durante, [ 103 ] [ 104 ] earning him a tag as Newcastle ‘s “ hate-boy ”. In the 2007–08 temper, Newcastle Jets beat the Mariners 2–0 in the first leg of the Major Semi-Final, before being beaten 3–0 in extra time in the second peg at Bluetongue Stadium. [ 105 ] After beating Queensland Roar 3–2 in the Preliminary Final, the Jets then went on to defeat the Mariners 1–0 in the 2007/08 A-League Grand Final. In round 17 of the 2008/09 temper, the Jets and Mariners faced each other at Ausgrid Stadium. The Mariners won the game 2–1 courtesy of a Matt Simon goal in the eightieth minute. After the full-time whistle, star Jets striker Joel Griffiths grabbed Mariners midfielder John Hutchinson around the neck causing players from both sides to intervene. Referee Peter O’Leary sent off Mariners ‘ striker Dylan Macallister for abusive language .

Players [edit ]

First-team squad [edit ]

As of 28 December 2021

note : Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .

Personnel [edit ]

Managers [edit ]

  • Australia (2001 – 2004)
  • England (1 January 2005 – 31 December 2005)
  • Australia (2006)
  • Australia (2006 – 2009)
  • Australia (1 January 2009 – 4 October 2011)
  • Australia (3 October 2011 – 20 October 2011)
  • Australia [106] – 20 January 2014)[107] ( 20 October 2011– 20 January 2014 )
  • Australia (20 January 2014 – 5 May 2014)
  • Australia (5 May 2014[108] – 26 May 2015)[109]
  • Australia (18 June 2015[110] – 7 September 2016)[111]
  • Australia (23 September 2016[112] – 16 April 2017)[113]
  • Scotland (9 May 2017[59] – 6 January 2020[114]
  • Australia (6 January 2020[114] – 6 February 2020)
  • Wales (6 February 2020 – 15 October 2020)[115]
  • Australia (15 October 2020 – 10 February 2021)
  • Australia (10 February 2021 – 10 June 2021)[116]
  • Australia (28 June 2021 – present)[117]

Records [edit ]

temper by season record [edit ]

Champions Runners-up Third Place

Continental [edit ]

Honours [edit ]

domestic [edit ]

Winners (1) : 2008
Runners-Up (1): 2018

Emerging Jets Academy [edit ]

The Emerging Jets program is underpinned by a tri-party agreement between the National Body ( Football Federation Australia ), the Member Federation ( Northern New South Wales Football Federation ) and the local A-League club ( Newcastle Jets ). The integrated talented player nerve pathway by definition provides a compendious and clearly discernible development program for players from deoxyadenosine monophosphate young as eight years to the National Youth League, A-League and W-League. In January 2015 the Emerging Jets Program moved to the Lake Macquarie Regional Football Facility. For the first gear fourth dimension since its inauguration the Emerging Jets have a home al-qaeda for their training and fixtures. The Lake Macquarie Regional Football Facility has besides been the home of Northern NSW Football since late 2014. The plan is designed to provide players with the opportunity to develop their skills through access to timbre coach, competitive opportunities and support services. The program aims to provide identify players and coaches with the opportunity to reach their full electric potential. The parties besides have the inhalation to develop players who have the ability to showcase the region in the worldly concern ‘s biggest leagues and inhale future generations of grassroots players and Emerging Jets players .

See besides [edit ]

References [edit ]