The Newcastle Jets 2009–10 season was the

Newcastle Jets Newcastle United Jets Football Club, commonly known as Newcastle Jets, is an Australian professional soccer club based in Newcastle, New South Wales. It competes in the country's premier competition, the A-League, under licence from The Australia ...

' fifth season since the inception of the

A-League A-League Men (known as the Isuzu UTE A-League for sponsorship reasons) is the highest-level professional men's soccer league in Australia and New Zealand. At the top of the Australian league system, it is the country's premier men's competiti ...

and ninth since the club's founding, in 2000.

Players

First team squad

* * Injury replacement player for

Marko Jesic Marko Jesic (born 7 August 1989 in Fairfield, New South Wales) is an Australian football player of Serbian descent who plays for Marconi Stallions FC. Club career Jesic grew up on the streets of Bossley Park in Sydney's south west and was pr ...

. * ** Injury replacement player for Shaun Ontong.

Youth Squad

Transfers

In: * Dion Shaw – ''Promoted from youth team'' *

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Milton Keynes Dons Milton Keynes Dons Football Club (), usually abbreviated to MK Dons, is a professional association football club based in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England. The team competes in , the third tier of the English football league system. The ...

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Labinot Haliti Labinot Haliti (born 26 October 1985) is an Australian former professional footballer who played as a second striker or winger. Early life Haliti's was born in Pristina, and fled his home country at the age of 14 with his family, arriving in Au ...

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ŁKS Łódź ŁKS Łódź (''Łódzki Klub Sportowy Łódź''; ) is a Polish sports club based in Łódź. They are best known for their football club but are represented in many sports such as basketball, volleyball, tennis, athletics and in the past ice ...

'' * Ali Abbas Al-Hilfi – '' Marconi FC'' * Chris Triantis – ''

Sydney Olympic FC Sydney Olympic Football Club is an Australian semi-professional soccer club, based in Belmore, Sydney, New South Wales, that plays in the National Premier Leagues NSW. The Club was founded as Pan-Hellenic Soccer Club in 1957 by Greek immigrant ...

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Fabio Vignaroli Fabio Vignaroli (born June 7, 1976) is an Italian former football midfielder who last played for the Maltese club Balzan. Career In January 2003, he accepted an offer from the newly promoted Serie A team Modena and made his top-flight début i ...

– ''Contract Extended'' *

Neil Young Neil Percival Young (born November 12, 1945) is a Canadian-American singer and songwriter. After embarking on a music career in Winnipeg in the 1960s, Young moved to Los Angeles, joining Buffalo Springfield with Stephen Stills, Richie Furay ...

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Melbourne Knights Melbourne Knights Football Club is an Australian professional soccer club based in the suburb of Sunshine North, Melbourne. The club currently competes in the National Premier Leagues Victoria, the second-tier of the Australian soccer league ...

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Adam Griffiths Adam Griffiths (born 21 August 1979 in Sydney) is an Australian professional football manager who currently serves as the Assistant Coach of Western Sydney Wanderers. He is a former professional football (soccer) player and Socceroo. Since 202 ...

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Gold Coast United Gold Coast United Football Club is an Australian soccer club based in Gold Coast, Queensland. The earliest incarnation of the club formed in 1966 and its home ground was at Nikiforides Family Park in Broadbeach. The first era of Gold Coast Unit ...

'' * Joel Wood – ''Short Term ACL Contract Expired'' * Peter Haynes – ''Short Term ACL Contract Expired'' * Mitchell Johnson – ''Short Term ACL Contract Expired'' *

Nikolas Tsattalios Nikolas Constantinos Tsattalios (born 1 March 1990) is an Australian footballer who plays for Sydney Olympic FC. Club career Tsattalios grew up in Sydney playing for his local ''Carss Park Soccer Club,'' alongside former Sydney FC teammate Dean ...

– ''Short Term ACL Contract Expired'' * Jesse Pinto – ''Short Term ACL Contract Expired, Returned to Youth Team'' * Jarrad Ross – ''Short Term ACL Contract Expired, Returned to Youth Team'' * Ben McNamara – ''Short Term ACL Contract Expired'' Trialists: * Wang Dong * Xiao Zhanbo *

Andrea Merenda Andrea Merenda (born 10 June 1977 in Milan) is an Italian football midfielder who currently plays for Marconi Stallions in the NSW Premier League. Biography Merenda had been in training with the Mariners for a month before earning his shot at ...

Stephen Carson Stephen Carson (born 6 October 1980) is a former footballer, who is now director of coaching at FC Westchester. Career Carson started his senior career in the Scottish Premier League with Rangers. After only a handful of first team appearance ...

* Jorge Florentin * Felipe Garcia * Federico Arias Contract extensions *

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– ''2 years'' *

– ''2 years'' * Ben Kennedy – ''2 years'' *

– ''2 years'' *

– ''2 years''

Matches

Pre-season friendlies

2009–10 Hyundai A-League fixtures

2009–10 Finals series

Statistics

Goal scorers

Notes

References

External links

Official club websiteOfficial A-League websiteUnofficial supporters websiteOfficial Squadron website
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