The 2019–20 season was Newcastle Jets' 19th season since its establishment in 2000. The club participated in 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 ...

for the 15th time and FFA Cup for the sixth time. On 24 March 2020, the FFA announced that the

2019–20 A-League The 2019–20 A-League, also known as the 2019–20 Hyundai A-League for sponsorship reasons, was the 43rd season of national level soccer in Australia, and the 15th since the establishment of the A-League in 2004. The regular season commenced o ...

season would be postponed until further notice due to the

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and

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, and subsequently extended indefinitely. The season resumed on 17 July 2020.

Players

Transfers

Transfers in

From youth squad

Transfers out

Contract extensions

Technical staff

Newcastle Jets started the season with

Ernie Merrick Ernest Merrick OAM (born 15 January 1953) is a Scottish-Australian coach, who last managed A-League soccer club Newcastle Jets. He was released on 6 January 2020. He was the former head coach of the Hong Kong national football team and A-League ...

as their head coach. Following bad results and sitting bottom of the table, Merrick was sacked in January 2020 and Newcastle Jets' W-League coach

Craig Deans Craig Deans (born 7 May 1974) is an Australian former Association football, football (soccer) player and former head coach of the Newcastle Jets. Playing career Deans was a central defender for multiple Australian clubs, with most of his appea ...

together with Qiang Li were appointed as caretaker coaches. A month later, Jets appointed Welshman

Carl Robinson Carl Robinson (born 13 October 1976) is a retired Welsh international footballer who played as a central midfielder. He is currently the assistant coach for Major League Soccer club D.C. United. Club career Wolverhampton Wanderers Robinson s ...

as the head coach, signing him on a 3.5 year contract. A week after his appointment, Robinson added Kenny Miller to the coaching staff. In June,

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was added to the coaching staff.

Squad statistics

Appearances and goals

Disciplinary record

Clean sheets

Pre-season and friendlies

Competitions

Overview

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FFA Cup

A-League

League table

Results summary

Result by round

Matches

References

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