List of Newcastle Jets FC players

Newcastle Jets Football Club is an Australian professional association football club based in Newcastle, New South Wales. The club was formed in 2000 as Newcastle United, and played their first competitive match in October 2000, when they entered the First Round of the 2000–01 National Soccer League. The club was renamed Newcastle Jets in 2004. Since playing their first competitive match, over 200 players have made a competitive first-team appearance for the club, of whom 14 players have made at least 100 appearances (including substitute appearances).

Newcastle Jets' record appearance-maker is Jason Hoffman, who has made a total of 214 appearances over a current 11-year playing career. Ben Kantarovski holds the record for the most starts, having started in 176 matches. Joel Griffiths is the club's top goalscorer with 61 goals in his 6 years with the club. Labinot Haliti's 46 substitute appearances for the side is a club record.

Key

• The list is ordered first by date of debut, and then if necessary in alphabetical order.
• Appearances as a substitute are included.
• Statistics are correct up to and including the match played on 1 January 2023. Where a player left the club permanently after this date, his statistics are updated to his date of leaving.

Nationality

Unless otherwise noted, the nationality of a player is determined by the country/countries which he has played for, or if said person has not played international football, their country of birth.

Position

Playing positions are listed according to the tactical formations that were employed at the time.

Club career

Club career is defined as the first and last calendar years in which the player appeared for the club in any of the competitions listed below.

Total appearances and Total goals

Total appearances and goals comprise those in the National Soccer League, A-League Men, Australia Cup, A-League Pre-Season Challenge Cup, AFC Champions League and the 2005 Australian Club World Championship Qualifying Tournament.

Players

Players highlighted in bold are still actively playing at Perth Glory

List of Newcastle Jets FC players with 100 or more appearances

Player	Nationality	Pos	Club career	Starts	Subs	Total	Goals	Ref.
				Appearances
Joel Griffiths	Australia	FW	2001–2003 2006–2009 2014–2015	130	8	138	61	[1][2]
Ryan Griffiths	Australia	FW	2002–2004 2011–2013	93	15	108	28	[3][4]
Jobe Wheelhouse	Australia	MF	2003–2013	116	25	141	13	[5][6]
Nigel Boogaard	Australia	DF	2004 2015–2021	126	2	128	5	[7][8]
Labinot Haliti	Australia	FW	2005–2006 2009–2012 2015–2017	65	46	111	16	[9]
Matt Thompson	Australia	DF	2005–2010	144	1	145	20	[10]
Tarek Elrich	Australia	DF	2005–2012	135	18	153	5	[11]
Adam D'Apuzzo	Australia	DF	2006–2011	97	25	122	0	[12]
Ben Kennedy	Australia	GK	2006–2016	125	3	128	0	[13]
Jason Hoffman	Australia	FW	2007–2010 2015–	171	43	214	16	[14]
Ben Kantarovski	Australia	MF	2008–2020	176	34	210	9	[15]
Nikolai Topor-Stanley	Australia	DF	2009–2012 2017–2021	198	4	202	9	[16]
Steven Ugarkovic	Australia	MF	2016–2021	139	5	144	9	[17]
Angus Thurgate	Australia	MF	2018–	80	29	109	9	[18]

Captains

Dates	Captain[19]
2005–2006	Ned Zelic
2006–2007	Paul Okon
2007–2009	Jade North
2009–2010	Matt Thompson
2010–2011	Michael Bridges
2011–2013	Jobe Wheelhouse
2014–2015	Kew Jaliens
2015	Taylor Regan
2015–2021	Nigel Boogaard
2021–present	Matthew Jurman
2022–present	Carl Jenkinson
2022–present	Brandon O'Neill

References

External links

• Official Newcastle Jets website

This page was last edited on 20 December 2023, at 09:46