A-League 2025/26 Match Day 8 Wellington Phoenix v Newcastle Jets

FIXTURE FACTS
Overall ? 52 fixtures between the two teams. Of this, the teams have met on 51 occasions in the A-League and on 0 occasions in the Australia Cup, on 0 occasions in the NSL, on 0 occasions in the Asian Champions League, on 1 occasions in the Pre-Season Cup and on 0 in the OCC.
Jets Wins - 17, Phoenix Wins - 27, Drawn - 8

In Newcastle ? 25 matches.
Jets Wins - 11, Phoenix Wins - 10, Drawn - 4
In New Zealand - 27 matches
Jets Wins - 6, Phoenix Wins - 17, Drawn - 4
In Neutral venues 0 matches
Jets Wins - 0, Phoenix Wins - 0, Drawn - 0

Average Home A-League Crowd ? 7898
Average Away A-League Crowd - 7501

Goals in Fixture
Jets ? 74, Phoenix - 91
In New Zealand -
Jets ? 25, Phoenix - 55

1st Goals in Fixture
Jets ? 21, Phoenix - 29

Cards in Fixture
Jets - 102 (95 yellow, 7 red), Phoenix 90 (86 yellow, 4 red)

Last Result -
Newcastle Jets 1 (Oluwayemi 65' o.g.) - Wellington Phoenix 2 (Barbarouses 34', Nagasawa 41') at McDonald Jones Stadium, A-League, Round 22, Season 2024/25

Starting line-ups from Last Meeting in Season 2024/25 Match day 22
Newcastle Jets Wellington Phoenix
Ryan Scott Joshua Oluwayemi
Phillip Cancar Corban Piper
Kosta Grozos Isaac Hughes
Aleksandar Susnjar Scott Wotton
Kota Mizunuma Sam Sutton
Daniel Wilmering Alex Rufer
Lachlan Bayliss Tim Payne
Callum Timmins Matthew Sheridan
Eli Adams Kazuki Nagasawa
Thomas Aquilina Hideki Ishige
Lachlan Rose Kosta Barbarouses

FIXTURE RECORDS

Biggest Win
Jets 5 (Heskey 36?, Griffiths 46?, Taggart 57?, Taggart 77?, Bridges 90+3?) ? Phoenix 0 at Hunter Stadium, Round 24, Season 2013/14, 22/03/2014.

Heaviest Defeat
Jets 0 ? Phoenix 5 (Barbarouses 24', Finkler 36', Ridenton 49', Hoffman 66' o.g, Bonevacia 86'), Round 24, Season 2016/17 at Westpac Stadium, 26/03/2017.

Leading Scorers in fixture ?

Jets - Joel Griffiths, Roy O'Donovan, Jason Hoffman (4)
Phoenix - Shane Smeltz (6)


2025/26 SEASON STATISTICS
Number Name Appearances Starts Subbed On Subbed off Minutes Played Goals Assists Yellow Cards Red Cards Minutes per Goal Contribution Position
1 James Delianov 12 12 0 0 1110 0 0 0 0 0 GK
5 Joe Shaughnessey 4 3 1 0 271 0 0 0 0 0 DF
7 Eli Adams 5 0 5 0 161 1 2 1 0 53.6666666666667 MF
8 Lachlan Bayliss 10 4 6 4 379 0 0 2 0 0 DF
9 Lachlan Rose 11 5 6 5 482 2 0 0 0 241 FW
11 Ben Gibson 11 7 4 7 548 5 1 1 0 91.3333333333333 FW
13 Clayton Taylor 4 0 4 0 107 0 0 0 0 0 MF
14 Max Burgess 12 12 0 9 968 2 3 1 0 193.6 FW
15 Aleksandar Susnjar 9 9 0 0 840 0 0 5 0 0 DF
17 Kosta Grozos 11 9 2 1 858 0 1 1 1 858 MF
18 Kota Mizunuma 5 5 0 4 413 3 1 0 0 103.25 MF
19 Alexander Badolato 11 11 0 2 961 5 3 4 0 120.125 MF
21 Noah James 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 GK
22 Joel Bertolissio 7 3 4 2 394 0 0 0 0 0 MF
23 Daniel Wilmering 12 12 0 1 1095 2 4 1 0 182.5 DF
24 Alex Nunes 6 0 6 0 90 1 1 0 0 45 MF
25 Oscar Fryer 6 1 5 1 207 2 0 0 0 103.5 FW
28 Will Dobson 11 7 4 7 599 2 2 0 0 149.75 MF
33 Mark Natta 4 4 0 0 390 0 0 0 0 0 DF
39 Thomas Aquilina 9 7 2 3 615 0 2 1 0 307.5 DF
41 Lucas Scicluna 2 0 2 0 18 0 0 0 0 0 MF
42 Max Cooper 8 8 0 0 720 0 0 1 0 0 DF
43 Xavier Bertoncello 12 11 1 11 728 3 0 0 0 242.666666666667 FW
45 Christian Bracco 7 2 5 1 280 0 0 0 0 0 MF
46 Ethan Debono 1 0 1 0 28 0 0 0 0 0 MF
60 Garang Arou 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 DF


COACHING
Coaches Head to Head ? 0 matches
Mark Milligan - 0 wins, Giancarlo Italiano - 0 wins, 0 drawn

Newcastle Jets A-League Coaching Records ?
  • Mark Milligan - 0 matches (0 wins, 0 drawn, 0 losses = N/A% win ratio)
  • Robert Stanton - 5 matches (3 win, 0 drawn, 2 defeat = 60% win ratio)
  • Arthur Papas - 5 matches (1 win, 1 drawn, 3 defeat = 20% win ratio)
  • Carl Robinson - 1 match (1 win, 0 drawn, 0 defeats = 100% win ratio)
  • Ernie Merrick - 6 matches (2 wins, 1 draw, 3 defeats = 33% win ratio)
  • Mark Jones - 3 matches (0 wins, 1 drawn, 2 defeats = 0% win ratio)
  • Scott Miller - 3 matches (3 wins, 0 drawn, 0 defeats = 100% win ratio)
  • Phil Stubbins - 3 matches (0 wins, 1 draw, 2 defeats = 0% win ratio)
  • Clayton Zane ? 2 matches (1 wins, 0 drawn, 1 defeat = 50% win ratio)
  • Gary Van Egmond ? 12 matches (3 wins, 3 drawn and 6 defeats = 25% win ratio)
  • Craig Deans - 4 matches (1 win, 0 drawn, 3 defeat = 25% win ratio)
  • Branko Culina ? 7 matches (2 wins, 0 drawn, 5 defeats = 29% win ratio)
  • Nick Theodorakopoulos - No matches
  • Richard Money - No matches


Wellington Phoenix A-League Coach Record ? Giancarlo Italiano 60% win ratio (3 wins, 1 draw, 1 loss)