Average Home A-League Crowd – 9553
Average Away A-League Crowd – 8321

Goals in Fixture
Jets – 44, Phoenix – 66
In New Zealand – 
Jets – 13, Phoenix – 39

1st Goals in Fixture
Jets – 13, Phoenix – 20

Cards in Fixture
Jets – 64 (57 yellow, 7 red), Phoenix 54 (50 yellow, 4 red)

Last Result – 
Newcastle Jets 1 (Hoffman 43′) – Wellington Phoenix 0 at North Harbour Stadium, A-League, Round 23, Season 2017/18

Starting line-ups from Last Meeting in Season 2017/18 Round 23

Biggest Win

Heaviest Defeat

Leading Scorers in fixture –

• Ernie Merrick – 3 matches (2 wins, 0 drawn, 1 loss = 67% win ratio)
• Mark Jones – 3 matches (0 wins, 1 drawn, 2 losses = 0% win ratio)
• Scott Miller – 3 matches (3 wins, 0 drawn, 0 losses = 100% win ratio)
• Phil Stubbins – 3 matches (0 wins, 1 draw, 2 losses = 0% win ratio)
• Gary Van Egmond – 12 matches (3 wins, 3 drawn and 6 losses = 25% win ratio)
• Richard Money – No matches
• Branko Culina – 7 matches (2 wins, 0 drawn, 5 losses = 29% win ratio)
• Nick Theodorakopoulos – No Matches
• Craig Deans – 1 Match (0 win, 0 drawn, 1 loss = 0% win ratio)
• Clayton Zane – 2 matches (1 wins, 0 drawn, 1 loss = 50% win ratio)

General

• The last occasion the Jets played the Phoenix in Round 1 was in 2015/16 when they came away with 3 points in a 2-1 win. The winning goal was scored by Milos Trifunovic.
• This was the Jets last win in Wellington.
• This is the 3rd occasion the Jets and Phoenix will meet in Round 1. The Jets have only faced Adelaide (4) on more occasions in Round 1.
• The Jets have conceded goals in the first half of the last 6 games, while scoring in just one of these.

Players

• Mitch Austin may become the 75th player to appear for the Jets and another team in the league.
• The next player to appear will be the 162nd capped player for the club in the league.
• Matt Ridenton will be the 16th player to appear for both teams in this fixture.
• Andrew Durante will make his 28th appearance against the Jets. This is 8th highest on the list, equal with Manny Muscat and Michael Theoklitos.

Newcastle Jets

• Newcastle lost 3 of 13 away games last year.
• The Jets scored in every away game last year.
• The Jets record in their last 5 games have been won 2, lost 3.
• Newcastle are 14 consecutive games without a clean sheet at Westpac Stadium.
• When scoring first, Newcastle’s record last year was 11 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss.