The deal comes as the Jets attempt to sew up contracts with valued staff ahead of new clubs joining the A-League.

The deals tie the Championship-winning pair to the club for the next five years.

Newcastle chairman Con Constantine added: “It is with great pleasure today that we sign the coach and the assistant coach for another five years. We’ve achieved something special here by sending the right message across the board.

“I think if we do it now it sends a very strong message to the players, which is very important, and also to our support base knowing that at the end of the day we have our coach for the next 5 years.”

Van Egmond said it was another step in developing football in the area.

“We want to build something," he said. "We want to ensure that football here at the Newcastle Jets Football Club is going to keep progressing, we want to ensure that the players within the Newcastle area, or the Northern New South Wales catchment if you like, will have opportunities.

“It’s important to have stability, and I’m over the moon with myself and obviously Mark joining on board to provide the stability for the football club to move forward.”

He added: “We can keep evolving the club in footballing sense and in an overall sense; obviously with Asia coming up it’s another journey the club is going to take.

“We’ve been probably one of the premier clubs as far as giving young ones a go and developing them and that won’t change in the next 5 years either.

"So the overall direction that the club is heading is something which I felt is something I definitely want to be part of, and with the support of the administration I think we can achieve great results."