diff --git a/lib/net.js b/lib/net.js
index 3944b9627c86f1..31f1c31bf3d23d 100644
--- a/lib/net.js
+++ b/lib/net.js
@@ -574,14 +574,16 @@ function onread(nread, buffer) {
 
   debug('EOF');
 
+  // push a null to signal the end of data.
+  // Do it before `maybeDestroy` for correct order of events:
+  // `end` -> `close`
+  self.push(null);
+
   if (self._readableState.length === 0) {
     self.readable = false;
     maybeDestroy(self);
   }
 
-  // push a null to signal the end of data.
-  self.push(null);
-
   // internal end event so that we know that the actual socket
   // is no longer readable, and we can start the shutdown
   // procedure. No need to wait for all the data to be consumed.
diff --git a/test/parallel/test-net-end-close.js b/test/parallel/test-net-end-close.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..d9f33fd7d8d1cf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/parallel/test-net-end-close.js
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+'use strict';
+require('../common');
+const assert = require('assert');
+const net = require('net');
+
+const uv = process.binding('uv');
+
+const s = new net.Socket({
+  handle: {
+    readStart: function() {
+      process.nextTick(() => this.onread(uv.UV_EOF, null));
+    },
+    close: (cb) => process.nextTick(cb)
+  },
+  writable: false
+});
+s.resume();
+
+const events = [];
+
+s.on('end', () => events.push('end'));
+s.on('close', () => events.push('close'));
+
+process.on('exit', () => {
+  assert.deepStrictEqual(events, [ 'end', 'close' ]);
+});