diff --git a/Tasks/DownloadBuildArtifactsV0/Strings/resources.resjson/en-US/resources.resjson b/Tasks/DownloadBuildArtifactsV0/Strings/resources.resjson/en-US/resources.resjson
index 5d0842feff33..3a3d02c97b1f 100644
--- a/Tasks/DownloadBuildArtifactsV0/Strings/resources.resjson/en-US/resources.resjson
+++ b/Tasks/DownloadBuildArtifactsV0/Strings/resources.resjson/en-US/resources.resjson
@@ -29,6 +29,8 @@
   "loc.input.help.itemPattern": "Specify files to be downloaded as multi line minimatch pattern. [More Information](https://aka.ms/minimatchexamples) <p>The default pattern (\\*\\*) will download all files across all artifacts in the build if \"Specific files\" option is selected. To download all files within artifact drop use drop/**.</p>",
   "loc.input.label.downloadPath": "Destination directory",
   "loc.input.help.downloadPath": "Path on the agent machine where the artifacts will be downloaded",
+  "loc.input.label.cleanDestinationFolder": "Clean destination folder",
+  "loc.input.help.cleanDestinationFolder": "Delete all existing files in destination folder before artifact download",
   "loc.input.label.parallelizationLimit": "Parallelization limit",
   "loc.input.help.parallelizationLimit": "Number of files to download simultaneously",
   "loc.input.label.checkDownloadedFiles": "Check downloaded files",
@@ -63,5 +65,7 @@
   "loc.messages.IntegrityCheckNotPassed": "Artifact items integrity check failed",
   "loc.messages.IntegrityCheckPassed": "Artifact items integrity check successfully finished",
   "loc.messages.TarExtractionNotSupportedInWindows": "Tar extraction is not supported on Windows",
-  "loc.messages.NoTarsFound": "No tar archives were found to extract"
+  "loc.messages.NoTarsFound": "No tar archives were found to extract",
+  "loc.messages.CleaningDestinationFolder": "Cleaning destination folder: %s",
+  "loc.messages.NoFolderToClean": "Specified cleaning folder was not found. Nothing to clean"
 }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/Tasks/DownloadBuildArtifactsV0/file_helper.ts b/Tasks/DownloadBuildArtifactsV0/file_helper.ts
index 5dc021696cd8..c0b323c746e1 100644
--- a/Tasks/DownloadBuildArtifactsV0/file_helper.ts
+++ b/Tasks/DownloadBuildArtifactsV0/file_helper.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import { Stats, statSync as getFile } from 'fs';
+import { Stats, statSync as getFile, readdirSync } from 'fs';
 import * as path from 'path';
 
 import * as tl from 'azure-pipelines-task-lib/task';
@@ -102,3 +102,39 @@ function extractTar(tarArchivePath: string, extractedFilesDir: string): void {
         throw new Error(`Couldn't extract artifact files from a tar archive: ${tarExecResult.error}`);
     }
 }
+
+/**
+ * Removes content from specified folder path
+ * @param  {string} folderToClean - path to the folder to clean up content
+ * @throws File system exeptions
+ * @returns void
+ */
+export function cleanUpFolder(folderToClean: string): void {
+    console.log(tl.loc('CleaningDestinationFolder', folderToClean));
+
+    // stat the specified folder path
+    let destinationFolderStats: tl.FsStats;
+    try {
+        destinationFolderStats = tl.stats(folderToClean);
+    } catch (err) {
+        if (err.code != 'ENOENT') {
+            throw err;
+        } else {
+            tl.warning(tl.loc('NoFolderToClean'));
+        }
+    }
+
+    if (destinationFolderStats) {
+        if (destinationFolderStats.isDirectory()) {
+            // delete the child items
+            readdirSync(folderToClean)
+                .forEach((item: string) => {
+                    let itemPath = path.join(folderToClean, item);
+                    tl.rmRF(itemPath);
+                });
+        } else {
+            // specified folder is not a directory. delete it.
+            tl.rmRF(folderToClean);
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/Tasks/DownloadBuildArtifactsV0/main.ts b/Tasks/DownloadBuildArtifactsV0/main.ts
index 9f6c96fbebf1..3c4e1e467148 100644
--- a/Tasks/DownloadBuildArtifactsV0/main.ts
+++ b/Tasks/DownloadBuildArtifactsV0/main.ts
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ import { DownloadHandlerFilePath } from './DownloadHandlers/DownloadHandlerFileP
 
 import { resolveParallelProcessingLimit } from './download_helper';
 
-import { extractTarsIfPresent } from './file_helper';
+import { extractTarsIfPresent, cleanUpFolder } from './file_helper';
 
 var taskJson = require('./task.json');
 
@@ -80,6 +80,7 @@ async function main(): Promise<void> {
         var allowPartiallySucceededBuilds: boolean = tl.getBoolInput("allowPartiallySucceededBuilds", false);
         var branchName: string = tl.getInput("branchName", false);
         var downloadPath: string = path.normalize(tl.getInput("downloadPath", true));
+        var cleanDestinationFolder: boolean = tl.getBoolInput("cleanDestinationFolder", false);
         var downloadType: string = tl.getInput("downloadType", true);
         var tagFiltersInput: string = tl.getInput("tags", false);
         var tagFilters = [];
@@ -109,6 +110,11 @@ async function main(): Promise<void> {
         });
         var artifacts = [];
 
+        // Clean destination folder if requested
+        if (cleanDestinationFolder) {
+            cleanUpFolder(downloadPath);
+        }
+
         if (isCurrentBuild) {
             projectId = tl.getVariable("System.TeamProjectId");
             definitionId = '';
diff --git a/Tasks/DownloadBuildArtifactsV0/task.json b/Tasks/DownloadBuildArtifactsV0/task.json
index 475f71bde7d3..16579525c823 100644
--- a/Tasks/DownloadBuildArtifactsV0/task.json
+++ b/Tasks/DownloadBuildArtifactsV0/task.json
@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@
     "author": "Microsoft Corporation",
     "version": {
         "Major": 0,
-        "Minor": 188,
-        "Patch": 3
+        "Minor": 190,
+        "Patch": 0
     },
     "groups": [
         {
@@ -170,6 +170,13 @@
             "required": true,
             "helpMarkDown": "Path on the agent machine where the artifacts will be downloaded"
         },
+        {
+            "name": "cleanDestinationFolder",
+            "type":"boolean",
+            "label": "Clean destination folder",
+            "defaultValue": false,
+            "helpMarkDown": "Delete all existing files in destination folder before artifact download"
+        },
         {
             "name": "parallelizationLimit",
             "type": "string",
@@ -288,7 +295,9 @@
         "IntegrityCheckNotPassed": "Artifact items integrity check failed",
         "IntegrityCheckPassed": "Artifact items integrity check successfully finished",
         "TarExtractionNotSupportedInWindows": "Tar extraction is not supported on Windows",
-        "NoTarsFound": "No tar archives were found to extract"
+        "NoTarsFound": "No tar archives were found to extract",
+        "CleaningDestinationFolder": "Cleaning destination folder: %s",
+        "NoFolderToClean": "Specified cleaning folder was not found. Nothing to clean"
     },
     "outputVariables": [
         {
diff --git a/Tasks/DownloadBuildArtifactsV0/task.loc.json b/Tasks/DownloadBuildArtifactsV0/task.loc.json
index e788e6a74f2e..8893c0a8de66 100644
--- a/Tasks/DownloadBuildArtifactsV0/task.loc.json
+++ b/Tasks/DownloadBuildArtifactsV0/task.loc.json
@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@
   "author": "Microsoft Corporation",
   "version": {
     "Major": 0,
-    "Minor": 188,
-    "Patch": 3
+    "Minor": 190,
+    "Patch": 0
   },
   "groups": [
     {
@@ -170,6 +170,13 @@
       "required": true,
       "helpMarkDown": "ms-resource:loc.input.help.downloadPath"
     },
+    {
+      "name": "cleanDestinationFolder",
+      "type": "boolean",
+      "label": "ms-resource:loc.input.label.cleanDestinationFolder",
+      "defaultValue": false,
+      "helpMarkDown": "ms-resource:loc.input.help.cleanDestinationFolder"
+    },
     {
       "name": "parallelizationLimit",
       "type": "string",
@@ -288,7 +295,9 @@
     "IntegrityCheckNotPassed": "ms-resource:loc.messages.IntegrityCheckNotPassed",
     "IntegrityCheckPassed": "ms-resource:loc.messages.IntegrityCheckPassed",
     "TarExtractionNotSupportedInWindows": "ms-resource:loc.messages.TarExtractionNotSupportedInWindows",
-    "NoTarsFound": "ms-resource:loc.messages.NoTarsFound"
+    "NoTarsFound": "ms-resource:loc.messages.NoTarsFound",
+    "CleaningDestinationFolder": "ms-resource:loc.messages.CleaningDestinationFolder",
+    "NoFolderToClean": "ms-resource:loc.messages.NoFolderToClean"
   },
   "outputVariables": [
     {