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2017–18 A-League

The 2017–18 A-League was the 41st season of top-flight soccer in Australia, and the 13th since the establishment of the A-League in 2004. The season began on 6 October 2017 and ended with the Grand Final on 5 May 2018.

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2017–18
6 October 2017 – 5 May 2018
Melbourne Victory (4th title)
Sydney FC (3rd title)
Sydney FCMelbourne VictoryNewcastle Jets
135
398 (2.95 per match)
Bobô (27 goals)
Sydney FC 6–0 Perth Glory(30 December 2017)
Central Coast Mariners 2–8 Newcastle Jets(14 April 2018)
Central Coast Mariners 2–8 Newcastle Jets(14 April 2018)
Sydney FC (7 games)
Sydney FC (15 games)
Central Coast Mariners (11 games)
Central Coast Mariners (6 games)
36,433Western Sydney Wanderers vs. Sydney FC(9 December 2017)
4,312Wellington Phoenix vs. Melbourne City(14 April 2018)
10,671 ( 1,623)
← 2016–17 2018–19 →

The 2017–18 A-League was the 41st season of top-flight soccer in Australia, and the 13th since the establishment of the A-League in 2004. The season began on 6 October 2017 and ended with the Grand Final on 5 May 2018.

Sydney FC won the A-League minor premiership, while Melbourne Victory won the Championship after defeating the Newcastle Jets 1–0 in the Grand Final on 5 May 2018; this marked the first time in A-League history in which the Championship was won by a team which finished outside the top 2.

Team	City	Home Ground	Capacity
Adelaide United	Adelaide	Coopers StadiumAdelaide Oval	17,00053,583
Brisbane Roar	Brisbane	Suncorp Stadium	52,500
Central Coast Mariners	Gosford	Central Coast Stadium	20,119
Melbourne City	Melbourne	AAMI Park	30,050
Melbourne Victory	Melbourne	Etihad StadiumAAMI Park	56,34730,050
Newcastle Jets	Newcastle	McDonald Jones Stadium	33,000
Perth Glory	Perth	nib Stadium	20,500
Sydney FC	Sydney	Allianz Stadium	45,500
Wellington Phoenix	Wellington	Westpac Stadium	34,500
Western Sydney Wanderers	Sydney	ANZ StadiumSpotless Stadium	84,00024,000

Team	Manager	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Kit sponsor
Adelaide United	Marco Kurz	Isaías	Macron	IGA
Brisbane Roar	John Aloisi	Matt McKay	Umbro	Central Home Loans
Central Coast Mariners	Wayne O'Sullivan	Alan Baró	Umbro	Masterfoods
Melbourne City	Warren Joyce	Michael Jakobsen	Nike	Etihad Airways
Melbourne Victory	Kevin Muscat	Carl Valeri	Adidas	Optislim & Optivite
Newcastle Jets	Ernie Merrick	Nigel Boogaard	Viva Sports	Ledman Group
Perth Glory	Kenny Lowe	Andy Keogh	Macron	QBE Insurance
Sydney FC	Graham Arnold	Alex Brosque	Puma	The Star
Wellington Phoenix	Chris Greenacre	Andrew Durante	Adidas	HuaweiCentury 21
Western Sydney Wanderers	Josep Gombau	Mark Bridge	Nike	NRMA Insurance

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position on table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Newcastle Jets	Mark Jones	Sacked	16 April 2017	Pre-season	Ernie Merrick	9 May 2017
Adelaide United	Guillermo Amor	Resigned	10 May 2017	Marco Kurz	16 June 2017
Melbourne City	Michael Valkanis	End of contract	10 May 2017	Warren Joyce	19 June 2017
Wellington Phoenix	Des Buckingham	End of contract	19 May 2017	Darije Kalezić	7 June 2017
Western Sydney Wanderers	Tony Popovic	Resigned	1 October 2017	Hayden Foxe (caretaker)	3 October 2017
Western Sydney Wanderers	Hayden Foxe (caretaker)	End of caretaker spell	1 November 2017	4th	Josep Gombau	1 November 2017
Wellington Phoenix	Darije Kalezić	Sacked	7 March 2018	10th	Chris Greenacre (caretaker)	7 March 2018
Central Coast Mariners	Paul Okon	Resigned	20 March 2018	9th	Wayne O'Sullivan (caretaker)	20 March 2018

Club	Visa 1	Visa 2	Visa 3	Visa 4	Visa 5	Non-Visa foreigner(s)	Former player(s)
Adelaide United	Johan Absalonsen	Daniel Adlung	Baba Diawara	Džengis Čavušević	Isaías	Pacifique Niyongabire2 Ersan Gülüm2	Karim Matmour
Brisbane Roar	Thomas Kristensen	Éric Bauthéac	Massimo Maccarone	Fahid Ben Khalfallah		Henrique1 Jamie Young2 Avraam Papadopoulos2 Dane Ingham2 Jack Hingert2
Central Coast Mariners	Wout Brama	Tom Hiariej	Alan Baró			Storm Roux2	Kwabena Appiah2 Asdrúbal
Melbourne City	Michael Jakobsen	Bart Schenkeveld	Marcin Budziński	Bruno Fornaroli		Iacopo La Rocca1 Manny Muscat2	Fernando Brandán Marcelo Carrusca1 Ross McCormack
Melbourne Victory	Matías Sánchez	Besart Berisha	Leroy George	Kosta Barbarouses		Jai Ingham2 Kenny Athiu2
Newcastle Jets	Wayne Brown	Roy O'Donovan	Ronald Vargas			Patito Rodríguez3 Ivan Vujica2 Daniel Georgievski2 Glen Moss2
Perth Glory	Joseph Mills	Andy Keogh	Andreu	Diego Castro	Xavi Torres
Sydney FC	Bobô	Jordy Buijs	Adrian Mierzejewski	Miloš Ninković	Fábio Ferreira
Wellington Phoenix	Goran Paracki	Roy Krishna	Marco Rossi	Andrija Kaluđerović	Matija Ljujić		Guilherme Finkler Ali Abbas1
Western Sydney Wanderers	Roly Bonevacia	Álvaro Cejudo	Raúl Llorente	Oriol Riera		Marcelo Carrusca1	Jumpei Kusukami

The following do not fill a Visa position:

1Those players who were born and started their professional career abroad but have since gained Australian citizenship (and New Zealand citizenship, in the case of Wellington Phoenix);

2Australian citizens (and New Zealand citizens, in the case of Wellington Phoenix) who have chosen to represent another national team;

3Injury Replacement Players, or National Team Replacement Players;

4Guest Players (eligible to play a maximum of fourteen games)

Club	First Marquee	Second Marquee	Mature Age Rookie	Captain	Vice-Captain
Adelaide United	Baba Diawara	None	None	Isaías	Jordan Elsey
Brisbane Roar	Brett Holman	Massimo Maccarone	Brendan White	Matt McKay	Jade North
Central Coast Mariners	Daniel De Silva	None	None	Alan Baró	None
Melbourne City	Bruno Fornaroli	Marcin Budziński	None	Michael Jakobsen	None
Melbourne Victory	Besart Berisha	None	None	Carl Valeri	Leigh Broxham
Newcastle Jets	Ronald Vargas	None	None	Nigel Boogaard	None
Perth Glory	Diego Castro	None	None	Andy Keogh	None
Sydney FC	Bobô	Miloš Ninković	None	Alex Brosque	Alex Wilkinson
Wellington Phoenix	None	None	None	Andrew Durante	None
Western Sydney Wanderers	Oriol Riera	Álvaro Cejudo	None	Mark Bridge	None

These are the attendance records of each of the teams at the end of the home and away season. The table does not include finals series attendances.

As of matches played on 15 April 2018.

Team	Hosted	Average	High	Low	Total
Melbourne Victory	14	17,631	35,792	8,370	246,832
Sydney FC	14	14,593	34,810	9,110	204,304
Western Sydney Wanderers	13	11,924	36,433	6,612	155,017
Newcastle Jets	14	11,016	18,156	6,258	154,218
Melbourne City	14	9,868	22,515	5,207	138,158
Adelaide United	13	9,830	19,416	7,021	127,790
Perth Glory	13	9,186	13,565	7,277	119,419
Brisbane Roar	14	9,093	11,485	5,192	127,299
Central Coast Mariners	13	7,194	12,044	4,973	93,525
Wellington Phoenix	13	5,694	8,154	4,312	74,022
{{{T11}}}	0	0	0	0	0
{{{T12}}}	0	0	0	0	0
League total	135	10,671	36,433	4,312	1,440,584

Round	Total	Games
66,814	5	13,363
86,537	5	17,307
85,558	5	17,118
45,757	5	9,151
61,403	5	12,281
48,008	5	9,602
46,569	5	9,314
39,323	5	7,865
37,224	5	7,445
73,636	5	14,727
44,008	5	8,802
55,153	5	11,031
59,479	5	11,896
51,890	5	10,378
44,845	5	8,969
48,325	5	9,665
50,613	5	10,123
50,514	5	10,103
45,865	5	9,173
46,316	5	9,263
59,729	5	11,946
60,794	5	12,159
43,918	5	8,784
33,053	5	6,611
58,202	5	11,640
47,837	5	9,567
49,184	5	9,837
23,259	2	11,630
36,906	2	18,453
29,410	1	29,410

Club	Members
6,906
9,345
7,124
11,255
26,095
9,195
9,368
14,834
5,289
19,007

As of matches played on 15 April 2018

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Bobô	Sydney FC	27
2	Oriol Riera	Western Sydney Wanderers	15
3	Ross McCormack	Melbourne City	14
4	Besart Berisha	Melbourne Victory	13
Adrian Mierzejewski	Sydney FC
6	Andrew Nabbout	Newcastle Jets	10
Dimitri Petratos	Newcastle Jets
8	Andrija Kaluđerović	Wellington Phoenix	9
Massimo Maccarone	Brisbane Roar
Roy O'Donovan	Newcastle Jets
Dario Vidošić	Wellington PhoenixMelbourne City

Player	For	Against	Result	Date
Roy O'Donovan	Newcastle Jets	Central Coast Mariners	5–1	7 October 2017
Bobô	Sydney FC	Wellington Phoenix	1–4	23 December 2017
Bobô	Sydney FC	Perth Glory	6–0	30 December 2017
Besart Berisha	Melbourne Victory	Central Coast Mariners	5–2	18 March 2018
Riley McGree	Newcastle Jets	Central Coast Mariners	2–8	14 April 2018

As of matches played on 15 April 2018

Player	Club	Against	Round
Thomas Deng	Melbourne Victory	Sydney FC	1
Brendan Hamill	Western Sydney Wanderers	Perth Glory	1
Nigel Boogaard	Newcastle Jets	Brisbane Roar	3
Andrija Kaluđerović	Wellington Phoenix	Central Coast Mariners	8
Goran Paracki	Wellington Phoenix	Melbourne Victory	9
Lachlan Scott	Western Sydney Wanderers	Sydney FC	10
Jeremy Walker	Perth Glory	Newcastle Jets	10
Mark Milligan	Melbourne Victory	Wellington Phoenix	15
Dino Djulbic	Perth Glory	Adelaide United	19
Shane Lowry	Perth Glory	Wellington Phoenix	20
Ryan Strain	Adelaide United	Central Coast Mariners	20
Taylor Regan	Adelaide United	Melbourne Victory	21
Leigh Broxham	Melbourne Victory	Wellington Phoenix	26
Jacob Pepper	Brisbane Roar	Perth Glory	27

As of matches played on 15 April 2018

Rank	Player	Club	Cleansheets
1	Andrew Redmayne	Sydney FC	12
2	Dean Bouzanis	Melbourne City	6
3	Ben Kennedy	Central Coast Mariners	5
Jamie Young	Brisbane Roar
5	Jack Duncan	Newcastle Jets	4
Vedran Janjetović	Western Sydney Wanderers
Liam Reddy	Perth Glory
8	Eugene Galekovic	Melbourne City	3
Paul Izzo	Adelaide United
Glen Moss	Newcastle Jets
Lawrence Thomas	Melbourne Victory

During the season each club is given fair play points based on the number of cards they received in games. A yellow card is worth 1 point, a second yellow card is worth 2 points, and a red card is worth 3 points. At the annual awards night, the club with the fewest points wins the Fair Play Award.

Club				.mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}FP Pts
Sydney FC	38	0	1	41
Newcastle Jets	51	1	1	56
Wellington Phoenix	54	0	1	57
Melbourne City	44	2	3	57
Perth Glory	59	0	1	62
Adelaide United	51	2	3	64
Central Coast Mariners	50	3	3	65
Melbourne Victory	53	2	3	66
Brisbane Roar	62	0	2	68
Western Sydney Wanderers	61	3	2	73
League total	523	13	20

The following end of the season awards were announced at the 2017–18 Dolan Warren Awards night on 30 April 2018.

Johnny Warren Medal – Adrian Mierzejewski, Sydney FC
NAB Young Footballer of the Year – Daniel Arzani, Melbourne City
Nike Golden Boot Award – Bobô, Sydney FC (27 goals)
Goalkeeper of the Year – Jamie Young, Brisbane Roar
Coach of the Year – Graham Arnold, Sydney FC
Fair Play Award – Sydney FC
Referee of the Year – Jarred Gillett
Goal of the Year – Andrew Nabbout, Newcastle Jets (Western Sydney Wanderers v Newcastle Jets, 16 February 2018)

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