2017–18 Indian Super League

Indian Super League
Season	2017–18
Dates	17 November 2017 – 17 March 2018
Champions	Chennaiyin; (2nd title); 1st Indian title
AFC Cup	Chennaiyin
Matches	95
Goals	261 (2.75 per match)
Top goalscorer	Coro; (18 goals)
Best goalkeeper	Subrata Pal; (102.74 mins per goal)
Biggest home win	Pune City 5–0 NorthEast United; (30 December 2017)
Biggest away win	Delhi Dynamos 1–5 Goa; (16 December 2017); Pune City 0–4 Goa; (25 February 2018)
Highest scoring	Goa 4–3 Bengaluru; (30 November 2017); Goa 5–2 Kerala Blasters; (9 December 2017); Goa 3–4 Mumbai City; (28 January 2018); Delhi Dynamos 4–3 ATK; (24 February 2018)
Longest winning run	Bengaluru; (5 games)
Longest unbeaten run	Bengaluru; (10 games)
Longest winless run	Delhi Dynamos; ATK; (8 games)
Longest losing run	Delhi Dynamos; (6 games)
Highest attendance	37,986; Kerala Blasters 1–3 Bengaluru; (31 December 2017)
Lowest attendance	1,121; North East United 0–1 Kerala Blasters; (17 February 2018)
Total attendance	1,399,409
Average attendance	15,047
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The 2017–18 Indian Super League season was the fourth season of the Indian Super League, one of the top Indian professional football leagues. It was established in 2013. The regular season started on 17 November 2017 and ended on 4 March 2018,^[1] The Playoffs began on 7 March 2018, concluding with the final on 17 March 2018. ATK were the defending champions from the 2016 season, however they could not advance to the playoffs. Chennaiyin won their second Indian Super League title by defeating Bengaluru 3–2 in the final.^[2]

Season2017–18

Dates17 November 2017 – 17 March 2018

ChampionsChennaiyin
(2nd title)
1st Indian title

AFC CupChennaiyin

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Two new sides joined the league as expansion teams: Bengaluru and Jamshedpur. The two new clubs are the ninth and tenth teams in the league. This made it the first edition of the ISL in which there are more than eight teams participating.^[3] As well as expanding two teams, the league also expanded two more months, being played in five months instead of three.^[3] Away goal rule is introduced in semifinals stage in this season.

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Team	City/State	Stadium	Capacity
ATK	Kolkata, West Bengal	Salt Lake Stadium	68,012^[4]
Bengaluru	Bengaluru, Karnataka	Sree Kanteerava Stadium	25,810^[5]
Chennaiyin	Chennai, Tamil Nadu	Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium	19,691^[6]
Delhi Dynamos	Delhi	Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium	32,000^[7]
Goa	Margao, Goa	Fatorda Stadium	18,600^[8]
Jamshedpur	Jamshedpur, Jharkhand	JRD Tata Sports Complex	24,424^[9]
Kerala Blasters	Kochi, Kerala	Kaloor Stadium	38,086^[10]
Mumbai City	Mumbai, Maharashtra	Mumbai Football Arena	9,300^[11]
NorthEast United	Guwahati, Assam	Indira Gandhi Athletic Stadium	23,627^[12]
Pune City	Pune, Maharashtra	Balewadi Stadium	10,237^[13]

Team	Head coach	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
ATK	Robbie Keane (Player Manager)	Nivia^[17]	CESC Limited^[17]
Bengaluru	Albert Roca	Puma^[18]	JSW^[18]
Chennaiyin	John Gregory	Performax^[19]	Apollo Tyres^[20]
Delhi Dynamos	Miguel Ángel Portugal	T10 Sports^[21]	Kent RO Systems^[22]
Goa	Sergio Lobera	None^[23]	Deltin^[23]
Jamshedpur	Steve Coppell	Nivia^[24]	Tata^[24]
Kerala Blasters	David James	Admiral^[25]	Muthoot Pappachan^[26]
Mumbai City	Alexandre Guimarães	T10 Sports^[27]	Ace Group^[28]
NorthEast United	Avram Grant	Performax^[29]	McDowell's No. 1^[30]
Pune City	Ranko Popović	Adidas^[31]	Suzuki Gixxer^[32]

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Goa	Zico	Contract finished	18 December 2016	Pre-season	Sergio Lobera	6 June 2017^[33]
Delhi Dynamos	Gianluca Zambrotta	Mutual consent	14 June 2017^[34]		Miguel Ángel Portugal	29 June 2017^[35]
Chennaiyin	Marco Materazzi	Mutual consent	6 March 2017^[36]		John Gregory	3 July 2017^[37]
Jamshedpur	Expansion club				Steve Coppell	14 July 2017^[38]
Kerala Blasters	Steve Coppell	Mutual consent	12 July 2017^[39]		René Meulensteen	14 July 2017^[40]
ATK	José Francisco Molina		18 December 2016		Teddy Sheringham	14 July 2017^[41]
NorthEast United	Nelo Vingada		15 May 2017^[42]		João de Deus	17 July 2017^[43]
Pune City	Antonio López Habas		15 September 2017^[44]		Ranko Popović	25 September 2017^[45]
Kerala Blasters	René Meulensteen	Sacked	3 January 2018^[46]	8th	David James	3 January 2018^[47]
NorthEast United	João de Deus		3 January 2018^[48]	9th	Avram Grant	12 January 2018^[49]
ATK	Teddy Sheringham		24 January 2018^[50]	8th	Ashley Westwood (Interim)	24 January 2018^[50]
ATK	Ashley Westwood	Resignation	2 March 2018^[51]	9th	Robbie Keane (Player Manager)	3 March 2018^[52]

ATK (8)	Bengaluru (8)	Chennaiyin (8)	Delhi Dynamos (8)	Goa (8)
Robbie Keane Zequinha Conor Thomas Jordi Figueras Tom Thorpe Ryan Taylor Martin Paterson Sibongakonke Mbatha	John Johnson Juanan Erik Paartalu Dimas Toni Dovale Miku Daniel Segovia Víctor Pérez	Iñigo Calderón Raphael Augusto Rene Mihelič Jaime Gavilán Jude Nworuh Gregory Nelson Henrique Sereno Maílson Alves	Paulinho Dias Matías Mirabaje Gabriel Cichero Kalu Uche Manuel Arana Edu Moya Jeroen Lumu Xabi Irureta	Bruno Pinheiro Hugo Boumous Coro Ahmed Jahouh Chechi Manuel Lanzarote Edu Bedia Mark Sifneos
Jamshedpur (8)	Kerala Blasters (8)	Mumbai City (8)	NorthEast United (8)	Pune City (8)
Tiri Sameehg Doutie Memo Kervens Belfort Andre Bikey Matheus Gonçalves Izu Azuka Wellington Priori	Iain Hume Courage Pekuson Nemanja Lakić-Pešić Wes Brown Paul Rachubka Dimitar Berbatov Guðjón Baldvinsson Pulga	Lucian Goian Gerson Vieira Éverton Santos Rafa Jordà Léo Costa Márcio Rosário Achille Emaná Thiago Santos	Marcinho José Gonçalves Sambinha Martín Díaz Danilo Hélio Pinto Maic Sema John Mosquera	Emiliano Alfaro Marcos Tébar Marcelinho Rafa Jonatan Lucca Diego Carlos Marko Stanković Lolo

Home \ Away	KOL	BEN	CHE	DEL	GOA	JAM	KER	MUM	NEU	PUN
ATK	—	0–2	1–2	1–0	1–1	0–1	2–2	1–2	1–0	1–4
Bengaluru	1–0	—	1–2	4–1	2–0	0–1	2–0	2–0	2–1	1–1
Chennaiyin	3–2	1–3	—	2–2	2–3	1–1	1–1	1–0	3–0	1–0
Delhi Dynamos	4–3	2–0	1–1	—	1–5	0–1	1–3	5–1	0–2	2–2
Goa	5–1	4–3	0–1	1–1	—	2–1	5–2	3–4	2–2	0–2
Jamshedpur	0–0	0–2	0–1	3–2	0–3	—	2–1	2–2	1–0	0–1
Kerala Blasters	0–0	1–3	0–0	2–1	1–2	0–0	—	1–1	1–0	1–1
Mumbai City	0–1	1–3	1–0	4–0	2–1	1–2	0–1	—	3–2	0–2
NorthEast United	0–1	0–1	3–1	0–1	2–1	0–0	0–1	0–2	—	0–1
Pune City	3–0	1–3	0–1	2–3	0–4	2–1	1–2	2–1	5–0	—

2017–18 Indian Super League

Teams

Stadiums and locations

Expansion

Personnel and sponsorship

Managerial changes

Roster changes

Overseas players

Regular season

Results

Playoffs

Bracket

Semi-finals

Final

Season statistics

Scoring

Top scorers

Top Indian scorers

Hat-tricks

Assists

Cleansheets

Discipline

Average home attendances

Awards

Hero of the Match

Emerging Player of the Match

Fans' Player of the Month

Fans' Team of the Season

End-of-season awards

See also

Notes

References

External links

Related Articles

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Bengaluru	18	13	1	4	35	16	+19	40	Qualification for ISL play-offs
2	Chennaiyin^[a] (C)	18	9	5	4	24	19	+5	32
3	Goa	18	9	3	6	42	28	+14	30
4	Pune City	18	9	3	6	30	21	+9	30
5	Jamshedpur	18	7	5	6	16	18	−2	26
6	Kerala Blasters	18	6	7	5	20	22	−2	25
7	Mumbai City	18	7	2	9	25	29	−4	23
8	Delhi Dynamos	18	5	4	9	27	37	−10	19
9	ATK	18	4	4	10	16	30	−14	16
10	NorthEast United	18	3	2	13	12	27	−15	11

Semi-finals					Final

1	Bengaluru	0	3	3

4	Pune City	0	1	1
					1	Bengaluru	2

					2	Chennaiyin	3
2	Chennaiyin	1	3	4

3	Goa	1	0	1

Player	For	Against	Result	Date	Ref
Coro	Goa	Bengaluru	4–3 (H)	30 November 2017	^[55]
Coro	Goa	Kerala Blasters	5–2 (H)	9 December 2017	^[56]
Marcelinho	Pune City	NorthEast United	5–0 (H)	30 December 2017	^[57]
Iain Hume	Kerala Blasters	Delhi Dynamos	3–1 (A)	10 January 2018	^[58]
Seiminlen Doungel	NorthEast United	Chennaiyin	3–1 (H)	19 January 2018	^[59]
Sunil Chhetri	Bengaluru	Pune City	3–1 (H)	11 March 2018	^[60]

Rank	Player	Club	Clean sheets
1	Subrata Pal	Jamshedpur	7
	Gurpreet Singh Sandhu	Bengaluru
	Karanjit Singh	Chennaiyin
	Vishal Kaith	Pune City
5	Paul Rachubka	Kerala Blasters	5
6	Debjit Majumder	ATK	4
7	Rehenesh TP	NorthEast United	2
	Amrinder Singh	Mumbai City
	Naveen Kumar	Goa
Source:^[62]

Team	GP	Cumulative	High	Low	Mean
Kerala Blasters	9	285,870	37,986	16,796	31,763
Jamshedpur	9	192,367	24,212	8,178	21,374
Bengaluru	11	209,584	25,753	12,564	19,053
Goa	10	176,038	18,600	16,221	17,604
Chennaiyin	10	155,377	19,013	12,499	15,538
ATK	9	114,021	32,816	3,165	12,669
Pune City	10	87,111	9,968	6,612	8,711
NorthEast United	8	65,736	21,151	1,121	8,217
Delhi Dynamos	8	55,086	11,453	2,332	6,886
Mumbai City	9	58,039	8,597	4,222	6,449
Total	93	1,399,409	37,986	1,121	15,047
Source:^[65]

Match	Hero of the Match		Match	Hero of the Match		Match	Hero of the Match
Match	Player	Club	Match	Player	Club	Match	Player	Club
Match 1	Nemanja Lakić-Pešić	Kerala Blasters	Match 33	Jeje Lalpekhlua	Chennaiyin	Match 65	Dimas Delgado	Bengaluru
Match 2	Marcinho	NorthEast United	Match 34	Éverton Santos	Mumbai City	Match 66	Adil Khan	Pune City
Match 3	Manuel Lanzarote	Goa	Match 35	Marcelinho	Pune City	Match 67	Ryan Taylor	ATK
Match 4	Sunil Chhetri	Bengaluru	Match 36	Sunil Chhetri	Bengaluru	Match 68	Dimas Delgado	Bengaluru
Match 5	Lallianzuala Chhangte	Delhi Dynamos	Match 37	Edu Bedia	Goa	Match 69	Wellington Priori	Jamshedpur
Match 6	Raphael Augusto	Chennaiyin	Match 38	Mark Sifneos	Kerala Blasters	Match 70	Marcos Tébar	Pune City
Match 7	Mehtab Hossain	Jamshedpur	Match 39	Izu Azuka	Jamshedpur	Match 71	Maílson Alves	Chennaiyin
Match 8	Éverton Santos	Mumbai City	Match 40	Marcinho	Northeast United	Match 72	Kalu Uche	Delhi Dynamos
Match 9	Marcelinho	Pune City	Match 41	Jeje Lalpekhlua	Chennaiyin	Match 73	Maílson Alves	Chennaiyin
Match 10	Erik Paartalu	Bengaluru	Match 42	Juanan	Bengaluru	Match 74	Miku	Bengaluru
Match 11	Gerson Vieira	Mumbai City	Match 43	Iain Hume	Kerala Blasters	Match 75	Wes Brown	Kerala Blasters
Match 12	Coro	Goa	Match 44	Bruno Pinheiro	Goa	Match 76	Wellington Priori	Jamshedpur
Match 13	Memo	Jamshedpur	Match 45	Zequinha	ATK	Match 77	Márcio Rosário	Mumbai City
Match 14	Halicharan Narzary	NorthEast United	Match 46	Maílson Alves	Chennaiyin	Match 78	Kalu Uche	Delhi Dynamos
Match 15	Jerry Lalrinzuala	Chennaiyin	Match 47	Lallianzuala Chhangte	Delhi Dynamos	Match 79	Éverton Santos	Mumbai City
Match 16	Balwant Singh	Mumbai City	Match 48	Iain Hume	Kerala Blasters	Match 80	Karanjit Singh	Chennaiyin
Match 17	André Bikey	Jamshedpur	Match 49	Memo	Jamshedpur	Match 81	Kalu Uche	Delhi Dynamos
Match 18	Jeje Lalpekhlua	Chennaiyin	Match 50	Sunil Chhetri	Bengaluru	Match 82	Coro	Goa
Match 19	Miku	Bengaluru	Match 51	Seiminlen Doungel	NorthEast United	Match 83	Gurpreet Singh Sandhu	Bengaluru
Match 20	Coro	Goa	Match 52	Diego Carlos	Pune City	Match 84	Matías Mirabaje	Delhi Dynamos
Match 21	Marcos Tébar	Pune City	Match 53	Wellington Priori	Jamshedpur	Match 85	Manuel Lanzarote	Goa
Match 22	Achille Emaná	Mumbai City	Match 54	Edu Bedia	Goa	Match 86	Miku	Bengaluru
Match 23	Miku	Bengaluru	Match 55	Emiliano Alfaro	Pune City	Match 87	Kalu Uche	Delhi Dynamos
Match 24	Wes Brown	Kerala Blasters	Match 56	Anirudh Thapa	Chennaiyin	Match 88	Jaime Gavilán	Chennaiyin
Match 25	Arana	Goa	Match 57	Juanan	Bengaluru	Match 89	Coro	Goa
Match 26	Maílson Alves	Chennaiyin	Match 58	Deependra Singh Negi	Kerala Blasters	Match 90	Robbie Keane	ATK
Match 27	Zequinha	ATK	Match 59	Thiago Santos	Mumbai City	Match 91 (SF)	Marko Stanković	Pune City
Match 28	Gerson Vieira	Mumbai City	Match 60	Matheus Gonçalves	Jamshedpur	Match 92 (SF)	Gregory Nelson	Chennaiyin
Match 29	Miku	Bengaluru	Match 61	Subrata Pal	Jamshedpur	Match 93 (SF)	Sunil Chhetri	Bengaluru
Match 30	Karanjit Singh	Chennaiyin	Match 62	Marcelinho	Pune City	Match 94 (SF)	Maílson Alves	Chennaiyin
Match 31	Adil Khan	Pune City	Match 63	Gurpreet Singh Sandhu	Bengaluru	Match 95 (F)	Maílson Alves	Chennaiyin
Match 32	Robbie Keane	ATK	Match 64	Coro	Goa

Month	Player of the Month		Reference
Month	Player	Club	Reference
November	Paul Rachubka	Kerala Blasters	^[66]
December	Jeje Lalpekhlua	Chennaiyin	^[67]
January	Iain Hume	Kerala Blasters	^[68]
February	Maílson Alves	Chennaiyin	^[69]

Position	Player	Club^[70]
GK	Gurpreet Singh Sandhu	Bengaluru
DF	Sandesh Jhingan	Kerala Blasters
DF	Lucian Goian	Mumbai City
DF	Lalruatthara	Kerala Blasters
DF	Tiri	Jamshedpur
MF	Manuel Lanzarote	Goa
MF	Raphael Augusto	Chennaiyin
MF	Wellington Priori	Jamshedpur
FW	Coro	Goa
FW	Sunil Chhetri	Bengaluru
FW	Miku	Bengaluru

Award	Player	Club
Hero of the League	Sunil Chhetri	Bengaluru
Emerging Player of the League	Lalruatthara	Kerala Blasters
Golden Glove	Subrata Pal	Jamshedpur
Winning Pass Award	Udanta Singh	Bengaluru
Golden Boot	Coro	Goa
Fittest Player of the League	Iñigo Calderón	Chennaiyin
Best Pitch of the Season	Delhi Dynamos