2017–18 Cheltenham Town F.C. season

Cheltenham Town
2017–18 season
Chairman	Paul Baker
Manager	Gary Johnson
Stadium	Whaddon Road
League Two	17th
FA Cup	First round; (vs. Maidstone United)
EFL Cup	Second round; (vs. West Ham United)
EFL Trophy	Group stage
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The 2017–18 season was Cheltenham Town's 131st season in existence and their second consecutive season in League Two.^[1] Along with competing in League Two, the club also participated in the FA Cup, EFL Cup and EFL Trophy.

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The season covered the period from 1 July 2017 to 30 June 2018.

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Date	Opponents	Venue	Result	Score F–A	Scorers	Attendance	Ref
11 July 2017	Oxford City	A	L	1–2	Eisa		^[2]
14 July 2017	Bishop's Cleeve	A	W	6–0	Eisa (3), Winchester, Pell, Fondop-Talom	526	^[3]
17 July 2017	Evesham United	A	W	3–0	Wright, Eisa	550	^[4]
20 July 2017	Bath City	A	L	1–2	Winchester	165	^[5]
22 July 2017	Weston-super-Mare	A	L	1–2	Winchester		^[6]
25 July 2017	Bristol City	H	L	0–3		1,883	^[7]
29 July 2017	Peterborough United	H	L	1–5	Holman (pen)	1,017	^[8]

Date	League position	Opponents	Venue	Result	Score F–A	Scorers	Attendance	Ref
5 August 2017	18th	Morecambe	A	L	1–2	Eisa	1,450	^[9]
12 August 2017	13th	Crawley Town	H	W	1–0	Eisa	2,834	^[10]
19 August 2017	20th	Carlisle United	A	L	0–3		4,497	^[11]
26 August 2017	23rd	Exeter City	H	L	3–4	Dawson (2), Holman	3,168	^[12]
2 September 2017	24th	Stevenage	H	L	0–1		2,694	^[13]
9 September 2017	21st	Yeovil Town	A	D	0–0		2,732	^[14]
12 September 2017	22nd	Newport County	A	L	0–1		2,916	^[15]
16 September 2017	21st	Colchester United	H	W	3–1	Dawson, Eisa, Grimes	2,718	^[16]
23 September 2017	21st	Accrington Stanley	A	D	1–1	Eisa	1,321	^[17]
26 September 2017	16th	Mansfield Town	H	W	3–0	Graham, Morrell, Wright	2,480	^[18]
30 September 2017	13th	Chesterfield	A	W	2–0	Eisa (2)	5,305	^[19]
7 October 2017	12th	Swindon Town	H	W	2–1	Graham, Wright	5,050	^[20]
14 October 2017	13th	Port Vale	A	L	1–3	Dawson	4,277	^[21]
17 October 2017	16th	Grimsby Town	H	L	2–3	Pell, Winchester	2,468	^[22]
21 October 2017	12th	Lincoln City	H	W	1–0	Wright	3,312	^[23]
28 October 2017	15th	Wycombe Wanderers	A	D	3–3	Graham (2), Winchester	4,165	^[24]
11 November 2017	16th	Luton Town	H	D	2–2	Grimes, Boyle	3,900	^[25]
18 November 2017	16th	Notts County	A	L	1–3	Winchester	5,809	^[26]
21 November 2017	16th	Cambridge United	H	D	0–0		2,266	^[27]
25 November 2017	16th	Forest Green Rovers	A	D	1–1	Eisa	3,641	^[28]
9 December 2017	15th	Crewe Alexandra	H	W	1–0	Grimes	2,795	^[29]
16 December 2017	15th	Coventry City	A	L	1–2	Eisa	6,457	^[30]
23 December 2017	14th	Barnet	A	W	2–0	Dawson, Winchester	1,487	^[31]
26 December 2017	15th	Yeovil Town	H	L	0–2		3,484	^[32]
30 December 2017	15th	Newport County	A	D	1–1	Eisa	3,637	^[33]
1 January 2018	17th	Stevenage	A	L	1–4	Eisa	1,989	^[34]
6 January 2018	14th	Colchester United	A	W	4–1	Odelusi, Atangana, Sellars, Eisa	1,487	^[35]
13 January 2018	16th	Accrington Stanley	H	L	0–2		2,893	^[36]
20 January 2018	17th	Mansfield Town	A	L	2–3	Pell (pen), Adebayo	3,483	^[37]
27 January 2018	16th	Barnet	H	D	1–1	Eisa	2,609	^[38]
3 February 2018	16th	Grimsby Town	A	D	1–1	Boyle	3,352	^[39]
10 February 2018	14th	Port Vale	H	W	5–1	Eisa (3), Adebayo, Boyle	2,731	^[40]
13 February 2018	15th	Lincoln City	A	L	0–1		7,891	^[41]
17 February 2018	16th	Wycombe Wanderers	H	L	0–2		3,513	^[42]
24 February 2018	16th	Luton Town	A	D	2–2	Morrell, Eisa	8,453	^[43]
6 March 2018	16th	Notts County	H	D	1–1	Morrell	2,273	^[44]
10 March 2018	15th	Swindon Town	A	W	3–0	Andrews, Eisa (2)	6,658	^[45]
17 March 2018	15th	Chesterfield	H	D	1–1	Graham	2,822	^[46]
24 March 2018	15th	Crawley Town	A	W	5–3	Pell (2), Eisa (2), Boyle	2,172	^[47]
30 March 2018	15th	Carlisle United	H	L	0–1		3,107	^[48]
2 April 2018	15th	Exeter City	A	L	1–2	Winchester	4,420	^[49]
7 April 2018	15th	Morecambe	H	W	3–0	Sellars, Boyle, Pell	2,420	^[50]
14 April 2018	16th	Forest Green Rovers	H	L	0–1		4,744	^[51]
21 April 2018	16th	Cambridge United	A	L	3–4	Lloyd, Eisa (2)	3,853	^[52]
28 April 2018	17th	Coventry City	H	L	1–6	Eisa	5,027	^[53]
5 May 2018	17th	Crewe Alexandra	A	L	1–2	Lloyd	4,350	^[54]

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
15	Crewe Alexandra	46	17	5	24	62	75	−13	56
16	Stevenage	46	14	13	19	60	65	−5	55
17	Cheltenham Town	46	13	12	21	67	73	−6	51
18	Grimsby Town	46	13	12	21	42	66	−24	51
19	Yeovil Town	46	12	12	22	59	75	−16	48

Round	Date	Opponents	Venue	Result	Score F–A	Scorers	Attendance	Ref
First round	8 August 2017	Oxford United	A	W	4–3^[A]	Eisa (2), Wright (2)	3,179	^[56]
Second round	23 August 2017	West Ham United	H	L	0–2		6,259	^[57]

Round	Date	Opponents	Venue	Result	Score F–A	Scorers	Attendance	Ref
Southern Group E	15 August 2017	Swansea City U23s	H	L	1–2	Storer	801	^[58]
Southern Group E	3 October 2017	Forest Green Rovers	H	L	1–2	Hinds	1,576	^[59]
Southern Group E	7 November 2017	Newport County	A	W	2–1	Graham, Pell	540	^[60]

2017–18 Cheltenham Town F.C. season

Competitions

Friendlies

League Two

League table

FA Cup

EFL Cup

EFL Trophy

Group table

Transfers

In

Out

Loan in

Loan out

Squad statistics

Footnotes

References

Wikiwand - on

Date	Name	From	Fee	Ref
1 July 2017	Nigel Atangana	Leyton Orient	Free (released)	^[61]
1 July 2017	Kevin Dawson	Yeovil Town	Free	^[62]
1 July 2017	Jordon Forster	Hibernian	Undisclosed	^[63]
1 July 2017	Jamie Grimes	Dover Athletic	Free	^[64]
7 July 2017	Mohamed Eisa	Greenwich Borough	Free (released)	^[65]
7 July 2017	Jerell Sellars	Aston Villa	Free (released)	^[65]
10 August 2017	Brian Graham	Hibernian	Free	^[66]
31 August 2017	Scott Flinders	Macclesfield Town	Free (released)	^[67]
1 September 2017	Jaanai Gordon	West Ham United	Free (released)	^[68]
21 September 2017	Alex Davey	Chelsea	Free (released)	^[69]
5 January 2018	Sanmi Odelusi	Colchester United	Free (released)	^[70]

Date	Name	To	Fee	Ref
8 June 2017	Billy Waters	Northampton Town	Undisclosed	^[71]
30 June 2017	Jack Barthram	Barrow	Released	^[72]^[73]
30 June 2017	Liam Davis	Torquay United	Released	^[72]^[74]
30 June 2017	James Dayton	Leyton Orient	Released	^[72]^[75]
30 June 2017	Asa Hall	Barrow	Released	^[72]^[76]
30 June 2017	James Jennings	Wrexham	Released	^[72]^[77]
30 June 2017	Calum Kitscha	Welling United	Released	^[72]
30 June 2017	Jordan Lymn	Evesham United	Released	^[72]^[78]
30 June 2017	Amari Morgan-Smith	York City	Released	^[72]^[79]
30 June 2017	Jack Munns	Hartlepool United	Released	^[72]^[80]
30 June 2017	Daniel Parslow	York City	Released	^[72]^[79]
30 June 2017	James Rowe	Aldershot Town	Released	^[72]^[81]
2 January 2018	Daniel O'Shaughnessy	HJK	Released	^[82]
4 January 2018	Alex Davey	Boreham Wood	Released	^[83]
9 January 2018	Kyle Storer	Solihull Moors	Released	^[84]^[85]

No.	Pos.	Nat.	Name	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
No.	Pos.	Nat.	Name	League		FA Cup		EFL Cup		EFL Trophy		Total		Discipline
1 †	GK	ENG	Jonathan Flatt *	4	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	7	0	0	0
2	DF	ENG	Jamie Grimes	41 (2)	3	1	0	2	0	2 (1)	0	46 (3)	3	3	1
3	DF	WAL	Jordan Cranston	17 (5)	0	1	0	2	0	1 (1)	0	21 (6)	0	4	0
4 †	MF	ENG	Kyle Storer	17 (4)	0	1	0	2	0	1 (2)	1	21 (6)	1	4	0
6	MF	FRA	Nigel Atangana	23 (9)	1	0	0	2	0	1	0	26 (9)	1	4	0
7	MF	ENG	Harry Pell	32 (5)	5	1	0	1 (1)	0	2	1	36 (6)	6	12	0
8	MF	IRL	Kevin Dawson	32 (2)	5	1	1	0 (1)	0	1	0	34 (3)	6	5	1
9	FW	ENG	Daniel Wright	16 (17)	3	0 (1)	0	1 (1)	2	1	0	18 (19)	5	1	2
10	FW	ENG	Dan Holman	0 (2)	1	0	0	1 (1)	0	1	0	2 (3)	1	0	0
11	MF	NIR	Carl Winchester	44	5	1	0	2	0	2 (1)	0	49 (1)	5	3	0
14 †	DF	FIN	Daniel O'Shaughnessy	5 (5)	0	0	0	0 (1)	0	2	0	7 (6)	0	2	0
14	FW	ENG	Elijah Adebayo *	2 (5)	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2 (5)	2	0	0
15	DF	ENG	Will Boyle	33 (1)	5	0 (1)	0	2	0	2 (1)	0	37 (3)	5	8	0
16	MF	ENG	Adam Page	0	0	0	0	0 (1)	0	1	0	1 (1)	0	0	0
17	FW	ENG	Jerell Sellars	21 (10)	2	0 (1)	0	1	0	2	0	24 (11)	2	5	0
18	DF	ENG	Matt Bower	0 (3)	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	2 (3)	0	1	0
19	MF	ENG	Josh Thomas	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0
20	FW	SDN	Mohamed Eisa	45	23	1	0	2	2	0 (2)	0	48 (2)	25	2	0
21	FW	SCO	Brian Graham	15 (12)	5	1	0	0 (1)	0	2	1	18 (13)	6	7	0
22	GK	ENG	Rhys Lovett	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	0	0
23	DF	SCO	Jordon Forster	4	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	6	0	0	0
24	GK	ENG	Scott Flinders	41	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	43	0	2	0
25	MF	WAL	Joe Morrell *	38	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	39	3	3	0
26	FW	ENG	Jaanai Gordon	0 (4)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0 (4)	0	0	0
27 †	FW	ENG	Freddie Hinds	1 (11)	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	3 (11)	1	2	0
27	DF	WAL	Joe Rodon *	7 (5)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7 (5)	0	0	0
28	DF	ENG	Taylor Moore *	35 (1)	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	38 (1)	0	4	1
29 †	DF	SCO	Alex Davey	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	0
29	FW	ENG	Sanmi Odelusi	3 (6)	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3 (6)	1	0	0
30	DF	ENG	Manny Onariase *	4 (1)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4 (1)	0	0	0
32	MF	ENG	Will Dawes	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
33	DF	GRE	Ilias Chatzitheodoridis *	18	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	18	0	2	0
34	GK	ENG	Ross Grimshaw	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
35	MF	ENG	Jake Andrews *	4 (3)	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	4 (3)	1	0	0
46	MF	ENG	Lee Llewelyn	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
50	MF	ENG	George Lloyd	3 (4)	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	4 (4)	2	0	0

Players not included in matchday squads
No.	Pos.	Nat.	Name
5	DF	AUS	Aaron Downes
31	GK	ENG	Lewis Clayton