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Season overview

Pre Season Friendlies

The club headed to Spain and Qatar on a 41 days pre-season tour, starting from 10 September.

Transfers

Unlike other Indian Super League franchises Delhi Dynamos decided not retain any players from their previous season squad before 2017–18 players draft which enabled them to enter in the round one of players draft along with new entrant

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. In ISL draft held on 23 July 2017, Delhi Dynamos added fifteen new players to their squad. Goalkeeper

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, Sukhdev Patil and

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, defender

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, Sena Ralte,

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, Mohammad Sajid Dhot,

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and Munmun Lugun, midfielder Seityasen Singh, Vinit Rai,

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and Simranjit Singh and

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. Delhi Dynamos announced signing of Brazilian midfielder Paulinho Dias on 28 July 2017. On 1 August, Delhi Dynamos announced signing of Uruguayan midfielder Matías Mirabaje. Signing of Argentinian forward Juan Vogliotti was announced on 4 August. Franchise announced on 10 August, they signed Venezuelan defender

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. On 29 August, Delhi Dynamos published a statement on their website that signing of Argentinian forward Juan Vogliotti could not be completed due to unavoidable circumstances. Juan Vogliotti said: Delhi Dynamos announced on 7 September, they signed Nigerian forward

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. On 12 September, Delhi Dynamos announced signing of Curaçaoan forward

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and Spanish defender

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. On 14 September, Delhi Dynamos announced signing of their seventh foreign player, Dutch forward Jeroen Lumu. On 19 September, Delhi Dynamos announced they signed Indian U19 international players Kishan Singh Thongam and Jayananda Singh Moirangthem. On the matter managing director ''Rohan Sharma'' said: On 21 September, Delhi Dynamos announced signing of Nanda Kumar on a loan deal from

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side

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Loan in

Squad

Current Technical Staff

Indian Super League

Matches

Player statistics

''List of squad players, including number of appearances by competition''

References

External links

{{DEFAULTSORT:2017-18 Delhi Dynamos FC season Odisha FC seasons

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