The 2017–18

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was the 119th season of the top-tier national

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league in

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, as well as the fifth season since the

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joined

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in 2013. The league was contested by ten clubs. It began on 26 September 2017 and ended on 3 June 2018.

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were the defending champions, having ended a fourteen-year winning streak for Lincoln Red Imps. This season also saw three clubs from Gibraltar competing in European competition for the first time. Lincoln won their 23rd title on 19 May 2018 with two games to spare, after a 7–1 victory over Lions Gibraltar.

Format

The ten Premier Division clubs played each other three times for a total of 27 matches each. The tenth-placed team in the league would be relegated and the ninth-placed team in the league would enter a playoff with the second-placed team from the

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for a place in the 2018–19 Premier Division. The champions earned a place in the

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of the 2018–19 Champions League, and the second–placed club earned a place in the

of the 2018–19 Europa League. This season, the league entered a winter break from December to February while renovations took place on Victoria Stadium.

Teams

At the conclusion of the previous season,

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was relegated. As the champions of the

, Gibraltar Phoenix earned promotion to the league this season. Manchester 62 earned the right to stay in the Premier Division by winning a playoff at the end of the previous season.

Personnel and kits

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eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

Managerial Changes

League table

Results

Matches 1–18

Matches 19–27

Promotion/relegation play-off

The ninth-placed team from the Premier Division played a play-off match with the second-placed

club for a place in the 2018–19 Premier Division.

Season statistics

Scoring

Top scorers

Hat-tricks

Clean sheets

References

External links

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