The 2017

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season was the team's eighth season as a professional women's soccer team. Sky Blue FC plays in the

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, the top tier of women's soccer in the United States.

Review

After a 7th-place finish in

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, Sky Blue FC finished the 2017 season in 6th place, five points out of playoff contention.

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scored a league-record 17 goals, won the league's Golden Boot award, and was named MVP, the first time a player on a non-playoff team had won the award.

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set the NWSL record for fastest goal scored with a 25-second strike against

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on June 17. Head coach

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resigned mid-season on August 16, and was replaced by four assistant coaches, Jill Loyden, Dave Hodgson, Paul Greig, and Maria Dorris. A full-time replacement for Holly was not announced until November 15, 2017, when Sky Blue FC hired

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assistant coach and former

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head coach

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. Soon after Holly's resignation, center back and team captain

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announced that she would miss the rest of the season due to an accumulation of injuries.

Team

First-team roster

Competitions

National Women's Soccer League

Preseason

Regular season

League table

Results summary

Results by round

Honors and awards

NWSL Monthly Awards

NWSL Yearly Awards

NWSL Individual Awards

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NWSL Weekly Awards

NWSL Player of the Week The National Women's Soccer League Player of the Week is a weekly soccer award given to individual players in the National Women's Soccer League. The honor is awarded to the player deemed to have put in the best performances over the past week by ...

NWSL Goal of the Week

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Statistics

References

;Match reports (pre-season) ;Match reports (regular season)