The 2017–18 season is

Swindon Town Swindon Town Football Club is a professional football club based in Swindon, Wiltshire, England. The team currently competes in , the fourth tier of the English football league system. The club has played home matches at the County Ground sin ...

's 139th season in their existence, and first season back in EFL League Two following relegation from EFL League One. The season covers the period from 1 July 2017 through to 30 June 2018.

Players

First Team Squad

Transfers

In

Out

Loans in

Loans out

Pre-season

As of 20 July 2017, Swindon Town have announced six pre-season fixtures against Melksham Town, Swindon Supermarine,

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, Woking,

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and Chippenham Town. On Tuesday 18 July 2017 Swindon Town travelled to

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for a week long pre-season training camp. The warm weather pre-season tour included a behind closed doors training ground friendly against

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which ended 0–0.

Competitions

Overview

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League Two

League table

Results summary

Results by matchday

Matches

The fixtures for the 2017–18 season were announced on 21 June 2017 at 9am.

FA Cup

EFL Cup

On 16 June 2017, Swindon Town were drawn away to

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in the first round.

EFL Trophy

Group stage

On 12 July 2017, Swindon Town were drawn alongside

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and

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in Southern Group C.

Knockout stage

Statistics

Appearances

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Ben Purkiss Benjamin John Purkiss (born 1 April 1984) is an English former professional footballer and former chairman of the PFA. Having failed to break into the Sheffield United first team, he joined Gainsborough Trinity in 2003. He spent four years at t ...

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Matt Preston Matt Preston (born 21 July 1961) is an English-Australian food critic, writer and television presenter. He is best known for his role as a judge on Network Ten's ''MasterChef Australia'' between 2009 and 2019, and for his weekly national food ...

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Olly Lancashire Oliver James Lancashire (born 13 December 1988) is an English professional footballer who plays for Premier League club Southampton. Lancashire began his career as a youth player for Crystal Palace before joining Southampton's academy. He capta ...

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James Dunne James William Dunne (born 18 September 1989) is an English professional footballer who plays for Welling United. He is a box to box midfielder. Dunne started his career at Wimbledon's youth academy, before moving to Arsenal in 2004. He was lo ...

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Luke Norris Luke Michael Norris (born 3 June 1993) is an English professional footballer who plays as a forward for club Stevenage. Having played in the youth academies at Luton Town, Hitchin Town and Brentford, Norris made his debut in the Brentford ...

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Amine Linganzi Amine Linganzi Koumba (born 16 November 1989) is a former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Born in Algeria, Linganzi represented Congo at international level. Club career Born in Algiers, Algeria, Linganzi emigrated to Aix- ...

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Marc Richards Marc John Richards (born 8 July 1982) is an English former professional footballer who played as a striker and is now, upon retiring, a first-team coach at Northampton Town. A youth team player at Hednesford Town, he turned professional at Blac ...

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Donal McDermott Donal Jeremiah McDermott (born 19 October 1989) is an Irish footballer who last played for Swindon Town. Club career Manchester City/Loan Spells McDermott began his career at Ashbourne United then moved to Cherry Orchard of Dublin, where he wa ...

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Reice Charles-Cook Reice Jordan Charles-Cook (born 8 April 1994) is an professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Bromley. Born in England, Charles-Cook represents the Grenada national team. Charles-Cook began his career at Arsenal, and enjoyed a loan ...

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Kaiyne Woolery Kaiyne River Woolery (born 11 January 1995) is an English professional footballer who plays as a winger for Super League Greece club Panserraikos. Career Early years Woolery was signed by Conference Premier team Tamworth from Isthmian League ...

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Joe Romanski Joseph Rio Romanski (born 3 February 2000) is an English semi-professional footballer who plays as a defender for Melksham Town. Career Progressing through the Swindon Town youth ranks following spells at Theale Tigers and Eversley & Califo ...

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Keshi Anderson Keshi Stuart Oluyinka Adetokunboh Anderson (born 6 April 1995) is an English professional footballer who plays as a winger and striker for EFL Championship club Birmingham City. After playing youth football with Watford and non-League footbal ...

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Top scorers

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, 13, , 0, , 0, , 1, , 14 , - , 2 , FW , 17 , align=left,

, 11, , 0, , 0, , 0, , 11 , - , 3 , FW , 7 , align=left, Paul Mullin , 6, , 1, , 1, , 2, , 10 , - , 4 , MF , 31 , align=left, Matt Taylor , 6, , 1, , 0, , 0, , 7 , - , rowspan="3", 5 , MF , 19 , align=left, Timi Elšnik , 3, , 2, , 0, , 0, , 5 , - , FW , 22 , align=left,

, 4, , 0, , 0, , 1, , 5 , - , FW , 30 , align=left,

, 5, , 0, , 0, , 0, , 5 , - , rowspan="2", 7 , MF , 16 , align=left,

, 2, , 2, , 0, , 0, , 4 , - , MF , 20 , align=left, Kellan Gordon , 3, , 0, , 0, , 1, , 4 , - , rowspan="3", 10 , DF , 4 , align=left,

, 2, , 0, , 0, , 1, , 3 , - , MF , 29 , align=left, Ollie Banks , 3, , 0, , 0, , 0, , 3 , - , FW , — , align=left, Harry Smith , 2, , 1, , 0, , 0, , 3 , - , rowspan="2", 13 , DF , 6 , align=left,

, 1, , 0, , 1, , 0, , 2 , - , MF , 10 , align=left,

, 1, , 0, , 0, , 1, , 2 , - , rowspan="4", 15 , DF , 3 , align=left, Chris Hussey , 1, , 0, , 0, , 0, , 1 , - , DF , 5 , align=left, Chris Robertson , 1, , 0, , 0, , 0, , 1 , - , MF , 14 , align=left, Ellis Iandolo , 1, , 0, , 0, , 0, , 1 , - , MF , 18 , align=left,

, 1, , 0, , 0, , 0, , 1 , - , -class="sortbottom" , colspan="4", Own goals , 1 , 0 , 0 , 0 , 1 , - class="sortbottom" , colspan=4, Total , 67 , 7 , 2 , 7 , 83

Clean sheets

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, 6, , 0, , 0, , 1, , 7 , - , 2 , 1 , align="left", Lawrence Vigouroux , 5, , 0, , 0, , 0, , 5 , - , 3 , 28 , align="left",

, 3, , 0, , 0, , 0, , 3 , - , 4 , 12 , align="left", Will Henry , 0, , 0, , 0, , 0, , 0 , - , colspan="3", Total , 14, , 0, , 0, , 1, , 15

Summary

{, class="wikitable" , - , Games played , , 53 (46

) (2

) (1 EFL Cup) (4 EFL Trophy) , - , Games won , , 23 (20

) (1

) (2 EFL Trophy) , - , Games drawn , , 8 (8

) , - , Games lost , , 22 (18

) (1

) (1 EFL Cup) (2 EFL Trophy) , - , Goals scored , , 83 (67

) (7

) (2 EFL Cup) (7 EFL Trophy) , - , Goals conceded , , 80 (65

) (6

) (3 EFL Cup) (6 EFL Trophy) , - , Goal difference , , +3 (+2

) (+1

) (–1 EFL Cup) (+1 EFL Trophy) , - , Clean sheets , , 15 (14

) (1 EFL Trophy) , - , Yellow cards , , 79 (69

) (1

) (4 EFL Cup) (5 EFL Trophy) , - , Red cards , , 8 (7

) (1 EFL Trophy) , - , Most appearances , , Paul Mullin (47 appearances) , - , Top scorer , ,

(14 goals) , - , Winning Percentage , , Overall: 23/53 (43.40%)

Awards

Player

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, align=center, EFL League Two Player of the Month , rowspan=3 style="text-align:center;" , February , align=center, , -

References

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