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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

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of players draft along with new entrant Jamshedpur FC. In ISL draft held on 23 July 2017, Delhi Dynamos added fifteen new players to their squad. Goalkeeper Albino Gomes,

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and Arnab Das Sharma, defender Pritam Kotal, Sena Ralte,

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and

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, midfielder

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, Romeo Fernandes, David Ngaihte and

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and Lallianzuala Chhangte. Delhi Dynamos announced signing of Brazilian midfielder

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on 28 July 2017. On 1 August, Delhi Dynamos announced signing of Uruguayan midfielder

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. Signing of Argentinian forward Juan Vogliotti was announced on 4 August. Franchise announced on 10 August, they signed Venezuelan defender Gabriel Cichero. 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 Kalu Uche. On 12 September, Delhi Dynamos announced signing of Curaçaoan forward Guyon Fernandez and Spanish defender Edu Moya. On 14 September, Delhi Dynamos announced signing of their seventh foreign player, Dutch forward

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. 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

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on a loan deal from

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side Chennai City.

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Squad

Current Technical Staff

Indian Super League

Matches

Player statistics

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

References

External links

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