2017–18_Western_Sydney_Wanderers_FC_season

Western Sydney Wanderers
2017–18 season
Chairman	Paul Lederer
Manager	Tony Popovic; (to 1 October 2017) ; Hayden Foxe (caretaker); (from 3 October to 1 November 2017); Josep Gombau; (from 1 November 2017)
Stadium	ANZ Stadium & Spotless Stadium, Sydney
A-League	7th
FFA Cup	Semi-finals
Top goalscorer	League: Oriol Riera (15 goals); All: Oriol Riera (19 goals)
Highest home attendance	36,433 vs Sydney FC ; 9 December 2017
Lowest home attendance	6,612 vs Perth Glory ; 4 March 2018
Average home league attendance	11,924
Home colours	Away colours
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2017–18 Western Sydney Wanderers FC season

Western Sydney Wanderers 2017–18 football season

The 2017–18 Western Sydney Wanderers FC season was the club's sixth season since its establishment in 2012. The club participated in the A-League for the sixth time and the FFA Cup for the fourth time.

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N	Pos.	Name	Age	Notes
42	MF	Keanu Baccus	18	^[1]
49	FW	Abraham Majok	18	^[2]
40	GK	Nicholas Suman	17	1 year scholarship contract^[3]
34	MF	Kosta Grozos	17	2 year scholarship contract^[4]

No.	Position	Player	Transferred from	Type/fee	Contract length	Date	Ref
4	DF	Josh Risdon	Perth Glory	Free transfer	2 years	16 May 2017	^[5]
8	MF	Roly Bonevacia	Wellington Phoenix	Free transfer	2 years	16 May 2017	^[5]
33	DF	Michael Thwaite		Free transfer	1 year	16 May 2017	^[5]
30	GK	John Hall		Injury replacement	6 months	22 May 2017	^[3]
9	FW	Oriol Riera		Free transfer	2 years	5 July 2017	^[6]
21	MF	Marc Tokich	FFA Centre of Excellence	Free transfer	2 years	13 July 2017	^[7]
25	MF	Chris Herd		Free transfer	2 years	13 July 2017	^[8]
19	FW	Mark Bridge		Free transfer	2 years	18 July 2017	^[9]
10	MF	Álvaro Cejudo		Free transfer	1 year	24 July 2017	^[10]
24	DF	Raúl Llorente	Platanias	Free transfer	1 year	28 August 2017	^[11]
32	FW	John Roberts	Melbourne City	Free transfer (2 year scholarship contract)	2 years	4 January 2018	^[4]
6	MF	Marcelo Carrusca	Melbourne City	Free transfer	6 months	11 January 2018	^[12]
18	MF	Chris Ikonomidis	Lazio	Loan	6 months	31 January 2018	^[13]

No.	Position	Player	Transferred to	Type/fee	Date	Ref
21	MF	Mario Shabow	Newcastle Jets	Free transfer	5 April 2017	^[14]
12	DF	Scott Neville	Perth Glory	Free transfer	25 April 2017	^[15]
2	DF	Shannon Cole		Released	9 May 2017	^[16]
6	MF	Mitch Nichols		End of contract	11 May 2017	^[17]
8	MF	Dimas		End of contract	11 May 2017	^[17]
10	MF	Nicolás Martínez	Olympiacos	Loan return	11 May 2017	^[17]
13	MF	Bruno Piñatares		End of contract	11 May 2017	^[17]
24	MF	Terry Antonis	PAOK	Loan return	11 May 2017	^[17]
25	FW	Liam Youlley		End of contract	11 May 2017	^[17]
27	MF	Emilio Martinez		End of contract	11 May 2017	^[17]
28	FW	Stefan Zinni		End of contract	11 May 2017	^[17]
29	FW	Ryan Griffiths		End of contract	11 May 2017	^[17]
26	MF	Jackson Bandiera		End of contract	14 June 2017	^[18]
17	DF	Aritz Borda		Mutual contract termination	29 July 2017	^[19]
6	MF	Jacob Melling		Mutual contract termination	2 January 2018	^[20]
14	MF	Jumpei Kusukami		Mutual contract termination	2 January 2018	^[20]
30	GK	John Hall		End of contract	9 January 2018	^[21]
18	DF	Robert Cornthwaite	Perak	Mutual contract termination	16 January 2018	^[22]
1	GK	Jerrad Tyson		Mutual contract termination	12 April 2018	^[23]
25	MF	Chris Herd		Mutual contract termination	12 April 2018	^[23]

No.	Name	Position	Duration	Date	Notes
1	Jerrad Tyson	Goalkeeper	1 year	8 May 2017	^[24]
5	Brendan Hamill	Centre back	2 years	8 May 2017	^[24]
15	Kearyn Baccus	Attacking midfielder	2 years	7 June 2017	^[25]
20	Vedran Janjetović	Goalkeeper	4 years	11 April 2018	^[26]

Position	Name
Head coach	Josep Gombau
Assistant coach	Ian Crook
Assistant coach	Delfin Ferreres
Goalkeeping coach	Davide Del Giovine
Strength & conditioning coach	Scott Smith
Physiotherapist	Ian Austin

2017–18_Western_Sydney_Wanderers_FC_season

2017–18 Western Sydney Wanderers FC season

Players

Squad information

From youth squad

Transfers in

Transfers out

Contract extensions

Technical staff

Statistics

Squad statistics

Pre-season and friendlies

Competitions

Overall

A-League

League table

Results summary

Results by round

Matches

FFA Cup

References

External links

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15 July 2017 Arsenal Tour	Western Sydney Wanderers	1–3	Arsenal	Sydney, Australia
20:00 AEST	Lustica 57'	Report	Giroud 33' Ramsey 37' Elneny 44'	Stadium: ANZ Stadium Attendance: 83,221 Referee: Jarred Gillett (Australia)

9 August 2017	Western Sydney Wanderers	4–0	Edgeworth FC	Sydney, Australia
19:30 AEST	Lustica 18', 49' Bridge 77', 86'	Report

18 August 2017	Brisbane Roar	0–4	Western Sydney Wanderers	Gold Coast, Australia
15:00 AEST		Report	Scott 33' Sotirio 48', 55' Majok 60'	Stadium: Cbus Super Stadium Attendance: 0 (behind closed doors)

23 August 2017	Western Sydney Wanderers	2–0	Bankstown Berries	Sydney, Australia
	Keanu Baccus 78' Bridge 86'	Report		Stadium: Leichhardt Oval Attendance: 0 (behind closed doors)

5 September 2017	Brisbane City	1–3	Western Sydney Wanderers	Brisbane, Australia
19:30 AEST	Thomas 22'	Report	Scott 14' Majok 49' Krousoratis 65'	Stadium: Corporate Travel Management Stadium

9 September 2017	Moreton Bay United	0–2	Western Sydney Wanderers	Moreton Bay, Australia
17:00 AEST		Report	Riera 29' Santalab 66'	Stadium: Wolter Park

22 September 2017	Melbourne City	1–0	Western Sydney Wanderers	Shepparton, Australia
19:30 AEST	Arzani 21' (pen.)	Report		Stadium: McEwen Reserve Attendance: 2,500 Referee: Jonathan Barreiro

28 September 2017	Western Sydney Wanderers	3–0	APIA Leichhardt Tigers	Sydney, Australia
19:30 AEST	Bridge 65' Cejudo 66' Lustica 81'	Report		Stadium: Marconi Stadium

Competition	Started round	Final position / round	First match	Last match
A-League	—	7th	8 October 2017	15 April 2018
FFA Cup	Round of 32	Semi-finals	1 August 2017	24 October 2017

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Sydney FC	27	20	4	3	64	22	+42	64	Qualification for 2019 AFC Champions League group stage and Finals series
2	Newcastle Jets	27	15	5	7	57	37	+20	50	Qualification for 2019 AFC Champions League second preliminary round and Finals series
3	Melbourne City	27	13	4	10	41	33	+8	43	Qualification for Finals series
4	Melbourne Victory (C)	27	12	5	10	43	37	+6	41	Qualification for 2019 AFC Champions League group stage and Finals series
5	Adelaide United	27	11	6	10	36	38	−2	39	Qualification for Finals series
6	Brisbane Roar	27	10	5	12	33	39	−6	35	Qualification for Finals series
7	Western Sydney Wanderers	27	8	9	10	38	47	−9	33
8	Perth Glory	27	10	2	15	36	50	−14	32
9	Wellington Phoenix^{[lower-alpha 1]}	27	5	6	16	31	55	−24	21
10	Central Coast Mariners	27	4	8	15	28	49	−21	20

N	Pos.	Nat.	Name	Total					A-League					FFA Cup
N	Pos.	Nat.	Name	Apps	Goals				Apps	Goals				Apps	Goals
3	DF		Jack Clisby	15	1	4	0	0	9+3	1	2	0	0	3+0	0	2	0	0
4	DF		Josh Risdon	22	0	12	0	0	18+0	0	10	0	0	4+0	0	2	0	0
5	DF		Brendan Hamill	22	3	4	1	0	18+3	3	3	1	0	1+0	0	1	0	0
6	MF		Marcelo Carrusca	12	1	2	0	0	10+2	1	2	0	0	0+0	0	0	0	0
7	MF		Steven Lustica	19	1	1	0	0	12+4	0	0	0	0	1+2	1	1	0	0
8	MF		Roly Bonevacia	26	1	8	0	0	21+1	1	7	0	0	4+0	0	1	0	0
9	FW		Oriol Riera	29	19	6	0	0	23+2	15	4	0	0	4+0	4	2	0	0
10	MF		Álvaro Cejudo	21	2	3	0	0	17+3	2	3	0	0	1+0	0	0	0	0
11	FW		Brendon Santalab	24	4	4	0	0	5+17	3	4	0	0	0+2	1	0	0	0
15	FW		Kearyn Baccus	24	0	3	0	0	15+5	0	1	0	0	4+0	0	2	0	0
16	MF		Jaushua Sotirio	18	3	1	0	0	4+12	3	0	0	0	2+0	0	1	0	0
18	MF		Chris Ikonomidis	10	3	0	0	0	9+1	3	0	0	0	0+0	0	0	0	0
19	FW		Mark Bridge	24	5	4	0	0	18+3	4	4	0	0	0+3	1	0	0	0
20	GK		Vedran Janjetović	31	0	1	0	0	27+0	0	1	0	0	4+0	0	0	0	0
21	MF		Marc Tokich	1	0	0	0	0	0+1	0	0	0	0	0+0	0	0	0	0
22	DF		Jonathan Aspropotamitis	8	0	2	0	0	5+1	0	1	0	0	2+0	0	1	0	0
23	FW		Lachlan Scott	6	0	1	0	0	1+3	0	1	0	0	0+2	0	0	0	0
24	DF		Raúl Llorente	26	0	2	0	0	25+1	0	2	0	0	0+0	0	0	0	0
32	FW		John Roberts	0	0	0	0	0	0+0	0	0	0	0	0+0	0	0	0	0
33	DF		Michael Thwaite	24	1	3	1	0	21+0	1	3	1	0	3+0	0	0	0	0
34	MF		Kosta Grozos	0	0	0	0	0	0+0	0	0	0	0	0+0	0	0	0	0
35	DF		Tass Mourdoukoutas	1	0	0	0	0	0+1	0	0	0	0	0+0	0	0	0	0
40	GK		Nicholas Suman	0	0	0	0	0	0+0	0	0	0	0	0+0	0	0	0	0
42	MF		Keanu Baccus	14	0	1	0	2	11+3	0	1	0	2	0+0	0	0	0	0
47	FW		Matthew Lecce	0	0	0	0	0	0+0	0	0	0	0	0+0	0	0	0	0
49	FW		Abraham Majok	1	0	0	0	0	0+0	0	0	0	0	0+1	0	0	0	0
50	MF		Tariq Maia	0	0	0	0	0	0+0	0	0	0	0	0+0	0	0	0	0
Players no longer at the club:
1	GK		Jerrad Tyson	0	0	0	0	0	0+0	0	0	0	0	0+0	0	0	0	0
6	MF		Jacob Melling	5	0	1	0	0	1+1	0	1	0	0	2+1	0	0	0	0
14	MF		Jumpei Kusukami	15	1	1	0	0	9+2	1	0	0	0	4+0	0	1	0	0
18	DF		Robert Cornthwaite	14	1	5	1	0	11+0	0	5	1	0	3+0	1	0	0	0
25	MF		Chris Herd	12	0	6	0	0	8+1	0	6	0	0	2+1	0	0	0	0
30	GK		John Hall	0	0	0	0	0	0+0	0	0	0	0	0+0	0	0	0	0

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27
Ground	H	H	A	A	A	A	H	A	H	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	H	A	H	H	A	A	H	H
Result	W	D	D	D	D	D	W	L	L	L	W	L	W	W	D	D	L	L	W	D	L	W	D	L	L	W	L
Position	3	4	4	4	4	4	4\6	7	9	9	8	8	7	6	6	6	7	8	6	6	6	5	6	6	7	6	7

22 December 2017 12	Newcastle Jets	4–0	Western Sydney Wanderers	Newcastle
19:50 AEDT	Koutroumbis 11' Hoffman 60' Kantarovski 68' Ugarkovic 84'	Report		Stadium: McDonald Jones Stadium Attendance: 9,862 Referee: Kris Griffiths-Jones

13 January 2018 16	Wellington Phoenix	1–1	Western Sydney Wanderers	Wellington
19:35 NZDT	Ljujić 75'	Report	Santalab 28'	Stadium: Westpac Stadium Attendance: 5,634 Referee: Stephen Lucas

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
27	8	9	10	38	47	−9	33	5	4	4	23	22	+1	3	5	6	15	25	−10

8 October 2017 1	Western Sydney Wanderers	2–1	Perth Glory	Sydney
18:00 AEDT	Riera 43' Kusukami 45+1'	Report	Hamill 82' (o.g.)	Stadium: Spotless Stadium Attendance: 12,223 Referee: Daniel Elder

14 October 2017 2	Western Sydney Wanderers	2–2	Central Coast Mariners	Sydney
17:35 AEDT	Riera 39' (pen.) Bonevacia 69'	Report	Asdrúbal 22' De Silva 63'	Stadium: Spotless Stadium Attendance: 11,650 Referee: Chris Beath

21 October 2017 3	Sydney FC	2–2	Western Sydney Wanderers	Sydney
19:50 AEDT	Bobô 38' (pen.) Brillante 61'	Report	Riera 3' Hamill 30'	Stadium: Allianz Stadium Attendance: 36,057 Referee: Jarred Gillett

29 October 2017 4	Newcastle Jets	1–1	Western Sydney Wanderers	Newcastle
17:00 AEDT	D. Petratos 69'	Report	Bridge 16'	Stadium: McDonald Jones Stadium Attendance: 11,468 Referee: Chris Beath

6 November 2017 5	Melbourne Victory	1–1	Western Sydney Wanderers	Melbourne
19:50 AEDT	Deng 49'	Report	Riera 32'	Stadium: Etihad Stadium Attendance: 21,577 Referee: Peter Green

12 November 2017 6	Melbourne City	1–1	Western Sydney Wanderers	Melbourne
19:00 AEDT	McCormack 55' (pen.)	Report	Sotirio 19'	Stadium: AAMI Park Attendance: 7,516 Referee: Jonathan Barreiro

26 November 2017 8	Adelaide United	2–0	Western Sydney Wanderers	Adelaide
18:30 ACDT	Kitto 45+1', 63'	Report		Stadium: Coopers Stadium Attendance: 8,210 Referee: Chris Beath

2 December 2017 9	Western Sydney Wanderers	0–2	Brisbane Roar	Sydney
17:35 AEDT		Report	Maccarone 45' Franjic 66'	Stadium: ANZ Stadium Attendance: 8,215 Referee: Adam Fielding

9 December 2017 10	Western Sydney Wanderers	0–5	Sydney FC	Sydney
19:50 AEDT		Report	Mierzejewski 14', 45' Brosque 41' Scott 53' (o.g.) O'Neill 76'	Stadium: ANZ Stadium Attendance: 36,433 Referee: Jonathan Barreiro

16 December 2017 11	Central Coast Mariners	0–2	Western Sydney Wanderers	Gosford
19:50 AEDT		Report	Santalab 27' Cejudo 50'	Stadium: Central Coast Stadium Attendance: 7,199 Referee: Alex King

1 January 2018 13	Western Sydney Wanderers	2–1	Melbourne City	Sydney
19:50 AEDT	Riera 30' Bridge 32'	Report	McCormack 25'	Stadium: ANZ Stadium Attendance: 11,628 Referee: Peter Green

5 January 2018 14	Brisbane Roar	0–2	Western Sydney Wanderers	Brisbane
18:50 AEST		Report	Riera 29' Bridge 45'	Stadium: Suncorp Stadium Attendance: 11,189 Referee: Shaun Evans

10 January 2018 15	Western Sydney Wanderers	1–1	Adelaide United	Sydney
19:50 AEDT	Clisby 52'	Report	Stamatelopoulos 86'	Stadium: ANZ Stadium Attendance: 10,771 Referee: Shaun Evans

19 January 2018 17	Western Sydney Wanderers	0–3	Melbourne Victory	Sydney
19:50 AEDT		Report	Barbarouses 36', 90+2' Berisha 67'	Stadium: ANZ Stadium Attendance: 11,864 Referee: Adam Kersey

28 January 2018 18	Perth Glory	3–1	Western Sydney Wanderers	Perth
17:30 AWST	Castro 7' (pen.), 40' Keogh 43'	Report	Riera 17' (pen.)	Stadium: nib Stadium Attendance: 9,317 Referee: Jonathan Barreiro

4 February 2018 19	Central Coast Mariners	1–2	Western Sydney Wanderers	Gosford
17:00 AEDT	Skapetis 76'	Report	Sotirio 14' Riera 30'	Stadium: Central Coast Stadium Attendance: 7,046

11 February 2018 7	Western Sydney Wanderers	4–0	Wellington Phoenix	Sydney
19:00 AEDT	Riera 6' Thwaite 63' Ikonomidis 72' Sotirio 82'	Report		Stadium: ANZ Stadium Attendance: 7,127 Referee: Adam Fielding

16 February 2018 20	Western Sydney Wanderers	2–2	Newcastle Jets	Sydney
19:50 AEDT	Riera 7' (pen.), 67' (pen.)	Report	D. Petratos 48' Nabbout 68'	Stadium: Spotless Stadium Attendance: 10,065 Referee: Peter Green

25 February 2018 21	Sydney FC	3–1	Western Sydney Wanderers	Sydney
19:00 AEDT	Mierzejewski 44', 55' Bobô 73'	Report	Riera 10'	Stadium: Allianz Stadium Attendance: 25,211 Referee: Peter Green