2017–18 EFL League One

The 2017–18 EFL League One (referred to as the Sky Bet League One for sponsorship reasons) was the 14th season of the Football League One under its current title, and the 25th season under its current league division format.

EFL League One

Season	2017–18
Champions	Wigan Athletic (3rd divisional title)
Promoted	Wigan Athletic Blackburn Rovers Rotherham United
Relegated	Bury Milton Keynes Dons Northampton Town Oldham Athletic
Matches played	552
Goals scored	1,401 (2.54 per match)
Top goalscorer	Jack Marriott (Peterborough United) (27 goals)
Biggest home win	Rotherham United 5–0 Southend United (12 August 2017) Blackpool 5–0 Bradford City (7 April 2018)
Biggest away win	Oxford United 0–7 Wigan Athletic (23 December 2017)
Longest winning run	Rotherham United (7 matches)
Longest unbeaten run	Blackburn Rovers (18 matches)
Longest winless run	Plymouth Argyle (12 matches)
Longest losing run	Bury (7 matches)
Highest attendance	(Regular season) = 27,600[1] (Blackburn Rovers 2–1 Oxford United, 5 May 2018)
Lowest attendance	(Regular season) = 2,088[1] (Fleetwood Town 0–2 Gillingham, 22 December 2017)
Total attendance	4,291,654[1]
Average attendance	(Regular season) = 7,788[1]
← 2016–17 2018–19 →

Team changes

The following teams have changed division since the 2016–17 season.

To League One Promoted from League Two Portsmouth Plymouth Argyle Doncaster Rovers Blackpool Relegated from Championship Blackburn Rovers Wigan Athletic Rotherham United

From League One Promoted to Championship Sheffield United Bolton Wanderers Millwall Relegated to League Two Port Vale Swindon Town Coventry City Chesterfield

Teams

Greater Manchester

AFC Wimbledon

Blackburn Rovers

Blackpool

Bradford City

Bristol Rovers

Charlton Athletic

Doncaster Rovers

Fleetwood Town

Gillingham

MK Dons

Northampton Town

Oxford United

Peterborough United

Plymouth Argyle

Portsmouth

Rotherham United

Scunthorpe United

Shrewsbury Town

Southend United

Walsall

Greater Manchester teams
Bury
Oldham Athletic
Rochdale
Wigan Athletic

Locations of the 2017–18 Football League One teams

Bury

Oldham Athletic

Rochdale

Wigan Athletic

Greater Manchester League One football clubs

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity[2]
AFC Wimbledon	London (Kingston upon Thames)	Kingsmeadow	4,850
Blackburn Rovers	Blackburn	Ewood Park	31,367
Blackpool	Blackpool	Bloomfield Road	17,338
Bradford City	Bradford	Valley Parade	25,136
Bristol Rovers	Bristol	Memorial Stadium	12,300
Bury	Bury	Gigg Lane	11,840
Charlton Athletic	London (Charlton)	The Valley	27,111
Doncaster Rovers	Doncaster	Keepmoat Stadium	15,231
Fleetwood Town	Fleetwood	Highbury Stadium	5,311
Gillingham	Gillingham	Priestfield Stadium	11,582
Milton Keynes Dons	Milton Keynes	Stadium MK	30,500
Northampton Town	Northampton	Sixfields Stadium	7,653
Oldham Athletic	Oldham	Boundary Park	13,512
Oxford United	Oxford	Kassam Stadium	12,500
Peterborough United	Peterborough	ABAX Stadium	14,084
Plymouth Argyle	Plymouth	Home Park	19,500
Portsmouth	Portsmouth	Fratton Park	21,100
Rochdale	Rochdale	Spotland Stadium	10,500
Rotherham United	Rotherham	New York Stadium	12,021
Scunthorpe United	Scunthorpe	Glanford Park	9,088
Shrewsbury Town	Shrewsbury	New Meadow	9,875
Southend United	Southend	Roots Hall	12,392
Walsall	Walsall	Bescot Stadium	11,300
Wigan Athletic	Wigan	DW Stadium	25,133

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Wigan Athletic	Graham Barrow	Mutual consent	30 May 2017[3]	Pre-season	Paul Cook	31 May 2017[4]
Portsmouth	Paul Cook	Signed by Wigan Athletic	31 May 2017[5]		Kenny Jackett	2 June 2017[6]
Oxford United	Michael Appleton	Signed by Leicester City as assistant manager	20 June 2017[7]		Pep Clotet	1 July 2017[8]
Northampton Town	Justin Edinburgh	Sacked	31 August 2017[9]	24th	Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink	4 September 2017[10]
Oldham Athletic	John Sheridan	Mutual consent	25 September 2017[11]		Richie Wellens	18 October 2017[12]
Gillingham	Adrian Pennock		25 September 2017[13]	22nd	Steve Lovell	16 November 2017[14]
Bury	Lee Clark	Sacked	30 October 2017[15]	23rd	Chris Lucketti	22 November 2017[16]
	Chris Lucketti		15 January 2018[17]	24th	Ryan Lowe	15 January 2018[17]
Southend United	Phil Brown	Resigned	17 January 2018[18]	18th	Chris Powell	23 January 2018[19]
Milton Keynes Dons	Robbie Neilson	Sacked	20 January 2018[20]	21st	Dan Micciche	23 January 2018[21]
Oxford United	Pep Clotet	Sacked	22 January 2018[22]	10th	Karl Robinson	22 March 2018[23]
Bradford City	Stuart McCall		5 February 2018[24]	6th	Simon Grayson	11 February 2018[25]
Fleetwood Town	Uwe Rösler		16 February 2018[26]	20th	John Sheridan	22 February 2018[27]
Peterborough United	Grant McCann		25 February 2018[28]	10th	Steve Evans	28 February 2018[29]
Walsall	Jon Whitney		12 March 2018[30]	14th	Dean Keates	16 March 2018[31]
Charlton Athletic	Karl Robinson	Signed by Oxford United	22 March 2018[32]	9th	Lee Bowyer	22 March 2018[32]
Scunthorpe United	Graham Alexander	Sacked	24 March 2018[33]	5th	Nick Daws	11 April 2018[34]
Northampton Town	Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink		2 April 2018[35]	23rd	Dean Austin	2 April 2018[35]
Milton Keynes Dons	Dan Micciche		22 April 2018[36]		Paul Tisdale	6 June 2018[37]

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	Wigan Athletic (C, P)	46	29	11	6	89	29	+60	98	Promotion to the EFL Championship
2	Blackburn Rovers (P)	46	28	12	6	82	40	+42	96
3	Shrewsbury Town	46	25	12	9	60	39	+21	87	Qualification for League One play-offs[lower-alpha 1]
4	Rotherham United (O, P)	46	24	7	15	73	53	+20	79
5	Scunthorpe United	46	19	17	10	65	50	+15	74
6	Charlton Athletic	46	20	11	15	58	51	+7	71
7	Plymouth Argyle	46	19	11	16	58	59	−1	68
8	Portsmouth	46	20	6	20	57	56	+1	66
9	Peterborough United	46	17	13	16	68	60	+8	64
10	Southend United	46	17	12	17	58	62	−4	63
11	Bradford City	46	18	9	19	57	67	−10	63
12	Blackpool	46	15	15	16	60	55	+5	60
13	Bristol Rovers	46	16	11	19	60	66	−6	59
14	Fleetwood Town	46	16	9	21	59	68	−9	57
15	Doncaster Rovers	46	13	17	16	52	52	0	56
16	Oxford United	46	15	11	20	61	66	−5	56
17	Gillingham	46	13	17	16	50	55	−5	56
18	AFC Wimbledon	46	13	14	19	47	58	−11	53
19	Walsall	46	13	13	20	53	66	−13	52
20	Rochdale	46	11	18	17	49	57	−8	51
21	Oldham Athletic (R)	46	11	17	18	58	75	−17	50	Relegation to EFL League Two
22	Northampton Town (R)	46	12	11	23	43	77	−34	47
23	Milton Keynes Dons (R)	46	11	12	23	43	69	−26	45
24	Bury (R)	46	8	12	26	41	71	−30	36

Source: BBC Sport
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Number of goals scored
(C) Champions; (O) Play-off winners; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. Four teams play for one spot and promotion to the EFL Championship.

Play-offs

See also: 2018 English Football League play-offs

	Semi-finals							Final
	3	Shrewsbury Town	1	1	2
	6	Charlton Athletic	0	0	0
								3	Shrewsbury Town	1
								4	Rotherham United	2
	4	Rotherham United	2	2	4
	5	Scunthorpe United	2	0	2

Results

Home \ Away	WIM	BLB	BLP	BRA	BRR	BRY	CHA	DON	FLE	GIL	MKD	NOR	OLD	OXF	PET	PLY	POR	ROC	ROT	SCU	SHR	STD	WAL	WIG
AFC Wimbledon		0–3	2–0	2–1	1–0	2–2	1–0	2–0	0–1	1–1	0–2	1–3	2–2	2–1	2–2	0–1	0–2	0–0	3–1	1–1	0–1	2–0	1–2	0–4
Blackburn Rovers	0–1		3–0	2–0	2–1	2–0	2–0	1–3	2–2	1–0	4–1	1–1	2–2	2–1	3–1	1–1	3–0	2–0	2–0	2–2	3–1	1–0	3–1	2–2
Blackpool	1–0	2–4		5–0	0–0	2–1	1–0	1–2	2–1	1–1	1–0	3–0	2–1	3–1	1–1	2–2	2–3	0–0	1–2	2–3	1–1	1–1	2–2	1–3
Bradford City	0–4	0–1	2–1		3–1	2–2	0–1	2–0	0–3	1–0	2–0	1–2	1–1	3–2	1–3	0–1	3–1	4–3	1–0	1–2	0–0	0–2	1–1	0–1
Bristol Rovers	1–3	1–1	3–1	3–1		2–1	1–1	0–1	3–1	1–1	2–0	1–1	2–3	0–1	1–4	2–1	2–1	3–2	2–1	1–1	1–2	3–0	2–1	1–1
Bury	2–1	0–3	1–1	3–1	2–3		0–1	0–1	0–2	2–1	0–2	2–3	2–2	3–0	0–1	0–0	1–0	0–2	0–3	0–1	1–0	0–0	1–0	0–2
Charlton Athletic	1–0	1–0	1–1	1–1	1–0	1–1		1–0	0–0	1–2	2–2	4–1	1–0	2–3	2–2	2–0	0–1	2–1	3–1	0–1	0–2	2–1	3–1	0–3
Doncaster Rovers	0–0	0–1	3–3	2–0	1–3	3–3	1–1		3–0	0–0	2–1	3–0	1–1	0–1	0–0	1–1	2–1	2–0	1–1	0–1	1–2	4–1	0–3	0–1
Fleetwood Town	2–0	1–2	0–0	1–2	2–0	3–2	1–3	0–0		0–2	1–1	2–0	2–2	2–0	2–3	1–1	1–2	2–2	2–0	2–3	1–2	2–4	2–0	0–4
Gillingham	2–2	0–0	0–3	0–1	4–1	1–1	1–0	0–0	2–1		1–2	1–2	0–0	1–1	1–1	5–2	0–1	2–1	0–1	0–0	1–2	3–3	0–0	1–1
Milton Keynes Dons	0–0	1–2	0–0	1–4	0–1	2–1	1–2	1–2	1–0	1–0		0–0	4–4	1–1	1–0	0–1	1–2	3–2	3–2	0–2	1–1	1–1	1–1	0–1
Northampton Town	0–1	1–1	1–0	0–1	0–6	0–0	0–4	1–0	0–1	1–2	2–1		2–2	0–0	1–4	2–0	3–1	0–1	0–3	0–3	1–1	3–1	2–1	0–1
Oldham Athletic	0–0	1–0	2–1	2–1	1–1	2–1	3–4	0–0	1–2	1–1	1–0	5–1		0–2	3–2	1–2	0–2	3–1	1–1	2–3	1–2	0–3	1–1	0–2
Oxford United	3–0	2–4	1–0	2–2	1–2	1–2	1–1	1–0	0–1	3–0	3–1	1–2	0–0		2–1	0–1	3–0	2–1	3–3	1–1	1–1	2–0	1–2	0–7
Peterborough United	1–1	2–3	0–1	1–3	1–1	3–0	4–1	1–1	2–0	0–1	2–0	2–0	3–0	1–4		2–1	2–1	0–1	2–1	2–2	1–0	0–1	2–1	3–2
Plymouth Argyle	4–2	2–0	1–3	1–0	3–2	3–0	2–0	0–3	1–2	2–1	0–1	2–0	4–1	0–4	2–1		0–0	1–1	2–1	0–4	1–1	4–0	1–0	1–3
Portsmouth	2–1	1–2	0–2	0–1	3–0	1–0	0–1	2–2	4–1	1–3	2–0	3–1	1–2	3–0	2–0	1–0		2–0	0–1	1–1	0–1	1–0	1–1	2–1
Rochdale	1–1	0–3	1–2	1–1	1–0	0–0	1–0	2–1	0–2	3–0	0–0	2–2	0–0	0–0	2–0	1–1	3–3		0–1	1–1	3–1	0–0	1–1	1–4
Rotherham United	2–0	1–1	1–0	2–0	2–0	3–2	0–2	2–1	3–2	1–3	2–1	1–0	5–1	3–1	1–1	1–1	1–0	0–1		2–0	1–2	5–0	5–1	1–3
Scunthorpe United	1–1	0–1	0–0	1–1	1–0	1–0	2–0	1–1	1–1	1–3	2–2	2–2	0–2	1–0	2–1	2–0	2–0	1–1	1–2		1–2	3–1	1–0	1–2
Shrewsbury Town	1–0	1–1	1–0	0–1	4–0	1–1	0–2	2–2	1–0	1–1	0–1	1–0	1–0	3–2	3–1	1–2	2–0	3–2	0–1	2–0		1–0	2–0	1–0
Southend United	1–0	2–1	2–1	1–2	0–0	1–0	3–1	0–0	1–2	4–0	4–0	2–2	2–0	1–1	1–1	1–1	3–1	0–0	2–0	3–2	1–2		0–3	3–1
Walsall	2–3	1–2	1–1	3–3	0–0	1–0	2–2	4–2	4–2	0–1	1–0	1–0	2–1	2–1	1–1	2–1	0–1	0–3	1–2	1–0	1–1	0–1		0–3
Wigan Athletic	1–1	0–0	0–2	1–2	3–0	4–1	0–0	3–0	2–0	2–0	5–1	1–0	3–0	1–0	0–0	1–0	1–1	1–0	0–0	3–3	0–0	3–0	2–0

Updated to match(es) played on 1 May 2018. Source: BBC Sport
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top scorers

As of 24 April 2018^[38]

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Jack Marriott	Peterborough United	27
2	Brett Pitman	Portsmouth	24
3	Will Grigg	Wigan Athletic	19
4	Bradley Dack	Blackburn Rovers	18
5	Tom Eaves	Gillingham	17
6	Charlie Wyke	Bradford City	15
	Erhun Oztumer	Walsall
	Nick Powell	Wigan Athletic
9	Graham Carey	Plymouth Argyle	14
	Danny Graham	Blackburn Rovers
	Eoin Doyle	Oldham Athletic
	Lyle Taylor	AFC Wimbledon
	Charlie Mulgrew	Blackburn Rovers
	John Marquis	Doncaster Rovers

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