EFL League Two 2017–18 | ||
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Season information | ||
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Winners | Accrington Stanley | |
Promoted | Accrington Stanley Luton Town Wycombe Wanderers Coventry City | |
Relegated | Chesterfield Barnet | |
Season statistics | ||
Matches played | 552 | |
Goals scored | 653 | |
Top goalscorer | Billy Kee (25 goals) | |
Biggest home win | Luton 7–0 Cambridge | |
Biggest away win | Cheltenham 1–6 Coventry Crewe 0–5 Carlisle Swindon 0–5 Luton | |
Highest scoring | Luton 8–2 Yeovil | |
← 2016–17
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2018–19 →
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The 2017–18 EFL League Two (referred to as the Sky Bet League Two for sponsorship reasons) will be the 2nd season of the EFL League Two under its current title and the 25th season under its current league division format.
Changes from last season[]
Team changes[]
The following teams have changed division since the 2015–16 season.
To League Two[]Promoted from National League Relegated from League One |
From League Two[]Promoted to League One Relegated to National League |
Stadia[]
Managerial changes[]
Team | Outgoing manager | Manner of departure | Date of vacancy | Position in table | Incoming manager | Date of appointment |
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Swindon Town | ![]() |
Mutual consent | 5 May 2017 | Pre-season | ![]() |
5 June 2017 |
Port Vale | ![]() |
Sacked | 16 September 2017 | 24th | ![]() |
4 October 2017 |
Chesterfield | ![]() |
16 September 2017 | 23rd | ![]() |
29 September 2017 | |
Barnet | ![]() |
Appointed as Head of Development | 13 November 2017 | ![]() |
14 November 2017 | |
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Appointed as Head of Technical | 15 January 2018 | 24th | ![]() |
15 January 2018 | |
Cambridge United | ![]() |
Mutual consent | 9 February 2018 | 14th | ![]() |
2 May 2018 |
Grimsby Town | ![]() |
Sacked | 11 February 2018 | 17th | ![]() |
2 March 2018 |
Mansfield Town | ![]() |
Signed by Peterborough United | 27 February 2018 | 5th | ![]() |
1 March 2018 |
Swindon Town | ![]() |
Signed by Mansfield Town | 1 March 2018 | 7th | ![]() |
12 March 2018 |
Stevenage | ![]() |
Sacked | 18 March 2018 | 16th | ![]() |
20 March 2018 |
Barnet | ![]() |
19 March 2018 | 24th | ![]() |
19 March 2018 | |
Chesterfield | ![]() |
Mutual consent | 24 April 2018 | 24th | ![]() |
15 May 2018 |
League table[]
Pos |
Team | Pld |
W |
D |
L |
GF |
GA |
GD |
Pts |
Qualification or relegation |
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1 | Accrington Stanley (C) (P) | 46 | 29 | 6 | 11 | 76 | 46 | +30 | 93 | Promotion to League One |
2 | ![]() |
46 | 25 | 13 | 8 | 94 | 46 | +48 | 88 | |
3 | Wycombe Wanderers (P) | 46 | 24 | 12 | 10 | 79 | 60 | +19 | 84 | |
4 | Exeter City | 46 | 24 | 8 | 14 | 64 | 54 | +10 | 80 | Qualification to the League Two play-offs |
5 | Notts County | 46 | 21 | 14 | 11 | 71 | 48 | +23 | 77 | |
6 | Coventry City (P) | 46 | 22 | 9 | 15 | 64 | 47 | +17 | 75 | |
7 | Lincoln City | 46 | 20 | 15 | 11 | 64 | 48 | +16 | 75 | |
8 | Mansfield Town | 46 | 18 | 18 | 10 | 67 | 52 | +15 | 72 | |
9 | Swindon Town | 46 | 20 | 8 | 18 | 67 | 65 | +2 | 68 | |
10 | Carlisle United | 46 | 17 | 16 | 13 | 62 | 54 | +8 | 67 | |
11 | Newport County | 46 | 16 | 16 | 14 | 56 | 58 | −2 | 64 | |
12 | Cambridge United | 46 | 17 | 13 | 16 | 56 | 60 | −4 | 64 | |
13 | Colchester United | 46 | 16 | 14 | 16 | 53 | 52 | +1 | 62 | |
14 | Crawley Town | 46 | 16 | 11 | 19 | 58 | 66 | −8 | 59 | |
15 | Crewe Alexandra | 46 | 17 | 5 | 24 | 62 | 75 | −13 | 56 | |
16 | Stevenage | 46 | 14 | 13 | 19 | 60 | 65 | −5 | 55 | |
17 | Cheltenham Town | 46 | 13 | 12 | 21 | 67 | 73 | −6 | 51 | |
18 | Grimsby Town | 46 | 13 | 12 | 21 | 42 | 66 | −24 | 51 | |
19 | Yeovil Town | 46 | 12 | 12 | 22 | 59 | 75 | −16 | 48 | |
20 | Port Vale | 46 | 11 | 14 | 21 | 49 | 67 | −18 | 47 | |
21 | Forest Green Rovers | 46 | 13 | 8 | 25 | 54 | 77 | −23 | 47 | |
22 | Morecambe | 46 | 9 | 19 | 18 | 41 | 56 | −15 | 46 | |
23 | Barnet (R) | 46 | 12 | 10 | 24 | 46 | 65 | −19 | 46 | Relegation to the National League |
24 | Chesterfield (R) | 46 | 10 | 8 | 28 | 47 | 83 | −36 | 38 |
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal difference; 3rd number of goals scored.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round; (Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament
Play-offs[]
Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||||||
4 | Exeter City | ||||||||||||
7 | Lincoln City | ||||||||||||
4 | Exeter City | 1 | |||||||||||
6 | Coventry City | 3 | |||||||||||
5 | Notts County | ||||||||||||
6 | Coventry City |
Results table[]
Home \ Away[1] | ACC | BAR | CAM | CRL | CHL | CHF | COL | COV | CRA | CRE | EXE | FGR | GRI | LIN | LUT | MAN | MOR | NPC | NTC | PTV | STE | SWI | WYC | YEO |
Accrington Stanley | 4–1 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 1–1 | 4–0 | 3–1 | 1–0 | 2–3 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 3–1 | 1–2 | 1–0 | 0–2 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 3–2 | 3–2 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 2–0 | |
Barnet | 1–1 | 3–1 | 1–3 | 0–2 | 3–0 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 2–1 | 1–2 | 1–0 | 0–2 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 1–2 | 0–2 | 1–1 | |
Cambridge United | 0–0 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 4–3 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 3–1 | 3–1 | 2–3 | 3–0 | 3–1 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 1–0 | 5–0 | 1–0 | 1–3 | 1–3 | 2–1 | |
Carlisle United | 3–1 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 3–0 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 2–2 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 0–2 | 1–2 | 3–3 | 4–0 | |
Cheltenham Town | 0–2 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 3–1 | 1–6 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 3–4 | 0–1 | 2–3 | 1–0 | 2–2 | 3–0 | 3–0 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 5–1 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 0–2 | 0–2 | |
Chesterfield | 1–2 | 2–1 | 2–3 | 2–2 | 0–2 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 0–2 | 1–0 | 3–2 | 1–3 | 1–3 | 2–0 | 0–1 | 0–2 | 1–0 | 3–1 | 2–0 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 1–2 | 2–3 | |
Colchester United | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 1–4 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 3–1 | 3–1 | 3–1 | 5–1 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 1–3 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 0–1 | |
Coventry City | 0–2 | 1–0 | 3–1 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 0–1 | 4–0 | 2–4 | 2–2 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 3–0 | 1–0 | 3–1 | 3–1 | 3–2 | 2–6 | |
Crawley Town | 2–1 | 2–0 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 3–5 | 0–2 | 0–2 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 3–1 | 1–1 | 3–0 | 3–1 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 0–1 | 1–3 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 2–3 | 2–0 | |
Crewe Alexandra | 0–2 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 0–5 | 2–1 | 5–1 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 3–0 | 1–2 | 3–1 | 2–0 | 1–4 | 1–2 | 2–2 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 2–2 | 1–0 | 0–3 | 2–3 | 0–0 | |
Exeter City | 2–0 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 2–2 | 3–0 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 1–4 | 0–1 | 4–1 | 1–0 | 0–3 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 3–1 | 1–1 | 0–0 | |
Forest Green Rovers | 0–1 | 2–2 | 5–2 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 4–1 | 1–2 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 3–2 | 1–3 | 0–3 | 0–1 | 0–2 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 0–4 | 1–2 | 1–0 | 3–1 | 0–2 | 1–2 | 4–3 | |
Grimsby Town | 0–3 | 2–2 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 2–2 | 0–2 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 0–2 | 1–2 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 3–2 | 2–3 | 2–1 | |
Lincoln City | 2–0 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 4–1 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 1–4 | 3–2 | 2–1 | 3–1 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 3–1 | 2–2 | 3–1 | 3–0 | 2–2 | 0–0 | 1–1 | |
Luton Town | 1–2 | 2–0 | 7–0 | 3–0 | 2–2 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 0–3 | 4–1 | 3–1 | 1–0 | 3–1 | 2–0 | 4–2 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 3–1 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 7–1 | 0–3 | 2–3 | 8–2 | |
Mansfield Town | 0–1 | 3–1 | 2–1 | 3–1 | 3–2 | 2–2 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 3–4 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 4–1 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 2–1 | 5–0 | 3–1 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 1–3 | 0–0 | 0–0 | |
Morecambe | 1–2 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 2–2 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 2–1 | 1–4 | 0–3 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 4–3 | |
Newport County | 2–1 | 1–2 | 2–1 | 3–3 | 1–0 | 4–1 | 1–2 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 1–2 | 2–1 | 3–3 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 2–0 | |
Notts County | 2–2 | 2–1 | 3–3 | 2–1 | 3–1 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 1–2 | 4–1 | 1–2 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 4–1 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 3–0 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 4–1 | |
Port Vale | 1–2 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 1–2 | 3–1 | 2–1 | 2–2 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 1–0 | 4–0 | 0–4 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 2–2 | 0–3 | 2–3 | 1–1 | |
Stevenage | 3–2 | 4–1 | 0–2 | 0–0 | 4–1 | 5–1 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 3–1 | 1–2 | 3–1 | 1–2 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 3–3 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 4–1 | |
Swindon Town | 3–0 | 1–4 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 0–3 | 2–2 | 2–3 | 1–2 | 0–3 | 4–3 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0–5 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 3–2 | 3–2 | 1–0 | 2–2 | |
Wycombe Wanderers | 0–4 | 3–1 | 1–1 | 4–3 | 3–3 | 1–0 | 3–1 | 0–1 | 4–0 | 3–2 | 0–0 | 3–1 | 2–1 | 2–2 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 2–4 | 2–0 | 2–4 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 3–2 | 2–1 | |
Yeovil Town | 3–2 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 1–2 | 2–0 | 3–1 | 0–0 | 3–0 | 0–2 | 0–3 | 2–3 | 2–2 | 0–2 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 3–0 | 1–2 | 0–1 |
Source: BBC Sport
1The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Top scorers[]
- As of 5 May 2018
Rank | Player | Club | Goals |
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1 | ![]() |
Accrington Stanley | 25 |
2 | ![]() |
Cheltenham Town | 23 |
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Coventry City | ||
4 | ![]() |
Luton Town | 21 |
5 | ![]() |
Forest Green Rovers | 20 |
6 | ![]() |
Luton Town | 19 |
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Exeter City | ||
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Chesterfield | ||
9 | ![]() |
Wycombe Wanderers | 17 |
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Port Vale |
Monthly awards[]
Month | Manager of the Month | Player of the Month | ||
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Manager | Club | Player | Club | |
August | ![]() |
Exeter City | ![]() |
Newport County |
September | ![]() |
Notts County | ![]() |
Barnet |
October | ![]() |
Luton Town | ![]() |
Port Vale |
November | ![]() |
Forest Green Rovers | ||
December | ![]() |
Lincoln City | ![]() |
Colchester United |
January | ![]() |
Wycombe Wanderers | ![]() |
Coventry City |
February | ![]() |
Accrington Stanley | ![]() |
Swindon Town |
External links[]
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