2017–18 EFL League Two

EFL League Two 2017–18
Season information
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	2018–19 →

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 Lincoln City Forest Green Rovers Relegated from League One Coventry City Chesterfield Swindon Town Port Vale

From League Two Promoted to League One Doncaster Rovers Plymouth Argyle Portsmouth Blackpool Relegated to National League Leyton Orient Hartlepool United

Stadia

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity
Accrington Stanley	Accrington	Crown Ground	5,057
Barnet	London	The Hive Stadium	6,418
Cambridge United	Cambridge	Abbey Stadium	8,127
Carlisle United	Carlisle	Brunton Park	17,949
Cheltenham Town	Cheltenham	Whaddon Road	7,066
Chesterfield	Chesterfield	Proact Stadium	10,504
Colchester United	Colchester	Colchester Community Stadium	10,105
Coventry City	Coventry	Ricoh Arena	32,609
Crawley Town	Crawley	Broadfield Stadium	6,134
Crewe Alexandra	Crewe	Alexandra Stadium	10,153
Exeter City	Exeter	St James Park	8,541
Forest Green Rovers	Nailsworth	The New Lawn	5,141
Grimsby Town	Grimsby	Blundell Park	9,052
Lincoln City	Lincoln	Sincil Bank	10,120
Luton Town	Luton	Kenilworth Road	10,356
Mansfield Town	Mansfield	Field Mill	10,000
Morecambe	Morecambe	Globe Arena	6,476
Newport County	Newport	Rodney Parade	7,850
Notts County	Nottingham	Meadow Lane	19,588
Port Vale	Burslem	Vale Park	19,052
Stevenage	Stevenage	Lamex Stadium	6,722
Swindon Town	Swindon	County Ground	15,728
Wycombe Wanderers	High Wycombe	Adams Park	9,617
Yeovil Town	Yeovil	Huish Park	9,565

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Swindon Town	Luke Williams	Mutual consent	5 May 2017	Pre-season	David Flitcroft	5 June 2017
Port Vale	Michael Brown	Sacked	16 September 2017	24th	Neil Aspin	4 October 2017
Chesterfield	Gary Caldwell		16 September 2017	23rd	Jack Lester	29 September 2017
Barnet	Rossi Eames	Appointed as Head of Development	13 November 2017		Mark McGhee	14 November 2017
	Mark McGhee	Appointed as Head of Technical	15 January 2018	24th	Graham Westley	15 January 2018
Cambridge United	Shaun Derry	Mutual consent	9 February 2018	14th	Joe Dunne	2 May 2018
Grimsby Town	Russell Slade	Sacked	11 February 2018	17th	Michael Jolley	2 March 2018
Mansfield Town	Steve Evans	Signed by Peterborough United	27 February 2018	5th	David Flitcroft	1 March 2018
Swindon Town	David Flitcroft	Signed by Mansfield Town	1 March 2018	7th	Phil Brown	12 March 2018
Stevenage	Darren Sarll	Sacked	18 March 2018	16th	Dino Maamria	20 March 2018
Barnet	Graham Westley		19 March 2018	24th	Martin Allen	19 March 2018
Chesterfield	Jack Lester	Mutual consent	24 April 2018	24th	Martin Allen	15 May 2018

League table

2017–18 Football League Two table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Accrington Stanley  (C) (P)	46	29	6	11	76	46	+30	93	Promotion to League One
2	Luton Town  (P)	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

Source: BBC Sport
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

See also: 2018 English Football League 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

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

Updated to games played on 5 May 2018
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
1	Billy Kee	Accrington Stanley	25
2	Mohamed Eisa	Cheltenham Town	23
	Marc McNulty	Coventry City
4	Danny Hylton	Luton Town	21
5	Christian Doidge	Forest Green Rovers	20
6	James Collins	Luton Town	19
	Jayden Stockley	Exeter City
	Kristian Dennis	Chesterfield
9	Adebayo Akinfenwa	Wycombe Wanderers	17
	Tom Pope	Port Vale

Monthly awards

Month	Manager of the Month		Player of the Month
	Manager	Club	Player	Club
August	Paul Tisdale	Exeter City	Frank Nouble	Newport County
September	Kevin Nolan	Notts County	Shaquile Coulthirst	Barnet
October	Nathan Jones	Luton Town	Tom Pope	Port Vale
November			Christian Doidge	Forest Green Rovers
December	Danny Cowley	Lincoln City	Sammie Szmodics	Colchester United
January	Gareth Ainsworth	Wycombe Wanderers	Marc McNulty	Coventry City
February	John Coleman	Accrington Stanley	Marc Richards	Swindon Town

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