EFL League One 2017–18

League One
2017–18
	League One; 2017–18
Season information
Winners	Wigan Athletic; (3rd divisional title)
Promoted	Wigan Athletic; Blackburn Rovers; Rotherham United
Relegated	Bury; Milton Keynes Dons; Northampton Town; Oldham Athletic
Season statistics
Matches played	552
Goals scored	1401
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)
Previous season	Next season
← 2016–17	2018–19 →

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The 2017–18 EFL League One (referred to as the Sky Bet League One for sponsorship reasons) will be the 2nd season of the EFL League One 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 2016–17 season.

To League One

Promoted from League Two

Relegated from The Championship

From League One

Promoted to The Championship

Relegated to League Two

Stadia

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity
AFC Wimbledon	London	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	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	13,500
Oxford United	Oxford	Kassam Stadium	12,500
Peterborough United	Peterborough	London Road	14,084
Plymouth Argyle	Plymouth	Home Park	17,441
Portsmouth	Portsmouth	Fratton Park	21,178
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-on-Sea	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	Barrow, GrahamGraham Barrow	Mutual consent	30 May 2017	Pre-season	Paul Cook	31 May 2017
Portsmouth	Paul Cook	Signed by Wigan Athletic	31 May 2017		Kenny Jackett	2 June 2017
Oxford United	Appleton, MichaelMichael Appleton	Signed by Leicester City as assistant manager	20 June 2017		Clotet, PepPep Clotet	1 July 2017
Northampton Town	Edinburgh, JustinJustin Edinburgh	Sacked	31 August 2017	24th	Floyd Hasselbaink, JimmyJimmy Floyd Hasselbaink	4 September 2017
Oldham Athletic	Sheridan, JohnJohn Sheridan	Mutual consent	25 September 2017	24th	Wellens, RichieRichie Wellens	18 October 2017
Gillingham	Pennock, AdrianAdrian Pennock	Mutual consent	25 September 2017	22nd	Lovell, SteveSteve Lovell	16 November 2017
Bury	Lee Clark	Sacked	30 October 2017	23rd	Lucketti, ChrisChris Lucketti	22 November 2017
Bury	Lucketti, ChrisChris Lucketti	Sacked	15 January 2018	24th	Lowe, RyanRyan Lowe	15 January 2018
Southend United	Brown, PhilPhil Brown	Resigned	17 January 2018	18th	Powell, ChrisChris Powell	23 January 2018
Milton Keynes Dons	Neilson, RobbieRobbie Neilson	Mutual consent	20 January 2018	21st	Micciche, DanDan Micciche	23 January 2018
Oxford United	Clotet, PepPep Clotet	Sacked	22 January 2018	10th	Robinson, KarlKarl Robinson	22 March 2018
Bradford City	McCall, StuartStuart McCall		5 February 2018	6th	Grayson, SimonSimon Grayson	11 February 2018
Fleetwood Town	Rösler, UweUwe Rösler		16 February 2018	20th	Sheridan, JohnJohn Sheridan	22 February 2018
Peterborough United	McCann, GrantGrant McCann		25 February 2018	10th	Evans, SteveSteve Evans	28 February 2018
Walsall	Whitney, JonJon Whitney		12 March 2018	14th	Keates, DeanDean Keates	16 March 2018
Charlton Athletic	Robinson, KarlKarl Robinson	Signed by Oxford United	22 March 2018	9th	Bowyer, LeeLee Bowyer	22 March 2018
Scunthorpe United	Alexander, GrahamGraham Alexander	Sacked	24 March 2016	5th	Daws, NickNick Daws	11 April 2018
Northampton Town	Floyd Hasselbaink, JimmyJimmy Floyd Hasselbaink		2 April 2018	23rd	Austin, DeanDean Austin	2 April 2018
Milton Keynes Dons	Micciche, DanDan Micciche		22 April 2018	23rd	Millen, KeithKeith Millen	22 April 2018

League table


Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Wigan Athletic (C) (P)	46	29	11	6	89	29	+60	98	Promotion to the Championship
2	Blackburn Rovers (P)	46	28	12	6	82	40	+42	96	Promotion to the Championship
3	Shrewsbury Town	46	25	12	9	60	39	+21	87	Qualification to the League One play-offs
4	Rotherham United (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 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

Updated to games played on 5 May 2018
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

	Semi-finals		Final

3	Shrewsbury Town	1 1 2
6	Charlton Athletic	1 0 0
			3	Shrewsbury Town	1

			4	Rotherham United	2
4	Rotherham United	2 2 4

5	Scunthorpe United	2 0 2

Results table

Home \ Away^[1]	WIM	BLB	BLP	BRA	BRR	Bury	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 games played on 1 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 24 April 2018

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Jack Marriott	Peterborough United	27
2	Brett Pitman	Portsmouth	23
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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Season information
League One 2017–18

Winners	Wigan Athletic (3rd divisional title)
Promoted	Wigan Athletic Blackburn Rovers Rotherham United
Relegated	Bury Milton Keynes Dons Northampton Town Oldham Athletic
Season statistics
Matches played	552
Goals scored	1401
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)

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