The 2017–18 season was the 138th season of competitive association football in England.
National teams
England national football team
Results and fixtures
Friendlies
2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA)
Group F
2018 FIFA World Cup
Group G
Matches
Knockout stage
England U-21 national football team
2019 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification
Group 4
England U-20 national football team
2017 FIFA U-20 World Cup
Group A
Round of 16
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Final
England U-19 national football team
2018 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualification
Group 8
Elite round
England U-17 national football team
2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup
Group F
Round of 16
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Final
2018 UEFA European Under-17 Championship
The final draw was held in April 2018 in England. The 16 teams were drawn into four groups of four teams. Hosts England were assigned to position A1 in the draw, while the other teams were seeded according to their results in the qualification elite round, with the seven best elite round group winners (counting all elite round results) placed in Pot 1 and drawn to positions 1 and 2 in the groups, and the remaining eight teams (the eighth-best elite round group winner and the seven elite round group runners-up) placed in Pot 2 and drawn to positions 3 and 4 in the groups.
Group A
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
England women's national football team
Results and fixtures
Friendlies
UEFA Women's Euro 2017
Group D
2019 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification (UEFA)
2019 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 1
2018 SheBelieves Cup
Managerial changes
Outgoing managerManner of departureDate of departureIncoming managerDate of appointment Sacked 20 September 2017 Phil Neville 23 January 2018
England women's national under-20 football team
England women's U-19 national football team
2017 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship
Group B
Knockout stage
2018 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship qualification
Qualifying round
Elite round
England women's U-17 national football team
2018 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualification
Qualifying round
Elite round
2018 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship
Group B
Semi-finals
3rd place
UEFA competitions
UEFA Champions League
Play-off round
Group stage
Group A
Group C
Group E
Group F
Group H
Knockout phase
Round of 16
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Final
UEFA Europa League
Qualifying rounds
Third qualifying round
Play-off round
Group stage
Group E
Group H
Knockout phase
Round of 32
Round of 16
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
UEFA Super Cup
UEFA Youth League
Group stage
Group A
Group C
Group E
Group F
Group H
Knockout phase
For the knockout phase (round of 16 onwards), the 16 teams are drawn into a single-elimination tournament, with all ties played over one match.
Play-offs
Round of 16
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Finals
UEFA Women's Champions League
Knockout phase
Round of 32
Round of 16
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Men's football League season Promotion and relegation
League DivisionPromoted to league Relegated from league Premier League Newcastle United Brighton & Hove Albion Huddersfield Town Hull City Middlesbrough Sunderland Championship Sheffield United Bolton Wanderers Millwall Blackburn Rovers Wigan Athletic Rotherham United League One Portsmouth Plymouth Argyle Doncaster Rovers Blackpool Port Vale Swindon Town Coventry City Chesterfield League Two Lincoln City Forest Green Rovers Hartlepool United Leyton Orient National League AFC Fylde Maidenhead United FC Halifax Town Ebbsfleet United York City Braintree Town Southport North Ferriby United
Premier League
In what was largely a one-sided race for the title, Manchester City won the Premier League for the third time in six years, breaking records for the highest number of goals scored by one team in a league campaign and the most victories as well as gathering the most points, becoming the first top-flight team to reach the 100-point mark. This gave manager Pep Guardiola his first pieces of silverware with the club, having also won the League Cup – with perhaps the only blemishes in the season being a shock FA Cup loss at 2013 winners Wigan Athletic and a 5–1 aggregate loss to Liverpool in the Champions League quarter-finals. Finishing second were neighbours Manchester United, whose second season under José Mourinho finished with mixed success. While they improved on the previous league season and finished as runners-up in the FA Cup final, they never came close to challenging City for the title and also endured an early exit in the Champions League at the hands at Sevilla, though they did finish higher than fourth for the first time since Sir Alex Ferguson retired in 2013.
Tottenham Hotspur successfully qualified for the Champions League once again, but this proved to be their only success in the season as they failed to win their first trophy in ten years. Early woes at their temporary home of Wembley saw the London club's hopes of challenging for the title diminish once again, with a loss of late form and fitness costing striker Harry Kane a third successive Golden Boot. A run of only three wins from their opening nine league matches extinguished Liverpool's hopes of ending their 28-year wait for a league title. Otherwise, their season proved to be a successful one as they ensured qualification for the Champions League once again, breaking the record for the most league seasons where they avoided defeat at Anfield, while summer signing Mohamed Salah narrowly broke the 22-year record for the most goals scored in a league season by scoring 32. However, their biggest achievement proved to be in the Champions League as they reached the final in Kyiv against all odds, only narrowly losing to Real Madrid.
Chelsea endured what proved to be a poor defence of their title and finished fifth, missing out on the Champions League once again. A woeful start to 2018 costing them a place in the top four despite four wins in their last six games (and making it the third season in a row where the defending champions failed to finish in the top four) and winning their first FA Cup since 2012. Arsenal were unable to send manager Arsène Wenger, who resigned after 22 years as manager, out on a high as they finished in their lowest league position under the Frenchman and missed out on trophies, most notably being knocked out of the Europa League in the semi-finals. Burnley proved to be the surprise package of the whole season as they mounted a charge for Champions League qualification and stood fifth at Christmas. While 11 matches without a win saw them slide out of the top five, the Clarets recovered enough to secure seventh place and qualify for the Europa League. Everton and Leicester City looked set to battle relegation after poor starts to the season, but they rallied after the respective appointments of Sam Allardyce and Claude Puel, only missing out on the Europa League late on in the season.
For only the third time in Premier League history, all three promoted teams avoided the drop. Newcastle United finished highest, a final day win against Chelsea earning them a tenth-place finish after a poor run of form. Brighton & Hove Albion's first top-flight campaign since 1983 saw the Seagulls finish below them, never being seriously threatened with immediate relegation despite a few scares. However, arguably the biggest surprise of the three were Huddersfield Town, who defied all expectations and ensured Premier League survival in their first season in the top-flight for 45 years. While a dreadful goal-scoring record (having scored less than both Salah and Kane) and heavy losses both home and away threatened their hopes, key points gained at crucial stages helped push the Terriers away from the drop and towards safety in their penultimate match, a remarkable effort that earned the team and their American head coach David Wagner plenty of praise.
Despite making the worst start in the history of English football, going into the October international break goalless and pointless after seven games, a resurgence under former England manager Roy Hodgson saw Crystal Palace extend their stay in the top-flight to a sixth successive season – steering well clear of relegation in the process. While successfully ensuring a fourth consecutive season in the Premier League, Watford endured what proved to be another season of struggle. They did make a superb start, but their form spectacularly collapsed following what the club considered to be an "unwarranted approach" from Everton over head coach Marco Silva. The Hornets eventually pulled themselves over the finish line after a change of manager, but at the cost of question marks over the club's managerial turnover and their stability in the top-flight.
West Bromwich Albion finished bottom, ending a run of eight years among the elite – a 20-game winless run from mid-August to January, and only winning just once after that left them rooted to last place, but a late run of form under caretaker manager Darren Moore that saw the Baggies take 11 points from their last six matches at least saw them go down fighting, with relegation not being confirmed until the penultimate round of games. Stoke City finished just above them, bringing to an end a decade in the Premier League. The Potters' downfall ultimately proved to be both an anaemic goal record and an inability to see out a win, having dropped 19 points from winning positions all season and only finishing above West Brom with a final-day win. The final spot was taken by Swansea City, who endured their worst season since promotion in 2011. The Swans appeared to have been rejuvenated by the arrival of Portuguese manager Carlos Carvalhal after Christmas, but a loss of form in their last ten matches saw the Welsh club overtaken by FA Cup semi-finalists Southampton, who endured a horrendous league season but stayed up thanks in part to the late appointment of Mark Hughes.
Championship
Following successive seasons of struggle and near-misses with relegation, Wolverhampton Wanderers ended their six-year absence from the Premier League in style, leading the table from Halloween onwards and giving Portuguese head coach Nuno Espírito Santo both promotion and the Championship title in his first season in charge. The fight for second place went down to the last round of games, but it was ultimately Cardiff City who emerged victorious and returned to the top-flight for the first time since 2014, earning manager Neil Warnock a record eighth promotion, as his mixed team of young players and journeymen ensured a Welsh presence in the top-flight next season. Taking the final spot through the playoffs were Fulham, who had been relegated to the second-tier alongside Cardiff in 2014, as they defeated Aston Villa in the playoff final at Wembley, their first visit to the stadium since 1975. This gave Serbian manager Slaviša Jokanović his second promotion to the Premier League in four seasons, having previously won promotion with Watford (albeit leaving the Hornets just weeks later) in 2015.