The 2017 Orange County SC season was the club's seventh season of existence, their third in the United Soccer League, and their first in the second tier of American soccer. This was the club's first year being branded as Orange County SC after previously being known as Orange County Blues FC from 2014 through 2017 and the LA Blues from 2011 to 2014.
Background Playing the first season as Orange County SC, the team finished with a record of 11-11-10, 6-6-4 at home. The team played their first four games away due to the ongoing construction of their temporary stadium at Orange County Great Park, while Championship Soccer Stadium was under construction. The first home game was week 7, May 6, 2017, against LA Galaxy II, resulting in a 4-0 Orange County victory. Due to insufficient lighting in the temporary field games started at 5:00 pm PST.
The first game played in the new Championship Soccer Stadium was August 5, 2017, against Tulsa Roughnecks ending in a scoreless draw.
The team finished the season in 10th place in the Western Conference and did not qualify for playoffs, three points behind Sacramento Republic FC in 8th place.
OCSC played three away games for the US Open Cup, defeating FC Golden State Force (5-2) and LA Wolves FC (1-0), before losing to LA Galaxy (1-3) at Dignity Health Sports stadium.
At the conclusion of the season, Head Coach Logan Pause was released, announced Nov 27.
Transfers In
PlayerTransferred FromFeeDateSource 1 Seattle Sounders FCFree 2 LA GalaxyFree 3 Miami FCFree 4 Jacksonville Armada FCFree 6 Fort Lauderdale StrikersFree 8 Tulsa Roughnecks FCFree 11 Go Ahead EaglesFree 12 Ventura County FusionFree 16 SCC HawksFree 18 Indy ElevenFree 19 UMass Lowell River HawksFree 22 Blau-Weiß FriesdorfFree 23 Dinamo ZegrebFree 25 Wisconsin BadgersFree 26 Orange County SC U-23Free
Loan in
PlayerLoaned FromStartEndSource5 Pachuca9 Los Angeles FC10 Los Angeles FC13 UANL
Club
No.PositionNationPlayer
Preseason exhibitions
Competitive USL
Table
Results summary
Results by round
Results
U.S. Open Cup
Statistics
Goalscorers RankPositionPlayerAppearancesGoals1MF Irvin Parra30112MF Jerry van Ewijk2983MF Zach Kobayashi174MF Roy Meeus194
Assists RankPositionPlayerAppearancesAssists1MF Irvin Parra30102FW Wuilito Fernandes253MF Jerry van Ewijk2934MF Carlos Alvarez192
Clean sheets PositionPlayerAppearancesSavesClean sheetsGK Charlie Lyon31957
References
External links Official Website 2017 Schedule