2017–18 in English football

Football in England
Season	2017–18
Men's football
Premier League	Manchester City
Championship	Wolverhampton Wanderers
League One	Wigan Athletic
League Two	Accrington Stanley
National League	Macclesfield Town
FA Cup	Chelsea
EFL Trophy	Lincoln City
EFL Cup	Manchester City
Community Shield	Arsenal
Women's football
WSL 1	Chelsea
WSL 2	Doncaster Rovers Belles
FA Women's Cup	Chelsea
WSL Cup	Arsenal

The 2017–18 season was the 138th season of competitive association football in England.

National teams

England national football team

Results and fixtures

Friendlies

10 November 2017	England	0–0	Germany	London, England
20:00 GMT	Gomez 45+1' Livermore 59'	Report		Stadium: Wembley Stadium Attendance: 81,382 Referee: Pawel Raczkowski (Poland)

14 November 2017	England	0–0	Brazil	London, England
20:00 GMT	Livermore 54'	Report	Alves 56'	Stadium: Wembley Stadium Attendance: 84,595 Referee: Artur Dias Soares (Portugal)

23 March 2018	Netherlands	0–1	England	Amsterdam, Netherlands
19:45 GMT		Report	Lingard 59'	Stadium: Amsterdam Arena Attendance: 51,500 Referee: Jesús Gil Manzano (Spain)

27 March 2018	England	1–1	Italy	London, England
20:00 BST	Vardy 26'		Insigne 87' (pen.)	Stadium: Wembley Stadium Attendance: 82,598 Referee: Deniz Aytekin (Germany)

2 June 2018	England	2–1	Nigeria	London, England
20:00 BST	Cahill 7' Kane 39'	Report	Iwobi 47'	Stadium: Wembley Stadium Attendance: 70,025 Referee: Marco Guida (Italy)

7 June 2018	England	2–0	Costa Rica	Leeds, England
20:00 BST	Rashford 13' Welbeck 76'	Report		Stadium: Elland Road Attendance: 36,104 Referee: Hiroyuki Kimura (Japan)

2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA)

Group F

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	England	10	8	2	0	18	3	+15	26	Qualification to 2018 FIFA World Cup	—	2–1	3–0	1–0	2–0	2–0
2	Slovakia	10	6	0	4	17	7	+10	18		0–1	—	3–0	1–0	4–0	3–0
3	Scotland	10	5	3	2	17	12	+5	18		2–2	1–0	—	1–0	1–1	2–0
4	Slovenia	10	4	3	3	12	7	+5	15		0–0	1–0	2–2	—	4–0	2–0
5	Lithuania	10	1	3	6	7	20	−13	6		0–1	1–2	0–3	2–2	—	2–0
6	Malta	10	0	1	9	3	25	−22	1		0–4	1–3	1–5	0–1	1–1	—

Source: FIFA
Rules for classification: Qualification tiebreakers

2018 FIFA World Cup qualification tiebreakers
In league format, the ranking of teams in each group was based on the following criteria (regulations Articles 20.6 and 20.7):^[1] Points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss) Overall goal difference Overall goals scored Points in matches between tied teams Goal difference in matches between tied teams Goals scored in matches between tied teams Away goals scored in matches between tied teams (if the tie was only between two teams in home-and-away league format) Fair play points first yellow card: minus 1 point indirect red card (second yellow card): minus 3 points direct red card: minus 4 points yellow card and direct red card: minus 5 points Drawing of lots by the FIFA Organising Committee

1 September 2017 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification	Malta	0–4	England	Ta' Qali, Malta
19:45 BST		Report	Kane 53', 90+2' Bertrand 85' Welbeck 90+1'	Stadium: Ta' Qali National Stadium Attendance: 16,994 Referee: Artur Dias Soares (Portugal)

4 September 2017 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification	England	2–1	Slovakia	London, England
19:45 BST	Dier 37' Rashford 59'	Report	Lobotka 3'	Stadium: Wembley Stadium Attendance: 67,823 Referee: Clément Turpin (France)

5 October 2017 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification	England	1–0	Slovenia	London, England
19:45 BST	Stones 44' Kane 90+4'	Report	Krhin 38' Mevlja 45+1' Rotman 51' Struna 86' Birsa 90+6'	Stadium: Wembley Stadium Attendance: 61,598 Referee: Felix Zwayer (Germany)

8 October 2017 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification	Lithuania	0–1	England	Vilnius, Lithuania
17:00 BST	Slivka 54'	Report	Kane 27' (pen.)	Stadium: LFF Stadium Attendance: 5,067 Referee: Orel Grinfeld (Israel)

2018 FIFA World Cup

Group G

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Belgium	3	3	0	9	2	+7	9	Advance to knockout stage
2	England	3	2	1	8	3	+5	6	Advance to knockout stage
3	Tunisia	3	1	2	5	8	−3	3
4	Panama	3	0	3	2	11	−9	0

Source: FIFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

Matches

18 June 2018 2018 WC Group G	Tunisia	1–2	England	Volgograd, Russia
21:00 MSK (UTC+3) 19:00 BST (UTC+1)	Sassi 35' (pen.)	Report	Kane 11', 90+1' Walker 34'	Stadium: Volgograd Arena Attendance: 41,064 Referee: Wilmar Roldán (Colombia)

24 June 2018 2018 WC Group G	England	6–1	Panama	Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
15:00 MSK (UTC+3) 13:00 BST (UTC+1)	Stones 8', 40' Kane 22' (pen.), 45+1' (pen.), 62' Loftus-Cheek 23' Lingard 36'	Report	Cooper 10' Escobar 44' Murillo 72' Baloy 78'	Stadium: Nizhny Novgorod Stadium Attendance: 43,319 Referee: Gehad Grisha (Egypt)

28 June 2018 2018 WC Group G	England	0–1	Belgium	Kaliningrad, Russia
20:00 KALT (UTC+2) 19:00 BST (UTC+1)		Report	Tielemans 19' Dendoncker 33' Januzaj 51'	Stadium: Kaliningrad Stadium Attendance: 33,973 Referee: Damir Skomina (Slovenia)

Knockout stage

3 July 2018 2018 WC Round of 16	Colombia	1–1 (a.e.t.) (3–4 p)	England	Moscow, Russia
21:00 MSK (UTC+3) 19:00 BST (UTC+1)	Barrios 41' Arias 52' Sánchez 54' Falcao 63' Bacca 64' Mina 90+3' Cuadrado 118'	Report	Henderson 56' Kane 57' (pen.) Lingard 69'	Stadium: Spartak Stadium Attendance: 44,190 Referee: Mark Geiger (United States)
	Penalties
	Falcao Ju. Cuadrado Muriel Uribe Bacca		Kane Rashford Henderson Trippier Dier

7 July 2018 2018 WC Quarter-finals	Sweden	0–2	England	Samara, Russia
18:00 SAMT (UTC+4) 15:00 BST (UTC+1)	Guidetti 87' Larsson 90+4'	Report	Maguire 30' 87' Alli 59'	Stadium: Cosmos Arena Attendance: 39,991 Referee: Björn Kuipers (Netherlands)

11 July 2018 2018 WC Semi-finals	Croatia	2–1 (a.e.t.)	England	Moscow, Russia
21:00 MSK (UTC+3) 19:00 BST (UTC+1)	Perišić 68' Rebić 96' Mandžukić 48' 109'	Report	Trippier 5' Walker 54'	Stadium: Luzhniki Stadium Attendance: 78,011 Referee: Cüneyt Çakır (Turkey)

14 July 2018 2018 WC 3rd place	Belgium	2–0	England	Saint Petersburg, Russia
17:00 MSK (UTC+3) 15:00 BST (UTC+1)	Meunier 4' E. Hazard 82' Witsel 90+3'	Report	Stones 52' Maguire 76'	Stadium: Krestovsky Stadium Attendance: 64,406 Referee: Alireza Faghani (Iran)

England U-21 national football team

2019 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification

Group 4

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	England	10	8	2	0	23	4	+19	26	Final tournament	—	0–0	2–1	3–1	3–0	7–0
2	Netherlands	10	5	3	2	21	6	+15	18		1–1	—	3–0	1–2	3–0	8–0
3	Ukraine	10	5	2	3	18	12	+6	17		0–2	1–1	—	3–1	3–2	1–0
4	Scotland	10	4	2	4	13	13	0	14		0–2	2–0	0–2	—	1–1	3–0
5	Latvia	10	0	4	6	5	18	−13	4		1–2	0–3	1–1	0–2	—	0–0
6	Andorra	10	0	3	7	1	28	−27	3		0–1	0–1	0–6	1–1	0–0	—

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Qualification tiebreakers

England U-20 national football team

2017 FIFA U-20 World Cup

Group A

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	England	3	2	1	0	5	1	+4	7	Knockout stage
2	South Korea (H)	3	2	0	1	5	2	+3	6	Knockout stage
3	Argentina	3	1	0	2	6	5	+1	3
4	Guinea	3	0	1	2	1	9	−8	1

Source: FIFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
(H) Hosts

Round of 16

31 May 2017

20:00

England	2–1	Costa Rica
Fry 5' Lookman 35', 63' Chapman 88'	Report	Mesen 52' Salinas 70' Leal 89'

Jeonju World Cup Stadium, Jeonju

Attendance: 4,428

Referee: Julio Bascuñán (Chile)

Quarter-finals

5 June 2017

20:00

Mexico	0–1	England
	Report	Solanke 47' Onomah 33' 72'

Cheonan Stadium, Cheonan

Attendance: 5,953

Referee: Abdulla Hassan Mohamed (United Arab Emirates)

Semi-finals

8 June 2017

20:00

Italy	1–3	England
Orsolini 2' Orsolini 28' Favilli 37' Vido 83' Mandragora 84'	Report	Kenny 63' Solanke 66', 88' Lookman 77'

Jeonju World Cup Stadium, Jeonju

Attendance: 5,329

Referee: Antonio Mateu Lahoz (Spain)

Final

11 June 2017

19:00

Venezuela	0–1	England
Velasquez 46'	Report	Calvert-Lewin 35' Tomori 48' Dowell 58'

Suwon World Cup Stadium, Suwon

Attendance: 30,346

Referee: Björn Kuipers (Netherlands)

England U-19 national football team

2018 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualification

Group 8

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	England	3	3	0	9	1	+8	9	Elite round
2	Bulgaria (H)	3	2	1	4	2	+2	6	Elite round
3	Iceland	3	1	2	4	5	−1	3
4	Faroe Islands	3	0	3	1	10	−9	0

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Qualification tiebreakers
(H) Hosts

Elite round

Group 2
Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	England	3	2	1	7	3	+4	6^[a]	Final tournament
2	Latvia	3	2	1	5	6	−1	6^[a]
3	Hungary	3	1	2	7	10	−3	3^[b]
4	Macedonia (H)	3	1	2	6	6	0	3^[b]

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Qualification tiebreakers
(H) Hosts
Notes:

^ ^a ^b Head-to-head result: England 3–0 Latvia.
^ ^a ^b Head-to-head result: Macedonia 3–4 Hungary.

21 March 2018

14:00

Hungary	1–4	England
Bévárdi 39'	Report	Mount 48' Nelson 54', 86' Sancho 87'

Philip II Arena, Skopje

Referee: Christian Dingert (Germany)

24 March 2018

14:00

England	3–0	Latvia
Mount 22' Nketiah 52' Hirst 82'	Report

Philip II Arena, Skopje

Referee: Karim Abed (France)

27 March 2018

14:00

England	0–2	North Macedonia
	Report	Atanasov 3' Mitrovski 90+1'

Training Centre Petar Miloševski, Skopje

Referee: Christian Dingert (Germany)

England U-17 national football team

2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup

Group F

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	England	3	3	0	0	11	2	+9	9	Knockout stage
2	Iraq	3	1	1	1	4	5	−1	4
3	Mexico	3	0	2	1	3	4	−1	2
4	Chile	3	0	1	2	0	7	−7	1

Source: FIFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

Round of 16

17 October 2017

20:00

England	0–0	Japan
	Report
Penalties
Brewster Hudson-Odoi Foden Anderson Kirby	5–3	Sugawara Miyashiro Kida Kozuki

Salt Lake Stadium, Kolkata

Attendance: 53,302

Referee: José Argote (Venezuela)

Quarter-finals

21 October 2017

20:00

United States	1–4	England
Sargent 72'	Report	Brewster 11', 14', 90+6' (pen.) Gibbs-White 64'

Fatorda Stadium, Margao

Attendance: 16,148

Referee: Clément Turpin (France)

Semi-finals

25 October 2017

17:00

Brazil	1–3	England
Wesley 21'	Report	Brewster 10', 39', 77'

Salt Lake Stadium, Kolkata^{[note 1]}

Attendance: 63,881

Referee: Ovidiu Hațegan (Romania)

Final

28 October 2017

20:00

England	5–2	Spain
Brewster 44' Gibss-White 58' Foden 69', 88' Guehi 84'	Report	Gómez 10', 31'

Salt Lake Stadium, Kolkata

Attendance: 66,684

Referee: Enrique Cáceres (Paraguay)

2018 UEFA European Under-17 Championship

The final draw was held in April 2018 in England.^[3] 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

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Italy	3	2	1	5	2	+3	6	Knockout stage
2	England (H)	3	2	1	4	3	+1	6	Knockout stage
3	Switzerland	3	2	1	4	2	+2	6
4	Israel	3	0	3	1	7	−6	0

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
(H) Hosts

4 May 2018 (2018-05-04)	England	2–1	Israel	Proact Stadium, Chesterfield
19:00	Doyle 29' (pen.) Daly 61'	Report	Lugassy 40+1' (pen.)	Attendance: 6,102 Referee: Halil Umut Meler (Turkey)

7 May 2018 (2018-05-07)	England	2–1	Italy	Bescot Stadium, Walsall
15:00	Appiah 64' Doyle 69' (pen.)	Report	Riccardi 14'	Attendance: 7,159 Referee: Vilhjalmur Thorarinsson (Iceland)

10 May 2018 (2018-05-10)	Switzerland	1–0	England	New York Stadium, Rotherham
19:00	Mambimbi 40+1'	Report		Referee: Horatiu Fesnic (Romania)

Quarter-finals

13 May 2018 (2018-05-13)	Norway	0–2	England	Pirelli Stadium, Burton
18:00		Report	Duncan 14' Amaechi 49'	Referee: Juri Frischer (Estonia)

Semi-finals

17 May 2018 (2018-05-17)	England	0–0 (5–6 p)	Netherlands	Proact Stadium, Chesterfield
19:00		Report		Attendance: 7,952 Referee: Horatiu Fesnic (Romania)
	Penalties
	John-Jules Daly Saka Ashby-Hammond Appiah Balogun		Burger Ihattaren Hendriks Tavsan J. Timber Q. Timber

England women's national football team

Results and fixtures

Friendlies

1 July 2017 (2017-07-01)	Denmark	1–2	England	Copenhagen, Denmark
18:00	Harder 66'	Report	White 44', 76'	Stadium: Gladsaxe Stadium Referee: Sara Persson (Sweden)

20 October 2017	France	1–0	England	Valenciennes, France
19:50 BST				Stadium: Stade du Hainaut

UEFA Women's Euro 2017

Group D

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	England	3	3	0	10	1	+9	9	Knockout stage
2	Spain	3	1	2	2	3	−1	3^[a]	Knockout stage
3	Scotland	3	1	2	2	8	−6	3^[a]
4	Portugal	3	1	2	3	5	−2	3^[a]

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
Notes:

^ ^a ^b ^c
Head-to-head records:
- Spain: 3 pts (1 W, 0 D, 1 L), +1 GD (2 GF, 1 GA)
- Scotland: 3 pts (1 W, 0 D, 1 L), 0 GD (2 GF, 2 GA)
- Portugal: 3 pts (1 W, 0 D, 1 L), −1 GD (2 GF, 3 GA)

19 July 2017 Euro 2017 – GS	England	6–0	Scotland	Utrecht, Netherlands
19:45	Taylor 11', 26', 53' White 32' Nobbs 87' Duggan 90'+3'	Report		Stadium: Stadion Galgenwaard Attendance: 5,578 Referee: Esther Staubli (Switzerland)

23 July 2017 Euro 2017 – GS	England	2–0	Spain	Breda, Netherlands
19:45	Kirby 2' Taylor 85'	Report		Stadium: Rat Verlegh Stadion Attendance: 4,879 Referee: Carina Vitulano (Italy)

27 July 2017 Euro 2017 – GS	Portugal	1–2	England	Tilburg, Netherlands
19:45	C. Mendes 17'	Report	Duggan 7' Parris 48'	Stadium: Koning Willem II Stadion Attendance: 3,335 Referee: Kateryna Monzul (Ukraine)

30 July 2017 Euro 2017 – QF	England	1–0	France	Deventer, Netherlands
20:45	Taylor 60'	Report		Stadium: De Adelaarshorst, Attendance: 6,283 Referee: Esther Staubli (Switzerland)

3 August 2017 Euro 2017 – SF	Netherlands	3–0	England	Enschede, Netherlands
20:45				Stadium: De Grolsch Veste Referee: Stéphanie Frappart (France)

2019 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification (UEFA)

2019 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 1

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	England	8	7	1	0	29	1	+28	22	2019 FIFA Women's World Cup	—	0–0	6–0	4–0	5–0
2	Wales	8	5	2	1	7	3	+4	17		0–3	—	3–0	1–0	1–0
3	Russia	8	4	1	3	16	13	+3	13		1–3	0–0	—	3–0	3–0
4	Bosnia and Herzegovina	8	1	0	7	3	19	−16	3^[a]		0–2	0–1	1–6	—	0–2
5	Kazakhstan	8	1	0	7	2	21	−19	3^[a]		0–6	0–1	0–3	0–2	—

Source: UEFA
Notes:

^ ^a ^b Head-to-head results: Kazakhstan 0–2 Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina 0–2 Kazakhstan (tied on head-to-head results, ranked on total goal difference).

19 September 2017 WCQ-G1	England	6–0	Russia	Birkenhead, England
19:00	Parris 11' Taylor 14' Nobbs 36' Bronze 44' Duggan 57', 84'	Report		Stadium: Prenton Park Referee: Stéphanie Frappart (France)

24 November 2017 WCQ-G1	England	4–0	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Walsall, England
20:05	Houghton 19', 54' Parris 46' Kirby 83' (pen.)	Report		Stadium: Bescot Stadium Attendance: 10,026 Referee: Ewa Augustyn (Poland)

28 November 2017 WCQ-G1	England	5–0	Kazakhstan	Colchester, England
20:05	Lawley 15' Kirby 64' (pen.) Parris 69', 75' Christiansen 76'	Report		Stadium: Colchester Community Stadium Attendance: 9,643 Referee: Lois Otte (Belgium)

6 April 2018 WCQ-G1	England	0–0	Wales	Southampton, England
20:00		Report		Stadium: St Mary's Stadium Attendance: 25,603 Referee: Pernilla Larsson (Sweden)

10 April 2018 WCQ-G1	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0–2	England	Bosnia and Herzegovina FA Training Centre, Zenica
16:00			Duggan 56' Taylor 90+3' (pen.)	Attendance: 340 Referee: Andromachi Tsiofliki (Greece)

8 June 2018 WCQ-G1	Russia	1–3	England	Sapsan Arena, Moscow
18:00	Danilova 31'		Parris 22' Scott 27', 36'	Attendance: 1,859 Referee: Riem Hussein (Germany)

2018 SheBelieves Cup

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	United States (H, C)	3	2	1	0	3	1	+2	7
2	England	3	1	1	1	6	4	+2	4
3	France	3	1	1	1	5	5	0	4
4	Germany	3	0	1	2	2	6	−4	1

Source: USSoccer
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) goals scored; 4) head-to-head points; 5) head-to-head goal difference; 6) head-to-head number of goals scored; 7) FIFA ranking.
(C) Champions; (H) Hosts

1 March 2018	England	4–1	France	Columbus, United States
16:00 ET	Duggan 7' Scott 28' Taylor 39' Kirby 46'	Report	Thiney 77'	Stadium: MAPFRE Stadium Attendance: 7,566 Referee: Christina Unkel (United States)

4 March 2018

Germany

2–2

England

[table_hth_ENG0.89739565919032-2] Head-to-head result: England 3–0 Latvia.

[table_hth_HUN0.89739565919032-3] Head-to-head result: Macedonia 3–4 Hungary.

[table_hth_ESP0.75006123853385-7] Head-to-head records:
Spain: 3 pts (1 W, 0 D, 1 L), +1 GD (2 GF, 1 GA)

Scotland: 3 pts (1 W, 0 D, 1 L), 0 GD (2 GF, 2 GA)

Portugal: 3 pts (1 W, 0 D, 1 L), −1 GD (2 GF, 3 GA)

[4] Spain: 3 pts (1 W, 0 D, 1 L), +1 GD (2 GF, 1 GA)

[5] Scotland: 3 pts (1 W, 0 D, 1 L), 0 GD (2 GF, 2 GA)

[6] Portugal: 3 pts (1 W, 0 D, 1 L), −1 GD (2 GF, 3 GA)

[table_hth_BIH0.86711681302037-8] Head-to-head results: Kazakhstan 0–2 Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina 0–2 Kazakhstan (tied on head-to-head results, ranked on total goal difference).

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