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2017–18 Chennaiyin FC season

season of football team

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ48729883 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 2017–18 Chennaiyin FC season was the club's fourth season since its establishment in 2014 and their fourth season in the Indian Super League.

Transfers

Pre-season

Squad

As of 15 September 2017

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

Technical staff

Competitions

Indian Super League

League table

Results summary

Results by round

Matches

Win

Draw

Loss

League stage

Playoffs

Final

Indian Super Cup

As one of the top six teams in Indian Super League, Chennaiyin FC qualified for the main round in 2018 Indian Super Cup. Chennaiyin FC will meet the fifth placed I-League side Aizawl F.C. in Round of 16 match.

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“2017–18 Chennaiyin FC season” enters the record as season of football team. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Chennaiyin, season and football can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “2017–18 Chennaiyin FC season” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.