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2017–18 Cheltenham Town F.C. season

season of football team

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ30638760 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 2017–18 season was Cheltenham Town's 131st season in existence and their second consecutive season in League Two. Along with competing in League Two, the club also participated in the FA Cup, EFL Cup and EFL Trophy.

The season covered the period from 1 July 2017 to 30 June 2018.

Competitions

Friendlies

League Two

League table

FA Cup

EFL Cup

EFL Trophy

Group table

Transfers

In

Out

Loan in

Loan out

Squad statistics

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Numbers in parentheses denote appearances as substitute.

Players with squad numbers struck through and marked † left the club during the playing season.

Players with names in italics and marked * were on loan from another club for the whole of their season with Cheltenham.

Players listed with no appearances have been in the matchday squad but only as unused substitutes.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2017, 2018—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Cheltenham, Town and season is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “2017–18 Cheltenham Town F.C. 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.