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The 2017–18 season is Defensa y Justicia's 5th consecutive season in the top-flight of Argentine football. The season covers the period from 1 July 2017 to 30 June 2018.

Current squad

As of 3 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.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  ARG Lucio Chiappero 4 DF  ARG Rafael Barrios 5 MF  ARG Luis Jerez Silva (on loan from Godoy Cruz) 7 FW  ARG Juan Kaprof (on loan from River Plate) 8 MF  URU Ignacio Rivero 10 MF  ARG Hernán Fredes 12 GK  ARG Ezequiel Unsain 18 DF  ARG Pablo Alvarado 20 DF  ARG Rafael Delgado 21 GK  ARG Gabriel Arias 28 MF  ARG Tomás Pochettino (on loan from Boca Juniors) 31 MF  ARG Gonzalo Castellani (on loan from Boca Juniors) 33 MF  ARG Leonel Miranda 34 MF  ARG Matías Sosa 35 MF  ARG Mariano Bareiro (on loan from Racing Club) — MF  ARG Adrián Cubas (on loan from Boca Juniors)

No. Pos. Nation Player — FW  ARG Ciro Rius — MF  ARG Diego Venturi — DF  SUI Dylan Gissi — FW  ARG Fabián Bordagaray (on loan from Rosario Central) — FW  ARG Facundo Melivilo (on loan from Chacarita Juniors) — FW  ARG Fernando Márquez (on loan from Belgrano) — MF  ARG Franco Cristaldo (on loan from Boca Juniors) — FW  ARG Gonzalo Díaz — FW  ARG Guido Dal Casón — FW  ARG Horacio Tijanovich (on loan from Gimnasia y Esgrima) — MF  ARG Jonathan Requena (on loan from Banfield) — DF  URU Leandro Zazpe (on loan from Juventud) — DF  ARG Lisandro Martínez (on loan from Newell's Old Boys) — DF  ARG Lucas Suárez — MF  ARG Nahuel Cisneros (on loan from Boca Juniors)

Out on loan

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

No. Pos. Nation Player — DF  ARG Agustin Gómez (at AIK until 31 December 2017) — GK  ARG Fernando Pellegrino (at Sarmiento until 30 June 2018) — FW  ARG Pablo Bueno (at Flandria until 30 June 2018)

Transfers

In

Date	Pos.	Name	From	Fee
4 July 2017	DF	Lucas Suárez	Sarmiento	Undisclosed
5 July 2017	MF	Daniel González	Temperley	Undisclosed
17 August 2017	DF	Dylan Gissi	Rosario Central	Undisclosed
17 August 2017	FW	Gonzalo Díaz	Vélez Sarsfield	Undisclosed

Out

Date	Pos.	Name	To	Fee
1 July 2017	FW	Nicolás Stefanelli	AIK	Undisclosed
6 July 2017	MF	Jonás Gutiérrez	Independiente	Undisclosed
10 July 2017	FW	Andrés Ríos	Vasco da Gama	Undisclosed

Loan in

Date from	Date to	Pos.	Name	From
1 July 2017	30 June 2018	MF	Nahuel Cisneros	Boca Juniors
7 July 2017	30 June 2018	MF	Franco Cristaldo	Boca Juniors
8 July 2017	30 June 2018	MF	Adrián Cubas	Boca Juniors
30 July 2017	30 June 2018	FW	Fernando Márquez	Belgrano
31 July 2017	30 June 2018	FW	Facundo Melivilo	Chacarita Juniors
31 July 2017	30 June 2018	FW	Horacio Tijanovich	Gimnasia y Esgrima
10 August 2017	30 June 2018	DF	Lisandro Martínez	Newell's Old Boys
14 August 2017	30 June 2018	MF	Jonathan Requena	Banfield
22 August 2017	30 June 2018	DF	Leandro Zazpe	Juventud
24 August 2017	30 June 2018	FW	Fabián Bordagaray	Rosario Central

Loan out

Date from	Date to	Pos.	Name	To
26 July 2017	31 December 2017	DF	Agustin Gómez	AIK
27 July 2017	30 June 2018	GK	Fernando Pellegrino	Sarmiento
31 July 2017	30 June 2018	FW	Pablo Bueno	Flandria

Friendlies

Pre-season

  Win   Draw   Loss

14 July 2017 Friendly	Argentina U20s	0–2	Defensa y Justicia	Ezeiza, Argentina
		Report	G. Castellani C. Rius	Stadium: Complejo Habitacional Deportivo de Ezeiza

17 July 2017 Friendly	Defensa y Justicia	3–0	Villa San Carlos	Bosques, Argentina
09:30	M. Sosa T. Pochettino N. Di Giano	Report

20 July 2017 Friendly	Racing Club	0–1	Defensa y Justicia	Córdoba, Argentina
09:30		Report	I. Rivero	Stadium: Estadio Presidente Perón

20 July 2017 Friendly	Racing Club	0–1	Defensa y Justicia	Córdoba, Argentina
10:45		Report	N. Di Giano	Stadium: Estadio Presidente Perón

3 August 2017 Friendly	Defensa y Justicia	1–1	Gimnasia y Esgrima	Buenos Aires, Argentina
	J. Kaprof	Report	N. Ibáñez	Stadium: Estadio Norberto "Tito" Tomaghello

9 August 2017 Friendly	Atenas	Cancelled	Defensa y Justicia	Maldonado, Uruguay
15:00		Report		Stadium: Campus Mun. de Maldonado

16 August 2017 Friendly	Tigre	1–0	Defensa y Justicia	Victoria, Argentina
	C. Luna 21'	Report		Stadium: Estadio José Dellagiovanna

16 August 2017 Friendly	Tigre	0–1	Defensa y Justicia	Victoria, Argentina
		Report	C. Rius	Stadium: Estadio José Dellagiovanna

Mid-season

29 August 2017 Friendly	Defensa y Justicia	Cancelled	UAI Urquiza
		Report

1 September 2017 Friendly	Defensa y Justicia	3–1	Villa San Carlos	Florencio Varela, Argentina
	I. Rivero D. González F. Melivillo	Report

1 September 2017 Friendly	Defensa y Justicia	4–1	Villa San Carlos	Florencio Varela, Argentina
	F. Bordagaray H. Tijanovich	Report

Primera División

League table

1. River Plate qualified for the Copa Libertadores group stage by winning the 2018 Copa Libertadores.

Results by matchday

26 August 2017 1	Defensa y Justicia	4–4	Gimnasia y Esgrima	Buenos Aires, Argentina
14:05	C. Rius 11' F. Márquez 23', 52' G. Castellani 35'	Report	N. Ibáñez 14', 18' L. Faravelli 41' F. Niell 84'	Stadium: Estadio Norberto "Tito" Tomaghello Referee: Facundo Tello (Argentina)

9 September 2017 2	Estudiantes	0–1	Defensa y Justicia	La Plata, Argentina
16:05		Report	F. Márquez 83'	Stadium: Estadio Ciudad de La Plata Referee: Fernando Espinoza (Argentina)

16 September 2017 3	Defensa y Justicia	1–3	Unión Santa Fe	Buenos Aires, Argentina
14:05	C. Rius 28'	Report	F. Soldano 18', 58' L. Gamba 23'	Stadium: Estadio Norberto "Tito" Tomaghello Referee: Andrés Merlos (Argentina)

24 September 2017 4	Colón	3–1	Defensa y Justicia	Santa Fe, Argentina
11:05	G. Conti 9' C. Bernardi 64' C. Guanca 90+4'	Report	G. Castellani 81'	Stadium: Estadio Brigadier General Estanislao López Referee: Juan Pompei (Argentina)

29 September 2017 5	Defensa y Justicia	0–0	Huracán	Buenos Aires, Argentina
19:05		Report		Stadium: Estadio Norberto "Tito" Tomaghello Referee: Hernán Mastrángelo (Argentina)

13 October 2017 6	San Lorenzo	3–1	Defensa y Justicia	Buenos Aires, Argentina
21:05	E. Cerutti 18', 66' N. Blandi 47'	Report	N. Fernández 90'	Stadium: Estadio Pedro Bidegain Referee: Nicolás Lamolina (Argentina)

30 October 2017 7	Defensa y Justicia	1–1	Olimpo	Buenos Aires, Argentina
19:05	F. Márquez 23'	Report	D. Depetris 86'	Stadium: Estadio Norberto "Tito" Tomaghello Referee: Fernando Rapallini (Argentina)

5 November 2017 8	Temperley	1–4	Defensa y Justicia	Turdera, Argentina
11:05	A. Arregui 79' (pen.)	Report	F. Márquez 17' N. Fernández 22', 26' L. Martínez 52'	Stadium: Estadio Alfredo Beranger Referee: Darío Herrera (Argentina)

18 November 2017 9	Defensa y Justicia	3–0	Lanús	Buenos Aires, Argentina
17:00	N. Fernández 46', 49' J. Kaprof 60' (pen.)	Report		Stadium: Estadio Norberto "Tito" Tomaghello Referee: Juan Pompei (Argentina)

24 November 2017 10	Banfield	0–1	Defensa y Justicia	Banfield, Argentina
17:00		Report	J. Kaprof 11'	Stadium: Estadio Florencio Sola Referee: Fernando Espinoza (Argentina)

1 December 2017 11	Defensa y Justicia	3–2	Godoy Cruz	Buenos Aires, Argentina
19:15	N. Fernández 7', 59' L. Abecasis 82' (o.g.)	Report	Á. Gonzalez 71' J. Correa 73'	Stadium: Estadio Norberto "Tito" Tomaghello Referee: Hernán Mastrángelo (Argentina)

11 December 2017 12	San Martín	1–0	Defensa y Justicia	San Juan, Argentina
19:15	F. Barcelo 38'	Report		Stadium: Estadio Ingeniero Hilario Sánchez Referee: Facundo Tello (Argentina)

January 2018 13	Defensa y Justicia	–	Vélez Sarsfield	Buenos Aires, Argentina
				Stadium: Estadio Norberto "Tito" Tomaghello

Copa Argentina

  Win   Draw   Loss

21 August 2017 R32	Temperley	0–2	Defensa y Justicia	Avellaneda, Argentina
18:00		Report	C. Rius 34' M. Sosa 80'	Stadium: Estadio Presidente Juan Domingo Perón Referee: Juan Pompei (Argentina)

7 October 2017 R16	River Plate	3–0	Defensa y Justicia	Formosa, Argentina
19:00	I. Scocco 11' (pen.), 87' E. Palacios 87'	Report		Stadium: Estadio Antonio Romero Referee: Silvio Trucco (Argentina)

Copa Sudamericana

  Win   Draw   Loss

Second stage

25 July 2017 Second leg	Chapecoense	1–0 (agg: 1–1) (4–2 p)	Defensa y Justicia	Chapecó, Brazil
19:15	Túlio de Melo 24'	Report		Stadium: Arena Condá Referee: Daniel Fedorczuk (Uruguay)
	Penalties
	L. Antônio W. Paulista F. Bruno Lourency		L. Jerez Silva H. Fredes M. Bareiro D. González

References

1. "Defensa y Justicia squad". Soccerway. 9 August 2017. Retrieved 9 August 2017.
2. ^ "Defensa y Justicia transfers". Soccerway. 30 July 2017. Retrieved 30 July 2017.
3. ^ "Mercado de pases del fútbol Argentino 2017/2018: Altas, bajas y rumores". Soccerway. 30 July 2017. Retrieved 30 July 2017.
4. "Regresos y caras nuevas". Vavel. 24 August 2017. Retrieved 3 September 2017.
5. "Reglamento del Campeonato de Primera División 2017–18" (PDF) (in Spanish). AFA.
6. "Reglamento General AFA" (PDF) (in Spanish). AFA.

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• Argentine football clubs 2017–18 season