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2017–18 season
Co-chairmen	Joel and Avram Glazer
Manager	José Mourinho
Stadium	Old Trafford
Premier League	2nd
FA Cup	Runners-up
EFL Cup	Fifth round
UEFA Champions League	Round of 16
UEFA Super Cup	Runners-up
Top goalscorer	League: Romelu Lukaku (16) All: Romelu Lukaku (27)
Highest home attendance	75,118 (vs. Crystal Palace, 30 September)
Lowest home attendance	54,256 (vs. Burton Albion, 20 September)
Average home league attendance	74,976
Home colours Away colours Third colours
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The 2017–18 season was Manchester United's 26th season in the Premier League and their 43rd consecutive season in the top flight of English football. The season was the first since 2003–04 without former club captain Wayne Rooney, who rejoined Everton after 13 seasons with United, during which time he overtook Bobby Charlton as their all-time top scorer. United also returned to the Champions League after a single season's absence, having won the 2016–17 UEFA Europa League.

United achieved their highest points total and league placing since the retirement of Sir Alex Ferguson in 2013, amassing 81 points to finish second in the Premier League. However, despite winning three cups the previous season, the club failed to secure silverware this time around, also finishing as runners-up in both the UEFA Super Cup and FA Cup. United also suffered disappointing exits in both the EFL Cup and Champions League, bowing out to Bristol City and Sevilla respectively by 2–1 scorelines. Throughout the season, despite having a wealth of attacking options and completing the signing of Alexis Sánchez in January, manager José Mourinho was criticised by sections of the media and a section of United supporters for a perceived negative playing style.

Pre-season and friendlies

United preceded their 2017–18 campaign with a tour of the United States, which included the first Manchester derby to be played outside the United Kingdom, in the International Champions Cup. The tour also included games against Real Madrid and Barcelona. The US tour started against LA Galaxy on 15 July 2017. United then faced Vålerenga in Norway. The final preparations during pre-season included a trip to the Republic of Ireland to face Sampdoria.

UEFA Super Cup

Manchester United, as winners of the 2016–17 UEFA Europa League faced Real Madrid, winners of the 2016–17 UEFA Champions League for the 2017 UEFA Super Cup on 8 August 2017, at the Philip II Arena in Skopje, Macedonia.

Premier League

The Premier League season began on 11 August 2017 and concluded on 13 May 2018. Michael Carrick played his final match against Watford as captain. He was subbed off in the 85th minute for Paul Pogba. He also received a guard of honour from both sets of players before the kick-off. This was also his 464th appearance for United.

1. Since the winners of the 2017–18 FA Cup (Chelsea) and the winners of the 2017–18 EFL Cup (Manchester City) both qualified for European competition based on their league positions, the berths awarded to the 5th-placed team (Europa League group stage) and the League Cup winners (Europa League second qualifying round) were passed down the league.

FA Cup

Manchester United entered the FA Cup in the third round as all 20 Premier League clubs automatically received a bye to that stage. Matches were played between 5–8 January 2018.

EFL Cup

Manchester United entered the EFL Cup as holders, having beaten Southampton in the 2017 final. As one of the seven clubs that qualified for European competition in 2017–18, they entered the EFL Cup in the third round, the draw for which was held on 24 August, with Manchester United being paired with Championship club Burton Albion. The two sides last met in the third round of the 2005–06 FA Cup, with United winning a replay 5–0 at Old Trafford following a goalless draw at the Pirelli Stadium. The fourth round draw confirmed the Red Devils visited Swansea City. The fifth round draw was held on 26 October 2017, with United drawn against another Championship side Bristol City.

UEFA Champions League

Group stage

Manchester United qualified for the group stage of the Champions League as winners of the 2016–17 UEFA Europa League and were placed in pot 2 for the group stage draw. The draw was made on 24 August 2017, with Manchester United drawn alongside Benfica, Basel and CSKA Moscow. United were previously drawn with both Benfica and Basel in 2011–12, and with CSKA Moscow in 2009–10 and 2015–16; in 2011–12 and 2015–16, they finished third in the group and dropped down to the UEFA Europa League, while in 2009–10, United topped the group.

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		MUN	BSL	CSKA	BEN
1	Manchester United	6	5	0	1	12	3	+9	15	Advance to knockout phase		—	3–0	2–1	2–0
2	Basel	6	4	0	2	11	5	+6	12			1–0	—	1–2	5–0
3	CSKA Moscow	6	3	0	3	8	10	−2	9	Transfer to Europa League		1–4	0–2	—	2–0
4	Benfica	6	0	0	6	1	14	−13	0			0–1	0–2	1–2	—

Knockout phase

After winning their group and progressing to the round of 16, United were drawn against Spanish club Sevilla in the first competitive meeting between the two sides. After a goalless draw in the first leg at the Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán Stadium, Sevilla took the lead in the tie late in the second leg, when Wissam Ben Yedder scored twice within minutes of coming on as a substitute. Romelu Lukaku pulled one back for United six minutes from the end, but they were unable to score the two further goals required to avoid elimination.

Squad statistics

No.	Pos.	Name	League		FA Cup		League Cup		Europe		Other		Total		Discipline
			Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1	GK	David de Gea	37	0	2	0	0	0	6	0	1	0	46	0	0	0
2	DF	Victor Lindelöf	13(4)	0	3	0	3	0	5	0	1	0	25(4)	0	1	0
3	DF	Eric Bailly	11(2)	1	1(1)	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	15(3)	1	3	0
4	DF	Phil Jones	23	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	25	0	3	0
5	DF	Marcos Rojo	8(1)	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	11(1)	0	6	0
6	MF	Paul Pogba	25(2)	6	3	0	1	0	3(2)	0	1	0	33(4)	6	6	1
7	FW	Alexis Sánchez	12	2	4	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	18	3	2	0
8	MF	Juan Mata	23(5)	3	4(1)	0	1	0	5(1)	0	0	0	33(7)	3	1	0
9	FW	Romelu Lukaku	33(1)	16	3(3)	5	0(2)	0	8	5	1	1	45(6)	27	4	0
10	FW	Zlatan Ibrahimović	1(4)	0	0	0	1	1	0(1)	0	0	0	2(5)	1	0	0
11	FW	Anthony Martial	18(12)	9	1(3)	0	3	1	4(4)	1	0	0	26(19)	11	1	0
12	DF	Chris Smalling	28(1)	4	5	0	2(1)	0	8	0	1	0	44(2)	4	4	0
14	MF	Jesse Lingard	20(13)	8	4(2)	2	2	3	3(3)	0	1	0	30(18)	13	5	0
15	MF	Andreas Pereira	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
16	MF	Michael Carrick (c)	1(1)	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	4(1)	0	0	0
17	DF	Daley Blind	4(3)	0	1	0	3	0	6	1	0	0	14(3)	1	2	0
18	MF	Ashley Young	28(2)	2	3(1)	0	0	0	4	0	0	0	35(3)	2	9	0
19	FW	Marcus Rashford	17(18)	7	3(2)	1	3	2	3(5)	3	0(1)	0	26(26)	13	7	0
20	GK	Sergio Romero	1	0	4	0	3	0	2	0	0	0	10	0	0	0
21	MF	Ander Herrera	13(13)	0	4	2	2	0	5(1)	0	1	0	25(14)	2	6	0
22	MF	Henrikh Mkhitaryan	11(4)	1	1	0	0(1)	0	3(1)	1	1	0	16(6)	2	2	0
23	DF	Luke Shaw	8(3)	0	4	0	1(2)	0	1	0	0	0	14(5)	0	2	0
25	DF	Antonio Valencia	31	3	3	0	0	0	4	0	1	0	39	3	10	0
27	MF	Marouane Fellaini	5(11)	4	0(3)	0	0	0	2(1)	1	0(1)	0	7(16)	5	1	0
29	FW	James Wilson	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
31	MF	Nemanja Matić	35(1)	1	4	1	0(1)	0	6(1)	0	1	0	46(3)	2	6	0
35	DF	Demetri Mitchell	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
36	DF	Matteo Darmian	5(3)	0	1(1)	0	3	0	2(1)	0	1	0	12(5)	0	1	0
38	DF	Axel Tuanzebe	0(1)	0	0	0	1	0	0(1)	0	0	0	1(2)	0	1	0
39	MF	Scott McTominay	7(6)	0	3	0	2(1)	0	2(2)	0	0	0	14(9)	0	4	0
40	GK	Joel Castro Pereira	0	0	0	0	0(1)	0	0	0	0	0	0(1)	0	0	0
43	DF	Cameron Borthwick-Jackson	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
45	GK	Kieran O'Hara	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
47	MF	Angel Gomes	0	0	0(1)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0(1)	0	0	0
48	MF	Ethan Hamilton	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Own goals			–	1	–	0	–	0	–	1	–	0	–	2	–	–

Statistics accurate as of 19 May 2018.

Transfers

In

Date	Pos.	Name	From	Fee
1 July 2017	DF	Victor Lindelöf	Benfica	Undisclosed
10 July 2017	FW	Romelu Lukaku	Everton	Undisclosed
31 July 2017	MF	Nemanja Matić	Chelsea	Undisclosed
24 August 2017	FW	Zlatan Ibrahimović	Unattached
22 January 2018	FW	Alexis Sánchez	Arsenal	Undisclosed

Out

Date	Pos.	Name	To	Fee
30 June 2017	FW	Zlatan Ibrahimović	Released
30 June 2017	FW	Kayne Diedrick-Roberts	Released
30 June 2017	MF	Faustin Makela	Released
30 June 2017	MF	Josh Harrop	Preston North End	Undisclosed
9 July 2017	FW	Wayne Rooney	Everton	Undisclosed
12 July 2017	MF	Adnan Januzaj	Real Sociedad	Undisclosed
12 August 2017	DF	Guillermo Varela	Peñarol	Undisclosed
22 January 2018	MF	Henrikh Mkhitaryan	Arsenal	Undisclosed
22 March 2018	FW	Zlatan Ibrahimović	Released
3 April 2018	DF	Harry Spratt	Huddersfield Town	Free
3 April 2018	DF	Jake Barrett	Huddersfield Town	Free

Loan out

Date from	Date to	Pos.	Name	To
7 July 2017	30 June 2018	DF	Regan Poole	Northampton Town
10 July 2017	30 June 2018	GK	Dean Henderson	Shrewsbury Town
14 July 2017	30 June 2018	GK	Sam Johnstone	Aston Villa
28 July 2017	January 2018	MF	Devonte Redmond	Scunthorpe United
7 August 2017	16 January 2018	DF	Cameron Borthwick-Jackson	Leeds United
10 August 2017	30 June 2018	DF	Timothy Fosu-Mensah	Crystal Palace
31 August 2017	31 January 2018	MF	Matty Willock	Utrecht
1 September 2017	30 June 2018	MF	Andreas Pereira	Valencia
10 January 2018	30 June 2018	FW	James Wilson	Sheffield United
11 January 2018	30 June 2018	DF	Demetri Mitchell	Heart of Midlothian
25 January 2018	30 June 2018	DF	Axel Tuanzebe	Aston Villa
31 January 2018	30 June 2018	MF	Matty Willock	St Johnstone
31 January 2018	30 June 2018	DF	Charlie Scott	Hamilton Academical

Notes

1. Although Tottenham Hotspur played their home games at Wembley in 2017–18, it was designated as a neutral venue for the FA Cup semi-final.
2. Fee reported as £30.7 million
3. Fee reported as £75 million
4. Fee reported as £40 million
5. Fee reported as £9.8 million
6. Following his release, Ibrahimović joined LA Galaxy.

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