2017-18

The 2017-18 squad

EFL1: How they finished

	Apps	Goals
Chuks Aneke	35	10
Gboly Ariyibi	27	8
Kieran Agard	47	8
Ed Upson	45	4
Peter Pawlett	27	4
Aidan Nesbitt	25	4
Ryan Seager	22	3
Robbie Muirhead	37	3
Ethan Ebanks-Landell	35	3
Alex Gilbey	25	3
Osman Sow	20	2
Callum Brittain	33	2
Ike Ugbo	17	2
George Williams	51	1
Ousseynou Cissé	35	1
Aaron Tshibola	16	1
Brandon Thomas-Asante	21	1

Date	Opponents		Comp	Result	Scorers	Att	Away fans	Pos
Wed 12 July	Szeged 2011	A	FR	L 1-0
Sat 15 July	Budaorsi SC	A	FR	L 4-2	Walsh, Muirhead
Fri 21 July	Coventry City	A	FR	L 2-0
Tue 25 July	Brentford	H	FR	L 3-2	Seager (2)
Sat 28 July	Leicester City	H	FR	D 0-0
Sat 05 Aug	Wigan Athletic	H	EFL1	L 1-0		9,164	1,303	19th
Tue 08 Aug	Forest Green Rovers	A	CC	W 1-0	Ariyibi	1,608	341
Sat 12 Aug	Blackpool	A	EFL1	L 1-0		3,412	567	20th
Sat 19 Aug	Gillingham	H	EFL1	W 1-0	Sow	7,901	583	16th
Tue 22 Aug	Swansea	H	CC	L 4-1	Seager	5,162	554
Sat 26 Aug	Blackburn Rovers	A	EFL1	L 4-1	Upson	10,111	272	20th
Tue 29 Aug	Brighton	H	CTT	W 2-0	Ariyibi, Tshibola	1,541	78
Sat 02 Sep	Oxford United	H	EFL1	D 1-1	Brittain	10,746	2,924	19th
Sat 09 Sep	Plymouth Argyle	A	EFL1	W 1-0	Nesbitt	8,566	211	15th
Tue 12 Sep	Peterborough Utd	A	EFL1	L 2-0		6,465	369	15th
Sat 16 Sep	Rochdale	H	EFL1	W 3-2	Ariyibi (2), Seager	7,671	261	13th
Fri 22 Sep	AFC Wimbledon	A	EFL1	W 2-0	francomb (og), Ariyibi	3,973	263	9th
Tue 26 Sep	Northampton Tn	H	EFL1	D 0-0		11,340	2,566	12th
Sat 30 Sep	Bury	A	EFL1	W 2-0	Sow, Ebanks-Landell	3,165	166	10th
Tue 03 Oct	Stevenage	H	CTT	W 5-4	on pens FT 0-0	2,031	129
Sat 07 Oct	Bradford City	H	EFL1	L 4-1	Ebanks-Landell	9,106	996	14th
Sat 14 Oct	Portsmouth	A	EFL1	L 2-0		17,608	580	14th
Tue 17 Oct	Walsall	H	EFL1	D 1-1	Aneke	7,258	248	14th
Sat 21 Oct	Oldham Athletic	H	EFL1	D 4-4	Gilbey, Upson (2), Nesbitt	9,312	694	15th
Sat 28 Oct	Bristol Rovers	A	EFL1	L 2-0		8,701	225	16th
Fri 03 Nov	Hyde United	A	FAC	W 4-0	Nesbitt, Aneke, Ebanks-Landell, Upson	2,980	224
Tue 07 Nov	Oxford United	A	CTT	W 4-3	Thomas-Asante, Ariybi (2), Seager	1,182	101
Sat 11 Nov	Fleetwood Town	H	EFL1	W 1-0	Aneke	7,827	128	14th
Sat 18 Nov	Charlton Athletic	A	EFL1	D 2-2	Agard (2)	10,577	602	13th
Tue 21 Nov	Southend United	H	EFL1	D 1-1	Agard (p)	7,521	524	13th
Sat 25 Nov	Doncaster Rovers	A	EFL1	L 2-1	Aneke	7,743	268	15th
Sat 02 Dec	Maidstone United	H	FAC	W 4-1	Nesbitt, Agard (2), Pawlett	4,804	1,541	16th
Wed 06 Dec	Chelsea U21s	H	CTT	L 4-0		1,549	158
Sat 09 Dec	Shrewsbury Town	H	EFL1	D 1-1	Pawlett	8,355	492	17th
Sat 16 Dec	Scunthorpe United	A	EFL1	D 2-2	Agard, Aneke	3,569	131	17th
Sat 23 Dec	Rotherham United	A	EFL1	L 2-1	Aneke	8,333	243	19th
Tue 26 Dec	Plymouth Argyle	H	EFL1	L 1-0		9,268	944	20th
Sat 30 Dec	Peterborough Utd	H	EFL1	W 1-0	Aneke	10,304	2,375	17th
Mon 01 Jan	Oxford United	A	EFL1	L 3-1	Gilbey	7,628	650	19th
Sat 06 Jan	Queens Park Rgrs	A	FAC	W 1-0	Cissé	6,314	1,163
Sat 13 Jan	AFC Wimbledon	H	EFL1	D 0-0		9,504	705	19th
Sat 20 Jan	Northampton Tn	A	EFL1	L 2-1	Gilbey	7,321	1,210	21st
Sat 27 Jan	Coventry City	H	FAC	L 1-0		14,925	7,833
Sat 03 Feb	Walsall	A	EFL1	L1-0		4,009	436	21st
Sat 10 Feb	Portsmouth	H	EFL1	L 2-1	Ugbo	14,762	6,257	22nd
Tue 13 Feb	Oldham Athletic	A	EFL1	L 1-0		3,181	119	22nd
Sat 17 Feb	Charlton Athletic	H	EFL1	L 2-1	Agard	8,961	1,194	22nd
Wed 21 Feb	Rochdale	A	EFL1	D 0-0		2,273	80	22nd
Sat 24 Feb	Fleetwood Town	A	EFL1	D 1-1	Muirhead	2,773	205	22nd
Sat 03 Mar	Bristol Rovers	H	EFL1	L 1-0		8,240	1,138	22nd
Tue 13 Mar	Rotherham	H	EFL1	W 3-2	Muirhead (2) Pawlett	7,327	559	22nd
Sat 17 Mar	Bury	H	EFL1	W 2-1	Aneke (2 Ps)	9,247	277	22nd
Sat 24 Mar	Blackpool	H	EFL1	D 0-0		8,094	490	22nd
Thu 29 Mar	Gillingham	A	EFL1	W 2-1	Aneke, Williams	5,540	443	20th
Mon 02 Apr	Blackburn Rovers	H	EFL1	L 2-1	Pawlett	11,215	2,524	21st
Sat 07 Apr	Wigan Athletic	A	EFL1	L 5-1	Brittan	8,404	333	22nd
Sat 14 Apr	Doncaster Rovers	H	EFL1	L 2-1	Ugbo	8,954	738	23rd
Sat 21 Apr	Southend United	A	EFL1	L 4-0		7,546	390	23rd
Tue 24 Apr	Bradford City	A	EFL1	L 2-0		19,192	111	23rd
Sat 28 Apr	Scunthorpe United	H	EFL1	L 2-0		9,578	713	23rd
Sat 05 May	Shrewsbury Town	A	EFL1	W 1-0	Agard	6,516	327	23rd

The new manager

		Pld	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
P	Wigan Athletic	46	29	11	6	89	29	60	98
P	Blackburn Rovers	46	28	12	6	82	40	42	96
3	Shrewsbury Town	46	25	12	9	60	39	21	87
P	Rotherham United	46	24	7	15	73	53	20	79
5	Scunthorpe United	46	19	17	10	65	50	15	74
6	Charlton Athletic	46	20	11	15	58	51	7	71
7	Plymouth Argyle	46	19	11	16	58	59	-1	68
8	Portsmouth	46	20	6	20	57	56	1	66
9	Peterborough United	46	17	13	16	68	60	8	64
10	Southend United	46	17	12	17	58	62	-4	63
11	Bradford City	46	18	9	19	57	67	-10	63
12	Blackpool	46	15	15	16	60	55	5	60
13	Bristol Rovers	46	16	11	19	60	66	-6	59
14	Fleetwood Town	46	16	9	21	59	68	-9	57
15	Doncaster Rovers	46	13	17	16	52	52	0	56
16	Oxford United	46	15	11	20	61	66	-5	56
17	Gillingham	46	13	17	16	50	55	-5	56
18	AFC Wimbledon	46	13	14	19	47	58	-11	53
19	Walsall	46	13	13	20	53	66	-13	52
20	Rochdale	46	11	18	17	49	57	-8	51
R	Oldham Athletic	46	11	17	18	58	75	-17	50
R	Northampton Town	46	12	11	23	43	77	-34	47
R	Milton Keynes Dons	46	11	12	23	43	69	-26	45
R	Bury	46	8	12	26	41	71	-30	36

DATE	PLAYER	FROM
01 July 2017	Peter Pawlett	Aberdeen	Free
01 July 2017	Conor McGrandles	Norwich	Free
01 July 2017	Ousseynou Cissé	Tours	Free
05 July 2017	Wiegar Sietsma	FC Heerenveen	Free
14 July 2017	Ethan Ebanks-Landell	Wolves	Loan
18 July 2017	Gboly Ariyibi	Notts Forest	Loan (to 16/1/18)
21 July 2017	Ryan Seager	Southampton	Loan (to 26/1/18)
27 July 2017	Aaron Tshibola	Aston Villa	Loan (to 9/11/17)
14 August 2017	Osman Sow	Henan Jianye	Free
31 August 2017	Scott Golbourne	Bristol City	Loan
31 August 2017	Alex Gilbey	Wigan Athletic	Signed
31 August 2017	Aiden Nesbitt	Celtic	Signed
05 January 2018	Ike Ugbo	Chelsea	Loan
17 January 2018	Marcus Tavernier	Middlesbrough	Loan
30 January 2018	Josh Tymon	Stoke City	Loan
30 January 2018	Elliott Ward	Blackburn	Loan
22 March 2018	Nigel Reo-Coker		Signed

DATE	PLAYER	TO
13 June 2017	George Baldock	Sheffield Utd	Signed
30 June 2017	Darren Potter	Rotherham	Released
30 June 2017	David Martin	Millwall	Released
30 June 2017	Nicky Maynard	Aberdeen	Free
30 June 2017	Daniel Powell	Northampton Tn	Released
30 June 2017	Charlie Burns	Galway United	Released
30 June 2017	Dean Bowditch	Northampton Tn	Released
30 June 2017	Kabongo Tshimanga	Boston United	Released
04 August 2017	Ben Reeves	Charlton	Free
08 January 2018	Paul Downing	Blackburn	Signed

Dan Micciche
First Team Manager January - April 2018

THE PLAYERS

PLAYER OF THE YEAR

TOP SCORERS

The season's transfers

No. Player
1 Lee Nicholls
2 George Williams
3 Dean Lewington
4 Joe Walsh
5 Scott Wootton
6 Ed Upson
7 Gboly Ariyibi
7 Nigel Reo-Coker
8 Ousseynou Cissé
9 Osman Sow
10 Chuks Aneke
11 Peter Pawlett
12 Scott Golbourne

No. Player
13 Wieger Sietsma
14 Kieran Agard
15 Ryan Seager
15 Elliott Ward
16 Robbie Muirhead
17 Paul Downing
17 Marcus Tavernier
18 Conor McGrandles
19 Ethan Ebanks-Landell
20 Aaron Tshibola
20 Josh Tymon
21 Aidan Nesbitt

No. Player
22 Giorgio Rasulo
23 Ben Tilney
24 Connor Furlong
25 Callum Brittain
26 Alex Gilbey
27 Ike Ugbo
28 Hugo Logan
29 Oran Jackson
30 Sam Nombe
31 Brandon Thomas-Asante
35 David Kasumu
37 Dylan Asonganyi

THE RESULTS

Back row:
Middle row:
Front row:

MANAGERIAL CHANGES
Manager Robbie Neilson, Assistant Manager Stevie Crawford and First-Team Coach Neil MacFarlane were sacked on 20 January 2018. Dan Micciche and Keith Millen were appointed Manager and Assistant Manager on 22 January. Micciche was sacked on 22 April. Millen was named caretaker manager for the remaining three games of the season.

With no first team awards recognising performances on the pitch handed out by the club, the main honour of the Awards evening went to Mike Dove, who was presented with the Chairman’s Award.
Full list of winners:
Chairman’s Award: Mike Dove
Goal of the Season: Tommy Hope v Cardiff City Under-18s
Young Player of the Year: Callum Brittain
Academy Player of the Year: David Kasumu
Ladies Player of the Year: Alice Hughes
Disability Player of the Year: Sam Jarred
Community Ambassador: Lee Nicholls
Media Personality of the Year: Alex Gilbey
Fan of the Year: Winners: Radar and Bootsie. Highly Commended: Jane Samm and Rex Burton
Young Fans of the Year: Thomas Fuller and Elena Gundry

Dan is the son of Italian parents and, although
born in England, he had a healthy obsession
with Italian football, often visiting his parent’s
homeland with his brother to indulge in the
country’s biggest derbies.
    He attended Loughborough University and
the University of Liverpool achieving Master's
degrees in both International Management
and Football.
    After coaching spells with Crystal Palace
and Tottenham Hotspur’s academies, he joined
MK Dons in October 2007 as Assistant Academy
Manager, and was later promoted to Head of
Academy Coaching. England international Dele
Alli credits him as being key in his development as a footballer.
   Dan left the Dons in August 2013 to join the FA as Coach and Player Development Technical Lead concentrating on the development of England national team players and coaches in the U12 to U16 age group.
   He was appointed as manager of the England U16 national team in 2015, winning the Nike International Tournament Cup that year with victories over teams including Brazil U17 and tournament hosts USA U17. Several players he coached in the U16 age group who progressed into the England U17 team went on to win the 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup.
   Dan left the FA by mutual consent on 21 December 2017 and rejoined the Dons as First Team Manager on 23 January. After a string of poor results, with the Dons 23rd in the table, he was sacked on 22 April.

OUT

Keith was born in Croydon on 26 September
1966. After spells as an apprentice at
Southampton and Crystal Palace, he spent
time as a junior at Brentford, turning
professional in 1983 and making 305 League
appearances for the club before joining
Watford in 1994, and Bristol City in 1999.
After retiring as a player in 2003 he became
under-17 manager at Bristol City and assistant
first team manager the next year. He had two
spells as caretaker manager in 2005 and 2010
before getting the job permanently in 2010. He
left City in October 2011.
After a spell as Head of Coaching and Development at Blackpool in 2012 he followed manager Ian Holloway to Palace as his Assistant Manager in November 2012, On 23 October 2013, he was appointed caretaker manager after Holloway left.
He remained assistant manager after the arrival of Tony Pulis in November and had two further spells as caretaker manager in 2014 following the departures of Pulis and Neil Warnock.
After the appointment of Sam Allardyce as manager on 9 January 2017, it was announced that Keith had left Palace.
He then worked with Tottenham Hotspur’s development squad before moving to MK Dons as Assistant Manager on 23 January 2018. After Dan Micciche’s sacking, he was named caretaker manager for the last three games of the season.

Keith Millen
Assistant Manager January - May 2018

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