Competition: | Premier Division |
Season: | 2017–18 |
Pixels: | 330 |
Winners: | Lincoln Red Imps (23rd title) |
Relegated: | Manchester 62 |
Continentalcup1: | Champions League |
Continentalcup1 Qualifiers: | Lincoln Red Imps |
Continentalcup2: | Europa League |
Continentalcup2 Qualifiers: | Europa St Joseph's |
League Topscorer: | Enrique Carreño (19 goals) |
Biggest Home Win: | (3 June 2018) |
Biggest Away Win: | (30 May 2018) |
Highest Scoring: | (10 March 2018) |
Longest Wins: | 11 matches Lincoln Red Imps |
Longest Unbeaten: | 16 matches Lincoln Red Imps |
Longest Winless: | 27 matches Manchester 62 |
Longest Losses: | 6 matches Manchester 62 Lynx |
Matches: | 135 |
Total Goals: | 421 |
Prevseason: | 2016–17 |
Nextseason: | 2018–19 |
The 2017–18 Gibraltar Premier Division was the 119th season of the top-tier national football league in Gibraltar, as well as the fifth season since the Gibraltar Football Association joined UEFA in 2013. The league was contested by ten clubs. It began on 26 September 2017 and ended on 3 June 2018.
Europa were the defending champions, having ended a fourteen-year winning streak for Lincoln Red Imps.[1] This season also saw three clubs from Gibraltar competing in European competition for the first time. Lincoln won their 23rd title on 19 May 2018 with two games to spare, after a 7–1 victory over Lions Gibraltar.
The ten Premier Division clubs played each other three times for a total of 27 matches each.[2] The tenth-placed team in the league would be relegated and the ninth-placed team in the league would enter a playoff with the second-placed team from the Second Division for a place in the 2018–19 Premier Division.[2]
The champions earned a place in the preliminary round of the 2018–19 Champions League, and the second–placed club earned a place in the preliminary round of the 2018–19 Europa League.[3] This season, the league entered a winter break from December to February while renovations took place on Victoria Stadium.
At the conclusion of the previous season, Europa Point was relegated.[4] As the champions of the Second Division, Gibraltar Phoenix earned promotion to the league this season.[5] Manchester 62 earned the right to stay in the Premier Division by winning a playoff at the end of the previous season.[6]
Club | data-sort-type="number" | Finishing position 2016–17 |
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1st (champions) | ||
1st in Second division (Promoted) | ||
7th | ||
4th | ||
2nd | ||
8th | ||
6th | ||
9th | ||
5th | ||
3rd |
Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
Team | Outgoing manager | Manner of departure | Date of vacancy | Position in table | Incoming manager | Date of appointment |
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Lynx | Resigned | 2 June 2017 | Pre-season | 2 June 2017 | ||
Glacis United | 15 June 2017 | 9 July 2017 | ||||
Europa | 24 July 2017 | 24 July 2017 | ||||
Resigned | 9 July 2017 | 9 July 2017 | ||||
Mons Calpe | Mutual consent | 14 August 2017 | 14 August 2017 | |||
Lynx | Sacked | 27 October 2017 | 10th | 27 October 2017 | ||
Mons Calpe | 4 December 2017 | 8th | 9 January 2018 | |||
7th | 1 January 2018 | |||||
1 January 2018 | 10th | 1 January 2018 | ||||
Lynx | End of interim spell | 24 January 2018 | 9th | 24 January 2018 | ||
Mutual consent | 18 February 2018 | 19 February 2018 | ||||
Sacked | 18 March 2018 | 8th | 19 March 2018 | |||
Mutual consent | 9 April 2018 | 1st | 16 April 2018 | |||
Sacked | 20 April 2018 | 21 April 2018 | ||||
Europa | 21 May 2018 | 2nd | 21 May 2018 |
The ninth-placed team from the Premier Division played a play-off match with the second-placed Second Division club for a place in the 2018–19 Premier Division.[2]
Rank | Player | Club | Goals |
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1 | Enrique Carreño | Europa | 19 |
2 | Germán Cortés | Gibraltar Phoenix | 15 |
Kike Gómez | Europa | ||
Rubo Blanco | Mons Calpe | ||
Pibe | Mons Calpe | ||
6 | Falu Aranda | Lincoln Red Imps | 12 |
7 | Ayman Elghobashy | Gibraltar United | 11 |
8 | Boro | St Joseph's | 9 |
Antonio Cerezo | Glacis United | ||
10 | Dani Ponce | Gibraltar United | 7 |
Anthony Hernandez | Lincoln Red Imps | ||
Domingo Ferrer | St Joseph's |
Player | For | Against | Result | Date | |
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4–0 (H) | |||||
5–0 (A) | |||||
6–2 (H) | |||||
6–1 (A) | |||||
4 | 5–0 (A) | ||||
6–0 (H) | |||||
4 | 6–0 (A) | ||||
6 | 9–0 (A) | ||||
5–1 (H) | |||||
9–0 (H) | |||||
9–0 (H) |
Rank | Player | Club | Clean sheets |
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1 | Manuel Soler | Lincoln Red Imps | 16 |
2 | Javi Muñoz | Europa | 12 |
3 | Kyle Goldwin | Gibraltar United | 9 |
4 | Borja Gonzalez | Glacis United | 7 |
5 | Mateo Grasso | Mons Calpe | 6 |
Jamie Robba | St Joseph's | ||
7 | Edu Oliva | Lions Gibraltar | 4 |
8 | Goito | Gibraltar Phoenix | 3 |
José Miguel Gonzalez | Lions Gibraltar | ||
Joaquin Ketlun | Lynx | ||
Félix Romero | St Joseph's |