| Club: | Orange County SC |
| Season: | 2017 |
| Chrtitle: | Owner |
| Chairman: | James Keston |
| Mgrtitle: | Head coach |
| Manager: | Logan Pause |
| Stadium: | Champion Stadium |
| League: | USL |
| League Result: | Conference: 10th |
| Cup1: | USL Cup |
| Cup1 Result: | DNQ |
| Cup2: | U.S. Open Cup |
| Cup2 Result: | Fourth round |
| Highest Attendance: | 4,963 (8/18 v. PHX) |
| Average Attendance: | 2,575 |
| Largest Win: | OC 4–0 LA (5/6) OC 4–0 RGV (7/22) |
| Largest Loss: | SAC 4–0 OC (4/1) TUL 4–0 OC (5/13) OC 0–4 COL (8/8) |
| Leftarm1: | 000 |
| Body1: | 000 |
| Rightarm1: | 000 |
| Shorts1: | 000 |
| Socks1: | 000 |
| Leftarm2: | fff |
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| American: | true |
| Prevseason: | 2016 |
| Nextseason: | 2018 |
The 2017 Orange County SC season was the club's seventh season of existence, their third in the United Soccer League, and their first in the second tier of American soccer. This was the club's first year being branded as Orange County SC after previously being known as Orange County Blues FC from 2014 through 2017 and the LA Blues from 2011 to 2014.
Playing the first season as Orange County SC, the team finished with a record of 11-11-10, 6-6-4 at home.[1] The team played their first four games away due to the ongoing construction of their temporary stadium at Orange County Great Park, while Championship Soccer Stadium was under construction. The first home game was week 7, May 6, 2017, against LA Galaxy II, resulting in a 4-0 Orange County victory.[2] Due to insufficient lighting in the temporary field games started at 5:00 pm PST.
The first game played in the new Championship Soccer Stadium was August 5, 2017, against Tulsa Roughnecks ending in a scoreless draw.[3]
The team finished the season in 10th place in the Western Conference and did not qualify for playoffs, three points behind Sacramento Republic FC in 8th place.
OCSC played three away games for the US Open Cup, defeating FC Golden State Force (5-2)[4] and LA Wolves FC (1-0),[5] before losing to LA Galaxy (1-3)[6] at Dignity Health Sports stadium.
At the conclusion of the season, Head Coach Logan Pause was released, announced Nov 27.[7]
| Player | Transferred From | Fee | Date | Source | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | < | -- FW is 1; GK is 2; DF is 3; MF is 4 --> |  Seattle Sounders FC | Free | [8] | ||
| 2 | LA Galaxy | Free | [9] | ||||
| 3 | Miami FC | Free | [10] | ||||
| 4 | Jacksonville Armada FC | Free | [11] | ||||
| 6 | Fort Lauderdale Strikers | Free | [12] | ||||
| 8 | Tulsa Roughnecks FC | Free | [13] | ||||
| 11 | Go Ahead Eagles | Free | [14] | ||||
| 12 | Ventura County Fusion | Free | [15] | ||||
| 16 | SCC Hawks | Free | |||||
| 18 | Indy Eleven | Free | [16] | ||||
| 19 | UMass Lowell River Hawks | Free | [17] | ||||
| 22 | Blau-Weiß Friesdorf | Free | |||||
| 23 | Dinamo Zegreb | Free | [18] | ||||
| 25 | Wisconsin Badgers | Free | |||||
| 26 | Orange County SC U-23 | Free |
| Player | Loaned From | Start | End | Source | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | < | -- FW is 1; GK is 2; DF is 3; MF is 4 --> |  Pachuca | [19] | ||||
| 9 | < | -- FW is 1; GK is 2; DF is 3; MF is 4 --> | Los Angeles FC | [20] | ||||
| 10 | < | -- FW is 1; GK is 2; DF is 3; MF is 4 --> | Los Angeles FC | [21] | ||||
| 13 | < | -- FW is 1; GK is 2; DF is 3; MF is 4 --> | UANL |
Preseason exhibitions[22]
See main article: 2017 USL season.
See main article: 2017 U.S. Open Cup.
| Rank | Position | Player | Appearances | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MF | Irvin Parra | 30 | 11 |
| 2 | MF |  Jerry van Ewijk | 29 | 8 |
| 3 | MF | Zach Kobayashi | 17 | 4 |
| MF |  Roy Meeus | 19 | 4 |
| Rank | Position | Player | Appearances | Assists | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MF | Irvin Parra | 30 | 10 | |
| 2 | FW |  Wuilito Fernandes | 25 | 3 | |
| MF | Jerry van Ewijk | 29 | 3 | ||
| 4 | MF | Carlos Alvarez | 19 | 2 |