| Club: | Viking |
| Season: | 2017 |
| Manager: | Ian Burchnall (until 9 November) Bjarte Lunde Aarsheim (from 9 November) |
| Mgrtitle: | Manager |
| Chairman: | Stig Christiansen |
| Chrtitle: | Chair |
| Stadium: | Viking Stadion |
| League: | Eliteserien |
| League Result: | 16th (relegated) |
| Cup1: | Cup |
| Cup1 Result: | Second round |
| League Topscorer: | Samuel Adegbenro (6) |
| Season Topscorer: | Samuel Adegbenro (6) |
| Highest Attendance: | 9,838 vs Brann (20 August) |
| Lowest Attendance: | 6,157 vs Stabæk (26 November) |
| Average Attendance: | 7,380 |
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| Prevseason: | 2016 |
| Nextseason: | 2018 |
The 2017 season was Viking's 29th consecutive year in Eliteserien, and their 68th season in the top flight of Norwegian football.
Ian Burchnall replaced Kjell Jonevret as manager on 24 November 2016.[1]
Almost a year later, on 9 November 2017, Burchnall was fired from the job following the club's relegation to OBOS-ligaen.[2]
See main article: List of Norwegian football transfers winter 2016–17. In:[4] [5] [6] [7] [8] Out:[9] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15]
See main article: List of Norwegian football transfers summer 2017. In:[16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24] Out:[25] [26] [27] [28] [29] [30] [25] [31]
See main article: 2017 Eliteserien.
See main article: 2017 Norwegian Football Cup.
|-! colspan=14 style=background:#dcdcdc; text-align:center| Goalkeepers|-! colspan=14 style=background:#dcdcdc; text-align:center| Defenders|-! colspan=14 style=background:#dcdcdc; text-align:center| Midfielders|-! colspan=14 style=background:#dcdcdc; text-align:center| Forwards|-! colspan=14 style=background:#dcdcdc; text-align:center| Players out on loan|-! colspan=14 style=background:#dcdcdc; text-align:center| Players who have made an appearance or had a squad number this season but have left the club|}
| width=60 | Place | width=60 | Position | width=60 | Nation | width=60 | Number | width=200 | Name | width=80 | Eliteserien | width=120 | Norwegian Cup | width=80 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MF | 7 | Samuel Adegbenro | 6 | 0 | 6 | |||||||||
| 2 | FW |  | 27 | Mathias Bringaker | 4 | 1 | 5 | ||||||||
| 3 | FW | | 10 | Tommy Høiland | 4 | 0 | 4 | ||||||||
| DF | | 28 | Kristoffer Haugen | 3 | 1 | 4 | |||||||||
| 5 | FW |  | 10 | Kwesi Appiah | 3 | 0 | 3 | ||||||||
| MF | | 18 | Julian Ryerson | 3 | 0 | 3 | |||||||||
| 7 | FW | 9 | Patrick Pedersen | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||
| Own goal | 2 | 0 | 2 | ||||||||||||
| 9 | DF | | 2 | Rasmus Martinsen | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||
| DF | | 3 | Andreas Nordvik | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||
| MF | 7 | George Green | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||
| MF | | 9 | Fredrik Torsteinbø | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||
| FW | | 11 | Zymer Bytyqi | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||
| MF | | 14 | André Danielsen | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||
| FW | 23 | Robin Shroot | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| FW | | 30 | Stian Michalsen | 0 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| FW |  | 99 | Ghislain Guessan | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||
| TOTALS | 33 | 5 | 38 | ||||||||||||
| Number | Nation | Position | Name | Eliteserien | Norwegian Cup | Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| width=60 style="background: #FFEE99" | width=60 style="background: #FF8888" | width=60 style="background: #FFEE99" | width=60 style="background: #FF8888" | width=60 style="background: #FFEE99" | width=60 style="background: #FF8888" | ||||||
| 1 | | GK | Iven Austbø | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| 2 | | DF | Rasmus Martinsen | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | ||
| 4 | DF | José Cruz | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||
| 8 | MF | Ross Jenkins | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | |||
| 10 | | FW | Tommy Høiland | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||
| 11 | | FW | Zymer Bytyqi | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| 13 | DF | Šime Gregov | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |||
| 14 | | MF | André Danielsen | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | ||
| 15 | | GK | Amund Wichne | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| 17 | MF | Steffen Ernemann | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | |||
| 18 | | MF | Julian Ryerson | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | ||
| 22 | DF | Claes Kronberg | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||
| 25 |  | FW | Usman Sale | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | ||
| 27 | | FW | Mathias Bringaker | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| 28 | | DF | Kristoffer Haugen | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | ||
| Players who left during the season: | |||||||||||
| 6 |  | DF | Karol Mets | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | ||
| 7 | MF | George Green | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | |||
| 7 | FW | Samuel Adegbenro | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | |||
| 9 | FW | Patrick Pedersen | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||
| 23 | FW | Robin Shroot | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||
| TOTALS | 51 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 52 | 5 | |||||