| Club: | Phoenix Rising FC |
| Season: | 2018 |
| Manager: |  Patrice Carteron (7-3-4) Rick Schantz (Interim)(15-7-2) |
| Chairman: |  Berke Bakay Brett M. Johnson Alex Zheng Tim Riester Mark Detmer Diplo Pete Wentz David Rappaport Dave Stearns Rick Hauser William Kraus Kevin Kusatsu Dr. Mark Leber Jim Scussel Dr. Christopher Yeung |
| Chrtitle: | Owners |
| League: | USL |
| Cup1: | USL Playoffs |
| Cup1 Result: | Conference Champions |
| Cup2 Result: | 2nd Round |
| League Topscorer: | Chris Cortez (19) |
| Highest Attendance: | 7,707 (Team Record) (Playoff) (October 26 v. Swope Park Rangers) |
| Lowest Attendance: | 5,017 (August 22 v. San Antonio FC) |
| Average Attendance: | Regular Season: Playoffs: |
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| Prevseason: | 2017 |
| Nextseason: | 2019 |
The 2018 Phoenix Rising FC season was the club's fifth season in the United Soccer League and their second under the Rising FC name.
All times from this point are on Mountain Standard Time [1] [2] [3]
See main article: 2018 U.S. Open Cup.
(regular-season & Playoffs) [4]
| Name | Goals | Assists | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | FW | Chris Cortez | 33 | 25 | 2232 | 19 | 5 | 1 | 0 | |
| 20 | FW |  Solomon Asante | 36 | 35 | 3042 | 14 | 9 | 3 | 0 | |
| 14 | FW |  Jason Johnson | 33 | 26 | 2331 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 0 | |
| 11 | FW |  Didier Drogba | 12 | 11 | 980 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 0 | |
| 15 | DF | Joe Farrell | 26 | 24 | 2225 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | |
| 27 | MF | Kevon Lambert | 32 | 31 | 2776 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 2 | |
| 7 | FW |  Billy Forbes | 24 | 11 | 1100 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | |
| 51 | FW | Kevaughn Frater | 21 | 7 | 815 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| 8 | MF |  Collin Fernandez | 21 | 17 | 1428 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | |
| 23 | MF | Devin Vega | 12 | 7 | 690 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
| 17 | MF |  Alessandro Riggi | 14 | 4 | 342 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | |
| 4 | DF | Mike da Fonte | 31 | 30 | 2699 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | |
| 10 | MF | Gladson Awako | 30 | 23 | 1833 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 1 | |
| 3 | DF | Kody Wakasa | 13 | 11 | 938 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | |
| 13 | DF | Amadou Dia | 35 | 35 | 3086 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | |
| 41 | MF |  James Musa | 26 | 24 | 2126 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 0 | |
| 2 | DF | Doueugui Mala | 16 | 15 | 1295 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | |
| 5 | DF | Saad Abdul-Salaam | 13 | 13 | 1134 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| 32 | DF | Devante Dubose | 15 | 13 | 1093 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | |
| 77 | DF | Tristan Blackmon | 8 | 8 | 720 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 6 | MF | Evan Waldrep | 12 | 3 | 375 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
| 24 | FW | Shaft Brewer Jr. | 10 | 3 | 302 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 25 | DF | Victor Vásquez | 3 | 3 | 260 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| 21 | MF | Luca Ricci | 4 | 1 | 124 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| 18 | FW | Joshua Perez | 1 | 0 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Name | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Carl Woszczynski | 30 | 29 | 2633 | 94 | 29 | 0.990 | 13 | 5 | 0 | |
| 28 | Zac Lubin | 9 | 9 | 787 | 16 | 13 | 1.494 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Start date | End date | Position | No. | Player | From club | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 29, 2018 | December 31, 2018 | Forward | 51 | Kevaughn Frater | Harbour View[5] | |
| February 2, 2018 | End of Season | Midfielder | 21 | Luca Ricci | Montreal Impact[6] | |
| February 10, 2018 | End of Season | Defender | 4 | Mike da Fonte | Colorado Rapids[7] | |
| August 13, 2018 | November 30, 2018 | Defender | 5 | Saad Abdul-Salaam | New York City FC[8] | |
| August 15, 2018 | End of Season | Defender | 77 | Tristan Blackmon | Los Angeles FC[9] | |
| August 17, 2018 | End of Season | Forward | 24 | Shaft Brewer Jr. | Los Angeles FC[10] | |
| September 4, 2018 | End of Season | Forward | 18 | Joshua Pérez | Los Angeles FC[11] |