2017–18 Indian Super League season
| Season | 2017–18 |
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| Champions | Chennaiyin |
| AFC Cup | Chennaiyin |
| Matches played | 95 |
| Goals scored | 261 (2.75 per match) |
| Top goalscorer |
Coro (18 goals) |
| Best goalkeeper |
Subrata Pal (102.74 minutes per goal) |
| Biggest home win |
Pune City 5–0 NorthEast United (30 December 2017) |
| Biggest away win |
Delhi Dynamos 1–5 Goa (16 December 2017) Pune City 0–4 Goa (25 February 2018) |
| Highest scoring |
Goa 4–3 Bengaluru (30 November 2017) Goa 5–2 Kerala Blasters (9 December 2017) Goa 3–4 Mumbai City (28 January 2018) Delhi Dynamos 4–3 ATK (24 February 2018) |
| Longest winning run |
Bengaluru (5 games) |
| Longest unbeaten run |
Bengaluru (10 games) |
| Longest winless run |
Delhi Dynamos ATK (8 games) |
| Longest losing run |
Delhi Dynamos (6 games) |
| Highest attendance | 37,986 Kerala Blasters 1–3 Bengaluru (31 December 2017) |
| Lowest attendance | 1,121 NorthEast United 0–1 Kerala Blasters (17 February 2018) |
| Total attendance | 1,399,409 |
| Average attendance | 15,047 |
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The 2017–18 Indian Super League season was the fourth season of the Indian Super League, one of the top Indian professional football leagues, since its establishment in 2013. The regular season started on 17 November 2017 and ended on 4 March 2018,The finals began on 7 March 2018, concluding with the final on 17 March 2018. ATK were the defending champions from the 2016 season, however they could not advance to the playoffs. Chennaiyin won their second Indian Super League title by defeating Bengaluru 3–2 in the final.
Two new sides joined the league as expansion teams: Bengaluru and Jamshedpur. The two new clubs are the ninth and tenth teams in the league. This made it the first edition of the ISL in which there are more than eight teams participating. As well as expanding two teams, the league also expanded two more months, being played in five months instead of three.
On 11 May 2017, it was announced by the Indian Super League organizers, Football Sports Development, that they would be inviting bids for new teams to join the league for the upcoming season. The bids would be for ten cities, namely Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Cuttack, Durgapur, Hyderabad, Jamshedpur, Kolkata, Ranchi, Siliguri and Thiruvananthapuram. It was also clarified that if Kolkata were to win at least one bid for a team, the new "Kolkata" side would have to play away from the city for two seasons.
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