The 2017 Houston Dynamo season is the club's 12th season of existence since joining Major League Soccer for the 2006 season. The club's main objective is to qualify to the MLS Cup Playoffs after missing the postseason the last three consecutive seasons.

It is the team's first year under the leadership of Head Coach Wilmer Cabrera and third season under General Manager Matt Jordan. On the front office end, it is Gabriel Brenner's second season as majority owner and Chris Canetti's seventh as the President of the club.

Five days after the end of the 2016 regular season, the Houston Dynamo appointed Wilmer Cabrera as the fourth head coach in club history. Cabrera was promoted from the club's lower league affiliate Rio Grande Valley FC Toros where served as the head coach for the 2015 USL season.

Cabrera took over for interim head coach Wade Barrett - the only other reported candidate for the job - and a team that had missed the MLS Cup Playoffs for the third consecutive season. The Dynamo job is the Colombian tactician's second head coaching responsibility in Major League Soccer and one that reunites him with Erick "Cubo" Torres, a former pupil of Cabrera's at the defunct Chivas USA.

The Houston Dynamo opened the season at home with a 2-1 victory over the defending MLS Cup Champion Seattle Sounders FC, on a night when Erick Torres and Romell Quioto scored their first goals for the club. Torres and Quioto would score in a second consecutive match the following week, coupled with Alberth Elis' first goal in a Dynamo shirt, as the team collected 3-1 win over Columbus Crew SC.

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