FC Winterthur / 2017/18 season

FC Winterthur 2017/18
Full name	Winterthur football club
Stadion	Schützenwiese (9,400)
president	vacant
Head coach	Umberto Romano (until December) Livio Bordoli (from January)
Results 2017/18
Challenge League	9th place
Swiss Cup	2nd round
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This article is about FC Winterthur in the 2017/18 season . FC Winterthur is playing in the Challenge League this season . In the Swiss Cup , he was eliminated in the second round against the fourth-class 1st division club SR Delémont and he finished the championship in 9th place. Despite the bad season in which FCW took over the red lantern several times in the first half of the season, thanks to the voluntary relegation of FC Wohlen, he was no longer in serious danger of relegation at the beginning of the second half . It was also the first season after the end of the financial guarantee from former President Hannes W. Keller , which additionally challenged the club by looking for new donors and a new president - although no new president could be found by the end of the season .

Season course

preparation

After a mixed season, coach Romano analyzed that he now has to put his stamp on the team and bring “characters” into the team. According to the coach, they were looking for a new head of defense, an “aggressive leader”, someone for the right flank, an eight for midfield and someone on the offensive. As a candidate for the position of defense chief, Jordi López was signed and for the right flank Nicolas Stettler, on loan from FC Zurich , should be a win. Other arrivals before the start of the season were defender Denis Markaj and midfielders Robin Huser (from Basel) and Kwadwo Duah , the latter on loan from YB. Ming-Yang Yang , who was also required to strengthen midfield, left FCW shortly before the end of the transfer window for Great Britain, where he will be used by the Wolverhampton Wanderers U23 team . On the other hand, a departure of last year's top scorer Silvio could be prevented, who was toying with a departure to local rivals FC Wil . Luca Radice was chosen as the new captain .

FC Winterthur did well in the preparatory games, with victories against lower-class teams from Bülach, Muri and St. Gallen (SC Brühl) and defeats against Aarau and Thun. However , the Winterthur team won the final rehearsal against Bundesliga club VfL Wolfsburg 2-1.

First round

Already at the beginning of the first half of the season it was clear that the FCW could not aim for a top position, according to Landboten the team should rather be the only team in a secure midfield. In addition, coach Romano also expressed the hope and goal of being a surprise team - the 2017/18 season should not be the same as last year.

The start of the season, however, already announced the thrust for the rest of the first half of the season, it started with two defeats against Wohlen and Rapperswil-Jona, whereby the appearance against the newcomer Rapperswil-Jona was even described as "scary" by the country messenger. This fear turned out to be justified in the aftermath, so Winterthur could only get one point against Aarau and Vaduz and suffered another defeat against Servette. FC Winterthur was only able to achieve its first success with a 2-0 win against Wil. But this victory was by no means a turnaround and in the middle of September the cup-out followed in the second round against the two classes worse SR Delémont . After another defeat at the beginning of the second half of the second half against FC Wohlen at the beginning of October, Winterthur took over the red lantern again and, measured against the first ten games of the season, was able to write the worst start to the season since 1986 in its history books. Even after that, the second half of the season didn't get any better and resembled the first part of the first half of the season: Again there was a defeat against Rapperswil-Jona, with Winterthur receiving three red cards in the game, and after another two draws and one defeat, Wil was able to play at home against bottom of the table a 2-0 win prevents them from slipping to last place. In the remaining three games, the three-point lead at the bottom of the table melted down to one point, the FCW finished the preliminary round with only 12 points in 9th place and thus did even worse than in the preliminary round of last season.

Corresponding to the first half of the season, the Landbote then also came up with a “horror conclusion”. The newcomers did not bring the desired impetus and the individual player rating in the newspaper also reflected the poor overall performance of the team, all players received a school grade of 3-4 or "just under 4" from the country messenger - the newcomer Kwadwo Duah even only a 3. The club management one week late, drew the consequences of the poor first half of the season and released coach Umberto Romano after a year.

Another topic in autumn were the management and financial problems, since there has been no new president since the resignation of President Hannes W. Keller and with the 2016/17 season the financial guarantee that the club had for two seasons after his resignation ended was granted. In spite of this, no new main sponsor or president has been found who would meet the demands of the club's management - potential foreign investors have not yet been able to answer the question about the reason for such an investment satisfactorily. More concrete, however, are efforts to find a possible partner club whose club culture should be similar to that of the FCW. The press acted as a potential candidate for SC Freiburg , but the club's management only confirmed negotiations with a possible partner club in the vicinity, without naming the name.

Second half

The successor to Romano was first announced in January. With Livio Bordoli, a coach was brought in, who last coached the sixth-class 2nd division club Losone Sportiva in Losone in Ticino and probably had no one on the bill before. The promotion coach of FC Lugano from the summer of 2015 was surprised by the request from Winterthur, even to the media, as he had been "away from the window" for two and a half years. Simultaneously with the signing of the new coach, midfielder Ousmane Dombia , Seydou Doumbia's younger brother , was the first signing on the Schützenwiese. The third goalkeeper Bojan Milosavljevic was brought in from Zurich U21. The third new arrival was midfielder Nikola Milosavljevic on loan from FC Sion . In return, Genc Krasniqi left FCW during the winter break and switched to FC Kosova on loan . During the extended transfer period in March, FCW also left the U21 game Tobias Schättin (for FC Zurich ; including purchase option) and Robin Huser (for FC Thun ) on loan until the end of the season . The transfer of Manuel Akanjis from FC Basel to Borussia Dortmund also has a lot of money in the Winterthur coffers . The FCW earned the 20 to 25 million dollar transfer thanks to a resale clause of 3.25% and a further 3% on the transfer received between 1.2 and 1.6 million francs, depending on media reports - money that the club, which had to reduce its budget this season by 500,000 francs to 3.9 million francs after the exit of the main sponsor Keller, can use it .

Due to the voluntary relegation of FC Wohlen through license waiver , which was announced at the beginning of January, it was already clear when Bordolis was signed as coach that FC Winterthur would most likely contest the second half of the season as a long preparation for the new season. The announced relegation was then definitely confirmed at the beginning of March when the Swiss Football League did not submit the license .

More successful than the men: The FCW women after winning the Axpo Cup

Despite the secure starting position, a clear correction was required for the Landbote after the weakest preliminary round of the decade. Winterthur started the first five games with two wins against Wohlen and Vaduz as well as a draw against leaders Neuchâtel Xamax, losing a previously existing 1: 4 lead at 4: 4 at Schützenwiese. Coach Bordoli said after five games that on the one hand he saw a good attitude and camaraderie in the team, but the team played too well to win games. Even after the first half of the second half of the season, the record with nine points from eight games was better than in the preliminary round, but still not convincing. However, sports director Kaiser expressed his satisfaction with Bordoli's work with regard to further cooperation at this point. The question of cooperation was settled in April, when it became known that Bordolis would be the new technical director of the Ticino Football Association. Since the rest of the preliminary round wasn't exactly brilliant either, the team couldn't get away from ninth place, even if the team earned eight points more in the second half than in the first half. At the end of the season, the media reported that the reasons for the weak season included too few leaders and weak team cohesion. The weak season was also reflected in the Landbote's score, in which only Gabriel Isik, Silvio, Luca Radice and newcomer Ousmane Doumbia received a grade of 4. Also unresolved at the end of the season was the question of the future president and a possible collaboration with a partner club, which was already an issue in the first half of the season - only a new coach with Ralf Loose had already been found. The FCW women's team, which was founded two years ago and was promoted to the 1st league (third highest league in Switzerland) and won the Zurich Regional Cup, known as the AXPO Cup, went better.

Squad

Squad based on information from the Swiss Football League (SFL) website , accessed on March 28, 2018.

number	player	birthday	nationality	In the team since	Last club
goal
18th	Yannick Bünzli	December 31, 1994	Switzerland	2014	own youth
26th	Matthias Minder	3rd February 1993	Switzerland	2011	own youth
36	Joël Zimmerli	February 5, 1997	Switzerland	2016	own youth
36	Bojan Milosavljevic	July 31, 1998	Switzerland	2018	FC Zurich U-21
Defense
4th	Jordi Lopez	March 27, 1993	Spain	2017	CF Gavà
5	Guillaume Katz	February 14, 1989	Switzerland	2015	FC Lausanne Sports
13	Denis Markaj	February 20, 1991	Switzerland	2017	FC Aarau
17th	Leandro Di Gregorio	March 8, 1992	Switzerland	2016	FC Zurich
19th	Kofi Schulz	July 21, 1989	Germany	2017	FC St. Gallen
25th	Julian Roth	March 14, 1998	Switzerland	2016	own youth
27	Tobias Schättin	June 5, 1997	Switzerland	2014	own youth
28	Nicolas Stettler	April 28, 1996	Switzerland	2017	FC Zurich
29	Gabriel Isik	June 6, 1999	Germany	2017	own youth
midfield
6th	Ousmane Doumbia	May 21, 1992	Ivory Coast	2018	Yverdon Sports
8th	Krešo Ljubičić	September 26, 1988	Croatia	2016	FC Biel
10	Gianluca Frontino	November 29, 1989	Switzerland	2017	FC Schaffhausen
14th	Dario Ulrich	March 12, 1998	Switzerland	2017	FC Luzern U-21
16	Luca Radice	April 9, 1987	Italy	2016	FC Aarau
20th	Kwadwo Duah	February 24, 1997	Switzerland	2017	Neuchâtel Xamax FCS
21st	Tiziano Lanza	May 3, 1995	Switzerland	2014	own youth
22nd	Karim Gazzetta	April 1, 1995	Switzerland	2016	Servette Geneva
23	Robin Huser	January 24, 1998	Switzerland	2017	FC Basel U-21
24	Vejiko Simic	February 17, 1995	Serbia	2017	FC Chiasso
24	Nikola Milosavljevic	April 24, 1996	Switzerland	2018	FC Sion
27	Ambre Nsumbu	November 29, 1997	Democratic Republic of Congo	2018	FC Basel U-21
30th	Rijad Saliji	April 5, 1999	Switzerland	2017	own youth
attack
7th	Luka Sliskovic	April 4, 1995	Austria	2016	FC Biel
9	Manuel Sutter	March 8, 1991	Austria	2016	FC Vaduz
11	Silvio	February 1, 1985	Brazil	2016	Wolfsberger AC
26th	Genc Krasniqi	February 12, 1994	Switzerland	2017	FC Rapperswil-Jona

Transfers

Transfers based on information from the Swiss Football League (SFL) website , accessed on March 28, 2018

Accesses
Surname	donating club	Transfer type	Transfer period
Kwadwo Duah	Neuchâtel Xamax FCS	Loan (BSC Young Boys)	Summer 2017
Robin Huser	FC Basel U-21	Borrow
Gabriel Isik	FC Winterthur U-21	own youth
Genc Krasniqi	FC Rapperswil-Jona	Lender
Jordi Lopez	CF Gavà	free transfer
Denis Markaj	FC Aarau	free transfer
Rijad Saliji	FC Winterthur U-21	own youth
Kofi Schulz	FC St. Gallen	free transfer
Veljko Simic	FC Chiasso	free transfer
Nicolas Stettler	FC Zurich	Borrow
Dario Ulrich	FC Luzern	Borrow
Ming-Yang Yang	Lausanne Sports	?
Ousmane Doumbia	Yverdon Sports	?	Winter 2018
Bojan Milosavljevic	FC Zurich U-21	?
Nikola Milosavljevic	FC Sion	Borrow
Ambre Nsumbu	FC Basel U-21	?
Departures
Surname	receiving club	Transfer type	Transfer period
Michel Avanzini	FC Winterthur U-21		Summer 2017
Arxhend Cani	FC Aarau	Loan end (FC Basel)
Gianluca D'Angelo	without a club	free transfer
Romain Dessarzin	Nyonnais Stadium	free transfer
Gianluca Frontino	FC Aarau	Lender (FC Thun)
Zlatko Hebib	Nyonnais Stadium	free transfer
Robin Kamber	FC Vaduz	Lender
Marco Mangold	SC Kriens	free transfer
Jordi Nsiala	without a club	free transfer
Rafhinha	SC Brühl St. Gallen	free transfer
Daniele Russo	AC Bellinzona	free transfer
Patrik Schuler	without a club	free transfer
Veljko Simic	without a club	free transfer
David from Ballmoos	BSC Young Boys	Lender
Ming-Yang Yang	Wolverhampton Wanderers U-23	transfer
Robin Huser	FC Thun	Loan end (FC Basel)	Winter 2018
Genc Krasniqi	FC Kosova	free transfer
Tobias Schättin	FC Zurich	Borrow
Veljko Simic	FK Zemun	free transfer
Joël Zimmerli	without a club	unknown

Results

Challenge League

See also : Challenge League 2017/18

First round

July 22, 2017, 7:00 p.m. 1st round	FC Winterthur	1: 3	FC Wohlen	Schützenwiese , Winterthur Spectators: 2,800 Referee: Schnyder
	Frontino 29 ′	Play telegram	6 ′ Tadić 50 ′ Foschini 87 ′ Kuzmanovic

July 29, 2017, 7:00 p.m. 2nd round	FC Rapperswil-Jona	3: 1	FC Winterthur	Grünfeld , Rapperswil-Jona Spectators: 2,648 Referee: Schärli
	Chagas 17 ′ , 78 ′ ( Penalty ) Kubli 78 ′	Play telegram	45 + 2 ′ Gazzetta

August 7, 2017, 8:00 p.m. 3rd round	FC Winterthur	1: 1	FC Aarau	Schützenwiese , Winterthur Spectators: 3,600 Referee: Hänni
	Silvio 90 + 4 ′	Play telegram	36 ′ Mišić

August 10, 2017, 8:00 p.m. 4th round	FC Vaduz	2: 2	FC Winterthur	Rheinpark , Vaduz Spectators: 1,735 Referee: Jaccottet
	Puljić 45 ′ Burgmeier 72 ′	Play telegram	8 ′ Sutter 45 + 2 ′ ( penalty ) Silvio

August 21, 2017, 8:00 p.m. 5th round	FC Winterthur	0: 2	Servette FC Genève	Schützenwiese , Winterthur Spectators: 3,500 Referee: Ovcharov
		Play telegram	85 ′ Le Pogam 87 ′ Willie

August 26, 2017, 7:00 p.m. 6th round	FC Wil	0: 2	FC Winterthur	IGP Arena , Wil Spectators: 1'280 Referee: Erlachner
		Play telegram	82 ′ Silvio 90 + 3 ′ Duah

September 9, 2017, 7:00 p.m. 7th round	FC Winterthur	1: 1	FC Chiasso	Schützenwiese , Winterthur Spectators: 2,100 Referee: Klossner
	Shepherdess 77 ′	Play telegram	90 + 1 ′ Ceesay

September 21, 2017, 8:00 p.m. 8th round	FC Schaffhausen	2-0	FC Winterthur	LIPO Park , Schaffhausen Spectators: 2,213 Referee: Dudic
	Castroman 69 ′ Sessolo 87 ′ ( Penalty )	Play telegram

September 24, 2017, 4:00 p.m. 9th round	FC Winterthur	0: 1	Neuchâtel Xamax	Schützenwiese , Winterthur Spectators: 3,200 Referee: Jaccottet
		Play telegram	88 ′ Nuzzolo

September 29, 2017, 7:00 p.m. 10th round	FC Wohlen	3: 2	FC Winterthur	Niedermatten , Wohlen Spectators: 512 Referees: Good
	Schultz 11 ′ Cvetkovic 50 ′ Pagliuca 82 ′	Play telegram	59 ′ ( Penalty ) Sutter 90 + 3 ′ shepherdess

October 16, 2017, 7:00 p.m. 11th round	FC Winterthur	0: 1	FC Rapperswil-Jona	Schützenwiese , Winterthur Spectators: 3,300 Referee: Ovcharov
		Play telegram	35 ′ Shabani

October 23, 2017, 8:00 p.m. 12th round	FC Aarau	3: 3	FC Winterthur	Brügglifeld , Aarau Spectators: 2,415 Referee: Jaccottet
	Rossini 11 ′ Audino 51 ′ Ciarrocchi 90 + 5 ′	Play telegram	22 ′ Duah 26 ′ Silvio 57 ′ Duah

October 29, 2017, 4:00 p.m. 13th round	FC Winterthur	0: 1	FC Vaduz	Schützenwiese , Winterthur Spectators: 2,200 Referee: Schnyder
		Play telegram	77 ′ devic

November 4, 2017, 7:00 p.m. 14th round	Servette FC Genève	1: 1	FC Winterthur	Stade de Genève , Lancy Spectators: 2'285 Referee: Fähndrich
	Stevanovic 63 ′	Play telegram	88 ′ ( Penalty ) Sutter

November 18, 2017, 7:00 p.m. 15th round	FC Winterthur	2-0	FC Wil	Schützenwiese , Winterthur Spectators: 3,000 Referee: Hänni
	Silvio 5 ′ Sliskovic 90 + 2 ′	Play telegram

November 25, 2017, 7:00 p.m. 16th round	FC Chiasso	1: 1	FC Winterthur	Riva IV , Chiasso Spectators: 380 Referee: Fähndrich
	Farrugia 36 ′	Play telegram	7 ′ Schulz

December 3, 2017, 4:00 p.m. 17th round	FC Winterthur	0: 1	FC Schaffhausen	Schützenwiese , Winterthur Spectators: 3,100 Referee: Superczynski
	Cicek 53 ′	Play telegram

December 8, 2017, 8:00 p.m. 18th round	Neuchâtel Xamax	2: 1	FC Winterthur	La Maladière , Neuchâtel Spectators: 2,180 Referee: Tschudi
	Mulaj 12 ′ Nuzzolo 24 ′	Play telegram	6 ' Huser

Second half

February 4, 2018, 4:00 p.m. 19th round	FC Winterthur	1: 1	FC Rapperswil-Jona	Schützenwiese , Winterthur Spectators: 2,300 Referee: Erlachner
	Katz 51 ′	Play telegram	66 ′ Carlos da Silva

February 10, 2018, 7:00 p.m., 20th round	FC Wohlen	1: 4	FC Winterthur	Niedermatten , Wohlen Spectators: 384 Referee: Horisberger
	Tadić 40 ′	Play telegram	10 ′ ( penalty ) , 88 ′ Silvio 18 ′ Huser 21 ′ Radice

February 16, 2018, 8:00 p.m. 21st round	FC Wil	2-0	FC Winterthur	IGP Arena , Wil Spectators: 920 Referee: Piccolo
	Audino 23 ′ Savic 90 + 2 ′	Play telegram

March 14, 2018, 8:00 p.m. 22nd round	FC Winterthur	1-0	FC Vaduz	Schützenwiese , Winterthur Spectators: 2,100 Referee: Hänni
	Duah 7 ′	Play telegram

March 5, 2018, 8:00 p.m. 23rd round	FC Winterthur	4: 4	Neuchâtel Xamax	Schützenwiese , Winterthur Spectators: 2,100 Referee: Dudic
	Silvio 7 ′ ( Penalty ) Silvio 30 ′ Schulz 41 ′ Duah 57 ′	Play telegram	Nuzzolo 40 ′ Nuzzolo 62 ′ ( Penalty ) Doudin 66 ′ Tréand 72 ′

March 9, 2018, 8:00 p.m. 24th round	FC Chiasso	1-0	FC Winterthur	Riva IV , Chiasso Spectators: 400 Referee: Horisberger
	Monighetti 17 ′ ( penalty )	Play telegram

March 19, 2018, 8:00 p.m. 25th round	FC Winterthur	1: 1	Servette FC Genève	Schützenwiese , Winterthur Spectators: 1,800 Referee: Schärli
	Saliji 90 ′	Play telegram	Alphonse 84 ′

April 2, 2018, 4:00 p.m. 26th round	FC Aarau	2: 1	FC Winterthur	Brügglifeld , Aarau Spectators: 3,156 Referee: Good
	Frontino 7 ′ Rossini 88 ′	Play telegram	16 ′ Radice

April 6, 2018, 8:00 p.m. 27th round	FC Winterthur	1: 2	FC Schaffhausen	Schützenwiese , Winterthur Spectators: 3'400 Referee: Jacottet
	Schulz 80 ′	Play telegram	18 ′ Tranquilli 20 ′ Sessolo

April 16, 2018, 8:00 p.m. 28th round	FC Rapperswil-Jona	3: 1	FC Winterthur	Grünfeld , Rapperswil-Jona Spectators: 1,090 Referee: Staubli
	Shabani 25 ′ Turkes 61 ′ Fazliu 81 ′	Play telegram	26 ′ Radice

April 19, 2018, 8:00 p.m. 29th round	FC Winterthur	2-0	FC Wohlen	Schützenwiese , Winterthur Spectators: 2,600 Referee: Piccolo
	Luka Sliskovic 17 ′ 67 ′	Play telegram

April 22, 2018, 4:00 p.m. 30th round	FC Winterthur	0: 3	FC Wil	Schützenwiese , Winterthur Spectators: 3,300 Referee: Schnyder
		Play telegram	57 ′ Hefti 66 ′ Lombardi 74 ′ From Niederhäusern

April 27, 2018, 8:00 p.m. 31st round	FC Vaduz	1: 1	FC Winterthur	Rheinpark , Vaduz Spectators: 1,550 Referee: Schärli
	Doumbia 90 + 3 ′ ( own goal )	Play telegram	20 ′ Radice

May 4, 2018, 8:00 p.m. 32nd round	Neuchâtel Xamax	3: 3	FC Winterthur	La Maladière , Neuchâtel Spectators: 2'160 Referee: Good
	Doudin 9 ′ 70 ′ Ramizi 34 ′	Play telegram	56 ′ Schulz 68 ′ 86 ′ Radice

May 9, 2018, 8:00 p.m. 33rd round	FC Winterthur	2: 1	FC Chiasso	Schützenwiese , Winterthur Spectators: 2,900 Referee: Cibelli
	Sliskovic 36 ′ Silvio 90 + 2 ′	Play telegram	70 ′ Josipovic

May 14, 2018, 8:00 p.m. 34th round	Servette FC Genève	4: 2	FC Winterthur	Stade de Genève , Lancy Spectators: 1,012 Referee: Bieri
	Omeragic 22 ′ 65 ′ Willie 27 ′ Chagas 28 ′	Play telegram	3 ′ ( penalty ) Silvio 10 ′ Gazetta

May 18, 2018, 8:00 p.m. 35th round	FC Winterthur	2-0	FC Aarau	Schützenwiese , Winterthur Spectators: 3,400 Referee: Staubli
	Gazzetta 74 ′ 84 ′	Play telegram

May 21, 2018, 4:00 p.m. 36th round	FC Schaffhausen	3: 1	FC Winterthur	LIPO Park , Schaffhausen Spectators: 2,056 Referee: Wolfensberger
	Sessolo 14 ′ 46 ′ Barry 36 ′	Play telegram	53 ′ Markaj

Swiss Cup

See also : Swiss Cup 2017/18

1 round

August 13, 2017, 4:30 p.m. 1st round	FC Gambarogno-Contone	1: 6	FC Winterthur	Centro Sportivo Regionale Magadino, Gambarogno Spectators: 600 Referee: Good
	Perri 78 ′	Play telegram	3 ′ , 26 ′ Huser 10 ′ Radice 13 ′ Schättin 24 ′ Sutter 64 ′ ( Penalty ) Frontino

2nd round

September 17, 2017, 2 p.m. 2nd round	SR Delémont	4: 2	FC Winterthur	La Blancherie , Delémont Spectators: 1,300 Referee: Tschudi
	Sudar 4 ′ D. Stadelmann 7 ′ , 74 ′ E. Stadelmann 89 ′	Play telegram	55 ' Duah 78' Huser

statistics

Team statistics

competition	Points	home					away					Total					Goal difference
		Sp	G	U	N	TV	Sp	G	U	N	TV	Sp	G	U	N	TV
Challenge League	20th	18th	5	5	8th	19:23	18th	2	6th	10	26:37	36	7th	11	18th	45:60	−15
Swiss Cup	-	0	0	0	0	0-0	2	1	0	1	8: 5	2	1	0	1	8: 5	+3
Total	20th	18th	5	5	8th	19:23	20th	3	6th	11	34:42	38	8th	11	19th	53:65	−12

Status: end of season

Season course

Gameday	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	17th	18th	19th	20th	21st	22nd	23	24	25th	26th	27	28	29	30th	31	32	33	34	35	36
Venue	H	A.	H	A.	H	A.	H	A.	H	A.	H	A.	H	A.	H	A.	H	A.	H	A.	A.	H	H	A.	H	A.	H	A.	H	H	A.	A.	H	A.	H	A.
result	N	N	U	U	N	S.	U	N	N	N	N	U	N	U	S.	U	N	N	U	S.	N	U	N	S.	U	N	N	N	S.	N	U	U	S.	N	S.	N
space	9	10	9	10	10	7th	7th	8th	9	10	9	9	10	9	8th	8th	9	9	9	8th	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9

Source: FC Winterthur - match calendar. Swiss Football League , accessed June 12, 2018 . Legend: Venue : H = home; A = away. Result : S / G = victory; U = tie; N / A = defeat 

Player statistics

Players in italics left the club during the winter break or were only signed afterwards.

player	Challenge League				Swiss Cup				Total
Yannick Bünzli	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
Leandro Di Gregorio	5	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	6th	0	0	0
Ousmane Doumbia	18th	0	4th	0	0	0	0	0	18th	0	4th	0
Kwadwo Duah	25th	5	4th	0	1	1	0	0	26th	6th	4th	0
Gianluca Frontino	5	1	0	0	1	1	0	0	6th	2	0	0
Karim Gazzetta	27	4th	3	0	0	0	0	0	27	4th	3	0
Robin Huser	22nd	2	3	0	2	3	0	0	24	5	3	0
Gabriel Isik	10	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	10	0	1	0
Guillaume Katz	20th	1	4th	1	1	0	0	0	21st	1	4th	1
Genq Krasniqi	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	4th	0	0	0
Tiziano Lanza	13	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	14th	0	1	0
Jordi Lopez	29	0	4th	2	2	0	0	0	31	0	4th	2
Kreso Ljubicic	17th	0	4th	0	1	0	0	1	18th	0	4th	1
Denis Markaj	30th	1	5	0	1	0	0	0	31	1	5	0
Bojan Milosavljevic	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	0	0	0
Nikola Milosavljevic	16	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	16	0	2	0
Matthias Minder	31	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	32	0	1	0
Ambre Nsumbu	4th	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4th	0	0	0
Luca Radice	33	6th	4th	1	2	1	0	0	35	7th	4th	1
Julian Roth	3	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	4th	0	1	0
Rijad Saliji	8th	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	8th	1	0	0
Tobias Schättin	18th	2	3	0	2	1	0	0	20th	3	3	0
Kofi Schulz	25th	4th	3	0	0	0	0	0	25th	4th	3	0
Silvio	32	11	2	1	0	0	0	0	32	11	2	1
Veljko Simić	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0
Luka Sliskovic	30th	4th	0	0	2	0	0	0	32	4th	0	0
Nicolas Stettler	21st	0	3	1	2	0	0	0	23	0	3	1
Manuel Sutter	25th	3	1	0	2	1	0	0	27	4th	1	0
Dario Ulrich	18th	0	3	1	1	0	0	0	19th	0	3	1
Ming-Yang Yang	3	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	4th	0	1	0
Joël Zimmerli	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Status: end of season

Individual evidence

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