2017–18 Club de Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata season
# 2017–18 Club de Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata season

The 2017–18 season is Gimnasia y Esgrima's 6th consecutive season in the top-flight of Argentine football. The season covers the period from 1 July 2017 to 30 June 2018.

## Current squad

    As of 5 September 2017.

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| - | - | - | - |
| 3 | DF | ARG | Kevin Ceceri |
| 4 | DF | ARG | Facundo Oreja |
| 5 | MF | ARG | Juan Silva |
| 6 | DF | ARG | Ezequiel Bonifacio |
| 8 | MF | ARG | Lorenzo Faravelli |
| 10 | MF | MEX | Lucas Lobos |
| 12 | FW | ARG | Nicolás Mazzola |
| 15 | FW | ARG | Eric Ramírez |
| 21 | MF | ARG | Fabián Rinaudo |
| 22 | FW | ARG | Franco Niell |
| 23 | DF | ARG | Maximiliano Coronel |
| 25 | DF | ARG | Lucas Licht |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 28 | DF | ARG | Manuel Guanini |
| 30 | MF | URU | Brahian Alemán |
| 31 | GK | ARG | Alexis Martin |
| 34 | MF | ARG | Matías Noble |
| 35 | DF | ARG | Nicolás Ortiz |
| 36 | FW | ARG | Enzo Martínez |
| 38 | MF | ARG | Luciano Perdomo |
| 40 | FW | ARG | Leandro Contín |
| — | FW | ARG | Nicolás Colazo (on loan from Boca Juniors) |
| — | FW | URU | Nicolás Dibble (on loan from Plaza Colonia) |
| — | DF | ARG | Oliver Benítez |
| — | DF | PAR | Omar Alderete (on loan from Cerro Porteño) |
| — | GK | ARG | Yair Bonnín |

### Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| - | - | - | - |
| — | DF | PER | Christian Ramos (at Emelec until 31 December 2017) |
| — | FW | ARG | Emanuel Zagert (at Villa San Carlos until 30 June 2018) |
| — | FW | ARG | Horacio Tijanovich (at Defensa y Justicia until 30 June 2018) |

## Transfers

### In

| Date | Pos. | Name | From | Fee |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 July 2017 | FW | Nicolás Ibáñez | Comunicaciones | Undisclosed |
| 11 July 2017 | MF | Fabián Rinaudo | Catania | Undisclosed |

### Out

| Date | Pos. | Name | To | Fee |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 5 July 2017 | MF | Daniel Imperiale | Tigre | Undisclosed |
| 6 July 2017 | DF | Mauricio Romero | Agropecuario | Undisclosed |
| 10 August 2017 | MF | Diego Nicolaievsky | Gimnasia y Esgrima (J) | Undisclosed |
| 10 August 2017 | MF | Javier Mendoza | Chacarita Juniors | Undisclosed |
| 13 August 2017 | MF | Dardo Miloc | Atlético Tucumán | Undisclosed |
| 14 August 2017 | MF | Sebastián Romero | Quilmes | Undisclosed |
| 22 August 2017 | FW | Pablo Vegetti | Chacarita Juniors | Undisclosed |
| 24 August 2017 | MF | Ignacio Jaúregui | Ferro Carril Oeste | Undisclosed |

### Loan in

| Date from | Date to | Pos. | Name | From |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 19 July 2017 | 30 June 2018 | FW | Nicolás Colazo | Boca Juniors |
| 2 August 2017 | 30 June 2018 | DF | Omar Alderete | Cerro Porteño |
| 23 August 2017 | 30 June 2018 | FW | Nicolás Dibble | Plaza Colonia |

### Loan out

| Date from | Date to | Pos. | Name | To |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 7 July 2017 | 30 June 2018 | FW | Emanuel Zagert | Villa San Carlos |
| 31 July 2017 | 30 June 2018 | FW | Horacio Tijanovich | Defensa y Justicia |

## Friendlies

### Pre-season

Win  Draw  Loss

## Primera División

### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 21 | Newell's Old Boys | 27 | 8 | 6 | 13 | 23 | 28 | −5 | 29 |
| 22 | Lanús | 27 | 6 | 11 | 10 | 20 | 37 | −17 | 29 |
| 23 | Gimnasia y Esgrima (LP) | 27 | 7 | 6 | 14 | 28 | 43 | −15 | 27 |
| 24 | Tigre | 27 | 4 | 12 | 11 | 26 | 33 | −7 | 24 |
| 25 | Temperley | 27 | 5 | 8 | 14 | 22 | 46 | −24 | 23 |

* ↑ Newell's Old Boys were deducted one point for debts owed to former players. Originally AFA partially accepted the appeal by Newell's Old Boys reducing the penalty from three points to one point but a new appeal by Lanús overturned the decision. Finally, on 28 June 2019 CAS gave back two points to Newell´s Old Boys reducing the penalty to one point again.

### Results by matchday

| Matchday | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Ground | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H |
| Result | D | L | L | W | L | L | W | L | W | L | W | L | |
| Position | 11 | 21 | 23 | 18 | 22 | 22 | 21 | 22 | 20 | 22 | 19 | 20 | |

## Copa Argentina

Win  Draw  Loss

