# 2017–18 Club Puebla season

The 2017–18 Puebla F.C. season was the club's 71st professional season in Mexico's top-flight football league. The season is split into two tournaments—the Torneo Apertura and the Torneo Clausura—each with identical formats and each contested by the same eighteen teams. The club also played Copa MX. Rafael García Torres was named the club head coach on June 5, 2017, taking over for sacked coach José Cardozo.

## Players
### First-team squad

As of 7 January 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 |
| 1 | GK | MEX | Israel Villaseñor (on loan from Morelia) |
| 2 | DF | COL | Brayan Angulo |
| 3 | DF | MEX | Carlos Gutiérrez |
| 4 | DF | MEX | Luis Venegas |
| 5 | DF | MEX | Patricio Araujo |
| 6 | MF | URU | Pablo Míguez |
| 7 | MF | MEX | Alonso Escoboza (on loan from Tijuana) |
| 8 | MF | MEX | Francisco Acuña |
| 9 | FW | MEX | Jerónimo Amione |
| 10 | FW | COL | Félix Micolta |
| 12 | DF | MEX | Óscar Rojas |
| 13 | MF | COL | Christian Marrugo |
| 14 | DF | MEX | Erik Pimentel (on loan from América) |
| 16 | MF | MEX | David Toledo (on loan from Guadalajara) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 17 | DF | MEX | Alonso Zamora (on loan from UANL) |
| 19 | FW | PLE | Carlos Salom |
| 21 | MF | MEX | José Guerrero (on loan from América) |
| 22 | FW | CAN | Lucas Cavallini (on loan from Peñarol) |
| 23 | GK | MEX | Moisés Muñoz (on loan from América) |
| 24 | MF | ARG | Jonás Aguirre (on loan from Rosario Central) |
| 27 | DF | MEX | Hugo Rodríguez (on loan from Pachuca) |
| 28 | MF | MEX | Francisco Torres (on loan from Santos Laguna) |
| 30 | GK | MEX | Jesús Rodríguez |
| 31 | DF | COL | Jhon Mondragón |
| 32 | GK | MEX | Tirso Trueba |
| 33 | DF | URU | Pablo Cáceres |
| 34 | MF | ARG | Gabriel Esparza (on loan from San Lorenzo) |
For recent transfers, see List of Mexican football transfers summer 2017

## Statistics
### Goalscorers

| No. | Pos. | Name | Apertura Liga | Clausura Liga | Apertura Copa | Clausura Copa | Total |
| 22 | FW | Lucas Cavallini | 4 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 13 |
| 13 | MF | Christian Marrugo | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 10 | MF | Félix Micolta | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 28 | MF | Francisco Javier Torres | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 8 | MF | Francisco Acuña | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 2 | DF | Brayan Angulo | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 7 | MF | Alonso Escoboza | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 17 | DF | Alonso Zamora | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | MF | Pablo Míguez | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 19 | FW | Carlos Salom | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 33 | FW | Alejandro Chumacero | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 27 | FW | Hugo Isaác Rodríguez | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 20 | FW | Omar Fernández | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 11 | MF | Christian Tabó | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | MF | Luis Gerardo Venegas | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | MF | José Daniel Guerrero | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | MF | Pablo González Díaz | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |

### Attendance

Puebla's Home Attendance by round, Estadio Cuahutemoc has a capacity of 51,726.
| round | Rival | Attendance | Percentage |
| 2 | Morelia | 12,067 | 25.71% |
| 4 | Tijuana | 8,124 | 17.32% |
| 6 | Club Leon | 6,233 | 13.28% |
| 8 | Cruz Azul | | |
| 10 | Monterrey | | |
| 11 | Atlas | | |
| 13 | Querétaro | | |
| 15 | UNAM | | |
| 17 | Lobos BUAP | | |

## Competitions

Win  Draw  Loss

### Liga MX
#### Apertura 2017
##### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Last updated: 19 November 2017 (2017-11-19). Source: Liga MX

##### Results by round

| Round | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 |
| Ground | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | H |
| Result | L | D | L | D | W | L | L | D | D | L | D | D | W | L | W | D | L |
| Position | 18 | 14 | 16 | 17 | 13 | 16 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 17 | 17 | 15 | 16 | 15 | 14 | 15 |

##### Matchday
### Group 4

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Tijuana | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 2 | +1 | 6 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 2 | Atlante | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | +1 | 5 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 3 | Puebla | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | −2 | 4 | |

## Clausura 2018
### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Last updated: 27 December 2017 (2017-12-27). Source: Liga MX

### Group 2

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Oaxaca | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | +1 | 4 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 2 | Puebla | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 4 | Possible knockout stage |
| 3 | Cruz Azul | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | −1 | 3 | |