# 2017–18 Livingston F.C. season

The 2017–18 season was Livingston's first season back in the Scottish Championship after their promotion from League One at the end of the 2016–17 season. Livingston also competed in the Challenge Cup, League Cup and the Scottish Cup.

## Summary
### Season

Livingston finished as runners-up in the Scottish Championship and were promoted to the Scottish Premiership for the first time since 2006 with victory over Partick Thistle in the premiership play-offs. Livingston also reached the quarter-final of the League Cup, the second round of the Challenge Cup and the fourth round of the Scottish Cup.

## Results and fixtures

Win  Draw  Loss  Postponed

### Scottish League Cup
#### Group stage

Results

#### Group H

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | PW | PL | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | LIV | PAR | STM | AIR | STR |
| 1 | Livingston (Q) | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 3 | +5 | 11 | Qualification for the Second Round | — | p1–1 | — | 2–0 | — |
| 2 | Partick Thistle (Q) | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 2 | +7 | 10 | Qualification for the Second Round | — | — | 5–0 | — | 1–0 |
| 3 | St Mirren | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 7 | +2 | 6 | | 0–1 | — | — | 5–0 | — |
| 4 | Airdrieonians | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 10 | −6 | 3 | | — | 1–2 | — | — | 3–1 |
| 5 | Stranraer | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 12 | −8 | 0 | | 2–4 | — | 1–4 | — | — |

#### Knockout stage
### Scottish Cup
## Player statistics

    As of 20 May 2018 (UTC)
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Total | Total | Championship | Championship | League Cup | League Cup | Scottish Cup | Scottish Cup | Other | Other |
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| 1 | GK | SCO | Neil Alexander | 47 | 0 | 34+0 | 0 | 6+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 | 6+0 | 0 |
| 2 | DF | SCO | Jack McMillan | 15 | 1 | 3+10 | 1 | 0+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 3 | DF | SCO | Jackson Longridge | 45 | 3 | 23+8 | 3 | 2+4 | 0 | 2+0 | 0 | 5+1 | 0 |
| 4 | DF | SCO | Alan Lithgow | 47 | 8 | 33+0 | 6 | 6+0 | 1 | 2+0 | 0 | 6+0 | 1 |
| 5 | DF | SCO | Gregor Buchanan | 11 | 0 | 7+1 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 |
| 6 | MF | SCO | Shaun Byrne | 46 | 1 | 32+1 | 1 | 6+0 | 0 | 2+0 | 0 | 5+0 | 0 |
| 7 | MF | SCO | Josh Mullin | 41 | 4 | 20+8 | 3 | 3+3 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 | 4+1 | 1 |
| 8 | FW | SCO | Scott Pittman | 49 | 6 | 35+0 | 4 | 6+0 | 0 | 2+0 | 0 | 6+0 | 2 |
| 9 | FW | SCO | Ryan Hardie | 17 | 8 | 15+1 | 8 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 10 | FW | SCO | Steven Boyd | 11 | 0 | 4+6 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 11 | MF | SCO | Nicky Cadden | 35 | 1 | 15+11 | 1 | 2+0 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 2+4 | 0 |
| 14 | MF | RSA | Keaghan Jacobs | 32 | 3 | 13+7 | 0 | 5+1 | 1 | 1+0 | 0 | 4+1 | 2 |
| 15 | FW | SCO | Dylan Mackin | 21 | 8 | 7+7 | 4 | 2+2 | 1 | 1+0 | 2 | 0+2 | 1 |
| 16 | FW | SCO | Matthew Knox | 6 | 1 | 0+2 | 0 | 2+0 | 0 | 0+1 | 1 | 1+0 | 0 |
| 17 | MF | SCO | Scott Robinson | 25 | 7 | 9+8 | 5 | 1+1 | 2 | 1+0 | 0 | 4+1 | 0 |
| 18 | FW | SCO | Lee Miller | 21 | 2 | 13+3 | 2 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 4+0 | 0 |
| 19 | MF | SCO | Adam Frizzell | 4 | 0 | 2+2 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 20 | GK | SCO | Gary Maley | 3 | 0 | 2+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 21 | MF | SCO | James Penrice | 13 | 1 | 11+2 | 1 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 22 | MF | SCO | Craig Henderson | 1 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 23 | MF | ITA | Raffaele De Vita | 40 | 6 | 21+9 | 3 | 5+1 | 2 | 0+0 | 0 | 3+1 | 1 |
| 24 | MF | NIR | Jordan Thompson | 17 | 0 | 7+4 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 2+2 | 0 |
| 26 | DF | SCO | Craig Halkett | 49 | 8 | 34+1 | 7 | 6+0 | 1 | 2+0 | 0 | 6+0 | 0 |
| 29 | GK | SCO | Jordan Pettigrew | 0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 31 | DF | SCO | Declan Gallagher | 43 | 0 | 30+1 | 0 | 5+0 | 0 | 2+0 | 0 | 5+0 | 0 |
| Players who left the club during the 2017–18 season ||||||||||||
| 9 | MF | BUL | Nikolay Todorov | 24 | 4 | 10+8 | 2 | 2+2 | 1 | 0+0 | 0 | 1+1 | 1 |
| 10 | FW | SCO | Danny Mullen | 17 | 5 | 11+0 | 4 | 3+1 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 1+1 | 1 |
| 19 | FW | SCO | Dale Carrick | 15 | 3 | 4+5 | 1 | 4+1 | 2 | 1+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 22 | MF | SCO | Joe Thomson | 3 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 |
| 24 | FW | SCO | Josh Peters | 2 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |

## Team statistics
### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion, qualification or relegation |
| 1 | St Mirren (C, P) | 36 | 23 | 5 | 8 | 63 | 36 | +27 | 74 | Promotion to the Premiership |
| 2 | Livingston (O, P) | 36 | 17 | 11 | 8 | 56 | 37 | +19 | 62 | Qualification for the Premiership play-off semi-final |
| 3 | Dundee United | 36 | 18 | 7 | 11 | 52 | 42 | +10 | 61 | Qualification for the Premiership play-off quarter-final |
| 4 | Dunfermline Athletic | 36 | 16 | 11 | 9 | 60 | 35 | +25 | 59 | Qualification for the Premiership play-off quarter-final |
| 5 | Inverness Caledonian Thistle | 36 | 16 | 9 | 11 | 53 | 37 | +16 | 57 | |

### Division summary

| Round | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 |
| Ground | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | H | A | H | H | A | A | H | A | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | H | A | H | H | A | A | A | H | A | H | H | A |
| Result | D | D | L | W | D | W | W | W | W | L | W | D | W | L | D | L | W | D | L | W | W | W | D | W | W | W | D | D | D | W | L | W | D | W | L | L |
| Position | 5 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |