# 2017–18 Falkirk F.C. season

The 2017–18 season was Falkirk’s fifth season in the Scottish Championship and their seventh consecutive season in the second-tier of Scottish football following their relegation from the Scottish Premier League at the end of the 2009–10 season. Falkirk also competed in the League Cup, Challenge Cup and the Scottish Cup.

## Summary
### Management

Falkirk began the 2017–18 season under the management of Peter Houston who had guided the club to a Premiership play-off place in his previous two seasons. On 24 September, Houston left his position as manager following a poor start to the season. Paul Hartley was appointed as his replacement on 4 October and guided the club to safety with an eighth place finish at the end of the season.

## Results and fixtures

Win  Draw  Loss  Postponed

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

Results
| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | PW | PL | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | FAL | INV | STI | BRE | FOR |
| 1 | Falkirk (Q) | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 1 | +12 | 12 | Qualification for the Second Round | — | — | 4–1 | — | 4–0 |
| 2 | Inverness Caledonian Thistle | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | +2 | 8 | | 0–2 | — | — | 3–0 | — |
| 3 | Stirling Albion | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | +1 | 7 | | — | 0–0p | — | 2–0 | — |
| 4 | Brechin City | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 9 | −8 | 2 | | 0–3 | — | — | — | p1–1 |
| 5 | Forfar Athletic | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 10 | −7 | 1 | | — | 1–2 | 1–3 | — | — |

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

    As of 28 April 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 | Robbie Thomson | 29 | 0 | 20+0 | 0 | 4+0 | 0 | 2+0 | 0 | 2+1 | 0 |
| 2 | DF | SCO | Lewis Kidd | 18 | 1 | 10+6 | 1 | 0+0 | 0 | 2+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 3 | DF | SCO | Jordan McGhee | 38 | 3 | 32+0 | 2 | 0+0 | 0 | 3+0 | 1 | 3+0 | 0 |
| 4 | DF | SCO | Aaron Muirhead | 43 | 7 | 33+0 | 5 | 4+0 | 1 | 3+0 | 1 | 3+0 | 0 |
| 5 | DF | SCO | Peter Grant | 34 | 1 | 24+3 | 1 | 4+0 | 0 | 2+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 |
| 6 | MF | SCO | Joe McKee | 31 | 7 | 16+5 | 4 | 4+1 | 3 | 0+3 | 0 | 2+0 | 0 |
| 7 | MF | ENG | Tom Taiwo | 30 | 1 | 21+1 | 1 | 3+0 | 0 | 2+1 | 0 | 2+0 | 0 |
| 10 | MF | SCO | Craig Sibbald | 29 | 5 | 25+1 | 4 | 0+0 | 0 | 3+0 | 1 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 12 | GK | SCO | David Mitchell | 3 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 |
| 14 | MF | SCO | Louis Longridge | 29 | 7 | 24+1 | 7 | 0+0 | 0 | 3+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 |
| 16 | DF | SCO | Reghan Tumilty | 20 | 2 | 17+0 | 1 | 0+0 | 0 | 3+0 | 1 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 18 | GK | NIR | Conor Hazard | 12 | 0 | 10+1 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 20 | FW | SCO | Kevin O'Hara | 22 | 0 | 5+13 | 0 | 0+3 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 |
| 21 | MF | SCO | Ryan Blair | 8 | 1 | 4+3 | 1 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 22 | FW | SCO | Alex Jakubiak | 18 | 7 | 13+2 | 5 | 0+0 | 0 | 2+1 | 2 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 23 | DF | SCO | Tony Gallacher | 17 | 0 | 11+0 | 0 | 5+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 |
| 26 | MF | SCO | Reis Peggie | 0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 27 | DF | SCO | Jonathan Mitchell | 0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 29 | FW | SCO | Mark Stowe | 0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 33 | FW | SCO | Rory Loy | 26 | 1 | 9+9 | 1 | 4+1 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 |
| 35 | MF | SCO | Cieran Dunne | 6 | 0 | 3+2 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 42 | DF | SCO | Thomas Robson | 21 | 2 | 18+0 | 2 | 0+0 | 0 | 3+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 43 | FW | ENG | Andrew Nelson | 15 | 4 | 12+0 | 4 | 0+0 | 0 | 2+1 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 44 | DF | SCO | Paul Watson | 24 | 0 | 14+4 | 0 | 4+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 |
| 45 | MF | SCO | Sean Welsh | 11 | 0 | 7+4 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| Players who left the club during the 2017–18 season ||||||||||||
| 8 | MF | SCO | Mark Kerr | 22 | 0 | 15+0 | 0 | 3+2 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 |
| 9 | FW | ENG | Nathan Austin | 21 | 5 | 8+6 | 1 | 4+0 | 3 | 0+0 | 0 | 2+1 | 1 |
| 11 | FW | ENG | Myles Hippolyte | 16 | 6 | 8+2 | 2 | 4+0 | 3 | 0+0 | 0 | 2+0 | 1 |
| 15 | DF | CAN | Luca Gasparotto | 9 | 1 | 3+2 | 1 | 3+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 18 | FW | SCO | Lee Miller | 18 | 1 | 3+10 | 0 | 1+4 | 1 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 19 | FW | SCO | Scott Shepherd | 7 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 | 0+4 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 21 | DF | ENG | Conrad Balatoni | 11 | 1 | 8+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 3+0 | 1 |
| 24 | MF | SCO | Cameron Blues | 8 | 0 | 2+4 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 |
| 28 | MF | ENG | James Craigen | 17 | 2 | 5+5 | 0 | 3+1 | 1 | 0+0 | 0 | 2+1 | 1 |
| 31 | GK | SCO | Robbie Mutch | 5 | 0 | 5+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |

## Club statistics
### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion, qualification or relegation |
| 6 | Queen of the South | 36 | 14 | 10 | 12 | 59 | 53 | +6 | 52 | |
| 7 | Greenock Morton | 36 | 13 | 11 | 12 | 47 | 40 | +7 | 50 | |
| 8 | Falkirk | 36 | 12 | 11 | 13 | 45 | 49 | −4 | 47 | |
| 9 | Dumbarton (R) | 36 | 7 | 9 | 20 | 27 | 63 | −36 | 30 | Qualification for the Championship play-offs |
| 10 | Brechin City (R) | 36 | 0 | 4 | 32 | 20 | 90 | −70 | 4 | Relegation to League One |

### 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 | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | H | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | A | A | H |
| Result | L | D | L | L | D | D | L | W | D | D | L | D | L | L | D | D | W | L | W | L | W | W | L | W | W | D | W | D | W | D | L | L | L | W | W | W |
| Position | 9 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 |