# 2017 Orange County SC season

The 2017 Orange County SC season was the club's seventh season of existence, their third in the United Soccer League, and their first in the second tier of American soccer. This was the club's first year being branded as Orange County SC after previously being known as Orange County Blues FC from 2014 through 2017 and the LA Blues from 2011 to 2014.

## Background

Playing the first season as Orange County SC, the team finished with a record of 11-11-10, 6-6-4 at home. The team played their first four games away due to the ongoing construction of their temporary stadium at Orange County Great Park, while Championship Soccer Stadium was under construction. The first home game was week 7, May 6, 2017, against LA Galaxy II, resulting in a 4-0 Orange County victory. Due to insufficient lighting in the temporary field games started at 5:00 pm PST.
The first game played in the new Championship Soccer Stadium was August 5, 2017, against Tulsa Roughnecks ending in a scoreless draw.
The team finished the season in 10th place in the Western Conference and did not qualify for playoffs, three points behind Sacramento Republic FC in 8th place.
OCSC played three away games for the US Open Cup, defeating FC Golden State Force (5-2) and LA Wolves FC (1-0), before losing to LA Galaxy (1-3) at Dignity Health Sports stadium.
At the conclusion of the season, Head Coach Logan Pause was released, announced Nov 27.

## Transfers
### In

| No. | Pos | Player | Transferred From | Fee | Date |
| 1 | GK | Charlie Lyon | Seattle Sounders FC | Free | February 15, 2017 |
| 2 | DF | Oscar Sorto | LA Galaxy | Free | February 9, 2017 |
| 3 | DF | Joe Franco | Miami FC | Free | February 19, 2017 |
| 4 | DF | Beto Navarro | Jacksonville Armada FC | Free | March 7, 2017 |
| 6 | DF | Victor Pineda | Fort Lauderdale Strikers | Free | February 11, 2017 |
| 8 | FW | Gustavo Villalobos | Tulsa Roughnecks FC | Free | January 28, 2017 |
| 11 | MF | Jerry van Ewijk | Go Ahead Eagles | Free | January 21, 2017 |
| 12 | MF | Sola Abolaji | Ventura County Fusion | Free | March 3, 2017 |
| 16 | MF | Amirgy Pineda | SCC Hawks | Free | February 19, 2017 |
| 18 | FW | Duke Lacroix | Indy Eleven | Free | March 15, 2017 |
| 19 | FW | Totti | UMass Lowell River Hawks | Free | April 7, 2017 |
| 22 | MF | Kevin Jeon | Blau-Weiß Friesdorf | Free | January 28, 2017 |
| 23 | MF | Zach Kobayashi | Dinamo Zegreb | Free | April 20, 2017 |
| 25 | GK | Casey Beyers | Wisconsin Badgers | Free | March 3, 2017 |
| 26 | GK | Michael Suchy | Orange County SC U-23 | Free | April 20, 2017 |

### Loan in

| No. | Pos | Player | Loaned From | Start | End |
| 5 | GK | Salomón Wbias | Pachuca | February 2, 2017 | November 30, 2017 |
| 9 | MF | Monday Etim | Los Angeles FC | May 5, 2017 | November 30, 2017 |
| 10 | MF | Carlos Alvarez | Los Angeles FC | March 23, 2017 | November 30, 2017 |
| 13 | DF | Juan Pablo Ocegueda | UANL | January 28, 2017 | November 30, 2017 |

## Club

| No. | Position | Player | Nation |
| 1 | GK | Charlie Lyon | United States |
| 2 | DF | Oscar Sorto | United States |
| 3 | DF | Joe Franco | United States |
| 4 | DF | Beto Navarro | United States |
| 5 | DF | Salomón Wbias (on loan from Pachuca) | Mexico |
| 6 | MF | Victor Pineda | United States |
| 7 | MF | Richard Chaplow | England |
| 8 | FW | Gustavo Villalobos | United States |
| 9 | MF | Monday Etim | Nigeria |
| 10 | MF | Carlos Alvarez | United States |
| 11 | FW | Jerry van Ewijk | Netherlands |
| 12 | DF | Sola Abolaji | United States |
| 13 | DF | Juan Pablo Ocegueda (on loan from UANL) | United States |
| 14 | MF | Dušan Stevanović | Serbia |
| 16 | MF | Ami Pineda | United States |
| 17 | DF | Roy Meeus | Belgium |
| 18 | FW | Duke Lacroix | United States |
| 19 | FW | Wuilito Fernandes | Cape Verde |
| 20 | DF | Jeannot Esua | Cameroon |
| 22 | MF | Kevin Jeon | United States |
| 23 | MF | Zach Kobayashi | United States |
| 25 | GK | Casey Beyers | United States |
| 26 | GK | Michael Suchy | United States |
| 28 | MF | Frank Olijve | Netherlands |
| 38 | FW | Irvin Parra | United States |
| 44 | MF | James Baxendale | England |
Preseason exhibitions

## Competitive
### USL
#### Table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 6 | OKC Energy FC | 32 | 14 | 7 | 11 | 46 | 41 | +5 | 49 | Conference Playoffs |
| 7 | Tulsa Roughnecks | 32 | 14 | 4 | 14 | 46 | 49 | −3 | 46 | Conference Playoffs |
| 8 | Sacramento Republic | 32 | 13 | 7 | 12 | 45 | 43 | +2 | 46 | Conference Playoffs |
| 9 | Colorado Springs Switchbacks | 32 | 12 | 8 | 12 | 55 | 51 | +4 | 44 | |
| 10 | Orange County SC | 32 | 11 | 10 | 11 | 43 | 47 | −4 | 43 | |
| 11 | Rio Grande Valley Toros | 32 | 9 | 8 | 15 | 37 | 50 | −13 | 35 | |
| 12 | Seattle Sounders 2 | 32 | 9 | 4 | 19 | 42 | 61 | −19 | 31 | |
| 13 | LA Galaxy II | 32 | 8 | 5 | 19 | 32 | 64 | −32 | 29 | |
| 14 | Vancouver Whitecaps 2 | 32 | 5 | 9 | 18 | 32 | 52 | −20 | 24 | |

#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |

#### Results by round

| 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 |
| Stadium | A | A | A | A | H | A | A | H | H | H | H | A | A | H | H | A | A | H | A | H | H | H | H | A | H | H | A | A | A | H | H | A |
| Result | W | L | W | D | W | L | L | L | W | D | D | W | D | W | W | L | D | L | D | D | D | L | L | D | W | L | W | D | L | W | L | W |

### U.S. Open Cup
## Statistics
### Goalscorers

| Rank | Position | Player | Appearances | Goals |
| 1 | MF | Irvin Parra | 30 | 11 |
| 2 | MF | Jerry van Ewijk | 29 | 8 |
| 3 | MF | Zach Kobayashi | 17 | 4 |
| 3 | MF | Roy Meeus | 19 | 4 |

### Assists

| Rank | Position | Player | Appearances | Assists |
| 1 | MF | Irvin Parra | 30 | 10 |
| 2 | FW | Wuilito Fernandes | 25 | 3 |
| 2 | MF | Jerry van Ewijk | 29 | 3 |
| 4 | MF | Carlos Alvarez | 19 | 2 |

### Clean sheets

| Position | Player | Appearances | Saves | Clean sheets |
| GK | Charlie Lyon | 31 | 95 | 7 |