2017 Serbian White Eagles FC season

The 2017 Serbian White Eagles FC season was the twenty first season in the club's participation in the Canadian Soccer League (including Canadian National Soccer League days).They began the season on May 26, 2017 at home against SC Waterloo Region.[1] Throughout the season they maintained their traditional status of an elite club by finishing the season as runners up in the regular season. They only recorded one defeat and achieved the second best offensive record. In the postseason they failed to successfully defend their CSL Championship after losing to York Region Shooters in the semifinals.[2]

Serbian White Eagles FC

2017 season
President	Dragan Bakoč
Head Coach	Uroš Stamatović
CSL	Semifinals
Top goalscorer	Đorđe Jočić (7 goals)
Home colours Away colours

Summary

The White Eagles entered the 2017 CSL season as the defending champions with Uroš Stamatović returning to manage the squad for the season. Serbia continued its strategy of recruiting seasoned imports from Europe, while also rejuvenating the roster with younger graduates from their youth system. The new additions included Luka Milidragović, Dušan Kovačević, and Ivan Nikolic.[3] They also continued fielding their reserve team in the Second Division.

While their on field performance continued to prosper as the White Eagles began the season with a 12-game undefeated streak.[4][5] Their only defeat occurred in an away match, while at home they remained undefeated. Serbia concluded the regular season as runners up and was ranked in the top three for the best offensive and defensive records. In the preliminary round of the postseason they defeated SC Waterloo by a score of 5-3.[6] Unfortunately they failed to defend the CSL Championship after being eliminated by the York Region Shooters.[7]

Players

Roster

As of June 29, 2017[8]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player – FW  MNE Luka Bojić – DF  SRB Vitomir Jelić – MF  SRB Đorđe Jočić – MF  SRB Miroslav Jovanović – DF  SRB Radenko Kamberović – MF  CAN Dusan Kovacevic – DF  SRB Milan Kušić – MF  SRB Miloš Ljubenović – MF  SRB Marko Marović – DF  CAN Luka Milidragovic - DF  CAN Bojan Nedeljkovic

No. Pos. Nation Player - FW  CAN Ivan Nikolic – DF  SRB Zoran Pešić – MF  CAN Milos Rudan – FW  CAN Milos Scepanovic – GK  SRB Goran Škarić – MF  SRB Ivan Stanković – MF  MNE Đorđije Strunjaš – DF  SRB Goran Švonja – MF  CAN Filip Velasevic – GK  SRB Bojan Vranić – DF  SRB Branislav Vukomanović

Management

Position	Staff
Head coach	Uros Stamatović
Fitness coach	Vesna Altarac
President	Dragan Bakoc

Last updated: December 5, 2017
Source: serbianwhiteeagles.ca

Competitions

Canadian Soccer League

First Division

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	FC Vorkuta (C)	14	10	2	2	43	13	+30	32	Playoffs
2	Serbian White Eagles	14	9	4	1	38	14	+24	31
3	York Region Shooters (O)	14	9	3	2	34	7	+27	30
4	Scarborough SC	14	7	3	4	37	17	+20	24
5	Brantford Galaxy	14	6	0	8	26	37	−11	18
6	Milton SC	14	2	2	10	24	75	−51	8
7	SC Waterloo Region	14	1	5	8	19	33	−14	8
8	Royal Toronto FC	14	1	3	10	20	45	−25	6

Updated to match(es) played on September 11, 2017. Source: canadiansoccerleague.ca
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champion; (O) Play-off winner.

Results summary

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
14	9	4	1	38	14	+24	31	4	3	0	17	5	+12	5	1	1	21	9	+12

Last updated: September 10, 2017.
Source: CSL

Results by round

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14
Ground	H	H	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	A	H	H	A	A
Result	D	W	D	W	W	W	W	D	W	W	D	W	L	W

Updated to match(es) played on September 10, 2017. Source: CSL
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Matches

May 26	Serbian White Eagles	1–1	SC Waterloo	Toronto, Ontario
	Jočić  65'	Report	Adis Hasecic  50'	Stadium: Centennial Park Stadium Attendance: 150 Referee: Vee Venne

June 2	Serbian White Eagles	2–1	Scarborough SC	Toronto, Ontario
	Pešić  31' Jočić  74'	Report	Dimitrov  24'	Stadium: Centennial Park Stadium Attendance: 100 Referee: Ramee Arbaji

June 9	Serbian White Eagles	1–1	FC Vorkuta	Toronto, Ontario
	Jočić  74'	Report	Stepaniuk  93'	Stadium: Centennial Park Stadium Attendance: 100 Referee: Marco Jaramillo

June 17	Brantford Galaxy	1–6	Serbian White Eagles	Brantford, Ontario
	Vukovic  86'	Report	Filip Velasevic  13' Pešić  60' Jočić  66',  73' Miroslav Jovanović  85',  89'	Stadium: Steve Brown Sports Complex Referee: Tony Amaral

June 23	Serbian White Eagles	3–1	Royal Toronto FC	Toronto, Ontario
	Švonja  43' Luka Bojić  74' Dusan Kovačević  77'	Report	Dario Brezak  9'	Stadium: Centennial Park Stadium Attendance: 100 Referee: Ramee Arbaji

July 2	Milton SC	3–4	Serbian White Eagles	Milton, Ontario
	Leandro Aguilar  23' Lucky Maghori  26',  51'	Report	Vukasin Lukic  10',  14' Jočić  30' Miroslav Jovanović  45'	Stadium: Milton Community Park Referee: Garfield

July 7	Serbian White Eagles	2–0	Brantford Galaxy	Toronto, Ontario
	Dusan Kovačević  81' Švonja  86'	Report		Stadium: Centennial Park Stadium Attendance: 100 Referee: Javier Prior

July 14	SC Waterloo	1–1	Serbian White Eagles	Waterloo, Ontario
	Jure Glavina  37'	Report	Dusan Kovačević  30'	Stadium: Warrior Field Attendance: 100 Referee: Tony Amaral

July 28	Scarborough SC	1–2	Serbian White Eagles	Toronto, Ontario
	Stefan Stoiljkovic  55'	Report	Miroslav Jovanović  48' Kamberović  61'	Stadium: Esther Shiner Stadium Attendance: 100 Referee: Ramee Arbaji

August 6	Royal Toronto FC	0–5	Serbian White Eagles	Toronto, Ontario
		Report	Ivan Nikolić  21',  26' Vukomanović  51' Jočić  55' Miloš Ljubenović  80'	Stadium: Birchmount Stadium Attendance: 100 Referee: E. Gustavo

August 11	Serbian White Eagles	0–0	York Region Shooters	Toronto, Ontario
		Report		Stadium: Centennial Park Stadium Attendance: 100

August 18	Serbian White Eagles	8–1	Milton SC	Toronto, Ontario
	Milos Ljubenović  7' Jočić  30' Vukomanović  39',  59' Miroslav Jovanović  47',  60' Stanković  64',  71'	Report	Peter Edika  15'	Stadium: Centennial Park Stadium Attendance: 200 Referee: Greg Brown

August 25	York Region Shooters	1–0	Serbian White Eagles	Vaughan, Ontario
	Edwards  67'	Report		Stadium: St. Joan of Arc Turf Field Attendance: 100 Referee: E. Gustavo

September 2	FC Vorkuta	2–3	Serbian White Eagles	Toronto, Ontario
		Report	Milan Kušić Pešić ,	Stadium: Esther Shiner Stadium

Second Division

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	FC Ukraine United (C, O)	14	13	1	0	75	10	+65	40	Playoffs
2	Burlington SC	14	10	1	3	44	18	+26	31
3	FC Vorkuta B	14	8	0	6	41	25	+16	24
4	Brantford Galaxy B	14	7	1	6	29	35	−6	22
5	Serbian White Eagles B	14	6	0	8	32	59	−27	18
6	SC Waterloo B	14	5	1	8	26	39	−13	16
7	Royal Toronto B	14	5	0	9	32	58	−26	15
8	London City SC	14	0	0	14	11	46	−35	0

Updated to match(es) played on September 7, 2017. Source: canadiansoccerleague.ca
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champion; (O) Play-off winner.

Results summary

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
14	6	0	8	32	59	−27	18	4	0	3	14	14	0	2	0	5	18	45	−27

Last updated: September 10, 2017.
Source: CSL

Results by round

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14
Ground	H	H	A	A	A	A	A	H	A	H	H	H	A	H
Result	L	L	W	L	W	L	L	W	L	W	L	W	L	W

Updated to match(es) played on September 10, 2017. Source: CSL
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Statistics

Goals and assists

Correct as of November 2, 2017[9][10]

First Division Goals Pos. Playing Pos. Nation Name Appearances Goals 1 MF Đorđe Jočić 12 7 2 MF Miroslav Jovanović 14 6 DF Branislav Vukomanović 11 6 4 FW Ivan Nikolic 5 3 DF Zoran Pešić 13 3 6 MF Dusan Kovacevic 8 2 FW Vukasin Lukic 12 2 DF Ivan Stanković 11 2 MF Filip Velasevic 9 2 10 FW Luka Bojić 13 1 DF Vitomir Jelić 11 1 DF Milan Kušić 12 1 MF Miloš Ljubenović 14 1 DF Goran Švonja 14 1 Total 148 38

Second Division Goals Pos. Playing Pos. Nation Name Appearances Goals 1 DF Vitomir Jelić 7 4 2 FW Luka Bojić 4 3 FW Ivan Nikolic 5 3 4 MF Đorđe Jočić 1 2 MF Uros Obradovic 2 2 MF Milos Scepanovic 3 2 DF Sasa Vukoje 8 2 8 MF Dusan Kovacevic 3 1 DF Milan Kušić 2 1 MF Rohan Mowatt 4 1 Total 39 21

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