title: 2020–21 Royal Excel Mouscron season
text: # 2020–21 Royal Excel Mouscron season
  
  The 2020–21 Royal Excel Mouscron season was the club's 99th season in existence and its seventh consecutive season in the top flight of Belgian football. In addition to the domestic league, Excel Mouscron participated in this season's edition of the Belgian Cup. The season covered the period from 1 July 2020 to 30 June 2021.
  
  ## Players
  
  ### First-team squad
  
      As of 24 August 2020
  
  Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
  
  | No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | 2 | DF | CIV | Kouadio-Yves Dabila (on loan from Lille) |
  | 5 | DF | MAR | Saad Agouzoul (on loan from Lille) |
  | 6 | MF | MNE | Deni Hočko |
  | 7 | MF | CMR | Fabrice Olinga |
  | 8 | MF | CMR | Jean Onana (on loan from Lille) |
  | 9 | FW | MDA | Virgiliu Postolachi (on loan from Lille) |
  | 10 | MF | MNE | Marko Bakić |
  | 11 | MF | FRA | Dimitri Mohamed (captain) |
  | 13 | DF | BEL | Alessandro Ciranni |
  | 14 | FW | FRA | Imad Faraj (on loan from Lille) |
  | 15 | MF | ANG | Capita (on loan from Lille) |
  | 16 | GK | BFA | Hervé Koffi (on loan from Lille) |
  | 18 | DF | BEL | Robbe Quirynen (on loan from Antwerp) |
  | 20 | FW | CPV | Nuno da Costa (on loan from Nottingham Forest) |
  | No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
  | 21 | GK | BEL | Nick Gillekens |
  | 22 | DF | FRA | Eric Bocat (on loan from Lille) |
  | 23 | MF | POR | Xadas (on loan from Braga) |
  | 26 | DF | ARG | Matías Silvestre |
  | 28 | MF | BEL | Enes Sağlık |
  | 29 | FW | BEL | Beni Badibanga |
  | 30 | MF | BEL | Benjamin Van Durmen |
  | 31 | FW | FRA | Harlem Gnohéré |
  | 33 | FW | CAN | Charles-Andreas Brym (on loan from Lille) |
  | 39 | MF | FRA | Darly N'Landu (on loan from Lille) |
  | 45 | MF | ALB | Agim Zeka |
  | 47 | DF | SEN | El Hadji Gueye (on loan from Lille) |
  | 70 | FW | CMR | Serge Tabekou |
  | 90 | GK | SRB | Vaso Vasić |
  
  ## Transfers
  
  ### In
  
  | No. | Pos | Player | Transferred from | Fee | Date | Source |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 15 | | | TBD | | 1 July 2020 | |
  
  ### Out
  
  | No. | Pos | Player | Transferred to | Fee | Date | Source |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 15 | | | TBD | | 1 July 2020 | |
  
  ## Pre-season and friendlies
  
  Win  Draw  Loss
  
  ## Competitions
  
  ### Overview
  
  | Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win % |
  | Belgian First Division A | 8 August 2020 | 18 April 2021 | Matchday 1 | 18th | 34 | 7 | 10 | 17 | 32 | 54 | −22 | 020.59 |
  | Belgian Cup | 2 February 2021 | 2 February 2021 | Sixth round | Sixth round | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | −1 | 000.00 |
  | Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 35 | 7 | 10 | 18 | 33 | 56 | −23 | 020.00 |
  
  Source: Soccerway
  
  ### Belgian First Division A
  
  **League table**
  
  | Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 14 | Kortrijk | 34 | 11 | 6 | 17 | 44 | 57 | −13 | 39 | |
  | 15 | Sint-Truiden | 34 | 10 | 8 | 16 | 41 | 52 | −11 | 38 | |
  | 16 | Cercle Brugge | 34 | 11 | 3 | 20 | 40 | 51 | −11 | 36 | |
  | 17 | Waasland-Beveren (R) | 34 | 8 | 7 | 19 | 44 | 70 | −26 | 31 | Qualification for the Relegation play-off |
  | 18 | Excel Mouscron (R) | 34 | 7 | 10 | 17 | 32 | 54 | −22 | 31 | Relegation to First Division B |
  
  * ↑ On 14 April 2021 news was released that both Excel Mouscron and Oostende had not received a Belgian professional football license for the coming season, a requirement to play at the top two levels of Belgian football. For Oostende, a lack of financial transparency, together with generally poor quality and incompleteness of the submitted report, was given as the main reason by the committee for not awarding a license, while Excel Mouscron was refused a license as besides insufficient transparency, the committee also questioned several cash flows and whether the club was creditworthy in general, also due to the fact that the wages for the months of February and March had not yet been paid at that point. For Excel Mouscron, it was already the sixth year running the license was (initially) refused, however, the club has appealed the decision with the Belgian Court for Sports Arbitrage (BAS) successfully on each occasion and intended to do so again. Oostende was planning to launch an appeal as well, with the BAS to rule on the matter for both clubs before the 10th of May. Both clubs were allowed to add new documents to their case, but in case they however still did not receive a license after appeal, knew they would have been forced to relegate to the 2021–22 Belgian Division 2 and start the season with a 3-point penalty. Both Exel Mouscron and Oostende were however eventually awarded a license after appeal, meaning Oostende remained at the top level, while Excel Mouscron only dropped one level.
  
  **Results summary**
  
  | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  
  Source: Jupiler Pro League
  
  **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 | 33 | 34 |
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  | Ground | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | H | A | A | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A |
  | Result | D | L | D | L | L | L | D | L | L | W | W | L | L | D | L | W | D | W | L | L | W | D | W | D | D | L | L | L | D | W | L | D | L | L |
  | Position | 10 | 14 | 14 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 17 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 17 | 18 | 17 | 17 | 16 | 17 | 17 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 17 | 17 | 16 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 18 |
  
  **Matches**
  
  The league fixtures were announced on 8 July 2020.
  
  ## Statistics
  
  ### Goalscorers
  
      As of 14 August 2020
  
  | Rank | No. | Pos | Nat | Name | Pro League | Belgian Cup | Total |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1 | 10 | MF | | Marko Bakić | 1 | 0 | 1 |
  | Totals | Totals | Totals | Totals | Totals | 1 | 0 | 1 |
  