2020–21 SBV Vitesse season
# 2020–21 SBV Vitesse season

The 2020–21 season was the 128th season in existence of SBV Vitesse and the club's 31st consecutive season in the top flight of Dutch football. In addition to the domestic league, Vitesse participated in this season's edition of the KNVB Cup. The season covered the period from 1 July 2020 to 30 June 2021.

## Players

### First-team squad

    As of 1 February 2021

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 | ISR | Eli Dasa |
| 3 | DF | NED | Danilho Doekhi |
| 6 | DF | DEN | Jacob Rasmussen (on loan from Fiorentina) |
| 7 | FW | BEL | Loïs Openda (on loan from Club Brugge) |
| 8 | MF | NOR | Sondre Tronstad |
| 9 | FW | ALG | Oussama Darfalou |
| 10 | MF | NED | Riechedly Bazoer |
| 11 | FW | ALB | Armando Broja (on loan from Chelsea) |
| 14 | MF | MAR | Oussama Tannane |
| 16 | DF | CRO | Alois Oroz |
| 17 | FW | NGA | Hilary Gong |
| 18 | DF | CZE | Tomáš Hájek |
| 19 | FW | NED | Noah Ohio (on loan from RB Leipzig) |
| 20 | MF | NED | Thomas Bruns |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 21 | MF | SVK | Matúš Bero |
| 22 | GK | NED | Remko Pasveer (captain) |
| 23 | GK | NED | Bilal Bayazit |
| 24 | GK | NED | Jeroen Houwen |
| 27 | MF | GER | Idrissa Touré (on loan from Juventus) |
| 32 | DF | GER | Maximilian Wittek |
| 36 | MF | NED | Patrick Vroegh |
| 39 | DF | NED | Enzo Cornelisse |
| 40 | MF | NED | Daan Huisman |
| 41 | DF | NED | Brend Leeflang |
| 42 | DF | NED | Million Manhoef |
| 43 | FW | NED | Roy Kuijpers |
| 44 | FW | NED | Enrico Hernández |

### Players out on loan

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 | NED | Thomas Buitink (on loan to PEC Zwolle until 30 June 2021) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |

## 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 % |
| Eredivisie | 13 September 2020 | 16 May 2021 | Matchday 1 | 4th | 34 | 18 | 7 | 9 | 52 | 38 | +14 | 052.94 |
| KNVB Cup | 2 December 2020 | 18 April 2021 | First round | Runners-up | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 3 | +5 | 080.00 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 39 | 22 | 7 | 10 | 60 | 41 | +19 | 056.41 |

Last updated: 16 May 2021 Source: Soccerway

### Eredivisie

**League table**

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 2 | PSV Eindhoven | 34 | 21 | 9 | 4 | 74 | 35 | +39 | 72 | Qualification to Champions League second qualifying round |
| 3 | AZ | 34 | 21 | 8 | 5 | 75 | 41 | +34 | 71 | Qualification to Europa League play-off round |
| 4 | Vitesse | 34 | 18 | 7 | 9 | 52 | 38 | +14 | 61 | Qualification to Europa Conference League third qualifying round |
| 5 | Feyenoord (O) | 34 | 16 | 11 | 7 | 64 | 36 | +28 | 59 | Qualification to European competition play-offs |
| 6 | Utrecht | 34 | 13 | 14 | 7 | 52 | 41 | +11 | 53 | Qualification to European competition play-offs |

* ↑ Winner of play-off will qualify to Europa Conference League second qualifying round.

**Results summary**

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

Last updated: 16 May 2021. Source: Eredivisie

**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 | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H |
| Result | W | W | L | W | W | W | W | W | D | W | L | D | W | L | W | W | W | W | L | D | L | L | L | W | W | W | D | W | D | D | W | L | D | L |
| Position | 8 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 |

**Matches**

The league fixtures were announced on 24 July 2020.

