# 2009–10 Standard Liège season

During the 2009–10 Belgian football season, Standard Liège competed in the Belgian Pro League.

## Season summary

Having won the title the past two seasons running, Liège were looking to make it a hat-trick of title, but very quickly fell off the title race. Manager László Bölöni resigned in February with the club 19 points adrift of leaders Anderlecht. He was replaced by Dominique D'Onofrio, brother of club vice-president Lucien and Liège's former technical director between 2002 and 2006. However, the club's form failed to improve making them finish in eighth place, two points adrift of the title play-offs - as a result, failing to qualify for European competition.

## Kit

Liège's kits were sponsored by Belgian telecommunications company BASE.

## First-team squad

    Squad at end of season
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 1 | GK | BEL | Kristof Van Hout |
| 2 | DF | BEL | Réginal Goreux |
| 3 | DF | BRA | Victor Ramos |
| 4 | MF | SEN | Pape Abdou Camara |
| 5 | DF | BRA | Felipe |
| 6 | MF | FRA | Cédric Collet |
| 7 | MF | FRA | Wilfried Dalmat |
| 8 | MF | BEL | Steven Defour (captain) |
| 9 | FW | COD | Dieumerci Mbokani |
| 10 | FW | BRA | Igor de Camargo |
| 11 | MF | BEL | Grégory Dufer |
| 14 | DF | BEL | Landry Mulemo |
| 15 | FW | BEL | Andréa Mbuyi-Mutombo |
| 16 | GK | BEL | Anthony Moris |
| 17 | DF | BRA | Camozzato |
| 18 | GK | BEL | Jesse Soubry |
| 19 | DF | SEN | Mohamed Sarr |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 20 | FW | CIV | Moussa Traoré (on loan from Commune FC) |
| 21 | MF | BEL | Franco Zennaro |
| 22 | DF | FRA | Eliaquim Mangala |
| 23 | FW | SRB | Milan Jovanović |
| 24 | MF | BEL | Koen Daerden |
| 25 | DF | ISR | Rami Gershon (on loan from Hapoel Rishon LeZion) |
| 26 | MF | FRA | Benjamin Nicaise |
| 27 | MF | BEL | Arnor Angeli |
| 28 | MF | BEL | Axel Witsel |
| 29 | FW | CIV | Gohi Bi Zoro Cyriac |
| 31 | DF | BRA | Alex Moraes (on loan from Roma Apucarana) |
| 32 | DF | BEL | Jonathan Buatu Mananga |
| 33 | MF | BEL | Mehdi Carcela |
| 35 | DF | BEL | Sébastien Pocognoli |
| 38 | GK | TUR | Sinan Bolat |
| 77 | MF | ROU | Gheorghe Grozav |

### Left club during season

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 3 | DF | BEL | Fazlı Kocabaş (to Eupen) |
| 4 | DF | POR | Ricardo Rocha (released) |
| 15 | DF | CRO | Tomislav Mikulić (to Beerschot) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 15 | MF | FRA | Olivier Dacourt (released) |
| 25 | FW | BEL | Christian Benteke (on loan to Kortrijk) |
| 30 | MF | ARM | Hiraç Yagan (on loan to Tubize) |

## Results
### UEFA Champions League
#### Group stage

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | ARS | OLY | STL | AZ |
| 1 | Arsenal | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 5 | +7 | 13 | Advance to knockout phase | — | 2–0 | 2–0 | 4–1 |
| 2 | Olympiacos | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | −1 | 10 | Advance to knockout phase | 1–0 | — | 2–1 | 1–0 |
| 3 | Standard Liège | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 9 | −2 | 5 | Transfer to Europa League | 2–3 | 2–0 | — | 1–1 |
| 4 | AZ | 6 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 8 | −4 | 4 | | 1–1 | 0–0 | 1–1 | — |

### UEFA Europa League
#### Knockout phase
##### Quarter-finals

Hamburg won 5–2 on aggregate.