# 2020–21 Valenciennes FC season

The 2020–21 Valenciennes FC season was the club's 108th season in existence and the seventh consecutive season in the second flight of French football. In addition to the domestic league, Valenciennes participated in this season's edition of the Coupe de France. The season covered the period from 1 July 2020 to 30 June 2021.

## Players
### First-team squad

    As of 7 January 2021.
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 1 | GK | FRA | Jérôme Prior |
| 3 | DF | MTN | Aly Abeid |
| 4 | MF | BEN | Sessi D'Almeida |
| 5 | DF | ALG | Maxime Spano |
| 6 | MF | FRA | Gaëtan Arib |
| 7 | FW | CIV | Moussa Guel |
| 8 | MF | SUI | Matteo Fedele |
| 9 | FW | FRA | Gaëtan Robail (on loan from Lens) |
| 10 | MF | CMR | Arsène Elogo |
| 11 | MF | ALG | Malek Chergui |
| 13 | MF | FRA | Julien Masson |
| 14 | DF | FRA | Joffrey Cuffaut |
| 15 | DF | FRA | Éric Vandenabeele |
| 16 | GK | CIV | Hillel Konaté |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 17 | MF | ALG | Aymen Boutoutaou |
| 18 | FW | BEL | Baptiste Guillaume |
| 19 | DF | SEN | Elhadj Dabo |
| 20 | DF | FRA | Ismaël Doukouré |
| 21 | MF | FRA | Noah Diliberto |
| 22 | FW | TUR | Metehan Güçlü (on loan from Rennes) |
| 24 | DF | FRA | Allan Linguet |
| 25 | DF | GHA | Emmanuel Ntim |
| 26 | FW | FRA | Kévin Cabral |
| 27 | MF | FRA | Mathis Picouleau |
| 28 | DF | FRA | Laurent Dos Santos (captain) |
| 29 | FW | CIV | Issouf Macalou |
| 30 | GK | FRA | Nicolas Kocik |

### Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | DF | CMR | Frédéric Bong (on loan at SC Lyon) |

## 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 % |
| Ligue 2 | 22 August 2020 | 15 May 2021 | Matchday 1 | 11th | 38 | 12 | 11 | 15 | 50 | 59 | −9 | 031.58 |
| Coupe de France | 19 January 2021 | 6 March 2021 | Eighth round | Round of 32 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 7 | −1 | 066.67 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 41 | 14 | 11 | 16 | 56 | 66 | −10 | 034.15 |
Source: Soccerway

### Ligue 2
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 9 | Guingamp | 38 | 10 | 17 | 11 | 41 | 43 | −2 | 47 |
| 10 | Amiens | 38 | 11 | 14 | 13 | 34 | 40 | −6 | 47 |
| 11 | Valenciennes | 38 | 12 | 11 | 15 | 50 | 59 | −9 | 47 |
| 12 | Le Havre | 38 | 11 | 14 | 13 | 38 | 48 | −10 | 47 |
| 13 | Ajaccio | 38 | 11 | 13 | 14 | 34 | 43 | −9 | 46 |

#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Source: Ligue 2

#### 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 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 |
| Ground | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A |
| Result | W | L | W | L | W | L | D | D | L | W | D | D | D | W | D | L | W | L | W | W | D | W | D | L | L | D | L | W | L | D | L | W | L | L | D | W | L | L |
| Position | 2 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 9 | 8 | 11 | 15 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 10 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 11 | 10 | 12 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 11 |

#### Matches

The league fixtures were announced on 9 July 2020.

### Coupe de France
## Statistics
### Goalscorers

    As of 22 August 2020
| Rank | No. | Pos | Nat | Name | Ligue 2 | Coupe de France | Total |
| 1 | 9 | FW | | Teddy Chevalier | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1 | 18 | FW | | Baptiste Guillaume | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1 | 26 | FW | | Kévin Cabral | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Totals | Totals | Totals | Totals | Totals | 3 | 0 | 3 |