# 2020–21 Royale Union Saint-Gilloise season

The 2020–21 season was the 124th season in the history of Royale Union Saint-Gilloise and the club's sixth consecutive season in the second division of Belgian football.

## Players
### First-team squad

    As of 3 August 2020
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 |
| 3 | DF | ENG | Alex Cochrane (on loan from Brighton) |
| 4 | DF | DEN | Jonas Bager |
| 5 | DF | BEL | Anas Hamzaoui |
| 6 | MF | DEN | Casper Nielsen |
| 8 | MF | GER | Marcel Mehlem |
| 9 | FW | GER | Deniz Undav |
| 11 | MF | BEL | Mathias Fixelles |
| 12 | DF | BEL | Sébastien Pocognoli |
| 13 | FW | BEL | Dante Vanzeir |
| 14 | FW | GUI | Ibrahima Bah |
| 16 | DF | ENG | Christian Burgess |
| 17 | MF | MLT | Teddy Teuma |
| 19 | DF | BEL | Guillaume François |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 20 | MF | BEL | Senne Lynen |
| 21 | GK | BEL | Lucas Pirard |
| 23 | FW | ISL | Aron Sigurðarson |
| 24 | DF | BUL | Edisson Jordanov |
| 26 | GK | BEL | Adrien Saussez |
| 33 | GK | BEL | Tibo Herbots |
| 43 | MF | SVN | Nik Lorbek |
| 44 | DF | BEL | Siebe Van der Heyden |
| 49 | GK | LUX | Anthony Moris |
| 59 | DF | MAR | Ismaël Kandouss |
| 94 | MF | MAD | Loïc Lapoussin |
| 96 | FW | FRA | Brighton Labeau |

## Transfers
### Im

| Date | Name | Moving from | Fee |
| 3 February 2020 | Abdelmounaim Boutouil | ASFAR | Undisclosed |
| 7 April 2020 | Deniz Undav | Meppen | Undisclosed |
| 23 May 2020 | Senne Lynen | Telstar | Undisclosed |
| 9 June 2020 | Tibo Herbots | Sint-Truiden | Undisclosed |
| 2 July 2020 | Charlie Brown | Chelsea | Loan |
| 7 July 2020 | Christian Burgess | Portsmouth | Undisclosed |
| 30 July 2020 | Loïc Lapoussin | Virton | Undisclosed |
| 30 July 2020 | Anthony Moris | Virton | Undisclosed |
| 30 July 2020 | Dante Vanzeir | Genk | Undisclosed |
| 11 August 2020 | Guillaume François | Virton | Undisclosed |

### Out

| Date | Name | Moving to | Fee |
| 29 May 2020 | Sigurd Hauso Haugen | Aalesund | Undisclosed |
| 10 June 2020 | Pietro Perdichizzi | Westerlo | Undisclosed |
| 12 June 2020 | Soufiane El Banouhi | Deinze | Free |
| 19 June 2020 | Roman Ferber | Francs Borains | Loan |
| 31 July 2020 | Kevin Kis | Lommel | Undisclosed |
| 3 August 2020 | Serge Tabekou | Excel Mouscron | Free |
* ↑ Brown was already on loan from Chelsea to Union SG during the second half of the 2019–20 season. All parties agreed to extend the loan deal with one more season.
* ↑ Vanzeir was on loan from Genk to Mechelen during the 2019–20 season. The loan ended and Vanzeir was now sold to Union SG.

## Pre-season and friendlies

Win  Draw  Loss

## Competitions
### Overall record

| 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 % |
| First Division B | 21 August 2020 | 25 April 2021 | Matchday 1 | Winners | 28 | 22 | 4 | 2 | 69 | 24 | +45 | 078.57 |
| Belgian Cup | 11 October 2020 | 11 February 2021 | Fifth round | Seventh round | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 6 | +0 | 066.67 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 31 | 24 | 4 | 3 | 75 | 30 | +45 | 077.42 |
Source: Soccerway

### Belgian First Division B
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Union SG (C, P) | 28 | 22 | 4 | 2 | 69 | 24 | +45 | 70 | Promotion to the 2021–22 Belgian First Division A |
| 2 | Seraing (O, P) | 28 | 16 | 4 | 8 | 54 | 37 | +17 | 52 | Qualification to Promotion play-off |
| 3 | Lommel | 28 | 13 | 4 | 11 | 49 | 47 | +2 | 43 | |
| 4 | Westerlo | 28 | 10 | 13 | 5 | 41 | 30 | +11 | 43 | |
| 5 | Deinze | 28 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 45 | 46 | −1 | 39 | |

#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Source:

#### 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 |
| Ground | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H |
| Result | W | D | D | W | L | W | W | W | W | W | W | L | W | W | W | W | W | W | W | W | W | W | W | D | W | W | W | D |
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