# 2020–21 Fortuna Sittard season

The 2020–21 season was the 53rd season in existence of Fortuna Sittard and the club's third consecutive season in the top flight of Dutch football. In addition to the domestic league, Fortuna Sittard 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

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 | NED | Yanick van Osch |
| 2 | DF | SUI | Martin Angha |
| 4 | DF | BEL | Dario Van den Buijs (on loan from Beerschot) |
| 5 | DF | NED | Roel Janssen |
| 7 | MF | CPV | Lisandro Semedo |
| 8 | FW | NED | Zian Flemming |
| 9 | FW | GER | Sebastian Polter |
| 10 | MF | NED | Mats Seuntjens |
| 11 | FW | SWE | Emil Hansson |
| 12 | DF | NED | Clint Essers |
| 14 | MF | SWE | Tesfaldet Tekie |
| 17 | FW | GRE | Dimitris Emmanouilidis (on loan from Panathinaikos) |
| 18 | DF | NED | Mike van Beijnen |
| 20 | FW | NED | Arian Kastrati |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 21 | DF | FRA | Grégoire Amiot |
| 23 | MF | NED | Ben Rienstra (captain) |
| 24 | MF | MAR | Nassim El Ablak |
| 25 | DF | BEL | Mickaël Tirpan (on loan from Kasımpaşa) |
| 27 | MF | COD | Samuel Moutoussamy (on loan from Nantes) |
| 28 | MF | IRL | Ryan Johansson (on loan from Sevilla FC) |
| 33 | FW | NED | Leroy George |
| 35 | DF | ENG | George Cox |
| 40 | GK | GER | Joshua Wehking |
| 41 | GK | NED | Tom Hendriks |
| 44 | DF | GRE | Lazaros Rota |
| 55 | MF | BEL | Thibaud Verlinden |
| 77 | GK | MDA | Alexei Koșelev |
| — | FW | ENG | Veron Parkes |

### 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 |
| — | MF | GER | Dimitrios Ioannidis (at Sportfreunde Lotte until 30 June 2021) |
| — | FW | FIN | Rasmus Karjalainen (at Örebro until 30 June 2021) |
| — | DF | NED | Özgür Aktaş (at FC Dordrecht until 30 June 2021) |
| — | FW | BEL | Jacky Donkor (at FC Eindhoven until 30 June 2021) |
| — | FW | FRA | Djibril Dianessy (at MVV Maastricht until 30 June 2021) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | MF | BEL | Adnan Ugur (at FC Dordrecht until 30 June 2021) |
| — | MF | NED | Richie Musaba (at FC Dordrecht until 30 June 2021) |
| — | FW | POR | André Vidigal (at G.D. Estoril Praia until 30 June 2021) |
| — | FW | GER | Bassala Sambou (at Randers FC until 30 June 2021) |

## 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 | 12 September 2020 | 16 May 2021 | Matchday 1 | 11th | 34 | 12 | 5 | 17 | 50 | 58 | −8 | 035.29 |
| KNVB Cup | 28 October 2020 | 21 January 2021 | First round | Round of 16 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | +1 | 050.00 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 36 | 13 | 5 | 18 | 54 | 61 | −7 | 036.11 |
Source: Soccerway

### Eredivisie
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 9 | Heracles Almelo | 34 | 12 | 8 | 14 | 42 | 53 | −11 | 44 |
| 10 | Twente | 34 | 10 | 11 | 13 | 48 | 50 | −2 | 41 |
| 11 | Fortuna Sittard | 34 | 12 | 5 | 17 | 50 | 58 | −8 | 41 |
| 12 | Heerenveen | 34 | 9 | 12 | 13 | 43 | 49 | −6 | 39 |
| 13 | PEC Zwolle | 34 | 9 | 11 | 14 | 44 | 53 | −9 | 38 |

#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
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 |
| Ground | A | H | H | A | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A |
| Result | L | L | D | L | D | L | L | D | L | L | W | W | D | W | W | L | W | L | W | W | L | W | W | L | L | W | L | L | L | W | W | L | D | L |
| Position | 16 | 17 | 17 | 16 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 17 | 16 | 14 | 14 | 13 | 12 | 13 | 11 | 13 | 12 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 11 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 11 |

#### Matches

The league fixtures were announced on 24 July 2020.