# 2020–21 Sint-Truidense V.V. season

The 2020–21 Sint-Truidense V.V. season was the club's 97th season in existence and its sixth consecutive season in the top flight of Belgian football. In addition to the domestic league, Sint-Truiden participated in this season's edition of the Belgian Cup. The season covered the period from 1 July 2020 to 30 June 2021.

## Players
### First-team squad

    As of 31 January 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 |
| 1 | GK | BEL | Kenny Steppe |
| 2 | DF | JPN | Ko Matsubara |
| 3 | DF | BEL | Maximiliano Caufriez |
| 7 | FW | BEL | Ilombe Mboyo |
| 8 | DF | GUI | Ibrahima Sory Sankhon |
| 9 | FW | JPN | Yuma Suzuki |
| 11 | FW | UKR | Oleksandr Filippov |
| 12 | MF | GHA | Samuel Asamoah |
| 13 | DF | NZL | Liberato Cacace |
| 15 | FW | JPN | Keito Nakamura (on loan from Gamba Osaka) |
| 16 | FW | BEL | Steve De Ridder (captain) |
| 18 | FW | ARG | Facundo Colidio (on loan from Inter Milan) |
| 19 | MF | BEL | Stan Van Dessel |
| 21 | GK | JPN | Daniel Schmidt |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 22 | FW | BEL | Wolke Janssens |
| 23 | FW | JPN | Tatsuya Ito |
| 24 | MF | GUI | Mory Konaté |
| 26 | DF | POR | Jorge Teixeira |
| 27 | DF | BEL | Dimitri Lavalée (on loan from Mainz) |
| 30 | FW | BEL | Nelson Balongo |
| 32 | MF | USA | Chris Durkin |
| 33 | MF | BRA | Jhonny Lucas |
| 35 | GK | BEL | Wim Vanmarsenille |
| 39 | DF | ANG | Jonathan Buatu |
| 40 | DF | NGA | Junior Pius (on loan from Antwerp) |
| 44 | MF | BEL | Christian Brüls |
| 77 | DF | GRE | Georgios Vagiannidis (on loan from Inter Milan) |
| 90 | FW | HAI | Duckens Nazon |
| — | DF | JPN | Daiki Hashioka (on loan from Urawa Reds) |

### 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 |
| 5 | MF | ARG | Santiago Colombatto (on loan at Club León) |
| 10 | MF | KOR | Lee Seung-woo (on loan at Portimonense SC) |

## Transfers
### In

| No. | Pos | Player | Transferred from | Fee | Date | Source |
| 13 | DF | Liberato Cacace | Wellington Phoenix | | 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 % |
| Belgian First Division A | 9 August 2020 | 18 April 2021 | Matchday 1 | 15th | 34 | 10 | 8 | 16 | 41 | 52 | −11 | 029.41 |
| Belgian Cup | 3 February 2021 | 10 February 2021 | Sixth round | Seventh round | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | +1 | 050.00 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 36 | 11 | 8 | 17 | 43 | 53 | −10 | 030.56 |
Source: Soccerway

### Belgian First Division A
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 13 | Charleroi | 34 | 11 | 9 | 14 | 46 | 49 | −3 | 42 | |
| 14 | Kortrijk | 34 | 11 | 6 | 17 | 44 | 57 | −13 | 39 | |
| 15 | Sint-Truiden | 34 | 10 | 8 | 16 | 41 | 52 | −11 | 38 | |
| 16 | Cercle Brugge | 34 | 11 | 3 | 20 | 40 | 51 | −11 | 36 | |
| 17 | Waasland-Beveren (R) | 34 | 8 | 7 | 19 | 44 | 70 | −26 | 31 | Qualification for the Relegation play-off |

#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Source: Jupiler Pro League

#### 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 | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H |
| Result | W | L | D | D | L | L | L | D | L | W | L | L | D | D | L | L | W | W | W | L | W | W | L | D | W | L | L | D | L | D | W | W | L | L |
| Position | 4 | 11 | 10 | 11 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 16 | 17 | 14 | 15 | 15 | 16 | 16 | | | | | 14 | 15 | 15 | 14 | 15 | 15 | 14 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 14 | 15 | 15 |

#### Matches

The league fixtures were announced on 8 July 2020.

### Belgian Cup
## Statistics
### Goalscorers

    As of 16 August 2020
| Rank | No. | Pos | Nat | Name | Pro League | Belgian Cup | Total |
| 1 | 18 | FW | | Facundo Colidio | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1 | 9 | FW | | Yuma Suzuki | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1 | 30 | FW | | Nelson Balongo | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Totals | Totals | Totals | Totals | Totals | 3 | 0 | 3 |