# 2020–21 SC Heerenveen season

The 2020–21 season was SC Heerenveen's 56th season in existence and the club's 28th consecutive season in the top flight of Dutch football. In addition to the domestic league, SC Heerenveen 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

    As of 12 February 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 | NED | Erwin Mulder |
| 2 | DF | NED | Sherel Floranus |
| 3 | DF | NED | Jan Paul van Hecke (on loan from Brighton & Hove Albion) |
| 4 | DF | URU | Joaquín Fernández |
| 5 | DF | NED | Lucas Woudenberg |
| 6 | MF | NED | Siem de Jong |
| 7 | FW | USA | Ulysses Llanez (on loan from VfL Wolfsburg) |
| 8 | FW | SWE | Benjamin Nygren (on loan from Genk) |
| 9 | FW | NED | Henk Veerman (captain) |
| 10 | MF | GER | Oliver Batista Meier (on loan from Bayern Munich) |
| 11 | FW | NED | Mitchell van Bergen |
| 13 | MF | BUL | Stanislav Shopov |
| 14 | DF | KOS | Ibrahim Drešević |
| 15 | MF | BEL | Sieben Dewaele (on loan from Anderlecht) |
| 16 | FW | NED | Arjen van der Heide |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 17 | MF | SWE | Rami Hajal |
| 18 | MF | NED | Hamdi Akujobi |
| 19 | MF | NED | Jan Ras |
| 20 | MF | NED | Joey Veerman |
| 21 | MF | NED | Rodney Kongolo |
| 22 | GK | ISR | Ariel Harush |
| 23 | GK | NED | Jan Bekkema |
| 24 | GK | NED | Jaimy Kroesen |
| 25 | DF | POL | Paweł Bochniewicz |
| 26 | FW | NED | Rein Smit |
| 37 | FW | NED | Couhaib Driouech |
| 41 | DF | SWE | Rami Kaib |
| 42 | MF | NED | Syb van Ottele |
| 43 | MF | DEN | Lasse Schöne |
| 44 | MF | CRO | Tibor Halilović |

### 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 |
| — | FW | NOR | Runar Espejord (at Tromsø IL until 30 June 2021) |

## Transfers
### In

| No. | Pos | Player | Transferred from | Fee | Date | Source |
| 15 | | | TBD | | 1 July 2020 | |

### Out

| No. | Pos | Player | Transferred to | Fee | Date | Source |
| 15 | | | TBD | | 1 July 2020 | |

## Pre-season and friendlies

Win  Draw  Loss  Fixtures

## 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 | 12th | 34 | 9 | 12 | 13 | 43 | 49 | −6 | 026.47 |
| KNVB Cup | 27 October 2020 | 3 March 2021 | First round | Semi-finals | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 8 | +1 | 075.00 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 38 | 12 | 12 | 14 | 52 | 57 | −5 | 031.58 |
Last updated: 16 May 2021 Source: Soccerway

### Eredivisie
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 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 |
| 14 | Willem II | 34 | 8 | 7 | 19 | 40 | 68 | −28 | 31 |

#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Last updated: 16 May 2021. 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 | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | H |
| Result | W | W | W | D | L | W | W | L | D | D | D | D | L | L | L | D | D | L | W | D | W | L | D | L | W | L | D | L | W | L | D | D | L | L |
| Position | 4 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 11 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 12 |

#### Matches

The league fixtures were announced on 24 July 2020.