| Club: | FC Groningen |
| Season: | 2020–21 |
| Owner: | Fc Groningen Beheer B.V. |
| Chrtitle: | Chairman |
| Chairman: | Bert Middel |
| Mgrtitle: | Manager |
| Manager: | Danny Buijs |
| Stadium: | Euroborg |
| League: | Eredivisie |
| League Result: | 7th |
| Cup1: | KNVB Cup |
| Cup1 Result: | 2nd round |
| League Topscorer: | Jørgen Strand Larsen (9) |
| Season Topscorer: | Jørgen Strand Larsen (9) |
| Highest Attendance: | 6,049 (against PSV Eindhoven in Eredivisie) |
| Lowest Attendance: | 0 (due to COVID-19 pandemic) |
| Average Attendance: | 356 |
| Largest Win: | 4-0 (against FC Emmen in Eredivisie) |
| Largest Loss: | 3-1 (against PSV Eindhoven, FC Twente, AFC Ajax and RKC Waalwijk) and 2-0 (against Feyenoord and SC Heerenveen) in Eredivisie |
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| Updated: | 14 September 2024 |
| Prevseason: | 2019–20 |
| Nextseason: | 2021–22 |
The 2020–21 season was the 65th season in existence of FC Groningen and the club's 54th (21st consecutive) season in the top flight of Dutch football. In addition to the domestic league, FC Groningen participated in this season's edition of the KNVB Cup. The season covered the period from 1 July 2020 to 30 June 2021.
FC Groningen finished 2020–21 Eredivisie season as 7th.
In the KNVB Cup, FC Groningen lost 2–1 against FC Emmen in the 2nd round and are eliminated from the cup.
Jørgen Strand Larsen was the top scorer of the club in this season with 9 goals in Eredivisie.
Ko Itakura and Sergio Padt were the most appeared players in this season with 36 appearances; 35 appearances in Eredivisie and 1 appearance in the KNVB Cup.
| Player | Transferred from | Fee | Date | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MF | Tom van de Looi | NEC Nijmegen | End of loan | 30 Jun 2020 | |
| DF | Amir Absalem | Almere City FC | End of loan | 30 Jun 2020 | |
| FW | Arjen Robben | 1 Jul 2020 | |||
| DF | Wessel Dammers | Fortuna Sittard | Free | 1 Jul 2020 | |
| DF | Damil Dankerlui | Willem II | €375,000 | 27 Jul 2020 | |
| DF |  Ko Itakura | Manchester City F.C. | On loan | 27 Jul 2020 | |
| FW | Patrick Joosten | FC Utrecht | €600,000 | 6 Aug 2020 | |
| GK | Nigel Bertrams | MVV Maastricht | Free | 18 Aug 2020 | |
| FW |  Jørgen Strand Larsen | Sarpsborg 08 FF | €1,100,000 | 9 Sep 2020 | |
| DF |  Migue Leal | Villarreal CF B | On loan | 19 Sep 2020 | |
| MF |  Alessio da Cruz | Parma Calcio 1913 | On loan | 3 Oct 2020 | |
| GK | Per Kristian Bråtveit | Djurgårdens IF Fotboll | On loan | 4 Jan 2021 | |
| DF | Mike te Wierik | Derby County F.C. | Undisclosed | 19 Jan 2021 | |
| FW |  Paulos Abraham | AIK | On loan | 1 Feb 2021 |
| Player | Transferred to | Fee | Date | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FW | Daishawn Redan | Hertha BSC | End of loan | 30 Jun 2020 | |
| FW | Joel Asoro | Swansea City A.F.C. | End of loan | 30 Jun 2020 | |
| DF | Ko Itakura | Manchester City F.C. | End of loan | 30 Jun 2020 | |
| DF | Django Warmerdam | FC Utrecht | Free | 1 Jul 2020 | |
| DF | Deyovaisio Zeefuik | Hertha BSC | €4,000,000 | 6 Aug 2020 | |
| MF |  Ajdin Hrustic | Eintracht Frankfurt | €1,000,000 | 28 Sep 2020 | |
| DF | Nicklas Strunck | Esbjerg fB | On loan | 5 Oct 2020 | |
| DF |  Görkem Can | Denizlispor | Free | 26 Jan 2021 |
See main article: 2020–21 Eredivisie.
The league fixtures were announced on 24 July 2020.[2]
See main article: 2020–21 KNVB Cup.
| Player | Eredivisie | KNVB | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jørgen Strand Larsen | 9 | 0 | 9 |
| 2 |  Ahmed El Messaoudi | 8 | 0 | 8 |
| 3 | Alessio da Cruz | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 4 | Mohamed El Hankouri | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Patrick Joosten | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| Paulos Abraham | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| Ramon Pascal Lundqvist | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
| 8 | Bart van Hintum | 2 | 0 | 2 |
 Tomáš Suslov | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| 10 | Daniël van Kaam | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Ko Itakura | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Remco Balk | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Wessel Dammers | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Player | Eredivisie | KNVB | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ko Itakura | 35 | 1 | 36 |
| Sergio Padt | 35 | 1 | 36 | |
| 3 | Daniël van Kaam | 33 | 1 | 34 |
| Mohamed El Hankouri | 34 | 0 | 34 | |
| 5 | Bart van Hintum | 32 | 1 | 33 |
| 6 | Jørgen Strand Larsen | 31 | 1 | 32 |
| 7 | Ahmed El Messaoudi | 29 | 1 | 30 |
 Damil Dankerlui | 29 | 1 | 30 | |
| Tomáš Suslov | 29 | 1 | 30 | |
| 10 | Wessel Dammers | 27 | 1 | 28 |
| 11 | Patrick Joosten | 26 | 1 | 27 |
| Ramon Pascal Lundqvist | 26 | 1 | 27 | |
| 13 | Azor Matusiwa | 23 | 1 | 24 |
| 14 | Alessio da Cruz | 23 | 0 | 23 |
| Gabriel Gudmundsson | 23 | 0 | 23 | |
| 16 | Mike te Wierik | 16 | 0 | 16 |
| 17 | Paulos Abraham | 14 | 0 | 14 |
| Sam Schreck | 13 | 1 | 14 | |
| 19 | Remco Balk | 11 | 1 | 12 |
| 20 | Migue Leal | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| 21 | Arjen Robben | 7 | 0 | 7 |
| Thijs Dallinga | 6 | 1 | 7 | |
| 23 | Joël van Kaam | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| Kian Slor | 5 | 1 | 6 | |
| 25 | Thomas Poll | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 26 | Romano Postema | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 27 | Ajdin Hrustic | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Bjorn Meijer | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Leonel Miguel | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Player | Eredivisie | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sergio Padt | 13 | 13 | |
| Total | 13 | 13 | ||
| Player | Eredivisie | KNVB | Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mohamed El Hankouri | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
| 2 | Azor Matusiwa | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| Damil Dankerlui | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | |
| 4 | Wessel Dammers | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 0 |
| 5 | Alessio da Cruz | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| Bart van Hintum | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | |
| Mike te Wierik | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | |
| 8 | Ko Itakura | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 9 | Ramon Pascal Lundqvist | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 10 | Ahmed El Messaoudi | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Remco Balk | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
| Sam Schreck | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
| Sergio Padt | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
| 14 | Gabriel Gudmundsson | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Joël van Kaam | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Jørgen Strand Larsen | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Patrick Joosten | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Tomáš Suslov | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |