2020–21 Royal Excel Mouscron season

Royal Excel Mouscron
2020–21 season
Owner	Latimer International Limited
Chairman	Patrick Declerck
Manager	Bernd Hollerbach
Stadium	Stade Le Canonnier
Belgian First Division A	18th (relegated)
Belgian Cup	Sixth round
	← 2019–20 2021–22 →
	All statistics correct as of 18 April 2021.

The 2020–21 Royal Excel Mouscron season was the club's 99th season in existence and its seventh consecutive season in the top flight of Belgian football. In addition to the domestic league, Excel Mouscron 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 24 August 2020

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
2	DF	CIV	Kouadio-Yves Dabila (on loan from Lille)
5	DF	MAR	Saad Agouzoul (on loan from Lille)
6	MF	MNE	Deni Hočko
7	MF	CMR	Fabrice Olinga
8	MF	CMR	Jean Onana (on loan from Lille)
9	FW	MDA	Virgiliu Postolachi (on loan from Lille)
10	MF	MNE	Marko Bakić
11	MF	FRA	Dimitri Mohamed (captain)
13	DF	BEL	Alessandro Ciranni
14	FW	FRA	Imad Faraj (on loan from Lille)
15	MF	ANG	Capita (on loan from Lille)
16	GK	BFA	Hervé Koffi (on loan from Lille)
18	DF	BEL	Robbe Quirynen (on loan from Antwerp)
20	FW	CPV	Nuno da Costa (on loan from Nottingham Forest)


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
21	GK	BEL	Nick Gillekens
22	DF	FRA	Eric Bocat (on loan from Lille)
23	MF	POR	Xadas (on loan from Braga)
26	DF	ARG	Matías Silvestre
28	MF	BEL	Enes Sağlık
29	FW	BEL	Beni Badibanga
30	MF	BEL	Benjamin Van Durmen
31	FW	FRA	Harlem Gnohéré
33	FW	CAN	Charles-Andreas Brym (on loan from Lille)
39	MF	FRA	Darly N'Landu (on loan from Lille)
45	MF	ALB	Agim Zeka
47	DF	SEN	El Hadji Gueye (on loan from Lille)
70	FW	CMR	Serge Tabekou
90	GK	SRB	Vaso Vasić

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

4 July 2020 Friendly	Excel Mouscron	4–1	Royal Dottignies Sport	Mouscron, Belgium
11:00 CEST (UTC+2)				Stadium: Stade Le Canonnier

15 July 2020 Friendly	Reims	Cancelled	Excel Mouscron	Le Touquet, France
17:00 CEST (UTC+2)				Stadium: Stade Ferdi Petit

18 July 2020 Friendly	Excel Mouscron	1–2	Lille	Mouscron, Belgium
17:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Cedric 79'		Xeka 3' (pen.) Simbakoli 76'	Stadium: Stade Le Canonnier

24 July 2020 Friendly	Valenciennes	0–1	Excel Mouscron	Famars, France
16:00 CEST (UTC+2)				Stadium: Stade Centre Formation VAFC N° 2 Attendance: 0

1 August 2020 Friendly	Excel Mouscron	0–2	Union Saint-Gilloise	Mouscron, Belgium
16:00 CEST (UTC+2)				Stadium: Stade Le Canonnier

Competitions

Overview

Competition	First match	Last match	Starting round	Final position	Record
Competition	First match	Last match	Starting round	Final position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %
Belgian First Division A	8 August 2020	18 April 2021	Matchday 1	18th	34	7	10	17	32	54	−22	020.59
Belgian Cup	2 February 2021		Sixth round	Sixth round	1	0	0	1	1	2	−1	000.00
Total					35	7	10	18	33	56	−23	020.00

Source: Soccerway

Belgian First Division A

League table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
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
18	Excel Mouscron^[a] (R)	34	7	10	17	32	54	−22	31	Relegation to First Division B

Source: Jupiler Pro League (in Dutch), Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Matches won; 3) Goal difference; 4) Goals scored; 5) Away matches won; 6) Away goal difference; 7) Away goals scored; 8) Play-off.^[4]
(R) Relegated
Notes:

^ On 14 April 2021 news was released that both Excel Mouscron and Oostende had not received a Belgian professional football license for the coming season, a requirement to play at the top two levels of Belgian football. For Oostende, a lack of financial transparency, together with generally poor quality and incompleteness of the submitted report, was given as the main reason by the committee for not awarding a license, while Excel Mouscron was refused a license as besides insufficient transparency, the committee also questioned several cash flows and whether the club was creditworthy in general, also due to the fact that the wages for the months of February and March had not yet been paid at that point. For Excel Mouscron, it was already the sixth year running the license was (initially) refused, however, the club has appealed the decision with the Belgian Court for Sports Arbitrage (BAS) successfully on each occasion and intended to do so again. Oostende was planning to launch an appeal as well, with the BAS to rule on the matter for both clubs before the 10th of May. Both clubs were allowed to add new documents to their case, but in case they however still did not receive a license after appeal, knew they would have been forced to relegate to the 2021–22 Belgian Division 2 and start the season with a 3-point penalty.^[1] Both Excel Mouscron and Oostende were however eventually awarded a license after appeal, meaning Oostende remained at the top level, while Excel Mouscron only dropped one level.^[2]^[3]

Results summary


Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
34	7	10	17	32	54	−22	31	4	5	8	17	22	−5	3	5	9	15	32	−17

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	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	H	A	H	H	A	A	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	A
Result	D	L	D	L	L	L	D	L	L	W	W	L	L	D	L	W	D	W	L	L	W	D	W	D	D	L	L	L	D	W	L	D	L	L
Position	10	14	14	18	18	18	17	18	18	18	18	18	18	17	18	17	17	16	17	17	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	17	17	16	17	17	17	18

Source: Jupiler Pro League
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Matches

The league fixtures were announced on 8 July 2020.^[5]

8 August 2020 1	Antwerp	1–1	Excel Mouscron	Antwerp
19:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Refaelov 49' (pen.) Buta 58' De Laet 77'	Report	Onana 48' Bakić 78'	Stadium: Bosuilstadion Attendance: 0 Referee: Nathan Verboomen

14 August 2020 2	Excel Mouscron	0–1	KV Mechelen	Mouscron
19:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Antonov 8' Koffi 8' Bakić 48'	Report	Storm 9' (pen.) Van Damme 47' Bushiri 48' Coucke 86'	Stadium: Stade Le Canonnier Attendance: 0 Referee: Christof Dierick

23 August 2020 3	Anderlecht	1–1	Excel Mouscron	Anderlecht
18:15 CEST (UTC+2)	Žulj 24' Dimata 63' (pen.) Trebel 70'	Report	Bocat 11' 39' Gnohéré 90+3'	Stadium: Constant Vanden Stock Stadium Attendance: 0 Referee: Wim Smet

29 August 2020 4	Excel Mouscron	0–1	Zulte Waregem	Mouscron
20:45 CEST (UTC+2)	Hočko 33' Ciranni 58'	Report	Deschacht 70' Seck 73'	Stadium: Stade Le Canonnier Attendance: 0 Referee: Jasper Vergoote

13 September 2020 5	Kortrijk	3–0	Excel Mouscron	Kortrijk
20:45 CEST (UTC+2)	Ocansey 50', 83' Mboyo 52', 59' Dewaele 63'	Report	Onana 32' Hočko 67' 85'	Stadium: Guldensporen Stadion Attendance: 3,725 Referee: Kevin Van Damme

19 September 2020 6	Excel Mouscron	0–1	Gent	Mouscron
18:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Agouzoul 24' Ciranni 81' Nlandu 85'	Report	Dorsch 14'	Stadium: Stade Le Canonnier Attendance: 900 Referee: Bert Put

27 September 2020 7	Excel Mouscron	1–1	Charleroi	Mouscron
20:45 CEST (UTC+2)	Tabekou 45+2' Ciranni 78' Hočko 89'	Report	Fall 30' Kayembe 68'	Stadium: Stade Le Canonnier Attendance: 1,000 Referee: Bram Van Driessche

4 October 2020 8	Oostende	3–0	Excel Mouscron	Ostend
20:45 CEST (UTC+2)	Theate 60' Sakala 81' McGeehan 90+3', 90+4'	Report		Stadium: Versluys Arena Attendance: 2,112 Referee: Kevin Van Damme

18 October 2020 9	Excel Mouscron	0–2	Eupen	Mouscron
16:00 CEST (UTC+2)		Report	Musona 47' Heris 79'	Stadium: Stade Le Canonnier Attendance: 500 Referee: Wesli De Cremer

22 November 2020 13	Genk	4–1	Excel Mouscron	Genk
20:45 CET (UTC+1)	Onuachu 39', 63' Ito 45+2' Bongonda 55', 81'	Report	Bakić 17' Da Costa 34', 79' Ciranni 38' Badibanga 80'	Stadium: Luminus Arena Attendance: 0 Referee: Nicolas Laforge

25 November 2020 10	Cercle Brugge	1–2	Excel Mouscron	Bruges
17:00 CET (UTC+1)	Vitinho 25' Biancone 27' Musaba 64' Lopes 86' Hoggas 90+9'	Report	Bocat 20' Onana 30' Silvestre 81' Gnohéré 87' (pen.)	Stadium: Jan Breydel Stadium Attendance: 0 Referee: Jan Boterberg

28 November 2020 14	Excel Mouscron	0–0	Club Brugge	Mouscron
20:45 CET (UTC+1)	Capita 76' Mohamed 82'	Report	Dennis 87' Balanta 87' Mata 90+4'	Stadium: Stade Le Canonnier Attendance: 0 Referee: Wesli De Cremer

1 December 2020 11	Excel Mouscron	3–2	Sint-Truiden	Mouscron
17:00 CET (UTC+1)	Bakić 17', 18' Koffi 34' Da Costa 53' Faraj 81' Xadas 90+5'	Report	Sankhon 17' García 37' Suzuki 63' (pen.) Nakamura 90+1' Janssens 90+2'	Stadium: Stade Le Canonnier Attendance: 0 Referee: Christof Dierick

5 December 2020 15	Waasland-Beveren	2–0	Excel Mouscron	Beveren
16:15 CET (UTC+1)	Koita 57' Frey 89', 90+2'	Report	Onana 35' Da Costa 67'	Stadium: Freethiel Stadion Attendance: 0 Referee: Lawrence Visser

8 December 2020 12	OH Leuven	2–0	Excel Mouscron	Leuven
18:30 CET (UTC+1)	Ngawa 56' Henry 84'	Report	Olinga 29' Agouzoul 40' Onana 42' Bakić 77' Brym 87'	Stadium: Den Dreef Attendance: 0 Referee: Wesley Alen

12 December 2020 16	Excel Mouscron	3–1	Beerschot	Mouscron
16:15 CET (UTC+1)				Stadium: Stade Le Canonnier

15 December 2020 17	Excel Mouscron	2–2	OH Leuven	Mouscron
18:45 CET (UTC+1)	Sowah 30' Vlietinck 42' Hubert 55' (pen.) Vekemans 74'	Report	Ciranni 29' Agouzoul 30' Koffi 54' Olinga 59' Da Costa 71', 77' Tabekou 90+2'	Stadium: Stade Le Canonnier Attendance: 0 Referee: Erik Lambrechts

20 December 2020 18	Standard Liège	0–1	Excel Mouscron	Liège
18:15 CET (UTC+1)	Jans 9' Bokadi 72' Amallah 77' Carcela 78'	Report	Xadas 30' Hočko 34'	Stadium: Stade Maurice Dufrasne Attendance: 0 Referee: Nicolas Laforge

27 December 2020 19	KV Mechelen	2–1	Excel Mouscron	Mechelen
20:45 CET (UTC+1)	Mrabti 38' Shved 83'	Report	Mohamed 69' (pen.)	Stadium: Achter de Kazerne Attendance: 0 Referee: Jasper Vergoote

9 January 2021 20	Zulte Waregem	1–0	Excel Mouscron	Waregem
16:15 CET (UTC+1)		Report		Stadium: Regenboogstadion Attendance: 0 Referee: Jonathan Lardot

16 January 2021 21	Excel Mouscron	2–0	Genk	Mouscron
18:30 CET (UTC+1)	Olinga 29' Tabekou 71'	Report		Stadium: Stade Le Canonnier Attendance: 0 Referee: Jasper Vergoote

19 January 2021 22	Excel Mouscron	1–1	Waasland-Beveren	Mouscron
18:45 CET (UTC+1)		Report		Stadium: Stade Le Canonnier Attendance: 0 Referee: Jan Boterberg

23 January 2021 23	Sint-Truiden	0–2	Excel Mouscron	Sint-Truiden
18:30 CET (UTC+1)		Report		Stadium: Stayen Attendance: 0 Referee: Erik Lambrechts

26 January 2021 24	Excel Mouscron	1–1	Anderlecht	Mouscron
21:00 CET (UTC+1)				Stadium: Stade Le Canonnier Attendance: 0

30 January 2021 25	Eupen	1–1	Excel Mouscron	Eupen
18:30 CET (UTC+1)				Stadium: Kehrwegstadion Attendance: 0

5 February 2021 26	Excel Mouscron	0–3	Kortrijk	Mouscron
20:45 CET (UTC+1)				Stadium: Stade Le Canonnier Attendance: 0

15 February 2021 27	Gent	4–0	Excel Mouscron	Ghent
20:45 CET (UTC+1)	Yaremchuk 28', 85', 90+1' Tissoudali 70' Owusu 89'	Report	Agouzoul 65'	Stadium: Ghelamco Arena Attendance: 0 Referee: Kevin Van Damme

20 February 2021 28	Excel Mouscron	1–2	Cercle Brugge	Mouscron
18:30 CET (UTC+1)	Mohamed 20' Bakić 28' Tabekou 45+1' Onana 67' Lepoint 90+1'	Report	Ugbo 13' Pavlović 78' Denkey 88' Didillon 90+5'	Stadium: Stade Le Canonnier Attendance: 0 Referee: Jonathan Lardot

28 February 2021 29	Beerschot	2–2	Excel Mouscron	Antwerp
16:00 CET (UTC+1)	Pietermaat 80' Eleke 86' Radić 90+4' Van den Bergh 90+6'	Report	Olinga 23' Onana 26' Da Costa 45+3' Tabekou 71' Koffi 85' Hočko 90+6' Bakić 90+7'	Stadium: Olympisch Stadion Attendance: 0 Referee: Jasper Vergoote

7 March 2021 30	Excel Mouscron	1–0	Standard Liège	Mouscron
13:30 CET (UTC+1)	Siquet 37' (o.g.) Olinga 73' Bakić 90+1'	Report	Laifis 90+5'	Stadium: Stade Le Canonnier Attendance: 0 Referee: Wesli De Cremer

20 March 2021 31	Excel Mouscron	0–1	Oostende	Mouscron
18:30 CET (UTC+1)	Hočko 45+3'	Report	D'Arpino 57' Gueye 90+2'	Stadium: Stade Le Canonnier Attendance: 0 Referee: Bert Put

4 April 2021 32	Charleroi	1–1	Excel Mouscron	Charleroi
20:45 CEST (UTC+2)	Botaka 9' Fall 88'	Report	Quirynen 21' Lepoint 58' Hočko 76' Da Costa 85'	Stadium: Stade du Pays de Charleroi Attendance: 0 Referee: Christof Dierick

12 April 2021 33	Excel Mouscron	2–3	Antwerp	Mouscron
20:45 CEST (UTC+2)	Olinga 38', 49' Da Costa 81' Agouzoul 83' Harbaoui 88'	Report	Mbokani 22', 48' Le Marchand 41' Seck 62' De Wolf 78'	Stadium: Stade Le Canonnier Attendance: 0 Referee: Jan Boterberg

18 April 2021 34	Club Brugge	4–2	Excel Mouscron	Bruges
18:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Mata 9' De Ketelaere 55' Vanaken 64' Lang 85' Dost 89'	Report	Harbaoui 47', 51' Silvestre 72'	Stadium: Jan Breydel Stadium Attendance: 0 Referee: Jonathan Lardot

Belgian Cup

2 February 2021 Sixth round	Union SG	2–1	Excel Mouscron	Forest
18:00 CET (UTC+1)	Mehlem 64' Vanzeir 79' Teuma 84' Nielsen 90+2'	Report	Bakić 30' Gueye 59' Onana 59'	Stadium: Stade Joseph Marien Attendance: 0

Statistics

Goalscorers

As of 14 August 2020

Rank	No.	Pos	Nat	Name	Pro League	Belgian Cup	Total
1	10	MF		Marko Bakić	1	0	1
Totals					1	0	1

References

^ "KV Oostende en Moeskroen krijgen (weer) geen licentie in eerste zit" [KV Oostende and (again) Mouscron don't receive a license at their first attempt] (in Dutch). sporza.be. 14 April 2021. Retrieved 19 April 2021.
^ "KV Oostende krijgt licentie van BAS, afwachten voor Moeskroen" [KV Oostende awarded license by BAS, Mouscron still waiting] (in Dutch). sporza.be. 10 May 2021. Retrieved 10 May 2021.
^ "Degradant Moeskroen bemachtigt via BAS opnieuw een licentie" [Relegated Mouscron again obtains license after appeal at BAS] (in Dutch). sporza.be. 10 May 2021. Retrieved 10 May 2021.
^ "Bondsreglement Titel 7: Competities" [Association Rules Title 7: Competitions] (PDF). Royal Belgian Football Association. p. 19. Retrieved 25 August 2020.
^ "Club Brugge - Charleroi is de opener van het seizoen en meteen maandagvoetbal: ontdek hier de kalender van het seizoen 2020/21". Voetbalkrant.com (in Dutch). 8 July 2020. Retrieved 9 July 2020.

External links

Official website

[table_note_OOS0.48763477545587-4] On 14 April 2021 news was released that both Excel Mouscron and Oostende had not received a Belgian professional football license for the coming season, a requirement to play at the top two levels of Belgian football. For Oostende, a lack of financial transparency, together with generally poor quality and incompleteness of the submitted report, was given as the main reason by the committee for not awarding a license, while Excel Mouscron was refused a license as besides insufficient transparency, the committee also questioned several cash flows and whether the club was creditworthy in general, also due to the fact that the wages for the months of February and March had not yet been paid at that point. For Excel Mouscron, it was already the sixth year running the license was (initially) refused, however, the club has appealed the decision with the Belgian Court for Sports Arbitrage (BAS) successfully on each occasion and intended to do so again. Oostende was planning to launch an appeal as well, with the BAS to rule on the matter for both clubs before the 10th of May. Both clubs were allowed to add new documents to their case, but in case they however still did not receive a license after appeal, knew they would have been forced to relegate to the 2021–22 Belgian Division 2 and start the season with a 3-point penalty.^[1] Both Excel Mouscron and Oostende were however eventually awarded a license after appeal, meaning Oostende remained at the top level, while Excel Mouscron only dropped one level.^[2]^[3]

[licenses-1] "KV Oostende en Moeskroen krijgen (weer) geen licentie in eerste zit" [KV Oostende and (again) Mouscron don't receive a license at their first attempt] (in Dutch). sporza.be. 14 April 2021. Retrieved 19 April 2021.

[appealoostende-2] "KV Oostende krijgt licentie van BAS, afwachten voor Moeskroen" [KV Oostende awarded license by BAS, Mouscron still waiting] (in Dutch). sporza.be. 10 May 2021. Retrieved 10 May 2021.

[appealmouscron-3] "Degradant Moeskroen bemachtigt via BAS opnieuw een licentie" [Relegated Mouscron again obtains license after appeal at BAS] (in Dutch). sporza.be. 10 May 2021. Retrieved 10 May 2021.

[5] "Bondsreglement Titel 7: Competities" [Association Rules Title 7: Competitions] (PDF). Royal Belgian Football Association. p. 19. Retrieved 25 August 2020.

[6] "Club Brugge - Charleroi is de opener van het seizoen en meteen maandagvoetbal: ontdek hier de kalender van het seizoen 2020/21". Voetbalkrant.com (in Dutch). 8 July 2020. Retrieved 9 July 2020.

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