2019–20 Standard Liège season

The 2019–20 season was Standard Liège's 116th season in existence and the club's 8th consecutive season in the top flight of Belgian football. In addition to the domestic league, Standard Liège participated in this season's editions of the Belgian Cup and the UEFA Europa League. The season covered the period from 1 July 2019 to 30 June 2020.

Standard Liège

2019–20 season
Chairman	Bruno Venanzi
Manager	Michel Preud'homme
Stadium	Stade Maurice Dufrasne
Belgian First Division A	5th
Belgian Cup	Quarter-finals
UEFA Europa League	Group stage
Top goalscorer	League: Selim Amallah Renaud Emond Maxime Lestienne (7 each) All: Maxime Lestienne (10)
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Players

Current squad

As of 8 January 2020[1]

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 Jean-François Gillet 2 MF  HAI Réginal Goreux 3 DF  BEL Zinho Vanheusden 4 DF  BEL Dimitri Lavalée 7 FW  CRO Duje Čop 8 MF  BIH Gojko Cimirot 10 MF  MAR Mehdi Carcela 12 FW  ROU Denis Drăguș 15 MF  ISR Eden Shamir 16 GK  BEL Arnaud Bodart 17 FW  BEL Obbi Oularé 18 MF  MNE Aleksandar Boljević 19 MF  MAR Selim Amallah 20 MF  COD Merveille Bokadi 21 DF  CMR Collins Fai

No. Pos. Nation Player 22 MF  BEL Maxime Lestienne 23 DF  BEL Senna Miangue (on loan from Cagliari) 24 DF  FRA Nicolas Gavory 25 FW  URU Felipe Avenatti 26 MF  BEL Nicolas Raskin 27 DF  KVX Mërgim Vojvoda 28 MF  BEL Samuel Bastien 29 DF  BEL Luis Pedro Cavanda 30 GK  SRB Vanja Milinković-Savić (on loan from Torino) 32 MF  BEL Joachim Carcela 33 GK  BEL Timothy Galje 34 DF  CYP Konstantinos Laifis 36 DF  BEL Noë Dussenne 37 DF  MLI Hady Sangaré 40 MF  COD Paul-José M'Poku

Out of first team

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  POR Orlando Sá

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 11 FW  BRA Carlinhos (at Vitória de Setúbal until 30 June 2020) 12 MF  COD William Balikwisha (at Cercle Brugge until 30 June 2020)

Competitions

  Win   Draw   Loss   Fixtures

Overview

Competition	First match	Last match	Starting round	Final position	Record
					Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %
Belgian Division	27 July 2019	7 March 2020	Matchday 1	5th	29	14	7	8	47	32	+15	048.28
Belgian Cup	26 September 2019	18 December 2019	Sixth round	Quarter-finals	3	2	0	1	6	4	+2	066.67
Europa League	19 September 2019	12 December 2019	Group stage	Group stage	6	2	2	2	8	10	−2	033.33
Total					38	18	9	11	61	46	+15	047.37

Last updated: 7 March 2020

Source: Soccerway

Belgian Division

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
3	Charleroi	29	15	9	5	49	23	+26	54	Qualification for the Europa League third qualifying round
4	Antwerp	29	15	8	6	49	32	+17	53	Qualification for the Europa League group stage[lower-alpha 1]
5	Standard Liège	29	14	7	8	47	32	+15	49	Qualification for the Europa League second qualifying round
6	Mechelen	29	13	5	11	46	43	+3	44
7	Genk	29	13	5	11	45	42	+3	44

Source: Belgian First Division A (in Dutch), Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Matches won; 3) Goal difference; 4) Goals scored; 5) Away goals scored; 6) Away matches won; 7) Play-off.[3]
Notes:

1. Antwerp qualified for the Europa League group stage as the 2019–20 Belgian Cup winners.[2]

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
29	14	7	8	47	32	+15	49	9	4	2	24	9	+15	5	3	6	23	23	0

Last updated: 7 March 2020.
Source:

Results by round

Matchday	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
Ground	A	H	A	H	H	A	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A
Result	W	W	L	W	W	L	W	W	D	D	W	D	W	L	L	W	W	D	D	L	L	W	W	L	D	W	W	L	D	C
Position	4	3	5	3	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	2	2	2	3	2	2	3	4	5	5	5	4	5	5	4	4	5	5	5

Updated to match(es) played on 7 March 2020. Source: Jupiler Pro League
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Matches

On 2 April 2020, the Jupiler Pro League's board of directors proposed to cancel the season due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[4] The General Assembly accepted the proposal on 15 May, and officially ended the 2019–20 season.[5]

27 July 2019 1	Cercle Brugge	0–2	Standard Liège	Bruges
18:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Serrano  85'  90+2'	Report	Bastien  30' Emond  88' Limbombe  90+4'	Stadium: Jan Breydel Stadium Attendance: 4,311 Referee: Alexandre Boucaut

3 August 2019 2	Standard Liège	4–0	Zulte Waregem	Liège
18:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Walsh  2' (o.g.) Lestienne  45+1' Emond  69', 75'	Report	Bjørdal  44' Deschacht  46' Bruno  72'	Stadium: Stade Maurice Dufrasne Attendance: 25,778 Referee: Nathan Verboomen

11 August 2019 3	Sint-Truiden	2–1	Standard Liège	Sint-Truiden
14:30 CEST (UTC+2)	De Bruyn  29' Massoudi  37' Janssens  54' De Smet  59' Teixeira  67' Schmidt  84'	Report	Lestienne  9' Vojvoda  23' M'Poku  58' Carcela  90+6'	Stadium: Stayen Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Jonathan Lardot

18 August 2019 4	Standard Liège	4–1	Mouscron	Liège
14:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Lestienne  13', 22' Amallah  46' Emond  88'	Report	Laifis  50' (o.g.) de Medina  55'	Stadium: Stade Maurice Dufrasne Attendance: 25,622 Referee: Nicolas Laforge

25 August 2019 5	Standard Liège	2–1	Kortrijk	Liège
18:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Lestienne  23'  90+2' Laifis  82' Amallah  89'	Report	Golubović  27' Ocansey  34' Mboyo  54' D'Haene  65'	Stadium: Stade Maurice Dufrasne Attendance: 26,282 Referee: Alexandre Boucaut

1 September 2019 6	Anderlecht	1–0	Standard Liège	Anderlecht
18:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Saelemaekers  31',  53' Dewaele  71'	Report	Carcela  87' M'Poku  90+4'	Stadium: Lotto Park Attendance: 19,500 Referee: Nicolas Laforge

14 September 2019 7	Oostende	1–4	Standard Liège	Ostend
18:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Sakala  31'	Report	Lestienne  21', 67' Limbombe  35' Fai  40' Bastien  54' Cimirot  80'	Stadium: Versluys Arena Attendance: 5,242 Referee: Lothar D'hondt

22 September 2019 8	Standard Liège	3–0	Eupen	Liège
14:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Laifis  6' Boljević  27', 61'	Report	Amat  37'  83' Beck  65' Bolingi  83'	Stadium: Stade Maurice Dufrasne Attendance: 25,204 Referee: Wesley Alen

29 September 2019 9	Standard Liège	1–1	Sporting Charleroi	Liège
20:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Carcela  59' Amallah  85' M'Poku  90'	Report	Diagne  2' Ilaimaharitra  31'  90+3' Morioka  45+1' Fortuna  63'	Stadium: Stade Maurice Dufrasne Attendance: 26,932 Referee: Bram Van Driessche

6 October 2019 10	Antwerp	2–2	Standard Liège	Antwerp
18:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Refaelov  23' (pen.) Lamkel Zé  27' Mbokani  55' Arslanagić  75' Hoedt  88'	Report	Vanheusden  27' Emond  58', 72' M'Poku  90'	Stadium: Bosuilstadion Attendance: 12,978 Referee: Erik Lambrechts

19 October 2019 11	Standard Liège	1–0	Genk	Liège
18:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Cimirot  61' Oularé  83' Bastien  84'	Report	Dewaest  63'	Stadium: Stade Maurice Dufrasne Attendance: 26,876 Referee: Nicolas Laforge

27 October 2019 12	Club Brugge	1–1	Standard Liège	Bruges
14:30 CET (UTC+1)	Okereke  47' Balanta  65'	Report	Bastien  4' Gavory  39' Bodart  90+3'	Stadium: Jan Breydel Stadium Attendance: 28,000 Referee: Lawrence Visser

30 October 2019 13	Standard Liège	2–0	Waasland-Beveren	Liège
20:30 CET (UTC+1)	Carcela  3' Oularé  90' Amallah  90+2'	Report	Wiegel  39' Milošević  90+2'	Stadium: Stade Maurice Dufrasne Attendance: 25,536 Referee: Nathan Verbroomen

3 November 2019 14	Gent	3–1	Standard Liège	Ghent
18:00 CET (UTC+1)	Odjidja-Ofoe  41'  71' Bezus  48' Jonathan David  85' (pen.) Castro-Montes  90',  90+1'	Report	Oularé  36' Amallah  43',  67' M'Poku  50' Vanheusden  71'  83'	Stadium: Ghelamco Arena Attendance: 19,441 Referee: Lothar D'hondt

10 November 2019 15	Standard Liège	1–2	Mechelen	Liège
20:00 CET (UTC+1)	Amallah  86',  90+3' Oularé  90+6'	Report	Schoofs  15' de Camargo  65' Vanlerberghe  90+1' Bijker  90+4'	Stadium: Stade Maurice Dufrasne Attendance: 26,987 Referee: Alexandre Boucaut

23 November 2019 16	Eupen	1–2	Standard Liège	Eupen
18:00 CET (UTC+1)	Cools  12' Verdon  45' Schouterden  57' Bolingi  80'	Report	M'Poku  14' Bastien  90+3'	Stadium: Kehrwegstadion Attendance: 7,463 Referee: Christof Dierick

1 December 2019 17	Standard Liège	2–1	Cercle Brugge	Liège
18:00 CET (UTC+1)	Amallah  28' Vanheusden  50' Avenatti  90+2'	Report	Cassaert  24' Omolo  47',  75' Foster  63' Panzo  71'	Stadium: Stade Maurice Dufrasne Attendance: 26,592 Referee: Erik Lambrechts

8 December 2019 18	Mouscron	2–2	Standard Liège	Mouscron
14:30 CET (UTC+1)	Perica  44', 81' Mohamed  41' Ciranni  62'	Report	Emond  6' M'Poku  47' Carcela  90' Gavory  90+2' Lestienne  90+4'	Stadium: Stade Le Canonnier Attendance: 5,346 Referee: Jan Boterberg

15 December 2019 19	Standard Liège	1–1	Anderlecht	Liège
14:30 CET (UTC+1)	Amallah  37',  40' Lestienne  85'	Report	Dewaele  38'  72' Kayembe  46' Roofe  67'	Stadium: Stade Maurice Dufrasne Attendance: 26,972 Referee: Jonathan Lardot

21 December 2019 20	Waasland-Beveren	2–1	Standard Liège	Beveren
20:30 CET (UTC+1)	Caufriez  39' Vukotić  57' Koita  64' Milošević  66',  88' Jubitana  88' Sula  88',  90+3'	Report	Goreux  21'  32' Lestienne  35'	Stadium: Freethiel Stadion Attendance: 4,000 Referee: Christof Dierick

26 December 2019 21	Standard Liège	0–1	Gent	Liège
20:30 CET (UTC+1)		Report	Yaremchuk  56' Odjidja-Ofoe  62' Kums  83' Castro-Montes  88'	Stadium: Stade Maurice Dufrasne Attendance: 26,761 Referee: Bram Van Driessche

17 January 2020 22	Mechelen	2–3	Standard Liège	Mechelen
20:30 CET (UTC+1)	De Camargo  50', 73'	Report	Carcela  21',  69' Oularé  38' Vojvoda  42' Amallah  45+2' Cimirot  75' Avenatti  88'	Stadium: Achter de Kazerne Attendance: 16,200 Referee: Wesley Alen

24 January 2020 23	Standard Liège	2–1	Oostende	Liège
20:30 CET (UTC+1)	Vojvoda  79' Laifis  89'	Report	Bataille  54' Guri  60' Palaversa  65'	Stadium: Stade Maurice Dufrasne Attendance: 26,402 Referee: Jasper Vergoote

31 January 2020 24	Kortrijk	3–1	Standard Liège	Kortrijk
20:30 CET (UTC+1)	De Sart  52' Shamir  55' (o.g.) Moffi  70'	Report	Carcela  67'	Stadium: Guldensporen Stadion Attendance: 7,333 Referee: Lothar D'hondt

12 February 2020 25	Standard Liège	0–0	Club Brugge	Liège
20:30 CET (UTC+1)	Oularé  53' Amallah  64'	Report	Deli  49' Vormer  53'	Stadium: Stade Maurice Dufrasne Attendance: 27,145 Referee: Lawrence Visser

16 February 2020 26	Genk	1–3	Standard Liège	Genk
18:00 CET (UTC+1)	Wouters  63' Dewaest  69',  84'	Report	Vanheusden  31' Laifis  34' Cimirot  37' Čop  42' Boljević  90+2'	Stadium: Luminus Arena Attendance: 20,108 Referee: Nicolas Laforge

22 February 2020 27	Standard Liège	1–0	Antwerp	Liège
18:00 CET (UTC+1)	Oularé  33' Amallah  38'	Report	Seck  45+1' Defour  77' Hoedt  90+5'	Stadium: Stade Maurice Dufrasne Attendance: 27,143 Referee: Nathan Verboomen

1 March 2020 28	Sporting Charleroi	2–0	Standard Liège	Charleroi
18:00 CET (UTC+1)	Dessoleil  32' Nicholson  56' Ilaimaharitra  61'	Report	Laifis  31' Vojvoda  67' Vanheusden  90+1'	Stadium: Stade du Pays de Charleroi Attendance: 13,304 Referee: Alexandre Boucaut

7 March 2020 29	Standard Liège	0–0	Sint-Truiden	Liège
20:00 CET (UTC+1)	Vanheusden  39'	Report	Sankhon  52' Lee  62' Teixeira  78' Bushiri  81'	Stadium: Stade Maurice Dufrasne Attendance: 26,007 Referee: Christof Dierick

15 March 2020 30	Zulte Waregem	Cancelled	Standard Liège	Waregem
18:00 CET (UTC+1)				Stadium: Regenboogstadion
Note: The match was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Belgian Cup

26 September 2019 Sixth round	Standard Liège	2–1	Lommel	Liège
20:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Boljević  17', 90+2'	Report	Sanyang  54'	Stadium: Stade Maurice Dufrasne Referee: Kevin van Damme

4 December 2019 Seventh round	Standard Liège	3–0	Rebecq	Liège
20:00 CET (UTC+1)	Boljević  23' Čop  59' Fai  66'	Report		Stadium: Stade Maurice Dufrasne Referee: Bert Put

18 December 2019 Quarter-final	Standard Liège	1–3	Antwerp	Liège
20:45 CET (UTC+1)	Lestienne  24'	Report	De Laet  48' Benson  67' Mbokani  85'	Stadium: Stade Maurice Dufrasne Attendance: Erik Lambrechts

UEFA Europa League

Group stage

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		ARS	FRA	STL	VSC
1	Arsenal	6	3	2	1	14	7	+7	11	Advance to knockout phase		—	1–2	4–0	3–2
2	Eintracht Frankfurt	6	3	0	3	8	10	−2	9			0–3	—	2–1	2–3
3	Standard Liège	6	2	2	2	8	10	−2	8			2–2	2–1	—	2–0
4	Vitória de Guimarães	6	1	2	3	7	10	−3	5			1–1	0–1	1–1	—

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

19 September 2019 1	Standard Liège	2–0	Vitória de Guimarães	Liège, Belgium
18:55 (CEST)	Carcela  61' Hanin  66' (o.g.) Vojvoda  75' M'Poku  90+1'	Report	Bondarenko  38' Agu  65'	Stadium: Stade Maurice Dufrasne Attendance: 13,477 Referee: Sergey Ivanov (Russia)

3 October 2019 2	Arsenal	4–0	Standard Liège	London, England
21:00 (20:00 BST)	Martinelli  13', 16' Willock  22' Ceballos  57' Bellerín  86'	Report	M'Poku  41' Vojvoda  86'	Stadium: Emirates Stadium Attendance: 58,725 Referee: Sandro Schärer (Switzerland)

24 October 2019 3	Eintracht Frankfurt	2–1	Standard Liège	Frankfurt am Main, Germany
21:00	Abraham  28' Hinteregger  52',  73'	Report	Amallah  82' Fai  82'	Stadium: Waldstadion Attendance: 47,000 Referee: Daniel Stefański (Poland)

7 November 2019 4	Standard Liège	2–1	Eintracht Frankfurt	Liège, Belgium
18:55	Amallah  54' Vanheusden  56' Laifis  64' Cimirot  71' Emond  88' Lestienne  90+4'	Report	Sow  37' Kostić  65'	Stadium: Stade Maurice Dufrasne Attendance: 15,952 Referee: Matej Jug (Slovenia)

28 November 2019 5	Vitória de Guimarães	1–1	Standard Liège	Guimarães, Portugal
21:00 (20:00 WET)	Hanin  39' Tapsoba  42' Agu  44' Pereira  45+2' Evangelista  47'	Report	Lestienne  39' (pen.) Bastien  42' M'Poku  51' Laifis  64' Vanheusden  84'	Stadium: Estádio D. Afonso Henriques Attendance: 11,221 Referee: Serhiy Boyko (Ukraine)

12 December 2019 6	Standard Liège	2–2	Arsenal	Liège, Belgium
18:55	Bastien  47' Amallah  69'	Report	Lacazette  78' Saka  81'	Stadium: Stade Maurice Dufrasne Attendance: 21,797 Referee: Andreas Ekberg (Sweden)

Statistics

Squad appearances and goals

Last updated on 7 March 2020.

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		Belgian Division		Belgian Cup		UEFA Europa League
				Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Goalkeepers
1	GK		Jean-François Gillet	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
16	GK		Arnaud Bodart	35	0	29	0	3	0	3	0
30	GK		Vanja Milinković-Savić	3	0	0	0	0	0	3	0
33	GK		Timothy Galje	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Defenders
3	DF		Zinho Vanheusden	28	2	20	1	2+1	0	4+1	1
4	DF		Dimitri Lavalée	8	0	3+2	0	2	0	1	0
21	DF		Collins Fai	13	1	5+3	0	2	1	3	0
23	DF		Senna Miangue	5	0	0+4	0	1	0	0	0
24	DF		Nicolas Gavory	36	0	29	0	1	0	6	0
27	DF		Mërgim Vojvoda	30	1	24+1	1	2	0	3	0
29	DF		Luis Pedro Cavanda	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
34	DF		Konstantinos Laifis	35	3	28	3	1	0	6	0
36	DF		Noë Dussenne	2	0	1+1	0	0	0	0	0
37	DF		Hady Sangaré	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Midfielders
2	MF		Réginal Goreux	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
8	MF		Gojko Cimirot	36	1	27	1	3	0	6	0
10	MF		Mehdi Carcela	34	3	17+9	3	1+1	0	5+1	0
15	MF		Eden Shamir	3	0	2+1	0	0	0	0	0
18	MF		Aleksandar Boljević	27	6	7+14	3	3	3	2+1	0
19	MF		Selim Amallah	32	9	21+4	7	1+1	0	3+2	2
20	MF		Merveille Bokadi	8	0	5+1	0	1	0	1	0
22	MF		Maxime Lestienne	34	10	24+3	7	1+1	1	2+3	2
26	MF		Nicolas Raskin	3	1	1+1	0	0+1	0	0	1
28	MF		Samuel Bastien	32	4	26	4	0	0	6	0
32	MF		Joachim Carcela	1	0	0+1	0	0	0	0	0
Forwards
7	FW		Duje Čop	17	2	5+7	1	1+1	1	2+1	0
12	FW		Denis Drăguș	4	0	0+2	0	0+2	0	0	0
17	FW		Obbi Oularé	17	2	9+5	2	0	0	0+3	0
25	FW		Felipe Avenatti	24	2	5+13	2	2+1	0	0+3	0
Players who have made an appearance this season but have left the club
40	MF		Paul-José M'Poku	9	1	0	0	3	0	4+2	1
14	FW		Anthony Limbombe	7	1	2+4	1	0	0	1	0
9	FW		Renaud Emond	20	7	10+4	7	1	0	5	0

References

1. "Joueurs" [Players] (in French). Standard Liège.
2. "Communication à la suite de l'Assemblée Générale". Jupiler Pro League. 15 May 2020.
3. "First Division A 2019/2020". Soccerway. Retrieved 3 February 2020.
4. Smith, Emma (2 April 2020). "Belgium's Pro League cancelled and Club Brugge set to be declared champions due to coronavirus". Goal.com. Retrieved 4 April 2020.
5. "Communicatie na de Algemene Vergadering". Jupiler Pro League. 15 May 2020. Retrieved 15 May 2020.