| Club: | Lille |
| Season: | 2020–21 |
| Ownertitle: | Owner |
| Owner: | Merlyn Partners SCSp |
| Chrtitle: | President |
| Chairman: | Olivier Létang |
| Mgrtitle: | Head coach |
| Manager: | Christophe Galtier |
| Stadium: | Stade Pierre-Mauroy |
| League: | Ligue 1 |
| League Result: | 1st |
| Cup1: | Coupe de France |
| Cup1 Result: | Round of 16 |
| Cup2: | UEFA Europa League |
| Cup2 Result: | Round of 32 |
| League Topscorer: | Burak Yılmaz (16) |
| Season Topscorer: | Burak Yılmaz (18) |
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| Prevseason: | 2019–20 |
| Nextseason: | 2021–22 |
The 2020–21 season was the 77th season in the existence of Lille OSC and the club's 21st consecutive season in the top flight of French football. In addition to the domestic league, Lille participated in this season's edition of the Coupe de France and the UEFA Europa League. The season covered the period from 1 July 2020 to 30 June 2021.
On 23 May 2021, with a win over Angers on the final day of the season, Lille were crowned league champions.[1] The achievement was very surprising and was considered an upset, as Paris Saint-Germain had always been the favourites to win Ligue 1 for the fourth time in a row. It was Lille's fourth top-flight title in the professional era and their first since 2010–11, when Eden Hazard was named the competition's player of the year. Lille's points tally of 83 was the best in their history and they only lost three matches all season.[2]
| scope=col | Player | Transferred from | scope=col; style="width: 65px;" | Fee | scope=col | Date | scope=col | Source | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | Marseille B | [4] | ||||||||
| – | Trofense | [5] | ||||||||
| 5 | Jong Ajax | [6] | ||||||||
| 17 | Beşiktaş | Free | [7] | |||||||
| 15 | Pachuca | [8] | ||||||||
| – | Manchester United | [9] | ||||||||
| 9 | Gent | €30M | [10] | |||||||
| – | Napoli | [11] | ||||||||
| – | Napoli | |||||||||
| 1 | Napoli | [12] |
| scope=col | Player | Transferred to | scope=col; style="width: 65px;" | Fee | scope=col | Date | scope=col | Source | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | End of contract | N/A | [13] | |||||||
| 9 | End of contract | N/A | [14] | |||||||
| – | Atlético Mineiro | €3M | [15] | |||||||
| 7 | Napoli | €50M + €10M variables | [16] | |||||||
| 4 | Arsenal | €30M | [17] |
| scope=col | Player | Loaned to | scope=col; style="width: 65px;" | Fee | scope=col | Date | scope=col | Source | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| – | Mouscron | N/A | [18] | |||||||
| – | Mouscron | N/A | [19] | |||||||
| – | Boavista | N/A | [20] | |||||||
| – | Mouscron | N/A | [21] | |||||||
| – | Mouscron | N/A | [22] | |||||||
| – | Fermana | N/A | ||||||||
| – | Fermana | N/A |
See main article: 2020–21 Ligue 1.
The league fixtures were announced on 9 July 2020.[23]
See main article: 2020–21 Coupe de France.
See main article: 2020–21 UEFA Europa League.
The group stage draw was held on 2 October 2020.[24]
See main article: 2020–21 UEFA Europa League knockout phase.
The draw for the round of 32 was held on 14 December 2020.[25]
|-! colspan=14 style=background:#dcdcdc; text-align:center| Goalkeepers|-! colspan=14 style=background:#dcdcdc; text-align:center| Defenders|-! colspan=14 style=background:#dcdcdc; text-align:center| Midfielders|-! colspan=14 style=background:#dcdcdc; text-align:center| Forwards|-! colspan=14 style=background:#dcdcdc; text-align:center| Players transferred out during the season
| width=15 | width=15 | width=15 | width=145 | Player | width=120 | Ligue 1 | width=120 | Coupe de France | width=120 | Europa League | width=120 | Total | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 17 | FW |  Burak Yılmaz | 16 | 0 | 2 | 18 | ||||||||
| 2 | 12 | MF | Yusuf Yazıcı | 7 | 0 | 7 | 14 | ||||||||
| 3 | 9 | FW |  Jonathan David | 13 | 0 | 0 | 13 | ||||||||
| 4 | 7 | FW |  Jonathan Bamba | 6 | 0 | 1 | 7 | ||||||||
| 10 | MF | Jonathan Ikoné | 4 | 0 | 3 | 7 | |||||||||
| 6 | 22 | FW |  Timothy Weah | 3 | 0 | 2 | 5 | ||||||||
| 7 | 2 | DF | Zeki Çelik | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 | ||||||||
| 11 | FW |  Luiz Araújo | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | |||||||||
| 9 | 6 | DF | José Fonte | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | ||||||||
| 10 | 8 | MF | Xeka | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | ||||||||
| 11 | 18 | MF | Renato Sanches | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||
| 29 | DF | Domagoj Bradarić | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||
| – | MF | Aguibou Camara | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||
| Own goals | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | |||||||||||
| Totals | 64 | 4 | 16 | 84External links | |||||||||||