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Burnley

2020–21 season
Chairman	Mike Garlick (until December 2020) Alan Pace (from December 2020)
Head coach	Sean Dyche
Stadium	Turf Moor
Premier League	17th
FA Cup	Fifth round
EFL Cup	Fourth round
Top goalscorer	League: Chris Wood (12) All: Chris Wood (12)
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The 2020–21 season was Burnley's 139th competitive season, their 58th in the top flight of English football, and their fifth consecutive in the Premier League. Along with the Premier League, the club competed in the FA Cup and EFL Cup. The season covered the period from August 2020 to 30 June 2021.

Transfers

Transfers in

Date	Position	Nationality	Name	From	Fee	Ref.
14 August 2020	GK		Will Norris	Wolverhampton Wanderers	Undisclosed
17 August 2020	LB		Dane McCullough	Portadown	Undisclosed
18 August 2020	CB		Jack Leckie	Newcastle United	Undisclosed
18 August 2020	CB		Dan Sassi	Stoke City	Free transfer
18 August 2020	RB		Keelan Williams	Liverpool	Free transfer
20 August 2020	RB		Connor Barrett	Leicester City	Free transfer
20 August 2020	RB		Marcel Elva-Fountaine	Reading	Free transfer
20 August 2020	GK		Marc Richter	Augsburg	Free transfer
20 August 2020	AM		Will Rickard	Swansea City	Free transfer
8 September 2020	CM		Ismaila Diallo	Arsenal	Free transfer
24 September 2020	CM		Dale Stephens	Brighton & Hove Albion	Undisclosed
20 November 2020	LB		Owen Dodgson	Manchester United	Undisclosed
20 November 2020	CB		Calen Gallagher-Allison	Manchester United	Undisclosed
20 November 2020	CF		Arman Taranis	SønderjyskE	Free transfer

Loans in

Date from	Position	Nationality	Name	From	Date until	Ref.
5 October 2020	AM		Anthony Gomez Mancini	Angers	End of season

Loans out

Date from	Position	Nationality	Name	To	Date until	Ref.
11 August 2020	RB		Ryan Cooney	Morecambe	End of season
12 August 2020	AM		Adam Phillips	Morecambe	1 February 2021
20 August 2020	RB		Jordan Cropper	Chesterfield	End of season
4 September 2020	CB		Ben Gibson	Norwich City	End of season
22 January 2021	CB		Bobby Thomas	Barrow	End of season
1 February 2021	GK		Lukas Jensen	Bolton Wanderers	End of season
1 February 2021	AM		Adam Phillips	Accrington Stanley	End of season
2 February 2021	CM		Mace Goodridge	Barrow	End of season
14 May 2021	GK		Lukas Jensen	Kórdrengir	14 July 2021

Transfers out

Date	Position	Nationality	Name	To	Fee	Ref.
1 July 2020	RM		Olatunde Bayode	Unattached	Released
1 July 2020	DF		Udoka Chima	Unattached	Released
1 July 2020	CF		Will Harris	Sunderland	Released
1 July 2020	GK		Joe Hart	Tottenham Hotspur	Released
1 July 2020	CM		Jeff Hendrick	Newcastle United	Rejected contract
1 July 2020	LB		Ali Koiki	Bristol Rovers	Rejected contract
1 July 2020	GK		Adam Legzdins	Dundee	Released
1 July 2020	RW		Aaron Lennon	Kayserispor	Released
1 July 2020	FW		Jaydon Major	Unattached	Released
1 July 2020	CM		Christian N'Guessan	Unattached	Released
1 July 2020	CF		Henri Ogunby	Unattached	Released
1 July 2020	RB		Joel Senior	Altrincham	Released
31 July 2020	GK		Kai Calderbank-Park	Unattached	Released
31 July 2020	GK		George McMahon	Unattached	Released
31 July 2020	LW		Vinnie Steels	Sunderland	Released
4 September 2020	CB		Scott Wilson	Barrow	Free transfer
9 September 2020	CM		Aiden O'Neill	Melbourne City	Free transfer
16 September 2020	CB		Ollie Younger	Sunderland	Free transfer
24 September 2020	MF		Rhys Fenlon	Accrington Stanley	Free transfer
2 February 2021	RM		Chris Conn-Clarke	Fleetwood Town	Undisclosed

Pre-season and friendlies

  Win   Draw   Loss   Fixtures

5 September 2020 Friendly	Burnley	4–1	Heart of Midlothian	Barnfield Training Centre
15:00 BST	Rodriguez 5' (pen.) Richardson 18' Thompson 30' Guðmundsson 47'	Report	Wighton 37'	Attendance: 0

11 September 2020 Friendly	Burnley	3–0	Marítimo	Burnley
15:00 BST	McNeil 16' Wood 65' Vydra 70'	Report		Attendance: 0 Referee: Peter Bankes

Competitions

Premier League

League table

Results summary

Last updated: 23 May 2021.
Source:

Results by matchday

Matches

The 2020–21 season fixtures were released on 20 August.

FA Cup

The third round draw was made on 30 November, with Premier League and EFL Championship clubs all entering the competition. The draw for the fourth and fifth round were made on 11 January, conducted by Peter Crouch.

EFL Cup

The draw for both the second and third round were confirmed on 6 September, live on Sky Sports by Phil Babb. The fourth round draw was conducted on 17 September 2020 by Laura Woods and Lee Hendrie live on Sky Sports.

Appearances and goals

Source:

Numbers in parentheses denote appearances as substitute.

Players with names struck through and marked † left the club during the playing season.

Players with names in italics and marked * were on loan from another club for the whole of their season with Burnley.

Players listed with no appearances have been in the matchday squad but only as unused substitutes.

Key to positions: GK – Goalkeeper; DF – Defender; MF – Midfielder; FW – Forward

Players contracted for the 2020–21 season

No.	Pos.	Nat.	Name	League		FA Cup		League Cup		Total		Discipline
				Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1	GK	ENG	Nick Pope	32	0	0	0	1	0	33	0	1	0
2	DF	ENG	Matthew Lowton	34	1	0 (3)	0	3	0	37 (3)	1	5	0
3	DF	ENG	Charlie Taylor	28 (1)	0	0	0	3	0	31 (1)	0	1	0
4	MF	ENG	Jack Cork	15 (1)	0	2	0	0	0	17 (1)	0	2	0
5	DF	ENG	James Tarkowski	36	1	2	0	1	0	39	1	7	0
6	DF	ENG	Ben Mee	30	2	1	0	0	0	31	2	3	0
7	MF	ISL	Jóhann Berg Guðmundsson	16 (6)	2	3	0	1	0	20 (6)	2	2	0
8	MF	ENG	Josh Brownhill	32 (1)	0	0	0	3	1	35 (1)	1	3	0
9	FW	NZL	Chris Wood	32 (1)	12	1	0	0 (3)	0	33 (4)	12	0	0
10	FW	ENG	Ashley Barnes	15 (7)	3	1 (1)	0	1	0	17 (8)	3	4	0
11	MF	ENG	Dwight McNeil	34 (2)	2	2	0	2	0	38 (2)	2	2	0
12	MF	IRL	Robbie Brady	12 (7)	1	1	0	1	0	14 (7)	1	3	0
14	DF	ENG	Ben Gibson	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
15	GK	NIR	Bailey Peacock-Farrell	4	0	2	0	2	0	8	0	0	0
16	MF	ENG	Dale Stephens	3 (4)	0	3	0	0	0	6 (4)	0	1	0
18	MF	ENG	Ashley Westwood	38	3	0 (1)	0	2 (1)	0	40 (2)	3	8	0
19	FW	ENG	Jay Rodriguez	12 (19)	1	2	2	2	0	16 (19)	3	3	0
23	DF	NED	Erik Pieters	13 (7)	0	2	0	2 (1)	0	17 (8)	0	3	0
25	GK	ENG	Will Norris	2	0	1	0	0	0	3	0	0	0
26	DF	SCO	Phil Bardsley	3 (1)	0	3	0	0 (1)	0	6 (2)	0	4	0
27	FW	CZE	Matěj Vydra	15 (13)	3	2 (1)	1	3	2	20 (14)	6	0	0
28	DF	IRL	Kevin Long	7 (1)	0	2	1	2	0	11 (1)	1	2	0
33	FW	ENG	Max Thompson	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
34	DF	IRL	Jimmy Dunne	3	1	1 (1)	0	2	0	6 (1)	1	1	0
35	MF	FRA	Anthony Gomez Mancini	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
37	DF	ENG	Bobby Thomas	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	0
38	FW	ENG	Lewis Richardson	0 (2)	0	0	0	0	0	0 (2)	0	0	0
41	MF	ENG	Josh Benson	2 (4)	0	1 (2)	0	1 (2)	0	4 (8)	0	0	0
44	MF	ENG	Mace Goodridge	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
45	DF	ENG	Anthony Glennon	0	0	1 (1)	0	0 (1)	0	1 (2)	0	0	0
46	FW	SWE	Joel Mumbongo	0 (4)	0	0 (3)	0	0	0	0 (7)	0	1	0

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