2020–21 AFC Wimbledon season


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The 2020–21 AFC Wimbledon season was the club's 19th season in their history and the fifth consecutive season in EFL League One. Along with League One, the club also participated in the FA Cup, EFL Cup and EFL Trophy. It was their first season based in their spiritual home of Wimbledon at the newly built Plough Lane stadium. They played at Loftus Road until the stadium was completed on 3 November. On Friday 6 November it was announced there had been a covid outbreak amongst the first team squad leading to the matches against Barrow in the FA Cup and the league fixture against Wigan being postponed. Over the weekend all members of the first team squad, staff and the U18s squad received covid testing and on Sunday the 8th it was announced the club would have to undergo a 2-week circuit breaker with all players and staff having to self isolate for 2 weeks.

AFC Wimbledon
2020–21 season
CEOJoe Palmer
Head coachGlyn Hodges (until 30 January)[1]
Mark Robinson (from 30 January)[2]
StadiumLoftus Road[3]
Plough Lane
League One19th
FA CupSecond round
(eliminated by Crawley Town)
EFL CupFirst round
(eliminated by Oxford United)
EFL TrophyQuarter-finals
(eliminated by Oxford United)

The season covers the period from 1 July 2020 to 30 June 2021.

Date Pos. Nat. Name From Fee Ref.
23 July 2020 RB   Cheye Alexander   Barnet Free transfer [4]
6 August 2020 CM   Alex Woodyard   Peterborough United Free transfer [5]
7 August 2020 CF   Ollie Palmer   Crawley Town Free transfer [6]
12 August 2020 DM   Ethan Chislett   Aldershot Town Free transfer [7]
12 September 2020 CB   Dániel Csóka   Wolverhampton Wanderers Free transfer [8]
19 November 2020 CB   Ben Heneghan   Sheffield United Free transfer [9]
31 January 2021 CF   Corie Andrews   Kingstonian Undisclosed [10]
8 February 2021 CF   Shayon Harrison   Almere City Free transfer [11]
Date Pos. Nat. Name From Date until Ref.
4 August 2020 GK   Connal Trueman   Birmingham City 8 January 2021 [12][13]
13 August 2020 DM   Jaakko Oksanen   Brentford End of season [14]
26 August 2020 RW   Ryan Longman   Brighton & Hove Albion End of season [15]
24 September 2020 LB   Steve Seddon   Birmingham City 31 December 2020 [16][17]
11 January 2021 GK   Sam Walker   Reading End of season [18]
22 January 2021 DM   George Dobson   Sunderland End of season [19]
25 January 2021 CB   Darnell Johnson   Leicester City End of season [20]
Date Pos. Nat. Name To Date until Ref.
11 September 2020 FW   David Fisher   Carshalton Athletic 30 June 2021 [21]
11 September 2020 CB   Archie Procter   Carshalton Athletic 30 June 2021 [21]
18 September 2020 MF   Elliott Bolton   Merstham [22]
18 September 2020 LB   Jack Currie   Leatherhead 2 January 2021 [22]
18 September 2020 FW   Jack Madelin   Leatherhead [22]
2 October 2020 AM   Ayoub Assal   Billericay Town 2 November 2020 [23]
15 October 2020 RB   Huseyin Biler   Hendon November 2020 [24]
25 January 2021 CM   Anthony Hartigan   Newport County End of season [25]
Date Pos. Nat. Name To Fee Ref.
1 July 2020 CF   Kwesi Appiah   NorthEast United Released [26][27]
1 July 2020 MF   Ossama Ashley   West Ham United Released [26][28]
1 July 2020 CB   Reuben Collins   Truro City Released [26][29]
1 July 2020 AM   Dylan Connolly   St Mirren Released [26][30]
1 July 2020 MF   Finlay Macnab   Unattached Released [26]
1 July 2020 CB   Rod McDonald   Carlisle United Released [26][31]
1 July 2020 LW   Mitchell Pinnock   Kilmarnock Released [26][32]
1 July 2020 RB   Kyron Stabana   Tamworth Released [26][33]
1 July 2020 RM   Scott Wagstaff   Forest Green Rovers Released [26][34]
1 July 2020 CF   Tommy Wood   Tonbridge Angels Released [26][35]
1 July 2020 CM   Anthony Wordsworth   Barnet Released [26][36]
9 September 2020 GK   Albert White   Ipswich Town Free transfer [37]
11 January 2021 FW   Adam Roscrow   The New Saints Undisclosed [38]

With fans still unable to attend games due to COVID-19, AFC Wimbledon began pre-season with a behind-closed-doors friendly match against Corinthian-Casuals.[39]

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Promotion, qualification or relegation
15 Fleetwood Town 46 16 12 18 49 46 +3 60
16 Burton Albion 46 15 12 19 61 73 −12 57
17 Shrewsbury Town 46 13 15 18 50 57 −7 54
18 Plymouth Argyle 46 14 11 21 53 80 −27 53
19 AFC Wimbledon 46 12 15 19 54 70 −16 51
20 Wigan Athletic 46 13 9 24 54 77 −23 48
21 Rochdale (R) 46 11 14 21 61 78 −17 47 Relegation to EFL League Two
22 Northampton Town (R) 46 11 12 23 41 67 −26 45
23 Swindon Town (R) 46 13 4 29 55 89 −34 43

Source: EFL Official Website
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Number of goals scored; 4) Head-to-head results; 5) Wins; 6) Away goals; 7) Penalty points (sec 9.5); 8) 12-point sending off offences[40]
(R) Relegated

Overall Home Away
Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts W D L GF GA GD W D L GF GA GD
46 12 15 19 54 70  −16 51 7 5 11 32 39  −7 5 10 8 22 31  −9

Last updated: 9 May 2021.
Source: BBC

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Updated to match(es) played on 9 May 2021. Source: 11v11 for league tables and fixtures
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

  Win   Draw   Loss   Postponed

The 2020–21 season fixtures were released on 21 August.[41]

The draw for the first round was made on Monday 26, October.[42] The second round draw was revealed on Monday, 9 November by Danny Cowley.[43]

  Win   Draw   Loss

  Win   Draw   Loss

The first round draw was made on 18 August, live on Sky Sports, by Paul Merson.[44]

  Win   Draw   Loss

The regional group stage draw was confirmed on 18 August.[45] The second round draw was made by Matt Murray on 20 November, at St Andrew's.[46] The third round was made on 10 December 2020 by Jon Parkin.[47]

Pos Div Team Pld W PW PL L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 L2 Leyton Orient 3 2 0 0 1 6 5 +1 6 Advance to Round 2
2 L1 AFC Wimbledon 3 2 0 0 1 4 3 +1 6
3 L1 Charlton Athletic 3 1 1 0 1 5 4 +1 5
4 ACA Brighton & Hove Albion U21 3 0 0 1 2 3 6 −3 1
As of match played 9 May 2021
No. Pos Nat Player Total League One FA Cup League Cup League Trophy
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
1 GK   ENG Connal Trueman 22 0 19+0 0 1+0 0 1+0 0 1+0 0
1 GK   ENG Sam Walker 14 0 12+0 0 0+0 0 0+0 0 2+0 0
2 DF   ENG Luke O'Neill 30 0 24+4 0 0+0 0 1+0 0 1+0 0
3 DF   HUN Dániel Csóka 25 1 20+0 1 2+0 0 0+0 0 3+0 0
4 MF   ENG Alex Woodyard 45 1 39+1 1 1+0 0 1+0 0 2+1 0
5 DF   ENG Will Nightingale 38 2 29+3 2 1+0 0 0+0 0 5+0 0
6 DF   ENG Terell Thomas 25 1 17+2 0 2+0 0 1+0 0 2+1 1
7 DF   ENG Cheye Alexander 36 0 19+10 0 1+1 0 1+0 0 3+1 0
8 MF   ENG Anthony Hartigan 21 0 8+7 0 2+0 0 1+0 0 3+0 0
9 FW   ENG Ollie Palmer 27 5 10+13 5 2+0 0 0+0 0 2+0 0
10 FW   WAL Adam Roscrow 10 2 0+6 0 0+0 0 0+0 0 4+0 2
10 FW   ENG Shayon Harrison 1 0 0+1 0 0+0 0 0+0 0 0+0 0
11 MF   RSA Ethan Chislett 36 3 12+15 2 2+0 0 0+1 0 5+1 1
12 MF   ENG Jack Rudoni 44 5 33+6 4 1+1 0 0+0 0 2+1 1
13 GK   NZL Nik Tzanev 19 0 15+0 0 1+0 0 0+0 0 3+0 0
14 FW   ENG Zach Robinson 8 1 0+5 0 0+0 0 0+0 0 1+2 1
16 MF   FIN Jaakko Oksanen 30 0 12+15 0 0+0 0 0+0 0 3+0 0
17 MF   ENG Ayoub Assal 16 4 10+4 4 0+0 0 0+0 0 0+2 0
18 DF   ENG Nesta Guinness-Walker 34 1 24+6 1 1+0 0 1+0 0 2+0 0
19 MF   IRL Shane McLoughlin 44 1 23+15 1 1+1 0 0+0 0 4+0 0
20 DF   ENG Huseyin Biler 1 0 0+0 0 0+0 0 0+0 0 0+1 0
22 DF   ENG Ben Heneghan 24 2 20+3 2 1+0 0 0+0 0 0+0 0
24 MF   ENG George Dobson 24 1 22+2 1 0+0 0 0+0 0 0+0 0
25 DF   ENG Archie Procter 2 0 0+0 0 0+0 0 0+0 0 1+1 0
26 DF   ENG Jack Currie 1 0 0+0 0 0+0 0 0+0 0 0+1 0
27 DF   ENG Darnell Johnson 11 0 11+0 0 0+0 0 0+0 0 0+0 0
29 MF   ENG Ryan Longman 51 9 35+8 8 0+2 0 1+0 0 4+1 1
30 DF   ENG Paul Kalambayi 19 0 10+4 0 0+0 0 1+0 0 4+0 0
33 MF   IRL Callum Reilly 35 1 22+6 1 1+0 0 1+0 0 3+2 0
37 DF   ENG Paul Osew 14 1 0+10 0 0+0 0 0+0 0 4+0 1
39 FW   ENG Joe Pigott 52 22 45+0 20 1+1 1 1+0 0 1+3 1
42 DF   ENG Steve Seddon 18 1 14+1 1 1+1 0 0+0 0 1+0 0
As of match played 9 May 2021
Rank No. Nat. Po. Name League One FA Cup League Cup League Trophy Total
1 39   CF Joe Pigott 20 1 0 1 22
2 29   RW Ryan Longman 8 0 0 1 9
3 9   CF Ollie Palmer 5 0 0 0 5
12   CM Jack Rudoni 4 0 0 1 5
5 17   AM Ayoub Assal 4 0 0 0 4
6 11   AM Ethan Chislett 2 0 0 1 3
7 5   CB Will Nightingale 2 0 0 0 2
10   CF Adam Roscrow 0 0 0 2 2
22   CB Ben Heneghan 2 0 0 0 2
10 3   CB Dániel Csóka 1 0 0 0 1
4   DM Alex Woodyard 1 0 0 0 1
6   CB Terell Thomas 0 0 0 1 1
14   CF Zach Robinson 0 0 0 1 1
18   LB Nesta Guinness-Walker 1 0 0 0 1
19   AM Shane McLoughlin 1 0 0 0 1
24   DM George Dobson 1 0 0 0 1
33   CM Callum Reilly 1 0 0 0 1
37   LB Paul Osew 0 0 0 1 1
42   LB Steve Seddon 1 0 0 0 1
Own Goals 0 0 1 0 1
Total 54 1 1 9 65
As of match played 9 May 2021
Rank No. Nat. Po. Name League One FA Cup League Cup League Trophy Total
                                       
1 22   CB Ben Heneghan 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0
2 4   CM Alex Woodyard 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 0 0
3 19   AM Shane McLoughlin 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0 0
39   CF Joe Pigott 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 6 0 0
5 12   CM Jack Rudoni 4 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0
18   LB Nesta Guinness-Walker 4 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0
7 5   CB Will Nightingale 3 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0
33   CM Callum Reilly 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0
9 9   CF Ollie Palmer 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0
16   CM Jaakko Oksanen 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 0 0
24   DM George Dobson 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0
12 2   RB Luke O'Neill 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0
3   CB Dániel Csóka 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0
6   CB Terell Thomas 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0
7   RB Cheye Alexander 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0
8   CM Anthony Hartigan 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0
29   RW Ryan Longman 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 0
18 1   GK Connal Trueman 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
11   AM Ethan Chislett 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
17   AM Ayoub Assal 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
27   CB Darnell Johnson 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
30   CB Paul Kalambayi 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
42   LB Steve Seddon 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
Total 61 1 0 4 0 0 1 0 0 3 0 0 69 1 0
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