The 2019–20 season was the 142nd in the history of Wolverhampton Wanderers and the 3rd under then-head coach Nuno Espírito Santo. In that season, they competed in the Premier League for the 2nd consecutive time, the EFL Cup, the FA Cup and in a UEFA/continental competition for the first time since 1980–81 through/via the UEFA Europa League.
As a result of the suspension of competitive football in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the club were unable to play any match for 3 months since the UEL match on 12 March. A restart of the Premier League was made on 17 June, with the club returning to action 3 days later.
The team repeated their 7th-place finish of the previous Premier League season – with an improved points tally – but, as a result of Arsenal winning the FA Cup, this position was not sufficient to qualify for the UEFA Europa League again. A top-6 position would only have been guaranteed with victory on the final day, but Wolves lost 0–2 at Chelsea. Their continental campaign concluded at the quarter-final stage of a modified single-leg final tournament in Germany with defeat to the eventual winners Sevilla, lasting 383 days in total and signified their best performance in a UEFA competition since reaching the inaugural UEFA Cup Final in 1972.
Competitions Pre-season Wolves were one of four teams invited to take part in the biennial Premier League Asia Trophy, which the team won. Owing to their participation in the qualifying rounds of the Europa League, these were the only other games the club undertook before the start of the league season.
Mid-season friendlies
Premier League
League table
Results summary
Results by matchday
Results The provisional fixture list was released on 13 June 2019, but was subject to change in the event of matches being selected for television coverage or police concerns. The coronavirus pandemic caused the suspension of all fixtures scheduled between 11 March and the planned end of the season on 17 May. Revised fixture lists for the matchdays following the resumption of the league were published on 5 June and 18 June 2020.
FA Cup
As a Premier League team, Wolves entered the competition at the third round proper stage in January 2020. The third round draw was made live on BBC Two from Etihad Stadium on 3 December 2019, Micah Richards and Tony Adams conducted the draw.
EFL Cup
As a Premier League team involved in European competition, Wolves enter the competition in the third round. The third round draw was confirmed on 28 August 2019, live on Sky Sports. The draw for the fourth round was made on 25 September 2019.
UEFA Europa League
Qualifying stage
As a result of their seventh place league finish in the previous season as well as Manchester City winning all 3 domestic trophies on offer that season, Wolves entered the competition in the second round qualifying round whose draw was confirmed on 19 June 2019. The draw for the third round qualifying round was made on 22 July 2019 prior to the second round qualifying-round matches. The play-off round draw was announced on 5 August 2019. Wolves were seeded in all three draws.
Group stage
The draw for the group stage was held on 30 August 2019. The club were drawn from pot 3 into Group K to face Beşiktaş, Braga and Slovan Bratislava. Final table
Results
Knockout phase
The draw for the round of 32 was held on 16 December 2019. The club was unseeded due to finishing as runners-up in the group stage. The round of 16 ties were determined by an open draw held on 28 February 2020. The return leg of the team's round of 16 tie was postponed from its original date of 19 March due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In order to conclude the competition as promptly as possible, UEFA decided to organise a single-leg mini tournament in Germany for the final eight teams. An open draw was conducted to this end on 10 July 2020.
EFL Trophy
Wolves were one of the sixteen teams from outside the bottom two divisions of the English Football League to be invited to field their academy team in the competition due to it holding Category 1 academy status. They were drawn into Group G in the Northern section, from which they advanced in second place. Note: In group stage matches which were level at the end of 90 minutes a penalty shoot-out was held, with the winner earning a bonus point.
Players
Statistics
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Awards AwardWinner Fans' Player of the Season Raúl Jiménez Players' Player of the Season Raúl Jiménez Young Player of the Season Pedro Neto Academy Player of the Season Christian Marques Goal of the Season Rúben Neves(vs Espanyol, 20 February 2020)
Transfers Transfers in Date Position Nationality Name From Fee Team Ref. 4 April 2019 CF Raúl Jiménez Benfica £30,000,000 First team 23 May 2019 MF Hong Wan Yeovil Town Undisclosed Under-23s 28 June 2019 RB Raphaël Nya Paris Saint-Germain Undisclosed Under-23s 1 July 2019 DM Leander Dendoncker Anderlecht £12,000,000 First team 3 July 2019 CM Lee Harkin Moyola Park Undisclosed Academy 10 July 2019 CM Tsun Dai Oxford United Undisclosed Under-23s 12 July 2019 CF Erik Bugarin Celta Vigo Undisclosed Academy 12 July 2019 MF Owen Hesketh Manchester City Undisclosed Academy 12 July 2019 MF Jack Scott Linfield Undisclosed Academy 30 July 2019 CF Patrick Cutrone Milan Undisclosed First-team 31 July 2019 DM Flávio Cristóvão Aves Free transfer Under-23s 2 August 2019 CM Bruno Jordão Braga Undisclosed First-team 2 August 2019 RW Pedro Neto Braga Undisclosed First-team 6 August 2019 CF Renat Dadashov Estoril Praia Undisclosed Under-23s 8 August 2019 AM Meritan Shabani Bayern Munich Undisclosed Under-23s 9 August 2019 DF Cyriaque Mayounga Lyon Undisclosed Under-23s 24 December 2019 GK Pálmi Rafn Arinbjörnsson Njarðvík Undisclosed Academy 15 January 2020 DF Justin Hubner Den Bosch Undisclosed Academy 21 January 2020 CF Leonardo Campana Barcelona Undisclosed Under-23s 24 January 2020 CB Nigel Lonwijk PSV Eindhoven Undisclosed Under-23s 30 January 2020 LW Daniel Podence Olympiacos Undisclosed First-team 31 January 2020 RB Luke Matheson Rochdale Undisclosed Under-23s
Loans in Date Position Nationality Name From Date Until Team Ref. 27 July 2019 CB Jesús Vallejo Real Madrid 24 January 2020 First team 29 January 2020 CM Enzo Loiodice Dijon 30 June 2020 Under-23s
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