Primera División 2015/16

	Primera División 2015/16
master	FC Barcelona
Champions League	FC Barcelona ; Real Madrid ; Atlético Madrid ; FC Sevilla (as Europa League winner)
Champions League ; qualification	Villarreal CF
Europe League	Athletic Bilbao ; Celta Vigo
Cup winners	FC Barcelona
Relegated	Rayo Vallecano ; Getafe FC ; Levante UD
Teams	20th
Games	380
Gates	1,043 (ø 2.74 per game)
spectator	10,712,490 (ø 28,191 per game)
Top scorer	Luis Suárez , (FC Barcelona)
	← Primera División 2014/15 Primera División 2016/17 →
	Segunda División 2015/16 ↓

The Primera División 2015/16 (officially Liga BBVA ) was the 85th season of the top Spanish division in men's football . It started on August 21, 2015 and ended on May 15, 2016.

FC Barcelona became Spanish champions for the 24th time.

Before the season

The 23-time champions FC Barcelona started the race as defending champions . Last year's runner-up was Real Madrid . Because of the forced relegation of FC Elche , the sporting relegated SD Eibar remained a member of the Primera División for the 2015/16 season.
Moved up from the Segunda División are Betis Sevilla , Sporting Gijon and UD Las Palmas .

Attendees

In the 2015/16 season, the Spanish Primera División played in the following venues:

Venues of the Spanish Primera División 2015/16

Liga BBVA - Primera División 2015/16
Surname	city	Stadion	capacity
Athletic Bilbao	Bilbao	San Mamés	53,289
Atlético Madrid	Madrid	Vicente Calderón	54,851
Betis Seville	Seville	Benito Villamarín	60,720
Celta Vigo	Vigo	Balaídos	31,800
Deportivo La Coruña	A Coruña	Municipal de Riazor	34,611
Espanyol Barcelona	Barcelona	Cornellà-El Prat	40,500
FC Barcelona	Barcelona	Camp Nou	99.354
Getafe CF.	Getafe	Coliseum Alfonso Pérez	17,393
Granada CF.	Granada	Nuevo Los Cármenes	22,524
Málaga CF	Málaga	La Rosaleda	28,963
Sevilla FC	Seville	Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán	45,500
Valencia CF	Valencia	Mestalla	52,200
Villarreal CF	Villarreal	El Madrigal	22,000
Rayo Vallecano	Madrid	Campo de Fútbol de Vallecas	14,708
real Madrid	Madrid	Santiago Bernabeu	85,454
Real Sociedad San Sebastian	Donostia-San Sebastian	Anoeta	32,076
SD Eibar	Eibar	Municipal de Ipurua	05,250
Sporting Gijón	Gijón	El Molinón	29,538
UD Las Palmas	Las Palmas	Estadio de Gran Canaria	32,392
Levante UD	Valencia	Ciudad de Valencia	25,354

Closing table

League leader

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	FC Barcelona (M, P)	38	29	4th	5	112: 290	+83	91
2.	real Madrid	38	28	6th	4th	110: 340	+76	90
3.	Atlético Madrid	38	28	4th	6th	063:180	+45	88
4th	Villarreal CF	38	18th	10	10	044:350	+9	64
5.	Athletic Bilbao	38	18th	8th	12	058:450	+13	62
6th	Celta Vigo	38	17th	9	12	051:590	−8	60
7th	Sevilla FC	38	14th	10	14th	051:500	+1	52
8th.	Málaga CF	38	12	12	14th	038:350	+3	48
9.	Real Sociedad	38	13	9	16	045:480	−3	48
10.	Betis Seville (N)	38	11	12	15th	034:520	−18	45
11.	UD Las Palmas (N)	38	12	8th	18th	045:530	−8	44
12.	Valencia CF	38	11	11	16	046:480	−2	44
13.	Espanyol Barcelona	38	12	7th	19th	040:740	−34	43
14th	SD Eibar	38	11	10	17th	049:610	−12	43
15th	Deportivo La Coruña	38	8th	18th	12	045:610	−16	42
16.	Granada CF.	38	10	9	19th	046:690	−23	39
17th	Sporting Gijón (N)	38	10	9	19th	040:620	−22	39
18th	Rayo Vallecano	38	9	11	18th	052:730	−21	38
19th	Getafe CF.	38	9	9	20th	037:670	−30	36
20th	Levante UD	38	8th	8th	22nd	037:700	−33	32

Placement criteria: 1st points - 2nd direct comparison (points, goal difference, goals scored) - 3rd goal difference - 4th goals scored

Spanish champion and participation in the 2016/17 UEFA Champions League

Participation in the UEFA Champions League 2016/17 (Sevilla as Europa League winner)

Participation in the 2016/17 UEFA Champions League play-offs

Participation in the UEFA Europa League 2016/17

Participation in the third qualifying round for the 2016/17 UEFA Europa League

Relegation to the Segunda División

(M)	Spanish champion 2014/15
(P)	Cup winners 2014/15
(N)	Newcomers of the 2014/15 season

Crosstab

The cross table shows the results of all games this season. The home team is listed in the left column and the visiting team in the top row.

2015/16
FC Barcelona		1: 2	2: 1	1: 2	2: 1	3-0	6-0	6: 1	1-0	5-0	5: 2	4-0	4: 1	6-0	2: 2	4-0	3: 1	4-0	6-0	2: 1
real Madrid	0: 4		0: 1	3: 2	4-0	3-0	4: 2	7: 1	0-0	6-0	10: 2	3: 1	3-0	4: 1	5-0	1-0	4-0	5-0	5: 1	3: 1
Atlético Madrid	1: 2	1: 1		2: 1	0-0	0-0	2: 1	2-0	1-0	1-0	1-0	3-0	1-0	2-0	3-0	3-0	3: 1	5: 1	1-0	1-0
Valencia CF	1: 1	2: 2	1: 3		2: 1	0: 2	0: 3	0: 2	3-0	2: 1	2: 2	0: 1	3-0	2: 2	1: 1	1-0	4-0	0-0	0: 1	1: 1
Sevilla FC	2: 1	3: 2	0: 3	1-0		4: 2	2-0	1: 2	2: 1	2-0	3: 2	1: 2	3: 1	5-0	1: 1	1: 4	1-0	2-0	2-0	2-0
Villarreal CF	2: 2	1-0	1-0	1-0	2: 1		3: 1	1: 2	1-0	3: 1	2: 1	0-0	3-0	2-0	0: 2	1-0	1: 1	0-0	2-0	0: 1
Athletic Bilbao	0: 1	1: 2	0: 1	3: 1	3: 1	0-0		2: 1	0-0	2: 1	1-0	0: 1	2-0	3: 1	4: 1	1: 1	5: 2	3: 1	3-0	2: 2
Celta Vigo	4: 1	1: 3	0: 2	1: 5	1: 1	0-0	0: 1		1-0	1-0	3-0	1-0	4: 3	0-0	1: 1	2: 1	3: 2	1: 1	2: 1	3: 3
Málaga CF	1: 2	1: 1	1-0	1: 2	0-0	0: 1	0: 1	2-0		1: 1	1: 1	3: 1	3: 1	3-0	2-0	2: 2	0-0	0: 1	1-0	4: 1
Espanyol Barcelona	0-0	0: 6	1: 3	1-0	1-0	2: 2	2: 1	1: 1	2-0		2: 1	0: 5	1: 1	1-0	1-0	1: 1	4: 2	0: 3	1: 2	1-0
Rayo Vallecano	1: 5	2: 3	0: 2	0-0	2: 2	2: 1	0: 3	3-0	1: 2	3-0		2: 2	3: 1	2-0	1: 3	2: 1	1: 1	0: 2	2: 1	2-0
Real Sociedad	1-0	0: 1	0: 2	2-0	2-0	0: 2	0-0	2: 3	1: 1	2: 3	2: 1		1: 1	1: 2	1: 1	3-0	2: 1	2: 1	0-0	0: 1
Levante UD	0: 2	1: 3	2: 1	1-0	1: 2	1-0	2: 2	1: 2	0: 1	2: 1	2: 1	0: 4		3-0	1: 1	1: 2	2: 2	0: 1	0-0	3: 2
Getafe CF.	0: 2	1: 5	0: 1	2: 2	1: 1	2-0	0: 1	0: 1	1-0	3: 1	0-0	1: 1	3-0		0-0	1: 2	1: 1	1-0	1: 1	4-0
Deportivo La Coruña	0: 8	0: 2	1: 1	1: 1	1: 1	1: 2	2: 2	2-0	3: 3	3-0	2: 2	0-0	2: 1	0: 2		0: 1	2-0	2: 2	2: 3	1: 3
Granada CF.	0: 3	1: 2	0: 2	1: 2	2: 1	1: 3	2-0	0: 2	0-0	1: 1	2: 2	0: 3	5: 1	3: 2	1: 1		1: 3	1: 1	2-0	3: 2
SD Eibar	0: 4	0: 2	0: 2	1: 1	1: 1	1: 2	2-0	1: 1	1: 2	2: 1	1-0	2: 1	2-0	3: 1	1: 1	5: 1		1: 1	2-0	0: 1
Betis Seville	0: 2	1: 1	0: 1	1-0	0-0	1: 1	1: 3	1: 1	0: 1	1: 3	2: 2	1-0	1-0	2: 1	1: 2	2-0	0: 4		1: 1	1-0
Sporting Gijón	1: 3	0-0	2: 1	0: 1	2: 1	2-0	0: 2	0: 1	1-0	2: 4	2: 2	5: 1	0: 3	1: 2	1: 1	3: 3	2-0	1: 2		3: 1
UD Las Palmas	1: 2	1: 2	0: 3	2: 1	2-0	0-0	0-0	2: 1	1: 1	4-0	0: 1	2-0	0-0	4-0	0: 2	4: 1	0: 2	1-0	1: 1

After the season

International competitions

1. - FC Barcelona - UEFA Champions League
2nd - Real Madrid - UEFA Champions League
3rd - Atlético Madrid - UEFA Champions League
4th - Villarreal CF - UEFA Champions League, qualification
5th - Athletic Bilbao - UEFA Europa League, group stage
6th - Celta Vigo - UEFA Europa League, group stage
7th - Sevilla FC - UEFA Champions League, group stage ( UEFA Europa League winners )

Relegated to the Segunda División

18 - Rayo Vallecano
19 - Getafe
20th - Levante UD

Promoted to the Primera División

The championship team of FC Barcelona

1.	FC Barcelona
	Goal : Claudio Bravo (32 / -); Marc-André ter Stegen (7 / -) Defense : Javier Mascherano (32 / -); Jordi Alba (31 / -); Gerard Piqué (30/2); Dani Alves (29 / -); Jérémy Mathieu (21 / -); Marc Bartra (13/2); Thomas Vermaelen (10/1); Adriano (8 / -); Douglas (1 / -) Midfield : Ivan Rakitić (36/7); Sergio Busquets (35 / -); Sergi Roberto (31 / -); Andrés Iniesta (28/1); Arda Turan (18/2); Aleix Vidal (9 / -); Rafinha (6/1); Gerard Gumbau (3 / -); Sergi Samper (1 / -)(C) Forward : Luis Suárez (35/40); Neymar (34/24); Lionel Messi (33/26); Munir (15/3); Sandro (10 / -) Coach : Luis Enrique

Pichichi trophy

The Pichichi trophy is awarded annually to the best goalscorer of the season by Marca magazine .

Pl.	Surname	team	Gates
1	Uruguay Luis Suarez	FC Barcelona	40
2	Portugal Cristiano Ronaldo	real Madrid	35
3	Argentina Lionel Messi	FC Barcelona	26th
4th	France Karim Benzema	real Madrid	24
4th	Brazil Neymar	FC Barcelona	24
6th	France Antoine Griezmann	Atlético Madrid	22nd
7th	Spain Aritz Aduriz	Athletic Bilbao	20th
8th	Wales Gareth Bale	real Madrid	19th
8th	Spain Ruben Castro	Betis Seville	19th
10	Spain Borja Bastón	SD Eibar	18th

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ http://www.lfp.es/noticias/nota-informativa-23
^ FC Barcelona »Primera División 2015/2016 appearances on weltfussball.de, accessed on May 17, 2016
↑ List of goalscorers on weltfussball.de.

[1] ttp://www.lfp.es/noticias/nota-informativa-23

[2] FC Barcelona »Primera División 2015/2016 appearances on weltfussball.de, accessed on May 17, 2016

[3] List of goalscorers on weltfussball.de.

Primera División 2015/16

master	FC Barcelona
Champions League	FC Barcelona Real Madrid Atlético Madrid FC Sevilla (as Europa League winner)
Champions League qualification	Villarreal CF
Europe League	Athletic Bilbao Celta Vigo
Cup winners	FC Barcelona
Relegated	Rayo Vallecano Getafe FC Levante UD
Teams	20th
Games	380
Gates	1,043 (ø 2.74 per game)
spectator	10,712,490 (ø 28,191 per game)
Top scorer	Uruguay Luis Suárez , (FC Barcelona)
← Primera División 2014/15 Primera División 2016/17 →
Segunda División 2015/16 ↓