Season 2015–16 Top goalscorer Luis Suárez
(40 goals) Dates 21 Aug 2015 – 15 May 2016 Location Spain | Champions Barcelona
24th title Champion FC Barcelona Goals scored 1,043 Matches played 380 | |
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Champions League Barcelona
Real Madrid
Atlético Madrid
Villarreal
Sevilla Europa League Athletic Bilbao
Celta Vigo Best goalkeeper Jan Oblak
(0.47 goals/match) Relegated Rayo Vallecano, Getafe CF, Levante UD Similar 2009–10 La Liga, 2004–05 La Liga, 2003–04 La Liga, 2002–03 La Liga, 2001–02 La Liga | ||
The 2015–16 La Liga football season (known as the Liga BBVA for sponsorship reasons) was the 85th since its establishment. Barcelona were the defending champions. It started on 21 August 2015 and concluded on 15 May 2016. Barcelona retained the title, winning it for the second consecutive season (their 24th Liga title) after beating Granada 3–0 on the final matchday.
Contents
- Promotion and relegation pre season
- Personnel and sponsorship
- Overview
- Positions by round
- Results
- Scoring
- Top goalscorers
- Top assists
- Zamora Trophy
- Hat tricks
- Discipline
- Attendances
- Seasonal
- Broadcasting rights
- References
Luis Suárez finished as top scorer, being the first player apart from Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo to do so since the 2008–09 season.
Promotion and relegation (pre-season)
A total of 20 teams contested the league, including 17 sides from the 2014–15 season and three promoted from the 2014–15 Segunda División. This included the two top teams from the Segunda División (Real Betis and Sporting de Gijón), and the winners of the play-offs (Las Palmas).
Almería and Córdoba were relegated to 2015–16 Segunda División in the last season, after being two and one years, respectively in La Liga. Elche was administratively relegated despite finishing 13th. Following the competition rules, Eibar, who finished 18th, remained in the league.
Real Betis was the first team from Segunda to achieve promotion, after a one-year absence from La Liga, on 24 May 2015 after winning 3–0 over Alcorcón.
Sporting Gijón, promoted after finishing second, qualified on 7 June 2015, after winning 3–0 against Betis and taking advantage of the draw of Girona, who could not retain the promotion spot on the last match day. Sporting returned to the top level after three years.
Las Palmas achieved promotion on 21 June 2015 after defeating Real Zaragoza in the promotion playoff final on away goals, winning the second leg at home 2–0, after losing the first leg away 3–1. Las Palmas returned to the top level after 13 years. They also became the first island team to play in La Liga since Mallorca's relegation to Segunda Division in the 2012–13 season. During those 13 years, they played two seasons in Segunda División B.
Personnel and sponsorship
1. ^ On the back of shirt. 2. ^ On the sleeves. 3. ^ On the shorts. 4. ^ Barcelona makes a donation to UNICEF in order to display the charity's logo on the back of the club's kit. 5. ^ Deportivo has a Chinese characters phrase on the back of its shorts meaning "La Liga is Diverse". 6. Additionally, referee kits are now being made by Adidas, sponsored by Würth, and Nike has a new match ball, the Ordem LFP.Overview
On 14 May 2016, Barcelona won their 24th title with a win over Granada CF by 3–0 at Estadio Nuevo Los Cármenes. Real Madrid finished as runner-up after performing a 12-win streak until the end of the season.
The first team relegated to Segunda División was Levante UD, after losing 1–3 against Málaga CF on 2 May 2016.
On 15 May 2016, Sporting Gijón remained in La Liga after beating Villarreal by 2–0 and taking advantage of Getafe's loss against Real Betis in its separate match, who was relegated from La Liga for the first time in its history. Rayo Vallecano was also relegated despite winning its last season game.
Positions by round
The table lists the positions of teams after each week of matches. In order to preserve chronological evolvements, any postponed matches are not included in the round at which they were originally scheduled, but added to the full round they were played immediately afterwards. For example, if a match is scheduled for matchday 13, but then postponed and played between days 16 and 17, it will be added to the standings for day 16.
Source: BDFutbol
Results
Updated to games played on 15 May 2016.
Source: La Liga
1 ^ The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For coming matches, an a indicates there is an article about the match.
Scoring
Salva Sevilla for Espanyol against Getafe (22 August 2015)
Álvaro Medrán for Getafe against Real Betis (15 May 2016)
Top goalscorers
As of 15 May 2016.Top assists
As of 15 May 2016.Zamora Trophy
The Zamora Trophy is awarded by newspaper Marca to the goalkeeper with least goals-to-games ratio. A goalkeeper must play at least 28 games of 60 or more minutes to be eligible for the trophy.
As of 15 May 2016.Hat-tricks
4 Player scored four goals
5 Player scored five goals
(H) – Home ; (A) – Away
Discipline
As of 12 May 2016Attendances
Updated to games played on 15 May 2016
Source:
Notes:
1: Team played last season in Segunda División.
Seasonal
La Liga's governing body, the Liga de Fútbol Profesional, honoured the competition's best players and coach with the LFP Awards.
Broadcasting rights
Telefónica purchased the exclusive television broadcasting rights to telecast the 2015–16 season in Spain. Sky Sports have exclusive rights in the United Kingdom and beIN Sports have exclusive rights to air the season in various countries, including the United States, Canada, MENA, France and the Middle East. KBSN Sports have the exclusive television broadcasting rights in South Korea except internet broadcasting.