# 2016–17 Sevilla FC season

The 2016–17 Season was the 110th season in Sevilla Fútbol Club's history, and 16th consecutive season in La Liga. The team competed in La Liga, the Copa del Rey, the Supercopa de España, the UEFA Super Cup and the UEFA Champions League.

## Players
### Squad information

    As of 1 February 2017
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 1 | GK | ESP | Sergio Rico |
| 2 | DF | FRA | Benoît Trémoulinas |
| 3 | DF | BRA | Mariano |
| 4 | MF | ARG | Matías Kranevitter (on loan from Atlético Madrid) |
| 5 | DF | FRA | Clément Lenglet |
| 6 | DF | POR | Daniel Carriço |
| 7 | MF | DEN | Michael Krohn-Dehli |
| 8 | MF | ESP | Vicente Iborra (captain) |
| 9 | FW | ARG | Luciano Vietto (on loan from Atlético Madrid) |
| 10 | MF | FRA | Samir Nasri (on loan from Manchester City) |
| 11 | MF | ARG | Joaquín Correa |
| 12 | FW | FRA | Wissam Ben Yedder |
| 13 | GK | ESP | David Soria |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 14 | MF | ARG | Walter Montoya |
| 15 | MF | FRA | Steven Nzonzi (third-captain) |
| 16 | FW | MNE | Stevan Jovetić |
| 17 | MF | ESP | Pablo Sarabia |
| 18 | DF | ESP | Sergio Escudero |
| 19 | MF | BRA | Ganso |
| 20 | MF | ESP | Vitolo |
| 21 | DF | ARG | Nicolás Pareja |
| 22 | MF | ITA | Franco Vázquez |
| 23 | DF | FRA | Adil Rami (vice-captain) |
| 24 | DF | ARG | Gabriel Mercado |
| 30 | FW | ESP | Carlos Fernández |

## Transfers
### Summer transfers

    As of 30 August 2016
| Player | Position | Club | Status |
| Éver Banega | MF | Internazionale | OUT |
| José Antonio Reyes | MF | Espanyol | OUT |
| Luismi | MF | Valladolid | OUT |
| Beto | GK | Sporting CP | OUT |
| Grzegorz Krychowiak | MF | Paris Saint-Germain | OUT |
| Federico Fazio | DF | Tottenham Hotspur (back from loan) | OUT |
| Marco Andreolli | DF | Internazionale (back from Loan) | OUT |
| Ciro Immobile | FW | Lazio | OUT |
| Kevin Gameiro | FW | Atlético Madrid | OUT |
| Coke | DF | Schalke 04 | OUT |
| Fernando Llorente | FW | Swansea City | OUT |
| Sebastián Cristóforo | MF | Fiorentina (on loan) | OUT |
| Juan Muñoz | FW | Zaragoza (on loan) | OUT |
| Yevhen Konoplyanka | MF | Schalke 04 (on loan) | OUT |
| Pablo Sarabia | MF | Getafe | IN |
| Hiroshi Kiyotake | MF | Hannover 96 | IN |
| Carlos Fernández | FW | Sevilla Atlético (promotion) | IN |
| Matías Kranevitter | MF | Atlético Madrid (on loan) | IN |
| Joaquín Correa | MF | Sampdoria | IN |
| Franco Vázquez | MF | Palermo | IN |
| Ganso | MF | São Paulo | IN |
| Luciano Vietto | FW | Atlético Madrid (on loan) | IN |
| Wissam Ben Yedder | FW | Toulouse | IN |
| Gabriel Mercado | DF | River Plate | IN |
| Salvatore Sirigu | GK | Paris Saint-Germain (on loan) | IN |
| Samir Nasri | MF | Manchester City (on loan) | IN |

### Winter transfers

    As of 1 February 2017
| Player | Position | Club | Status |
| Timothée Kolodziejczak | DF | Borussia Mönchengladbach | OUT |
| Salvatore Sirigu | GK | Osasuna | OUT |
| Hiroshi Kiyotake | MF | Cerezo Osaka | OUT |
| Clément Lenglet | DF | Nancy | IN |
| Stevan Jovetić | FW | Internazionale (on loan) | IN |
| Walter Montoya | MF | Rosario Central | IN |

## Pre-season & friendlies

Win  Draw  Loss

## Competitions

Win  Draw  Loss

### Overall

| Competition | Started round | Final position / round | First match | Last match |
| UEFA Super Cup | Final | Runners-up | 9 August 2016 | 9 August 2016 |
| Supercopa de España | Final | Runners-up | 14 August 2016 | 17 August 2016 |
| La Liga | Matchday 1 | 4th | 20 August 2016 | 20 May 2017 |
| UEFA Champions League | Group stage | Round of 16 | 14 September 2016 | 14 March 2017 |
| Copa del Rey | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | 30 November 2016 | 12 January 2017 |
Source: Competitions

### Overview

| Competition | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record |
| Competition | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win % |
| La Liga | 38 | 21 | 9 | 8 | 69 | 49 | +20 | 055.26 |
| Champions League | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 6 | +3 | 050.00 |
| Super Cup | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | −1 | 000.00 |
| Supercopa de España | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | −5 | 000.00 |
| Copa del Rey | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 17 | 8 | +9 | 050.00 |
| Total | 53 | 27 | 12 | 14 | 97 | 71 | +26 | 050.94 |
Last updated: 20 May 2017 Source: Competitions

### UEFA Super Cup

Sevilla secured their spot by winning the 2015–16 UEFA Europa League.

### La Liga
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 2 | Barcelona | 38 | 28 | 6 | 4 | 116 | 37 | +79 | 90 | Qualification for the Champions League group stage |
| 3 | Atlético Madrid | 38 | 23 | 9 | 6 | 70 | 27 | +43 | 78 | Qualification for the Champions League group stage |
| 4 | Sevilla | 38 | 21 | 9 | 8 | 69 | 49 | +20 | 72 | Qualification for the Champions League play-off round |
| 5 | Villarreal | 38 | 19 | 10 | 9 | 56 | 33 | +23 | 67 | Qualification for the Europa League group stage |
| 6 | Real Sociedad | 38 | 19 | 7 | 12 | 59 | 53 | +6 | 64 | Qualification for the Europa League group stage |
* ↑ Since the winners of the 2016–17 Copa del Rey, Barcelona, qualified for European competition based on league position, the spot awarded to the cup winners (Europa League group stage) was passed to the sixth-placed team and the spot awarded to the sixth-placed team (Europa League third qualifying round) was passed to the seventh-placed team.

#### Matches
### UEFA Champions League
#### Group stage

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | JUV | SEV | LYO | DZG |
| 1 | Juventus | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 2 | +9 | 14 | Advance to knockout phase | — | 0–0 | 1–1 | 2–0 |
| 2 | Sevilla | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 3 | +4 | 11 | Advance to knockout phase | 1–3 | — | 1–0 | 4–0 |
| 3 | Lyon | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 3 | +2 | 8 | Transfer to Europa League | 0–1 | 0–0 | — | 3–0 |
| 4 | Dinamo Zagreb | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 15 | −15 | 0 | | 0–4 | 0–1 | 0–1 | — |

#### Knockout phase
##### Round of 16
## Statistics
### Appearances and goals

| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Total | Total | La Liga | La Liga | Copa del Rey | Copa del Rey | Supercopa de España | Supercopa de España | Champions League | Champions League | Super Cup | Super Cup |
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| Goalkeepers ||||||||||||||||
| 1 | GK | ESP | Sergio Rico | 47 | 0 | 35 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 13 | GK | ESP | David Soria | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Defenders ||||||||||||||||
| 3 | DF | BRA | Mariano | 43 | 0 | 29+2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6+2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 5 | DF | FRA | Clément Lenglet | 19 | 0 | 15+2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 6 | DF | POR | Daniel Carriço | 10 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 18 | DF | ESP | Sergio Escudero | 37 | 1 | 25+1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 21 | DF | ARG | Nicolás Pareja | 34 | 2 | 27 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 23 | DF | FRA | Adil Rami | 33 | 0 | 21 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 24 | DF | ARG | Gabriel Mercado | 40 | 3 | 26+3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 26 | DF | ESP | David Carmona | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 32 | DF | ESP | Diego González | 6 | 0 | 0+3 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Midfielders ||||||||||||||||
| 4 | MF | ARG | Matías Kranevitter | 32 | 0 | 14+7 | 0 | 3+1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2+2 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 7 | MF | DEN | Michael Krohn-Dehli | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 8 | MF | ESP | Vicente Iborra | 44 | 8 | 12+19 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4+3 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 10 | MF | FRA | Samir Nasri | 30 | 3 | 22+1 | 2 | 1+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 11 | MF | ARG | Joaquín Correa | 34 | 8 | 15+11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1+2 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 14 | MF | ARG | Walter Montoya | 4 | 0 | 1+3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 15 | MF | FRA | Steven Nzonzi | 46 | 3 | 34+1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 17 | MF | ESP | Pablo Sarabia | 46 | 11 | 22+12 | 8 | 2+1 | 2 | 1+1 | 0 | 4+3 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 19 | MF | BRA | Ganso | 16 | 3 | 5+5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1+1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 20 | MF | ESP | Vitolo | 43 | 6 | 25+5 | 6 | 1+1 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 22 | MF | ITA | Franco Vázquez | 38 | 8 | 26+4 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 28 | MF | ESP | Borja Lasso | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Forwards ||||||||||||||||
| 9 | FW | ARG | Luciano Vietto | 31 | 10 | 14+7 | 6 | 2+1 | 3 | 1+1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 12 | FW | FRA | Wissam Ben Yedder | 38 | 18 | 20+11 | 11 | 1 | 5 | 1+1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 16 | FW | MNE | Stevan Jovetić | 24 | 7 | 12+9 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 30 | FW | ESP | Carlos Fernández | 3 | 1 | 1+2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Players who have made an appearance this season but have left the club ||||||||||||||||
| 25 | GK | ITA | Salvatore Sirigu | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | DF | FRA | Timothée Kolodziejczak | 9 | 0 | 3+2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 10 | MF | UKR | Yevhen Konoplyanka | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0+1 | 1 |
| 14 | MF | JPN | Hiroshi Kiyotake | 9 | 1 | 3+1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |

### Goalscorers

| Rank | Player | La Liga | Copa del Rey | Supercopa de España | Champions League | Super Cup | Total |
| 1 | Wissam Ben Yedder | 16 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 24 |
| 2 | Pablo Sarabia | 9 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 13 |
| 3 | Luciano Vietto | 6 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 10 |
| 4 | Joaquín Correa | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8 |
| 4 | Vicente Iborra | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| 4 | Franco Vázquez | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 8 |
| 7 | Stevan Jovetić | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| 8 | Vitolo | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| 9 | Ganso | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 9 | Gabriel Mercado | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 9 | Samir Nasri | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 9 | Steven Nzonzi | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 13 | Nicolás Pareja | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 14 | Sergio Escudero | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 14 | Carlos Fernández | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 14 | Hiroshi Kiyotake | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 14 | Yevhen Konoplyanka | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Own goals | Own goals | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Totals | Totals | 69 | 17 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 97 |