# 2015–16 Paris Saint-Germain FC season

The 2015–16 season was Paris Saint-Germain Football Club's 43rd professional season since its creation in 1970, and its 42nd consecutive season in the top-flight of French football.

## Players

French teams are limited to four players without EU citizenship. Hence, the squad list includes only the principal nationality of each player; several non-European players on the squad have dual citizenship with an EU country. Also, players from the ACP countries—countries in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Pacific that are signatories to the Cotonou Agreement—are not counted against non-EU quotas due to the Kolpak ruling.

### Current squad

    As of 17 February 2016.
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 1 | GK | FRA | Nicolas Douchez |
| 2 | DF | BRA | Thiago Silva (captain) |
| 3 | DF | FRA | Presnel Kimpembe |
| 4 | MF | FRA | Benjamin Stambouli |
| 5 | DF | BRA | Marquinhos |
| 6 | MF | ITA | Marco Verratti |
| 7 | MF | BRA | Lucas Moura |
| 8 | MF | ITA | Thiago Motta |
| 9 | FW | URU | Edinson Cavani |
| 10 | FW | SWE | Zlatan Ibrahimović |
| 11 | MF | ARG | Ángel Di María |
| 14 | MF | FRA | Blaise Matuidi |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 16 | GK | GER | Kevin Trapp |
| 17 | DF | BRA | Maxwell |
| 19 | DF | CIV | Serge Aurier |
| 20 | DF | FRA | Layvin Kurzawa |
| 23 | DF | NED | Gregory van der Wiel |
| 25 | MF | FRA | Adrien Rabiot |
| 27 | MF | ARG | Javier Pastore |
| 29 | FW | FRA | Jean-Kévin Augustin |
| 30 | GK | ITA | Salvatore Sirigu |
| 32 | DF | BRA | David Luiz |
| 35 | FW | COD | Hervin Ongenda |
| 36 | MF | FRA | Timothée Taufflieb |

### Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | GK | FRA | Alphonse Areola (at Villarreal) |
| — | DF | FRA | Lucas Digne (at Roma) |
| — | DF | FRA | Jordan Ikoko (at Lens) |
| — | DF | FRA | Youssouf Sabaly (at Nantes) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | MF | FRA | Romain Habran (at Stade Lavallois) |
| — | MF | BRA | Gustavo Hebling (at PEC Zwolle) |
| — | FW | FRA | Jean-Christophe Bahebeck (at Saint-Étienne) |

## Transfers
### In

| No. | Pos | Player | Transferred From | Fee | Date |
| 16 | GK | Kevin Trapp | Eintracht Frankfurt | €9,000,000 | 10 July 2015 |
| 4 | MF | Benjamin Stambouli | Tottenham Hotspur | €8,000,000 | 21 July 2015 |
| 11 | MF | Ángel Di María | Manchester United | €63,000,000 | 7 August 2015 |
| 20 | DF | Layvin Kurzawa | Monaco | €25,000,000 | 28 August 2015 |
| | MF | Gustavo Hebling | São Paulo | Free | 1 September 2015 |

### Out

| Date | Pos. | Player | Age | Moving to | Fee |
| 1 July 2015 | GK | Alphonse Areola | 22 | Villarreal | Loan |
| 1 July 2015 | DF | Zoumana Camara | 36 | Retired | N/A |
| 10 July 2015 | GK | Mory Diaw | 22 | Mafra | N/A |
| 10 July 2015 | MF | Yohan Cabaye | 29 | Crystal Palace | €14,000,000 |
| 22 July 2015 | MF | Romain Habran | 21 | Stade Lavallois | Loan |
| 24 July 2015 | DF | Jordan Ikoko | 21 | Lens | Loan |
| 11 August 2015 | FW | Jean-Christophe Bahebeck | 22 | Saint-Étienne | Loan |
| 19 August 2015 | GK | Mike Maignan | 20 | Lille | €1,000,000 |
| 27 August 2015 | DF | Lucas Digne | 22 | Roma | Loan |
| 1 September 2015 | MF | Gustavo Hebling | 19 | PEC Zwolle | Loan |
| 1 September 2015 | DF | Youssouf Sabaly | 22 | Nantes | Loan |
| 25 January 2016 | FW | Roli Pereira de Sa | 19 | Paris FC | Loan |
| 17 February 2016 | FW | Ezequiel Lavezzi | 30 | Hebei China Fortune | €4,000,000 |

## Competitions
### Overall

| Competition | Started round | Final position / round | First match | Last match |
| Ligue 1 | Matchday 1 | Winners | 7 August 2015 | 14 May 2016 |
| Coupe de France | Round of 64 | Winners | 3 January 2016 | 21 May 2016 |
| Coupe de la Ligue | Round of 16 | Winners | 16 December 2015 | 23 April 2016 |
| Trophée des Champions | Final | Winners | 1 August 2015 | 1 August 2015 |
| UEFA Champions League | Group stage | Quarter-finals | 15 September 2015 | 12 April 2016 |
Updated to match played 21 May 2016. Source: Competitions

### Ligue 1
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Paris Saint-Germain (C) | 38 | 30 | 6 | 2 | 102 | 19 | +83 | 96 | Qualification for the Champions League group stage |
| 2 | Lyon | 38 | 19 | 8 | 11 | 67 | 43 | +24 | 65 | Qualification for the Champions League group stage |
| 3 | Monaco | 38 | 17 | 14 | 7 | 57 | 50 | +7 | 65 | Qualification for the Champions League third qualifying round |
| 4 | Nice | 38 | 18 | 9 | 11 | 58 | 41 | +17 | 63 | Qualification for the Europa League group stage |
| 5 | Lille | 38 | 15 | 15 | 8 | 39 | 27 | +12 | 60 | Qualification for the Europa League third qualifying round |
* 1 2 Since the winners of the 2015–16 Coupe de France and the 2015–16 Coupe de la Ligue, Paris Saint-Germain, qualified for European competition based on their league position, the spot awarded to the Coupe de France winners (Europa League group stage) was passed to the fourth-placed team and the spot awarded to the Coupe de la Ligue winners (Europa League third qualifying round) was passed to the sixth-placed team. The fifth-placed team received the spot in Europa League third qualifying round originally designated to the fourth-placed team.

#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Last updated: 11 May 2016. Source: Competitive matches

#### Results by round

| Round | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 |
| Ground | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | | | |
| Result | W | W | W | W | D | D | W | W | W | W | W | W | W | W | W | D | W | W | W | W | W | W | W | W | W | D | W | L | D | W | L | W | W | W | W | W | D | W |
| Position | 8 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |

#### Matches

Win  Draw  Loss

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

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | RMA | PAR | SHK | MAL |
| 1 | Real Madrid | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 19 | 3 | +16 | 16 | Advance to knockout phase | — | 1–0 | 4–0 | 8–0 |
| 2 | Paris Saint-Germain | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 1 | +11 | 13 | Advance to knockout phase | 0–0 | — | 2–0 | 2–0 |
| 3 | Shakhtar Donetsk | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 14 | −7 | 3 | Transfer to Europa League | 3–4 | 0–3 | — | 4–0 |
| 4 | Malmö FF | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 21 | −20 | 3 | | 0–2 | 0–5 | 1–0 | — |

#### Knockout phase
##### Quarter-finals
## Statistics
### Appearances and goals

| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Total | Total | Ligue 1 | Ligue 1 | Coupe de France | Coupe de France | Coupe de la Ligue | Coupe de la Ligue | Trophée des Champions | Trophée des Champions | Champions League | Champions League |
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| Goalkeepers ||||||||||||||||
| 1 | GK | FRA | Nicolas Douchez | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 16 | GK | GER | Kevin Trapp | 46 | 0 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 0 |
| 30 | GK | ITA | Salvatore Sirigu | 12 | 0 | 2+1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Defenders ||||||||||||||||
| 2 | DF | BRA | Thiago Silva | 46 | 1 | 29+1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 0 |
| 3 | DF | FRA | Presnel Kimpembe | 9 | 0 | 5+1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | DF | BRA | Marquinhos | 43 | 2 | 20+9 | 1 | 4+1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| 17 | DF | BRA | Maxwell | 42 | 3 | 24+4 | 3 | 3+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 0 |
| 19 | DF | CIV | Serge Aurier | 33 | 4 | 21 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
| 20 | DF | FRA | Layvin Kurzawa | 25 | 3 | 14+2 | 3 | 3+1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 23 | DF | NED | Gregory van der Wiel | 27 | 2 | 16+1 | 2 | 1+1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4+2 | 0 |
| 32 | DF | BRA | David Luiz | 40 | 3 | 23+2 | 1 | 2+2 | 1 | 2+1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 1 |
| 34 | DF | FRA | Kévin Rimane | 1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Midfielders ||||||||||||||||
| 4 | MF | FRA | Benjamin Stambouli | 39 | 0 | 18+9 | 0 | 5+1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 |
| 6 | MF | ITA | Marco Verratti | 28 | 0 | 11+7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2+1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 7 | MF | BRA | Lucas Moura | 55 | 13 | 26+10 | 9 | 1+5 | 1 | 2+2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3+6 | 2 |
| 8 | MF | ITA | Thiago Motta | 46 | 1 | 26+6 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 0 |
| 11 | MF | ARG | Ángel Di María | 47 | 15 | 26+3 | 10 | 3+1 | 0 | 2+2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 9+1 | 3 |
| 14 | MF | FRA | Blaise Matuidi | 48 | 5 | 23+8 | 4 | 4+1 | 1 | 1+1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 0 |
| 25 | MF | FRA | Adrien Rabiot | 42 | 6 | 19+5 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5+2 | 3 |
| 27 | MF | ARG | Javier Pastore | 26 | 3 | 11+5 | 2 | 1+1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0+6 | 0 |
| 33 | MF | FRA | Christopher Nkunku | 6 | 0 | 4+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 36 | MF | FRA | Timothée Taufflieb | 1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 45 | MF | CIV | Yakou Méïté | 1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Forwards ||||||||||||||||
| 9 | FW | URU | Edinson Cavani | 52 | 25 | 24+8 | 19 | 5 | 2 | 2+2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7+3 | 2 |
| 10 | FW | SWE | Zlatan Ibrahimović | 51 | 50 | 29+2 | 38 | 5+1 | 7 | 2+1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 5 |
| 29 | FW | FRA | Jean-Kévin Augustin | 17 | 1 | 4+9 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 35 | FW | FRA | Hervin Ongenda | 6 | 1 | 4+1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Players transferred out during the season ||||||||||||||||
| 31 | DF | FRA | Youssouf Sabaly | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 15 | FW | FRA | Jean-Christophe Bahebeck | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 22 | FW | ARG | Ezequiel Lavezzi | 24 | 3 | 3+13 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1+3 | 0 |
| — | GK | FRA | Mike Maignan | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| — | DF | FRA | Lucas Digne | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| — | MF | BRA | Gustavo Hebling | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| — | FW | FRA | Roli Pereira de Sa | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Last updated: 21 May 2016 Source: Competitions