# 2015–16 Borussia Dortmund season

The 2015–16 Borussia Dortmund season was the 105th season (and 106th overall year) in the football club's history and 40th consecutive and 49th overall season in the top flight of German football, the Bundesliga, having been promoted from the 2. Bundesliga in 1976.
In addition to the domestic league, Borussia Dortmund also participated in this season's editions of the domestic cup, the DFB-Pokal, and the second-tier continental cup, the UEFA Europa League. This was the 43rd season for the club in the Westfalenstadion, located in Dortmund, Germany. The stadium had a capacity of 81,359 for Bundesliga matches, and a capacity of 65,851 for continental matches. The season covered a period from 1 July 2015 to 30 June 2016.
The season was the first since 2000–01 without Sebastian Kehl, who retired after the 2014–15 season.

## Season overview
### Background

Dortmund finished the previous season in seventh place in the Bundesliga, one of its worst finishes in recent years. It won the DFL-Supercup in the previous season, but was unable to qualify for this season. Dortmund also progressed to the round of 16 in the 2014–15 UEFA Champions League before being knocked out by Juventus. This season, Dortmund only qualified for the 2015–16 UEFA Europa League, the second-tier continental cup. They entered the competition in the third qualifying round. If they advance from this round, they must also get through the play-off round before qualifying for the group stage. Last season, Dortmund ended up as runners-up of the DFB-Pokal after losing to VfL Wolfsburg. Dortmund will begin the season with new coach Thomas Tuchel, who replaced Jürgen Klopp.

### Pre-season

The pre-season began with training starting on 29 June 2015. The first pre-season friendly was on 3 July against VfL Rhede. The next day, the season opening event took place with another friendly match against "Team Gold". After this, Dortmund went on a tour of Asia from 5–11 July. They played in two friendlies against Kawasaki Frontale in Japan on 7 July and Johor Darul Ta'zim (Southern Tigers) in Malaysia on 9 July. They then returned to Germany to face VfL Bochum on 17 July before heading to Bad Ragaz in Switzerland for a training camp. This took place from 19–26 July. They faced FC Luzern on 21 July and Juventus on 25 July, the team who knocked them out of the previous edition of the Champions League. After the Swiss training camp, they returned to Germany.

### July–August

Competitive matches began on 30 July with the first leg of the UEFA Europa League third qualifying round. The draw for who they will face took place on 17 July. Dortmund were drawn to Austria side Wolfsberger AC. The second leg will take place on 6 August. Round 1 of the DFB-Pokal will take place on 7–10 August, where Dortmund will face Chemnitzer FC away. Matchday 1 of the Bundesliga will then take place from 14–16 August. If Dortmund advances to the play-off round, they will play the first leg on 20 August and the second leg on 27 August. The draw would be talking place on 7 August.
In their first Bundesliga game, Dortmund convincingly beat Borussia Mönchengladbach 4–0 with goals from Marco Reus, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and two from Henrikh Mkhitaryan, allowing them to temporarily claim position second in the league, behind rivals Bayern Munich on goal difference.

## Players

Players and squad numbers last updated on 28 September 2015. Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Nat. | Position(s) | Name |
| Goalkeepers ||||
| 1 | GK | GER | Roman Weidenfeller (vice-captain) |
| 38 | GK | SUI | Roman Bürki |
| 39 | GK | GER | Hendrik Bonmann |
| Defenders ||||
| 3 | DF | KOR | Park Joo-ho |
| 4 | DF | SRB | Neven Subotić |
| 15 | DF | GER | Mats Hummels (Captain) |
| 25 | DF | GRE | Sokratis Papastathopoulos |
| 26 | DF | POL | Łukasz Piszczek |
| 28 | DF | GER | Matthias Ginter |
| 29 | DF | GER | Marcel Schmelzer |
| 37 | DF | GER | Erik Durm |
| Midfielders ||||
| 6 | MF | GER | Sven Bender |
| 8 | MF | GER | İlkay Gündoğan |
| 10 | MF | ARM | Henrikh Mkhitaryan |
| 14 | MF | GER | Moritz Leitner |
| 18 | MF | TUR | Nuri Şahin |
| 22 | MF | USA | Christian Pulisic |
| 23 | MF | JPN | Shinji Kagawa |
| 27 | MF | GER | Gonzalo Castro |
| 30 | MF | GER | Felix Passlack |
| 33 | MF | GER | Julian Weigl |
| Forwards ||||
| 11 | FW | GER | Marco Reus (2nd vice-captain) |
| 20 | FW | COL | Adrián Ramos |
| 17 | FW | GAB | Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang |

## Transfers
### In

| No. | Pos. | Name | Age | EU | Moving from | Type | Transfer window | Ends | Transfer fee |
| 27 | MF | Gonzalo Castro | 28 | EU | Bayer Leverkusen | Transfer | Summer | 2019 | €11 million |
| 33 | MF | Julian Weigl | 19 | EU | 1860 Munich | Transfer | Summer | 2019 | Undisclosed |
| 38 | GK | Roman Bürki | 24 | EU | SC Freiburg | Transfer | Summer | 2019 | €3.5 million |
| 7 | MF | Jonas Hofmann | 22 | EU | Mainz 05 | Loan Return | Summer | 2018 | Free |
| 14 | MF | Moritz Leitner | 22 | EU | VfB Stuttgart | Loan Return | Summer | 2017 | Free |
| 3 | DF | Park Joo-ho | 28 | EU | Mainz 05 | Transfer | Summer | 2018 | Undisclosed |
| 9 | MF | Adnan Januzaj | 20 | EU | Manchester United | Loan | Summer | 2016 | Free |
Total spending: €20 million

### Out

| N | Pos. | Name | Age | EU | Moving to | Type | Transfer window | Transfer fee |
| 5 | MF | Sebastian Kehl | 35 | EU | | Retirement | Summer | Free |
| 21 | MF | Oliver Kirch | 33 | EU | SC Paderborn | Transfer | Summer | Free |
| 33 | GK | Zlatan Alomerović | 24 | EU | 1. FC Kaiserslautern | Transfer | Summer | Undisclosed |
| 22 | GK | Mitchell Langerak | 26 | EU | VfB Stuttgart | Transfer | Summer | Undisclosed |
| 14 | MF | Miloš Jojić | 23 | EU | 1. FC Köln | Transfer | Summer | Undisclosed |
| 40 | LW | Jeremy Dudziak | 20 | EU | FC St. Pauli | Transfer | Summer | Undisclosed |
| 9 | FW | Ciro Immobile | 25 | EU | Sevilla | Loan | Summer | Undisclosed |
| 23 | MF | Kevin Kampl | 27 | EU | Bayer Leverkusen | Transfer | Summer | Undisclosed |
| 16 | MF | Jakub Błaszczykowski | 29 | EU | Fiorentina | Loan | Summer | Undisclosed (with a buy option) |
| 19 | MF | Kevin Großkreutz | 27 | EU | Galatasaray | Transfer | Summer | Undisclosed |
| 7 | LW | Jonas Hofmann | 22 | EU | Borussia Mönchengladbach | Transfer | Winter | Undisclosed |
| 9 | FW | Ciro Immobile | 25 | EU | Sevilla | Transfer | Winter | Undisclosed |

## Statistics
### Appearances and goals

| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Total | Total | Bundesliga | Bundesliga | DFB-Pokal | DFB-Pokal | Europa League | Europa League |
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| Goalkeepers ||||||||||||
| 1 | GK | GER | Roman Weidenfeller | 14 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 0 |
| 38 | GK | SUI | Roman Bürki | 42 | 0 | 33 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 39 | GK | GER | Hendrik Bonmann | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Defenders ||||||||||||
| 3 | DF | KOR | Park Joo-ho | 9 | 1 | 4+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
| 4 | DF | SRB | Neven Subotić | 11 | 0 | 5+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3+2 | 0 |
| 15 | DF | GER | Mats Hummels | 50 | 3 | 29+1 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 14 | 1 |
| 25 | DF | GRE | Sokratis Papastathopoulos | 40 | 1 | 23+2 | 1 | 4+1 | 0 | 8+2 | 0 |
| 26 | DF | POL | Łukasz Piszczek | 38 | 2 | 16+4 | 0 | 5+1 | 1 | 10+2 | 1 |
| 28 | DF | GER | Matthias Ginter | 40 | 4 | 21+3 | 3 | 2+3 | 0 | 8+3 | 1 |
| 29 | DF | GER | Marcel Schmelzer | 47 | 0 | 22+4 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 13+2 | 0 |
| 35 | DF | GER | Pascal Stenzel | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 37 | DF | GER | Erik Durm | 20 | 1 | 10+4 | 1 | 1+2 | 0 | 2+1 | 0 |
| Midfielders ||||||||||||
| 6 | MF | GER | Sven Bender | 35 | 0 | 14+5 | 0 | 4+1 | 0 | 8+3 | 0 |
| 8 | MF | GER | İlkay Gündoğan | 40 | 3 | 22+3 | 1 | 4+1 | 1 | 8+2 | 1 |
| 9 | MF | BEL | Adnan Januzaj | 12 | 0 | 0+6 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 3+2 | 0 |
| 10 | MF | ARM | Henrikh Mkhitaryan | 52 | 23 | 28+3 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 14+1 | 7 |
| 14 | MF | GER | Moritz Leitner | 13 | 0 | 2+7 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0+3 | 0 |
| 18 | MF | TUR | Nuri Şahin | 12 | 0 | 6+3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1+2 | 0 |
| 22 | MF | USA | Christian Pulisic | 12 | 2 | 4+5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0+3 | 0 |
| 23 | MF | JPN | Shinji Kagawa | 46 | 13 | 26+3 | 9 | 2+3 | 1 | 8+4 | 3 |
| 27 | MF | GER | Gonzalo Castro | 41 | 7 | 16+9 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 9+2 | 1 |
| 30 | MF | GER | Felix Passlack | 3 | 0 | 2+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 33 | MF | GER | Julian Weigl | 51 | 0 | 25+5 | 0 | 4+1 | 0 | 13+3 | 0 |
| Forwards ||||||||||||
| 11 | FW | GER | Marco Reus | 43 | 23 | 24+2 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 13 | 9 |
| 17 | FW | GAB | Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang | 49 | 39 | 28+3 | 25 | 4 | 3 | 12+2 | 11 |
| 20 | FW | COL | Adrián Ramos | 39 | 10 | 9+18 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 2+7 | 0 |
| Players transferred out during the season ||||||||||||
| 7 | MF | GER | Jonas Hofmann | 14 | 2 | 4+3 | 1 | 0+1 | 0 | 5+1 | 1 |
| 23 | MF | SVN | Kevin Kampl | 3 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 |
Last updated: 21 May 2016 Source: Competitions

### Goalscorers

This includes all competitive matches. The list is sorted by shirt number when total goals are equal.
| No. | Pos | Squad No. | Name | Bundesliga | DFB-Pokal | UEFA Europa League | Total |
| 1 | FW | 17 | Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang | 25 | 3 | 11 | 39 |
| 2 | MF | 10 | Henrikh Mkhitaryan | 11 | 5 | 7 | 23 |
| 3 | FW | 11 | Marco Reus | 12 | 2 | 9 | 23 |
| 4 | MF | 23 | Shinji Kagawa | 9 | 1 | 3 | 13 |
| 5 | FW | 21 | Adrián Ramos | 9 | 1 | 0 | 10 |
| 6 | MF | 27 | Gonzalo Castro | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 |
| 6 | DF | 28 | Matthias Ginter | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 8 | DF | 3 | Park Joo-ho | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 9 | MF | 7 | Jonas Hofmann | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | DF | 26 | Łukasz Piszczek | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 11 | MF | 8 | İlkay Gündoğan | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 12 | DF | 15 | Mats Hummels | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 13 | MF | 22 | Christian Pulisic | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 14 | DF | 25 | Sokratis Papastathopoulos | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 15 | DF | 37 | Erik Durm | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| | Own Goals | | | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| | Total | | | 77 | 17 | 18 | 103 |
Last updated on 22 March 2016 Europa League excludes goal in Europa League Qualification

### Disciplinary record
## Pre-season and friendlies

Win  Draw  Loss

## Competitions

Win  Draw  Loss

### Bundesliga
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Bayern Munich (C) | 34 | 28 | 4 | 2 | 80 | 17 | +63 | 88 | Qualification for the Champions League group stage |
| 2 | Borussia Dortmund | 34 | 24 | 6 | 4 | 82 | 34 | +48 | 78 | Qualification for the Champions League group stage |
| 3 | Bayer Leverkusen | 34 | 18 | 6 | 10 | 56 | 40 | +16 | 60 | Qualification for the Champions League group stage |
| 4 | Borussia Mönchengladbach | 34 | 17 | 4 | 13 | 67 | 50 | +17 | 55 | Qualification for the Champions League play-off round |
| 5 | Schalke 04 | 34 | 15 | 7 | 12 | 51 | 49 | +2 | 52 | Qualification for the Europa League group stage |
* ↑ Since the winners of the 2015–16 DFB-Pokal, Bayern Munich, qualified for the Champions League based on league position, the Europa League group stage spot was passed to the sixth-placed team, Mainz 05; and the Europa League third qualifying round spot was passed to the seventh-placed team, Hertha BSC.

#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Last updated: 14 May 2016. Source: Bundesliga

#### 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 |
| Ground | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H |
| Result | W | W | W | W | W | D | D | L | W | W | W | W | L | W | W | W | L | W | W | D | W | W | W | W | D | W | W | W | D | W | W | W | L | D |
| Position | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |

#### Matches
### UEFA Europa League
#### Third qualifying round
#### Group stage

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | KRA | DOR | PAOK | QAB |
| 1 | Krasnodar | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 4 | +5 | 13 | Advance to knockout phase | — | 1–0 | 2–1 | 2–1 |
| 2 | Borussia Dortmund | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 5 | +5 | 10 | Advance to knockout phase | 2–1 | — | 0–1 | 4–0 |
| 3 | PAOK | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 7 | | 0–0 | 1–1 | — | 0–0 |
| 4 | Gabala | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 12 | −10 | 2 | | 0–3 | 1–3 | 0–0 | — |

#### Knockout phase
##### Quarter-finals
## Summary

| Games played | 54 (34Bundesliga) (4 DFB-Pokal) (16 Europa League) |
| Games won | 39 (24 Bundesliga) (4 DFB-Pokal) (11 Europa League) |
| Games drawn | 8 (6 Bundesliga) (2 Europa League) |
| Games lost | 7 (4 Bundesliga) (3 Europa League) |
| Goals scored | 140 (82 Bundesliga) (17 DFB-Pokal) (39 Europa League) |
| Goals conceded | 54 (34 Bundesliga) (2 DFB-Pokal) (16 Europa League) |
| Goal difference | +86 (+48 Bundesliga) (+15 DFB-Pokal ) (+23 Europa League) |
| Clean sheets | 20 (11 Bundesliga) (2 DFB-Pokal) (7 Europa League) |
| Yellow cards | 44 |
| Red cards | 0 |
| Top scorer | 39 Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang |
| Winning Percentage | Overall: 39/54 (72.22%) |