# 2015–16 FC Groningen season

FC Groningen finished 2015–16 Eredivisie season as 7th.
The club competed also in the KNVB Cup. FC Groningen lost 5–3 against FC Utrecht after extra time in the 3rd round and they are eliminated from the cup.
FC Groningen participated in the group stage of the Europa League, ultimately finishing in fourth place and failing to qualify for the knockout rounds.
Michael de Leeuw was the top scorer of the club in this season with 9 goals in Eredivisie and 1 goal in KNVB with a total of 10.
Sergio Padt was the most appeared players in this season with 43 appearances; 35 appearances in Eredivisie, 2 appearances in the KNVB Cup and 6 appearances in Europa League.

## Players
### First-team squad

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 | NED | Sergio Padt |
| 2 | DF | NED | Johan Kappelhof |
| 3 | DF | BRA | Eric Botteghin |
| 4 | DF | NED | Martijn van der Laan |
| 5 | DF | NED | Lorenzo Burnet |
| 6 | MF | NED | Etiënne Reijnen |
| 7 | FW | CUW | Jarchinio Antonia |
| 8 | FW | NED | Michael de Leeuw |
| 9 | FW | NED | Danny Hoesen |
| 10 | MF | SVK | Albert Rusnák |
| 11 | FW | NED | Bryan Linssen |
| 13 | FW | NOR | Alexander Sørloth |
| 14 | FW | MAR | Mimoun Mahi |
| 17 | MF | NED | Jesper Drost |
| 19 | FW | MNE | Dino Islamović |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 21 | DF | SWE | Rasmus Lindgren |
| 22 | MF | SWE | Simon Tibbling |
| 23 | MF | NED | Hedwiges Maduro |
| 26 | GK | NED | Peter van der Vlag |
| 28 | MF | NED | Abel Tamata |
| 33 | MF | NED | Hans Hateboer |
| 35 | DF | NED | Glenn Bijl |
| 37 | DF | USA | Desevio Payne |
| 38 | MF | CUW | Juninho Bacuna |
| 45 | FW | MAR | Oussama Idrissi |
| 46 | MF | NED | Gijs Jasper |
| 50 | MF | NED | Keziah Veendorp |
| 52 | FW | NED | Robbert de Vos |
| — | DF | DEN | Kasper Larsen |
| — | DF | NED | Tom Hiariej |

## Transfers
### In

| Pos. | Player | Transferred from | Fee | Date |
| MF | Paco van Moorsel | NEC Nijmegen | End of loan | 30 Jun 2015 |
| DF | William Troost-Ekong | FC Dordrecht | End of loan | 30 Jun 2015 |
| FW | Bryan Linssen | Heracles Almelo | €850,000 | 1 Jul 2015 |
| FW | Abel Tamata | PSV Eindhoven | Free | 1 Jul 2015 |
| DF | Desevio Payne | Young Groningen | | 1 Jul 2015 |
| MF | Juninho Bacuna | Jong Groningen | | 1 Jul 2015 |
| FW | Oussama Idrissi | Feyenoord U19 | Free | 1 Jul 2015 |
| MF | Jesper Drost | PEC Zwolle | €1,450,000 | 30 Jul 2015 |
| MF | Etiënne Reijnen | SC Cambuur | €640,000 | 14 Aug 2015 |
| MF | Kasper Larsen | Odense Boldklub | €450,000 | 14 Aug 2015 |
| MF | Hedwiges Maduro | PAOK FC | Free | 26 Aug 2015 |
| FW | Alexander Sørloth | Rosenborg BK | €550,000 | 1 Jan 2016 |

### Out

| Pos. | Player | Transferred to | Fee | Date |
| MF | Paco van Moorsel | Sparta Rotterdam | Free | 1 Jul 2015 |
| MF | Tjaronn Chery | Queens Park Rangers F.C. | €2,034,000 | 20 Jul 2015 |
| FW | Género Zeefuik | Balıkesirspor | Free | 21 Jul 2015 |
| MF | Maikel Kieftenbeld | Birmingham City F.C. | €250,000 | 27 Jul 2015 |
| DF | William Troost-Ekong | K.A.A. Gent | Free | 27 Jul 2015 |
| DF | Eric Botteghin | Feyenoord | €2,500,000 | 13 Aug 2015 |
| DF | Martijn van der Laan | SC Cambuur | On loan | 17 Aug 2015 |
| MF | Nick van der Velden | Willem II | Free | 20 Aug 2015 |
| MF | Yoëll van Nieff | Excelsior Rotterdam | On loan | 26 Aug 2015 |
| MF | Hilal Ben Moussa | FC Volendam | Free | 31 Aug 2015 |
| MF | Tom Hiariej | SC Cambuur | On loan | 11 Jan 2016 |
| DF | Johan Kappelhof | Chicago Fire FC | €350,000 | 2 Feb 2016 |
| FW | Hristijan Denkovski | No club | Released | 12 Aug 2015 |

## Pre-season and friendlies

Win  Draw  Loss

## Competitions
### Overall record

| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record |
| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win % |
| Eredivisie | 12 August 2015 | 1 May 2016 | Week 1 | 7th | 34 | 14 | 8 | 12 | 41 | 48 | −7 | 041.18 |
| KNVB | 23 September 2015 | 28 October 2015 | 3rd round | 3rd round | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 6 | −3 | 050.00 |
| Europa League | 17 September 2015 | 10 December 2015 | Group phase | Group phase | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 8 | −6 | 000.00 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 42 | 15 | 10 | 17 | 46 | 62 | −16 | 035.71 |
Source: Competitions

### Eredivisie
#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Source:

#### 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 | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | A | H | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H |
| Result | D | L | W | L | W | W | L | L | W | D | W | D | W | W | D | D | L | L | D | D | W | W | L | L | L | L | L | L | W | W | D | W | W | W |
| Position | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 7 |

#### Matches
##### 2nd half

Heracles Almelo won 6–3 on aggregate.

### UEFA Europa League
## Statistics
### Scorers

| # | Player | Eredivisie | KNVB | Europa League | Total |
| 1 | Michael de Leeuw | 9 | 1 | 0 | 10 |
| 2 | Danny Hoesen | 5 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| 3 | Albert Rusnák | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 3 | Bryan Linssen | 3 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 3 | Rasmus Lindgren | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 6 | Hedwiges Maduro | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 6 | Mimoun Mahi | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 6 | Oussama Idrissi | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 9 | Alexander Sørloth | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 9 | Jesper Drost | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 9 | Mimoun Mahi | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 12 | Hans Hateboer | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | Johan Kappelhof | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | Lorenzo Burnet | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |

### Appearances

| # | Player | Eredivisie | KNVB | Europa League | Total |
| 1 | Sergio Padt | 35 | 2 | 6 | 43 |
| 2 | Etiënne Reijnen | 33 | 2 | 5 | 40 |
| 2 | Hans Hateboer | 32 | 2 | 6 | 40 |
| 4 | Albert Rusnák | 31 | 2 | 6 | 39 |
| 4 | Simon Tibbling | 32 | 2 | 6 | 39 |
| 6 | Bryan Linssen | 29 | 2 | 6 | 37 |
| 6 | Hedwiges Maduro | 29 | 2 | 6 | 37 |
| 8 | Michael de Leeuw | 29 | 2 | 4 | 35 |
| 9 | Jesper Drost | 30 | 1 | 3 | 34 |
| 10 | Danny Hoesen | 26 | 1 | 6 | 33 |
| 11 | Johan Kappelhof | 18 | 2 | 6 | 26 |
| 12 | Jarchinio Antonia | 17 | 2 | 5 | 24 |
| 13 | Lorenzo Burnet | 21 | 1 | 1 | 23 |
| 13 | Rasmus Lindgren | 22 | 0 | 1 | 23 |
| 15 | Abel Tamata | 15 | 1 | 5 | 21 |
| 16 | Kasper Larsen | 13 | 1 | 5 | 19 |
| 17 | Mimoun Mahi | 13 | 1 | 3 | 17 |
| 17 | Oussama Idrissi | 17 | 0 | 0 | 17 |
| 17 | Juninho Bacuna | 15 | 1 | 1 | 17 |
| 20 | Alexander Sørloth | 14 | 0 | 0 | 14 |
| 21 | Desevio Payne | 9 | 0 | 0 | 9 |
| 22 | Tom Hiariej | 4 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 23 | Eric Botteghin | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 23 | Keziah Veendorp | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |

### Clean sheets

| # | Player | Eredivisie | Europa League | Total |
| 1 | Sergio Padt | 8 | 1 | 9 |
| Total | Total | 8 | 1 | 9 |

### Disciplinary record

| # | Player | Eredivisie | Eredivisie | KNVB | KNVB | Europa League | Europa League | Total | Total |
| 1 | Michael de Leeuw | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 2 |
| 2 | Kasper Larsen | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| 3 | Hans Hateboer | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 0 |
| 4 | Bryan Linssen | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| 5 | Johan Kappelhof | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| 5 | Simon Tibbling | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| 7 | Lorenzo Burnet | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 8 | Albert Rusnák | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 9 | Etiënne Reijnen | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 9 | Juninho Bacuna | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 9 | Sergio Padt | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 12 | Alexander Sørloth | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 12 | Hedwiges Maduro | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 12 | Jesper Drost | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 12 | Oussama Idrissi | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 12 | Rasmus Lindgren | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 17 | Danny Hoesen | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 17 | Desevio Payne | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 17 | Jarchinio Antonia | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |