# 2015–16 K.A.A. Gent season

The 2015–16 season was Koninklijke Atletiek Associatie Gent's 27th consecutive season in the Belgian Pro League and 113th year in existence as a football club. In addition to the domestic league, Gent participated in that season's editions of the Belgian Cup, the Belgian Super Cup and the UEFA Champions League.

## Squad

    As of 10 March 2016
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 | BEL | Matz Sels |
| 4 | MF | BRA | Rafinha |
| 6 | FW | MAR | Mbark Boussoufa |
| 7 | FW | MLI | Kalifa Coulibaly |
| 8 | MF | BEL | Thomas Matton |
| 9 | FW | BEL | Laurent Depoitre |
| 10 | MF | BRA | Renato Neto |
| 11 | FW | SEN | Simon Diedhiou |
| 13 | DF | SRB | Stefan Mitrović |
| 14 | MF | BEL | Sven Kums |
| 15 | MF | ISR | Kenny Saief |
| 16 | MF | BEL | Rob Schoofs |
| 17 | MF | BEL | Hannes Van der Bruggen |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 18 | MF | FRA | Lucas Deaux |
| 19 | MF | BEL | Brecht Dejaegere |
| 20 | GK | BEL | Yannick Thoelen |
| 21 | DF | GHA | Nana Akwasi Asare |
| 22 | FW | NOR | Gustav Wikheim |
| 23 | DF | DEN | Lasse Nielsen |
| 25 | GK | BEL | Brian Vandenbussche |
| 27 | FW | NGA | Moses Simon |
| 29 | DF | ISR | Hatem Abd Elhamed |
| 32 | DF | BEL | Thomas Foket |
| 55 | DF | ISR | Rami Gershon |
| 77 | MF | BIH | Danijel Milićević |
| 99 | FW | NGA | Peter Olayinka |

## Competitions
### Overview

| 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 % |
| Belgian Pro League | 26 July 2015 | 22 May 2016 | Matchday 1 | 3rd | 40 | 20 | 12 | 8 | 66 | 44 | +22 | 050.00 |
| Belgian Cup | 23 September 2015 | 3 February 2016 | Sixth round | Semi-finals | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 2 | +5 | 080.00 |
| Belgian Super Cup | 16 July 2015 | 16 July 2015 | Final | Winners | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | +1 | 100.00 |
| UEFA Champions League | 16 September 2015 | 8 March 2016 | Group stage | Round of 16 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 11 | −1 | 037.50 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 54 | 28 | 13 | 13 | 84 | 57 | +27 | 051.85 |
Source: Competitions

### Belgian Pro League
#### Results summary

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

#### Regular season
##### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Club Brugge | 30 | 21 | 1 | 8 | 64 | 30 | +34 | 64 | Qualification for the Championship play-offs |
| 2 | Gent | 30 | 17 | 9 | 4 | 56 | 29 | +27 | 60 | Qualification for the Championship play-offs |
| 3 | Anderlecht | 30 | 15 | 10 | 5 | 51 | 29 | +22 | 55 | Qualification for the Championship play-offs |
| 4 | Oostende | 30 | 14 | 7 | 9 | 55 | 44 | +11 | 49 | Qualification for the Championship play-offs |
| 5 | Genk | 30 | 14 | 6 | 10 | 42 | 30 | +12 | 48 | Qualification for the Championship play-offs |

##### Matches
#### Championship play-offs
##### Play-off table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | CLU | AND | GNT | GNK | OOS | ZWA |
| 1 | Club Brugge (C) | 10 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 25 | 9 | +16 | 54 | Qualification for the Champions League group stage | — | 4–0 | 2–0 | 3–1 | 2–2 | 5–0 |
| 2 | Anderlecht | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 15 | 16 | −1 | 47 | Qualification for the Champions League third qualifying round | 1–0 | — | 2–0 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 2–0 |
| 3 | Gent | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 15 | −5 | 42 | Qualification for the Europa League third qualifying round | 1–4 | 1–1 | — | 0–0 | 2–0 | 1–1 |
| 4 | Genk | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 20 | 13 | +7 | 40 | Qualification for the play-off final | 4–2 | 5–2 | 1–2 | — | 4–0 | 2–0 |
| 5 | Oostende | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 14 | 19 | −5 | 36 | | 0–1 | 4–2 | 0–1 | 2–1 | — | 3–3 |
| 6 | Zulte Waregem | 10 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 11 | 23 | −12 | 27 | | 0–2 | 1–2 | 4–2 | 1–2 | 1–2 | — |

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

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | ZEN | GNT | VAL | LYO |
| 1 | Zenit Saint Petersburg | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 6 | +7 | 15 | Advance to knockout phase | — | 2–1 | 2–0 | 3–1 |
| 2 | Gent | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 7 | +1 | 10 | Advance to knockout phase | 2–1 | — | 1–0 | 1–1 |
| 3 | Valencia | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 9 | −4 | 6 | Transfer to Europa League | 2–3 | 2–1 | — | 0–2 |
| 4 | Lyon | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 9 | −4 | 4 | | 0–2 | 1–2 | 0–1 | — |