2015–16 UEFA Champions League

The **2015-16 UEFA Champions League** was the 61st season of Europe's premier club football tournament organised by UEFA. It is the 24th season since it was renamed from the European Champion Clubs' Cup to the UEFA Champions League.

The 2016 UEFA Champions League Final was played at the San Siro in Milan, Italy. Barcelona were the defending champions but Real Madrid won the tournament in penalties over Atlético Madrid.

## Group stage

|Key to colours in group tables||
| --- | --- |
|align=center width=300|Team advanced to the Round of 16.|
|align=center|Went to the UEFA Europa League knockout stage.|

### Group A

|width=30 abbr="Position"|Pos|width=210|Team|width=30 abbr="Played"|Pld|width=30 abbr="Won"|W|width=30 abbr="Drawn"|D|width=30 abbr="Lost"|L|width=30 abbr="Goals for"|GF|width=30 abbr="Goals against"|GA|width=30 abbr="Goal difference"|GD|width=30 abbr="Points"|Pts|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|align=left|Real Madrid|6|5|1|0|19|3|+16|**16**||||||||||
|2|align=left|Paris Saint-Germain|6|4|1|1|12|1|+11|**13**||||||||||
|3|align=left|Shakhtar Donetsk|6|1|0|5|7|14|–7|**3**||||||||||
|4|align=left|Malmö FF|6|1|0|5|1|21|–20|**3**||||||||||

### Group B

|width=30 abbr="Position"|Pos|width=210|Team|width=30 abbr="Played"|Pld|width=30 abbr="Won"|W|width=30 abbr="Drawn"|D|width=30 abbr="Lost"|L|width=30 abbr="Goals for"|GF|width=30 abbr="Goals against"|GA|width=30 abbr="Goal difference"|GD|width=30 abbr="Points"|Pts|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|align=left|Wolfsburg|6|4|0|2|9|6|+3|**12**||||||||||
|2|align=left|PSV Eindhoven|6|3|1|2|8|7|+1|**10**||||||||||
|3|align=left|Manchester United|6|2|2|2|7|7|0|**8**||||||||||
|4|align=left|CSKA Moscow|6|1|1|4|5|9|–4|**4**||||||||||

### Group C

|width=30 abbr="Position"|Pos|width=210|Team|width=30 abbr="Played"|Pld|width=30 abbr="Won"|W|width=30 abbr="Drawn"|D|width=30 abbr="Lost"|L|width=30 abbr="Goals for"|GF|width=30 abbr="Goals against"|GA|width=30 abbr="Goal difference"|GD|width=30 abbr="Points"|Pts|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|align=left|Atlético Madrid|6|4|1|1|11|3|+8|**13**||||||||||
|2|align=left|Benfica|6|3|1|2|10|8|+2|**10**||||||||||
|3|align=left|Galatasaray|6|1|2|3|6|10|–4|**5**||||||||||
|4|align=left|Astana|6|0|4|2|5|11|–6|**4**||||||||||

### Group D

|width=30 abbr="Position"|Pos|width=210|Team|width=30 abbr="Played"|Pld|width=30 abbr="Won"|W|width=30 abbr="Drawn"|D|width=30 abbr="Lost"|L|width=30 abbr="Goals for"|GF|width=30 abbr="Goals against"|GA|width=30 abbr="Goal difference"|GD|width=30 abbr="Points"|Pts|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|align=left|Manchester City|6|4|0|2|12|8|+4|**12**||||||||||
|2|align=left|Juventus|6|3|2|1|6|3|+3|**11**||||||||||
|3|align=left|Sevilla|6|2|0|4|8|11|–3|**6**||||||||||
|4|align=left|Borussia Mönchengladbach|6|1|2|3|8|12|–4|**5**||||||||||

### Group E

|width=30 abbr="Position"|Pos|width=210|Team|width=30 abbr="Played"|Pld|width=30 abbr="Won"|W|width=30 abbr="Drawn"|D|width=30 abbr="Lost"|L|width=30 abbr="Goals for"|GF|width=30 abbr="Goals against"|GA|width=30 abbr="Goal difference"|GD|width=30 abbr="Points"|Pts|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|align=left|Barcelona|6|4|2|0|15|4|+11|**14**||||||||||
|2|align=left|Roma|6|1|3|2|11|16|–5|**6**||||||||||
|3|align=left|Bayer Leverkusen|6|1|3|2|13|12|+1|**6**||||||||||
|4|align=left|BATE Borisov|6|1|2|3|5|12|–7|**5**||||||||||

### Group F

|width=30 abbr="Position"|Pos|width=210|Team|width=30 abbr="Played"|Pld|width=30 abbr="Won"|W|width=30 abbr="Drawn"|D|width=30 abbr="Lost"|L|width=30 abbr="Goals for"|GF|width=30 abbr="Goals against"|GA|width=30 abbr="Goal difference"|GD|width=30 abbr="Points"|Pts|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|align=left|Bayern Munich|6|5|0|1|19|3|+16|**15**||||||||||
|2|align=left|Arsenal|6|3|0|3|12|10|+2|**9**||||||||||
|3|align=left|Olympiacos|6|3|0|3|6|13|–7|**9**||||||||||
|4|align=left|Dinamo Zagreb|6|1|0|5|3|14|–11|**3**||||||||||

### Group G

|width=30 abbr="Position"|Pos|width=210|Team|width=30 abbr="Played"|Pld|width=30 abbr="Won"|W|width=30 abbr="Drawn"|D|width=30 abbr="Lost"|L|width=30 abbr="Goals for"|GF|width=30 abbr="Goals against"|GA|width=30 abbr="Goal difference"|GD|width=30 abbr="Points"|Pts|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|align=left|Chelsea|6|4|1|1|13|3|+10|**13**||||||||||
|2|align=left|Dynamo Kyiv|6|3|2|1|8|4|+4|**11**||||||||||
|3|align=left|Porto|6|3|1|2|9|8|+1|**10**||||||||||
|4|align=left|Maccabi Tel Aviv|6|0|0|6|1|16|–15|**0**||||||||||

### Group H

|width=30 abbr="Position"|Pos|width=210|Team|width=30 abbr="Played"|Pld|width=30 abbr="Won"|W|width=30 abbr="Drawn"|D|width=30 abbr="Lost"|L|width=30 abbr="Goals for"|GF|width=30 abbr="Goals against"|GA|width=30 abbr="Goal difference"|GD|width=30 abbr="Points"|Pts|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|align=left|Zenit St. Petersburg|6|5|0|1|13|6|+7|**15**||||||||||
|2|align=left|Gent|6|3|1|2|8|7|+1|**10**||||||||||
|3|align=left|Valencia|6|2|0|4|5|9|–4|**6**||||||||||
|4|align=left|Lyon|6|1|1|4|5|9|–4|**4**||||||||||

### Round of 16

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### Quarter-finals

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### Semi-finals

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### Goalscorers

**16 goals**
- Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid)

**9 goals**
- Robert Lewandowski (Bayern Münich)

**8 goals**
- Thomas Müller (Bayern Münich)
- Luis Suárez (Barcelona)
**7 goals**
- Antoine Griezmann (Atlético Madrid)
**6 goals**
- Artem Dzyuba (Zenit)
- Lionel Messi (Barcelona)

**5 goals**
- Javier Hernández (Bayer Leverkusen)
- Olivier Giroud (Arsenal)
- Willian (Chelsea)
- Zlatan Ibrahimović (Paris Saint-Germain)

**4 goals**

- Admir Mehmedi (Bayer Leverkusen)
- Karim Benzema (Real Madrid)
- Hulk (Zenit)
- Nicolás Gaitán (Benfica)

**3 goals**

- Vincent Aboubakar (Porto)
- Seydou Doumbia (CSKA Moscou)
- Felipe Pardo (Olympiakos)
- Alexis Sánchez (Arsenal)
- Ángel Di María (Paris Saint-Germain)
- Adrien Rabiot (Paris Saint-Germain)
- Alex Teixeira (Shakhtar Donetsk)
- Lars Stindl (Borussia Mönchengladbach)
- Raheem Sterling (Manchester City)
- Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City)
- Danijel Miličević (Gent)
- Julian Draxler (Wolfsburg)
- Neymar (Barcelona)
- Raúl Jiménez (Benfica)
- Saúl Ñíguez (Atlético Madrid)

**2 goals**

- Hakan Çalhanoğlu (Bayer Leverkusen)
- Filip Mladenović (BATE Borisov)
- Mario Götze (Bayern Münich)
- Douglas Costa (Bayern Münich)
- Arjen Robben (Bayern Münich)
- Kingsley Coman (Bayern Münich)
- Arturo Vidal (Bayern Münich)
- Ivan Rakitić (Barcelona)
- Theo Walcott (Arsenal)
- Mesut Özil (Arsenal)
- Maxime Lestienne (PSV Eindhoven)
- Luuk de Jong (PSV Eindhoven)
- Álvaro Morata (Juventus)
- Daniele De Rossi (Roma)
- Miralem Pjanić (Roma)
- Edin Džeko (Roma)
- Yevhen Konopylanka (Sevilla)
- Éver Banega (Sevilla)
- Lukas Podolski (Galatasaray)
- Selçuk İnan (Galatasaray)
- André André (Porto)
- Oleg Shatov (Zenit)
- Andriy Yarmolenko (Dynamo Kyiv)
- Oscar (Chelsea)
- Diego Costa (Chelsea)
- Konstantinos Mitroglou (Benfica)
- Jonas (Benfica)
- Anderson Talisca (Benfica)
- Fabian Johnson (Borussia Mönchengladbach)
- Raffael (Borussia Mönchengladbach)
- Lucas Moura (Paris Saint-Germain)
- Edinson Cavani (Paris Saint-Germain)
- Anthony Martial (Manchester United)
- Naldo (Wolfsburg)
- André Schürrle (Wolfsburg)
- Max Kruse (Wolfsburg)
- Patrick Twumasi (Astana)
- Wilfried Bony (Manchester City)
- Sergio Agüero (Manchester City)
- David Silva (Manchester City)
- Fernandinho (Manchester City)
- Alexandre Lacazette (Lyon)
- Sven Kums (Gent)
- Kalifa Coulibaly (Gent)
- Vitaliy Buyalskyi (Dynamo Kyiv)

**1 goal**

- Serge Aurier (Paris Saint-Germain)
- David Luiz (Paris Saint-Germain)
- Nacho Fernández (Real Madrid)
- Luka Modrić (Real Madrid)
- Daniel Carvajal (Real Madrid)
- Mateo Kovačić (Real Madrid)
- Jesé Rodríguez (Real Madrid)
- James Rodríguez (Real Madrid)
- Sergio Ramos (Real Madrid)
- Daniel Caligiuri (Wolfsburg)
- Bas Dost (Wolfsburg)
- Vieirinha (Wolfsburg)
- Ricardo Rodríguez (Wolfsburg)
- Maximilian Arnold (Wolfsburg)
- Memphis Depay (Manchester United)
- Juan Mata (Manchester United)
- Chris Smalling (Manchester United)
- Wayne Rooney (Manchester United)
- Héctor Moreno (PSV Eindhoven)
- Luciano Narsingh (PSV Eindhoven)
- Jürgen Locadia (PSV Eindhoven)
- Davy Pröpper (PSV Eindhoven)
- Gonçalo Guedes (Benfica)
- Luisão (Benfica)
- Mario Mandžukić (Juventus)
- Simone Zaza (Juventus)
- Stephan Lichtsteiner (Juventus)
- Paulo Dybala (Juventus)
- Stefano Sturaro (Juventus)
- Paul Pogba (Juventus)
- Juan Cuadrado (Juventus)
- Kevin Gameiro (Sevilla)
- Benoît Trémoulinas (Sevilla)
- Vítolo (Sevilla)
- Fernando Llorente (Sevilla)
- Kyriakos Papadopoulos (Bayer Leverkusen)
- Kevin Kampl (Bayer Leverkusen)
- Nemanja Milunović (BATE Borisov)
- Ihar Stasevich (BATE Borisov)
- Mikhail Gordeichuk (BATE Borisov)
- Sergi Roberto (Barcelona)
- Gerard Piqué (Barcelona)
- Adriano (Barcelona)
- Alessandro Florenzi (Roma)
- Gervinho (Roma)
- Vasilis Torosidis (Roma)
- Iago Falque (Roma)
- Mohamed Salah (Roma)
- Josip Pivarić (Dinamo Zagreb)
- Junior Fernandes (Dinamo Zagreb)
- Armin Hodžić (Dinamo Zagreb)
- David Alaba (Bayern Münich)
- Thiago Alcántara (Bayern Münich)
- Xabi Alonso (Bayern Münich)
- Oleh Husyev (Dynamo Kyiv)
- Júnior Moraes (Dynamo Kyiv)
- Aleksandar Dragović (Dynamo Kyiv)
- Derlis González (Dynamo Kyiv)
- Denys Harmash (Dynamo Kyiv)
- Cesc Fàbregas (Chelsea)
- Gary Cahill (Chelsea)
- Kurt Zouma (Chelsea)
- John Obi Mikel (Chelsea)
- João Cancelo (Valencia)
- André Gomes (Valencia)
- Sofiane Feghouli (Valencia)
- Axel Witsel (Zenit)
- Danny (Zenit)
- Christophe Jallet (Lyon)
- Jordan Ferri (Lyon)
- Maxwel Cornet (Lyon)
- Thomas Matton (Gent)
- Thomas Foket (Gent)
- Laurent Depoitre (Gent)
- Alfreð Finnbogason (Olympiakos)
- Ideye Brown (Olympiakos)
- Maicon (Porto)
- Yacine Brahimi (Porto)
- Cristian Tello (Porto)
- Miguel Layún (Porto)
- Ahmed Musa (CSKA Moscou)
- Sergey Ignashevich (CSKA Moscou)
- Bilal Kısa (Galatasaray)
- Ángel Correa (Atlético Madrid)
- Jackson Martínez (Atlético Madrid)
- Óliver Torres (Atlético Madrid)
- Luciano Vietto (Atlético Madrid)
- Fernando Torres (Atlético Madrid)
- Yannick Carrasco (Atlético Madrid)
- Yaya Touré (Manchester City)
- Markus Rosenberg (Malmö FF)
- Oleksandr Hladkyi (Shakhtar Donetsk)
- Darijo Srna (Shakhtar Donetsk)
- Eduardo da Silva (Shakhtar Donetsk)
- Dentinho (Shakhtar Donetsk)
- Eran Zahavi (Maccabi Tel Aviv)
- Marin Aničić (Astana)
- Julian Korb (Borussia Mönchengladbach)
- Mohamed Elneny (Arsenal)

**Own goals**

- Giorgio Chiellini (Juventus) - against Manchester City
- David Ospina (Arsenal) - against Olympiakos
- Darijo Srna (Shakhtar Donetsk) - against Paris Saint-Germain
- Hakan Balta (Galatasaray) - against Astana
- Lionel Carole (Galatasaray) - against Astana
- Nenad Erić (Astana) - against Galatasaray
- Andreas Christensen (Borussia Mönchengladbach) - against Manchester City
- Lasse Nielsen (Gent) - against Valencia
- Stefan Mitrović (Gent) - against Valencia
- Denys Dedechko (Astana) - against Atlético Madrid
- Adil Rami (Sevilla) - against Manchester City
- Aleksandar Dragović (Dynamo Kyiv) - against Chelsea
- Igor Akinfeev (CSKA Moscou) - against Wolfsburg
- Josuha Guilavogui (Wolfsburg) - against Manchester United
- Iván Marcano (Porto) - against Chelsea
- Fernando (Manchester City) - against Real Madrid

### Hat-tricks

|Player|For|Against|Result|Date|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|Cristiano Ronaldo|Real Madrid|Shakhtar Donetsk|4-0 (H)|15 September 2015|
|Robert Lewandowski|Bayern Munich|Dinamo Zagreb|5-0 (H)|29 September 2015|
|Cristiano Ronaldo<sup>4</sup>|Real Madrid|Malmö FF|8-0 (H)|8 December 2015|
|Karim Benzema|Real Madrid|Malmö FF|8-0 (H)|8 December 2015|
|Olivier Giroud|Arsenal|Olympiakos|3-0 (A)|9 December 2015|
|Cristiano Ronaldo|Real Madrid|VfL Wolfsburg|3-0 (H)|12 April 2016|
<sup>4</sup> <small>Player scored four goals.</small>

### Tournament rankings

|width=30 abbr="Position"|Pos|width=210|Team|width=30 abbr="Played"|Pld|width=30 abbr="Won"|W|width=30 abbr="Drawn"|D|width=30 abbr="Lost"|L|width=30 abbr="Goals for"|GF|width=30 abbr="Goals against"|GA|width=30 abbr="Goal difference"|GD|width=30 abbr="Points"|Pts|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|align=left|Real Madrid|13|9|3|1|28|6|+22|**30**||||||||||
|2|align=left|Atlético Madrid|13|6|4|3|17|8|+9|**22**||||||||||
|colspan=10 bgcolor=f2f2f2|**Eliminated in Semi-finals**|||||||||||||||||||
|3|align=left|Bayern Munich|12|8|2|2|30|11|+19|**26**||||||||||
|4|align=left|Manchester City|12|6|3|3|18|12|+6|**21**||||||||||
|colspan=10 bgcolor=f2f2f2|**Eliminated in Quarter-finals**|||||||||||||||||||
|5|align=left|Barcelona|10|7|2|1|22|8|+14|**23**||||||||||
|6|align=left|Wolfsburg|10|7|0|3|15|11|+4|**21**||||||||||
|7|align=left|Paris Saint-Germain|10|6|2|2|18|6|+12|**20**||||||||||
|8|align=left|Benfica|10|5|2|3|15|12|+3|**17**||||||||||
|colspan=10 bgcolor=f2f2f2|**Eliminated in Round of 16**|||||||||||||||||||
|9|align=left|Zenit St. Petersburg|8|5|0|3|14|9|+5|**15**||||||||||
|10|align=left|Chelsea|8|4|1|3|15|7|+8|**13**||||||||||
|11|align=left|Dynamo Kyiv|8|3|3|2|9|7|+2|**12**||||||||||
|12|align=left|Juventus|8|3|3|2|10|9|+1|**12**||||||||||
|13|align=left|PSV Eindhoven|8|3|3|2|8|7|+1|**12**||||||||||
|14|align=left|Gent|8|3|1|4|10|11|–1|**10**||||||||||
|15|align=left|Arsenal|8|3|0|5|13|15|–2|**9**||||||||||
|16|align=left|Roma|8|1|3|4|11|20|–9|**6**||||||||||
|colspan=10 bgcolor=f2f2f2|**Eliminated in the Group Stage**|||||||||||||||||||
|17|align=left|Porto|6|3|1|2|9|8|+1|**10**||||||||||
|18|align=left|Olympiacos|6|3|0|3|6|13|–7|**9**||||||||||
|19|align=left|Manchester United|6|2|2|2|7|7|0|**8**||||||||||
|20|align=left|Bayer Leverkusen|6|1|3|2|13|12|+1|**6**||||||||||
|21|align=left|Sevilla|6|2|0|4|8|11|–3|**6**||||||||||
|22|align=left|Valencia|6|2|0|4|5|9|–4|**6**||||||||||
|23|align=left|Galatasaray|6|1|2|3|6|10|–4|**5**||||||||||
|24|align=left|Shakhtar Donetsk|6|1|0|5|7|14|–7|**3**||||||||||
|25|align=left|Borussia Mönchengladbach|6|1|2|3|8|12|–4|**5**||||||||||
|26|align=left|BATE Borisov|6|1|2|3|5|12|–7|**5**||||||||||
|rowspan=2|27|align=left|Lyon|6|1|1|4|5|9|–4|**4**|||||||||
|align=left|CSKA Moscow|6|1|1|4|5|9|–4|**4**|||||||||||
|29|align=left|Astana|6|0|4|2|5|11|–6|**4**||||||||||
|30|align=left|Dinamo Zagreb|6|1|0|5|3|14|–11|**3**||||||||||
|31|align=left|Malmö FF|6|1|0|5|1|21|–20|**3**||||||||||
|32|align=left|Maccabi Tel Aviv|6|0|0|6|1|16|–15|**0**||||||||||

## Infobox (international football competition)

- **tourney name**: UEFA Champions League
- **year**: 2015–16
- **image**: Scudo2009.jpg
- **size**: 280px
- **caption**: The San Siro in Milan hosted the final.
- **dates**: 30 June – 26 August 2015 (qualifying)
15 September 2015 – 28 May 2016 (competition proper)
- **num teams**: 32 (group stage)
#Teams, 78 (total)
- **associations**: 53
- **champion other**: Real Madrid C.F., Real Madrid
- **count**: 11
- **second other**: Atlético Madrid
- **matches**: 125
- **goals**: 347
- **attendance**: 5114427
- **top scorer**: Cristiano Ronaldo
- **prevseason**: 2014–15 UEFA Champions League, 2014–15
- **nextseason**: 2016–17 UEFA Champions League, 2016–17