2015–16 La Liga

	Leader
	2016–17 UEFA Champions League group stage
	2016–17 UEFA Champions League Play-off round
	2016–17 UEFA Europa League group stage
	2016–17 UEFA Europa League Third qualifying round
	Relegation to 2016–17 Segunda División

La Liga
Season	2015–16
Champions League	Barcelona; Atlético Madrid; Real Madrid
Matches played	315
Goals scored	857 (2.72 per match)
Top goalscorer	Cristiano Ronaldo; (30 goals)
Biggest home win	Real Madrid 10–2 Rayo Vallecano; (20 December 2015)
Biggest away win	Espanyol 0–6 Real Madrid; (12 September 2015)
Highest scoring	Real Madrid 10–2 Rayo Vallecano; (20 December 2015)
Longest winning run	12 games; Barcelona
Longest unbeaten run	23 games; Barcelona
Longest winless run	13 games; Deportivo La Coruña
Longest losing run	7 games; Getafe
Highest attendance	98,902 ; Barcelona 1–2 Real Madrid; (2 April 2016)
Lowest attendance	4,215; Eibar 5–1 Granada; (18 January 2016)
Average attendance	27,658
	← 2014–15 2016–17 → All statistics correct as of 9 April 2016.

The 2015–16 La Liga season (known as the Liga BBVA for sponsorship reasons) is the 85th since its establishment. Barcelona are the defending champions. The season started on 22 August 2015 and will conclude on 15 May 2016.

Teams

Promotion and relegation (pre-season)

A total of 20 teams are contesting the league, including 17 sides from the 2014–15 season and three promoted from the 2014–15 Segunda División. This includes the two top teams from the Segunda División (Real Betis and Sporting de Gijón), and the winners of the play-offs (Las Palmas).^[2]

Almería and Córdoba were relegated to 2015–16 Segunda División in the last season, after being two and one years, respectively in La Liga. Elche was administratively relegated despite finishing 13th.^[3] Following the competition rules, Eibar, who finished 18th, remained in the league.^[4]

Real Betis was the first team from Segunda to achieve promotion, after a one-year absence from La Liga, on 24 May 2015 after winning 3–0 over Alcorcón.^[5]

Sporting Gijón, promoted after finishing second, qualified on 7 June 2015, after winning 3–0 against Betis and taking advantage of the draw of Girona, who could not retain the promotion spot on the last match day. Sporting returned to the top level after three years.

Las Palmas achieved promotion on 21 June 2015 after defeating Real Zaragoza in the promotion playoff final on away goals, winning the second leg at home 2–0, after losing the first leg away 3–1. Las Palmas returned to the top level after 13 years. They also became the first island team to play in La Liga since Mallorca's relegation to Segunda Division in the 2012–13 season. During those 13 years, they played two seasons in Segunda División B.

Stadiums and locations

Canary Islands (see below)

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Location of teams in 2015–16 La Liga

2015–16 La Liga is located in Canary Islands

Las Palmas

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Location of teams in 2015–16 La Liga (Canary Islands)

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity
Athletic Bilbao	Bilbao	San Mamés	53,289
Atlético Madrid	Madrid	Vicente Calderón	54,907
Barcelona	Barcelona	Camp Nou	99,354
Celta de Vigo	Vigo	Balaídos	31,800
Deportivo La Coruña	A Coruña	Riazor	34,600
Eibar	Eibar	Ipurua	6,267
Espanyol	Barcelona	RCDE Stadium	40,500
Getafe	Getafe	Coliseum Alfonso Pérez	17,393
Granada	Granada	Nuevo Los Cármenes	23,156
Las Palmas	Las Palmas	Gran Canaria	32,150
Levante	Valencia	Ciutat de València	26,354
Málaga	Málaga	La Rosaleda	30,044
Rayo Vallecano	Madrid	Vallecas	14,708
Real Betis	Seville	Benito Villamarín	52,500
Real Madrid	Madrid	Santiago Bernabéu	85,454
Real Sociedad	San Sebastián	Anoeta	32,076
Sevilla	Seville	Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán	42,500
Sporting Gijón	Gijón	El Molinón	29,029
Valencia	Valencia	Mestalla	55,000
Villarreal	Villarreal	El Madrigal	24,890

Personnel and sponsorship

Team	Chairman	Head Coach	Captain^[6]	Kit manufacturer^{[citation needed]}	Shirt sponsor^{[citation needed]}
Athletic Bilbao	Josu Urrutia	Ernesto Valverde	Carlos Gurpegui	Nike	Kutxabank
Atlético Madrid	Enrique Cerezo	Diego Simeone	Gabi	Nike	Plus500, Azerbaijan¹, Huawei³
Barcelona	Josep Maria Bartomeu	Luis Enrique	Andrés Iniesta	Nike	Qatar Airways, UNICEF,¹ ² Beko³
Celta de Vigo	Carlos Mouriño	Eduardo Berizzo	Hugo Mallo	Adidas	Citroën, Abanca, Estrella Galicia⁴
Deportivo La Coruña	Tino Fernández	Víctor Sánchez	Manuel Pablo	Lotto	Estrella Galicia, Abanca, La Liga es Divertida⁴
Eibar	Alex Aranzábal	José Luis Mendilibar	Daniel García	Puma	AVIA, Wiko¹ ⁴
Espanyol	Chen Yansheng	Constantin Gâlcă	Javi López	Joma	52tt.com
Getafe	Ángel Torres	Juan Esnáider	Pedro León	Joma	Tecnocasa Group
Granada	John Purdy	José González	Diego Mainz	Joma	Solver Sports Capital
Las Palmas	Miguel Ángel Ramírez	Quique Setién	David García	Acerbis	Gran Canaria
Levante	Quico Catalán	Rubi	Juanfran	Nike	East United
Málaga	Sheikh Abdullah Al Thani	Javi Gracia	Duda	Nike
Rayo Vallecano	Raúl Martín Presa	Paco Jémez	David Cobeño	Kelme	QBAO.com, Nevir¹
Real Betis	Ángel Haro	Juan Merino	Jorge Molina	Adidas	UED Sports, Wiko¹ ⁴
Real Madrid	Florentino Pérez	Zinedine Zidane	Sergio Ramos	Adidas	Fly Emirates
Real Sociedad	Jokin Aperribay	Eusebio Sacristán	Xabi Prieto	Adidas	QBAO.com, Kutxabank¹
Sevilla	José Castro Carmona	Unai Emery	José Antonio Reyes	New Balance
Sporting Gijón	Antonio Veiga	Abelardo Fernández	Alberto Lora	Kappa	Gijón, Telecable,⁴ Ternera Asturiana³
Valencia	Lay Hoon Chan	Pako Ayestarán	Paco Alcácer	Adidas	beIN Sports¹
Villarreal	Fernando Roig	Marcelino	Bruno Soriano	Xtep	Pamesa Cerámica

1. ^ On the back of shirt.

2. ^ Barcelona makes a donation to UNICEF in order to display the charity's logo on the back of the club's kit.

3. ^ On the sleeves.

4. ^ On the shorts.

5. Additionally, referee kits are now being made by Adidas, sponsored by Würth, and Nike has a new match ball, the Ordem LFP.

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Replaced by	Date of appointment
Real Madrid	Carlo Ancelotti	Sacked	25 May 2015^[7]	Pre-season	Rafael Benítez	3 June 2015^[8]
Getafe	Pablo Franco	Sacked	1 June 2015^[9]		Fran Escribá	26 June 2015^[10]
Eibar	Gaizka Garitano	Mutual consent	30 June 2015^[11]		José Luis Mendilibar	30 June 2015^[12]
Las Palmas	Paco Herrera	Sacked	19 October 2015^[13]	19th	Quique Setién	19 October 2015^[14]
Levante	Lucas Alcaraz		26 October 2015^[15]	20th	Rubi	27 October 2015
Real Sociedad	David Moyes		9 November 2015^[16]	16th	Eusebio Sacristán	9 November 2015
Valencia	Nuno Espírito Santo	Resigned	29 November 2015^[17]	9th	Gary Neville	2 December 2015^[18]
Espanyol	Sergio González	Sacked	14 December 2015	12th	Constantin Gâlcă	14 December 2015^[19]
Real Madrid	Rafael Benítez		4 January 2016^[20]	3rd	Zinedine Zidane	4 January 2016^[20]
Real Betis	Pepe Mel		10 January 2016^[21]	15th	Juan Merino	3 February 2016
Granada	José Ramón Sandoval		22 February 2016^[22]	20th	José González	22 February 2016^[23]
Valencia	Gary Neville		30 March 2016^[24]	14th	Pako Ayestarán	30 March 2016^[24]
Getafe	Fran Escribá		11 April 2016^[25]	19th	Juan Esnáider	12 April 2016

League table

Standings

Template:2015–16 La Liga table

Positions by round

The table lists the positions of teams after each week of matches. In order to preserve chronological evolvements, any postponed matches are not included in the round at which they were originally scheduled, but added to the full round they were played immediately afterwards. For example, if a match is scheduled for matchday 13, but then postponed and played between days 16 and 17, it will be added to the standings for day 16.

Team \ 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
Team \ Round
Template:Fb team Barcelona	5	4	1	1	5	2	4	3	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Template:Fb team Atlético Madrid	3	3	6	5	4	5	5	4	3	4	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	1	1	1	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
Template:Fb team Real Madrid	10	5	2	2	1	3	2	1	1	1	2	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
Template:Fb team Villarreal	7	6	4	3	3	1	1	5	5	5	5	4	6	5	5	5	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4
Template:Fb team Celta	2	1	3	4	2	4	3	2	4	3	4	5	4	4	4	4	5	5	5	5	5	7	7	8	6	6	6	7	7	5	5	5
Template:Fb team Athletic Bilbao	17	20	10	13	15	17	13	14	12	8	8	9	7	7	9	7	7	6	8	9	8	6	6	7	8	7	7	6	6	7	6	6
Template:Fb team Sevilla	13	17	18	20	20	16	12	13	8	11	10	11	10	10	7	8	8	9	7	7	7	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	6	7	7
Template:Fb team Málaga	9	15	15	18	19	18	17	17	16	17	17	20	18	17	16	13	11	11	10	12	12	10	10	11	12	11	11	12	9	8	8	8
Template:Fb team Real Sociedad	11	11	16	17	11	12	16	16	15	16	16	14	15	13	13	14	14	15	14	13	15	13	11	10	9	9	10	9	10	11	10	9
Template:Fb team Las Palmas	19	14	13	16	12	14	19	19	18	19	18	18	19	20	19	19	16	16	16	16	18	16	18	18	18	17	15	15	15	15	12	10
Template:Fb team Eibar	1	2	5	6	8	7	7	7	7	6	6	6	8	9	10	10	9	8	6	6	6	8	8	6	7	8	8	8	8	9	9	11
Template:Fb team Deportivo	8	9	7	9	7	6	6	6	6	9	9	8	5	6	6	6	6	7	9	8	9	9	9	9	10	10	12	13	13	10	11	12
Template:Fb team Real Betis	6	18	9	11	14	10	8	10	10	13	11	12	11	11	11	11	12	14	15	15	14	14	13	14	13	13	13	10	11	13	14	13
Template:Fb team Valencia	15	10	8	7	10	8	9	8	9	7	7	7	9	8	8	9	10	10	11	11	11	12	14	12	11	12	9	11	12	14	15	14
Template:Fb team Espanyol	4	8	12	8	6	9	10	9	11	10	13	10	12	12	12	12	13	12	13	14	13	15	17	17	16	14	14	14	14	12	13	15
Template:Fb team Rayo Vallecano	12	16	19	12	9	11	15	15	14	15	12	13	14	16	18	18	19	19	19	18	17	19	15	15	15	16	16	17	16	16	16	16
Template:Fb team Granada	20	7	11	15	18	20	20	20	19	18	19	17	17	18	17	17	18	17	17	17	16	18	19	19	20	19	18	18	17	17	17	17
Template:Fb team Sporting Gijón	14	12	17	10	13	15	11	12	17	12	14	15	16	14	14	16	17	18	18	19	19	17	16	16	17	18	19	19	19	19	18	18	18
Template:Fb team Levante	16	13	14	19	16	19	18	18	20	20	20	19	20	19	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	19	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	19
Template:Fb team Getafe	18	19	20	14	17	13	14	11	13	14	15	16	13	15	15	15	15	13	12	10	10	11	12	13	14	15	17	16	18	18	19	19	20

Source: BDFutbol

Rank	Name	Club	Goals Against	Matches	Average
1	Jan Oblak	Atlético Madrid	16	32	0.50
2	Claudio Bravo	Barcelona	20	28	0.71
3	Alphonse Areola	Villarreal	24	30	0.80
4	Keylor Navas	Real Madrid	25	29	0.86
5	Gorka Iraizoz	Athletic Bilbao	32	30	1.07

Pos	Team	Total	High	Low	Average	Change
1	Barcelona	1,234,525	98,902	65,531	77,158	−0.6%^†
2	Real Madrid	1,155,445	80,148	61,564	67,967	−7.4%^†
3	Atlético Madrid	645,357	51,933	29,737	43,024	−7.5%^†
4	Athletic Bilbao	665,647	47,785	37,552	41,603	+2.4%^†
5	Valencia	608,732	47,217	31,743	38,046	−13.2%^†
6	Real Betis	580,945	46,061	24,879	36,309	+18.5%¹
7	Sevilla	554,067	40,395	29,211	34,629	+11.3%^†
8	Sporting Gijón	365,433	28,140	19,536	22,840	+18.2%¹
9	Deportivo	357,171	29,666	16,185	22,323	+4.9%^†
10	Málaga	326,413	28,290	17,315	21,761	−2.2%^†
11	Las Palmas	356,285	28,414	15,819	20,958	+30.8%¹
12	Real Sociedad	326,965	27,484	12,755	20,435	−7.6%^†
13	Espanyol	296,216	27,395	12,461	18,514	−0.9%^†
14	Celta de Vigo	289,057	24,519	13,584	18,066	−5.6%^†
15	Villarreal	289,388	23,450	15,026	17,023	+6.6%^†
16	Granada	241,432	18,358	12,711	15,090	−8.4%^†
17	Levante	236,110	22,424	9,225	13,889	−9.0%^†
18	Rayo Vallecano	180,273	13,775	9,301	11,267	+6.0%^†
19	Getafe	115,167	11,401	4,532	6,775	−8.0%^†
20	Eibar	89,090	5,941	4,215	5,241	+9.7%^†
	League total	8,913,718	98,902	4,215	27,511	+2.9%^†

Teams

Promotion and relegation (pre-season)

Stadiums and locations

Personnel and sponsorship

Managerial changes

League table

Standings

Positions by round

Results

Season statistics

Top goalscorers

Top assists

Zamora Trophy

Hat-tricks

Discipline

Attendances

Awards

Monthly awards

Number of teams by autonomous community

Broadcasting rights

References