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
Matches played	239
Goals scored	637 (2.67 per match)
Top goalscorer	Luis Suárez; (23 goals)
Best goalkeeper	Jan Oblak ; (15 clean sheets)
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	6 games; Barcelona; Villarreal
Longest unbeaten run	17 games; Barcelona
Longest winless run	12 games; Valencia
Longest losing run	5 games; Rayo Vallecano; Sporting Gijón
Highest attendance	93,011 ; Barcelona 2–1 Atlético Madrid; (30 January 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 14 February 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 will contest the league, including 17 sides from the 2014–15 season and three promoted from the 2014–15 Segunda División. This will include 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 last season, after being two and one years, respectively in La Liga. Elche was administratively relegated despite finishing in the 13th position.^[3] Following the competition rules, Eibar, who finished in the 18th position, will remain in the league.^[4]

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

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

Las Palmas achieved promotion on June 21, 2015 after defeating Real Zaragoza in the promotion playoff final on away goals after 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 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	45,500
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	Shirt sponsor
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	Constantino Fernández Pico	Víctor Sánchez del Amo	Manuel Pablo	Lotto	Estrella Galicia, Abanca, La Liga es Divertida⁴
Eibar	Alex Aranzábal	José Luis Mendilibar	Mikel Arruabarrena	Puma	AVIA, Wiko¹ ⁴
Espanyol	Chen Yansheng	Constantin Gâlcă	Javi López	Joma	52tt.com
Getafe	Ángel Torres	Fran Escribá	Pedro León	Joma	Tecnocasa Group
Granada	John Purdy	José Ramón Sandoval	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	Juan Carlos Ollero	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	Gary Neville	Dani Parejo	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

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

Source: BDFutbol

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Luis Suárez	Barcelona	23
2	Cristiano Ronaldo	Real Madrid	21
3	Karim Benzema	Real Madrid	19
4	Neymar	Barcelona	17
5	Borja Bastón	Eibar	16
6	Lucas Pérez	Deportivo La Coruña	14
7	Gareth Bale	Real Madrid	13
	Aritz Aduriz	Athletic Bilbao
	Kévin Gameiro	Sevilla
	Lionel Messi	Barcelona

Rank	Player	Club	Assists
1	Neymar	Barcelona	9
2	Cristiano Ronaldo	Real Madrid	8
	Luis Suárez	Barcelona
	Roberto Soldado	Villarreal
	Gareth Bale	Real Madrid
6	Toni Kroos	Real Madrid	7
	Lionel Messi	Barcelona
	Koke	Atlético Madrid
	Rubén Pardo	Real Sociedad
10	James Rodríguez	Real Madrid	6
	Lucas Pérez	Deportivo La Coruña
	Sergi Enrich	Eibar
	Marco Asensio	Espanyol

Rank	Name	Club	Goals Against	Matches	Average
1	Jan Oblak	Atlético Madrid	11	24	0.46
2	Alphonse Areola	Villarreal	18	24	0.75
3	Carlos Kameni	Malaga	21	24	0.88
4	Vicente Guaita	Getafe	36	24	1.50
5	Andrés Fernández	Granada	49	24	2.04

Pos	Team	Total	High	Low	Average	Change
1	Barcelona	971,924	93,011	65,531	74,763	−3.7%^†
2	Real Madrid	889,023	80,148	61,564	68,386	−6.9%^†
3	Atlético Madrid	489,065	51,933	37,461	44,460	−4.5%^†
4	Athletic Bilbao	459,274	44,772	39,107	41,752	+2.8%^†
5	Valencia	456,554	47,217	31,743	38,046	−13.2%^†
6	Real Betis	404,718	46,061	24,879	36,793	+20.1%¹
7	Sevilla	460,930	40,395	29,211	35,456	+14.0%^†
8	Deportivo	272,496	29,666	17,184	22,708	+6.7%^†
9	Sporting Gijón	245,532	27,691	19,536	22,231	+15.1%¹
10	Málaga	231,993	27,625	17,315	21,090	−5.2%^†
11	Real Sociedad	249,247	26,114	15,839	20,771	−6.0%^†
12	Las Palmas	235,845	28,414	16,701	19,654	+22.7%¹
13	Celta de Vigo	219,934	24,519	13,584	18,328	−4.2%^†
14	Espanyol	187,485	27,395	12,461	17,044	−8.8%^†
15	Villarreal	219,383	19,477	15,090	16,876	+5.7%^†
16	Granada	161,171	18,358	12,711	14,652	−11.1%^†
17	Levante	162,173	22,424	10,346	13,514	−11.5%^†
18	Rayo Vallecano	131,353	13,100	9,301	10,946	+3.0%^†
19	Getafe	85,419	10,009	4,532	6,571	−10.7%^†
20	Eibar	67,050	5,892	4,215	5,158	+8.0%^†
	League total	6,600,569	94,990	4,215	27,617	+3.3%^†

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