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.

2015–16 UEFA Champions League

The San Siro in Milan hosted the final.
Tournament details
Dates	30 June – 26 August 2015 (qualifying) 15 September 2015 – 28 May 2016 (competition proper)
Teams	32 (group stage) 78 (total) (from 53 associations)
Final positions
Champions	Real Madrid (11th title)
Runners-up	Atlético Madrid
Tournament statistics
Matches played	125
Goals scored	347 (2.78 per match)
Attendance	5,114,427 (40,915 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Cristiano Ronaldo (16 goals)
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The 2016 UEFA Champions League Final [en] 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

Main article: 2015–16 UEFA Champions League – Group stage

Key to colours in group tables
Team advanced to the Round of 16.
Went to the UEFA Europa League knockout stage.

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Real Madrid	6	5	1	0	19	3	+16	16
2	Paris Saint-Germain	6	4	1	1	12	1	+11	13
3	Shakhtar Donetsk	6	1	0	5	7	14	–7	3
4	Malmö FF	6	1	0	5	1	21	–20	3

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Wolfsburg	6	4	0	2	9	6	+3	12
2	PSV Eindhoven	6	3	1	2	8	7	+1	10
3	Manchester United	6	2	2	2	7	7	0	8
4	CSKA Moscow	6	1	1	4	5	9	–4	4

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Atlético Madrid	6	4	1	1	11	3	+8	13
2	Benfica	6	3	1	2	10	8	+2	10
3	Galatasaray	6	1	2	3	6	10	–4	5
4	Astana	6	0	4	2	5	11	–6	4

Group D

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Manchester City	6	4	0	2	12	8	+4	12
2	Juventus	6	3	2	1	6	3	+3	11
3	Sevilla	6	2	0	4	8	11	–3	6
4	Borussia Mönchengladbach	6	1	2	3	8	12	–4	5

Group E

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Barcelona	6	4	2	0	15	4	+11	14
2	Roma	6	1	3	2	11	16	–5	6
3	Bayer Leverkusen	6	1	3	2	13	12	+1	6
4	BATE Borisov	6	1	2	3	5	12	–7	5

Group F

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Bayern Munich	6	5	0	1	19	3	+16	15
2	Arsenal	6	3	0	3	12	10	+2	9
3	Olympiacos	6	3	0	3	6	13	–7	9
4	Dinamo Zagreb	6	1	0	5	3	14	–11	3

Group G

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Chelsea	6	4	1	1	13	3	+10	13
2	Dynamo Kyiv	6	3	2	1	8	4	+4	11
3	Porto	6	3	1	2	9	8	+1	10
4	Maccabi Tel Aviv	6	0	0	6	1	16	–15	0

Group H

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Zenit St. Petersburg	6	5	0	1	13	6	+7	15
2	Gent	6	3	1	2	8	7	+1	10
3	Valencia	6	2	0	4	5	9	–4	6
4	Lyon	6	1	1	4	5	9	–4	4

Knockout stage

Bracket

	Round of 16						Quarter-finals						Semi-finals						Final
	Paris Saint-Germain	2	2	4
	Chelsea	1	1	2
							Paris Saint-Germain	2	0	2
							Manchester City	2	1	3
	Dynamo Kyiv	1	0	1
	Manchester City	3	0	3
													Manchester City	0	0	0
												Real Madrid	0	1	1
	Gent	2	0	2
	Wolfsburg	3	1	4
							VfL Wolfsburg	2	0	2
							Real Madrid	0	3	3
	Roma	0	0	0
	Real Madrid	2	2	4
																		Real Madrid	1 (5)
																			Atlético de Madrid	1 (3)
	Arsenal	0	1	1
	Barcelona	2	3	5
							Barcelona	2	0	2
							Atlético de Madrid	1	2	3
	PSV Eindhoven	0	0	0 (7)
	Atlético de Madrid (p)	0	0	0 (8)
													Atlético de Madrid (a)	1	1	2
												Bayern Munich	0	2	2
	Juventus	2	2	4
	Bayern Munich (aet)	2	4	6
							Bayern Munich	1	2	3
							Benfica	0	2	2
	Benfica	1	2	3
	Zenit	0	1	1

Round of 16

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg	Paris Saint-Germain	4–2	Chelsea	2–1	2–1
Benfica	3–1	Zenit	1–0	2–1
Roma	0–4	Real Madrid	0–2	0–2
Gent	2–4	VfL Wolfsburg	2–3	0–1
Arsenal	1–5	Barcelona	0–2	1–3
Juventus	4–6	Bayern Munich	2–2	2–4 (aet)
PSV Eindhoven	0–0 (7–8 p)	Atlético de Madrid	0–0	0–0 (aet)
Dynamo Kyiv	1–3	Manchester City	1–3	0–0

Quarter-finals

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg	Bayern Munich	3–2	Benfica	1–0	2–2
Barcelona	2–3	Atlético de Madrid	2–1	0–2
VfL Wolfsburg	2–3	Real Madrid	2–0	0–3
Paris Saint-Germain	2–3	Manchester City	2–2	0–1

Semi-finals

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg	Manchester City	0–1	Real Madrid	0–0	0–1
Atlético de Madrid (a)	2–2	Bayern Munich	1–0	1–2

Final

Main article: 2016 UEFA Champions League Final

28 May 2016 (2016-05-28)

20:45 CEST

Real Madrid	1–1 (a.e.t.)	Atlético Madrid
Ramos  15'	Report	Carrasco  79'
Penalties
Vázquez Marcelo Bale Ramos Ronaldo	5–3	Griezmann Gabi Saúl Juanfran

San Siro, Milan

Attendance: 71,942^[1]

Referee: Mark Clattenburg (England)

Statistics

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 Ronaldo4	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

⁴ Player scored four goals.

Tournament rankings

Sergio Ramos celebrating La Undecima (The Eleventh) with the trophy.

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