2015–16 S.L. Benfica season

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Benfica
2015–16 season
President Luís Filipe Vieira
Manager Rui Vitória
Stadium Estádio da Luz
Primeira Liga 1st
Taça de Portugal Fourth round
Taça da Liga Winners
Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira Runners-up
UEFA Champions League Quarter-finals
Top goalscorer League: Jonas (32)
All: Jonas (36)
Highest home attendance 64,235[1]
Benfica 4–1 Nacional
(15 May 2016)
Lowest home attendance 20,107[2]
Benfica 1–0 Nacional
(29 December 2015)
Average home league attendance 50,322[3]
Home colours
Away colours
← 2014–15 2016–17 →

The 2015–16 season was Sport Lisboa e Benfica's 112th season in existence and the club's 82nd consecutive season in both Portuguese football and UEFA competitions. It started on 9 August 2015 and concluded on 20 May 2016.

Benfica played in the Primeira Liga as the two-time defending champions after being crowned for a record 34th time, in the previous campaign. On 15 May, Benfica won their third consecutive league title (for the sixth time in their history and first since 1977), and their 35th overall, with a Portuguese record of 88 points out of the possible maximum of 102 (34 matches). Five days later, Benfica won their third consecutive league cup title, their seventh overall in nine editions, beating Marítimo 6–2 in the final. Internationally, Benfica reached the quarter-finals of the UEFA Champions League, where they were eliminated by Bayern Munich 2–3 on aggregate.

Players

Squad information

N
 P
 Nat.
 Name
 Age
 EU
 Since
 App
 Goals
 Ends
 Transfer fee
 Notes
1 GK Brazil Ederson M. 30 Non-EU 2015 17 0 2020 Undisclosed Originally from youth system
2 CB Argentina Lisandro 34 Non-EU 2014 28 1 2018 Undisclosed
3 LB Spain Grimaldo 28 EU 2016 (Winter) 5 0 2021 €1,500,000
4 CB Brazil Luisão (captain) 43 EU 2003 475 43 2017 Undisclosed Second nation: Portugal
5 DM Serbia Fejsa 35 Non-EU 2013 60 1 2019 Undisclosed
7 CM Greece Samaris 34 EU 2014 78 2 2019 €10,000,000
9 ST Mexico Raúl 32 Non-EU 2015 43 11 2020 Undisclosed
10 AM Argentina Nico Gaitán 36 Non-EU 2010 252 41 2019 €8,400,000
11 ST Greece Mitroglou 36 EU 2015 44 25 2016 Loan Second nation: Germany
12 GK Brazil Júlio César 44 EU 2014 64 0 2016 Free
13 GK Portugal Paulo Lopes 45 EU 2012 10 0 Free Originally from youth system
14 DF Sweden V. Lindelöf 29 EU 2014 25 1 2020 Youth system Promoted from Benfica B
17 ST Brazil Jonas 40 EU 2014 82 67 2018 Free Second nation: Italy
18 RW Argentina Salvio 33 Non-EU 2010 161 38 2017 €13,500,000
19 LB Portugal Eliseu 40 EU 2014 76 4 2016 Undisclosed Second nation: Cape Verde
20 RW Portugal G. Guedes 27 EU 2014 39 5 2021 Youth system Promoted from Benfica B
21 CM Portugal Pizzi 34 EU 2014 76 13 2019 €14,000,000
28 FB Portugal Sílvio 36 EU 2013 39 0 2016 Loan Originally from youth system
30 AM Brazil A. Talisca 30 Non-EU 2014 78 20 2019 €4,000,000
33 CB Brazil Jardel 38 Non-EU 2011 (Winter) 168 11 2020 Undisclosed
34 DM Portugal A. Almeida 33 EU 2012 131 0 2018 Undisclosed
35 ST Serbia Luka 26 Non-EU 2016 (Winter) 2 0 2021 Undisclosed Second nation: Bosnia and Herzegovina
38 LW Portugal N. Santos 29 EU 2015 2 0 2021 Youth system Promoted from Benfica B
39 AM Morocco Carcela G. 34 EU 2015 29 3 2020 Free Second nation: Belgium
50 RB Portugal N. Semedo 30 EU 2015 18 1 2021 Youth system Second nation: Cape Verde
Promoted from Benfica B
85 MF Portugal R. Sanches 26 EU 2015 34 2 2021 Youth system Promoted from Benfica B
  • Source: [4]
  • Ordered by squad number.

Transfers

In

Date Pos No. Player Age From Ends Fee Ref
12 June 2015 MF 23 Morocco Adel Taarabt 26 England Queens Park Rangers 2020 Free [5][6]
13 June 2015 MF 39 Morocco Mehdi Carcela-González 25 Belgium Standard Liège 2019 Undisclosed [5][7]
26 June 2015 GK 1 Brazil Ederson 21 Portugal Rio Ave 2020 Undisclosed [5]
13 August 2015 FW 9 Mexico Raúl Jiménez 24 Spain Atlético Madrid 2020 Undisclosed [8]
29 December 2015 DF 3 Spain Álex Grimaldo 20 Spain Barcelona 2021 €1,500,000 [9]

Loan in

Date Pos No. Player Age From Ends Fee Ref
15 July 2015 DF 28 Portugal Sílvio 27 Spain Atlético Madrid 30 June 2016 Free [10]
6 August 2015 FW 11 Greece Konstantinos Mitroglou 27 England Fullham 30 June 2016 Undisclosed [11]

Out

Date Pos No. Player Age To Fee Ref
25 May 2015 DF — Portugal João Cancelo 20 Spain Valencia Undisclosed [5][12]
9 June 2015 MF 8 Serbia Miralem Sulejmani 26 Switzerland Young Boys Undisclosed [5][13]
12 June 2015 FW — Argentina Rogelio Funes Mori 24 Mexico Monterrey Undisclosed [5][14]
12 June 2015 MF — Portugal André Gomes 21 Spain Valencia End of contract [5][15][16]
15 June 2015 FW — Spain Rodrigo 24 Spain Valencia End of contract [5][17][18]
23 June 2015 DF 23 Switzerland Loris Benito 23 Switzerland Young Boys Undisclosed [5][19]
30 June 2015 MF — Brazil Airton 25 Unattached End of contract
30 June 2015 GK 1 Brazil Artur 34 Unattached End of contract
30 June 2015 DF 14 Uruguay Maxi Pereira 31 Unattached End of contract
10 July 2015 FW 19 Portugal Ivan Cavaleiro 21 France Monaco Undisclosed [20]
24 July 2015 FW 11 Brazil Lima 32 United Arab Emirates Al Ahli Club €7,000,000 [21][22]

Loan out

Date Pos No. Player Age To Ends Ref
10 July 2015 FW 32 Portugal Bebé 24 Spain Rayo Vallecano 30 June 2016 [23]
10 July 2015 MF 67 Portugal Hélder Costa 21 France Monaco 30 June 2016 [24]
18 July 2015 DF 37 Brazil César 22 Brazil Flamengo 30 June 2016 [25]
20 July 2015 FW 9 Brazil Derley 27 Turkey Kayserispor 30 June 2016 [26]
30 July 2015 FW 83 Portugal Rui Fonte 25 Portugal Braga 30 June 2016 [27]
7 August 2015 FW — Portugal Yannick Djaló 29 Russia Mordovia Saransk 31 December 2015 [28]
14 August 2015 MF 6 Portugal Rúben Amorim 30 Qatar Al-Wakrah 30 June 2016 [29]
28 August 2015 MF 27 Germany Hany Mukhtar 20 Austria Red Bull Salzburg 30 June 2016 [30]
1 September 2015 MF 15 Netherlands Ola John 23 England Reading 30 June 2016 [31]
1 September 2015 DF — Brazil Sidnei 26 Spain Deportivo La Coruña 30 June 2016 [32]
4 September 2015 FW 16 Portugal Nélson Oliveira 24 England Nottingham Forest 30 June 2016 [33]

Technical staff

Position Name
Head coach Rui Vitória
Assistant coach Arnaldo Teixeira
Sérgio Botelho
Minervino Pietra
Marco Pedroso
Fitness coach Paulo Mourão
Goalkeeping coach Hugo Oliveira
Benfica LAB coordinator Bruno Mendes

Source: [34]

Pre-season and friendlies

      Win       Draw       Loss

Competitions

Overall record

Performance by competition
Competition Starting round Final position/round First match Last match
Primeira Liga N/A Winners 16 August 2015 15 May 2016
Taça de Portugal Third round Fourth round 16 October 2015 21 November 2015
Taça da Liga Third round Winners 29 December 2015 20 May 2016
Supertaça N/A Runners-up 9 August 2015
UEFA Champions League Group stage Quarter-finals 15 September 2015 13 April 2016
Statistics by competition
Competition Pld W D L GF GA GD Win%
Primeira Liga 34 29 1 4 88 22 +66 85.29
Taça de Portugal 2 1 0 1 3 3 +0 50.00
Taça da Liga 5 5 0 0 16 4 +12 100.000
Supertaça 1 0 0 1 0 1 −1 00.00
UEFA Champions League 10 5 2 3 15 12 +3 50.00
Total 52 40 3 9 122 42 +80 76.92

Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira

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Primeira Liga

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Main article: 2015–16 Primeira Liga

League table

Pos Team
Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Benfica (C) 34 29 1 4 88 22 +66 88 Qualification to Champions League group stage
2 Sporting CP 34 27 5 2 79 21 +58 86
3 Porto 34 23 4 7 67 30 +37 73 Qualification to Champions League play-off round
4 Braga 34 16 10 8 54 35 +19 58 Qualification to Europa League group stage[lower-alpha 1]
5 Arouca 34 13 15 6 47 38 +9 54 Qualification to Europa League third qualifying round[lower-alpha 2]
Source: Liga Portugal, Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Head-to-head away goals scored; 5) Goal difference; 6) Matches won; 7) Goals scored; 8) Play-off.
(Note: LPFP decided that only criteria 1, 5, 6 and 7 would be applied to establish the classification during the competition.)[36]
(C) Champion.
Notes:
  1. ↑ Braga qualified for the Europa League group stage by winning the 2015–16 Taça de Portugal.
  2. ↑ Since the winners of the 2015–16 Taça de Portugal, Braga, qualified for European competition based on their league position, the spot awarded to the fourth-placed team (Europa League third qualifying round) is passed to the sixth-placed team, Rio Ave, the highest placed team not already qualified for any European competition.

Results by round

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
Ground H A H H A H A H A H A H A H A H A A H A A H A H A H A H A H A H A H
Result W L W W L W D L W W W W W W W W W W W W W L W W W W W W W W W W W W
Position 1 8 4 3 3 3 5 8 5 4 3 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 1 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

Source:[citation needed]
Ground: A = Away; H = Home. Result: D = Draw; L = Loss; W = Win; P = Postponed.

Matches

  1. ↑ The match was originally to be played on 4 October 2015 but was postponed because of heavy fog.[37]
  2. ↑ The match was interrupted in the 8th minute because of heavy fog, and was resumed on 11 January 2016, 12:00, from the point of abandonment.[38]
  3. ↑ The match was originally to be played on 28 February 2016, during Benfica's 112th anniversary, but was postponed because União da Madeira could not fly to Lisbon.[39]

Taça de Portugal

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Third round

Fourth round

Taça da Liga

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Third round

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Benfica 3 3 0 0 8 1 +7 9 Advance to knockout phase
2 Nacional 3 1 1 1 1 1 0 4
3 Moreirense 3 1 1 1 5 8 −3 4
4 Oriental 3 0 0 3 2 6 −4 0
Source: LPFP
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers

Semi-finals

  1. ↑ The match was originally to be played in February 2016 but was postponed because of both teams' tight schedule.[41]

Final

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UEFA Champions League

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Group stage

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Pos Team
Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification ATL SLB GAL AST
1 Spain Atlético Madrid 6 4 1 1 11 3 +8 13 Advance to knockout phase — 1–2 2–0 4–0
2 Portugal Benfica 6 3 1 2 10 8 +2 10 1–2 — 2–1 2–0
3 Turkey Galatasaray 6 1 2 3 6 10 −4 5 Transfer to Europa League 0–2 2–1 — 1–1
4 Kazakhstan Astana 6 0 4 2 5 11 −6 4 0–0 2–2 2–2 —
Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

Round of 16

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Quarter-finals

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Statistics

Squad statistics

No. Pos Nat Player Total Primeira Liga Taça de Portugal1 Taça da Liga UEFA Champions League
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
1 GK Brazil Ederson 18 -12 10 -4 0 0 5 -4 3 -4
2 DF Argentina Lisandro López 19 1 14 1 1 0 2 0 2 0
3 DF Spain Álex Grimaldo 5 0 2 0 0 0 3 0 0 0
4 DF Brazil Luisão 17 1 9 0 2 0 2 0 4 1
5 MF Serbia Ljubomir Fejsa 28 0 19 0 2 0 1 0 6 0
7 MF Greece Andreas Samaris 40 2 27 2 1 0 5 0 7 0
9 FW Mexico Raúl Jiménez 45 10 28 2 2 0 5 5 10 3
10 MF Argentina Nicolás Gaitán 37 11 25 4 2 0 2 3 8 4
11 FW Greece Konstantinos Mitroglou 45 25 32 20 3 1 3 2 7 2
12 GK Brazil Júlio César 34 -29 24 -17 3 -4 0 0 7 -8
13 GK Portugal Paulo Lopes 1 -1 1 -1 0 0 0 0 0 0
14 DF Sweden Victor Lindelöf 23 1 15 1 0 0 4 0 4 0
15 MF Netherlands Ola John 3 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
17 FW Brazil Jonas 48 36 34 32 2 0 3 2 9 2
18 MF Argentina Eduardo Salvio 12 0 8 0 0 0 1 0 3 0
19 DF Portugal Eliseu 44 0 31 0 2 0 1 0 10 0
20 FW Portugal Gonçalo Guedes 32 4 18 3 2 0 5 0 7 1
21 MF Portugal Pizzi 47 8 31 8 3 0 3 0 10 0
22 MF Serbia Filip Đuričić 2 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
24 MF Italy Bryan Cristante 5 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 2 0
28 DF Portugal Sílvio 14 0 4 0 3 0 4 0 3 0
30 MF Brazil Talisca 34 9 21 3 3 0 5 4 5 2
31 MF Brazil Victor Andrade 5 0 3 0 1 0 0 0 1 0
33 DF Brazil Jardel 44 5 30 3 3 1 2 1 9 0
34 MF Portugal André Almeida 37 0 26 0 1 0 2 0 8 0
35 FW Serbia Luka Jović 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
38 MF Portugal Nuno Santos 2 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
39 MF Morocco Mehdi Carcela-González 29 3 20 2 1 1 4 0 4 0
40 MF Portugal João Teixeira 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
50 DF Portugal Nélson Semedo 18 1 12 1 1 0 2 0 3 0
61 DF Mozambique Clésio Baúque 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
85 MF Portugal Renato Sanches 35 2 24 2 0 0 5 0 6 0

^ Includes Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira

Goalscorers

Rnk Pos Player League Cup League Cup Champions League Total
1 FW Brazil Jonas 32 0 2 2 36
2 FW Greece Konstantinos Mitroglou 20 1 2 2 25
3 FW Mexico Raúl Jiménez 5 0 4 3 12
4 MF Argentina Nicolás Gaitán 4 0 3 4 11
5 MF Brazil Talisca 3 0 4 2 9
6 MF Portugal Pizzi 8 0 0 0 8
7 DF Brazil Jardel 3 1 1 0 5
8 FW Portugal Gonçalo Guedes 3 0 0 1 4
9 MF Morocco Mehdi Carcela-González 2 1 0 0 3
10 MF Portugal Renato Sanches 2 0 0 0 2
MF Greece Andreas Samaris 2 0 0 0 2
12 DF Portugal Nélson Semedo 1 0 0 0 1
DF Brazil Luisão 0 0 0 1 1
DF Argentina Lisandro 1 0 0 0 1
DF Sweden Victor Lindelöf 1 0 0 0 1
Own goals 1 0 0 0 1
Totals 88 3 16 15 122

Clean sheets

Number of matches inside brackets.

N Player League Cup1 League
Cup		 Champions
League		 Total
12 Brazil Júlio César 12 (24) 0 (3) — 2 (7) 14 (34)
1 Brazil Ederson 6 (10) — 2 (5) 0 (3) 8 (18)
13 Portugal Paulo Lopes 0 (1*) — — — 0 (1*)
Totals 17 (34) 0 (3) 2 (5) 2 (10) 22 (52)

1Includes Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira

* Shared match.

Disciplinary record

N P Nat. Name League Europe Cup League Cup Total Notes
Yellow card Second yellow card Red card Yellow card Second yellow card Red card Yellow card Second yellow card Red card Yellow card Second yellow card Red card Yellow card Second yellow card Red card
1 GK Brazil Ederson 2 1 2 1
7 MF Greece Andreas Samaris 7 3 1 1 11 1
34 MF Portugal André Almeida 4 1 4 1 9 1
85 MF Portugal Renato Sanches 5 1 1 6 1
10 MF Argentina Nicolás Gaitán 2 1 1 3 1 Cup includes Super Cup
33 DF Brazil Jardel 8 3 1 12
19 DF Portugal Eliseu 9 1 1 11
17 FW Brazil Jonas 4 4 1 9 Cup includes Super Cup
5 MF Serbia Ljubomir Fejsa 4 2 1 7 Cup includes Super Cup
11 FW Greece Konstantinos Mitroglou 5 1 6
28 DF Portugal Sílvio 1 2 1 2 6 Cup includes Super Cup
2 DF Argentina Lisandro López 3 1 1 5
4 DF Brazil Luisão 3 2 5
14 DF Sweden Victor Lindelöf 3 1 1 5
21 MF Portugal Pizzi 3 2 5
30 MF Brazil Talisca 2 1 1 4
9 FW Mexico Raúl Jiménez 2 1 3
20 FW Portugal Gonçalo Guedes 2 1 3
34 DF Portugal Nélson Semedo 2 1 3
31 MF Brazil Victor Andrade 1 1 2
39 MF Morocco Mehdi Carcela-González 1 1 2
3 DF Spain Álex Grimaldo 1 1
12 GK Brazil Júlio César 1 1
38 MF Portugal Nuno Santos 1 1

Source: LPFP and competitions above.
Ordered by Red card, Second yellow card and Yellow card
Yellow card = Number of bookings; Second yellow card = Number of sending offs after a second yellow card; Red card = Number of sending offs by a direct red card.

Awards

No. Pos Name Award Month Ref
85 MF Portugal Renato Sanches SJPF Young Player of the Month December [42]
CNID Revelation of the Year — [43]
17 FW Brazil Jonas SJPF Player of the Month January [44]
February [45]
March [46]
CNID Footballer of the Year — [43]
Bola de Prata — [47]

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