2015–16 Villarreal CF season

Villarreal CF
	2015–16 season
President	Fernando Roig
Manager	Marcelino
Stadium	El Madrigal
Primera División	4th
Copa del Rey	Round of 16
UEFA Europa League	Semi-finals
Home colours	Away colours
← 2014–15

The 2015–16 season is the 92nd season in Villarreal ’s history and the 16th in the La Liga.^[1]^[2]

Players

Current squad

As of 31 August 2015^[3]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Sergio Asenjo
2	DF	Mario (vice-captain)
3	DF	Bojan Jokić
4	MF	Tomás Pina
5	DF	Mateo Musacchio
6	DF	Víctor Ruiz
7	MF	Samu
8	MF	Jonathan dos Santos
9	FW	Roberto Soldado
10	FW	Léo Baptistão (on loan from Atlético Madrid)
11	DF	Jaume Costa
13	GK	Alphonse Areola (on loan from Paris Saint-Germain)
14	MF	Manu Trigueros

No.	Position	Player
17	FW	Cédric Bakambu
18	MF	Denis Suárez
19	MF	Samu Castillejo
20	FW	Adrián (on loan from Porto)
21	MF	Bruno (captain)
22	DF	Antonio Rukavina
23	DF	Daniele Bonera
24	DF	Eric Bailly
25	GK	Mariano Barbosa
26	MF	Matías Nahuel
27	DF	Adrián Marín
28	MF	Alfonso Pedraza
44	DF	Pablo Íñiguez

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No.	Position	Player
—	DF	Aleksandar Pantić (on loan at Eibar)
—	MF	Javier Espinosa (on loan at Elche)
—	MF	Moi Gómez (on loan at Getafe)
—	MF	Sergio Marcos (on loan at Lugo)

Competitions

Overall

Competition	Started round	Final position / round	First match	Last match
La Liga	–
UEFA Europa League	Group stage
Copa del Rey	Round of 32

Last updated: 18 July 2015
Source: Competitions

Overview

Competition	Record
Competition	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %
La Liga	36	18	10	8	50	31	+19	50.00
Europa League	6	4	1	1	12	6	+6	66.67
Copa del Rey	4	1	0	3	6	7	−1	25.00
Total	46	23	11	12	68	44	+24	50.00

Last updated: 30 April 2016
Source: Competitions

La Liga

League table

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Results summary

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
36	18	10	8	44	31	+13	64	12	4	2	26	10	+16	6	6	6	18	21	−3

Last updated: 30 April 2016.
Source:^{[citation needed]}

Result round 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	35	36	37	38
Ground	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	H	A
Result	D	W	W	W	W	W	L	L	D	W	L	D	L	W	W	W	W	W	W	D	D	W	D	W	D	W	D	L	L	D	W	W	L	L	D	W
Position	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	4	4

Last updated: 30 April 2016.
Source:^{[citation needed]}
Ground: A = Away; H = Home. Result: D = Draw; L = Loss; W = Win; P = Postponed.

Matches

Win Draw Loss

23 August 2015 (2015-08-23) 1	Real Betis	1–1	Villarreal	Sevilla
22:30 (UTC+2)	Bruno 26' Cejudo 35' Pezzella 50' Castro 87'	Report	Soldado 31' Castillejo 49' Bruno 90+2'	Stadium: Benito Villamarín Attendance: 37,996 Referee: Vicandi Garrido

28 August 2015 (2015-08-28) 2	Villarreal	3–1	Espanyol	Villarreal
20:30 (UTC+2)	Soldado 67' Bailly 85' Bakambu 87', 90+3'	Report	Caicedo 5', 35' Pau 19' López 27' Montañés 30' Raillo 48' Arbilla 55'	Stadium: Estadio El Madrigal Attendance: 16,722 Referee: Carlos Velasco Carballo

13 September 2015 (2015-09-13) 3	Granada	1–3	Villarreal	Granada
12:00 (UTC+2)	Babin 11' Lopes 65' Rico 74'	Report	Pina 14' Trigueros 49' Bakambu 51' Soldado 67' Baily 81' Areola 90' Samu 90+1'	Stadium: Estadio Nuevo Los Cármenes Attendance: 13,954 Referee: Jesús Gil Manzano

20 September 2015 (2015-09-20) 4	Villarreal	3–1	Athletic Bilbao	Villarreal
18:15 (UTC+2)	Bruno 23', 42' (pen.) Baptistão 44', 79' Matías Nahuel 49' Bailly 59' Mario 66'	Report	Laporte 11' Gurpegi 48' Aduriz 64' 90+2' De Marcos 87'	Stadium: Estadio El Madrigal Attendance: 19,832 Referee: Carlos Clos Gómez

23 September 2015 (2015-09-23) 5	Málaga	0–1	Villarreal	Málaga
18:15 (UTC+2)	Recio 39' Boka 61'	Report	Dos Santos 17' Bailly 67' Tissone 71' Suárez 79'	Stadium: La Rosaleda Attendance: 18,647 Referee: De Burgos Bengoetxea

26 September 2015 (2015-09-26) 6	Villarreal	1–0	Atlético Madrid	Villarreal
20:30 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Baptistão 14' Soldado 51' Costa 84'	Report	Griezmann 41' Tiago 71'	Stadium: El Madrigal Attendance: 20,087 Referee: David Fernández Borbalán

4 October 2015 (2015-10-04) 7	Levante	1–0	Villarreal	Valencia
18:15 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Juanfran 19' Morales 50' Deyverson 83' José Mari 84' Rubén 90+2'	Report	Jokić 4', 36' Costa 60' Soldado 84' Ruiz 87'	Stadium: Ciutat de València Attendance: 16,059 Referee: Álvarez Izquierdo

18 October 2015 (2015-10-18) 8	Villarreal	1–2	Celta Vigo	Villarreal
12:00 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Bailly 36', 47' Suárez 67' Soldado 71'	report	Fernández 36' Gómez 37' Orellana 41' Wass 43' Nolito 90'	Stadium: El Madrigal Attendance: 17,436 Referee: González González

25 October 2015 (2015-10-25) 9	Las Palmas	0–0	Villarreal	Las Palmas
16:00 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Bigas 63'	Report	Samu 86' Rukavina 90+2'	Stadium: Gran Canaria Attendance: 18,517 Referee: Javier Estrada Fernández

31 October 2015 (2015-10-31) 10	Villarreal	2–1	Sevilla	Villarreal
18:15 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Bailly 10' Mario 25' Bakambu 32', 61' Soldado 50' Costa 82' Ruiz 90+4'	Report	Iborra 29' Rami 63' Llorente 76' Konoplyanka 87'	Stadium: El Madrigal Attendance: 16,730 Referee: Sánchez Martínez

8 November 2015 (2015-11-08) 11	Barcelona	3–0	Villarreal	Barcelona
16:00 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Mathieu 27' Iniesta 37' Neymar 47', 60', 85' Suárez 47', 70' (pen.) Piqué 64'	Report	Mario 39' Costa 69' Bonera 72'	Stadium: Camp Nou Attendance: 72,109 Referee: Carlos Clos Gómez

22 November 2015 (2015-11-22) 12	Villarreal	1–1	Eibar	Villarreal
16:00 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Costa 41', 85' Soldado 44' Mario 75'	Report	Enrich 27' Keko 74', 76' Escalante 79' García 90+3'	Stadium: El Madrigal Attendance: 15,788 Referee: Prieto Iglesias

29 November 2015 (2015-11-29) 13	Getafe	2–0	Villarreal	Getafe
12:00 CEST	Lafita 17', 21' Cala 34' Vázquez 51' J. Rodríguez 65' Lacen 78'	Report	Ruiz 5' Bailly 85'	Stadium: Coliseum Alfonso Pérez Attendance: 5,903 Referee: González González

6 December 2015 (2015-12-06) 14	Villarreal	2–1	Rayo Vallecano	Villarreal
16:00 CEST	Dos Santos 35' Bakambu 69', 86'	Report	Baena 33' Jozabed 41' Castro 60' Miku 80' Quini 88'	Stadium: El Madrigal Attendance: 16,101 Referee: Javier Estrada Fernández

13 December 2015 15	Villarreal	1–0	Real Madrid	Villarreal
20:30	Soldado 8' Bailly 72' Suárez 90+2'	Report	Marcelo 31' Ramos 66'	Stadium: El Madrigal Attendance: 20,468 Referee: Alberto Undiano Mallenco

20 December 2015 16	Real Sociedad	0–2	Villarreal	San Sebastián
18:15	Canales 39' I. Martínez 55'	Report	Suárez 27', 88' Trigueros 73'	Stadium: Anoeta Attendance: 21,949 Referee: Carlos del Cerro Grande

31 December 2015 17	Villarreal	1–0	Valencia	Villarreal
16:00	Bruno 64' Soldado 68'	Report	Gomes 16' Barragán 45' Villalba 90+2'	Stadium: El Madrigal Attendance: 18,526 Referee: Alfonso Javier Álvarez Izquierdo

3 January 2016 (2016-01-03) 18	Deportivo La Coruña	1–2	Villarreal	A Coruña
18:15	Luis Alberto 9', 48' Arribas 25'	Report	Bruno 36', 90+5' (pen.), 39' Dos Santos 43' Navarro 90+5'	Stadium: Riazor Attendance: 23,815 Referee: David Fernández Borbalán

10 January 2016 (2016-01-10) 19	Villarreal	2–0	Sporting Gijón	Vilarreal
12:00	Bakambu 26', 51' Bruno 53' Ruiz 61' Samu 79' Soldado 87'	Report	Carmona 33' Cases 87'	Stadium: El Madrigal Attendance: 16,705 Referee: Jesús Gil Manzano

16 January 2016 (2016-01-16) 20	Villarreal	0–0	Betis	Vila-real
20:30	Ruiz 24' Castillejo 90+4'	Report	Petros 79'	Stadium: El Madrigal Attendance: 15,402 Referee: José Luis González González

23 January 2016 (2016-01-23) 21	Espanyol	2–2	Villarreal	Barcelona
18:15	Caicedo 4' Jordán 35' Gerard 40', 56', 89' Salva 79' Álvarez 89'	Report	Trigueros 24' Costa 56' Musacchio 88'	Stadium: Cornellà-El Prat Attendance: 16,251 Referee: Pedro Jesús Pérez Montero

30 January 2016 (2016-01-30) 22	Villarreal	1–0	Granada	Vilarreal
20:30	Costa 8' Bruno 55' (pen.) Mario 85' Castillejo 89'	Report	Rico 11' Lombán 16' Babin 54'	Stadium: El Madrigal Referee: Carlos del Cerro Grande

6 February 2016 (2016-02-06) 23	Athletic Bilbao	0–0	Villarreal	Bilbao
20:30	Williams 29', 90' San José 41' Lekue 60' Merino 67' Muniain 90'	Report	Costa 27' Bakambu 40' Soldado 75' Ruiz 76' Bonera 77', 90+4'	Stadium: San Mamés Attendance: 41,101 Referee: Mario Melero López

13 February 2016 (2016-02-13) 24	Villarreal	1–0	Málaga	Vilarreal
18:15	Soldado 18' Trigueros 77' Bakambu 90'	[1]	Albentosa 34'	Stadium: El Madrigal Attendance: 17,142 Referee: Inaki Vicandi Garrido

21 February 2016 25	Atlético Madrid	0–0	Villarreal	Madrid
20:30 CET (UTC+01:00)	Gabi 69' Filipe Luís 73'	Report	Castillejo 62' Bailly 77'	Stadium: Vicente Calderón Attendance: 45,323 Referee: Eduardo Prieto

28 February 2016 (2016-02-28) 26	Villarreal	3–0	Levante	Vilarreal
12:00 (UTC+1)	Baptistão 12' Castillejo 30' Adrián 48'	Report	Navarro 27', 56' Lerma 39' Verza 44'	Stadium: El Madrigal Attendance: 15,783 Referee: Hernández Hernández

2 March 2016 (2016-03-02) 27	Celta Vigo	0–0	Villarreal	Vigo
20:00 CET (UTC+01:00)	Díaz 51' Cabral 73'	Report	Matías Nahuel 54' Suárez 72' Bailly 73' Mario 77' Rukavina 86'	Stadium: Balaídos Attendance: 15,376 Referee: Santiago Jaime Latre

5 March 2016 (2016-03-05) 28	Villarreal	0–1	Las Palmas	Vilarreal
20:30 CET (UTC+01:00)	Soldado 31'	Report	García 30' Lemos 53' Montoro 60'	Stadium: El Madrigal Attendance: 15,790 Referee: Clos Gómez

13 March 2016 (2016-03-13) 29	Sevilla	4–2	Villarreal	Seville
16:00 CET (UTC+01:00)	Banega 6', 79' Iborra 23' Ruiz 51' (o.g.) Konoplyanka 65' Krohn-Dehli 74' Reyes 90+1'	Report	Bonera 25' Bakambu 29', 37'	Stadium: Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán Attendance: 35,069 Referee: Carlos Velasco Carballo

20 March 2016 30	Villarreal	2–2	Barcelona	Villarreal
16:00 CET (UTC+01:00)	Soldado 20' Bruno 24' Asenjo 40' Ruiz 41' Rukavina 43' Bakambu 57' Mathieu 63' (o.g.) Pina 78' Mario 84' Trigueros 85'	Report	Turan 13' Piqué 16' Rakitić 20' Neymar 41' (pen.) Alba 53' Mascherano 90+4'	Stadium: El Madrigal Attendance: 24,398 Referee: José Sánchez

3 April 2016 31	Eibar	1–2	Villarreal	Eibar
18:00 CET (UTC+01:00)	Juncà 11' Capa 22', 50' Mauro 90'	Report	Rukavina 12' Adrián 35' Soldado 50' Bakambu 71' Pina 78'	Stadium: Ipurua Attendance: 5,183 Referee: Carlos del Cerro Grande

10 April 2016 (2016-04-10) 32	Villarreal	2–0	Getafe	Vilarreal
18:15 (UTC+1)	Suárez 15' Rukavina 26' Bakambu 84' Bruno 90'	Report	Cala 35' Medrán 68'	Stadium: El Madrigal Attendance: 17,570 Referee: Alberto Undiano Mallenco

17 April 2016 (2016-04-17) 33	Rayo Vallecano	2–1	Villarreal	Madrid
18:15 (UTC+1)	Guerra 7', 57' Amaya 68' Miku 81'	Report	Adrián 20' Ruiz 57' Marín 59' Mario 72' Matías Nahuel 80'	Stadium: Vallecas Attendance: 12,628 Referee: Ignacio Iglesias Villanueva

20 April 2016 34	Real Madrid	3–0	Villarreal	Madrid
22:00 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Benzema 41' Danilo 46' Vázquez 69' Modrić 76' Casemiro 85'	Report	Trigueros 44'	Stadium: Santiago Bernabéu Attendance: 62,678 Referee: Carlos Clos Gómez

24 April 2016 (2016-04-24) 35	Villarreal	0–0	Real Sociedad	Villarreal
20:30 CET (UTC+01:00)	Pina 32' Mario 69' Dos Santos 72' Adrián 90'	[www.laliga.es/directo/temporada-2015-2016/liga-bbva/35/villarreal_real-sociedad Report]	Vela 51'	Stadium: El Madrigal Attendance: 17,215 Referee: David Fernández Borbalán

1 May 2016 36	Valencia	0–2	Villarreal	Valencia
20:30 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Javi Fuego 42'	Report	Samu 16' Musacchio 23' Adrián 33' Rodri 43'	Stadium: Mestalla Attendance: 38,283 Referee: Carlos del Cerro Grande

8 May 2016 (2016-05-08) 37	Villarreal	0–2	Deportivo	Villarreal
17:00 CEST (UTC+01:00)	Bonera 10' Trigueros 49' Ruiz 51'	Report	Fajr 32' Pérez 57' Arribas 88'	Stadium: El Madrigal Attendance: 12,843 Referee: Javier Estrada Fernández

15 May 2016 38	Sporting Gijón	2–0	Villarreal	Gijón
19:30	Jony 8' Rachid 63' Álvarez 79'	Report	Ruiz 49' Mario 90'	Stadium: El Molinón Attendance: 27,295 Referee: Undiano Mallenco

Copa del Rey

Round of 32

Win Draw Loss

3 December 2015 First leg	Huesca	3–2	Villarreal	Huesca
21:00	L. Fernández 3' Mérida 53' (pen.) Machís 75' Carlos David 90+2' Cristian 90+2' López 90+3'	Summary	Jokić 33' Bailly 36' Matías Nahuel 51', 90+3' Bakambu 58'	Stadium: El Alcoraz Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Carlos Del Cerro

17 December 2015 Second leg	Villarreal	2–0 (4–3 agg.)	Huesca	Vila-real
21:00	Trigueros 28' Soldado 78'	Summary	Morillas 63' Carlos David 84' Aythami 90+2'	Stadium: El Madrigal Referee: Ricardo de Burgos

Round of 16

6 January 2016 First leg	Athletic Bilbao	3–2	Villarreal	Bilbao
12:00	Williams 54' Aduriz 68' Laporte 81'	Report	Baptistão 16' Samu 38'	Stadium: San Mamés Referee: Clos Gómez

13 January 2016 Second leg	Villarreal	0–1 (2–4 agg.)	Athletic Bilbao	Vila-real
20:30		Report	Williams 21'	Stadium: El Madrigal Referee: Velasco Carballo

UEFA Europa League

Group stage

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Knockout phase

Round of 32

Win Draw Loss

18 February 2016 (2016-02-18) First leg	Villarreal	1–0	Napoli	Villarreal, Spain
19:00	Suárez 82' Musacchio 86' Soldado 90'	Report	Valdifiori 38' Callejón 67' Insigne 83'	Stadium: El Madrigal Attendance: 17,686 Referee: Bas Nijhuis (Netherlands)

25 February 2016 (2016-02-25) Second leg	Napoli	1–1 (1–2 agg.)	Villarreal	Naples, Italy
21:05	Hamšík 17', 25' López 33' Jorginho 83'	Report	Rukavina 25' Bruno 36' Pina 59'	Stadium: Stadio San Paolo Attendance: 23,928 Referee: Deniz Aytekin (Germany)

Round of 16

10 March 2016 (2016-03-10) First leg	Villarreal	2–0	Bayer Leverkusen	Villarreal, Spain
21:05 CET (UTC+01:00)	Bakambu 4', 56' Trigueros 71'	Report	Tah 14' Hernández 48' Jedvaj 76', 90+5'	Stadium: El Madrigal Attendance: 16,211 Referee: Gianluca Rocchi (Italy)

7 April 2016 (2016-04-07) Second leg	Bayer Leverkusen	0–0 (0–2 agg.)	Villarreal	Leverkusen, Germany
19:00	Mehmedi 42' Papadopoulos 73' Bellarabi 79'	Report	Rukavina 60' Bakambu 80'	Stadium: BayArena Attendance: 23,409 Referee: Willie Collum (Scotland)

Quarter-finals

17 March 2016 (2016-03-17) First leg	Villarreal	2–1	Sparta Prague	Villarreal, Spain
21:05 CET (UTC+01:00)	Bakambu 3', 63' Costa 40'	Report	Brabec 31', 45+4' Matějovský 41' Nhamoinesu 43'	Stadium: El Madrigal Attendance: 15,803 Referee: Ovidiu Hațegan (Romania)

14 April 2016 (2016-04-14) Second leg	Sparta Prague	2–4 (3–6 agg.)	Villarreal	Prague, Czech Republic
21:05 CET (UTC+01:00)	Krejčí 27', 71' Frýdek 41' Juliš 60' Kováč 63' Dočkal 65' Konaté 77' Lafata 90+1'	Report	Bakambu 5', 49' Soldado 35' Castillejo 43', 78' Lafata 45+1' (o.g.)	Stadium: Generali Arena Referee: Martin Atkinson (England)

Semifinals

28 April 2016 (2016-04-28) First leg	Villarreal	1–0	Liverpool	Villarreal, Spain
21:05 CET (UTC+01:00)	Costa 60' Adrián 90+2'	Report		Stadium: El Madrigal Attendance: 21,606 Referee: Damir Skomina (Slovenia)

5 May 2016 (2016-05-05) Second leg	Liverpool	3–0 (3–1 agg.)	Villarreal	Liverpool, England
21:05 CET (UTC+01:00)	Soriano 7' (o.g.) Clyne 35' Sturridge 63' Lallana 81'	UEFA Report	Ruiz 30', 71' Soldado 40' Suárez 90+4'	Stadium: Anfield Referee: Viktor Kassai (Hungary)

References

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2015–16 Villarreal CF season

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UEFA Europa League

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