2015–16 S.L. Benfica season

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	Final
Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira	Runners-up
UEFA Champions League	Quarter-finals
Top goalscorer	League: Jonas (31) All: Jonas (34)
Highest home attendance	63,235[1] Benfica 2–2 Bayern Munich (13 April 2015)
Lowest home attendance	20,107[2] Benfica 1–0 Nacional (29 December 2015)
Average home league attendance	49,452[3]
Home colours Away colours
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The 2015–16 season is Sport Lisboa e Benfica's 112th season in existence and the club's 82nd consecutive season in both Portuguese football and UEFA competitions.

Benfica play in the Primeira Liga as the two-time defending champions after winning it for a record 34th time in the previous season. They also competed in the 2015–16 UEFA Champions League, where they reached the quarter-finals.

Season overview

June

The pre-season started on 2 July 2015.^[4] On 15 June 2015, Benfica signed Rui Vitória as manager.^[5]

July

From 18 to 28 July, Benfica played against Paris Saint-Germain, Fiorentina, New York Red Bulls and Club América in the International Champions Cup.^[6]

August

On 2 August, Benfica played the eighth edition of the Eusébio Cup at Monterrey in Mexico to inaugurate the Estadio BBVA Bancomer.^[7]

On 9 August, Benfica played their first official match of the season in the 2015 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira against Sporting CP, losing 1–0.^[8]

Players

Squad information

N	P	Nat.	Name	Age	EU	Since	App	Goals	Ends	Transfer fee	Notes
1	GK		Ederson M.	22	Non-EU	2015	13	0	2020	Undisclosed	Originally from youth system
2	CB		Lisandro	26	Non-EU	2014	28	1	2018	Undisclosed
3	LB		Grimaldo	20	EU	2016 (Winter)	2	0	2021	€1,500,000
4	CB		Luisão (captain)	35	EU	2003	473	43	2017	Undisclosed	Second nation: Portugal
5	DM		Fejsa	27	Non-EU	2013	57	1	2019	Undisclosed
7	CM		Samaris	26	EU	2014	73	2	2019	€10,000,000
9	ST		Raúl	25	Non-EU	2015	40	9	2020	Undisclosed
10	AM		Nico Gaitán	28	Non-EU	2010	250	38	2019	€8,400,000
11	ST		Mitroglou	28	EU	2015	41	22	2016	Loan	Second nation: Germany
12	GK		Júlio César	36	EU	2014	64	0	2016	Free
13	GK		Paulo Lopes	37	EU	2012	9	0		Free	Originally from youth system
14	DF		V. Lindelöf	21	EU	2014	22	1	2020	Youth system	Promoted from Benfica B
17	ST		Jonas	32	EU	2014	78	64	2018	Free	Second nation: Italy
18	RW		Salvio	25	Non-EU	2010	160	38	2017	€13,500,000
19	LB		Eliseu	32	EU	2014	75	4	2016	Undisclosed	Second nation: Cape Verde
20	RW		G. Guedes	19	EU	2014	37	5	2021	Youth system	Promoted from Benfica B
21	CM		Pizzi	26	EU	2014	73	12	2019	€14,000,000
28	FB		Sílvio	28	EU	2013	38	0	2016	Loan	Originally from youth system
30	AM		A. Talisca	22	Non-EU	2014	74	19	2019	€4,000,000
33	CB		Jardel	30	Non-EU	2011 (Winter)	165	10	2020	Undisclosed
34	DM		A. Almeida	25	EU	2012	128	0	2018	Undisclosed
35	ST		Luka	18	Non-EU	2016 (Winter)	2	0	2021	Undisclosed	Second nation: Bosnia and Herzegovina
38	LW		N. Santos	21	EU	2015	2	0	2021	Youth system	Promoted from Benfica B
39	AM		Carcela G.	26	EU	2015	27	3	2020	Free	Second nation: Belgium
50	RB		N. Semedo	22	EU	2015	18	1	2021	Youth system	Second nation: Cape Verde Promoted from Benfica B
85	MF		R. Sanches	18	EU	2015	31	2	2021	Youth system	Promoted from Benfica B

• Last updated: 29 April 2016
• Source: ^[9]
• Ordered by squad number.

Transfers

In

Date	Pos	No.	Player	Age	From	Ends	Fee	Ref
20 May 2015	FW	—	Jhon Murillo	19	Zamora	2020	Undisclosed	[10][11]
31 May 2015	DF	79	Vitali Lystsov	19	União de Leiria	2020	Undisclosed	[12]
12 June 2015	MF	23	Adel Taarabt	26	Queens Park Rangers	2020	Free	[11][13]
13 June 2015	MF	39	Mehdi Carcela-González	25	Standard Liège	2019	Undisclosed	[11][14]
26 June 2015	GK	1	Ederson	21	Rio Ave	2020	Undisclosed	[11]
26 June 2015	DF	3	Marçal	26	Nacional	2020	Undisclosed	[11]
26 June 2015	FW	—	Dálcio	19	Belenenses			[11]
26 June 2015	MF	—	Diego Lopes	21	Rio Ave	2020	Undisclosed	[11]
26 June 2015	MF	—	Léo Natel	18	Milan			[11]
26 June 2015	MF	—	Pelé	23	Belenenses			[11]
26 June 2015	FW	64	Francisco Vera	21	Rubio Ñu	2020	Undisclosed	[11]
13 August 2015	FW	9	Raúl Jiménez	24	Atlético Madrid	2020	Undisclosed	[15]
29 December 2015	DF	3	Álex Grimaldo	20	Barcelona	2021	€1,500,000	[16]

Loan in

Date	Pos	No.	Player	Age	From	Ends	Fee	Ref
15 July 2015	DF	28	Sílvio	27	Atlético Madrid	30 June 2016	Free	[17]
6 August 2015	FW	11	Konstantinos Mitroglou	27	Fullham	30 June 2016	Undisclosed	[18]

Out

Date	Pos	No.	Player	Age	To	Fee	Ref
25 May 2015	DF	—	João Cancelo	20	Valencia	Undisclosed	[11][19]
9 June 2015	MF	8	Miralem Sulejmani	26	Young Boys	Undisclosed	[11][20]
12 June 2015	FW	—	Rogelio Funes Mori	24	Monterrey	Undisclosed	[11][21]
12 June 2015	MF	—	André Gomes	21	Valencia	End of contract	[11][22][23]
15 June 2015	FW	—	Rodrigo	24	Valencia	End of contract	[11][24][25]
18 June 2015	MF	77	Rúben Pinto	23	Belenenses	Undisclosed	[26]
23 June 2015	DF	23	Loris Benito	23	Young Boys	Undisclosed	[11][27]
27 June 2015	DF	76	Bruno Gaspar	22	Vitória de Guimarães	Undisclosed	[28]
30 June 2015	MF	—	Airton	25	Unattached	End of contract
30 June 2015	GK	1	Artur	34	Unattached	End of contract
30 June 2015	DF	14	Maxi Pereira	31	Unattached	End of contract
10 July 2015	FW	19	Ivan Cavaleiro	21	Monaco	Undisclosed	[29]
24 July 2015	FW	11	Lima	32	Al Ahli Club	€7,000,000	[30][31]

Loan out

Date	Pos	No.	Player	Age	To	Ends	Ref
29 June 2015	FW	—	Dálcio	19	Belenenses	30 June 2016	[32]
10 July 2015	FW	32	Bebé	24	Rayo Vallecano	30 June 2016	[33]
10 July 2015	MF	67	Hélder Costa	21	Monaco	30 June 2016	[34]
16 July 2015	FW	—	Jhon Murillo	20	Tondela	30 June 2016	[35]
18 July 2015	DF	37	César	22	Flamengo	30 June 2016	[36]
20 July 2015	FW	9	Derley	27	Kayserispor	30 June 2016	[37]
22 July 2015	MF	—	Diego Lopes	21	Kayserispor	30 June 2016	[38]
30 July 2015	FW	83	Rui Fonte	25	Braga	30 June 2016	[39]
1 August 2015	MF	—	Pelé	23	Paços de Ferreira	30 June 2016	[40]
7 August 2015	FW	—	Yannick Djaló	29	Mordovia Saransk	31 December 2015	[41]
10 August 2015	MF	26	Raphael Guzzo	20	Tondela	30 June 2016	[42]
13 August 2015	MF	—	Luis Fariña	24	Rayo Vallecano	30 June 2016	[43]
14 August 2015	MF	6	Rúben Amorim	30	Al-Wakrah	30 June 2016	[44]
20 August 2015	FW	25	Jonathan Rodríguez	22	Deportivo La Coruña	30 June 2016	[45]
20 August 2015	DF	3	Marçal	26	Gaziantepspor	30 June 2016	[46]
28 August 2015	MF	27	Hany Mukhtar	20	Red Bull Salzburg	30 June 2016	[47]
29 August 2015	MF	—	Daniel Candeias	27	Metz	30 June 2016	[48]
1 September 2015	MF	15	Ola John	23	Reading	30 June 2016	[49]
1 September 2015	DF	—	Sidnei	26	Deportivo La Coruña	30 June 2016	[50]
4 September 2015	FW	16	Nélson Oliveira	24	Nottingham Forest	30 June 2016	[51]

Overall transfer activity

Spending Other: Summer: Winter: €1,500,000 Total: €1,500,000

Income Other: Summer: €7,400,000^[A] Winter: Total: €7,400,000^[A]

Expenditure Other: Summer: €7,400,000^[A] Winter: €1,500,000 Total: €5,900,000^[A]

1. ^ Includes transfer fees of former Benfica player(s): from Celta de Vigo corresponding to 15% of Daniel Wass

.^[52]

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: ^[53]

Pre-season and friendlies

      Win       Draw       Loss

Benfica v Paris Saint-Germain

18 July 2015 International Champions Cup	Benfica	2–3	Paris Saint-Germain	Toronto, ON, Canada
20:30 EDT (UTC−04:00)	Talisca  34' Jonas  42' López  89'	Report	Kimpembe  23' Augustin  29' Lucas  60'  64' (pen.) Digne  79'	Stadium: BMO Field Referee: Drew Fischer (Canada)

Benfica v Fiorentina

24 July 2015 International Champions Cup	Benfica	0–0 (4–5 p)	Fiorentina	East Hartford, CT, United States
20:00 EDT (UTC−04:00)	Luisão  29', 66'	Report	Basanta  15' Rodríguez  29' Alonso  35' Iličić  44' Hegazy  74' Badelj  90'	Stadium: Rentschler Field Attendance: 15,791 Referee: Sorin Stoica (United States)
		Penalties
	Almeida Pizzi Sílvio Oliveira Carcela-González		Pasqual Badelj Iličić Rebić Suárez

New York Red Bulls v Benfica

26 July 2015 International Champions Cup	New York Red Bulls	2–1	Benfica	Harrison, NJ, United States
19:30 EDT (UTC−04:00)	Wright-Phillips  33' Robles  45' Grella  56' Miller  85'	Report	Pizzi  7'  20'	Stadium: Red Bull Arena Referee: Alex Chilowicz (United States)

Club América v Benfica

28 July 2015 International Champions Cup	Club América	0–0 (3–4 p)	Benfica	Mexico City, Mexico
21:00 CDT (UTC−05:00)	Alvarado  15' Güémez  32' Arroyo  54' Burón  70'	Report	Marçal  85'	Stadium: Estadio Azteca Referee: Jorge Castillo (Mexico)
		Penalties
	Martínez Zúñiga Marín Colula Rosel		Cristante Gaitán Santos Samaris Rodríguez

Monterrey v Benfica

2 August 2015 Eusébio Cup	Monterrey	3–0	Benfica	Monterrey, Mexico
22:00 CDT (UTC−05:00)	Ramírez  49' Funes Mori  58' (pen.) Rivera  81'	Report		Stadium: Estadio BBVA Bancomer Attendance: 51,000 Referee: Francisco Chacón (Mexico)

Competitions

Overall record

As of match played 2 May 2016

Performance by competition

Competition	Starting round	Current position/round	Final position/round	First match	Last match
Primeira Liga	N/A	1st	—	16 August 2015	15 May 2016
Taça de Portugal	Third round	—	Fourth round	16 October 2015	21 November 2015
Taça da Liga	Third round	Final	—	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	32	27	1	4	82	21	+61	84.38
Taça de Portugal	2	1	0	1	3	3	+0	50.00
Taça da Liga	4	4	0	0	10	2	+8	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	49	37	3	9	110	39	+71	75.51

Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira

Benfica v Sporting CP

9 August 2015	Benfica	0–1	Sporting CP	Faro/Loulé
20:45 WEST (UTC+01:00)	Sílvio  38' Fejsa  50' Jonas  60' Gaitán  76'	Report	Slimani  16' Gutiérrez  53' Adrien  57' Pereira  58' Carrillo  63'	Stadium: Estádio Algarve Attendance: 28,717[54] Referee: Jorge Sousa (Porto) Man of the Match: André Carrillo

Primeira Liga

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Benfica (Q)	32	27	1	4	82	21	+61	82	Qualification to Champions League group stage
2	Sporting CP (Q)	32	25	5	2	70	21	+49	80
3	Porto (Q)	33	22	4	7	63	30	+33	70	Qualification to Champions League play-off round
4	Braga (T)	32	16	9	7	54	31	+23	57	Qualification to Europa League group stage[lower-alpha 1]
5	Arouca (T)	32	13	13	6	44	35	+9	52	Qualification to Europa League third qualifying round[lower-alpha 1]

Updated to match(es) played on 7 May 2016. 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.)^[55]
(Q) Qualified to the phase indicated; (T) Qualified, but not yet to the particular phase indicated.
Notes:

1. Since both 2015–16 Taça de Portugal finalists Porto and Braga qualified for European competition based on their league position, if Porto win the cup, the spot awarded to the Taça de Portugal winner (Europa League group stage) would be passed to the fourth-placed team and the spot for the fifth-placed team (Europa League third qualifying round) would be passed to the sixth-placed team.

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	 	 
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	 	 

Last updated: 29 April 2016.
Source:
Ground: A = Away; H = Home. Result: D = Draw; L = Loss; W = Win; P = Postponed.

Matches

Benfica v Estoril

16 August 2015 1	Benfica	4–0	Estoril	Lisbon
20:30 WEST (UTC+01:00)	López  16' Mitroglou  73' Jonas  77' (pen.), 81' Semedo  89'	Report	Anderson Luís  48' Sebá  67' Gerso  70' Mattheus  77' Taira  80' Bruno César  84'	Stadium: Estádio da Luz Attendance: 53,285 Referee: Tiago Martins (Lisbon)

Arouca v Benfica

23 August 2015 2	Arouca	1–0	Benfica	Aveiro
19:15 WEST (UTC+01:00)	Roberto  2'  41' Simão  22' Lima  37' Jaílson  74' Bracalli  84'	Report	Andrade  80' Mitroglou  88'	Stadium: Estádio Municipal de Aveiro Attendance: 23,540 Referee: Nuno Almeida (Algarve)

Benfica v Moreirense

29 August 2015 3	Benfica	3–2	Moreirense	Lisbon
20:45 WEST (UTC+01:00)	Pizzi  40' Jiménez  75' Samaris  76' Jonas  87'	Report	Martins  30' Ohemeng  42' Gonçalves  50' Cardozo  84'  90' Boateng  90+2'	Stadium: Estádio da Luz Attendance: 43,417 Referee: Jorge Ferreira (Braga)

Benfica v Belenenses

11 September 2015 4	Benfica	6–0	Belenenses	Lisbon
20:30 WEST (UTC+01:00)	Mitroglou  5', 53' Jonas  17', 40' Gaitán  60' Talisca  63' Luisão  86'	Report	Camará  70'	Stadium: Estádio da Luz Attendance: 42,454 Referee: Bruno Paixão (Setúbal)

Porto v Benfica

20 September 2015 5	Porto	1–0	Benfica	Porto
19:15 WEST (UTC+01:00)	Pereira  35' Maicon  55' André  70'  86' Neves  71'	Report	Almeida  50' Semedo  80' Luisão  83' Mitroglou  84'	Stadium: Estádio do Dragão Attendance: 49,209 Referee: Artur Soares Dias (Porto)

Benfica v Paços de Ferreira

26 September 2015 6	Benfica	3–0	Paços de Ferreira	Lisbon
18:30 WEST (UTC+01:00)	Jonas  34', 73' Guedes  67'	Report	Silva  41' Baixinho  79'	Stadium: Estádio da Luz Attendance: 45,276 Referee: Rui Costa (Porto)

Benfica v Sporting CP

25 October 2015 8	Benfica	0–3	Sporting CP	Lisbon
17:00 WET (UTC±00:00)	Samaris  40' Gaitán  43' Fejsa  47' Jonas  50' Mitroglou  83'	Report	Gutiérrez  9' Slimani  21'  43' Ruiz  36'  44' Carvalho  50' Adrien  58'	Stadium: Estádio da Luz Attendance: 63,054 Referee: Carlos Xistra (Castelo Branco)

Tondela v Benfica

30 October 2015 9	Tondela	0–4	Benfica	Aveiro
20:30 WET (UTC±00:00)	Souza  24'	Report	Jonas  3' Talisca  5' Berger  11' (o.g.) Jardel  35' Luisão  39' Guedes  42' Samaris  68' Carcela-González  82'	Stadium: Estádio Municipal de Aveiro Attendance: 9,394 Referee: Fábio Veríssimo (Leiria)

Benfica v Boavista

8 November 2015 10	Benfica	2–0	Boavista	Lisbon
16:00 WET (UTC±00:00)	Guedes  39' Samaris  85' Carcela-González  88'	Report	Figueiredo  53' Carvalho  73' Idris  78', 90+3'	Stadium: Estádio da Luz Attendance: 46,362 Referee: Bruno Esteves (Setúbal)

Braga v Benfica

30 November 2015 11	Braga	0–2	Benfica	Braga
21:00 WET (UTC±00:00)	Hassan  68' Ferreira  72' Augusto  77'	Report	Pizzi  3'  73' López  11' Eliseu  67' Sanches  68'	Stadium: Estádio Municipal de Braga Attendance: 17,396 Referee: Hugo Miguel (Lisbon)

Benfica v Académica

4 December 2015 12	Benfica	3–0	Académica	Lisbon
20:30 WET (UTC±00:00)	Fejsa  18' Jonas  35' (pen.), 79' (pen.) Sanches  85'	Report	Trigueira  33' Aderlan  44' Ofori  68' Rabiola  79'	Stadium: Estádio da Luz Attendance: 34,752 Referee: Luís Ferreira (Braga)

Vitória de Setúbal v Benfica

12 December 2015 13	Vitória de Setúbal	2–4	Benfica	Setúbal
20:45 WET (UTC±00:00)	Pinto  44' Costa  59' Suk  88'	Report	López  33' Pizzi  35' Jonas  39' Mitroglou  54', 79' Eliseu  60' Almeida  65' Samaris  90+3'	Stadium: Estádio do Bonfim Attendance: 9,323 Referee: Manuel Mota (Braga)

União da Madeira v Benfica

15 December 2015[upper-alpha 1] 7	União da Madeira	0–0	Benfica	Funchal
21:00 WET (UTC±00:00)	Cádiz  42' Gian  45+1' Danilo  90+1' Fidalgo  90+4'	Report	Sanches  14' Eliseu  90+2'	Stadium: Estádio da Madeira Attendance: 5,095 Referee: Cosme Machado (Braga)

Benfica v Rio Ave

20 December 2015 14	Benfica	3–1	Rio Ave	Lisbon
16:00 WET (UTC±00:00)	Jonas  4', 81' Samaris  8' Jiménez  84'	Report	Bressan  9' Wakaso  29'	Stadium: Estádio da Luz Attendance: 45,955 Referee: Manuel Oliveira (Porto)

Vitória de Guimarães v Benfica

2 January 2016 15	Vitória de Guimarães	0–1	Benfica	Guimarães
18:30 WET (UTC±00:00)	Dourado  11' Otávio  20' Saré  28'	Report	López  38' Fejsa  39' Sanches  74'  75' Jardel  85'	Stadium: Estádio D. Afonso Henriques Attendance: 22,218 Referee: Carlos Xistra (Castelo Branco)

Benfica v Marítimo

6 January 2016 16	Benfica	6–0	Marítimo	Lisbon
19:00 WET (UTC±00:00)	Pizzi  29', 34' Jiménez  35'  50' Jonas  52' (pen.), 54' (pen.) Talisca  69'	Report	Silva  10' Bessa  37' João Diogo  49' Sousa  50' F. Ferreira  52' Rodrigues  61'	Stadium: Estádio da Luz Attendance: 31,590 Referee: Fábio Veríssimo (Leiria)

Nacional v Benfica

10 January 2016[upper-alpha 2] 17	Nacional	1–4	Benfica	Funchal
20:30 WET (UTC±00:00)	Soares  50' Zainadine  81'	Report	Jonas  23', 56', 63' Eliseu  47' Mitroglou  89'	Stadium: Estádio da Madeira Attendance: 4,753 Referee: Tiago Martins (Lisbon)

Estoril v Benfica

16 January 2016 18	Estoril	1–2	Benfica	Estoril
20:45 WET (UTC±00:00)	Bonatini  11' Tavares  74' Taira  86'	Report	Mitroglou  52' Pizzi  68' Júlio César  90+2'	Stadium: Estádio António Coimbra da Mota Attendance: 7,836 Referee: Vasco Santos (Porto)

Benfica v Arouca

23 January 2016 19	Benfica	3–1	Arouca	Lisbon
18:30 WET (UTC±00:00)	Pizzi  3' Almeida  6' Mitroglou  19' Jonas  68'	Report	Velázquez  77'  90+1'	Stadium: Estádio da Luz Attendance: 51,511 Referee: Manuel Mota (Braga)

Moreirense v Benfica

31 January 2016 20	Moreirense	1–4	Benfica	Moreira de Cónegos
19:15 WET (UTC±00:00)	Gomes  54' Palhinha  81' Medeiros  90+1'	Report	Jonas  16', 67' Mitroglou  43' Jardel  63' Lindelöf  63' Gaitán  75'	Stadium: Parque de Jogos Comendador Joaquim de Almeida Freitas Attendance: 5,772 Referee: Manuel Oliveira (Porto)

Belenenses v Benfica

5 February 2016 21	Belenenses	0–5	Benfica	Lisbon
20:30 WET (UTC±00:00)	Juanto  20' Pinto  27'	Report	Mitroglou  42', 57', 75' Jonas  53', 87' Sílvio  71' Samaris  81'	Stadium: Estádio do Restelo Attendance: 13,109 Referee: Nuno Almeida (Algarve)

Benfica v Porto

12 February 2016 22	Benfica	1–2	Porto	Lisbon
20:30 WET (UTC±00:00)	Mitroglou  18' Carcela-González  79' Sanches  85' Almeida  88'	Report	Herrera  28'  30' Aboubakar  65' Neves  75' Layún  88'	Stadium: Estádio da Luz Attendance: 61,536 Referee: Artur Soares Dias (Porto)

Paços de Ferreira v Benfica

20 February 2016 23	Paços de Ferreira	1–3	Benfica	Paços de Ferreira
18:30 WET (UTC±00:00)	Jota  23' Moreira  28' Andrezinho  45' Farias  58' Martins  81'	Report	Mitroglou  13' Jonas  45+2' (pen.) Lindelöf  58' Jardel  73' Eliseu  82'	Stadium: Estádio Capital do Móvel Attendance: 6,433 Referee: Jorge Ferreira (Braga)

Benfica v União da Madeira

29 February 2016[upper-alpha 3] 24	Benfica	2–0	União da Madeira	Lisbon
19:45 WET (UTC±00:00)	Jonas  4', 76' Lindelöf  78'	Report	Monteiro  70'	Stadium: Estádio da Luz Attendance: 44,485 Referee: Cosme Machado (Braga)

Sporting CP v Benfica

5 March 2016 25	Sporting CP	0–1	Benfica	Lisbon
20:45 WET (UTC±00:00)	Jefferson  70' (Adrien  86')	Report	Mitroglou  20'  67' Jonas  46' Gaitán  52' Sanches  86'	Stadium: Estádio José Alvalade Attendance: 49,699 Referee: Artur Soares Dias (Porto)

Benfica v Tondela

14 March 2016 26	Benfica	4–1	Tondela	Lisbon
20:00 WET (UTC±00:00)	Jardel  11'  12' Jonas  24', 69' Mitroglou  87'  87'	Report	Monteiro  51' Tikito  70' Nathan  90+1'	Stadium: Estádio da Luz Attendance: 51,314 Referee: Luís Ferreira (Braga)

Boavista v Benfica

20 March 2016 27	Boavista	0–1	Benfica	Porto
18:15 WET (UTC±00:00)	Tahar  60'	Report	Samaris  10' Eliseu  45' Jiménez  59' Jonas  90+3' Ederson  90+5'	Stadium: Estádio do Bessa Attendance: 22,834[59] Referee: Fábio Veríssimo (Leiria)

Benfica v Braga

1 April 2016 28	Benfica	5–1	Braga	Lisbon
20:30 WEST (UTC+01:00)	Mitroglou  17', 71' Jonas  37' (pen.) Pizzi  39'  62' Samaris  75' Semedo  90+2'	Report	Santos  51'  90+3' (pen.) Stojiljković  72' Luíz Carlos  83' Goiano  89'	Stadium: Estádio da Luz Attendance: 61,042 Referee: Nuno Almeida (Algarve)

Académica v Benfica

9 April 2016 29	Académica	1–2	Benfica	Coimbra
18:30 WEST (UTC+01:00)	Pedro Nuno  17'  28' Nascimento  21' Santos  45' Plange  90+1'	Report	Mitroglou  39' Jiménez  84'	Stadium: Estádio Cidade de Coimbra Attendance: 26,444 Referee: João Capela (Lisbon)

Benfica v Vitória de Setúbal

18 April 2016 30	Benfica	2–1	Vitória de Setúbal	Lisbon
21:00 WEST (UTC+01:00)	Jonas  19'  90' Jardel  24'	Report	Claro  1' Lourenço  86'	Stadium: Estádio da Luz Attendance: 54,855 Referee: Rui Costa (Porto)

Rio Ave v Benfica

24 April 2016 31	Rio Ave	0–1	Benfica	Vila do Conde
20:30 WEST (UTC+01:00)	Vilas Boas  18', 90+4' Héldon  66'	Report	Eliseu  29' Jardel  37' Fejsa  41' Jiménez  73' Ederson  87'	Stadium: Estádio do Rio Ave FC Attendance: 9,023 Referee: Artur Soares Dias (Porto)

Benfica v Vitória de Guimarães

29 April 2016 32	Benfica	1–0	Vitória de Guimarães	Lisbon
19:00 WEST (UTC+01:00)	Jardel  47' Eliseu  48' Almeida  54', 90+5'	Report	Pedro Henrique  7' Hurtado  13' Otávio  22' Licá  35' Josué  53' Xande  80' Vigário  90+2'	Stadium: Estádio da Luz Attendance: 60,351 Referee: Bruno Paixão (Setúbal)

Marítimo v Benfica

8 May 2016 33	Marítimo	v	Benfica	Funchal
20:30 WEST (UTC+01:00)				Stadium: Estádio dos Barreiros Referee: Fábio Veríssimo (Leiria)

Benfica v Nacional

15 May 2016 34	Benfica	v	Nacional	Lisbon
--:-- WEST (UTC+01:00)				Stadium: Estádio da Luz

1. The match was originally to be played on 4 October 2015 but was postponed because of heavy fog.^[56]
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.^[57]
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.^[58]

Taça de Portugal

Third round

Vianense v Benfica

16 October 2015	Vianense	1–2	Benfica	Barcelos
20:30 WEST (UTC+01:00)	R. Magalhães  20' Coulibaly  79'	Report	Fejsa  35' Carcela-González  38' Santos  72' Jardel  90'	Stadium: Estádio Cidade de Barcelos Attendance: 8,000 Referee: João Pinheiro (Braga)

Fourth round

Sporting CP v Benfica

21 November 2015	Sporting CP	2–1 (a.e.t.)	Benfica	Lisbon
20:00 WET (UTC±00:00)	Montero  43' Adrien  45+2' Oliveira  70' Slimani  84'  112'	Report	Mitroglou  6' Jardel  36' Talisca  40' Sílvio  45+3' Gaitán  63' (Ederson  64') Almeida  65' Samaris  111', 114' Jonas  120+1'	Stadium: Estádio José Alvalade Attendance: 41,244 Referee: Jorge Sousa (Porto)

Taça da Liga

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

Benfica v Nacional

29 December 2015 1	Benfica	1–0	Nacional	Lisbon
19:45 WET (UTC±00:00)	Lindelöf  24' Eliseu  28' López  33' Jiménez  89' Sílvio  90+2'	Report	Campos  38' Sequeira  44'	Stadium: Estádio da Luz Attendance: 20,107 Referee: João Capela (Lisbon)

Oriental v Benfica

19 January 2016 2	Oriental	0–1	Benfica	Lisbon
15:00 WET (UTC±00:00)	Tavares  51'	Report	Samaris  62' Talisca  74' Sanches  79'	Stadium: Campo Eng. Carlos Salema Attendance: 3,409 Referee: Tiago Antunes (Coimbra)

Moreirense v Benfica

26 January 2016 3	Moreirense	1–6	Benfica	Moreira de Cónegos
20:30 WET (UTC±00:00)	Patrick  11' Medeiros  25' Rafa  32' Micael  84' Schons  88'	Report	Talisca  11' (pen.), 14', 83'  36' Gaitán  19', 89' Semedo  23' Jiménez  36' Guedes  87'	Stadium: Parque de Jogos Comendador Joaquim de Almeida Freitas Attendance: 4,206 Referee: Sérgio Piscarreta (Algarve)

Semi-finals

Benfica v Braga

2 May 2016[upper-alpha 1]	Benfica	2–1	Braga	Lisbon
19:45 WEST (UTC+01:00)	Jonas  58' Jiménez  71' Sílvio  79' Grimaldo  85'	Report	Rafa  19' Mauro  44'	Stadium: Estádio da Luz Attendance: 24,933 Referee: Tiago Martins (Lisbon)

1. The match was originally to be played in February 2016 but was postponed because of both teams' tight schedule.^[60]

Final

Marítimo v Benfica

20 May 2016	Marítimo	v	Benfica	Coimbra
19:45 WEST (UTC+01:00)				Stadium: Estádio Cidade de Coimbra

UEFA Champions League

Group stage

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		ATL	SLB	GAL	AST
1	Atlético Madrid	6	4	1	1	11	3	+8	13	Advance to knockout phase		—	1–2	2–0	4–0
2	Benfica	6	3	1	2	10	8	+2	10			1–2	—	2–1	2–0
3	Galatasaray	6	1	2	3	6	10	−4	5	Transfer to Europa League		0–2	2–1	—	1–1
4	Astana	6	0	4	2	5	11	−6	4			0–0	2–2	2–2	—

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

Benfica v Astana

15 September 2015 1	Benfica	2–0	Astana	Lisbon, Portugal
20:45 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Samaris  40' Guedes  45+1' Gaitán  51' Mitroglou  62' Jardel  83'	Report	Aničić  21' Dzholchiev  24' Zhukov  78'	Stadium: Estádio da Luz Attendance: 32,799 Referee: Anastasios Sidiropoulos (Greece)

Atlético Madrid v Benfica

30 September 2015 2	Atlético Madrid	1–2	Benfica	Madrid, Spain
20:45 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Correa  23' Martínez  39' Ó. Torres  55'	Report	Eliseu  25' Luisão  28' Gaitán  36' Samaris  39' Guedes  51' Jardel  82'	Stadium: Vicente Calderón Attendance: 40,938 Referee: Gianluca Rocchi (Italy)

Galatasaray v Benfica

21 October 2015 3	Galatasaray	2–1	Benfica	Istanbul, Turkey
20:45 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Ä°nan  19' (pen.)  63' Podolski  33' Kısa  42' Balta  70' Yılmaz  90+5'	Report	Gaitán  2' Almeida  18' Samaris  73' Andrade  78' Luisão  87'	Stadium: Türk Telekom Arena Attendance: 33,615 Referee: Willie Collum (Scotland)

Benfica v Galatasaray

3 November 2015 4	Benfica	2–1	Galatasaray	Lisbon, Portugal
20:45 CET (UTC+01:00)	Almeida  31' Guedes  43' Gaitán  44', 85' Jonas  52' Sílvio  56' Luisão  67'	Report	Yılmaz  41' Ä°nan  55' Podolski  58' Adın  90+3'	Stadium: Estádio da Luz Attendance: 35,726 Referee: Milorad Mažić (Serbia)

Astana v Benfica

25 November 2015 5	Astana	2–2	Benfica	Astana, Kazakhstan
16:00 CET (UTC+01:00)	Twumasi  19' Aničić  31' Cañas  50' Shchotkin  90+4'	Report	Jiménez  23'  40', 72' López  44' Jonas  48'	Stadium: Astana Arena Attendance: 15,089 Referee: Ruddy Buquet (France)

Benfica v Atlético Madrid

8 December 2015 6	Benfica	1–2	Atlético Madrid	Lisbon, Portugal
20:45 CET (UTC+01:00)	Mitroglou  75' Fejsa  77'	Report	Ñíguez  33'  70' Vietto  55' Godín  68' Ó. Torres  89'	Stadium: Estádio da Luz Attendance: 47,630 Referee: Ovidiu HaÈ›egan (Romania)

Round of 16

Benfica v Zenit Saint Petersburg

16 February 2016 1st leg	Benfica	1–0	Zenit Saint Petersburg	Lisbon, Portugal
20:45 CET (UTC+01:00)	Almeida  16' Jardel  35' Pizzi  43' Jonas  90+1'  90+2'	Report	Witsel  32' García  59' Criscito  67', 90'	Stadium: Estádio da Luz Attendance: 48,615 Referee: Gianluca Rocchi (Italy)

Zenit Saint Petersburg v Benfica

9 March 2016 2nd leg	Zenit Saint Petersburg	1–2 (1–3 agg.)	Benfica	Saint Petersburg, Russia
18:00 CET (UTC+01:00)	Hulk  69'  90+5'	Report	Mitroglou  36' Pizzi  49' Gaitán  85' Talisca  90+6'	Stadium: Petrovsky Stadium Attendance: 17,688 Referee: Viktor Kassai (Hungary)

Quarter-finals

Bayern Munich v Benfica

5 April 2016 1st leg	Bayern Munich	1–0	Benfica	Munich, Germany
20:45 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Vidal  2' Ribéry  22' Bernat  42'	Report	Jonas  58' Lindelöf  62'	Stadium: Allianz Arena Attendance: 70,000 Referee: Szymon Marciniak (Poland)

Benfica v Bayern Munich

13 April 2016 2nd leg	Benfica	2–2 (2–3 agg.)	Bayern Munich	Lisbon, Portugal
20:45 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Jiménez  27' Carcela-González  70' Talisca  76' Almeida  90+1'	Report	Vidal  38' Müller  52' Martínez  74'	Stadium: Estádio da Luz Attendance: 63,235 Referee: Björn Kuipers (Netherlands)

Statistics

Squad statistics

As of match played 29 April 2016

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		Primeira Liga		Taça de Portugal^1		Taça da Liga		UEFA Champions League
				Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1	GK		Ederson	14	-9	8	-4	0	0	3	-1	3	-4
2	DF		Lisandro López	19	1	14	1	1	0	2	0	2	0
3	DF		Álex Grimaldo	2	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
4	DF		Luisão	15	1	9	0	2	0	0	0	4	1
5	MF		Ljubomir Fejsa	25	0	17	0	2	0	0	0	6	0
7	MF		Andreas Samaris	36	2	25	2	1	0	3	0	7	0
9	FW		Raúl Jiménez	41	7	26	2	2	0	3	2	10	3
10	MF		Nicolás Gaitán	35	8	24	2	2	0	1	2	8	4
11	FW		Konstantinos Mitroglou	42	22	30	19	3	1	2	0	7	2
12	GK		Júlio César	34	-29	24	-17	3	-4	0	0	7	-8
14	DF		Victor Lindelöf	20	1	13	1	0	0	3	0	4	0
15	MF		Ola John	3	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
17	FW		Jonas	44	33	32	31	2	0	1	0	9	2
18	MF		Eduardo Salvio	11	0	8	0	0	0	0	0	3	0
19	DF		Eliseu	43	0	30	0	2	0	1	0	10	0
20	FW		Gonçalo Guedes	30	4	18	3	2	0	3	0	7	1
21	MF		Pizzi	44	7	29	7	3	0	2	0	10	0
22	MF		Filip Đuričić	2	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
24	MF		Bryan Cristante	5	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	2	0
28	DF		Sílvio	13	0	4	0	3	0	3	0	3	0
30	MF		Talisca	30	8	19	2	3	0	3	4	5	2
31	MF		Victor Andrade	5	0	3	0	1	0	0	0	1	0
33	DF		Jardel	41	4	28	3	3	1	1	0	9	0
34	MF		André Almeida	34	0	24	0	1	0	1	0	8	0
35	FW		Luka Jović	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
38	MF		Nuno Santos	2	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
39	MF		Mehdi Carcela-González	27	3	19	2	1	1	3	0	4	0
40	MF		João Teixeira	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
50	DF		Nélson Semedo	18	1	12	1	1	0	2	0	3	0
61	DF		Clésio Baúque	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
85	MF		Renato Sanches	32	2	23	2	0	0	3	0	6	0

^ Includes Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira

Goalscorers

As of match played 29 April 2016

Rnk	Pos	Player	League	Cup	League Cup	Champions League	Total
1	FW	Jonas	31	0	0	2	33
2	FW	Konstantinos Mitroglou	19	1	0	2	22
3	FW	Raúl Jiménez	5	0	2	3	10
4	MF	Nicolás Gaitán	2	0	2	4	8
	MF	Talisca	2	0	4	2	8
6	MF	Pizzi	7	0	0	0	7
7	FW	Gonçalo Guedes	3	0	0	1	4
	DF	Jardel	3	1	0	0	4
9	MF	Mehdi Carcela-González	2	1	0	0	3
10	MF	Renato Sanches	2	0	0	0	2
	MF	Andreas Samaris	2	0	0	0	2
12	DF	Nélson Semedo	1	0	0	0	1
	DF	Luisão	0	0	0	1	1
	DF	Lisandro	1	0	0	0	1
	DF	Victor Lindelöf	1	0	0	0	1
Own goals			1	0	0	0	1
Totals			82	3	8	15	108

Clean sheets

As of match played 29 April 2016

Number of matches inside brackets.

Rnk	Pos	Player	League	Cup^1	League Cup	Champions League	Total
1	GK	Júlio César	12 (24)	0 (3)	0 (0)	2 (7)	14 (34)
2	GK	Ederson	4 (8)	—	2 (3)	0 (3)	6 (14)
Totals			16 (32)	0 (3)	2 (3)	2 (10)	20 (48)

¹Includes Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira

Disciplinary record

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

Last updated: 29 April 2016
Source: LPFP and competitions above.
Ordered by , and
= Number of bookings; = Number of sending offs after a second yellow card; = Number of sending offs by a direct red card.

Awards

No.	Pos	Name	Award	Month	Ref
85	MF	Renato Sanches	SJPF Young Player of the Month	December	[61]
17	FW	Jonas	SJPF Player of the Month	January	[62]
				February	[63]
				March	[64]

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