2015–16 Bologna F.C. 1909 season

Bologna
	2015–16 season
President	Joe Tacopina
Manager	Delio Rossi; (until 28 October 2015); Roberto Donadoni; (from 28 October 2015)
Stadium	Stadio Renato Dall'Ara
Serie A	14th
Coppa Italia	Third round
Top goalscorer	League:; Mattia Destro (8); All:; Mattia Destro (8)
Highest home attendance	29,463 vs Juventus; (19 February 2016, Serie A)
Lowest home attendance	336 vs Pavia; (14 August 2015, Coppa Italia)
Average home league attendance	18,899
← 2014–15	2016–17 →

The 2015–16 season was Bologna Football Club 1909's first season back in Serie A after their relegation to Serie B at the end of the 2013–14 season. The club competed in Serie A, finishing 14th after an early season spent in the relegation zone, and in the Coppa Italia, where the club was disappointingly eliminated in the third round by Pavia.

Players

Squad information

As of 2 February 2016^[2]

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	Angelo da Costa
2	DF	Marios Oikonomou
3	DF	Archimede Morleo
4	DF	Emil Krafth
5	DF	Erick Pulgar
6	MF	Lorenzo Crisetig (on loan from Internazionale)
8	MF	Saphir Taïder (on loan from Inter)
10	FW	Mattia Destro
11	DF	Juan Zúñiga
13	DF	Luca Rossettini
14	MF	Franco Zuculini
15	DF	Ibrahima Mbaye
17	MF	Emanuele Giaccherini (on loan from Sunderland)
18	FW	Robert Acquafresca
19	DF	Kévin Constant

No.	Position	Player
20	DF	Domenico Maietta
21	MF	Amadou Diawara
22	MF	Luca Rizzo (on loan from Sampdoria)
23	MF	Franco Brienza
24	DF	Alex Ferrari
25	DF	Adam Masina
26	MF	Anthony Mounier
28	DF	Daniele Gastaldello
30	MF	Godfred Donsah
32	GK	Dejan Stojanović
33	MF	Matteo Brighi
77	DF	Luca Ceccarelli
83	GK	Antonio Mirante
99	FW	Sergio Floccari

Transfers

In

Date	Pos.	Player	Age	Moving from	Fee	Source
23 June 2015	MF	Amadou Diawara	26	San Marino	Undisclosed	^[3]
23 June 2015	DF	Luca Rossettini	38	Cagliari	Undisclosed
3 July 2015	GK	Antonio Mirante	40	Parma	Free
20 July 2015	MF	Matteo Brighi	43	Sassuolo	Free
24 July 2015	MF	Franco Brienza	45	Cesena	Free
7 August 2015	DF	Erick Pulgar	30	Universidad Católica	Undisclosed
20 August 2015	FW	Mattia Destro	33	Roma	€6.5M
26 August 2015	MF	Bálint Vécsei	30	Honvéd	Undisclosed
29 August 2015	MF	Anthony Mounier	36	Montpellier	Undisclosed
11 January 2016	FW	Sergio Floccari	42	Sassuolo	Undisclosed
1 February 2016	DF	Kévin Constant	36	Unattached	Free

Loans in

Date	Pos.	Player	Age	Moving from	Fee	Notes	Source
13 January 2016	DF	Juan Zúñiga	38	Napoli	Loan		^[4]

Out

Loans out

Date	Pos.	Player	Age	Moving to	Fee	Notes	Source
4 January 2016	MF	Marco Crimi	34	Carpi	Loan

Competitions

Serie A

League table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
12	Torino	38	12	9	17	52	55	−3	45^{[lower-alpha 1]}
13	Atalanta	38	11	12	15	41	47	−6	45^{[lower-alpha 1]}
14	Bologna	38	11	9	18	33	45	−12	42
15	Sampdoria	38	10	10	18	48	61	−13	40
16	Palermo	38	10	9	19	38	65	−27	39^{[lower-alpha 2]}

Source: Serie A, Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Goal difference; 5) Goals scored; 6) Draw.^[5]
Notes:

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Torino ahead of Atalanta on head-to-head record; Atalanta–Torino 0–1, Torino–Atalanta 2–1.
↑ Palermo ahead of Udinese on head-to-head record; Udinese–Palermo 0–1, Palermo–Udinese 4–1.

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
38	11	9	18	33	45	−12	42	5	5	9	20	21	−1	6	4	9	13	24	−11

Last updated: 15 May 2016.
Source: Competitive matches

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	35	36	37	38
Ground	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A
Result	L	L	L	W	L	L	L	L	W	L	W	W	D	L	W	W	L	W	L	D	W	W	L	D	W	D	D	D	L	L	L	D	L	L	W	D	L
Position	12	16	19	17	18	19	20	20	18	18	18	16	17	18	15	13	15	15	15	15	12	10	10	11	10	9	9	9	9	10	12	13	13	16	15	13	14	15

Last updated: 15 May 2016.
Source: Competitive matches
Ground: A = Away; H = Home. Result: D = Draw; L = Loss; W = Win; P = Postponed.

Matches

23 August 2015 1	Lazio	2–1	Bologna	Rome
20:45 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Biglia 17' Kishna 23' Milinković-Savić 68' Radu 90'	Report	Mancosu 43' Brighi 54'	Stadium: Stadio Olimpico Attendance: 19,464 Referee: Gianluca Rocchi

29 August 2015 2	Bologna	0–1	Sassuolo	Bologna
18:00 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Falco 18' Destro 26' Ferrari 66'	Report	Cannavaro 24' Floro Flores 86'	Stadium: Stadio Renato Dall'Ara Attendance: 15,732 Referee: Carmine Russo

14 September 2015 3	Sampdoria	2–0	Bologna	Genoa
20:45 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Regini 8' Éder 75' Soriano 79'	Report	Taïder 11' Maietta 45+3' Rizzo 51', 62' Rossettini 65'	Stadium: Stadio Luigi Ferraris Attendance: 20,976 Referee: Angelo Cervellera
Note: Postponed from 13 September due to excessive rain.

20 September 2015 4	Bologna	1–0	Frosinone	Bologna
15:00 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Diawara 18' Mounier 27' Crisetig 53' Ferrari 71'	Report	Longo 32' Sammarco 48' Paganini 59' Soddimo 61' Pavlović 89'	Stadium: Stadio Renato Dall'Ara Attendance: 15,722 Referee: Daniele Orsato

23 September 2015 5	Fiorentina	2–0	Bologna	Florence
20:45 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Błaszczykowski 71' Rebić 76' Kalinić 82'	Report	Diawara 43' Masina 70'	Stadium: Stadio Artemio Franchi Attendance: 25,085 Referee: Gianpaolo Calvarese

27 September 2015 6	Bologna	1–2	Udinese	Bologna
15:00 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Mounier 31', 34' Destro 41' Diawara 50' Masina 57'	Report	Ali Adnan 45+1' Badu 61' Lodi 66' Zapata 85' Pasquale 88'	Stadium: Stadio Renato Dall'Ara Attendance: 15,576 Referee: Andrea Gervasoni

4 October 2015 7	Juventus	3–1	Bologna	Turin
18:00 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Morata 33' Dybala 53' (pen.) Khedira 63' Lemina 83'	Report	Mounier 5', 45+1' Destro 40' Gastaldello 42' Masina 50' Pulgar 56'	Stadium: Juventus Stadium Attendance: 39,330 Referee: Domenico Celi

18 October 2015 8	Bologna	0–1	Palermo	Bologna
12:30 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Rizzo 74'	Report	Vázquez 24', 24' Hiljemark 46' Struna 66' Rispoli 81'	Stadium: Stadio Renato Dall'Ara Attendance: 16,010 Referee: Michael Fabbri

24 October 2015 9	Carpi	1–2	Bologna	Modena
18:00 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Belec 4' Lollo 7', 38' Letizia 24' Spolli 90+3'	Report	Mounier 40' Mbaye 45' Gastaldello 47' Masina 90+3'	Stadium: Stadio Alberto Braglia Attendance: 6,747 Referee: Paolo Tagliavento

27 October 2015 10	Bologna	0–1	Internazionale	Bologna
20:45 CET (UTC+01:00)	Rossettini 87'	Report	Kondogbia 39' Melo 53', 60' Icardi 67'	Stadium: Stadio Renato Dall'Ara Attendance: 22,350 Referee: Luca Banti

1 November 2015 11	Bologna	3–0	Atalanta	Bologna
15:00 CET (UTC+01:00)	Taïder 13' Ferrari 40' Gastaldello 47' Giaccherini 52', 53' Destro 58' Masina 77' Brienza 85'	Report	Kurtić 31' Carmona 80' Pinilla 90'	Stadium: Stadio Renato Dall'Ara Attendance: 15,748 Referee: Marco Guida

7 November 2015 12	Hellas Verona	0–2	Bologna	Verona
18:00 CET (UTC+01:00)	Pazzini 88'	Report	Giaccherini 6' Donsah 14', 71'	Stadium: Stadio Marc'Antonio Bentegodi Attendance: 18,007 Referee: Daniele Orsato

21 November 2015 13	Bologna	2–2	Roma	Bologna
18:00 CET (UTC+01:00)	Masina 14' Donsah 26' Gastaldello 33' Mirante 38' Maietta 54' Destro 87' (pen.), 88'	Report	Manolas 12' Nainggolan 33' Pjanić 52' (pen.) Iturbe 57' Džeko 72' (pen.) Torosidis 85'	Stadium: Stadio Renato Dall'Ara Attendance: 23,304 Referee: Gianluca Rocchi

28 November 2015 14	Torino	2–0	Bologna	Turin
18:00 CET (UTC+01:00)	Belotti 75' Vives 90+2'	Report	Maietta 64'	Stadium: Stadio Olimpico di Torino Attendance: 17,508 Referee: Davide Ghersini

6 December 2015 15	Bologna	3–2	Napoli	Bologna
12:30 CET (UTC+01:00)	Destro 14', 60', 40' Rossettini 21' Masina 90+2'	Report	Allan 60' Higuaín 87', 90'	Stadium: Stadio Renato Dall'Ara Attendance: 22,334 Referee: Paolo Mazzoleni

12 December 2015 16	Genoa	0–1	Bologna	Genoa
15:00 CET (UTC+01:00)	Perotti 81'	Report	Gastaldello 25' Mounier 73' Diawara 81', 90+3' Rossettini 90+2'	Stadium: Stadio Luigi Ferraris Attendance: 19,594 Referee: Marco Di Bello

19 December 2015 17	Bologna	2–3	Empoli	Bologna
20:45 CET (UTC+01:00)	Brienza 36' Destro 45' Pulgar 74' Taïder 87'	Report	Pucciarelli 24' Costa 34' Maccarone 42', 48' Laurini 56' Skorupski 57' Mário Rui 65'	Stadium: Stadio Renato Dall'Ara Attendance: 19,214 Referee: Maurizio Mariani

6 January 2016 18	Milan	0–1	Bologna	Milan
15:00 CET (UTC+01:00)	Montolivo 31' De Sciglio 58' Abate 75' Mexès 85' Kucka 90' Luiz Adriano 90+2'	Report	Mounier 12' Diawara 21' Masina 38' Giaccherini 82' Brighi 90+1' Destro 90+3'	Stadium: San Siro Attendance: 31,381 Referee: Davide Massa

10 January 2016 19	Bologna	0–1	Chievo	Bologna
15:00 CET (UTC+01:00)	Destro 86' Oikonomou 90+2'	Report	Frey 37' Pepe 79' Cacciatore 87'	Stadium: Stadio Renato Dall'Ara Attendance: 15,818 Referee: Claudio Gavillucci

17 January 2016 20	Bologna	2–2	Lazio	Bologna
15:00 CET (UTC+01:00)	Giaccherini 2' Destro 18', 55' Masina 69'	Report	Maurício 42' Candreva 71' (pen.) Biglia 73' Lulić 77'	Stadium: Stadio Renato Dall'Ara Attendance: 16,449 Referee: Marco Di Bello

24 January 2016 21	Sassuolo	0–2	Bologna	Reggio Emilia
15:00 CET (UTC+01:00)		Report	Giaccherini 68' Ferrari 87' Brighi 90+1' Floccari 90+4'	Stadium: Mapei Stadium – Città del Tricolore Attendance: 12,202 Referee: Angelo Cervellera

31 January 2016 22	Bologna	3–2	Sampdoria	Bologna
15:00 CET (UTC+01:00)	Mounier 12', 63' Donsah 24' Gastaldello 68' Destro 88' (pen.) Oikonomou 90+2'	Report	Fernando 32' Muriel 54' Ivan 61' Silvestre 65' Correa 80', 86' Álvarez 87'	Stadium: Stadio Renato Dall'Ara Attendance: 18,043 Referee: Michael Fabbri

3 February 2016 23	Frosinone	1–0	Bologna	Frosinone
18:30 CET (UTC+01:00)	Blanchard 29' Russo 34' Dionisi 77' (pen.)	Report	Diawara 9' Taïder 22' Oikonomou 35', 64' Ferrari 45' Rossettini 76'	Stadium: Stadio Matusa Attendance: 6,177 Referee: Andrea Gervasoni

6 February 2016 24	Bologna	1–1	Fiorentina	Bologna
18:00 CET (UTC+01:00)	Giaccherini 63', 65' Diawara 64'	Report	Fernández 48', 57' Bernardeschi 59' Astori 65' Roncaglia 69'	Stadium: Stadio Renato Dall'Ara Attendance: 19,591 Referee: Luca Banti

14 February 2016 25	Udinese	0–1	Bologna	Udine
15:00 CET (UTC+01:00)		Report	Gastaldello 73' Destro 79'	Stadium: Stadio Friuli Attendance: 14,975 Referee: Carmine Russo

19 February 2016 26	Bologna	0–0	Juventus	Bologna
20:45 CET (UTC+01:00)	Gastaldello 33' Diawara 90+3'	Report	Sturaro 41' Marchisio 45'	Stadium: Stadio Renato Dall'Ara Attendance: 29,463 Referee: Massimiliano Irrati

28 February 2016 27	Palermo	0–0	Bologna	Palermo
12:30 CET (UTC+01:00)	Chochev 43' Morganella 63' Vitiello 90'	Report	Diawara 85'	Stadium: Stadio Renzo Barbera Attendance: 15,566 Referee: Marco Di Bello

6 March 2016 28	Bologna	0–0	Carpi	Bologna
15:00 CET (UTC+01:00)	Giaccherini 45+3'	Report	Romagnoli 18' Crimi 73' Gagliolo 90+3'	Stadium: Stadio Renato Dall'Ara Attendance: 16,820 Referee: Paolo Mazzoleni

12 March 2016 29	Internazionale	2–1	Bologna	Milan
20:45 CET (UTC+01:00)	Medel 56' Perišić 72' D'Ambrosio 76' Palacio 90+3'	Report	Brienza 90'	Stadium: San Siro Attendance: 40,267 Referee: Gianpaolo Calvarese

20 March 2016 30	Atalanta	2–0	Bologna	Bergamo
12:30 CET (UTC+01:00)	Gómez 27' Pinilla 43' Diamanti 45+1'	Report	Giaccherini 50' Rizzo 52' Gastaldello 77', 85' Mbaye 78'	Stadium: Stadio Atleti Azzurri d'Italia Attendance: 18,258 Referee: Piero Giacomelli

4 April 2016 31	Bologna	0–1	Hellas Verona	Bologna
20:45 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Maietta 22' Giaccherini 68' Ferrari 90+4'	Report	Samir 42' Viviani 53'	Stadium: Stadio Renato Dall'Ara Attendance: 16,606 Referee: Davide Ghersini

11 April 2016 32	Roma	1–1	Bologna	Rome
20:45 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Salah 50' Totti 90+3'	Report	Rossettini 25' Mbaye 35' Oikonomou 78'	Stadium: Stadio Olimpico Attendance: 32,835 Referee: Davide Massa

16 April 2016 33	Bologna	0–1	Torino	Bologna
15:00 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Rossettini 13' Brienza 28' Masina 82' Mirante 90+4'	Report	Bovo 41' Belotti 90+3' (pen.)	Stadium: Stadio Renato Dall'Ara Attendance: 20,655 Referee: Rosario Abisso

19 April 2016 34	Napoli	6–0	Bologna	Naples
20:45 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Gabbiadini 10', 35' (pen.) Mertens 58', 80', 88' Albiol 74' López 89'	Report	Mbaye 37' Diawara 53'	Stadium: Stadio San Paolo Attendance: 22,533 Referee: Andrea Gervasoni

24 April 2016 35	Bologna	2–0	Genoa	Bologna
15:00 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Giaccherini 11' Rossettini 48' Foccari 63'	Report	Rincón 37' Muñoz 42'	Stadium: Stadio Renato Dall'Ara Attendance: 17,099 Referee: Antonio Damato

1 May 2016 36	Empoli	0–0	Bologna	Empoli
15:00 CEST (UTC+02:00)		Report	Oikonomou 87' Masina 90+4'	Stadium: Stadio Carlo Castellani Attendance: 9,727 Referee: Daniele Chiffi

7 May 2016 37	Bologna	0–1	Milan	Bologna
20:45 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Diawara 6', 12' Oikonomou 35' Da Costa 39' Giaccherini 89'	Report	Mauri 6' Mexès 16' Bacca 40' (pen.) Bertolacci 58' Calabria 63' Romagnoli 90+4'	Stadium: Stadio Renato Dall'Ara Attendance: 22,544 Referee: Daniele Doveri

15 May 2016 38	Chievo	0–0	Bologna	Verona
15:00 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Sardo 34' M'Poku 37'	Report	Giaccherini 45'	Stadium: Stadio Marc'Antonio Bentegodi Referee: Riccardo Ros

Coppa Italia

14 August 2015 Third round	Bologna	0–1	Pavia	Vicenza
21:00 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Ferrari 45+2' Diawara 82' Oikonomou 85'	Report	Del Sante 37' Marchi 57'	Stadium: Stadio Romeo Menti Attendance: 336 Referee: Michael Fabbri

Statistics

Appearances and goals

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		Serie A		Coppa Italia
No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Goalkeepers
1	GK		Angelo da Costa	5	0	5	0	0	0
32	GK		Dejan Stojanović	0	0	0	0	0	0
83	GK		Antonio Mirante	33	0	32	0	1	0
97	GK		Mouhamadou Sarr	0	0	0	0	0	0
Defenders
2	DF		Marios Oikonomou	22	0	18+3	0	1	0
3	DF		Archimede Morleo	5	0	5	0	0	0
4	DF		Emil Krafth	3	0	1+2	0	0	0
5	DF		Erick Pulgar	12	0	6+6	0	0	0
11	DF		Juan Zúñiga	8	0	3+5	0	0	0
13	DF		Luca Rossettini	29	3	27+1	3	1	0
15	DF		Ibrahima Mbaye	16	0	11+4	0	0+1	0
19	DF		Kévin Constant	7	0	3+4	0	0	0
20	DF		Domenico Maietta	19	0	18+1	0	0	0
24	DF		Alex Ferrari	21	0	12+8	0	1	0
25	DF		Adam Masina	33	2	29+3	2	1	0
28	DF		Daniele Gastaldello	26	1	26	1	0	0
Midfielders
6	MF		Lorenzo Crisetig	5	0	3+1	0	1	0
8	MF		Saphir Taïder	29	0	25+4	0	0	0
14	MF		Franco Zuculini	1	0	0+1	0	0	0
17	MF		Emanuele Giaccherini	27	7	26+1	7	0	0
21	MF		Amadou Diawara	35	0	31+3	0	0+1	0
22	MF		Luca Rizzo	24	0	17+6	0	1	0
23	MF		Franco Brienza	29	3	15+13	3	1	0
26	MF		Anthony Mounier	29	4	23+6	4	0	0
30	MF		Godfred Donsah	20	2	18+2	2	0	0
33	MF		Matteo Brighi	23	0	13+9	0	1	0
Forwards
10	FW		Mattia Destro	27	8	25+2	8	0	0
18	FW		Robert Acquafresca	7	0	2+4	0	1	0
99	FW		Sergio Floccari	17	2	9+8	2	0	0
Players transferred out during the season
7	FW		Filippo Falco	9	0	1+8	0	0	0
11	FW		Matteo Mancosu	10	1	3+6	1	0+1	0
21	FW		Daniele Cacia	1	0	0	0	1	0
90	MF		Marco Crimi	1	0	1	0	0	0

Last updated: 8 May 2016
Source: Competitions

Goalscorers

Rank	No.	Pos	Name	Serie A	Total
1	10	FW	Mattia Destro	8	8
2	17	MF	Emanuele Giaccherini	7	7
3	26	MF	Anthony Mounier	4	4
4	13	DF	Luca Rossettini	3	3
4	23	MF	Franco Brienza	3	3
6	25	DF	Adam Masina	2	2
	30	MF	Godfred Donsah	2	2
	99	FW	Sergio Floccari	2	2
9	11	FW	Matteo Mancosu	1	1
9	28	DF	Daniele Gastaldello	1	1
Own goal				0	0
Totals				33	33

Last updated: 24 April 2016

Assists

Clean sheets

Rank	No.	Pos	Nat	Name	Serie A	Coppa Italia	Total
1	83	GK		Antonio Mirante	11	0	11
Totals					11	0	11

Last updated: 1 May 2016

References

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[table_hth_PAL0.43012116760173-6] Palermo ahead of Udinese on head-to-head record; Udinese–Palermo 0–1, Palermo–Udinese 4–1.

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2015–16 Bologna F.C. 1909 season

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