2015–16 Serie B
The 2015–16 Serie B (known as the Serie B ConTe.it for sponsorship reasons) was the 84th season since its establishment in 1929. A total of 22 teams contested the league: 16 returning from the 2014–15 season, 4 promoted from Lega Pro, and 2 relegated from Serie A. Vacancies created by the bankruptcy of Serie A-relegated Parma and the demotion of Catania to Lega Pro due to match fixing allowed Brescia to remain in the league despite being relegated. Furthermore, Teramo was due to participate to Serie B but due to the allegations for match-fixing, the Courts decided to relegate Teramo in the last place of Lega Pro of the previous season. After the demotion of Catania, Virtus Entella was readmitted into Serie B as the best team of the relegated teams from the previous season. Furthermore, Ascoli was promoted into the championship after finishing second in Lega Pro Group B, second after Teramo before being stripped of the title for the match-fixing scandal.[1][2]
Season | 2015–16 |
---|---|
Champions | Cagliari (1st title) |
Promoted | Cagliari Crotone Pescara (by play-off) |
Relegated | Virtus Lanciano Livorno Modena Como |
Matches played | 427 |
Goals scored | 1,028 (2.41 per match) |
Top goalscorer | Gianluca Lapadula (23 goals) |
Biggest home win | Cagliari 6–0 Brescia (16 April 2016) |
Biggest away win | Como 0–4 Ascoli (3 October 2015) |
Highest scoring | Bari 4–3 Spezia (6 September 2015) |
Longest winning run | 8 games (Trapani) |
Longest unbeaten run | 18 games (Trapani) |
Longest winless run | 15 games (Como) |
Longest losing run | 5 games (Ascoli) |
Highest attendance | 27,278 Bari 2–1 Salernitana (6 November 2015) |
Lowest attendance | 1,499 Virtus Entella 1–0 Pro Vercelli (3 October 2015) |
Average attendance | 6,847 |
← 2014–15 2016–17 → |
Serie B introduced the "green card" at the beginning of the season. The green card was given to promote fair play and good acts. The green card was not given during the game, as it would alter sport rules, but awarded after the match to a player or coach who exhibited fair play by the referee. The player or coach with the most green cards at the end of the season was rewarded.[3]
Teams
Relegated from 2014–15 Serie A:
From 2014–15 Serie B:
Promoted from 2014–15 Lega Pro:
Stadia and locations
Personnel and kits
Team | President | Manager | Kit manufacturer | Shirt sponsor (front) | Shirt sponsor (back) | Shorts sponsor |
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Ascoli | Francesco Bellini | Devis Mangia | Max Sport | Fainplast/CIAM | Brosway | Rosso Piceno |
Avellino | Walter Taccone | Attilio Tesser | Givova | Gruppo Taccone | None | None |
Bari | Gianluca Paparesta | Andrea Camplone | Nike | Puglia, Balkan Express | None | ESIM |
Brescia | Luigi Ragazzoni | Roberto Boscaglia | Acerbis | UBI Banco di Brescia | None | None |
Cagliari | Tommaso Giulini | Massimo Rastelli | Kappa | Spontini/ISOLA, EP | Pecorino Romano/Eva Arredamenti | Energit |
Cesena | Giorgio Lugaresi | Massimo Drago | Lotto | SunTrades | None | None |
Como | Pietro Porro, Gianluca Zambrotta | Stefano Cuoghi | Legea | Verga Promozionali, FoxTown | None | None |
Crotone | Raffaele Vrenna | Ivan Jurić | Zeus | Metal Carpenteria | V&V Group | None |
Latina | Pasquale Maietta | Carmine Gautieri | Givova | Sarchioto | None | Re Chips |
Livorno | Aldo Spinelli | Ezio Gelain | Legea | None | None | Kia |
Modena | Angelo Forcina | Cristiano Bergodi | Erreà | Casa Modena/Safim Architettura | None | None |
Novara | Massimo De Salvo | Marco Baroni | Joma | Banca Popolare di Novara, Comoli Ferrari | Cristina Rubinetterie | None |
Perugia | Massimiliano Santopadre | Pierpaolo Bisoli | Frankie Garage | Piccini Group, Fortinfissi | Tedesco Group | None |
Pescara | Daniele Sebastiani | Massimo Oddo | Erreà | Officina Meccanica Angelucci, Pharmapiù | DZ Insurance Sport | Vincenzo Serraiocco Consulting |
Pro Vercelli | Massimo Secondo | Claudio Foscarini | Erreà | Amteco, GLI Gestione Logistica Interna | None | None |
Salernitana | Marco Mezzaroma | Leonardo Menichini | Givova | Caffè Motta, Supermercati eté | None | IASA |
Spezia | Matteo Volpi | Domenico Di Carlo | Acerbis | Carispezia | None | None |
Ternana | Giuseppe Masoni | Roberto Breda | Macron | CIesse Piumini | None | None |
Trapani | Vittorio Morace | Serse Cosmi | Joma | Ustica Lines | None | None |
Vicenza | Tiziano Cunico | Franco Lerda | Macron | Banca Popolare di Vicenza | Estel Group | None |
Virtus Entella | Antonio Gozzi | Alfredo Aglietti | Acerbis | Creditis, Arinox | None | Due Energie |
Virtus Lanciano | Valentina Maio | Primo Maragliulo | Legea | In Opera, Marfisi Carni | None | None |
Managerial changes
Team | Outgoing manager | Manner of departure | Date of vacancy | Position in table | Replaced by | Date of appointment |
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Brescia | Alessandro Calori | Sacked | 26 May 2015[4] | Pre-season | Roberto Boscaglia | 24 June 2015[5] |
Crotone | Massimo Drago | Mutual consent | 28 May 2015[6] | Ivan Jurić | 9 June 2015[7] | |
Cagliari | Gianluca Festa | End of contract | 31 May 2015 | Massimo Rastelli | 12 June 2015[8] | |
Perugia | Andrea Camplone | End of contract | 31 May 2015 | Pierpaolo Bisoli | 5 June 2015[9] | |
Cesena | Domenico Di Carlo | Sacked | 6 June 2015[10] | Massimo Drago | 8 June 2015[11] | |
Modena | Simone Pavan | Sacked | 10 June 2015[12] | Hernán Crespo | 30 June 2015[13] | |
Avellino | Massimo Rastelli | Signed by Cagliari | 12 June 2015 | Attilio Tesser | 13 June 2015[14] | |
Ternana | Attilio Tesser | Signed by Avellino | 13 June 2015 | Domenico Toscano | 24 July 2015[15] | |
Ternana | Domenico Toscano | Resigned | 23 September 2015[16] | 22nd | Roberto Breda | 28 September 2015[17] |
Pro Vercelli | Cristiano Scazzola | Sacked | 11 October 2015[18] | 20th | Claudio Foscarini | 11 October 2015[19] |
Como | Carlo Sabatini | Sacked | 31 October 2015[20] | 22nd | Gianluca Festa | 1 November 2015[21] |
Latina | Mark Iuliano | Sacked | 2 November 2015 | 12th | Mario Somma | 2 November 2015[22] |
Ascoli | Mario Petrone | Mutual consent | 2 November 2015[23] | 19th | Devis Mangia | 4 November 2015[24] |
Spezia | Nenad Bjelica | Sacked | 21 November 2015[25] | 15th | Domenico Di Carlo | 23 November 2015[26] |
Livorno | Christian Panucci | Sacked | 25 November 2015[27] | 7th | Bortolo Mutti | 25 November 2015[27] |
Bari | Davide Nicola | Sacked | 31 December 2015[28] | 6th | Andrea Camplone | 31 December 2015[29] |
Livorno | Bortolo Mutti | Sacked | 27 January 2016[30] | 18th | Christian Panucci | 27 January 2016 |
Virtus Lanciano | Roberto D'Aversa | Sacked | 30 January 2016[31] | 21st | Primo Maragliulo | 1 February 2016[32] |
Salernitana | Vincenzo Torrente | Sacked | 2 February 2016[33] | 20th | Leonardo Menichini | 2 February 2016 |
Latina | Mario Somma | Sacked | 28 February 2016[34] | 14th | Carmine Gautieri | 7 March 2016[35] |
Como | Gianluca Festa | Sacked | 13 March 2016[36] | 22nd | Stefano Cuoghi | 13 March 2016 |
Vicenza | Pasquale Marino | Sacked | 14 March 2016 | 20th | Franco Lerda | 15 March 2016[37] |
Livorno | Christian Panucci | Sacked | 21 March 2016[38] | 19th | Franco Colomba | 21 March 2016 |
Avellino | Attilio Tesser | Sacked | 22 March 2016[39] | 12th | Dario Marcolin | 22 March 2016[40] |
Modena | Hernán Crespo | Sacked | 26 March 2016[41] | 17th | Cristiano Bergodi | 28 March 2016[42] |
Livorno | Franco Colomba | Sacked | 16 April 2016[43] | 21st | Ezio Gelain | 16 April 2016 |
Avellino | Dario Marcolin | Sacked | 20 April 2016[44] | 13th | Attilio Tesser | 20 April 2016 |
League table
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion, qualification or relegation |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Cagliari (C, P) | 42 | 25 | 8 | 9 | 78 | 41 | +37 | 83 | Promotion to Serie A |
2 | Crotone (P) | 42 | 23 | 13 | 6 | 61 | 36 | +25 | 82 | |
3 | Trapani | 42 | 20 | 13 | 9 | 64 | 49 | +15 | 73 | Qualification to promotion play-offs semi-finals |
4 | Pescara (O, P) | 42 | 21 | 9 | 12 | 69 | 52 | +17 | 72 | |
5 | Bari | 42 | 19 | 11 | 12 | 58 | 48 | +10 | 68 | Qualification to promotion play-offs preliminary round |
6 | Cesena[lower-alpha 1] | 42 | 19 | 11 | 12 | 57 | 37 | +20 | 68 | |
7 | Spezia | 42 | 17 | 15 | 10 | 47 | 45 | +2 | 66 | |
8 | Novara[lower-alpha 2] | 42 | 19 | 10 | 13 | 57 | 35 | +22 | 65 | |
9 | Virtus Entella | 42 | 17 | 13 | 12 | 51 | 40 | +11 | 64 | |
10 | Perugia | 42 | 14 | 13 | 15 | 40 | 40 | 0 | 55 | |
11 | Brescia | 42 | 14 | 12 | 16 | 55 | 64 | −9 | 54 | |
12 | Ternana | 42 | 15 | 8 | 19 | 50 | 56 | −6 | 53 | |
13 | Vicenza | 42 | 11 | 16 | 15 | 41 | 53 | −12 | 49 | |
14 | Avellino | 42 | 13 | 10 | 19 | 52 | 66 | −14 | 49 | |
15 | Ascoli | 42 | 13 | 8 | 21 | 45 | 64 | −19 | 47 | |
16 | Latina | 42 | 10 | 16 | 16 | 44 | 51 | −7 | 46 | |
17 | Pro Vercelli | 42 | 11 | 13 | 18 | 43 | 53 | −10 | 46 | |
18 | Salernitana (O) | 42 | 9 | 18 | 15 | 48 | 62 | −14 | 45 | Relegation play-out |
19 | Virtus Lanciano[lower-alpha 3] (R, E, R, R) | 42 | 12 | 12 | 18 | 43 | 56 | −13 | 44 | Bankruptcy after play-out |
20 | Livorno (R) | 42 | 10 | 12 | 20 | 45 | 57 | −12 | 42 | Relegation to Lega Pro |
21 | Modena (R) | 42 | 11 | 9 | 22 | 37 | 55 | −18 | 42 | |
22 | Como (R) | 42 | 5 | 18 | 19 | 39 | 64 | −25 | 33 |
(C) Champions; (E) Eliminated; (O) Play-off winners; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated
Notes:
Promotion play-offs
Six teams played in the promotion play-offs. A preliminary one-legged round, played at the home venue of the higher placed team, involved the teams from 5th to 8th place. The two winning teams played against the 3rd and 4th-placed teams in the two-legged semi-finals. The higher placed team played the second leg of the promotion playoff at home. Pescara won the promotion play-offs to Serie A.
Preliminary round | Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||||||||||
8 | Novara | 0 | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||||||
5 | Bari | 3 | 4 | Pescara | 2 | 4 | 6 | |||||||||||
8 | Novara (a.e.t.) | 4 | 4 | Pescara | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||||||||||
3 | Trapani | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
7 | Spezia | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
6 | Cesena | 1 | 3 | Trapani | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||||||||||
7 | Spezia | 2 |
Relegation play-out
Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
---|---|---|---|---|
Virtus Lanciano (19) | 1–5 | Salernitana (18) | 1–4 | 0–1 |
Results
Top goalscorers
Rank | Player | Club | Goals |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Gianluca Lapadula | Pescara | 27 |
2 | Francesco Caputo | Virtus Entella | 17 |
Daniele Cacia | Ascoli | ||
4 | Ante Budimir | Crotone | 16 |
Simone Ganz | Como | ||
6 | Massimo Coda | Salernitana | 15 |
Daniele Vantaggiato | Livorno | ||
8 | Diego Farias | Cagliari | 14 |
9 | Gianluca Caprari | Pescara | 13 |
João Pedro | Cagliari | ||
Felice Evacuo | Novara | ||
Riccardo Maniero | Bari |
Attendance data
Pos | Team | Total | High | Low | Average | Change |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Bari | 449,677 | 31,107 | 15,056 | 21,413 | +11.1% |
2 | Cagliari | 261,978 | 15,551 | 9,785 | 12,475 | +18.2%1 |
3 | Cesena | 256,345 | 14,353 | 10,631 | 12,207 | −24.7%1 |
4 | Salernitana | 255,115 | 22,140 | 8,382 | 12,148 | +13.4%2 |
5 | Perugia | 194,113 | 12,075 | 7,889 | 9,243 | −14.7% |
6 | Pescara | 170,333 | 13,790 | 5,648 | 8,111 | +15.8% |
7 | Vicenza | 161,284 | 11,104 | 6,740 | 7,680 | −2.4% |
8 | Brescia | 160,929 | 10,397 | 5,055 | 7,663 | +28.9% |
9 | Spezia | 152,558 | 8,198 | 6,487 | 7,265 | +15.3% |
10 | Crotone | 148,276 | 9,263 | 4,052 | 7,061 | +56.0% |
11 | Ascoli | 138,067 | 9,216 | 5,082 | 6,575 | +27.8%2 |
12 | Avellino | 132,625 | 10,125 | 4,500 | 6,315 | −11.1% |
13 | Livorno | 129,735 | 9,839 | 5,207 | 6,178 | −2.5% |
14 | Trapani | 106,854 | 6,959 | 3,975 | 5,088 | +1.0% |
15 | Modena | 105,354 | 8,355 | 3,832 | 5,017 | −8.1% |
16 | Novara | 102,693 | 6,655 | 3,851 | 4,890 | +20.4%2 |
17 | Ternana | 81,425 | 10,453 | 2,843 | 3,877 | −20.9% |
18 | Como | 68,496 | 6,035 | 1,544 | 3,262 | +127.8%2 |
19 | Latina | 65,469 | 3,938 | 2,292 | 3,118 | −18.2% |
20 | Pro Vercelli | 63,981 | 5,352 | 2,316 | 3,047 | +2.0% |
21 | Virtus Lanciano | 57,367 | 4,181 | 2,147 | 2,732 | −9.7% |
22 | Virtus Entella | 45,620 | 5,521 | 1,499 | 2,172 | −0.2% |
League total | 3,308,294 | 31,107 | 1,499 | 7,161 | +8.9% |
Source: Official club websites and Lega Serie B
Notes:
1: Team played last season in Serie A.
2: Team played last season in Lega Pro.
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