2015%E2%80%9316_UEFA_Champions_League_group_stage

2015–16 UEFA Champions League group stage

International football competition

The 2015–16 UEFA Champions League group stage began on 15 September and ended on 9 December 2015. A total of 32 teams competed in the group stage to decide the 16 places in the knockout phase of the 2015–16 UEFA Champions League.^[1]

Draw

The draw was held on 27 August 2015, 17:45 CEST, at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco.^[2]^[3] The 32 teams were drawn into eight groups of four, with the restriction that teams from the same association could not be drawn against each other. For the draw, the teams were seeded into four pots based on the following principles (introduced starting this season):^[4]^[5]

Pot 1 contained the title holders and the champions of the top seven associations based on their 2014 UEFA country coefficients.^[6]^[7] As the title holders (Barcelona) were one of the champions of the top seven associations, the champions of the association ranked eighth were also seeded into Pot 1 (regulations Article 13.05).^[1]
Pots 2, 3 and 4 contained the remaining teams, seeded based on their 2015 UEFA club coefficients.^[8]^[9]^[10]

Moreover, the draw was controlled for teams from the same association in order to split the teams evenly into the two sets of groups (A–D, E–H) for maximum television coverage.

The fixtures were decided after the draw. On each matchday, four groups played their matches on Tuesday, while the other four groups played their matches on Wednesday, with the two sets of groups (A–D, E–H) alternating between each matchday. There were other restrictions: for example, teams from the same city (e.g., Real Madrid and Atlético Madrid, Chelsea and Arsenal, Manchester City and Manchester United) in general did not play at home on the same matchday (UEFA tried to avoid teams from the same city playing at home on the same day or on consecutive days, due to logistics and crowd control), and teams in certain countries (e.g., Belarus, Russia, Kazakhstan) did not play at home on the last matchday (due to cold weather and simultaneous kick-off times).

On 17 July 2014, the UEFA emergency panel ruled that Ukrainian and Russian clubs would not be drawn against each other "until further notice" due to the political unrest between the countries.^[11] Therefore, Ukrainian clubs Shakhtar Donetsk and Dynamo Kyiv (both Pot 3), and Russian clubs Zenit Saint Petersburg (Pot 1) and CSKA Moscow (Pot 3) could not be drawn into the same group.

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[cnote_TH] TH Title holders, automatically placed at the top position of seeding list.

[cnote_CR] CR Winners of the play-off round (Champions Route).

[cnote_LR] LR Winners of the play-off round (League Route).

[cnote_A] ^{a b c}
Shakhtar Donetsk played their home matches at Arena Lviv, Lviv, instead of their regular stadium, Donbass Arena, Donetsk, due to the war conditions in Eastern Ukraine.

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Maccabi Tel Aviv played their home matches at Sammy Ofer Stadium, Haifa, instead of their regular stadium, Bloomfield Stadium, Tel Aviv.^[29]

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The Dynamo Kyiv v Maccabi Tel Aviv match was played behind closed doors due to UEFA punishment.^[30]

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CET (UTC+1) for matches from 2 November 2015, and CEST (UTC+2) for matches to 22 October 2015.

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"Regulations of the UEFA Champions League 2015/16 Season" (PDF). UEFA.com. 1 May 2015.

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"Draws — Group stage". UEFA.com. Retrieved 27 August 2015.

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"UEFA Champions League group stage draw". UEFA.com. 27 August 2015.

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"Champions League: Domestic title winners to receive top-seed status". BBC Sport. 9 October 2014.^{[permanent dead link]}

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"Champions' bonus for group stage draw". UEFA.com. 24 April 2015.

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"Country coefficients 2013/14". UEFA.com.

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"UEFA Country Ranking 2014". Bert Kassies.

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"Club coefficients 2014/15". UEFA.com.

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"UEFA Team Ranking 2015". Bert Kassies.

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"Seeding in the Champions League 2015/2016". Bert Kassies. Archived from the original on 2015-07-07. Retrieved 2015-08-26.

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"Emergency Panel decisions". UEFA.org. 17 July 2014.

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"2015/16 UEFA Champions League participants". UEFA.com.

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"Group stage draw: which teams are in which pots?". UEFA.com. 26 August 2015. Retrieved 26 August 2015.

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"Next season's UEFA Champions League seeds". UEFA.com. 18 May 2015.

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"Competition format". UEFA.com. Retrieved 26 August 2015.

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"Full Fixture List" (PDF). UEFA.com.

[md01_1-18] [17]
"Full Time Summary Matchday 1 – Tuesday 15 September 2015" (PDF). UEFA.org. Union of European Football Associations. 15 September 2015. Retrieved 15 September 2015.

[md02_2-19] [18]
"Full Time Summary Matchday 2 – Wednesday 30 September 2015" (PDF). UEFA.org. Union of European Football Associations. 30 September 2015. Retrieved 30 September 2015.

[md03_2-20] [19]
"Full Time Summary Matchday 3 – Wednesday 21 October 2015" (PDF). UEFA.org. Union of European Football Associations. 21 October 2015. Retrieved 21 October 2015.

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"Full Time Summary Matchday 4 – Tuesday 3 November 2015" (PDF). UEFA.org. Union of European Football Associations. 3 November 2015. Retrieved 3 November 2015.

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"Full Time Summary Matchday 5 – Wednesday 25 November 2015" (PDF). UEFA.org. Union of European Football Associations. 25 November 2015. Retrieved 25 November 2015.

[md06_1-23] [22]
"Full Time Summary Matchday 6 – Tuesday 8 December 2015" (PDF). UEFA.org. Union of European Football Associations. 8 December 2015. Retrieved 8 December 2015.

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"Full Time Summary Matchday 1 – Wednesday 16 September 2015" (PDF). UEFA.org. Union of European Football Associations. 16 September 2015. Retrieved 16 September 2015.

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"Full Time Summary Matchday 2 – Tuesday 29 September 2015" (PDF). UEFA.org. Union of European Football Associations. 29 September 2015. Retrieved 29 September 2015.

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"Full Time Summary Matchday 3 – Tuesday 20 October 2015" (PDF). UEFA.org. Union of European Football Associations. 20 October 2015. Retrieved 20 October 2015.

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"Full Time Summary Matchday 4 – Wednesday 4 November 2015" (PDF). UEFA.org. Union of European Football Associations. 4 November 2015. Retrieved 4 November 2015.

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"Full Time Summary Matchday 5 – Tuesday 24 November 2015" (PDF). UEFA.org. Union of European Football Associations. 24 November 2015. Retrieved 24 November 2015.

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"Full Time Summary Matchday 6 – Wednesday 9 December 2015" (PDF). UEFA.org. Union of European Football Associations. 9 December 2015. Retrieved 9 December 2015.

[30] [29]
"Champions League win earns Maccabi Tel Aviv $20m". globes. 26 August 2015.

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"UEFA orders Dynamo Kyiv to play matches behind closed doors over racist fans". Kyiv Post. 25 November 2015. Retrieved 26 November 2015.

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Real Madrid	6	5	1	0	19	3	+16	16	Advance to knockout phase
2	Paris Saint-Germain	6	4	1	1	12	1	+11	13	Advance to knockout phase
3	Shakhtar Donetsk	6	1	0	5	7	14	−7	3	Transfer to Europa League
4	Malmö FF	6	1	0	5	1	21	−20	3

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	VfL Wolfsburg	6	4	0	2	9	6	+3	12	Advance to knockout phase
2	PSV Eindhoven	6	3	1	2	8	7	+1	10	Advance to knockout phase
3	Manchester United	6	2	2	2	7	7	0	8	Transfer to Europa League
4	CSKA Moscow	6	1	1	4	5	9	−4	4

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

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Manchester City	6	4	0	2	12	8	+4	12	Advance to knockout phase
2	Juventus	6	3	2	1	6	3	+3	11	Advance to knockout phase
3	Sevilla	6	2	0	4	8	11	−3	6	Transfer to Europa League
4	Borussia Mönchengladbach	6	1	2	3	8	12	−4	5

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Barcelona	6	4	2	0	15	4	+11	14	Advance to knockout phase
2	Roma	6	1	3	2	11	16	−5	6	Advance to knockout phase
3	Bayer Leverkusen	6	1	3	2	13	12	+1	6	Transfer to Europa League
4	BATE Borisov	6	1	2	3	5	12	−7	5

2015%E2%80%9316_UEFA_Champions_League_group_stage

2015–16 UEFA Champions League group stage

Draw

Teams

Format

Tiebreakers

Groups

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Group E

Group F

Group G

Group H

Notes

References

External links

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Bayern Munich	6	5	1	19	3	+16	15	Advance to knockout phase
2	Arsenal	6	3	3	12	10	+2	9	Advance to knockout phase
3	Olympiacos	6	3	3	6	13	−7	9	Transfer to Europa League
4	Dinamo Zagreb	6	1	5	3	14	−11	3

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Chelsea	6	4	1	1	13	3	+10	13	Advance to knockout phase
2	Dynamo Kyiv	6	3	2	1	8	4	+4	11	Advance to knockout phase
3	Porto	6	3	1	2	9	8	+1	10	Transfer to Europa League
4	Maccabi Tel Aviv	6	0	0	6	1	16	−15	0

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Zenit Saint Petersburg	6	5	0	1	13	6	+7	15	Advance to knockout phase
2	Gent	6	3	1	2	8	7	+1	10	Advance to knockout phase
3	Valencia	6	2	0	4	5	9	−4	6	Transfer to Europa League
4	Lyon	6	1	1	4	5	9	−4	4

Key to colours
Group winners and runners-up advanced to the round of 16
Third-placed teams entered the Europa League round of 32