2015–16 Primera División (women)

Primera División
Season	2015–16
Champions	Athletic Bilbao; (5th title)
Relegated	Collerense ; Oviedo Moderno
Champions League	Athletic Bilbao ; Barcelona
Matches played	240
Goals scored	783 (3.26 per match)
Top goalscorer	Jennifer Hermoso (24 goals)
Biggest home win	Atlético Madrid 9–1 Fundación Albacete; Valencia 8–0 Oiartzun ; Barcelona 8–0 Oviedo Moderno
Biggest away win	Fundación Albacete 0–10 Barcelona
Highest scoring	Atlético Madrid 9–1 Fundación Albacete; Fundación Albacete 0–10 Barcelona
Longest winning run	12 games ; Athletic Bilbao
Longest unbeaten run	28 games ; Barcelona
Longest losing run	10 games ; Oviedo Moderno
	← 2014–15 2016–17 →

The 2015–16 Primera División Femenina de Fútbol was the 28th edition of Spain's highest women's football league.

Overview[]

Barcelona defended the title for the fourth straight season. The competition, running from 6 September 2015 to 12 June 2016, was contested by sixteen teams, with Granadilla making its debut.

Athletic Bilbao became champion on 5 June 2016 after taking advantage of the defeat of Barcelona against Atlético Madrid by 0–1. Previously, Athletic beat Oviedo Moderno, relegated like Collerense, 3–0 at Lezama.^[1]

Teams[]

T. Alcaine

Athletic

Atlético Madrid

FC Barcelona

Espanyol

F. Albacete

Oviedo Moderno

Levante

Collerense

Rayo Vallecano

Real Sociedad

Location of the 2015–16 mainland Primera División teams

Granadilla

Location of the 2015–16 Primera División team from the Canary Islands

Team	Home city	Stadium	Head Coach	Captain
Athletic Bilbao	Bilbao	Lezama	Joseba Agirre	Iraia Iturregi
Atlético Madrid	Madrid	Estadio Cerro del Espino	Ángel Villacampa	Amanda Sampedro
Barcelona	Barcelona	Ciutat Esportiva Joan Gamper	Xavier Llorens	Marta Unzué
Collerense	Palma de Mallorca	Estadi Municipal Coll d’en Rebassa	José Antonio Sánchez Ros
Espanyol	Barcelona	Ciutat Esportiva Dani Jarque	Antonio Polidano	Paloma Fernández
Fundación Albacete	Albacete	Ciudad Deportiva Andrés Iniesta	Milagros Martínez
Granadilla	Granadilla de Abona	Estadio Municipal Francisco Suárez	Toni Ayala
Levante	Valencia	El Terrer	Andrés Tudela	Mariví Simó
Oiartzun	Oiartzun	Karla Lekuona	Jon Alkorta
Oviedo Moderno	Oviedo	Estadio Manuel Díaz Vega	Emilio Fernández Cañedo
Rayo Vallecano	Madrid	Ciudad Deportiva Rayo Vallecano	Alberto Ruiz de la Hermosa
Real Sociedad	San Sebastián	Zubieta	Igor San Miguel	Aintzane Encinas
Santa Teresa	Badajoz	Estadio El Vivero	Juan Carlos Antúnez	Estefanía Lima
Sporting Huelva	Huelva	Ciudad Deportiva El Conquero	Antonio Toledo
Transportes Alcaine	Zaragoza	Estadio Pedro Sancho	Alberto Berna
Valencia	Valencia	Ciudad Deportiva de Paterna	Cristian Toro	Ivana Andrés

League table[]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Athletic Bilbao (C)	30	25	3	2	75	15	+60	78	Qualification for UEFA Champions League and Copa de la Reina
2	Barcelona	30	24	5	1	98	12	+86	77
3	Atlético Madrid	30	22	3	5	83	24	+59	69	Qualification for Copa de la Reina
4	Levante	30	16	6	8	56	38	+18	54
5	Real Sociedad	30	16	5	9	50	33	+17	53
6	Valencia	30	15	4	11	65	30	+35	49
7	Granadilla	30	14	5	11	49	44	+5	47
8	Sporting Huelva	30	13	7	10	44	39	+5	46
9	Espanyol	30	10	6	14	28	48	−20	36
10	Rayo Vallecano	30	10	6	14	34	48	−14	36
11	Santa Teresa	30	9	5	16	43	62	−19	32
12	Transportes Alcaine	30	10	2	18	38	68	−30	32
13	Fundación Albacete	30	6	7	17	47	93	−46	25
14	Oiartzun	30	6	6	18	24	67	−43	24
15	Oviedo Moderno (R)	30	2	5	23	21	78	−57	11	Relegation to Segunda División
16	Collerense (R)	30	1	7	22	28	84	−56	10	Relegation to Segunda División

Source: soccerway.com
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) goal difference; 4) number of goals scored
(C) Champion; (R) Relegated

Results[]

Home \ Away	ATH	ATM	FCB	COL	ESP	FUN	GRA	LEV	OKE	OVI	RAY	RSS	STE	SPH	TAZ	VAL
Athletic Bilbao		3–0	1–1	5–0	5–0	5–1	5–1	0–0	2–0	3–0	1–0	5–0	3–1	3–0	3–0	3–2
Atlético Madrid	1–2		0–0	5–0	3–0	9–1	5–0	1–2	3–0	5–1	3–0	2–1	4–2	3–1	7–2	0–3
Barcelona	1–1	0–1		2–1	7–1	2–0	3–0	7–1	2–0	8–0	4–0	1–0	5–1	1–1	6–0	2–0
Collerense	0–3	0–5	0–3		1–0	4–4	1–2	1–2	2–2	2–2	1–3	0–2	2–2	0–4	2–2	0–7
Espanyol	0–2	1–2	0–0	0–0		2–1	0–0	0–2	2–1	4–0	2–1	0–0	1–0	1–0	2–3	0–4
Fundación Albacete	1–3	1–3	0–10	3–2	0–1		2–0	1–6	4–3	3–2	2–3	0–6	4–4	2–2	3–1	2–6
Granadilla	2–1	0–1	1–3	3–2	2–3	1–0		0–0	4–0	4–0	3–0	3–0	4–1	1–1	4–0	1–0
Levante	0–2	1–1	0–1	4–0	3–2	1–1	6–1		1–1	3–1	2–1	2–1	4–0	4–0	2–3	0–0
Oiartzun	0–4	0–5	0–5	2–1	1–0	1–0	2–0	0–1		1–0	0–2	0–1	3–2	2–2	1–2	0–2
Oviedo Moderno	0–2	0–1	0–5	0–0	2–2	0–3	1–4	0–3	3–1		1–2	1–2	0–1	0–4	1–3	2–2
Rayo Vallecano	2–0	0–2	1–2	2–1	1–1	2–2	1–1	2–0	1–1	0–1		2–2	2–1	0–1	2–1	1–1
Real Sociedad	1–2	1–0	0–3	3–1	2–0	2–2	1–1	4–0	3–0	3–0	3–0		1–0	0–1	4–2	0–1
Santa Teresa	0–1	0–1	0–7	3–1	3–1	1–0	1–4	1–3	1–1	1–1	3–0	1–3		3–2	2–0	2–0
Sporting Huelva	0–2	1–1	1–2	2–1	0–1	2–2	0–2	2–1	3–0	3–2	3–1	0–0	1–0		3–1	1–0
Transportes Alcaine	0–1	1–6	0–3	4–1	0–1	3–0	1–0	1–2	1–1	1–0	2–0	1–2	1–4	4–1		0–2
Valencia	1–2	0–2	1–2	3–1	2–0	6–2	3–0	2–0	8–0	2–0	0–1	1–2	2–2	1–2	2–0

Updated to match(es) played on unknown. Source: soccerway.com
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Season statistics[]

Top scorers[]

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Jennifer Hermoso	Barcelona	24
2	Charlyn Corral	Levante	22
3	Sonia Bermúdez	Atlético Madrid	20
4	María Paz Vilas	Valencia	19
5	Esther González	Atlético Madrid	18
	Estefanía Lima	Santa Teresa	18
	Alexia Putellas	Barcelona	18
8	Nahikari García	Real Sociedad	15
9	Yulema Corres	Athletic Bilbao	14
10	María José Pérez	Granadilla	13

Best goalkeepers[]

Rank	Player	Club	Goals against	Minutes	Coeff.
1	Laura Ràfols	Barcelona	3	1080	1:360
2	Ainhoa Tirapu	Athletic Bilbao	15	2700	1:180
2	Sandra Paños	Barcelona	9	1620	1:180
4	Noelia Gil	Atlético Madrid	6	785	1:130.83
5	Esther Sullastres	Valencia	15	1693	1:112.87
6	Dolores Gallardo	Atlético Madrid	18	1905	1:105.83
7	Noelia Bermúdez	Levante	15	1317	1:87.8

Hat-tricks[]

Player	For	Against	Result	Round
Jennifer Hermoso	Barcelona	Levante	7–1 (h)	2
Sonia Bermúdez	Atlético Madrid	Fundación Albacete	9–1 (h)	3
Charlyn Corral	Levante	Sporting Huelva	4–0 (h)	5
María Paz Vilas⁴	Valencia	Oiartzun	8–0 (h)	7
Alexia Putellas⁴	Barcelona	Fundación Albacete	0–10 (a)	8
Nahikari García	Real Sociedad	Levante	4–0 (h)	10
María Paz Vilas	Valencia	Fundación Albacete	2–6 (a)	12
	Fundación Albacete	Collerense	3–2 (h)	13
Ainize Barea⁴	Santa Teresa	Fundación Albacete	4–4 (a)	15
Alexia Putellas	Barcelona	Oviedo Moderno	8–0 (h)	15
	Real Sociedad	Fundación Albacete	0–6 (a)	16
Jennifer Hermoso	Barcelona	Espanyol	6–1 (h)	25
	Fundación Albacete	Collerense	4–4 (a)	28
	Levante	Granadilla	6–1 (h)	29
María Paz Vilas	Valencia	Collerense	0–7 (a)	29
Sonia Bermúdez	Atlético Madrid	Transportes Alcaine	7–2 (h)	30

⁴ Player scored 4 goals

All-season Team[]

Paredes

All-season team

On 27 June 2016, La Liga named for the first time an All-season Team.^[2]

Pos	Name	Team
GK	Noelia Bermúdez	Levante
DF	Irene Paredes	Athletic Bilbao
DF		Granadilla
DF	Marta Torrejón	Barcelona
DF	Mapi	Atlético Madrid
MF	Estefanía Lima	Santa Teresa
MF	Alexia Putellas	Barcelona
MF	María José Pérez	Granadilla
FW	Charlyn Corral	Levante
FW	Paloma Lázaro	Granadilla
FW	Yulema Corres	Athletic Bilbao

Transfers[]

Team	In	Out
Athletic Bilbao	Joseba Aguirre (Club Portugalete)^[3] HC Ainhoa Vicente (Real Sociedad) DF Joana Flaviano (ASD Torres Calcio) MF	(Lezama Facilities) HC (Oviedo Moderno) GK Joana Arranz (CD Santa Teresa) DF (Oiartzun KE) MF (Oiartzun KE) MF (Real Sociedad) MF Arrate Orueta (retired) MF
Atlético de Madrid	Kenti Robles (RCD Espanyol) DF () MF Mariela Coronel (Transportes Alcaine) MF Sonia Bermúdez (FC Barcelona)^[4] FW (CD Parquesol) FW	(CD Canillas) MF
FC Barcelona	Sandra Paños (Levante UD) GK Ane Bergara (Real Sociedad) DF Irene del Río (Oviedo Moderno)^[5] MF Patricia Guijarro (UD Collerense) MF Olga García (Levante UD)^[6] FW Bárbara Latorre (RCD Espanyol) FW Andreia Norton (Clube de Albergaria) FW	(Atlético Málaga) GK Marta Corredera (Arsenal LFC) MF Virginia Torrecilla (Montpellier HSC)^[7] MF Sonia Bermúdez (Atlético Madrid) FW Ana Romero "Willy" (Valencia CF) FW
UD Collerense	() GK () MF () MF (??) MF	(??) DF (??) MF Patricia Guijarro (FC Barcelona) MF Maitane López (Levante UD) FW
RCD Espanyol	(FC Levante Las Planas) HC (CE Sant Gabriel) GK (FC Levante Las Planas) DF (FC Levante Las Planas) MF (CE Sant Gabriel) MF (CE Europa) MF (CE Sant Gabriel) MF (CE Sant Gabriel) MF (Saint Leo University) MF (CE Sant Gabriel) FW () FW (CE Sant Gabriel) FW (CE Sant Gabriel) FW	(CD Montcada) HC (Levante UD) GK (??) GK (UD Granadilla Tenerife Sur) DF Kenti Robles (Atlético de Madrid) DF (Real Sociedad) MF Bárbara Latorre (FC Barcelona) FW (Sporting de Huelva) FW
Fundación Albacete	()^[8] DF (Villarreal CF) DF (Elche CF) DF (Sporting Plaza de Argel) MF (Villarreal CF) FW	(??) DF (??) DF (??) DF (??) MF (Sporting de Huelva) FW (Sporting de Huelva) FW
UD Granadilla Tenerife Sur	() DF (RCD Espanyol) DF Wendy Acosta () MF Sara "Tui" (FVPR El Olivo) MF Paloma Lázaro (Madrid CFF) FW (Charleston Cougars) FW	(Missouri Valley Vikings) DF (Arsenal Ladies u-17) DF (retired/director of communications) MF (UD Tacuense) MF (UD Tacuense) FW
Levante UD	(Levante UD "B") HC (RCD Espanyol) GK (Levante UD "B") GK Olivia Oprea (Sevilla FC) DF Maitane López (UD Collerense)^[9] MF Charlyn Corral (Merilappi United) FW (Levante UD "B") FW	(??) HC (Luleå FF) GK Sandra Paños (FC Barcelona) GK Maider Castillo (retired/Levante UD "B") DF/HC Lidiya Nacheva (FC NSA Sofia) MF Olga García (FC Barcelona) FW
Oiartzun KE	(Añorga KKE) GK Marina Agoues (Real Sociedad) MF (Athletic Club) MF (unattached) MF (Tolosa CF) MF () MF (Athletic Club) FW (FVPR El Olivo) FW (Tolosa CF) FW	(retired) GK (Real Sociedad) MF (??) MF
Oviedo Moderno	(Athletic Club) GK (Marino de Luanco) MF (Gijón FF) MF (Gijón FF) MF	(retired) GK () DF Irene del Río (FC Barcelona) MF (retired) MF
Rayo Vallecano	(Rayo Vallecano "B") HC (Oviedo Moderno "B") GK (Madrid CFF) MF (CD Canillas) MF Ana Lucía Martínez (Dínamo Guadalajara) FW Nicole Regnier (Atlético Madrid "B")^[10] FW	(Rayo's youth system coordinator) (CD Canillas) GK Patricia Gudiel () DF (CD Canillas) MF Jade Boho (Bristol Academy WFC) FW (Madrid CFF) FW
Real Sociedad	(Mudarra KE)^[11] HC (Añorga KKE) DF (RCD Espanyol) DF (CE Sant Gabriel) DF (Oiartzun KE) MF (Oiartzun KE) MF (Athletic Club)^[12] MF Manuela Lareo (Valencia CF) FW	(Real Sociedad under-17) HC Ane Bergara (FC Barcelona) DF Nerea Gabirondo (??) DF Ainhoa Vicente (Athletic Club) DF Marina Agoues (Oiartzun KE) MF Uxue Garmendia (CD Mariño) MF (Anderson University, SC) FW
Santa Teresa CD	Joana Arranz (Athletic Club) DF Lixy Rodríguez (LD Alajuelense) DF (CE Sant Gabriel) MF María Rosa Martínez () MF Ainize Barea () FW (CFF Badajoz & Olivenza) FW () FW	() DF () DF () MF (Villarreal CF) MF (??) FW
Sporting de Huelva	(Levante UD "B") GK (Sevilla FC) GK (BV Cloppenburg) DF Valentina Asenova (FC NSA Sofia) MF (RCD Espanyol) MF (FC Twente) FW (Fundación Albacete) FW (Fundación Albacete) FW (RCD Espanyol) FW	(??) GK (Real Betis) DF Joyce Magalhães (Valencia CF) MF () MF (Sevilla FC) MF
CD Transportes Alcaine	Minori Chiba (Urawa Red Diamonds) DF (Herforder SV) MF () MF (EDF Logoroño) MF (VCU Rams) FW Veronica Maglia (ASD Torres Calcio) FW	Esther Sullastres (Valencia CF) GK (EDF Logoroño) DF Mariela Coronel (Atlético de Madrid) MF (EDF Logroño) MF
Valencia CF	Esther Sullastres (Transportes Alcaine)^[13] GK Natalia Gaitán () MF Joyce Magalhães (Sporting de Huelva) MF (Waseda University) MF Ana Romero "Willy" (FC Barcelona) FW	María José Pons (CE Sabadell) GK (retired) DF () MF (??) MF (UD Aldaia CF) FW Manuela Lareo (Real Sociedad) FW

References[]

^ "El Athletic se proclama campeón de la Primera División Femenina" (in Spanish). LaLiga. 5 June 2016. Retrieved 5 June 2016.
^ "Así queda el once ideal de la Primera División Femenina" (in Spanish). La Liga. 27 June 2016.
^ "Joseba Aguirre, new head coach of Athletic". Archived from the original on 2015-06-10. Retrieved 2015-06-05.
^ Sonia Bermúdez, the ‘pichichi’ of Barça, goes to the Atlético
^ Irene del Río, first signing for Barça
^ Olga García goes back to the Barça
^ Virgia Torrecilla signs for Montpellier
^ The "Funda" presents your three news footballers Archived 2015-10-02 at the Wayback Machine
^ Maitane joins Levante UD roster Archived 2015-06-02 at the Wayback Machine
^ Nicole Regnier Palacio is new footballer of Rayo Archived 2015-09-24 at the Wayback Machine
^ Igor San Miguel, new head coach of La Real
^ Izaskun Leoz, third incorporation of Real Sociedad women's team
^ Esther Sullastres joins Valencia CF

External links[]

Primera División (women) at La Liga (in Spanish)
RFEF Official Website (in Spanish)

[1] "El Athletic se proclama campeón de la Primera División Femenina" (in Spanish). LaLiga. 5 June 2016. Retrieved 5 June 2016.

[2] "Así queda el once ideal de la Primera División Femenina" (in Spanish). La Liga. 27 June 2016.

[3] "Joseba Aguirre, new head coach of Athletic". Archived from the original on 2015-06-10. Retrieved 2015-06-05.

[4] Sonia Bermúdez, the ‘pichichi’ of Barça, goes to the Atlético

[5] Irene del Río, first signing for Barça

[6] Olga García goes back to the Barça

[7] Virgia Torrecilla signs for Montpellier

[8] The "Funda" presents your three news footballers Archived 2015-10-02 at the Wayback Machine

[9] Maitane joins Levante UD roster Archived 2015-06-02 at the Wayback Machine

[10] Nicole Regnier Palacio is new footballer of Rayo Archived 2015-09-24 at the Wayback Machine

[11] Igor San Miguel, new head coach of La Real

[12] Izaskun Leoz, third incorporation of Real Sociedad women's team

[13] Esther Sullastres joins Valencia CF

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