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Académica
2015–16 season
President	José Eduardo Simões
Coach	José Viterbo; (until 20 September 2015); Filipe Gouveia; (from 24 September 2015)
Stadium	Estádio Cidade de Coimbra
Primeira Liga	18th
Taça de Portugal	Fifth round
Taça da Liga	Second Round
Top goalscorer	League: Pedro Nuno (4); All: Rafael Lopes (6)
Highest home attendance	26,444
Lowest home attendance	2,170
Average home league attendance	5,354
	← 2014–15 2016–17 →

The 2015–16 season was Académica de Coimbra's 64th season in the Primeira Liga and 14th and final consecutive season in the top flight of Portuguese football. Briosa also participated in the Taça de Portugal and Taça da Liga. The club was initially managed by José Viterbo in what would have been his first full season as manager. Viterbo, however, resigned on 20 September 2015 and later replaced by Filipe Gouveia on 24 September. The club were relegated from the top flight of Portuguese football for the first time since the 1998–99 season, following a home draw with Braga on 7 May 2016.

Competitions

Pre-season

15 July 2015 Friendly	Académica	3–1	Académica U19	Quiaios, Figueira da Foz
17:30	Hwang ?' Lopes ?' Pedro Nuno ?'		António Xavier ?'	Stadium: Centro de Estágio Rosa Náutica

18 July 2015 Friendly	Académica	0–1	Feirense	Quiaios, Figueira da Foz
10:30			? ?'	Stadium: Centro de Estágio Rosa Náutica

22 July 2015 Friendly	Académica	0–1	Arouca	Coimbra
17:00			Vedova 84'	Stadium: Estádio Cidade de Coimbra

25 July 2015 Friendly	Tondela	1–2	Académica	Anadia
10:30	Saldanha 68'		Ivanildo 32', 66'	Stadium: Estádio Municipal de Anadia

29 July 2015 Friendly	Académica	0–3	Nacional	Coimbra
17:00			Soares 24', 44' Peters 67'	Stadium: Estádio Cidade de Coimbra

31 July 2015 Friendly	Naval	0–1	Académica	Figueira da Foz
19:00			Rui Pedro 68'	Stadium: Estádio Municipal José Bento Pessoa

1 August 2015 Friendly	Académica	1–2	Benfica Castelo Branco	Entroncamento
17:00	Rabiola 57'		Rocha 38' Cristiano Pascoal 88'	Stadium: Estádio Municipal do Entroncamento

4 August 2015 Troféu Crédito Agrícola	Académica	2–2 (4–2 p)	Wydad Casablanca	Coimbra
20:00	Rabiola 20' (pen.) Rui Pedro 43' (pen.)		El-Moutaraji 16' Diarra 66' (pen.)	Stadium: Estádio Cidade de Coimbra

8 August 2015 Friendly	Académica	1–1	Rio Ave	Coimbra
17:00	Paciência 15'		Kizito 88'

9 August 2015 Friendly	Anadia	1–2	Académica	Anadia
16:00	Mendonça 89'		Pedro Nuno ?' Lopes ?'	Stadium: Municipal Engº Sílvio Henriques Cerveira

Primeira Liga

League table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
14	Boavista	34	8	9	17	24	41	−17	33
15	Vitória de Setúbal	34	6	12	16	40	61	−21	30^[a]
16	Tondela	34	8	6	20	34	54	−20	30^[a]
17	União da Madeira (R)	34	7	8	19	27	50	−23	29	Relegation to LigaPro
18	Académica (R)	34	5	10	19	32	60	−28	25	Relegation to LigaPro

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.)^[2]
(R) Relegated
Notes:

^ ^a ^b Vitória de Setúbal ahead of Tondela on head-to-head record; Tondela–Vitória de Setúbal 1–3, Vitória de Setúbal–Tondela 0–1

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	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A
Result	L	L	L	L	L	L	W	D	D	D	D	L	W	L	W	L	W	D	L	L	D	D	L	L	W	D	L	L	L	D	L	L	D	L
Position	15	18	18	18	18	18	18	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	16	16	16	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	18	18

Updated to match(es) played on 2 April 2016. Source: LPFP
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Matches

17 August 2015 1	Paços de Ferreira	1–0	Académica	Paços de Ferreira
20:00 WEST (UTC+01:00)	Christian 39' Roniel 42' 43' Pelé 60' Baixinho 75' Cícero 85' Jota 90+2'	Report	Rui Pedro 21' Bouadla 83' Nascimento 90+2' Obiora 90+4'	Stadium: Estádio da Mata Real Attendance: 3,077 Referee: João Capela

24 August 2015 2	Académica	0–4	Vitória de Setúbal	Coimbra
20:00 WEST (UTC+01:00)		Report	Suk 17', 55' Claro 57' Costinha 81'	Stadium: Estádio EFAPEL Cidade de Coimbra Attendance: 3,062 Referee: Cosme Machado

30 August 2015 3	Académica	1–3	Sporting CP	Coimbra
19:15 WEST (UTC+01:00)	Rabiola 33' (pen.)	Report	Mané 6' Slimani 24' Aquilani 83' (pen.)	Stadium: Estádio EFAPEL Cidade de Coimbra Attendance: 12,903 Referee: Bruno Esteves

13 September 2015 4	Nacional	2–0	Académica	Funchal
16:00 WEST (UTC+01:00)	Soares 19' Agra 64'	Report		Stadium: Estádio da Madeira Attendance: 1,793 Referee: Luís Ferreira

20 September 2015 5	Académica	0–2	Boavista	Coimbra
16:00 WEST (UTC+01:00)		Report	Zé Manuel 1' Carvalho 87'	Stadium: Estádio EFAPEL Cidade de Coimbra Attendance: 3,507 Referee: João Pinheiro

28 September 2015 6	Rio Ave	1–0	Académica	Vila do Conde
20:00 WEST (UTC+01:00)	Bressan 36'	Report		Stadium: Estádio do Rio Ave Attendance: 2,558 Referee: Nuno Almeida

3 October 2015 7	Académica	1–0	Marítimo	Coimbra
18:30 WEST (UTC+01:00)	Rui Pedro 63' (pen.)	Report		Stadium: Estádio EFAPEL Cidade de Coimbra Attendance: 2,559 Referee: Bruno Paixão

24 October 2015 8	Vitória de Guimarães	1–1	Académica	Guimarães
20:45 WET (UTC+00:00)	Tomané 16' Alex 23' 48' Moreno 48' 59' Dalbert 51' Alves 90+4'	Report	Emídio Rafael 11' Lopes 58', 66' Rui Pedro 62' Paciência 90+2'	Stadium: Estádio D. Afonso Henriques Attendance: 10,036 Referee: Manuel Oliveira

1 November 2015 9	Académica	1–1	Moreirense	Coimbra
16:00 WET (UTC+00:00)	Obiora 16' Seco 45' Lopes 74' Marinho 82' Plange 90+1'	Report	Evaldo 18' Gomes 27' André Micael 30' Medeiros 40' Stefanović 85' Fati 90+5'	Stadium: Estádio EFAPEL Cidade de Coimbra Attendance: 2,855 Referee: Hugo Miguel

6 November 2015 10	Estoril	1–1	Académica	Estoril
20:30 WET (UTC+00:00)	Babanco 23' Bonatini 34' Diego Carlos 56'	Summary	Seco 43' Rabiola 71' Obiora 83' Alexandre 86' Paciência 90+4'	Stadium: Estádio António Coimbra da Mota Attendance: 1,283 Referee: Jorge Sousa

29 November 2015 11	Académica	1–1	Arouca	Coimbra
16:00 WET (UTC+00:00)	Paciência 11' Piloto 69' Santos 78' L. Silva 78' Ivanildo 80' Marinho 90+2'	Summary	Maurides 37' Simão 45+2'	Stadium: Estádio EFAPEL Cidade de Coimbra Attendance: 2,752 Referee: João Capela

4 December 2015 12	Benfica	3–0	Académica	Lisbon
20:30 WET (UTC+00:00)	Fejsa 18' Jonas 35' (pen.), 69' (pen.) Sanches 85'	Summary	Trigueira 34' A. Silva 44' Ofori 69' Rabiola 80'	Stadium: Estádio da Luz Attendance: 34,752 Referee: Luís Ferreira

14 December 2015 13	Académica	4–3	Belenenses	Coimbra
21:00 WET (UTC+00:00)	Paciência 21' (pen.) Alexandre 34', 80' Pedro Nuno 42', 44' Ivanildo 46' Santos 85'	Summary	João Afonso 21' Sturgeon 37' Nascimento 45+1' (o.g.) Dias 48' Caeiro 58' G. Silva 73' Ferreira 76' T. Silva 90+1' Pinto 90+3'	Stadium: Estádio EFAPEL Cidade de Coimbra Attendance: 2,659 Referee: Carlos Miguel Taborda Xistra

20 December 2015 14	Porto	3–1	Académica	Porto
21:30 WET (UTC+00:00)	D. Pereira 7', 89' Aboubakar 53' Herrera 72'	Summary	Lopes 34' Alexandre 53' Rui Pedro 84'	Stadium: Estádio do Dragão Attendance: 32,122 Referee: Bruno Esteves

2 January 2016 15	Académica	3–1	União da Madeira	Coimbra
17:00 WET (UTC+00:00)	Nascimento 8' Trigueira 20' Ivanildo 22' Alexandre 67', 87' Real 85' Rabiola 90'	Summary	Monteiro 21' (pen.) Gian 44' Martins 63' Amilton 81' Paulinho 84' Soares 86' Joãozinho 88'	Stadium: Estádio EFAPEL Cidade de Coimbra Attendance: 2,387 Referee: Fábio Veríssimo

6 January 2016 16	Braga	3–0	Académica	Braga
19:15 WET (UTC+00:00)	Kouka 31', 85' Santos 42' Stojiljković 45'	Summary	Piloto 20' 26'	Stadium: Estádio Municipal de Braga Attendance: 4,169 Referee: Nuno Almeida

10 January 2016 17	Académica	2–1	Tondela	Coimbra
16:00 WET (UTC+00:00)	William Gustavo 52' L. Silva 57' Lopes 67' Alexandre 76' Seco 84'	Summary	Murillo 10' Ramos 39' Luís Alberto 45' Souza 79' Wágner 84' Nascimento 87'	Stadium: Estádio EFAPEL Cidade de Coimbra Attendance: 2,170 Referee: André Moreira

16 January 2016 18	Académica	1–1	Paços de Ferreira	Coimbra
16:15 WET (UTC+00:00)	Marinho 26' Real 45+1' Qualembo 64' L. Silva 83'	Summary	Rocha 16' 84' Jota 17' Andrezinho 24' Góis 56'	Stadium: Estádio EFAPEL Cidade de Coimbra Attendance: 3,372 Referee: Sérgio Sousa

22 January 2016 19	Vitória de Setúbal	2–1	Académica	Setúbal
20:30 WET (UTC+00:00)	Hassan 38' Venâncio 40' Horta 81' Issoko 84' Ricardo 90+4'	Summary	Ivanildo 31' Rafa 31' Lopes 36' Piloto 59'	Stadium: Estádio do Bonfim Attendance: 2,288 Referee: Manuel Oliveira

30 January 2016 20	Sporting CP	3–2	Académica	Lisbon
20:45 WET (UTC+00:00)	Adrien Silva 30', 41' Ruiz 43' Ewerton 50' Zeegelaar 82' Montero 84'	Summary	Rafa 8', 22' Aderlan Silva 19' 80' L. Silva 40' Alexandre 47' Ewerton 58' (o.g.) Seco 80'	Stadium: Estádio José Alvalade Attendance: 40,319 Referee: Cosme Cunha Machado

7 February 2016 21	Académica	2–2	Nacional	Coimbra
16:00 WET (UTC+00:00)	Plange 45' Ivanildo 66' Real 90'	Summary	Oualembo 46' (o.g.) Nascimento 50' (o.g.) Gottardi 85' Fofana 90+1'	Stadium: Estádio EFAPEL Cidade de Coimbra Attendance: 2,879 Referee: Luis Ferreira

14 February 2016 22	Boavista	0–0	Académica	Porto
17:00 WET (UTC+00:00)	Figueiredo 27' Sampaio 85' Mandiang 90+4'	Summary	Nascimento 24' Real 60'	Stadium: Estádio do Bessa Referee: Luis Godinho

20 February 2016 23	Académica	0–2	Rio Ave	Coimbra
20:45 WET (UTC+00:00)		Summary	Kuca 38' Yazalde 69' Edimar 85' Roderick 90+3'	Stadium: Estádio EFAPEL Cidade de Coimbra Attendance: 3,397 Referee: Manuel Mota

28 February 2016 24	Marítimo	1–0	Académica	Funchal
16:00 WET (UTC+00:00)	Soares 41' Diawara 49' Fransérgio 88'	Summary	L. Silva 15' Santos 19' Alexandre 55'	Stadium: Estádio dos Barreiros Attendance: 6,756 Referee: Artur Soares Dias

6 March 2016 25	Académica	2–0	Vitória de Guimarães	Coimbra
18:15 WET (UTC+00:00)	Alexandre 45+2' Marinho 50', 52' L. Silva 63'	Summary	Pedrão 48' Cafú 48'	Stadium: Estádio EFAPEL Cidade de Coimbra Attendance: 4,889 Referee: Manuel Oliveira

13 March 2016 26	Moreirense	2–2	Académica	Moreira de Cónegos
16:00 WET (UTC+00:00)	Gonçalves 36' Boateng 54' Martins 85' (pen.), 90'	Summary	Plange 32' Santos 34' Seco 70' L. Silva 78' Real 84'	Stadium: Parque de Jogos Comendador Joaquim de Almeida Freitas Attendance: 2,712 Referee: Fábio Veríssimo

20 March 2016 27	Académica	0–3	Estoril	Coimbra
16:00 WET (UTC+00:00)	Marinho 55'	Summary	Mattheus 21', 55' Tavares 66' Gerso 26', 69'	Stadium: Estádio EFAPEL Cidade de Coimbra Attendance: 5,194 Referee: Rui Costa

2 April 2016 28	Arouca	3–2	Académica	Arouca
16:15 WEST (UTC+01:00)	Jubal 18' Lima 39' Artur 43' Rodrigues 51' Coelho 63' Adilson 74'	Summary	Pedro Nuno 11' Rabiola 46' Piloto 49' L. Silva 52' Seco 66' Paciência 62', 86'	Stadium: Estádio Municipal de Arouca Referee: Carlos Xistra

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'	Summary	Mitroglou 39' Jiménez 84'	Stadium: Estádio Cidade de Coimbra Attendance: 26,444 Referee: João Capela (Lisbon)

17 April 2016 30	Belenenses	1–1	Académica	Lisbon
16:00 WEST (UTC+01:00)	Ortuño 32'	Summary	Lopes 37'	Stadium: Estádio do Restelo Attendance: 3,928 Referee: Sérgio Piscarreta

23 April 2016 31	Académica	1–2	Porto	Coimbra
16:15 WEST (UTC+01:00)	Pedro Nuno 25'	Summary	Neves 38' Brahimi 66'	Stadium: Estádio Cidade de Coimbra Attendance: 5,085 Referee: Nuno Almeida

1 May 2016 32	União da Madeira	3–1	Académica	Ribeira Brava
20:30 WEST (UTC+01:00)	Martins 42', 62' Gian 90+4'	Summary	Alexandre 68'	Stadium: Centro Desportivo da Madeira Attendance: 2,423 Referee: Fábio Veríssimo

7 May 2016 33	Académica	0–0	Braga	Coimbra
18:30 WEST (UTC+01:00)		Summary		Stadium: Estádio EFAPEL Cidade de Coimbra Attendance: 4,898 Referee: Manuel Mota

14 May 2016 34	Tondela	2–0	Académica	Tondela
19:30 WEST (UTC+01:00)	Pica 12' Luís Alberto 54'	Summary		Stadium: Estádio João Cardoso Attendance: 3,050 Referee: Rui Costa

Taça de Portugal

Third round

18 October 2015	Sanjoanense	1–5	Académica	São João da Madeira
15:00 WEST (UTC+01:00)	Bruno Almeida 49'	Report	Lopes 7', 51' Rui Pedro 36' (pen.) Paciência 85' Marinho 90+3' (pen.)	Stadium: Estádio Conde Dias Garcia Referee: André Moreira

Fourth round

21 November 2015	Trofense	0–0 (a.e.t.) (1–4 p)	Académica	Trofa
16:00 WET (UTC±00:00)	Serginho 35' João Viana 63' Miguel Ângelo 73'	Summary	Piloto 51' Ofori 52' 68' Nascimento 56' A. Silva 76' Obiora 85' Paciência 105'	Stadium: Estádio CD Trofense Referee: Jorge Ferreira

Fifth round

17 December 2015	Boavista	1–0	Académica	Porto
19:30 WET (UTC±00:00)	Mandiang 42' Santos 86'	Summary	A. Silva 84'	Stadium: Estádio do Bessa Referee: Rui Costa

Taça da Liga

Second round

23 September 2015	Marítimo	2–1	Académica	Funchal
16:00 WEST (UTC+01:00)	Costa 47' João Diogo 57'	Report	Lopes 33' (pen.)	Stadium: Estádio dos Barreiros Referee: Vasco Santos

Players

Appearances and goals

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		Primeira Liga		Taça de Portugal		Taça da Liga
No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Goalkeepers
1	GK	POR	João Gomes	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
32	GK	BRA	Lee Oliveira	6	0	1+1	0	3	0	1	0
88	GK	POR	Pedro Trigueira	33	0	33	0	0	0	0	0
Defenders
2	DF	BRA	Aderlan Silva	27	0	23+2	0	2	0	0	0
3	DF	POR	Emídio Rafael	11	0	9	0	1	0	1	0
5	DF	BRA	Ricardo Nascimento	26	1	24+1	1	1	0	0	0
6	DF	FRA	Tripy Makonda	1	0	0+1	0	0	0	0	0
13	DF	POR	João Real	30	3	24+2	3	3	0	0+1	0
14	DF	BRA	Iago Santos	19	0	17	0	1	0	1	0
22	DF	COD	Christopher Oualembo	15	0	12+1	0	1	0	1	0
23	DF	BRA	William Gustavo	8	0	3+3	0	1	0	1	0
37	DF	GHA	Richard Ofori	7	0	4+1	0	2	0	0	0
55	DF	POR	Rafa	15	0	15	0	0	0	0	0
Midfielders
4	MF	NGA	Nwankwo Obiora	12	1	10+1	1	1	0	0	0
8	MF	FRA	Selim Bouadla	8	0	5+2	0	0	0	1	0
20	MF	POR	Rui Pedro	24	3	16+5	2	3	1	0	0
21	MF	POR	Leandro Silva	30	1	23+4	1	2+1	0	0	0
24	MF	KOR	Hwang Mun-ki	2	0	0+1	0	0	0	1	0
27	MF	POR	Pedro Nuno	12	4	12	4	0	0	0	0
28	MF	POR	Nuno Piloto	21	1	13+5	1	3	0	0	0
48	MF	POR	Artur Taborda	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
65	MF	POR	Fernando Alexandre	29	3	27	3	0+1	0	1	0
Forwards
7	FW	POR	Marinho	21	3	10+8	2	2+1	1	0	0
9	FW	POR	Rabiola	25	2	9+14	2	1+1	0	0	0
10	FW	GNB	Ivanildo	23	1	18+2	1	1+1	0	0+1	0
17	FW	CIV	Inters Gui	6	0	1+5	0	0	0	0	0
19	FW	POR	Gonçalo Paciência	30	4	17+10	3	0+2	1	1	0
30	FW	POR	Rafael Lopes	29	6	13+13	3	2	2	1	1
43	FW	BFA	Nii Plange	31	2	28	2	1+2	0	0	0
77	FW	POR	Hugo Seco	30	1	7+20	1	2	0	1	0

Last updated: 21 May 2016
Source: Equipa

Transfers

Summer

In: Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
—	DF	POR	Emídio Rafael (from Estoril)^[3]
—	FW	POR	Rabiola (from Penafiel)^[4]
—	GK	POR	Pedro Trigueira (from União da Madeira)^[5]
—	MF	FRA	Selim Bouadla (from Debrecen)^[6]
—	DF	BRA	William Gustavo (on loan from Grêmio Anápolis)^[7]
—	MF	BFA	Nii Plange (from Vitória de Guimarães)^[8]
—	FW	POR	Gonçalo Paciência (on loan from Porto)^[9]
—	MF	POR	Leandro Silva (on loan from Porto)^[10]

Out: Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
1	GK	POR	Cristiano (loan return to Braga)
3	DF	POR	Aníbal Capela (loan return to Braga)
11	FW	CIV	Magique (loaned to Şanlıurfaspor)
12	FW	GUI	Salim Cissé (loan return to Sporting CP)
19	FW	MLI	Ulysse Diallo (to Marítimo)^[11]
21	MF	BRA	Marcos Paulo (to Panetolikos)^[12]
23	MF	CMR	Edgar Salli (loan return to Monaco)
47	DF	POR	Ricardo Esgaio (loan return to Sporting CP)
92	DF	BRA	Lucas Mineiro (Contract terminated)

Winter