2015–16 Serie A
The 2015–16 Serie A was the 114th season of top-tier Italian football, the 84th in a round-robin tournament, and the 6th since its organization under a league committee separate from Serie B. Juventus were the defending champions. The campaign began on 22 August 2015 and ended on 15 May 2016.
On 25 April 2016, Juventus succeeded in defending their title for the fifth consecutive season, after second placed Napoli lost to Roma, giving Juventus a 12-point lead with only three games left.
Events
On 28 April 2015 Carpi obtained its first promotion ever to Serie A, after debuting in Serie B the year before, becoming the 64th team to participate in Serie A since the 1929–30 season. On 16 May, Frosinone also earned its first promotion to Serie A, becoming the 65th to participate. On 9 June 2015 Bologna won Serie B play-off, returning to the Serie A after just one year.This season of Serie A was the first season to have goal-line technology implemented after severe complaints from various teams' general managers in relation to controversial ghost goals during recent seasons of Serie A.
On 20 March 2016, Gianluigi Buffon broke the previous record of Sebastiano Rossi by setting a longer period of 974 minutes without conceding a goal.
On 14 May, Gonzalo Higuaín broke Gunnar Nordahl's record for most goals scored in Serie A in a season and equaled Gino Rossetti's record in 1928–29 by scoring 36 goals and winning the Capocannoniere.
Three Serie A icons also retired at the end of the season; the Verona captain Luca Toni, who scored 157 goals in 324 league appearances and was twice the league's top scorer, as well as Gianpaolo Bellini, the left-back who spent his entire career with Atalanta, making 435 appearances with the club. Both players also scored in their final games with their clubs on 8 May 2016, Toni in a 2–1 win over champions Juventus and Bellini in a 1–1 draw with Udinese; and on 14 May, Christian Abbiati for Milan in the last fixture of the season at home against Roma, however, he did not get any playing time, totaling 281 league appearances for the club.
Teams
Stadiums and locations
| Team | Home city | Stadium | Capacity | 2014–15 season |
| Atalanta | Bergamo | Stadio Atleti Azzurri d'Italia | 17th in Serie A | |
| Bologna | Bologna | Stadio Renato Dall'Ara | Serie B playoffs winner | |
| Carpi | Carpi | Stadio Alberto Braglia | ||
| Chievo | Verona | Stadio Marc'Antonio Bentegodi | 14th in Serie A | |
| Empoli | Empoli | Stadio Carlo Castellani | 15th in Serie A | |
| Fiorentina | Florence | Stadio Artemio Franchi | 4th in Serie A | |
| Frosinone | Frosinone | Stadio Matusa | 2nd in Serie B | |
| Genoa | Genoa | Stadio Luigi Ferraris | 6th in Serie A | |
| Hellas Verona | Verona | Stadio Marc'Antonio Bentegodi | 13th in Serie A | |
| Internazionale | Milan | San Siro | 8th in Serie A | |
| Juventus | Turin | Juventus Stadium | ||
| Lazio | Rome | Stadio Olimpico | 3rd in Serie A | |
| Milan | Milan | San Siro | 10th in Serie A | |
| Napoli | Naples | Stadio San Paolo | 5th in Serie A | |
| Palermo | Palermo | Stadio Renzo Barbera | 11th in Serie A | |
| Roma | Rome | Stadio Olimpico | 2nd in Serie A | |
| Sampdoria | Genoa | Stadio Luigi Ferraris | 7th in Serie A | |
| Sassuolo | Sassuolo | Mapei Stadium – Città del Tricolore | 12th in Serie A | |
| Torino | Turin | Stadio Olimpico Grande Torino | 9th in Serie A | |
| Udinese | Udine | Dacia Arena | 16th in Serie A |
Personnel and kits
- Additionally, referee kits are now being made by Diadora, and Nike has a new match ball, the Ordem Serie A.
Managerial changes
League table
Positions by round
The table lists the positions of teams after each week of matches. In order to preserve chronological evolvements, any postponed matches were not included to the round at which they were originally scheduled, but added to the full round they were played immediately afterwards.Results
Attendance data
Season statistics
Top goalscorers
| Rank | Player | Club | Goals |
| 1 |  Gonzalo Higuaín | Napoli | 36 |
| 2 | Paulo Dybala | Juventus | 19 |
| 3 |  Carlos Bacca | Milan | 18 |
| 4 | Mauro Icardi | Internazionale | 16 |
| 5 |  Leonardo Pavoletti | Genoa | 14 |
| 5 |  Mohamed Salah | Roma | 14 |
| 7 | Éder | Sampdoria, Internazionale | 13 |
| 7 |  Josip Iličić | Fiorentina | 13 |
| 7 | Massimo Maccarone | Empoli | 13 |
| 10 | Andrea Belotti | Torino | 12 |
| 10 | Lorenzo Insigne | Napoli | 12 |
| 10 |  Nikola Kalinić | Fiorentina | 12 |
Top assists
| Rank | Player | Club | Assists |
| 1 |  Paul Pogba | Juventus | 12 |
| 1 |  Miralem Pjanić | Roma | 12 |
| 3 |  Marek Hamšík | Napoli | 11 |
| 3 | Riccardo Saponara | Empoli | 11 |
| 5 | Lorenzo Insigne | Napoli | 10 |
| 6 | Diego Perotti | Genoa / Roma | 9 |
| 6 | Paulo Dybala | Juventus | 9 |
| 8 | Giacomo Bonaventura | Milan | 8 |
| 9 | Franco Vázquez | Palermo | 7 |
| 9 | Riccardo Meggiorini | Chievo | 7 |
| 9 |  Miroslav Klose | Lazio | 7 |
| 9 | Valter Birsa | Chievo | 7 |
| 9 |  José Callejón | Napoli | 7 |
| 9 | Álvaro Morata | Juventus | 7 |
| 9 | Alejandro Gómez | Atalanta | 7 |
Hat-tricks
| Player | Club | Against | Result | Date |
| Nikola Kalinić | Fiorentina | Internazionale | 27 09 2015 | |
| Suso | Genoa | Frosinone | 03 04 2016 | |
 Dries Mertens | Napoli | Bologna | 19 04 2016 | |
| Gonzalo Higuaín | Napoli | Frosinone | 14 05 2016 |