2015–16 Serie B

Serie B 2015–16
Season information
Winners	Cagliari
Promoted	Cagliari Crotone Pescara (by play-off)
Relegated	Virtus Lanciano Livorno Modena Como
Season statistics
Matches played	427
Goals scored	1028
Average	(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)
← 2014–15	2016–17 →

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.

Events

Serie B introduced the "green card" at the beginning of the season. The green card is given to promote fair play and good acts. The green card will not be 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 will be rewarded.

Teams

Relegated from 2014-15 Serie A:

• Cagliari
• Cesena

From 2014-15 Serie B:

• Vicenza
• Spezia
• Perugia
• Pescara
• Avellino
• Livorno
• Bari
• Trapani
• Ternana
• Latina
• Lanciano
• Pro Vercelli
• Crotone
• Modena
• Brescia
• Virtus Entella

Promoted from 2014–15 Lega Pro:

• Novara
• Ascoli
• Salernitana
• Como

Stadia and locations

Team	Home city	Stadium	Capacity	2014–15 season
Ascoli	Ascoli	Del Duca	&0000000000020550.00000020,550	Lega Pro/B champions
Avellino	Avellino	Partenio	&0000000000026000.00000026,000	8th in Serie B
Bari	Bari	San Nicola	&0000000000058270.00000058,270	10th in Serie B
Brescia	Brescia	Mario Rigamonti	&0000000000016308.00000016,308	20th in Serie B
Cagliari	Cagliari	Sant'Elia	&0000000000016000.00000016,000	18th in Serie A
Cesena	Cesena	Dino Manuzzi	&0000000000023900.00000023,900	19th in Serie A
Como	Como	Giuseppe Sinigaglia	&0000000000013602.00000013,602	Lega Pro Play-off winners
Crotone	Crotone	Ezio Scida	&0000000000009631.0000009,631	16th in Serie B
Latina	Latina	Domenico Francioni	&0000000000006850.0000006,850	13th in Serie B
Livorno	Livorno	Armando Picchi	&0000000000019238.00000019,238	9th in Serie B
Modena	Modena	Alberto Braglia	&0000000000021151.00000021,151	17th in Serie B
Novara	Novara	Silvio Piola	&0000000000017875.00000017,875	Lega Pro/A champions
Perugia	Perugia	Renato Curi	&0000000000028000.00000028,000	6th in Serie B
Pescara	Pescara	Adriatico	&0000000000020476.00000020,476	7th in Serie B
Pro Vercelli	Vercelli	Silvio Piola	&0000000000005500.0000005,500	15th in Serie B
Salernitana	Salerno	Arechi	&0000000000037245.00000037,245	Lega Pro/C champions
Spezia	La Spezia	Alberto Picco	&0000000000010000.00000010,000	5th in Serie B
Ternana	Terni	Libero Liberati	&0000000000022000.00000022,000	12th in Serie B
Trapani	Trapani	Provinciale (Erice)	&0000000000007000.0000007,000	11th in Serie B
Vicenza	Vicenza	Romeo Menti	&0000000000017163.00000017,163	3rd in Serie B
Virtus Entella	Chiavari	Comunale	&0000000000004154.0000004,154	18th in Serie B
Virtus Lanciano	Lanciano	Guido Biondi	&0000000000005639.0000005,639	14th in Serie B

Personnel and kits

Team	President	Manager	Kit manufacturer	Sponsors
Ascoli	Francesco Bellini	Devis Mangia	Max Sport	Fainplast
Avellino	Walter Taccone	Attilio Tesser	Givova	Gruppo Taccane
Bari	Gianluca Paparesta	Andrea Camplone	Nike	Apulia
Brescia	Luigi Ragazzoni	Roberto Boscaglia	Acerbis	Banco di Brescia
Cagliari	Tommaso Giulini	Massimo Rastelli	Kappa	EP
Cesena	Giorgio Lugaresi	Massimo Drago	Lotto
Como	Pietro Porro, Gianluca Zambrotta	Stefano Cuoghi	Legea	Fox Town
Crotone	Raffaele Vrenna	Ivan Jurić	Zeus	Metal Carpenteria
Latina	Pasquale Maietta	Carmine Gautieri	Givova	Sarchioto
Livorno	Aldo Spinelli	Ezio Gelain	Legea
Modena	Angelo Forcina	Cristiano Bergodi	Erreà
Novara	Massimo De Salvo	Marco Baroni	Joma	Banca Popolare di Novara
Perugia	Massimiliano Santopadre	Pierpaolo Bisoli	FG sport	Piccini
Pescara	Daniele Sebastiani	Massimo Oddo	Erreà	Plarma[+]
Pro Vercelli	Massimo Secondo	Claudio Foscarini	Erreà	Amteco
Salernitana	Marco Mezzaroma	Leonardo Menichini	Givova	caffe motta
Spezia	Matteo Volpi	Domenico Di Carlo	Acerbis	Carispezia
Ternana	Giuseppe Masoni	Roberto Breda	Macron
Trapani	Vittorio Morace	Serse Cosmi	Joma	Usticalines
Vicenza	Tiziano Cunico	Franco Lerda	Macron	Banca Popolare di Vicenza
Virtus Entella	Antonio Gozzi	Alfredo Aglietti	Acerbis
Virtus Lanciano	Valentina Maio	Primo Maragliulo	Legea	in Opera

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Replaced by	Date of appointment
Brescia	Alessandro Calori	Sacked	02015-05-26-26 May 2015	rowspan="8" | Pre-season	Roberto Boscaglia	02015-06-24-24 June 2015
Crotone	Massimo Drago	Mutual consent	02015-05-28-28 May 2015	Ivan Jurić	02015-06-09-9 June 2015
Cagliari	Gianluca Festa	End of contract	02015-05-31-31 May 2015	Massimo Rastelli	02015-06-12-12 June 2015
Perugia	Andrea Camplone	End of contract	02015-05-31-31 May 2015	Pierpaolo Bisoli	02015-06-05-5 June 2015
Cesena	Domenico Di Carlo	Sacked	02015-06-06-6 June 2015	Massimo Drago	02015-06-08-8 June 2015
Modena	Simone Pavan	Sacked	02015-06-10-10 June 2015	Hernán Crespo	02015-06-30-30 June 2015
Avellino	Massimo Rastelli	Signed by Cagliari	02015-06-12-12 June 2015	Attilio Tesser	02015-06-13-13 June 2015
Ternana	Attilio Tesser	Signed by Avellino	02015-06-13-13 June 2015	Domenico Toscano	02015-07-24-24 July 2015
Ternana	Domenico Toscano	Resigned	02015-09-23-23 September 2015	22nd	Roberto Breda	02015-09-28-28 September 2015
Pro Vercelli	Cristiano Scazzola	Sacked	02015-10-11-11 October 2015	20th	Claudio Foscarini	02015-10-11-11 October 2015
Como	Carlo Sabatini	Sacked	02015-10-31-31 October 2015	22nd	Gianluca Festa	02015-11-01-1 November 2015
Latina	Mark Iuliano	Sacked	02015-11-02-2 November 2015	12th	Mario Somma	02015-11-02-2 November 2015
Ascoli	Mario Petrone	Mutual consent	02015-11-02-2 November 2015	19th	Devis Mangia	02015-11-04-4 November 2015
Spezia	Nenad Bjelica	Sacked	02015-11-21-21 November 2015	15th	Domenico Di Carlo	02015-11-23-23 November 2015
Livorno	Christian Panucci	Sacked	02015-11-25-25 November 2015	7th	Bortolo Mutti	02015-11-25-25 November 2015
Bari	Davide Nicola	Sacked	02015-12-31-31 December 2015	6th	Andrea Camplone	02015-12-31-31 December 2015
Livorno	Bortolo Mutti	Sacked	02016-01-27-27 January 2016	18th	Christian Panucci	02016-01-27-27 January 2016
Virtus Lanciano	Roberto D'Aversa	Sacked	02016-01-30-30 January 2016	21st	Primo Maragliulo	02016-02-01-1 February 2016
Salernitana	Vincenzo Torrente	Sacked	02016-02-02-2 February 2016	20th	Leonardo Menichini	02016-02-02-2 February 2016
Latina	Mario Somma	Sacked	02016-02-28-28 February 2016	14th	Carmine Gautieri	02016-03-07-7 March 2016
Como	Gianluca Festa	Sacked	02016-03-13-13 March 2016	22nd	Stefano Cuoghi	02016-03-13-13 March 2016
Vicenza	Pasquale Marino	Sacked	02016-03-14-14 March 2016	20th	Franco Lerda	02016-03-15-15 March 2016
Livorno	Christian Panucci	Sacked	02016-03-21-21 March 2016	19th	Franco Colomba	02016-03-21-21 March 2016
Avellino	Attilio Tesser	Sacked	02016-03-22-22 March 2016	12th	Dario Marcolin	02016-03-22-22 March 2016
Modena	Hernán Crespo	Sacked	02016-03-26-26 March 2016	17th	Cristiano Bergodi	02016-03-28-28 March 2016
Livorno	Franco Colomba	Sacked	02016-04-16-16 April 2016	21st	Ezio Gelain	02016-04-16-16 April 2016
Avellino	Dario Marcolin	Sacked	02016-04-20-20 April 2016	13th	Attilio Tesser	02016-04-20-20 April 2016

League table

Template:2015–16 Serie B table

Playoffs

Promotion play-offs

Six teams played in the promotion playoffs. 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 will played against the 3rd and 4th-placed teams in two-legged semifinals. The higher placed team played the second leg of the promotion playoff at home. Pescara won the promotion play-offs to Serie A.

Relegation play-out

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
Virtus Lanciano (19)	1–5	Salernitana (18)	1–4	0–1

Results

Home \ Away

ASC

AVE

BAR

BRE

CAG

CES

Como

CRO

LAT

LIV

MOD

NOV

PER

PES

PVE

SAL

SPE

TER

TRA

VIC

Virtus Entella

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Ascoli

3–4

0–1

0–0

2–1

1–3

1–0

0–1

0–0

1–3

2–1

1–3

1–0

3–1

0–1

2–2

3–0

1–0

0–0

1–2

1–0

1–0

Avellino

3–0

1–1

3–3

1–2

1–2

1–1

0–0

3–1

2–1

2–0

0–0

1–2

1–3

1–0

1–0

0–1

0–2

1–3

1–4

2–0

3–2

Bari

3–0

2–1

1–2

0–3

0–0

3–0

2–3

0–0

1–0

1–1

1–1

1–0

0–0

6–2

2–1

4–3

4–0

1–2

2–1

0–0

1–0

Brescia

2–2

1–0

2–3

4–0

2–1

2–1

3–0

1–0

1–3

2–2

0–0

2–2

2–0

2–0

2–2

1–1

0–0

3–0

0–1

2–0

2–1

Cagliari

3–0

2–1

2–1

6–0

3–1

1–1

4–0

3–2

2–2

2–1

0–1

0–2

2–1

3–0

3–0

1–2

1–0

4–1

2–0

1–0

1–1

Cesena

3–0

1–2

0–2

2–0

2–1

3–1

2–1

3–0

1–0

2–0

1–0

2–1

1–0

2–1

1–2

5–1

4–0

0–0

1–1

2–0

2–0

Como

0–4

0–1

1–1

1–3

1–1

1–3

0–1

1–1

1–2

1–1

1–1

1–0

0–2

1–1

2–1

4–0

1–2

0–0

1–1

1–1

1–1

Crotone

2–0

3–1

4–1

1–1

3–1

2–0

2–0

1–1

3–0

1–0

2–1

1–2

4–2

1–1

4–0

0–0

3–0

0–0

2–0

1–0

1–0

Latina

1–0

3–0

1–2

2–2

1–3

1–0

1–1

2–2

3–1

0–1

1–0

2–1

0–1

1–0

2–2

0–0

1–2

1–1

2–1

0–1

2–2

Livorno

1–3

1–1

1–2

3–1

1–1

1–1

1–1

0–0

1–0

2–0

0–1

1–1

4–0

0–1

0–0

1–2

1–0

2–0

2–2

0–0

2–2

Modena

2–1

1–1

2–1

1–0

1–2

0–0

1–2

1–1

0–2

1–0

3–0

3–0

2–5

1–0

2–0

1–1

1–0

1–4

0–1

0–1

1–0

Novara

2–0

4–1

1–2

4–0

1–0

0–0

0–2

0–1

1–1

2–1

4–0

2–2

1–0

1–1

1–1

1–0

1–2

4–1

4–0

1–0

4–1

Perugia

0–2

2–0

0–0

4–0

0–0

0–0

2–0

0–0

2–0

4–1

1–0

1–4

0–4

1–2

1–1

0–0

1–0

0–2

0–1

0–0

2–0

Pescara

2–2

3–2

3–1

2–1

1–0

1–0

2–1

4–1

1–1

2–1

1–0

1–2

2–1

1–0

1–1

2–2

1–2

1–2

1–1

2–0

4–0

Pro Vercelli

1–1

1–1

0–1

2–1

1–2

2–0

2–0

0–2

1–1

1–0

0–1

0–1

0–1

5–2

1–1

0–1

1–2

1–1

2–1

2–3

2–1

Salernitana

2–0

3–1

3–4

3–0

0–2

1–1

1–0

1–1

3–2

3–1

0–0

1–0

1–1

2–2

1–2

0–2

2–1

0–1

0–0

2–2

1–3

Spezia

0–0

1–1

0–0

2–1

0–3

1–1

1–1

0–1

2–1

3–0

2–0

1–0

1–0

0–1

1–1

3–1

1–0

1–2

1–0

0–0

2–0

Ternana

1–3

0–3

3–0

3–2

1–1

1–1

4–0

1–2

0–0

2–3

2–1

2–0

0–1

1–0

2–2

4–0

1–2

1–0

2–0

1–2

1–1

Trapani

4–3

2–1

1–0

3–0

2–2

2–1

3–0

3–0

1–2

1–0

2–1

0–0

0–0

0–3

1–1

1–1

5–1

3–0

1–2

4–2

1–1

Vicenza

3–0

0–0

0–0

1–2

0–2

1–1

3–3

0–0

1–1

2–0

2–1

0–2

0–0

2–2

1–1

0–0

0–3

2–1

1–2

2–1

0–2

Virtus Entella

4–0

4–0

2–0

0–0

1–3

2–1

2–2

1–2

1–0

0–0

1–0

1–0

2–1

0–0

1–0

1–0

2–2

2–2

4–0

4–1

1–1

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2–0

1–2

1–0

1–0

1–3

2–0

1–0

1–1

2–1

2–1

2–1

2–1

0–1

1–2

1–0

2–2

0–0

1–1

0–3

0–0

1–2

Updated to games played on 14 May 2016
Source: Lega Serie B
¹The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For coming matches, an a indicates there is an article about the match.

Attendance data

Pos	Team	Total	High	Low	Average	Change
1	Bari	64,427	22,460	20,177	21,476	0.11436280614363+11.4%†
2	Salernitana	43,944	22,000	9,874	14,648	0.36782145858624+36.7%2
3	Cagliari	39,508	14,600	11,000	13,169	0.24812813951284+24.8%1
4	Cesena	24,624	12,217	12,137	12,312	-0.75981239200197−24.0%1
5	Perugia	28,470	9,954	9,477	9,490	-0.8757036080096−12.4%†
6	Pescara	16,544	8,355	8,189	8,272	0.18070225520982+18.0%†
7	Vicenza	22,364	7,747	7,042	7,455	-0.94750889679715−5.2%†
8	Spezia	14,410	7,362	7,048	7,205	0.14383235434196+14.3%†
9	Livorno	21,056	8,443	5,858	7,019	0.10797158642463+10.7%†
10	Avellino	13,500	7,000	6,500	6,750	-0.95003518648839−4.9%†
11	Ascoli	18,884	7,072	5,462	6,295	0.22351797862002+22.3%2
12	Brescia	12,055	7,000	5,055	6,028	0.013790783720148+1.3%†
13	Ternana	9,400	4,988	4,412	4,700	-0.9584013050571−4.1%†
14	Modena	13,572	5,312	4,098	4,524	-0.82841970335103−17.1%†
15	Trapani	13,010	4,755	4,030	4,337	-0.86085748312823−13.9%†
15	Crotone	9,313	5,261	4,052	4,657	0.028716589352772+2.8%†
17	Novara	8,333	4,335	3,998	4,167	0.025849335302806+2.5%2
18	Latina	6,661	3,544	3,117	3,331	-0.8742782152231−12.5%†
19	Template:Fb team Virtus Lanciano	6,275	3,610	2,665	3,138	0.037698412698413+3.7%†
20	Pro Vercelli	7,911	2,765	2,573	2,637	-0.88253012048193−11.7%†
21	Virtus Entella	4,386	2,533	1,853	2,193	0.0096685082872927+0.9%†
22	Como	3,832	2,016	1,816	1,916	0.33798882681564+33.7%2
	League total	402,479	22,000	1,853	7,453	0.13388102844972+13.3%†

Updated to games played on 28 September 2015
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.

2015–16 in Italian football
Domestic leagues
Serie A · Serie B · Lega Pro · Serie D
Domestic cups
Coppa Italia (Final) · Supercoppa Italiana · Coppa Italia Serie C
European competitions
Champions League (Final) · Europa League (Final)
2014–15                                                        2016–17