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The 2015–16 season was Manchester United’s 24th season in the Premier League, and their 41st consecutive season in the top flight of English football. Along with the Premier League, the club also competed in the FA Cup, Football League Cup and UEFA Champions League. Following a third-place finish in their UEFA Champions League group, the club was entered into the last 32 stage of the UEFA Europa League, in which they beat Midtjylland of Denmark, before losing to rivals Liverpool in the round of 16.

United won their 12th FA Cup with a 2–1 win over Crystal Palace in the final at Wembley Stadium.

Pre-season and friendlies

Date	Opponents	H / A	Result F–A	Scorers	Attendance
17 July 2015	Club América	N	1–0	Schneiderlin 5′	46,857
21 July 2015	San Jose Earthquakes	A	3–1	Mata 32′, Depay 36′, Pereira 61′	18,000
25 July 2015	Barcelona	N	3–1	Rooney 8′, Lingard 65′, Januzaj 90′	68,416
29 July 2015	Paris Saint-Germain	N	0–2		61,351

Premier League

Date	Opponents	H / A	Result F–A	Scorers	Attendance	League position
8 August 2015	Tottenham Hotspur	H	1–0	Walker 22′ (o.g.)	75,261	4th
14 August 2015	Aston Villa	A	1–0	Januzaj 29′	42,200	1st
22 August 2015	Newcastle United	H	0–0		75,354	2nd
30 August 2015	Swansea City	A	1–2	Mata 48′	20,828	5th
12 September 2015	Liverpool	H	3–1	Blind 49′, Herrera 70′ (pen.), Martial 86′	75,347	2nd
20 September 2015	Southampton	A	3–2	Martial (2) 34′, 50′, Mata 68′	31,588	2nd
26 September 2015	Sunderland	H	3–0	Depay 45+4′, Rooney 46′, Mata 90′	75,328	1st
4 October 2015	Arsenal	A	0–3		60,084	3rd
17 October 2015	Everton	A	3–0	Schneiderlin 18′, Herrera 22′, Rooney 62′	39,553	2nd
25 October 2015	Manchester City	H	0–0		75,329	4th
31 October 2015	Crystal Palace	A	0–0		24,854	4th
7 November 2015	West Bromwich Albion	H	2–0	Lingard 52′, Mata 90+1′ (pen.)	75,410	4th
21 November 2015	Watford	A	2–1	Depay 11′, Deeney 90′ (o.g.)	20,702	2nd
28 November 2015	Leicester City	A	1–1	Schweinsteiger 45′	32,115	3rd
5 December 2015	West Ham United	H	0–0		75,350	4th
12 December 2015	AFC Bournemouth	A	1–2	Fellaini 24′	11,334	4th
19 December 2015	Norwich City	H	1–2	Martial 67′	75,320	5th
26 December 2015	Stoke City	A	0–2		27,426	6th
28 December 2015	Chelsea	H	0–0		75,275	6th
2 January 2016	Swansea City	H	2–1	Martial 47′, Rooney 77′	75,415	5th
12 January 2016	Newcastle United	A	3–3	Rooney (2) 9′ (pen.), 79′, Lingard 38′	49,673	6th
17 January 2016	Liverpool	A	1–0	Rooney 78′	43,865	5th
23 January 2016	Southampton	H	0–1		75,408	5th
2 February 2016	Stoke City	H	3–0	Lingard 14′, Martial 23′, Rooney 53′	75,234	5th
7 February 2016	Chelsea	A	1–1	Lingard 61′	41,434	5th
13 February 2016	Sunderland	A	1–2	Martial 39′	41,687	5th
28 February 2016	Arsenal	H	3–2	Rashford (2) 29′, 32′, Herrera 65′	75,329	5th
2 March 2016	Watford	H	1–0	Mata 83′	75,282	5th
6 March 2016	West Bromwich Albion	A	0–1		24,878	6th
20 March 2016	Manchester City	A	1–0	Rashford 16′	54,557	6th
3 April 2016	Everton	H	1–0	Martial 54′	75,341	5th
10 April 2016	Tottenham Hotspur	A	0–3		35,761	5th
16 April 2016	Aston Villa	H	1–0	Rashford 32′	75,411	5th
20 April 2016	Crystal Palace	H	2–0	Delaney 4′ (o.g.), Darmian 55′	75,277	5th
1 May 2016	Leicester City	H	1–1	Martial 8′	75,275	5th
7 May 2016	Norwich City	A	1–0	Mata 72′	27,132	5th
10 May 2016	West Ham United	A	2–3	Martial (2) 51′, 72′	34,602	5th
17 May 2016	AFC Bournemouth	H	3–1	Rooney 43′, Rashford 74′, Young 87′	74,363	5th

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
3	Tottenham Hotspur	38	19	13	6	69	35	+34	70	Qualification for the Champions League group stage
4	Manchester City	38	19	9	10	71	41	+30	66	Qualification for the Champions League play-off round
5	Manchester United	38	19	9	10	49	35	+14	66	Qualification for the Europa League group stage
6	Southampton	38	18	9	11	59	41	+18	63	Qualification for the Europa League group stage
7	West Ham United	38	16	14	8	65	51	+14	62	Qualification for the Europa League third qualifying round

FA Cup

Date	Round	Opponents	H / A	Result F–A	Scorers	Attendance
9 January 2016	Round 3	Sheffield United	H	1–0	Rooney 90+3′ (pen.)	74,284
29 January 2016	Round 4	Derby County	A	3–1	Rooney 16′, Blind 65′, Mata 83′	31,134
22 February 2016	Round 5	Shrewsbury Town	A	3–0	Smalling 37′, Mata 45’+2, Lingard 61′	9,370
13 March 2016	Round 6	West Ham United	H	1–1	Martial 83′	74,298
13 April 2016	Round 6 Replay	West Ham United	A	2–1	Rashford 54′, Fellaini 67′	33,505
23 April 2016	Semi-Final	Everton	N	2–1	Fellaini 34′, Martial 90+3′	86,064
21 May 2016	Final	Crystal Palace	N	2–1 (a.e.t.)	Mata 81′, Lingard 110′	88,610

League Cup

Date	Round	Opponents	H / A	Result F–A	Scorers	Attendance
23 September 2015	Round 3	Ipswich Town	H	3–0	Rooney 23′, Pereira 60′, Martial 90+2′	56,607
28 October 2015	Round 4	Middlesbrough	H	0–0 (a.e.t.) (1–3p)		67,258

UEFA Champions League

Play-off round

Date	Round	Opponents	H / A	Result F–A	Scorers	Attendance
18 August 2015	Play-off round First leg	Club Brugge	H	3–1	Depay (2) 13′, 43′, Fellaini 90+4′	75,312
26 August 2015	Play-off round Second leg	Club Brugge	A	4–0	Rooney (3) 20′, 49′, 57′, Herrera 63′	28,733

Group stage

Date	Opponents	H / A	Result F–A	Scorers	Attendance	Group position
15 September 2015	PSV	A	1–2	Depay 41′	35,292	3rd
30 September 2015	VfL Wolfsburg	H	2–1	Mata 34′ (pen.), Smalling 52′	74,811	2nd
21 October 2015	CSKA Moscow	A	1–1	Martial 65′	18,156	2nd
3 November 2015	CSKA Moscow	H	1–0	Rooney 79′	75,165	1st
25 November 2015	PSV	H	0–0		75,321	2nd
8 December 2015	VfL Wolfsburg	A	2–3	Martial 10′, Guilavogui 82′ (o.g.)	26,400	3rd

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	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

UEFA Europa League

Date	Round	Opponents	H / A	Result F–A	Scorers	Attendance
18 February 2016	Round of 32 First leg	Midtjylland	A	1–2	Depay 37′	9,182
25 February 2016	Round of 32 Second leg	Midtjylland	H	5–1	Bodurov 32′ (o.g.), Rashford (2) 63′, 75′, Herrera 88′ (pen.), Depay 90′	58,609
10 March 2016	Round of 16 First leg	Liverpool	A	0–2		43,228
17 March 2016	Round of 16 Second leg	Liverpool	H	1–1	Martial 32′ (pen.)	75,180

Squad statistics

No.	Pos.	Name	League		FA Cup		League Cup		Europe		Total		Discipline
No.	Pos.	Name	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1	GK	David de Gea	34	0	6	0	1	0	8	0	49	0	0	0
4	DF	Phil Jones	6(4)	0	0	0	0(1)	0	1(1)	0	7(6)	0	0	0
5	DF	Marcos Rojo	15(1)	0	4	0	1	0	5(2)	0	25(3)	0	5	0
6	DF	Jonny Evans	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
7	FW	Memphis Depay	16(13)	2	1(2)	0	1(1)	0	9(2)	5	27(18)	7	4	0
8	MF	Juan Mata	34(4)	6	4	3	1	0	10(1)	1	49(5)	10	5	1
9	FW	Anthony Martial	29(2)	11	7	2	0(2)	1	9	3	45(4)	17	4	0
10	FW	Wayne Rooney (c)	27(1)	8	4(1)	2	1(1)	1	6	4	38(3)	15	6	0
11	MF	Adnan Januzaj	2(3)	1	0	0	0	0	2	0	4(3)	1	1	0
12	DF	Chris Smalling	35	0	7	1	2	0	11	1	55	2	11	1
13	GK	Anders Lindegaard	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
14	FW	Javier Hernández	0(1)	0	0	0	0	0	0(2)	0	0(3)	0	0	0
16	MF	Michael Carrick (vc)	22(6)	0	4(1)	0	1	0	6(2)	0	33(9)	0	6	0
17	MF	Daley Blind	35	1	7	1	2	0	11(1)	0	55(1)	2	3	0
18	MF	Ashley Young	11(7)	1	0(1)	0	1(1)	0	2(3)	0	14(12)	1	6	0
19	FW	James Wilson	0(1)	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1(1)	0	0	0
20	GK	Sergio Romero	4	0	1	0	1	0	4	0	10	0	0	0
21	MF	Ander Herrera	17(10)	3	4(2)	0	1	0	5(2)	2	27(14)	5	8	0
22	MF	Nick Powell	0(1)	0	0	0	0	0	0(1)	0	0(2)	0	0	0
23	DF	Luke Shaw	5	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	8	0	1	0
25	MF	Antonio Valencia	8(6)	0	1(2)	0	1	0	2(2)	0	12(10)	0	1	0
27	MF	Marouane Fellaini	12(6)	1	6	2	2	0	3(5)	1	23(11)	4	7	0
28	MF	Morgan Schneiderlin	25(4)	1	2(1)	0	0	0	6(1)	0	33(6)	1	4	0
30	MF	Guillermo Varela	3(1)	0	3	0	0	0	4	0	10(1)	0	2	0
31	MF	Bastian Schweinsteiger	13(5)	1	1(1)	0	1	0	6(4)	0	21(10)	1	5	0
33	DF	Paddy McNair	3(5)	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	4(5)	0	0	0
34	GK	Dean Henderson	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
35	MF	Jesse Lingard	19(6)	4	5(2)	2	1	0	7	0	32(8)	6	8	0
36	DF	Matteo Darmian	24(4)	1	1(2)	0	1	0	6(1)	0	32(7)	1	10	0
37	DF	Donald Love	0(1)	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1(1)	0	1	0
38	DF	Axel Tuanzebe	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
39	FW	Marcus Rashford	11	5	4	1	0	0	3	2	18	8	1	0
40	GK	Joel Castro Pereira	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
41	DF	Regan Poole	0	0	0	0	0	0	0(1)	0	0(1)	0	0	0
42	DF	Tyler Blackett	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
43	DF	Cameron Borthwick-Jackson	6(4)	0	3	0	0	0	0(1)	0	9(5)	0	0	0
44	MF	Andreas Pereira	0(4)	0	0(2)	0	2	1	0(3)	0	2(9)	1	2	0
45	MF	Sean Goss	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
46	MF	Joe Rothwell	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
47	MF	James Weir	0(1)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0(1)	0	0	0
48	FW	Will Keane	0(1)	0	0(1)	0	0	0	0	0	0(2)	0	0	0
49	MF	Joe Riley	0	0	0(1)	0	0	0	1	0	1(1)	0	0	0
50	GK	Sam Johnstone	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
51	DF	Timothy Fosu-Mensah	2(6)	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	4(6)	0	1	0
52	DF	Ro-Shaun Williams	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
—	GK	Víctor Valdés	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
—	—	Own goals	–	3	–	0	–	0	–	2	–	5	–	–