2015–16 European Rugby Champions Cup
| 2015–16 European Rugby Champions Cup | |||
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| Tournament details | |||
| Countries |
 England France Ireland Italy Scotland Wales
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| Tournament format(s) | Round-robin and Knockout | ||
| Date | 13 November 2015 – 14 May 2016 | ||
| Tournament statistics | |||
| Teams | 20 | ||
| Matches played | 67 | ||
| Attendance | 955,647 (14,263 per match) | ||
| Tries scored | 321 (4.79 per match) | ||
| Top point scorer(s) |
Owen Farrell (Saracens) (92 points) |
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| Top try scorer(s) |
Vereniki Goneva (Leicester Tigers) Thomas Waldrom (Exeter Chiefs) (6 tries) |
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| Final | |||
| Venue | Grand Stade de Lyon, Lyon | ||
| Champions |
Saracens (1st title) |
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| Runner-up |
Racing 92
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| Official website | http://www.epcrugby.com | ||
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The 2015–16 European Rugby Champions Cup was the second European Rugby Champions Cup championship, the annual rugby union club competition for teams from the top six nations in European rugby. The European Rugby Champions Cup replaced the Heineken Cup, which was Europe's top-tier competition for rugby clubs for the first nineteen years of professional European rugby union.
As a result of the 2015 Rugby World Cup being held in England, the tournament started slightly later than in previous seasons, with the opening round taking place on the weekend of 13/14/15 November 2015. The tournament was won for the first time by Saracens who beat Racing 92 in the final on the 14 May 2016, at Parc Olympique Lyonnais (called "Grand Stade de Lyon" by competition organiser European Professional Club Rugby) in the Lyon suburb of Décines.
20 clubs, from the three major European domestic leagues, competed in the Champions Cup. Nineteen clubs qualified directly as a result of their domestic league performance, with the final team coming from a play-off.
The distribution of teams was as follows:
The following teams took part in play-off matches to decide the final team in the Champions Cup. The play-off was held between Premiership side Gloucester, as Challenge Cup winners, and teams from the Pro12 and Top 14. The losers of this play-off joined the Challenge Cup.
The play-off was a two-match series, with the winner of the first match, Gloucester, progressing to the second, and the winner of that second match, Bordeaux Bègles, qualifying for the Champions Cup.
Below is the list of coaches, captains and stadiums with their method of qualification for each team.
Note: Placing shown in brackets, denotes standing at the end of the regular season for their respective leagues, with their end of season positioning shown through CH for Champions, RU for Runner-up, SF for losing Semi-finalist and QF for losing Quarter-finalist.
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