2015–16 UEFA Europa League
The St. Jakob-Park in Basel hosted the final.
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| Tournament details | |
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| Dates |
Qualifying: 30 June – 27 August 2015 Competition proper: 17 September 2015 – 18 May 2016 |
| Teams |
Competition proper: 48+8 Total: 158+33 (from 54 associations) |
| Final positions | |
| Champions |
 Sevilla (5th title)
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| Runners-up |
 Liverpool
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| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 205 |
| Goals scored | 536 (2.61 per match) |
| Attendance | 4,487,160 (21,889 per match) |
| Top scorer(s) |
Aritz Aduriz (10 goals)
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The 2015–16 UEFA Europa League was the 45th season of Europe's secondary club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the seventh season since it was renamed from the UEFA Cup to the UEFA Europa League.
The 2016 UEFA Europa League Final was played between Liverpool and Sevilla at the St. Jakob-Park in Basel, Switzerland, and won by Sevilla, their fifth title (extending their own record) and third win in a row (also a tournament record).
Sevilla initially started the 2015–16 European club season in the Champions League as the Europa League title holders, but qualified for the Europa League by finishing third in the Champions League group stage, and successfully defended their title. As the winners of the 2015–16 UEFA Europa League, they qualified for the 2016–17 UEFA Champions League, and also earned the right to play against the winners of the 2015–16 UEFA Champions League, Real Madrid, in the 2016 UEFA Super Cup.
The UEFA Executive Committee held in May and September 2013 approved the following changes to the UEFA Europa League starting from the 2015–16 season (for the three-year cycle until the 2017–18 season):
A total of 191 teams from all 54 UEFA member associations participated in the 2015–16 UEFA Europa League. The association ranking based on the UEFA country coefficients was used to determine the number of participating teams for each association:
For the 2015–16 UEFA Europa League, the associations were allocated places according to their 2014 UEFA country coefficients, which took into account their performance in European competitions from 2009–10 to 2013–14.
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