2015–16 season | |||
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Chairman | Prodromos Petrides | ||
Manager |
Domingos Paciência (Until 28 August 2015) Temur Ketsbaia (28 August 2015 – 20 April 2016) Georgios Kostis (Caretaker:From 20 April 2016) |
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Stadium | GSP Stadium, Nicosia | ||
Cypriot First Division | Winners | ||
Cypriot Cup | Semi-finals | ||
Cypriot Super Cup | Runners-up | ||
UEFA Champions League | Play-off round | ||
UEFA Europa League | Group stage | ||
Top goalscorer |
League: Fernando Cavenaghi (19) All: Fernando Cavenaghi (23) |
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Highest home attendance | 17,699 vs Astana (26 August 2015 – UEFA Champions League) |
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Lowest home attendance | 2,734 vs Nea Salamina (27 January 2016 – Cypriot Cup) |
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Average home league attendance | 8,359 (all competitions) | ||
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The 2015–16 season was APOEL's 76th season in the Cypriot First Division and 88th year in existence as a football club.
August 2015: On 28 August 2015, APOEL terminated Domingos Paciência's contract, following the team's failure to reach the UEFA Champions League group stage after being eliminated by FC Astana in the play-offs of the competition. At the same day, Paciência was replaced by Georgian coach Temur Ketsbaia, who signed a two-year contract with the club.
April 2016: On 21 April 2016, one day after APOEL's elimination in the Cypriot Cup semi-finals by Apollon Limassol, Temur Ketsbaia's contract with APOEL was mutually terminated, although at that moment the team were four points clear at the top of the league with only four matches remaining. The same day, APOEL's assistant coach Georgios Kostis, took over as caretaker manager for the team's remaining four crucial league games of the season.
The first training session for the season took place on 18 June 2015 at APOEL's training centre. On 23 June 2015 the team flew to Gniewino in Poland to perform the main stage of their pre-season training and returned to Cyprus on 5 July 2015. During the pre-season training stage in Poland, APOEL played five friendly matches. They won 2–0 FK Atlantas, drew 0–0 with Lech Poznań and lost three times against Lechia Gdańsk (1–4), Arka Gdynia (1–2) and Lech Poznań (0–3). After their return to Cyprus, APOEL played one friendly match, beating Doxa Katokopias 4–0 at Makario Stadium on 8 July 2015. In between their UEFA Champions League qualifying campaign APOEL played three more friendly matches, beating 2–1 Ermis Aradippou, drawing 1–1 with Olympiakos Nicosia and winning Greek side Asteras Tripoli 3–2.