We take a look at the best Opta team stats after an eventful 2015-16 season across Europe's top five leagues.
A thrilling campaign is now at
an end with Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Juventus, Leicester City and Paris
Saint-Germain crowned champions in Europe's top five leagues.
PSG
were at their record-breaking best in France, while Pep Guardiola bowed
out of Bayern with another title and Barcelona held off stern
challenges from Real and Atletico Madrid.
With the
dust settling on the 2015-16 season across Europe's major leagues, we
take a look at the best team stats with the help of data provided by
Opta.
112 - Barcelona were the
top scorers across Europe, smashing in 112 Liga goals. Their season
included three 6-0 wins and a late-season 8-0 thrashing of Deportivo La
Coruna. Luis Suarez was their biggest contributor with 40 strikes.
27,302
- Paris Saint-Germain were Europe's pass-masters, with a top number of
passes (27,302) and highest passing accuracy (89.4%) helping them to a
leading tally of wins (30) and a Ligue 1-record tally of 96 points.
24
- Atletico Madrid kept an astonishing 24 clean sheets this term, but it
was not enough to pip Real Madrid and Barca in La Liga. Bayern Munich's
20 clean sheets mean, like Atletico they were only breached in 14 games
this season, while their record of 17 goals conceded was Europe's best -
and a Bundesliga record.
83 -
Troyes endured a miserable season after Ligue 2 promotion. A clean sheet
in their opening game was not a sign of things to come as 83 goals were
rained in against them. A run of seven defeats in sequence across
February, March and April featured a 9-0 mauling by PSG.
10 - Juventus kept 10 consecutive clean sheets between January and March on their way to a fifth Scudetto, a new Serie A record.
12 - Arsenal were the first team in 12 Premier League seasons to be top at the end of January and not win the title.
0 - Sevilla failed to win a game away from home all season, the first time a team had done so in La Liga since Murcia in 2003-04.
711
- Real Madrid's failure to win La Liga was not for the want of trying,
their 711 shots on goal were more than any side in Europe's major
leagues managed.
80+ - For the
first time in Serie A history, three sides finished on more than 80
points as Roma and Napoli just failed to hunt down Juventus.
38
- Leicester City's stunning season ended in Premier League glory - they
were England's first first-time top-flight champions since Brian
Clough's Nottingham Forest, who went on to dominate Europe with
back-to-back European Cup wins. Could the Foxes replicate their domestic
success further afield?
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