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Stoke City

2015–16 season
Chairman	Peter Coates
Manager	Mark Hughes
Stadium	Britannia Stadium
Home colours Away colours
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The 2015–16 season will be Stoke City's eighth season in the Premier League and the 60th in the top tier of English football.

Pre-season

In February 2015 Stoke announced that New Balance will be their new kit supplier from 2015–16 taking over from Warrior. Stoke will travel to Singapore to take part in the 2015 Premier League Asia Trophy along with Arsenal, Everton and a Singapore Selection XI. They will also take part on the Colonia Cup based in Cologne, Germany along with 1. FC Köln, Porto and Valencia. In May 2015 Stoke competed the permanent signing of Philipp Wollscheid and Danish goalkeeper Jakob Haugaard. On 29 May Stoke released their retained list which included the departures of long serving duo Thomas Sørensen and Andy Wilkinson. Also leaving the Britannia Stadium were Wilson Palacios and nine members of the under-21 development squad, Tomi Adeloye, James Alabi, Sam Coulson, Alex Grant, Robbie Parry, Nathan Ricketts-Hopkinson, Adam Thomas, Charlie Ward and Eillot Wheeler. Stoke's first major transfer activity of the summer saw the arrival of Spanish striker Joselu from Hannover 96, whilst Robert Huth completed a permanent switch to Leicester City.

The players returned to training at Clayton Wood on 3 July. The squad travelled to Singapore on 8 July in preparation for the Premier League Asia Trophy. On 9 July Stoke sold last seasons player of the year, Steven N'Zonzi to Sevilla for a fee of £7 million. On 10 July Stoke completed the double signing of midfielder Marco van Ginkel on a season-long loan from Chelsea and the free transfer of veteran goalkeeper Shay Given from Aston Villa. Former Liverpool defender Glen Johnson joined on a free whilst 'keeper Asmir Begović left to join Chelsea for a fee believed to be £8 million.

Stoke's first match of pre-season was against Everton in the Premier League Asia Trophy in Singapore. The match was tightly contested encounter which ended goalless after 90 minutes and went to a penalty shoot out. The only player to not score was Marco van Ginkel and the Toffees went through to the final. Stoke played against a Singapore Selection XI in the 3/4 place play-off and won the match 2–0 with goals from Steve Sidwell and Marko Arnautović. On their return to the UK Stoke played against National League side Wrexham at the Racecourse Ground. City eased to a simple 6–0 victory with goals from Mame Biram Diouf, Marco van Ginkel, Joselu, Dom Telford and a brace from former Wrexham striker Jonathan Walters. The Dragons were denied a consolation after Daniel Bachmann saved Kayden Jackson's penalty. Stoke then faced Championship side Brentford on 25 which saw Bojan Krkić make his return from injury after seven months out. Brentford won the match 2–0 with goals from Akaki Gogia and Stuart Dallas. The squad then spent the following week at a training camp in Evian, France before the Colonia Cup. Stoke's final preparations for the 2015–16 season were matches against 1. FC Köln, and Porto in the Colonia Cup. Both matches were lost, 2–1 to Köln and 3–0 to Porto.

15 July 2015 Premier League Asia Trophy	Everton	0–0 (5–4 p)	Stoke City	National Stadium, Singapore
		Report		Referee: Craig Pawson
	Penalties
	Lukaku Cleverley Stones Deulofeu Jagielka		Adam van Ginkel Walters Bardsley Crouch

18 July 2015 Premier League Asia Trophy	Stoke City	2–0	Singapore Selection XI	National Stadium, Singapore
	Sidwell 6' Arnautović 72'	Report		Referee: Muhammad Taqi

22 July 2015 Friendly	Wrexham	0–6	Stoke City	Racecourse Ground
		Report	Diouf 22' Walters 29', 68' van Ginkel 41' Joselu 67' Telford 87'	Attendance: 2,766 Referee: Darren Handley

25 July 2015 Friendly	Brentford	2–0	Stoke City	Griffin Park
	Gogia 33' Dallas 73'	Report

1 August 2015 Colonia Cup	1. FC Köln	2–1	Stoke City	RheinEnergieStadion, Cologne
	Modeste 44' Gerhardt 89'	Report	Odemwingie 79''

2 August 2015 Colonia Cup	Porto	3–0	Stoke City	RheinEnergieStadion, Cologne
	Aboubakar 33' Bueno 38' Brahimi 72' (pen.)	Report

Premier League

August

The fixtures for the 2015–16 Premier League season were released on 17 June 2015 and the first match is a repeat of the final match of last season where Stoke City beat Liverpool 6–1. It was the first time in Premier League history that two sides have met at the same venue in consecutive fixtures.

9 August 2015 (2015-08-09) 1	Stoke City	0-1	Liverpool	Stoke-on-Trent
16:00 BST		Report	Coutinho 86'	Stadium: Britannia Stadium Referee: Anthony Taylor

League table

Template:2015–16 Premier League table

FA Cup

League Cup

Squad statistics

No.	Pos.	Name	Premier League		FA Cup		League Cup		Total		Discipline
			Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1	GK	Jack Butland	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2	DF	Phil Bardsley	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	DF	Erik Pieters	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
5	DF	Marc Muniesa	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
6	MF	Glenn Whelan	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
7	MF	Stephen Ireland	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
8	DF	Glen Johnson	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
9	FW	Peter Odemwingie	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
10	FW	Marko Arnautović	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
11	FW	Joselu	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
12	DF	Marc Wilson	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
14	MF	Ibrahim Afellay	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
15	MF	Marco van Ginkel	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
16	MF	Charlie Adam	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
17	DF	Ryan Shawcross (c)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
18	FW	Mame Biram Diouf	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
19	FW	Jonathan Walters	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
20	DF	Geoff Cameron	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
21	MF	Steve Sidwell	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
23	DF	Dionatan Teixeira	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
24	GK	Shay Given	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
25	FW	Peter Crouch	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
26	DF	Philipp Wollscheid	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
27	FW	Bojan Krkić	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
29	GK	Jakob Haugaard	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
34	MF	Ollie Shenton	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
–	–	Own goals	–	0	–	0	–	0	–	0	–	–

Transfers

In

Date	Pos.	Name	From	Fee
1 July 2015	DF	Philipp Wollscheid	Bayer Leverkusen	Undisclosed
1 July 2015	GK	Jakob Haugaard	FC Midtjylland	Undisclosed
16 June 2015	FW	Joselu	Hannover 96	£5.75 Million
10 July 2015	GK	Shay Given	Aston Villa	Free
12 July 2015	DF	Glen Johnson	Liverpool	Free
15 July 2015	MF	Moha El Ouriachi	Barcelona	Free
20 July 2015	FW	Dom Telford	Blackpool	Compensation
20 July 2015	MF	Mark Waddington	Blackpool	Compensation
27 July 2015	MF	Ibrahim Afellay	Barcelona	Free
4 August 2015	MF	Sergio Molina	Real Madrid	Free

Out

Date	Pos.	Name	To	Fee
30 June 2015	MF	Wilson Palacios	Released	Free
30 June 2015	GK	Thomas Sørensen	Released	Free
30 June 2015	DF	Andy Wilkinson	Released	Free
30 June 2015	FW	Tomi Adeloye	Released	Free
30 June 2015	FW	James Alabi	Released	Free
30 June 2015	DF	Sam Coulson	Retired
30 June 2015	DF	Alex Grant	Perth Glory	Free
30 June 2015	MF	Robbie Parry	Released	Free
30 June 2015	FW	Nathan Ricketts-Hopkinson	Released	Free
30 June 2015	MF	Adam Thomas	Released	Free
30 June 2015	MF	Charlie Ward	Released	Free
30 June 2015	DF	Eillot Wheeler	Released	Free
1 July 2015	DF	Robert Huth	Leicester City	Undisclosed
9 July 2015	MF	Steven N'Zonzi	Sevilla	£7 Million
10 July 2015	MF	Jamie Ness	Scunthorpe United	Free
13 July 2015	GK	Asmir Begović	Chelsea	£8 Million

Loan in

Date from	Date to	Pos.	Name	From
10 July 2015	30 June 2016	MF	Marco van Ginkel	Chelsea

Loan out

Date from	Date to	Pos.	Name	To
25 July 2015	1 January 2016	GK	Daniel Bachmann	Ross County
28 July 2015	25 August 2015	DF	Mason Watkins-Clark	Wrexham

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