2016 Club Atlético Independiente season

Independiente

2016 season
President	Hugo Moyano
Manager	Gabriel Milito
Stadium	Libertadores de América
Primera Division	3rd
Copa Argentina	Round of 32
Top goalscorer	League: Fernández, Germán Denis and Emiliano Rigoni (3) All: Fernández (4)
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The 2016 season Independiente Participate in the Primera Division and the Copa Argentina.

Club

Kits

• Supplier: Puma SE
• Main Sponsor:: Correo OCA /
• Secondary Sponsor: Audifarm Salud

Home Kit	Away Kit	3rd Kit	GK kit

Squad information

N	P	Nat.	Name	Age	EU	Since	App	Goals	Ends	Transfer fee	Notes
1	GK		Diego Matías Rodríguez	27	EU	2011	135	9	2017	Youth system	Second nationality: Italy
2	CB		Hernán Pellerano	22	EU	2015	34	0	2018	9,000,000 $	Second nationality: Italy
3	LB		Nicolás Tagliafico	24	EU	2015	56	2	2018	1,200,000 $	Second nationality: Italy
4	DM		Jorge Ortiz	32	Non-EU	2015	32	1	2018	11,750,000 $
5	DM		Julián Vitale	21	Non-EU	2015	20	1	N/A	Youth system
6	CB		Emanuel Aguilera	23	Non-EU	2014	24	1	2017	260,000 $
7	LW		Martín Benítez	22	Non-EU	2011	89	12	2017	Youth system
8	CM		Jesús Méndez	32	Non-EU	2014	51	2	2015	450,000 $
9	CF		Diego Vera	22	Non-EU	2015	35	11	2018	15,000,000 $
10	RW		Cristian Rodríguez	21	EU	2015	22	3	2017	1,000,000 $	Second nationality: Italy
11	CF		Leandro Fernández	25	Non-EU	2016	12	4	N/A	N/A
12	GK		Facundo Daffonchio	26	Non-EU	2011	0	0	2016	Youth system
13	GK		Gonzalo Rehak	23	Non-EU	2014	0	0	N/A	Youth system
14	CB		Víctor Cuesta	28	Non-EU	2014	71	5	2017	160,000 $
15	DM		Diego Martín Rodríguez	27	EU	2015	25	1	2018	1,200,000 $	Second nationality: Italy
17	LM		Juan Martínez Trejo	22	Non-EU	2012	24	2	2017	Youth system
18	CF		Lucas Albertengo	25	Non-EU	2015	30	10	2018	2,200,000 €
19	CF		Germán Denis	35	EU	2007	85	40	2019	Free	Second nationality: Italy
20	LW		Ezequiel Vidal	21	Non-EU	2015	8	0	N/A	Youth system
22	AM		Claudio Aquino	25	Non-EU	2015	32	1	2018	1,150,000 $
24	RM		Emiliano Rigoni	23	Non-EU	2016	17	4	2019	15,000,000 $
25	GK		Martín Campaña	27	Non-EU	2016	12	0	2018	1,150,000 $
26	RB		Gustavo Toledo	27	Non-EU	2015	52	0	2018	8800,000 $
27	RW		Rodrigo Gómez	23	Non-EU	2015	15	1	N/A	27,500 $
28	CF		Gastón Del Castillo	19	Non-EU	2016	2	0	N/A	Youth system
29	DM		Saúl Nelle	22	Non-EU	2016	2	0	N/A	Youth system
30	RB		Rodrigo Moreira	20	Non-EU	2015	0	0	N/A	Youth system
31	CF		Domingo Blanco	21	Non-EU	2016	2	0	N/A	Youth system
32	RB		Néstor Breitenbruch	21	Non-EU	2014	15	0	2019	Youth system
34	CB		Rafael Barrios	23	Non-EU	2014	6	0	N/A	Youth system

Current coaching staff

Position	Staff
Coach	Gabriel Milito
Assistant Coach	Carlos Compagnucci
Assistant Coach	Xavi Tamarit
Fitness Coach	Gabriel Macaya
Goalkeepers coach	Pablo Cavallero
Reserve team Coach	Fernando Berón
Youth Department	Jorge Griffa
Doctor	Dr Luis Chiaradia
Doctor	Dr Sergio Mauro
Kinesiology	Gabriel De Brasi
Kinesiology	Julio Zunino
Massageist	Christian Trobec
Props	Daniel Sotelo
Props	Mariano Bagtano

Transfers

Player In

No	Name	Nation	Pos	Moving From	Type	Fee (in $)
Summer
25	Martín Campaña		Goalkeeper	Defensor Sporting	Loan In	150,000 $
27	Rodrigo Gómez		Midfielder	Quilmes	Loan Return	Free
24	Néstor Breitenbruch		Defender	Quilmes	Loan Return	Free
24	Emiliano Rigoni		Midfielder	Belgrano	Transfer	15,000,000 $
11	Leandro Fernández		Forward	Godoy Cruz	Transfer (50%)	170,000 $
19	Germán Denis		Forward	Atalanta	Free transfer	Free

Total spending: 15,320,000 $

Player Out

No	Name	Nation	Pos	Moving to	Type	Fee (in $)
Summer
22	Germán Montoya		Goalkeeper	Atlético Rafaela	End of contract	Free
15	Jorge Figal		Defender	Olimpo	Loan Out	Free
24	Cristian Báez		Defender	Universidad de San Martín	End of contract	Free
3	Lucas Villalba		Defender	Atlético Tucumán	Loan Out	Free
30	Mauricio Victorino		Defender	Nacional	End of contract	Free
25	Alexis Zárate		Defender	Temperley	Loan Out	Free
16	Christian Ortiz		Midfielder	Universidad de San Martín	Loan Out	Free
11	Federico Mancuello		Midfielder	Flamengo	Transfer	3,000,000 $
32	Matías Pisano		Midfielder	Cruzeiro	Transfer (50%)	1,000,000 $
5	Franco Bellocq		Defender	Arsenal	Loan Out	Free
7	Francisco Pizzini		Forward	Olimpo	Loan Out	Free
28	Jorge Pereyra Díaz		Forward	Johor	End of Loan	Free
21	Emiliano Papa		Defender	Club Atlético Tigre	End of contract	Free
19	Juan Martín Lucero		Forward	Johor	Transfer	1,400,000 $

Total Income : 5,400,000 $

Players out on loan

No	Name	Nation	Pos	Destination	Finish at
Summer
15	Jorge Figal		Defender	Olimpo	30-06-2017
3	Lucas Villalba		Defender	Atlético Tucumán	30-06-2017
25	Alexis Zárate		Defender	Temperley	30-06-2017
16	Christian Ortiz		Midfielder	Universidad de San Martín	31-01-2017
5	Franco Bellocq		Defender	Arsenal	30-06-2017
7	Francisco Pizzini		Forward	Olimpo	30-06-2017
-	Jorge Márquez		Forward	Quilmes	30-06-2017
-	Gabriel Arce		Forward	Gimnasia (J)	30-06-2017
Previous seasons
6	Sergio Ojeda		Defender	Gimnasia (J)	30-06-2017

Net income: 9,920,000 $

Pre-season

  Win   Draw   Loss   Postponed

Copa De Oro

Standings

Pos	Club	Pld	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
1	Independiente	2	1	1	0	4	3	1	4
2	River Plate	2	1	0	1	5	5	0	3
3	San Lorenzo	2	0	1	1	3	4	-1	1

Copa De Avellaneda

Friendly

Winter

  Win   Draw   Loss   Postponed

Competitions

Overall

Competition	Started round	Current position / round	Final position / round	First match	Last match
Primera Division	-	-	3rd	7 February 2016	21 May 2016
Copa Argentina	Round of 64	Round of 32	N/A	4 May 2016	N/A

Overview

Updated as of 31 May 2016

Competition	Record
	G	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %
Primera Division	7001160000000000000♠16	7000700000000000000♠7	7000600000000000000♠6	7000300000000000000♠3	7001220000000000000♠22	7001120000000000000♠12	+10	7001437500000000000♠43.75
Copa Argentina	7000100000000000000♠1	7000100000000000000♠1	5000000000000000000♠0	5000000000000000000♠0	7000200000000000000♠2	7000100000000000000♠1	+1	7002100000000000000♠100.000
Total	7001170000000000000♠17	7000800000000000000♠8	7000600000000000000♠6	7000300000000000000♠3	7001240000000000000♠24	7001130000000000000♠13	+11	7001470600000000000♠47.06

Primera Division

See also Primera Division

  Win   Draw   Loss   Postponed

League Table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	San Lorenzo	16	10	4	2	23	16	+7	34	Final match; 2017 Copa Libertadores second stage
2	Godoy Cruz	16	10	3	3	27	14	+13	33	Copa Libertadores playoff
3	Independiente	16	7	6	3	22	12	+10	27
4	Arsenal	16	8	3	5	21	15	+6	27
5	Gimnasia y Esgrima (LP)	16	7	4	5	19	19	0	25
6	Vélez Sarsfield	16	7	3	6	20	19	+1	24
7	Rosario Central	16	5	5	6	19	16	+3	20
8	Patronato	16	5	5	6	19	23	−4	20
9	River Plate	16	4	6	6	21	22	−1	18
10	Sarmiento	16	4	5	7	10	18	−8	17
11	Colón	16	5	2	9	21	31	−10	17
12	Belgrano	16	4	4	8	21	24	−3	16
13	Banfield	16	2	9	5	15	20	−5	15
14	Quilmes	16	3	6	7	21	32	−11	15
15	Olimpo	16	3	4	9	11	20	−9	13

Relegation

Pos	Team	2013–14 Pts	2014 Pts	2015 Pts	2016 Pts	Total Pts	Total Pld	Avg	Relegation
1	Atlético Tucumán	—	—	—	30	30	16	1.875
2	San Lorenzo	60	26	61	34	181	103	1.757
3	Independiente	—	33	54	27	114	65	1.754
4	Boca Juniors	61	31	64	20	176	103	1.709
5	Lanús	59	35	42	38	174	103	1.689

Results summary

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
16	7	6	3	22	12	+10	27	4	2	2	10	6	+4	3	4	1	12	6	+6

Last updated: 31 May 2016.
Source:

Results by round

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16
Ground	H	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	H	A	H	A
Result	W	D	L	D	L	W	W	W	D	D	W	D	L	D	W	W
Position	4	5	9	9	11	9	6	3	5	5	4	4	5	6	3	3

Source:
Ground: A = Away; H = Home. Result: D = Draw; L = Loss; W = Win; P = Postponed.

Copa Argentina

Round of 64

Round of 32

Statistics

Squad statistics

Last updated on 24 March 2016

			Primera Division					Copa Argentina					Total
Nation	No.	Name		GS	Min.		Assist		GS	Min.		Assist		GS	Min.		Assist
Goalkeepers
	1	Diego Matías Rodríguez	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	12	Facundo Daffonchio	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	13	Gonzalo Rehak	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	25	Martín Campaña	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Defenders
	2	Hernán Pellerano	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	3	Nicolás Tagliafico	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	6	Emanuel Aguilera	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	14	Víctor Cuesta	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	26	Gustavo Toledo	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	30	Rodrigo Moreira	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	32	Néstor Breitenbruch	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	34	Rafael Barrios	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Midfielders
	4	Jorge Ortiz	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	5	Julián Vitale	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	8	Jesús Méndez	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	10	Cristian Rodríguez	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	15	Diego Martín Rodríguez	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	17	Juan Martínez Trejo	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	22	Claudio Aquino	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	24	Emiliano Rigoni	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	27	Rodrigo Gómez	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	29	Saúl Nelle	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Forwards
	7	Martín Benítez	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	9	Diego Vera	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	11	Leandro Fernández	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	18	Lucas Albertengo	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	19	Germán Denis	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	20	Ezequiel Vidal	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	28	Gastón Del Castillo	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	31	Domingo Blanco	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Players who no longer play for Independiente
	19	Juan Martín Lucero	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Goals

Last updated on 20 May 2016

Rank	Player	Position	Primera Division	Copa Argentina	Total
1	Leandro Fernández	FW	3	1	4
2	Germán Denis	FW	3	0	3
	Emiliano Rigoni	MF	3	0	3
3	Víctor Cuesta	DF	2	0	2
	Martín Benítez	FW	2	0	2
	Diego Vera	FW	2	0	2
4	Nicolás Tagliafico	DF	1	0	1
	Jorge Ortiz	MF	1	0	1
	Claudio Aquino	MF	0	1	1
	Rodrigo Gómez	MF	0	1	1
Own goals			1	0	1
Total			19	2	21

Assists

Last updated on 20 May 2016

Rank	Player	Position	Primera Division	Copa Argentina	Total
1	Emiliano Rigoni	MF	4	0	4
2	Leandro Fernández	FW	2	1	3
3	Gustavo Toledo	DF	2	0	2
	Claudio Aquino	MF	2	0	2
	Diego Vera	FW	2	0	2
4	Rodrigo Gómez	MF	1	0	1
	Martín Benítez	FW	1	0	1
	Germán Denis	FW	1	0	1
	Nicolás Tagliafico	DF	0	1	1
	Jesús Méndez	MF	1	0	1
Total			16	2	18

Clean sheets

Last updated on 20 May 2016

Rank	Player	Position	Primera Division	Copa Argentina	Total
1	Martín Campaña	GK	5	0	5
2	Diego Rodríguez	GK	1	0	1
Total			6	0	6

Disciplinary record

Last updated on 11 May 2016

No.	Pos	Nat	Name	Primera División			Copa Argentina			Total			Suspended
14	DF		Víctor Cuesta	6			1			7
11	FW		Leandro Fernández	4	1					4	1
2	DF		Hernán Pellerano	3						3
3	DF		Nicolás Tagliafico	2						2
26	GK		Gustavo Toledo	2						2
4	MF		Jorge Ortiz	2						2
7	FW		Martín Benítez	2						2
8	MF		Jesús Méndez	2						2
24	MF		Emiliano Rigoni	2						2
10	MF		Cristian Rodríguez	1						1
15	MF		Diego Martín Rodríguez	1						1
9	FW		Diego Vera	1						1
19	FW		Germán Denis	1						1

Penalties

Last updated on 24 March 2016

Date	Penalty Taker	Scored	Opponent	Competition
19 March 2016	Germán Denis	Yes	Patronato	Primera División

Overall

Last updated on 20 May 2016

	Total	Home	Away	Naturel
Games played	16	8	7	1
Games won	7	4	2	1
Games drawn	6	2	4	-
Games lost	3	2	1	-
Biggest win	4 - 1 vs Colón	4 - 1 vs Colón	3 - 1 vs Banfield	2-1 vs San Telmo
Biggest loss	0 - 2 vs Rosario Central	0 - 2 vs Rosario Central	0 - 1 vs River Plate	-
Biggest win (League)	4 - 1 vs Colón	4 - 1 vs Colón	3 - 1 vs Banfield	N/A
Biggest win (Copa Argentina)	2-1 vs San Telmo	N/A	N/A	2-1 vs San Telmo
Biggest loss (League)	0-2 vs Rosario Central	0-2 vs Rosario Central	0 - 1 vs River Plate	N/A
Biggest loss (Copa Argentina)	-	N/A	N/A	-
Clean sheets	6	3	3	-
Goals scored	21	10	9	2
Goals conceded	13	5	7	1
Goal difference	8	5	2	1
Average GF per game	1.31	1.25	1.29	{{#expr: 2/1 round 2}
Average GA per game	0.81	0.75	0.86	1
Yellow cards	29	14	14	1
Red cards	1	0	1	-
Most appearances	-	–
Most minutes played	-	–
Most goals	-	–
Penalties for	1	1	-	-
Penalties against	1	1	-	-

References

External links

• Club Atlético Independiente|Independiente official web site (Spanish)