2015–16 Niedersachsenliga

2015–16 Niedersachsenliga
Season2015–16
ChampionsLupo Martini Wolfsburg
PromotedLupo Martini Wolfsburg
Germania Egestorf
RelegatedTuS Lingen
VfL Bückeburg
Teutonia Uelzen
Matches played240[1]
Top goalscorerKeven Oltmer (21 goals)[2]
Total attendance54,308[1]
Average attendance226[1]
All statistics correct as of 16 May 2016.

The 2015–16 season of the Niedersachsenliga, the highest association football league in the German state of Lower Saxony, was the eighth season of the league at tier five (V) of the German football league system.[3]

The season began on 7 August 2015 and finished on 22 May 2016, interrupted by a winter break from 20 December to 7 February.[4]

2015–16 standings

The 2015–16 season saw five new clubs in the league, VfL Bückeburg, SVG Göttingen, Heeslinger SC and TuS Lingen, all four promoted from the Landesligas, while FT Braunschweig was relegated from the Regionalliga Nord.[5]

Of the Niedersachsenliga teams only Lupo Martini Wolfsburg and Germania Egestorf applied for a Regionalliga licence for the 2016–17 season, with the Northern German Football Association deciding on 9 May 2016 to grant all applicants a licence.[6][7]

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Promotion, qualification or relegation
1 Lupo-Martini Wolfsburg (C, P) 30 22 6 2 74 27 +47 72 Promotion to Regionalliga Nord
2 Germania Egestorf (P) 30 16 5 9 63 39 +24 53 Qualification to promotion playoffs
3 SSV Jeddeloh 30 14 8 8 62 56 +6 50
4 Eintract Northeim 30 14 6 10 64 52 +12 48
5 SC Spelle-Venhaus 30 12 8 10 65 54 +11 44
6 SVG Göttingen 30 11 10 9 55 44 +11 43
7 FT Braunschweig 30 12 7 11 51 52 −1 43
8 VfL Osnabrück II[a] 30 11 9 10 51 48 +3 42
9 VfL Oldenburg 30 11 9 10 47 44 +3 42
10 Arminia Hannover 30 12 5 13 52 50 +2 41
11 TuS Lingen (X) 30 11 7 12 57 47 +10 40 Withdrawn to 2. Kreisklasse[b]
12 1. FC Wunstorf 30 10 10 10 52 48 +4 40
13 Heeslinger SC 30 12 4 14 48 54 −6 40
14 TB Uphusen 30 9 6 15 43 69 −26 33
15 VfL Bückeburg (R) 30 7 4 19 42 77 −35 25 Relegation to Landesliga
16 Teutonia Uelzen (R) 30 3 2 25 32 97 −65 11
Source: soccerway.com
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) head-to-head results; 5) goals scored away from home against opponent; 6) goals scored away from home; 7) drawing of lots
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated; (X) Voluntarily demoted
Notes:
  1. ^ Reserve teams of 3. Liga clubs are ineligible for Regionalliga promotion.
  2. ^ TuS Lingen withdrew to the 2. Kreisklasse for the following season for financial reasons.[8]

Top goalscorers

The top goal scorers for the season:[2]

Rank Player Club Goals
1 Germany Keven Oltmer SSV Jeddeloh 21
2 Germany Nils Hillemann Eintracht Northeim 18
3 Germany Sascha Wald SC Spelle-Venhaus 16
Germany Julian Bennert SSV Jeddeloh
Germany André Jädtke VfL Oldenburg

Promotion play-off

Promotion play-off were to be held at the end of the season to the Regionalliga Nord.[9] The runners-up of the Niedersachsenliga and the champions or, in Hamburg's case, the only team applying for a licence, of the Bremen-Liga, Oberliga Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein-Liga played each other for two more spot in the Regionalliga. In the promotion round each team met the other just once with the two highest-placed teams in the final table promoted:

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Promotion GER SVE ALT BSV
1 Germania Egestorf (P) 3 1 2 0 5 4 +1 5 Promotion to Regionalliga — 2–2 2–1 —
2 SV Eichede (P) 3 1 2 0 5 4 +1 5 — — — 2–1
3 Altona 93 3 1 1 1 4 3 +1 4 — 1–1 — —
4 Bremer SV 3 0 1 2 2 5 −3 1 1–1 — 0–2 —
Source: Weltfussball.de
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head; 3) Decider;
(P) Promoted

References

  1. ^ a b c 2015–16 Niedersachsenliga spectators (in German) Weltfussball.de, accessed: 17 December 2015
  2. ^ a b 2015–16 Niedersachsenliga Goal scorers (in German) Weltfussball.de, accessed: 17 December 2015
  3. ^ Niedersachsenliga tables (in German) Das Deutsche Fussball Archiv, accessed: 17 December 2015
  4. ^ Match calendar (in German) fupa.net, accessed: 17 December 2015
  5. ^ Niedersachsenliga tables & results (in German) kicker.de, accessed: 20 December 2015
  6. ^ "Regionalliga: 28 clubs apply for admission" (in German). Amateurfußball Hamburg. April 2016.
  7. ^ "Regionalliga Nord 2016/2017: Zulassung für 28 Vereine erteilt" (in German). 9 May 2016.
  8. ^ "TuS Lingen zieht Oberliga-Team zurück" [TuS Lingen pulls out Oberliga team]. FuPa. 6 June 2016.
  9. ^ Ausschreibung für den Spielbetrieb des Spieljahres 2015/16 der Oberliga Niedersachsen (in German) Lower Saxony Football Federation, Promotion and relegation rules, accessed: 17 December 2015

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