2015–16 2. Bundesliga

2. Bundesliga 2015–16
Season information
Winners	SC Freiburg
Promoted	SC Freiburg RB Leipzig
Relegated	MSV Duisburg (via play offs) FSV Frankfurt SC Paderborn
Season statistics
Matches played	306
Goals scored	808
Top goalscorer	Simon Terodde (25 goals)
Biggest home win	Eintracht Braunschweig 6−0 Karlsruher SC
Biggest away win	SC Paderborn 0−6 SV Sandhausen
Highest scoring	SC Freiburg 6−3 1. FC Nürnberg
← 2014–15	2016–17 →

The 2015–16 2. Bundesliga was the 42nd season of the 2. Bundesliga.

Teams

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity
Arminia Bielefeld	Bielefeld	Schüco-Arena	27,300
VfL Bochum	Bochum	rewirpowerSTADION	29,299
Eintracht Braunschweig	Braunschweig	Eintracht-Stadion	23,325
MSV Duisburg	Duisburg	MSV-Arena	31,500
Fortuna Düsseldorf	Düsseldorf	Esprit Arena	54,600
FSV Frankfurt	Frankfurt	Frankfurter Volksbank Stadion	12,542
SpVgg Greuther Fürth	Fürth	Trolli Arena	18,500
SC Freiburg	Freiburg im Breisgau	Schwarzwald-Stadion	24,000
1. FC Heidenheim	Heidenheim	Voith-Arena	15,000
1. FC Kaiserslautern	Kaiserslautern	Fritz-Walter-Stadion	49,780
Karlsruhe !Karlsruher SC	Karlsruhe	Wildparkstadion	29,699
RB Leipzig	Leipzig	Red Bull Arena	44,345Note 1
1860 Munich	Munich	Allianz Arena	71,000
1. FC Nürnberg	Nuremberg	Grundig-Stadion	50,000
SC Paderborn 07	Paderborn	Benteler Arena	15,000
SV Sandhausen	Sandhausen	Hardtwald	12,100
FC St. Pauli	Hamburg	Millerntor-Stadion	29,546
1. FC Union Berlin	Berlin	Alte Försterei	21,704

Notes

1. The capacity is reduced to 42,959 spectators during the 2015-16 season, due to a redevelopment of various stadium areas. The redevelopment includes an expansion of the VIP area, the press box and the wheelchair spaces.

Personnel and kits

Team	Manager	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Arminia Bielefeld	Meier, NorbertNorbert Meier	Klos, FabianFabian Klos	Saller	Alpecin
VfL Bochum	Verbeek, GertjanGertjan Verbeek	Fabian, PatrickPatrick Fabian	Nike	BOOSTER Energy Drink (H) / Netto (A)
MSV Duisburg	Iliya Gruev	Bajić, BranimirBranimir Bajić	Uhlsport	Black Crevice
Eintracht Braunschweig	Lieberknecht, TorstenTorsten Lieberknecht	Correia, MarcelMarcel Correia	Nike	SEAT
Fortuna Düsseldorf	Funkel, FriedhelmFriedhelm Funkel	Bodzek, AdamAdam Bodzek	Puma	o.tel.o
SC Freiburg	Streich, ChristianChristian Streich	Mujdža, MensurMensur Mujdža	Nike	Ehrmann
FSV Frankfurt	Götz, FalkoFalko Götz	Konrad, ManuelManuel Konrad	Saller	Ayondo
SpVgg Greuther Fürth	Ruthenbeck, StefanStefan Ruthenbeck	Caligiuri, MarcoMarco Caligiuri	Hummel	Ergo Direkt Versicherungen
1. FC Heidenheim	Schmidt, FrankFrank Schmidt	Schnatterer, MarcMarc Schnatterer	Nike	Hartmann Gruppe
1. FC Kaiserslautern	Fünfstück, KonradKonrad Fünfstück	Löwe, ChrisChris Löwe	Uhlsport	Maxda
Karlsruher SC	Kauczinski, MarkusMarkus Kauczinski	Orlishausen, DirkDirk Orlishausen	Jako	Klaiber Markisen
RB Leipzig	Rangnick, RalfRalf Rangnick	Kaiser, DominikDominik Kaiser	Nike	Red Bull
1860 Munich	Bushuev, DenisDenis Bushuev	Schindler, ChristopherChristopher Schindler	Macron	Volkswagen
1. FC Nürnberg	Weiler, RenéRené Weiler	Hovland, EvenEven Hovland	Adidas	Wolf-Möbel
SC Paderborn 07	Müller, RenéRené Müller	Hünemeier, UweUwe Hünemeier	Saller	kfzteile24
SV Sandhausen	Schwartz, AloisAlois Schwartz	Kulovits, StefanStefan Kulovits	Puma	Verivox
FC St. Pauli	Lienen, EwaldEwald Lienen	Gonther, SörenSören Gonther	Hummel	Congstar
1. FC Union Berlin	Hofschneider, AndréAndré Hofschneider	Kreilach, DamirDamir Kreilach	Macron	kfzteile24

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
RB Leipzig	Achim Beierlorzer	End of caretaker stint	11 May 2015	Preseason	Ralf Rangnick	29 May 2015
Greuther Fürth	Mike Büskens	Stepped down	28 May 2015		Stefan Ruthenbeck	12 June 2015
SC Paderborn	André Breitenreiter	Left	12 June 2015		Markus Gellhaus	13 June 2015
Union Berlin	Norbert Düwel	Sacked	31 August 2015	14th	Sascha Lewandowski	1 September 2015
1. FC Kaiserslautern	Kosta Runjaić	Resigned	23 September 2015	12th	Konrad Fünfstück	23 September 2015
1860 Munich	Torsten Fröhling	Sacked	6 October 2015	17th	Benno Möhlmann	6 October 2015
SC Paderborn	Markus Gellhaus	Sacked	6 October 2015	15th	Stefan Effenberg	13 October 2015
MSV Duisburg	Gino Lettieri	Sacked	2 November 2015	18th	Iliya Gruev	3 November 2015
Fortuna Düsseldorf	Frank Kramer	Sacked	23 November 2015	17th	Peter Hermann (interim)	23 November 2015
Fortuna Düsseldorf	Peter Hermann (interim)	Replaced	23 December 2015	15th	Marco Kurz	23 December 2015
SC Paderborn	Stefan Effenberg	Sacked	3 March 2016	17th	René Müller	3 March 2016
Union Berlin	Sascha Lewandowski	Stepped down	4 March 2016	11th	André Hofschneider	4 March 2016
Fortuna Düsseldorf	Marco Kurz	Sacked	13 March 2016	16th	Friedhelm Funkel	14 March 2016
FSV Frankfurt	Tomas Oral	Sacked	10 April 2016	14th	Falko Götz	11 April 2016
1860 Munich	Benno Möhlmann	Sacked	19 April 2016	17th	Daniel Bierofka	19 April 2016
1860 Munich	Daniel Bierofka	Permit expired	9 May 2016	14th	Denis Bushuev	19 April 2016

League table

2015–16 2. Fußball-Bundesliga table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	SC Freiburg	34	22	6	6	75	39	+36	72	Promotion to Bundesliga
2	RB Leipzig	34	20	7	7	54	32	+22	67
3	1. FC Nürnberg	34	19	8	7	68	41	+27	65	Qualification to Promotion play-offs
4	FC St. Pauli	34	15	8	11	45	39	+6	53
5	VfL Bochum	34	13	12	9	56	40	+16	51
6	Union Berlin	34	13	10	11	56	50	+6	49
7	Karlsruher SC	34	12	11	11	35	37	−2	47
8	Eintracht Braunschweig	34	12	10	12	44	38	+6	46
9	SpVgg Greuther Fürth	34	13	7	14	49	55	−6	46
10	1. FC Kaiserslautern	34	12	9	13	49	47	+2	45
11	1. FC Heidenheim	34	11	12	11	42	40	+2	45
12	Arminia Bielefeld	34	8	18	8	38	39	−1	42
13	SV Sandhausen	34	12	7	15	40	50	−10	43
14	Fortuna Düsseldorf	34	9	8	17	32	47	−15	35
15	1860 Munich	34	8	10	16	32	46	−14	34
16	MSV Duisburg	34	7	11	16	32	54	−22	32	Qualification to the Relegation play-offs
17	Eintracht Frankfurt	34	8	8	18	33	59	−26	32	Relegation to 3. Liga
18	SC Paderborn	34	6	10	18	28	55	−27	28

Source: Kicker.de
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal difference; 3rd number of goals scored.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round; (Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament

Results

Home \ Away

M60

BIE

BOC

BRS

DUI

DÜS

FSV

FRE

GRF

HEI

KAI

KAR

NUR

PAD

RBL

SAN

STP

UNB

1860 Munich

1–1

1–1

1–0

1–0

3–2

0–1

0–1

0–1

1–3

1–1

0–1

0–1

1–0

2–2

3–2

2–0

0–0

Arminia Bielefeld

1–1

1–1

0–2

2–1

0–0

0–0

1–4

4–2

0–0

0–1

2–1

0–4

1–1

0–1

0–0

0–0

2–0

VfL Bochum

1–0

2–2

2–3

3–0

1–1

1–4

2–0

2–2

1–1

1–2

1–1

2–1

4–0

0–1

3–2

1–1

1–1

Eintracht Braunschweig

0–0

1–0

1–0

1–1

0–2

0–0

2–2

0–1

1–0

1–1

6–0

3–1

2–1

0–2

1–3

0–0

2–1

MSV Duisburg

2–1

2–2

0–0

0–5

2–1

0–1

1–1

2–2

0–2

1–3

0–1

0–0

1–0

1–0

3–0

0–2

2–1

Fortuna Düsseldorf

3–0

1–0

1–3

1–0

1–1

1–0

1–2

1–0

0–1

4–3

0–1

1–1

1–2

1–3

0–1

1–1

0–3

FSV Frankfurt

2–1

1–1

3–2

0–3

3–3

1–2

1–3

1–2

0–4

1–4

1–2

0–3

0–2

0–1

0–1

1–0

3–2

SC Freiburg

3–0

2–2

1–3

2–2

3–0

1–2

2–0

5–2

2–0

2–0

1–0

6–3

4–1

2–1

4–1

4–3

3–0

SpVgg Greuther Fürth

1–0

0–0

0–5

3–0

1–1

3–1

0–2

2–3

0–2

2–4

1–0

3–2

3–0

1–2

3–1

0–2

2–0

1. FC Heidenheim

1–0

3–2

2–4

2–2

1–0

1–0

2–2

1–2

1–2

3–1

1–1

0–3

1–1

1–1

1–1

2–0

0–2

1. FC Kaiserslautern

0–1

0–2

0–2

0–0

2–0

3–0

1–1

0–2

3–1

2–2

0–0

0–3

1–0

1–1

2–0

1–2

2–2

Karlsruher SC

3–1

1–1

3–0

2–2

2–0

1–1

1–1

1–1

1–0

0–0

2–0

2–1

0–0

0–1

3–0

1–2

0–3

1. FC Nürnberg

2–2

2–2

1–1

2–1

1–2

1–0

1–1

2–1

2–1

3–2

2–1

0–0

2–1

3–1

2–0

1–0

6–2

SC Paderborn

4–4

1–2

0–1

2–0

0–0

0–0

1–1

1–2

1–1

1–1

0–4

2–0

0–1

0–1

0–6

0–0

0–4

RB Leipzig

2–1

1–1

3–1

2–0

4–2

2–1

3–1

1–1

2–2

3–1

0–2

2–0

3–2

2–0

0–1

0–1

3–0

SV Sandhausen

1–1

1–4

1–1

0–2

2–2

1–0

1–0

0–2

1–1

0–0

1–0

3–1

0–2

1–0

1–2

0–2

4–3

FC St. Pauli

0–2

0–0

2–0

1–0

2–0

4–0

1–3

1–0

3–2

1–0

5–2

1–2

0–4

3–4

1–0

1–3

0–0

Union Berlin

3–0

1–1

1–0

3–1

3–2

1–1

4–0

2–1

1–2

1–0

2–2

2–1

3–3

0–2

1–1

1–0

3–3

Updated to games played on 15 May 2016
Source: kicker.de
¹The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Relegation play-offs

The team which finished 16th faced the 3rd-placed 2015–16 3. Liga side for a two-legged play-off. The winner on aggregate score after both matches earned entry into the 2016–17 2. Bundesliga.

First leg

20 May 2016 (2016-05-20) 19:10 CEST	Würzburger Kickers	2–0	MSV Duisburg	flyeralarm Arena, Würzburg Attendance: 9,806 Referee: Sascha Stegemann (Niederkassel)
	Weil  10' (pen.) Nagy  79'	Report

Würzburger Kickers

MSV Duisburg

GK 28 Robert Wulnikowski (c) RB 22 Dennis Russ 74' CB 11 Richard Weil CB 5 Clemens Schoppenhauer LB 16 Peter Kurzweg CM 30 Emanuel Taffertshofer CM 26 Royal-Dominique Fennell RW 10 Nejmeddin Daghfous AM 4 Rico Benatelli LW 14 Joannis Karsanidis 57' CF 33 Elia Soriano 70' Substitutes: GK 1 Dominik Brunnhübner DF 32 Lukas Billick MF 2 Dennis Schmitt MF 7 Marco Haller 57' MF 9 Amir Shapourzadeh 74' MF 20 Dániel Nagy 76' 70' FW 27 Adam Jabiri Manager: Bernd Hollerbach

GK 30 Marcel Lenz RB 28 Steffen Bohl CB 25 Thomas Meißner CB 5 Branimir Bajić (c) 8' LB 27 Dan-Patrick Poggenberg RM 36 Giorgi Chanturia 75' CM 23 James Holland CM 3 Enis Hajri LM 17 Kevin Wolze 86' CF 10 Kingsley Onuegbu 9' 53' CF 11 Stanislav Iljutcenko Substitutes: GK 39 Timothy Dieng DF 21 Rolf Feltscher MF 13 Zlatko Janjić MF 14 Tim Albutat MF 19 Nico Klotz 75' FW 8 Thomas Bröker 86' FW 33 Kevin Scheidhauer 53' Manager: Iliya Gruev

Assistant referees: Christian Fischer (Hemer) Sören Storks (Ramsdorf) Fourth official: Robert Schröder (Hanover)

Match rules: 90 minutes. Seven named substitutes, of which up to three may be used.

Second leg

24 May 2016 (2016-05-24) 19:10 CEST	MSV Duisburg	1–2	Würzburger Kickers	Schauinsland-Reisen-Arena, Duisburg Attendance: 29,500 Referee: Tobias Stieler (Hamburg)
	Schoppenhauer  33' (o.g.)	Report	Soriano  37' Benatelli  90+2'

MSV Duisburg

Würzburger Kickers

GK 30 Marcel Lenz CB 25 Thomas Meißner CB 23 James Holland CB 3 Enis Hajri RM 21 Rolf Feltscher CM 36 Giorgi Chanturia 56' CM 14 Tim Albutat 73' CM 17 Kevin Wolze 67' 71' LM 27 Dan-Patrick Poggenberg CF 15 Victor Obinna  89' CF 10 Kingsley Onuegbu (c) Substitutes: GK 39 Timothy Dieng DF 28 Steffen Bohl MF 13 Zlatko Janjić MF 19 Nico Klotz 56' MF 38 Barış Özbek FW 8 Thomas Bröker 71' FW 11 Stanislav Iljutcenko 73' Manager: Iliya Gruev

GK 28 Robert Wulnikowski (c) RB 11 Richard Weil CB 5 Clemens Schoppenhauer CB 26 Royal-Dominique Fennell 64' LB 16 Peter Kurzweg 22' 72' CM 30 Emanuel Taffertshofer CM 4 Rico Benatelli RW 22 Dennis Russ AM 14 Joannis Karsanidis 81' 83' LW 7 Marco Haller CF 33 Elia Soriano 88' Substitutes: GK 1 Dominik Brunnhübner DF 3 Dominik Nothnagel 72' DF 6 Niklas Weißenberger DF 32 Lukas Billick 83' MF 9 Amir Shapourzadeh MF 18 Nico Gutjahr FW 27 Adam Jabiri 88' Manager: Bernd Hollerbach

Assistant referees: Sascha Thielert (Buchholz in der Nordheide) Harm Osmers (Hanover) Fourth official: Frank Willenborg (Osnabrück)

Match rules: 90 minutes. 30 minutes of extra time if tied on aggregate and away goals. Penalty shoot-out if no further goals are scored. Seven named substitutes, of which up to three may be used.

Würzburger Kickers won 4–1 on aggregate.

Player statistics

Top goalscorers Rank Player Club Goals 1 Simon Terodde VfL Bochum 25 2 Nils Petersen SC Freiburg 21 3 Bobby Wood Union Berlin 17 4 Niclas Füllkrug Nürnberg 14 Vincenzo Grifo SC Freiburg 6 Guido Burgstaller Nürnberg 13 7 Sebastian Freis Greuther Fürth 12 Fabian Klos Arminia Bielefeld Damir Kreilach Union Berlin 10 Kerem Demirbay Fortuna Düsseldorf 10 Robert Leipertz 1. FC Heidenheim Davie Selke RB Leipzig

Top assists Rank Player Club Assists 1 Vincenzo Grifo SC Freiburg 11 2 Jürgen Gjasula Greuther Fürth 9 Kevin Möhwald 1. FC Nürnberg Maximilian Philipp SC Freiburg 5 Michael Liendl 1860 Munich 8 6 Guido Burgstaller 1. FC Nürnberg 7 Mike Frantz SC Freiburg Arne Feick 1. FC Heidenheim Tim Hoogland VfL Bochum Marc Rzatkowski FC St. Pauli Robert Žulj Greuther Fürth

Hat-tricks

Player	Club	Against	Result	Date
Nils Petersen	SC Freiburg	1. FC Nürnberg	6−3	27 July 2015
Lennart Thy4	FC St. Pauli	Fortuna Düsseldorf	4−0	9 November 2015
Nils Petersen	SC Freiburg	SC Paderborn	4−1	22 November 2015
Rubin Okotie	1860 Munich	SC Paderborn	4−4	28 November 2015
Niclas Füllkrug	1. FC Nürnberg	Union Berlin	6−2	23 April 2016
Simon Terodde	VfL Bochum	1. FC Heidenheim	4−2	15 May 2016

⁴ Player scored four goals

External links

• Official website

2015–16 in German football
League competitions
Bundesliga · 2. Bundesliga · 3. Liga · Regionalliga · Baden-Württemberg · Bayern · Bremen · Hamburg · Hessen · Mittelrhein · Niedersachsen · Niederrhein · Nordost · Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar · Schleswig-Holstein · Westfalen
Cup competitions
DFB-Pokal (Final) · DFL-Supercup · Verbandspokal (Bavaria · South Baden)
European competitions
Champions League (Final) · Europa League (Final)
National teams
Senior (UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying Group D)
Other
Summer 2015 transfers · Winter 2015–16 transfers · Summer 2016 transfers
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