2015–16 Bremen-Liga

2015–16 Bremen-Liga

Season	2015–16
Champions	Bremer SV
Relegated	Union 60 Bremen KSV Vatan Sport
Top goalscorer	Bashkim Toski (34 goals)[1]
← 2014–15 2016–17 → All statistics correct as of 22 May 2016.

The 2015–16 season of the Bremen-Liga, the highest association football league in the German state of Bremen, was the eighth season of the league at tier five (V) of the German football league system.^[2]

The season began on 29 August 2015 and finished on 22 May 2016, interrupted by a winter break from 19 December to 31 January.^[3]

2015–16 standings

The 2015–16 season saw two new clubs in the league, Bremer TS Neustadt and ESC Geestemünde, both promoted from the Landesliga Bremen.^[4]

Of the Bremen-Liga teams only Bremer SV and Blumenthaler SV 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.^[5][6]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Bremer SV (C, Q)	30	26	2	2	120	17	+103	80	Qualification to promotion playoffs
2	Blumenthaler SV	30	22	6	2	100	32	+68	72
3	Werder Bremen III	30	18	5	7	108	42	+66	59
4	TuS Schwachhausen	30	16	7	7	82	62	+20	55
5	Brinkumer SV	30	16	5	9	90	48	+42	53
6	SG Aumund-Vegesack	30	15	4	11	66	48	+18	49
7	BTS Neustadt	30	11	7	12	49	61	−12	40
8	ESC Geestemünde	30	11	6	13	52	66	−14	39
9	Habenhauser FV	30	11	5	14	67	79	−12	38
10	VfL 07 Bremen	30	9	7	14	47	62	−15	34
11	SV Grohn	30	7	11	12	48	61	−13	32
12	TSV Grolland	30	8	8	14	53	76	−23	32
13	OSC Bremerhaven	30	8	7	15	62	105	−43	31
14	Leher TS	30	9	3	18	60	109	−49	30
15	Union 60 Bremen (R)	30	4	7	19	32	82	−50	19	Relegation to Landesliga Bremen
16	KSV Vatan Sport Bremen (R)	30	1	6	23	25	113	−88	9

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; (Q) Qualified for the phase indicated; (R) Relegated

Top goalscorers

The top goal scorers for the season:^[1]

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Bashkim Toski	TSV Grolland	34
2	Eduard Kimmel	ESC Geestemünde	24
3	Marcel Dörgeloh	Brinkumer SV	23
4	Yagmur Horata	Werder Bremen III	21

Promotion play-off

Promotion play-off were to be held at the end of the season to the Regionalliga Nord.^[7] 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 Nord		—	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. 2015–16 Bremen-Liga Goal scorers (in German) Weltfussball.de, accessed: 17 December 2015
2. Bremen-Liga tables (in German) Das Deutsche Fussball Archiv, accessed: 17 December 2015
3. Match calendar (in German) fupa.net, accessed: 17 December 2015
4. Bremen-Liga results & tables (in German) kicker.de, accessed: 20 December 2015
5. "Regionalliga: 28 clubs apply for admission" (in German). Amateurfußball Hamburg. April 2016.
6. "Regionalliga Nord 2016/2017: Zulassung für 28 Vereine erteilt" (in German). 9 May 2016.
7. 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

External links

• Bremen-Liga on Fupa.net (in German)