The 2015 Bhutan National League was the fourth season of national football competition in Bhutan, having replaced the

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. Again, the A-Division provided the qualifiers, with the top three teams in that competition being awarded places in the National League alongside three regional teams. The league was sponsored by the

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. Terton were crowned champions of the national league after beating Thimphu City, who were then the top team in the league, in their final game 4–2 on 23 September.

Thimphu League

The 2015 season of the Thimphu League, called the Yanmar Thimphu League for sponsorship reasons, and previously the Bhutan A-Division, started on April 4, 2015 and ended on May 13. Terton won the competition in their inaugural season, and were joined in the National League by

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and Thimphu City.

Format and rules

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, the bottom two teams compete in relegation playoffs with the top two teams from the B-Division for two places in the next seasons's competition.

League table

Results

National League

Format and rules

The competition consists of six teams competing for the national league championship, the winner of which gains a place in the next season's.

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. Each plays the others twice – home and away – for a total of 10 games each, over 10 game weeks. 3 points are awarded for a win, 1 point for a draw and 0 points for a loss. the league table is decided firstly on points won, then on goal difference and finally on total goals scored if the previous two are equal. There is no promotion or relegation from this league.

Teams

A total of six teams competed in the league: three teams representing

Thimphu Thimphu (; dz, ཐིམ་ཕུག ) is the capital city, capital and largest city of Bhutan. It is situated in the western central part of Bhutan, and the surrounding valley is one of Bhutan's ''dzongkhags'', the Thimphu District. The ancient ...

, who qualified as a result of their final positions in the 2015 A-Division, and three teams representing other districts. * Bhutan Clearing (representing

Chukha District Chukha District (Dzongkha: ཆུ་ཁ་རྫོང་ཁག་; Wylie: ''Chu-kha rdzong-khag''; also spelled "Chhukha") is one of the 20 dzongkhag (districts) comprising Bhutan. The major town is Phuentsholing which is the gateway city ...

) * Paro United (representing

Paro District Paro District ( Dzongkha: སྤ་རོ་རྫོང་ཁག་; Wylie: ''Spa-ro rdzong-khag'') is a district ('' dzongkhag''), valley, river and town (population 20,000) in Bhutan. It is one of the most historic valleys in Bhutan. Both t ...

) * Terton (winners of the 2015 A-Division) *

(runners-up in the 2015 A-Division) * Thimphu City (third place in the 2015 A-Division) * Ugyen Academy (representing

Punakha District Punakha District ( Dzongkha: སྤུ་ན་ཁ་རྫོང་ཁག་; Wylie: ''Spu-na-kha rdzong-khag'') is one of the 20 dzongkhags (districts) comprising Bhutan. It is bordered by Thimphu, Gasa, and Wangdue Phodrang Districts. The do ...

)

League table

Results

References

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