The 2015–16 season of the

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, the highest association football league in the German state of

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, was the eighth season of the league at tier five (V) of the

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. The season began on 7 August 2015 and finished on 22 May 2016, interrupted by a winter break from 20 December to 7 February.Match calendar
fupa.net, accessed: 17 December 2015

2015–16 standings

The 2015–16 season saw five new clubs in the league,

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, SVG Göttingen, Heeslinger SC and TuS Lingen, all four promoted from the

Landesliga The Landesliga ( en, Football State League) is a tier of football in some states of the German football league system. In Bavaria, Saxony, Thuringia, Bremen, Lower Saxony and Hamburg, the Landesligas are set right below the Oberliga and therefore ...

s, while

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was relegated from the

Regionalliga Nord The Regionalliga Nord ( en, Regional League North) is the fourth tier of the German football league system in the states of Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein, Bremen and Hamburg. It is one of five leagues at this level, together with the Regional ...

. Of the Niedersachsenliga teams only Lupo Martini Wolfsburg and Germania Egestorf applied for a Regionalliga licence for the 2016–17 season, with the

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deciding on 9 May 2016 to grant all applicants a licence.

Top goalscorers

The top goal scorers for the season:2015–16 Niedersachsenliga Goal scorers
Weltfussball.de, accessed: 17 December 2015

Promotion play-off

Promotion play-off were to be held at the end of the season to the

.Ausschreibung für den Spielbetrieb des Spieljahres 2015/16 der Oberliga Niedersachsen
Lower Saxony Football Federation, Promotion and relegation rules, accessed: 17 December 2015 The runners-up of the

and the champions or, in Hamburg's case, the only team applying for a licence, of the

Bremen-Liga The Bremen-Liga, sometimes also referred to as ''Oberliga Bremen'', is a fifth tier of the German football league system and the highest league in the German state Free Hanseatic City of Bremen. It is one of fourteen Oberligas in German football ...

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and

Schleswig-Holstein-Liga The Oberliga Schleswig-Holstein, formerly referred to as ''Schleswig-Holstein-Liga'', is the fifth tier of the German football league system and the highest league in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein. It is one of fourteen Oberligas in Germ ...

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:

References

External links

Niedersachsenliga
on Fupa.net {{DEFAULTSORT:2015-16 Niedersachsenliga Niedersachsenliga