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2015–16 A League

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Season
  
2015–16

Champion
  
Adelaide United FC

Goals scored
  
421

Best goalkeeper
  
Thomas Sørensen

Dates
  
8 Oct 2015 – 1 May 2016

Matches played
  
135

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Champions
  
Adelaide United !Adelaide United (1st Title)

Premiers
  
Adelaide United !Adelaide United (2nd Title)

Champions League
  
Adelaide United !Adelaide United Western Sydney Wanderers !Western Sydney Wanderers Brisbane Roar !Brisbane Roar

Top goalscorer
  
Bruno Fornaroli (25 goals)

Similar
  
2016–17 A‑League, 2014–15 A‑League, 2015–16 Hong Kong Premier L

The 2015–16 A-League was the 39th season of top-flight soccer in Australia, and the 11th since the establishment of the A-League in 2004. Melbourne Victory were both the defending A-League Premiers and Champions. The regular season schedule was released on 29 June 2015. The season commenced on 8 October 2015 and concluded on 10 April 2016. The finals series commenced on 15 April 2016 and concluded with the 2016 Grand Final, held on 1 May 2016.

Contents

The 2016 Grand Final took place on 1 May 2016, with Adelaide United claiming their first Championship with a 3–1 win against Western Sydney Wanderers.

Personnel and kits

  • Additionally, referee kits are made by Umbro.

    • Foreign players

    The following do not fill a Visa position:
    1Those players who were born and started their professional career abroad but have since gained Australian citizenship (and New Zealand citizenship, in the case of Wellington Phoenix);
    2Australian citizens (and New Zealand citizens, in the case of Wellington Phoenix) who have chosen to represent another national team;
    3Injury Replacement Players, or National Team Replacement Players;
    4Guest Players (eligible to play a maximum of fourteen games);
    5Signed only to ACL squad

    Salary cap concessions

    Introduced by the FFA for this season are the following concessions to the cap:

    1. A Loyalty allowance on a sliding scale for players who have played 5 years at the same club. Maximum $200,000 for 10 years.
    2. A Mature Aged Rookie over the age of 21 who has not played in a fully professional league for the last 18 months and last played football in Australia.
    3. Each Club can pay three players who started their careers with the club outside the Salary Cap. This season the total has been lifted from $150,000 to $200,000.
    4. The two Marquee Players (which sit outside the Salary Cap) can be two foreigners.
    5. Salary Cap Banking will allow clubs to carry over money not spent inside the Salary Cap in the previous two seasons to the following season, up to 105% of the Salary Cap in the relevant contract year.

    Results

    Updated to games played on 10 April 2016.
    Source: aleague.com.au
    1 ^ The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
    Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
    For coming matches, an a indicates there is an article about the match.

    Positions by round

    Last updated: 10 April 2016
    Source: ultimatealeague.com

    Notes:

  • Melbourne City were tied with Sydney FC at the end of Round 1, as were Adelaide United and Melbourne Victory.
  • Perth Glory and Melbourne Victory had a game in hand between Rounds 5 and 10, with their Round 5 game played before the start of Round 11 on 16 December.

    • Finals series

    The Grand Final winner (Champion) qualifies for the AFC Champions League group stage

    By club

    These are the attendance records of each of the teams at the end of the home and away season. The table does not include finals series attendances.

    As of matches played on 10 April 2016.

    By round

    Source:

    Club membership

    Last updated: 10 April 2016
    Source: aleague.com.au

    Top scorers

    As of matches played on 10 April 2016

    Hat-tricks

    Note

    4 Player scored 4 goals

    Own goals

    As of matches played on 10 April 2016

    Clean sheets

    As of matches played on 10 April 2016

    Discipline

    During the season each club is given fair play points based on the amount of cards they received in games. A yellow card is worth 1 point, a second yellow card is worth 2 points, and a red card is worth 3 points. At the annual awards night, the club with the least amount of points wins the Fair Play Award.

    Last updated: 9 April 2016
    Source: ultimatealeague.com

    NAB Young Footballer of the Year Award

    The NAB Young Footballer of the Year Award will be awarded to the finest U/23 player talent throughout the Hyundai A-League 2015–16 competition. One nominee is announced per month and all nominees will qualify to be named the NAB Young Footballer of the Year at the conclusion of the season.

    End of season awards

    The following end of the season awards were announced at the 2015–16 Dolan Warren Awards night held at the Carriageworks in Sydney on 26 April 2016.

  • Johnny Warren Medal – Diego Castro, Perth Glory !Perth Glory
  • NAB Young Footballer of the Year – Jamie Maclaren, Brisbane Roar !Brisbane Roar
  • Nike Golden Boot Award – Bruno Fornaroli, Melbourne City !Melbourne City (23 goals)
  • Goalkeeper of the Year – Thomas Sørensen, Melbourne City !Melbourne City
  • Coach of the Year – Guillermo Amor, Adelaide United !Adelaide United
  • Fair Play Award – Brisbane Roar !Brisbane Roar
  • Referee of the Year – Jarred Gillett
  • Goal of the Year – Roy O'Donovan, Central Coast Mariners !Central Coast Mariners (Adelaide United !Adelaide United v Central Coast Mariners !Central Coast Mariners, 27 March 2016)

    • References

    2015–16 A-League Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA