Season 2015–16 Dates 4 Oct 2015 – 23 Jun 2016 Location Italy Top seed Universo Treviso Basket | Runners-up Fortitudo Bologna Champion Basket Brescia Leonessa Teams 32 | |
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Champions Centrale del Latte Brescia Semifinalists De' Longhi Treviso
Givova Scafati Promoted Centrale del Latte Brescia Games played 480 (Regular season)
45–75 (Playoffs) Relegated Fulgor Omegna, Olimpia Basket Matera, Basket Barcellona People also search for 2016–17 Serie A2 Basket |
The 2015–16 Serie A2 season, known for sponsorship reasons as the Serie A2 Citroën, was the 42nd season of the Italian basketball second league Serie A2 Basket. The season started on October 4, 2015 and ended on June 23, 2016 with the last game of the promotion playoffs finals.
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Rules
The season is composed of 32 teams with a regional subdivision in two equal groups of sixteen, East and West. Each team plays the others in its subgroup twice, the first ranked team of each group then plays the eighth ranked team of the other group (e.g. East #1 against West #8), then the second best against the seventh, and so on, to form a promotion playoffs (for one place) of sixteen teams.
Coppa Italia
At the half of the league, the four first teams of each group in the table play the Final Eight of the LNP Cup at a neutral venue the Federation propose. The LNP Cup Final Eight was played from March 4 to 6, 2016.