# 2015–16 Niedersachsenliga

The 2015–16 season of the Niedersachsenliga, the highest association football league in the German state of Lower Saxony, was the eighth season of the league at tier five (V) of the German football league system.
The season began on 7 August 2015 and finished on 22 May 2016, interrupted by a winter break from 20 December to 7 February.

## 2015–16 standings

The 2015–16 season saw five new clubs in the league, VfL Bückeburg, SVG Göttingen, Heeslinger SC and TuS Lingen, all four promoted from the Landesligas, while FT Braunschweig was relegated from the Regionalliga Nord.
Of the Niedersachsenliga teams only Lupo Martini Wolfsburg and Germania Egestorf 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.
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion, qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Lupo-Martini Wolfsburg (C, P) | 30 | 22 | 6 | 2 | 74 | 27 | +47 | 72 | Promotion to Regionalliga Nord |
| 2 | Germania Egestorf (P) | 30 | 16 | 5 | 9 | 63 | 39 | +24 | 53 | Qualification to promotion playoffs |
| 3 | SSV Jeddeloh | 30 | 14 | 8 | 8 | 62 | 56 | +6 | 50 | |
| 4 | Eintract Northeim | 30 | 14 | 6 | 10 | 64 | 52 | +12 | 48 | |
| 5 | SC Spelle-Venhaus | 30 | 12 | 8 | 10 | 65 | 54 | +11 | 44 | |
| 6 | SVG Göttingen | 30 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 55 | 44 | +11 | 43 | |
| 7 | FT Braunschweig | 30 | 12 | 7 | 11 | 51 | 52 | −1 | 43 | |
| 8 | VfL Osnabrück II | 30 | 11 | 9 | 10 | 51 | 48 | +3 | 42 | |
| 9 | VfL Oldenburg | 30 | 11 | 9 | 10 | 47 | 44 | +3 | 42 | |
| 10 | Arminia Hannover | 30 | 12 | 5 | 13 | 52 | 50 | +2 | 41 | |
| 11 | TuS Lingen (X) | 30 | 11 | 7 | 12 | 57 | 47 | +10 | 40 | Withdrawn to 2. Kreisklasse |
| 12 | 1. FC Wunstorf | 30 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 52 | 48 | +4 | 40 | |
| 13 | Heeslinger SC | 30 | 12 | 4 | 14 | 48 | 54 | −6 | 40 | |
| 14 | TB Uphusen | 30 | 9 | 6 | 15 | 43 | 69 | −26 | 33 | |
| 15 | VfL Bückeburg (R) | 30 | 7 | 4 | 19 | 42 | 77 | −35 | 25 | Relegation to Landesliga |
| 16 | Teutonia Uelzen (R) | 30 | 3 | 2 | 25 | 32 | 97 | −65 | 11 | Relegation to Landesliga |
* ↑ Reserve teams of 3. Liga clubs are ineligible for Regionalliga promotion.
* ↑ TuS Lingen withdrew to the 2. Kreisklasse for the following season for financial reasons.

### Top goalscorers

The top goal scorers for the season:
| Rank | Player | Club | Goals |
| 1 | Keven Oltmer | SSV Jeddeloh | 21 |
| 2 | Nils Hillemann | Eintracht Northeim | 18 |
| 3 | Sascha Wald | SC Spelle-Venhaus | 16 |
| 3 | Julian Bennert | SSV Jeddeloh | 16 |
| 3 | André Jädtke | VfL Oldenburg | 16 |

## Promotion play-off

Promotion play-off were to be held at the end of the season to the Regionalliga Nord. 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 | — | 2–2 | 2–1 | — |
| 2 | SV Eichede (P) | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 4 | +1 | 5 | Promotion to Regionalliga | — | — | — | 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 | — |