# 2015–16 Russian Football National League

The 2015–16 Russian National Football League was the 24th season of Russia's second-tier football league since the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The season began on 11 July 2015 and is due to end on 21 May 2016.

## Teams
### Stadiums, personnel and sponsorship

| Team | Head coach | Captain | Kitmaker | Sponsor | Stadium | Capacity |
| Arsenal | Sergei Pavlov | Dmitry Aydov | Adidas | | Arsenal, Tula | 20,048 |
| Baikal | Dmitri Petrenko | Andrei Mayboroda | Adidas | | Trud, Irkutsk | 17,800 |
| Baltika | Khazret Dyshekov | Yevgeny Ovsiyenko | Nike | | Baltika, Kaliningrad | 14,660 |
| Fakel | Pavel Gusev | Andrei Murnin | Adidas | TNS Energo | Tsentralnyi Profsoyuz, Voronezh | 31,793 |
| Gazovik | Robert Yevdokimov | Dmitri Andreev | Adidas | Gazprom | Gazovik, Orenburg | 4,800 |
| KAMAZ | Vladimir Klontsak | Irek Ganiyev | Adidas | Rubin | Neftekhimik, Nizhnekamsk | 3,200 |
| Luch-Energiya | Sergei Perednya | Roman Slavnov | Joma | | Dynamo, Vladivostok | 10,200 |
| Shinnik | Aleksandr Pobegalov | Aleksandr Pavlenko | Jako | | Shinnik, Yaroslavl | 22,990 |
| Sibir | Boris Stukalov | Victor Golovatenco | Joma | Sibmost | Spartak, Novosibirsk | 12,500 |
| SKA-Energiya | Aleksandr Grigoryan | Igor Udaly | Adidas | | Lenin, Khabarovsk | 15,200 |
| Sokol | Valeri Burlachenko | Aleksandr Degtyaryov | Adidas | ZMK | Lokomotiv, Saratov | 15,000 |
| Spartak-2 | Yevgeny Bushmanov | Vladimir Obukhov | Nike | Lukoil | Spartak Academy, Moscow | 2,700 |
| Tom | Valery Nepomnyashchy | Martin Jiránek | Adidas | | Trud, Tomsk | 10,000 |
| Torpedo | Valery Karpin | Sergei Miroshnichenko | Adidas | RGMK | Yunost, Armavir | 3,650 |
| Tosno | Dmytro Parfyonov | Andrei Bochkov | Adidas | Fort Group | MSA Petrovsky, Saint Petersburg | 2,809 |
| Tyumen | Aleksandr Ivchenko | Khasan Mamtov | Umbro | Sibur | Geolog, Tyumen | 13,057 |
| Volga | Andrei Talalayev | Dmitri Polyanin | Adidas | | Lokomotiv, Nizhny Novgorod | 17,856 |
| Volgar | Yuri Gazzayev | Aleksei Kolomiychenko | Adidas | Gazprom | Tsentralny, Astrakhan | 17,500 |
| Yenisey | Omari Tetradze | Yevgeni Kachan | 2K Sport | | Tsentralny, Krasnoyarsk | 22,500 |
| Zenit-2 | Vladislav Radimov | Konstantin Lobov | Nike | Gazprom | MSA Petrovsky, Saint Petersburg | 2,809 |

## League table

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion, qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Gazovik Orenburg (C, P) | 38 | 26 | 8 | 4 | 61 | 20 | +41 | 86 | Promotion to Premier League |
| 2 | Arsenal Tula (P) | 38 | 25 | 7 | 6 | 64 | 36 | +28 | 82 | Promotion to Premier League |
| 3 | Tom Tomsk (O, P) | 38 | 22 | 8 | 8 | 58 | 35 | +23 | 74 | Qualification to Premier League play-offs |
| 4 | Volgar Astrakhan | 38 | 17 | 12 | 9 | 57 | 37 | +20 | 63 | Qualification to Premier League play-offs |
| 5 | Spartak-2 Moscow | 38 | 17 | 8 | 13 | 52 | 49 | +3 | 59 | |
| 6 | Fakel Voronezh | 38 | 17 | 5 | 16 | 51 | 42 | +9 | 56 | |
| 7 | Tosno | 38 | 17 | 4 | 17 | 57 | 53 | +4 | 55 | |
| 8 | Tyumen | 38 | 15 | 9 | 14 | 44 | 45 | −1 | 54 | |
| 9 | Sokol Saratov | 38 | 14 | 11 | 13 | 43 | 38 | +5 | 53 | |
| 10 | Volga Nizhny Novgorod | 38 | 14 | 9 | 15 | 39 | 37 | +2 | 51 | Dissolved after the season |
| 11 | Sibir Novosibirsk | 38 | 14 | 9 | 15 | 47 | 50 | −3 | 51 | |
| 12 | Shinnik Yaroslavl | 38 | 13 | 11 | 14 | 50 | 49 | +1 | 50 | |
| 13 | Zenit-2 Saint Petersburg | 38 | 13 | 11 | 14 | 61 | 56 | +5 | 50 | |
| 14 | SKA-Energiya Khabarovsk | 38 | 13 | 10 | 15 | 36 | 35 | +1 | 49 | |
| 15 | Luch-Energiya Vladivostok | 38 | 12 | 9 | 17 | 31 | 46 | −15 | 45 | |
| 16 | Yenisey Krasnoyarsk | 38 | 12 | 8 | 18 | 36 | 49 | −13 | 44 | |
| 17 | Baltika Kaliningrad | 38 | 11 | 11 | 16 | 37 | 47 | −10 | 44 | |
| 18 | Torpedo Armavir (R) | 38 | 10 | 10 | 18 | 28 | 44 | −16 | 40 | Relegation to Professional Football League |
| 19 | Baikal Irkutsk (R) | 38 | 8 | 2 | 28 | 29 | 73 | −44 | 26 | Relegation to Professional Football League |
| 20 | KAMAZ Naberezhnye Chelny (R) | 38 | 6 | 6 | 26 | 20 | 60 | −40 | 24 | Relegation to Professional Football League |
* 1 2 On 15 June 2016, it was announced that FC Volga Nizhny Novgorod would be dissolved due to debt. According to league regulations, its place in the league would be taken by FC Baltika Kaliningrad, which would not be relegated.
* 1 2 Head-to-head record: Volga – Sibir 2–1, Sibir – Volga 1–2.
* 1 2 Head-to-head record: Zenit-2 – Shinnik 2–2, Shinnik – Zenit-2 4–0.
* ↑ On 4 June 2016, it was announced that FC Yenisey Krasnoyarsk would not be relegated as one of the teams that won one of the PFL zones, FC Smena Komsomolsk-na-Amure, refused to be promoted.

## Results

| Home \ Away | ARS | BAI | BAL | FAK | GAZ | KAM | LUE | SHI | SIB | SKA | SOK | SP2 | TOM | ARM | TOS | TYU | VNN | VOL | YEN | ZE2 |
| Arsenal Tula | | 2–1 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 0–3 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 4–1 | 3–1 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 4–1 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 3–1 | 1–2 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 2–1 |
| Baikal Irkutsk | 0–2 | | 1–0 | 0–2 | 0–3 | 2–1 | 0–1 | 0–2 | 0–6 | 2–3 | 0–3 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 0–2 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 3–2 | 1–0 | 2–1 |
| Baltika Kaliningrad | 1–4 | 3–1 | | 1–1 | 2–1 | 1–2 | 3–0 | 0–3 | 3–1 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 0–3 | 0–1 | 1–3 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 3–1 |
| Fakel Voronezh | 3–1 | 3–2 | 1–0 | | 1–2 | 4–1 | 2–0 | 3–1 | 2–1 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 2–2 | 1–3 | 2–0 | 1–3 | 3–0 | 1–2 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0–1 |
| Gazovik Orenburg | 4–1 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 1–0 | | 2–0 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 3–1 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 1–0 |
| KAMAZ Naberezhnye Chelny | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–3 | | 0–1 | 0–3 | 1–2 | 0–2 | 3–0 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 3–0 | 0–1 | 0–2 | 0–3 | 0–1 | 0–5 |
| Luch-Energiya Vladivostok | 0–0 | 1–0 | 2–2 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 2–1 | | 1–1 | 0–3 | 1–0 | 2–3 | 1–1 | 0–3 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 0–0 |
| Shinnik Yaroslavl | 0–4 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 1–2 | 0–1 | 0–2 | 1–1 | | 5–0 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 3–0 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 3–3 | 1–1 | 4–0 |
| Sibir Novosibirsk | 3–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 2–1 | | 2–1 | 1–3 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 2–2 | 1–2 | 1–4 | 1–2 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 2–0 |
| SKA-Khabarovsk | 0–1 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 4–0 | 2–0 | 2–2 | 1–1 | | 1–2 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 0–2 | 2–1 |
| Sokol Saratov | 1–1 | 3–0 | 1–1 | 3–2 | 0–2 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 2–0 | | 2–2 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 3–2 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 0–0 |
| Spartak-2 Moscow | 1–2 | 2–0 | 0–1 | 1–3 | 1–0 | 4–0 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 3–0 | 1–0 | 4–3 | | 0–1 | 1–0 | 3–1 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 1–2 |
| Tom Tomsk | 1–3 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 0–2 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 4–1 | | 4–0 | 3–2 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 2–3 |
| Armavir | 1–3 | 0–2 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 3–0 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 0–2 | 2–0 | 0–2 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 1–1 | | 0–0 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 2–3 | 2–0 |
| Tosno | 2–3 | 1–0 | 3–1 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 1–2 | 0–2 | 2–0 | 0–1 | 3–2 | 1–0 | 6–1 | 3–1 | 1–0 | | 2–4 | 1–0 | 2–2 | 2–2 | 1–2 |
| Tyumen | 1–2 | 1–1 | 3–1 | 1–2 | 0–4 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 0–1 | 0–2 | 1–2 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 1–0 | | 2–1 | 0–2 | 3–1 | 2–1 |
| Volga Nizhny Novgorod | 1–2 | 4–1 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 1–3 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 3–2 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 1–0 | | 0–1 | 4–0 | 2–2 |
| Volgar Astrakhan | 1–1 | 3–1 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 0–1 | 3–0 | 4–1 | 4–0 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 2–1 | | 1–1 | 0–3 |
| Yenisey Krasnoyarsk | 0–2 | 4–0 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 0–2 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 0–1 | 0–4 | 1–2 | 3–1 | 1–3 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 0–2 | | 0–3 |
| Zenit-2 St. Petersburg | 2–2 | 4–3 | 3–1 | 2–4 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 3–1 | 2–2 | 3–3 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 3–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 4–2 | 1–1 | 2–3 | 1–2 | |

## Statistics
### Scoring

* First goal of the season: Denis Klopkov for Luch-Energiya against SKA-Energiya Khabarovsk (11 July 2015)

### Top goalscorers

| Rank | Player | Club | Goals |
| 1 | Artyom Delkin | Gazovik | 16 |
| 1 | Khasan Mamtov | Tyumen | 16 |
| 1 | Maksim Zhitnev | Sibir | 16 |
| 4 | Mikhail Biryukov | Fakel | 13 |
| 5 | Kirill Pogrebnyak | Tom Tomsk | 12 |
| 5 | Aleksandr Kutyin | Arsenal Tula/Tosno | 12 |
| 5 | Vladimir Ilyin | Tosno | 12 |
| 5 | Aleksandr Degtyaryov | Sokol | 12 |
Last updated: 10 May 2016

### Hat-tricks

| Player | For | Against | Result | Date |
| Denis Tkachuk | Zenit-2 | Tom Tomsk | 3–2 | 27 July 2015 |
| Artyom Delkin | Gazovik | Baykal | 3–0 | 27 July 2015 |
| Aleksei Pugin | Tom | Torpedo | 4–0 | 17 August 2015 |
| Aleksandr Alkhazov$^{**}$ | Volgar | Luch-Energiya | 4–1 | 15 October 2015 |
| Sergei Maslov | Arsenal | Spartak-2 | 4–1 | 26 October 2015 |
* $^4$ Player scored 4 goals
* $^{**}$ All goals scored from the penalty spot
Last updated: 8 November 2015

## Attendance
### Average home attendances

Ranked from highest to lowest average attendance.
Updated as of 8 November 2015
| Team | GP | Total | High | Low | Average |
| Fakel | 9 | 90,400 | 12,800 | 7,200 | 10,044 |
| Arsenal | 11 | 63,000 | 8,200 | 3,200 | 5,727 |
| Baltika | 9 | 46,400 | 7,500 | 3,400 | 5,156 |
| Sokol | 9 | 35,150 | 6,600 | 1,150 | 3,906 |
| Luch-Energiya | 9 | 27,500 | 6,100 | 1,100 | 3,056 |
| Tom | 12 | 35,520 | 4,500 | 1,500 | 2,960 |
| Volga | 10 | 24,450 | 3,800 | 1,000 | 2,445 |
| Gazovik | 10 | 24,200 | 3,000 | 2,000 | 2,420 |
| Yenisey | 9 | 20,450 | 4,900 | 900 | 2,272 |
| Sibir | 9 | 19,950 | 4,000 | 1,000 | 2,217 |
| Torpedo | 8 | 15,900 | 2,500 | 800 | 1,988 |
| SKA-Energiya | 10 | 19,500 | 3,100 | 1,000 | 1,950 |
| Shinnik | 11 | 20,200 | 5,600 | 1,000 | 1,836 |
| Tyumen | 11 | 20,050 | 2,500 | 1,000 | 1,823 |
| Baikal | 9 | 13,950 | 3,200 | 250 | 1,550 |
| Volgar | 10 | 13,100 | 2,200 | 950 | 1,310 |
| Zenit-2 | 9 | 10,015 | 1,500 | 495 | 1,113 |
| Spartak-2 | 8 | 7,962 | 2,506 | 107 | 964 |
| Tosno | 8 | 5,250 | 1,900 | 350 | 656 |
| KAMAZ | 9 | 2,250 | 450 | 100 | 250 |