# 2015–16 Hamilton Academical F.C. season

The 2015–16 season was the club's second season in the Scottish Premiership, having been promoted from the Scottish Championship at the end of the 2013–14 season. Hamilton Academical also competed in the League Cup and the Scottish Cup.

## Results and fixtures

Win  Draw  Loss  Postponed

### Scottish Cup
## Squad statistics

During the 2015–16 season, Hamilton Academical have used thirty different players in competitive games. The table below shows the number of appearances and goals scored by each player. Ziggy Gordon started all 40 matches.

### Appearances

    As of 14 May 2016
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Total | Total | Premiership | Premiership | League Cup | League Cup | Scottish Cup | Scottish Cup |
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| 1 | GK | NIR | Michael McGovern | 39 | 0 | 37 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2 | DF | SCO | Ziggy Gordon | 40 | 2 | 38 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 3 | DF | LVA | Antons Kurakins | 36 | 0 | 35 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | DF | SCO | Michael Devlin | 17 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 5 | DF | SCO | Martin Canning | 3 | 0 | 1+2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 6 | MF | SCO | Grant Gillespie | 31 | 1 | 28+2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 7 | MF | SCO | Dougie Imrie | 36 | 6 | 34+1 | 6 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 8 | MF | NIR | Chris Turner | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 8 | FW | FRA | Oumar Diaby | 6 | 0 | 1+5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 9 | FW | BRA | Alexandre D'Acol | 16 | 0 | 3+12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 11 | MF | SCO | Ali Crawford | 35 | 5 | 32+1 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 12 | MF | GER | Gramoz Kurtaj | 35 | 3 | 28+6 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 14 | FW | ENG | Carlton Morris | 33 | 8 | 27+5 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 15 | MF | CUW | Kemy Agustien | 2 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 15 | DF | NIR | Jamie Sendles-White | 7 | 0 | 4+3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 16 | MF | SCO | Craig Watson | 1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 17 | MF | SCO | Louis Longridge | 16 | 1 | 6+9 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 18 | FW | SCO | Darian MacKinnon | 33 | 0 | 30+1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 20 | FW | SCO | Eamonn Brophy | 15 | 4 | 7+7 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 21 | MF | SCO | Greg Docherty | 36 | 2 | 16+18 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 22 | MF | SCO | Darren Lyon | 13 | 0 | 9+3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 24 | MF | ESP | Jesús García Tena | 25 | 4 | 20+3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 26 | GK | SCO | Alan Martin | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 27 | FW | FRA | Christian Nadé | 18 | 3 | 4+13 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 28 | FW | GER | Christopher Mandiangu | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 28 | MF | ENG | Daniel Redmond | 12 | 0 | 1+10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 30 | MF | SCO | Steven Boyd | 6 | 0 | 2+3 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 33 | MF | SCO | Ronan Hughes | 2 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 35 | FW | SCO | Ross Cunningham | 1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 44 | DF | BRA | Lucas | 35 | 3 | 34+0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |

## Team statistics
### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 8 | Dundee | 38 | 11 | 15 | 12 | 53 | 57 | −4 | 48 | |
| 9 | Partick Thistle | 38 | 12 | 10 | 16 | 41 | 50 | −9 | 46 | |
| 10 | Hamilton Academical | 38 | 11 | 10 | 17 | 42 | 63 | −21 | 43 | |
| 11 | Kilmarnock (O) | 38 | 9 | 9 | 20 | 41 | 64 | −23 | 36 | Qualification for the Premiership play-off final |
| 12 | Dundee United (R) | 38 | 8 | 7 | 23 | 45 | 70 | −25 | 28 | Relegation to the Scottish Championship |
* ↑ Teams play each other three times (33 matches), before the league is split into two groups (the top six and the bottom six).
* ↑ Dundee United were deducted three points for fielding an ineligible player in their win over Inverness Caledonian Thistle on 6 May 2016.

### Division summary

| Round | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 |
| Ground | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | A | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A |
| Result | D | L | W | W | W | L | L | W | W | L | D | D | L | L | D | W | L | L | L | L | D | D | L | D | W | D | L | D | L | W | L | L | W | W | L | W | L | D |
| Position | 6 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 |

### Management statistics

| Name | From | To | P | W | D | L | Win% |
| Martin Canning | 1 August 2015 | Present | 40 | 11 | 10 | 19 | 027.50 |