# 2015–16 FC St. Pauli season

The 2015–16 FC St. Pauli season is the club's 105th season of existence, and their fifth consecutive season in the 2. Bundesliga, the second tier of German football.

## Background

After narrowly avoiding relegation during the 2014–15 season, FC. St Pauli started to strengthen the squad in the summer to prevent another relegation battle.

## Transfers
### In

| Position | Name | From | Fee |
| MF | Jeremy Dudziak | Borussia Dortmund | € 500K |
| DF | Lasse Sobiech | Hamburger SV | free |
| FW | Fafà Picault | Sparta Prague | free |
| FW | Ryo Miyaichi | Arsenal | free |
| DF | Davidson Eden | FC Wacker Innsbruck | free |
| DF | Marc Hornschuh | FSV Frankfurt | free |
| FW | Waldemar Sobota | Club Brugge | loan |

### Out

| Position | Name | From | Fee |
| DF | Marcel Halstenberg | RasenBallsport Leipzig | €3.5mln |
| GK | Philipp Tschauner | Hannover 96 | free |
| MF | Tom Trybull | Greuther Fürth | free |
| MF | Dennis Daube | Union Berlin | free |
| MF | Michael Görlitz | Arminia Bielefeld | free |
| FW | Christopher Nöthe | Arminia Bielefeld | free |
| MF | Armando Cooper | Árabe Unido | free |
| DF | Sebastian Schachten | FC Luzern | free |
| DF | Markus Thorandt | no club | free |
| MF | Florian Kringe | end of career | |
| FW | Ante Budimir | F.C. Crotone | loan |
| MF | Julian Koch | FSV Mainz | end of loan |

## Competitions
### 2. Bundesliga
#### Table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion, qualification or relegation |
| 2 | RB Leipzig (P) | 34 | 20 | 7 | 7 | 54 | 32 | +22 | 67 | Promotion to Bundesliga |
| 3 | 1. FC Nürnberg | 34 | 19 | 8 | 7 | 68 | 41 | +27 | 65 | Qualification to promotion play-offs |
| 4 | FC St. Pauli | 34 | 15 | 8 | 11 | 45 | 39 | +6 | 53 | |
| 5 | VfL Bochum | 34 | 13 | 12 | 9 | 56 | 40 | +16 | 51 | |
| 6 | Union Berlin | 34 | 13 | 10 | 11 | 56 | 50 | +6 | 49 | |

#### Match results
### DFB-Pokal
## Statistics
### Squad and statistics

As of 4 June 2016<
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Total | Total | 2. Bundesliga | 2. Bundesliga | DFB-Pokal | DFB-Pokal |
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| 1 | GK | GER | Philipp Heerwagen | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 30 | GK | GER | Robin Himmelmann | 35 | 0 | 34 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 33 | GK | GER | Sven Brodersen | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | DF | GER | Lasse Sobiech | 32 | 4 | 32 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | DF | GER | Philipp Ziereis | 31 | 0 | 30 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 5 | DF | SUI | Joël Keller | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 15 | DF | GER | Daniel Buballa | 35 | 0 | 34 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 16 | DF | GER | Marc Hornschuh | 27 | 2 | 27 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 17 | DF | GHA | Davidson Eden | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 22 | DF | GER | Yannick Deichmann | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 26 | DF | GER | Sören Gonther | 13 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 27 | DF | GER | Jan-Philipp Kalla | 15 | 1 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 34 | DF | GER | Andrej Startsev | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 | MF | GER | Bernd Nehrig | 23 | 2 | 22 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| 8 | MF | GER | Jeremy Dudziak | 21 | 1 | 21 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 10 | MF | GER | Christopher Buchtmann | 30 | 1 | 30 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 11 | MF | GER | Marc Rzatkowski | 29 | 8 | 28 | 7 | 1 | 1 |
| 13 | MF | JPN | Ryo Miyaichi | 5 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 19 | MF | KOS | Enis Alushi | 27 | 1 | 26 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 25 | MF | GER | Dennis Rosin | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 28 | MF | POL | Waldemar Sobota | 32 | 3 | 31 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| 29 | MF | GER | Sebastian Maier | 28 | 3 | 27 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| 31 | MF | GER | Maurice Litka | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 36 | MF | TUR | Okan Adil Kurt | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 37 | MF | KOR | Kyoung-Rok Choi | 22 | 1 | 21 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 9 | FW | HAI | Fafà Picault | 16 | 4 | 16 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 12 | FW | NED | John Verhoek | 17 | 2 | 16 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| 18 | FW | GER | Lennart Thy | 31 | 8 | 30 | 8 | 1 | 0 |
| 24 | FW | GER | Nico Empen | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |