2015–16 TFF First League

The 2015–16 TFF First League, also known as PTT First League due to sponsoring reasons, is the 15th season since the league was established in 2001 and 53rd season of the second-level football league of Turkey since its establishment in 1963–64.

TFF First League

Season	2015–16
Champions	Adanaspor
Promoted	Adanaspor Karabükspor Alanyaspor (Play-off winner)
Relegated	1461 Trabzon Kayseri Erciyesspor Karşıyaka
Matches played	306
Goals scored	747 (2.44 per match)
← 2014–15 2016–17 → All statistics correct as of 21 May 2016.

Teams

• Balıkesir, Karabükspor and Kayseri Erciyesspor relegated from 2014–15 Süper Lig.
• Kayserispor, Osmanlıspor and Antalyaspor promoted to 2015–16 Süper Lig.
• Göztepe, Yeni Malatyaspor and 1461 Trabzon promoted from 2014–15 TFF Second League.
• Manisaspor, Bucaspor and Orduspor relegated to 2015–16 TFF Second League.

Stadia and locations

1461 Trabzon

Adana Demirspor
Adanaspor

Alanyaspor

Balıkesirspor

Boluspor

Denizlispor

Elazığspor

Gaziantep BB

Giresunspor

Göztepe
Karşıyaka
Altınordu

Karabükspor

Kayseri Erciyesspor

Samsunspor

Şanlıurfaspor

Yeni Malatya

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Location of teams in TFF First Lig 2015–16

Team	Home city	Stadium	Capacity
1461 Trabzon	Trabzon	Hüseyin Avni Aker Stadium	24,169
Adana Demirspor	Adana	Adana 5 Ocak Stadium	14,805
Adanaspor	Adana	Adana 5 Ocak Stadium	14,805
Alanyaspor	Alanya	Alanya Oba Stadium	15,000
Altınordu	İzmir	Buca Stadium	2,500
Balıkesirspor	Balıkesir	Balıkesir Atatürk Stadium	15,800
Boluspor	Bolu	Bolu Atatürk Stadium	8,881
Denizlispor	Denizli	Denizli Atatürk Stadium	15,420
Elazığspor	Elazığ	Elazığ Atatürk Stadium	13,923
Gaziantep BB	Gaziantep	Kamil Ocak Stadium	16,981
Giresunspor	Giresun	Giresun Atatürk Stadium	12,191
Göztepe	İzmir	İzmir Atatürk Stadium	51,295
Karabükspor	Karabük	Dr. Necmettin Şeyhoğlu Stadium	14,200
Karşıyaka	İzmir	İzmir Alsancak Stadium	15,358
Kayseri Erciyesspor	Kayseri	Kadir Has Stadium	32,864
Samsunspor	Samsun	Samsun 19 Mayıs Stadium	16,480
Şanlıurfaspor	Şanlıurfa	Şanlıurfa GAP Stadium	28,965
Yeni Malatyaspor	Malatya	Malatya İnönü Stadium	13,000

Foreign Players

Club	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	Player 4	Player 5	Player 6	Player 7	Former Players
1461 Trabzon	Franck Mbarga	Kervens Belfort	Yoann Arquin	Serge Nyuiadzi				Juan Vieyra Serge Akakpo Dmytro Yarchuk
Adana Demirspor	Mickaël Poté	Reiner Ferreira	Tiago Bezerra	Joseph Attamah	Formose Mendy	Ibrahim Moro		Daniel Mojsov Victoraș Astafei
Adanaspor	Didi	Renan Foguinho	Magaye Gueye	Nduka Ozokwo	Uche Kalu			Roni
Alanyaspor	Bakary Soro	Nuru Sulley	Darvydas Šernas	Slavko Perović	Jonathan Ayité			Sunny
Altınordu
Balıkesirspor	Ante Erceg	Andrija Vuković	Josip Tadić	Tomislav Glumac	Género Zeefuik	Alfred Sankoh		Kwame Karikari
Boluspor	Luiz Henrique	Sebastián Hernández	Alvin Fortes	Anco Jansen	Mirko Ivanovski			Henri Belle Tosaint Ricketts Petr Janda Edward Ofere
Denizlispor	Leandrinho	Daniel Dimov	Tsvetan Genkov					Leozinho Anmar Almubaraki
Elazığspor	Tom	Gilles Binya	Hamidou Traoré	Silvère Ganvoula	Prince Segbefia	Lamjed Chehoudi		Cleyton
Gaziantep	Benjamin Fuchs	Foxi Kéthévoama	Ibrahima Wadji	Adam Stachowiak	Francis Litsingi	Nemanja Kojić	Nikola Raspopović	Alanzinho Bara Bebeto
Giresunspor	Bruno Alves	Dodô	Waldison	Hervé Tchami	David Abwo			Mohamadou Sissoko Abdul-Basit Adam
Göztepe	Björn Vleminckx	Cleyton	Robert Maah	Leroy George	Jean-Jacques Gosso	Lamine Diarra		Benjamin Fuchs
Karabükspor	Adriano	Elvis Kokalović	Junior Kabananga	Isaac Promise	Simon Zenke	Marius Alexe		Gabriel Iancu Ionuț Neagu
Karşıyaka	Josip Kvesić	Abdel Diarra	Tonia Tisdell	Kyrylo Kovalchuk				Kamran Agayev Senijad Ibričić Aleksandre Amisulashvili Djiby Fall Igor Đurić
Kayseri Erciyesspor	Eldin Adilović	Georgios Sarris	Ayodeji Ibrahim	Iyayi Atiemwen	Saturday Erimuya	Stefan Ashkovski
Samsunspor	Galin Ivanov	Distel Zola	Famoussa Koné	Chikeluba Ofoedu	Ekigho Ehiosun	Ousmane N'Diaye
Şanlıurfaspor	Lomana LuaLua	Amin Askar	Ricky van Haaren	Diogo Valente	Edinho	Makhtar Thioune		Fernando Silva Cícero Toni Silva Doudou Mangni Magique
Yeni Malatyaspor	Azubuike Okechukwu	George Akpabio	Izu Azuka	Sunday Mba	Gonzalo Godoy			Sandro Gotal Alex

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Adanaspor (C, P)	34	20	5	9	53	36	+17	65	Promotion to Süper Lig
2	Karabükspor (P)	34	17	11	6	41	27	+14	62
3	Alanyaspor (O, P)	34	17	10	7	60	38	+22	61	Qualification for the Süper Lig Playoffs
4	Adana Demirspor	34	15	9	10	53	40	+13	54
5	Elazığspor	34	13	13	8	45	38	+7	52
6	Balıkesirspor	34	13	13	8	40	29	+11	52
7	Giresunspor	34	14	9	11	49	40	+9	51
8	Gaziantep B.B.	34	11	15	8	38	33	+5	48
9	Samsunspor	34	13	8	13	45	39	+6	44
10	Altınordu	34	11	11	12	39	43	−4	44
11	Yeni Malatyaspor	34	12	7	15	35	41	−6	43
12	Boluspor	34	10	12	12	36	46	−10	42
13	Göztepe	34	9	11	14	38	40	−2	38
14	Şanlıurfaspor	34	10	8	16	34	45	−11	38
15	Denizlispor	34	10	9	15	41	52	−11	36
16	1461 Trabzon (R)	34	9	7	18	32	53	−21	34	Relegation to the TFF Second League
17	Kayseri Erciyesspor (R)	34	8	9	17	35	54	−19	33
18	Karşıyaka (R)	34	6	9	19	33	53	−20	27

Source: TFF First League
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Head-to-head goals scored; 5) Goal difference; 6) Goals scored
(C) Champions; (O) Play-off winners; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated
Notes:

Results

Home \ Away	TRA	ADA	ADS	ALA	ATN	BAL	BOL	DEN	ELZ	GBB	GRS	GÖZ	KRB	KRŞ	KEC	SAM	ŞUR	YML
1461 Trabzon		1–2	1–4	1–2	1–3	0–0	0–0	0–3	3–1	1–2	1–1	2–0	1–1	2–1	0–0	1–2	1–0	2–1
Adanaspor	4–0		1–0	0–2	2–4	1–0	1–2	2–1	0–1	1–0	1–0	0–2	3–0	1–0	3–1	2–1	3–2	2–0
Adana Demirspor	3–1	2–0		1–1	5–2	2–2	1–0	0–2	2–1	1–2	2–3	2–1	1–3	2–0	1–2	1–0	2–0	1–1
Alanyaspor	2–1	1–2	2–2		2–0	1–1	1–0	6–0	1–1	2–0	2–0	2–1	1–1	2–2	2–1	3–2	4–0	2–0
Altınordu A.Ş.	0–1	1–2	0–0	3–1		0–0	0–2	2–0	1–0	0–0	1–2	1–0	0–0	3–1	4–2	0–4	0–0	0–1
Balıkesirspor	2–1	3–3	1–2	1–0	0–0		6–0	2–1	1–1	0–0	1–1	1–1	2–0	0–0	3–0	1–0	1–0	1–0
Boluspor	1–0	1–2	1–0	0–2	1–1	1–2		3–1	0–0	1–1	2–1	1–2	0–1	1–1	1–1	0–2	4–2	3–1
Denizlispor	4–1	0–2	1–1	2–0	2–2	1–1	3–1		0–4	2–5	2–0	1–2	1–1	0–0	0–2	0–0	0–2	2–0
Elazığspor	2–0	1–1	1–0	1–0	3–2	2–1	0–0	3–1		1–1	1–1	1–1	2–1	2–0	2–0	1–2	2–1	0–3
Gaziantep B.B.	2–1	2–3	0–2	2–3	1–1	1–2	2–2	2–2	2–0		0–0	0–0	1–1	1–0	2–0	2–1	1–1	0–0
Giresunspor	1–0	1–0	1–0	2–2	1–0	2–1	5–1	2–2	2–2	0–0		3–1	2–3	3–1	3–3	2–0	3–1	1–2
Göztepe A.Ş.	1–0	0–0	1–3	1–1	2–2	1–1	0–0	0–1	2–2	1–2	0–1		1–2	2–0	2–0	2–0	1–1	3–1
Kardemir Karabükspor	1–2	2–1	0–0	1–1	0–0	3–0	0–1	1–0	2–2	1–0	1–0	3–2		2–1	1–0	1–0	1–0	0–0
Karşıyaka	2–3	2–3	1–2	2–2	0–1	1–0	1–1	1–3	2–0	1–1	2–1	1–0	0–2		1–3	2–2	1–0	0–1
Kayseri Erciyesspor	1–1	0–3	2–2	0–3	4–1	0–1	0–0	0–0	1–1	1–2	2–1	1–0	0–3	2–1		3–0	1–3	0–2
Samsunspor	3–0	2–1	3–3	5–1	1–2	0–2	3–0	2–1	2–1	0–0	0–2	2–1	0–0	1–2	0–0		2–0	0–0
Şanlıurfaspor	1–1	0–0	2–0	0–2	2–1	2–0	2–2	1–0	1–1	1–0	1–0	1–1	1–2	1–0	2–1	2–3		0–2
Yeni Malatyaspor	0–1	1–1	1–3	2–1	0–1	1–0	1–3	1–2	1–2	0–1	2–1	1–3	1–0	3–3	3–1	0–0	2–1

Source: [1]
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Promotion Playoffs

Semifinals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Balıkesirspor	0–1	Alanyaspor	0–0	0–1
Elazığspor	4–4	Adana Demirspor	3–2	1–2

Final

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Alanyaspor	1–1 (4-2 pen.)	Adana Demirspor

Attendance

Pos	Team	Total	High	Low	Average	Change
1	Adana Demirspor	108,313	12,000	2,220	6,371	+0.6%†
2	Samsunspor	79,000	8,000	0	4,647	+1.3%3
3	Adanaspor	76,317	13,367	150	4,489	+48.1%†
4	Göztepe A.Ş.	64,902	13,590	331	3,818	n/a2
5	Elazığspor	63,733	9,000	0	3,541	+112.9%3
6	Şanlıurfaspor	58,449	15,000	1,000	3,438	−23.1%†
7	Giresunspor	54,546	8,000	1,000	3,209	+13.8%†
8	Balıkesirspor	56,513	6,550	500	3,140	−41.1%1
9	Yeni Malatyaspor	45,162	6,000	0	2,657	n/a2,3
10	Karşıyaka	42,492	20,000	50	2,500	+50.0%†
11	Alanyaspor	37,888	7,300	450	2,229	+27.4%†
12	Kardemir Karabükspor	37,837	5,000	0	2,226	−40.3%1
13	Boluspor	34,250	4,000	250	2,015	−6.8%†
14	Denizlispor	29,967	5,000	500	1,763	+5.5%†
15	Gaziantep BB	16,381	3,500	150	964	+43.9%†
16	Altınordu A.Ş.	15,091	3,000	231	888	−16.7%†
17	1461 Trabzon	8,037	2,000	30	473	n/a2
18	Kayseri Erciyesspor	7,161	1,000	250	421	−85.3%1
	League total	836,039	20,000	0	2,714	+7.0%†

Updated to games played on 20 May 2016
Source:
Notes:
1: Team played last season in Spor Toto Süper League
2: Team played last season in TFF Second League
3: Yeni Malatyaspor - 1461 Trabzon, Elazığspor - Altınordu, Samsunspor - Elazığspor and Karabükspor - Adanaspor games were played behind closed gates

See also

• 2015–16 Turkish Cup
• 2015–16 Süper Lig
• 2015–16 TFF Second League
• 2015–16 TFF Third League

External links

• (in Turkish and English) Turkish Football Federation PTT 1. League