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The 2015–16 Süper Lig (known as the Spor Toto Süper Lig for sponsorship reasons) is the 58th season of the Süper Lig, the highest tier football league of Turkey.

The season was named after Hasan Doğan, a former president of the Turkish Football Federation, who died in 2008.

Teams

• Kayserispor, Osmanlıspor and Antalyaspor promoted from 2014–15 TFF First League.
• Balıkesirspor, Karabükspor and Kayseri Erciyesspor relegated to 2015–16 TFF First League.

Stadia and locations

Personnel and sponsorship

Team	Head coach	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Sponsor
Akhisar Belediyespor	Cihat Arslan	Custódio	Nike
Antalyaspor	José Morais	Samuel Eto'o	Nike	IATI
Beşiktaş	Şenol Güneş	Tolga Zengin	Adidas	Vodafone
Bursaspor	Hamza Hamzaoğlu	Serdar Aziz	Puma	Marmarabirlik
Çaykur Rizespor	Hikmet Karaman	Sercan Kaya	Lotto	Çaykur
Eskişehirspor	Samet Aybaba	Sezgin Coşkun	Nike	ETİ
Fenerbahçe	Vítor Pereira	Volkan Demirel	Adidas	Yandex
Galatasaray	Jan Olde Riekerink	Selçuk İnan	Nike
Gaziantepspor	Mutlu Topçu	Elyasa Süme	Adidas	Turkish Oil
Gençlerbirliği	İbrahim Üzülmez	Doğa Kaya	Lotto	İCK
İstanbul Başakşehir	Abdullah Avcı	Emre Belözoğlu	Nike	Makro
Kasımpaşa	Rıza Çalımbay	Adem Büyük	Nike	Park Cam
Kayserispor	Hakan Kutlu	Marko Simić	Adidas	İstikbal
Konyaspor	Aykut Kocaman	Ali Çamdalı	Hummel	Torku
Mersin İdman Yurdu		Serkan Balcı	Adidas	Arbella Makarna
Osmanlıspor	Mustafa Reşit Akçay	Erdal Kılıçaslan	Lotto	ATG
Sivasspor	Mesut Bakkal	Adem Koçak	Adidas	Marka
Trabzonspor	Hami Mandıralı	Onur Kıvrak	Nike

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Replaced by	Date of appointment
Gençlerbirliği	Mesut Bakkal	Resigned	23 May 2015	Last season	Stuart Baxter	9 June 2015
Beşiktaş	Slaven Bilić	Contract expired	30 May 2015	Pre-season	Şenol Güneş	11 June 2015
Fenerbahçe	İsmail Kartal	Resigned	30 May 2015	Pre-season	Vítor Pereira	11 June 2015
Kayserispor	Cüneyt Dumlupınar	Contract expired	31 May 2015	Pre-season	Tolunay Kafkas	7 July 2015
Akhisar Belediyespor	Roberto Carlos	Contract termination	1 June 2015	Pre-season	Cihat Arslan	15 June 2015
Bursaspor	Şenol Güneş	Contract expired	4 June 2015	Pre-season	Ertuğrul Sağlam	7 June 2015
Gaziantepspor	Okan Buruk	Contract termination	7 June 2015	Pre-season	Mutlu Topçu	3 July 2015
Kasımpaşa	Önder Özen	Mutual agreement	26 June 2015	Pre-season	Rıza Çalımbay	6 July 2015
Mersin İdman Yurdu	Rıza Çalımbay	Resigned	28 June 2015	Pre-season	Mesut Bakkal	1 July 2015
Trabzonspor	Ersun Yanal	Resigned	1 July 2015	Pre-season	Shota Arveladze	3 July 2015
Osmanlıspor	Uğur Tütüneker	Resigned	7 July 2015	Pre-season	Mustafa Reşit Akçay	13 July 2015
Gençlerbirliği	Stuart Baxter	Mutual agreement	25 August 2015	13th	Mehmet Özdilek	1 September 2015
Mersin İdman Yurdu	Mesut Bakkal	Resigned	18 September 2015	18th	Bülent Korkmaz	22 September 2015
Eskişehirspor	Michael Skibbe	Mutual agreement	10 October 2015	17th	İsmail Kartal	11 October 2015
Sivasspor	Sergen Yalçın	Contract termination	24 October 2015	16th	Okan Buruk	25 October 2015
Trabzonspor	Shota Arveladze	Mutual agreement	11 November 2015	12th	Sadi Tekelioğlu	11 November 2015
Eskişehirspor	İsmail Kartal	Resigned	12 November 2015	18th	Samet Aybaba	17 November 2015
Galatasaray	Hamza Hamzaoğlu	Sacked	19 November 2015	3rd	Mustafa Denizli	26 November 2015
Bursaspor	Ertuğrul Sağlam	Mutual agreement	27 November 2015	12th	Hamza Hamzaoğlu	17 December 2015
Antalyaspor	Yusuf Şimşek	Sacked	7 December 2015	10th	José Morais	6 January 2016
Gençlerbirliği	Mehmet Özdilek	Mutual agreement	13 December 2015	16th	Yılmaz Vural	24 December 2015
Gençlerbirliği	Yılmaz Vural	Sacked	29 December 2015	16th	İbrahim Üzülmez	31 December 2015
Mersin İdman Yurdu	Bülent Korkmaz	Sacked	3 January 2016	17th	Hakan Kutlu	5 January 2016
Mersin İdman Yurdu	Hakan Kutlu	Resigned	6 January 2016	17th	Nurullah Sağlam	12 January 2016
Mersin İdman Yurdu	Nurullah Sağlam	Resigned	14 January 2016	17th	Ümit Özat	17 January 2016
Trabzonspor	Sadi Tekelioğlu	Resigned	20 January 2016	10th	Hami Mandıralı	21 January 2016
Sivasspor	Okan Buruk	Resigned	6 February 2016	16th	Mesut Bakkal	6 February 2016
Galatasaray	Mustafa Denizli	Resigned	1 March 2016	5th	Jan Olde Riekerink	16 March 2016
Kayserispor	Tolunay Kafkas	Resigned	3 March 2016	15th	Hakan Kutlu	8 March 2016
Gaziantepspor	Mutlu Topçu	Mutual agreement	26 April 2016	14th	Sergen Yalçın	30 April 2016
Mersin İdman Yurdu	Ümit Özat	Mutual agreement	5 May 2016	18th
Trabzonspor	Hami Mandıralı	Sacked	13 May 2016	12th

Foreign Players

Club	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	Player 4	Player 5	Player 6	Player 7	Player 8	Player 9	Player 10	Player 11	Player 12	Player 13	Player 14	Former Players
Akhisar Belediyespor	Bruno Mezenga	Douglão	Landry Nguémo	Hugo Rodallega	Sami	Petar Grbić	Custódio	Ricardo Vaz Tê	Milan Lukač						Lomana LuaLua
Antalyaspor	Raïs M'Bolhi	Charles	Chico	Danilo	Diego Ângelo	Ramon Motta	Jean Makoun	Lionel Enguene	Mbilla Etame	Samuel Eto'o	Ondřej Čelůstka	Samuel Inkoom	Dejan Lazarević	Sašo Fornezzi	Josip Kvesić Guilherme Lamine Diarra
Beşiktaş	José Sosa	Marcelo	Rhodolfo	Atiba Hutchinson	Andreas Beck	Mario Gómez	Duško Tošić	Alexis	Ricardo Quaresma	Denys Boyko					Ramon Motta Pedro Franco Alexander Milošević
Bursaspor	Pablo Batalla	Tom De Sutter	Dany Nounkeu	Cristóbal Jorquera	Tomáš Necid	Tomáš Sivok	Balázs Dzsudzsák	Hajime Hosogai	Bakaye Traoré	Ricardo Faty	Miroslav Stoch				Luis Advíncula Josué Isaac Cuenca
Çaykur Rizespor	Charles Itandje	Léonard Kweuke	Cédric Makiadi	Ludovic Sylvestre	Teddy Chevalier	Nika Dzalamidze	Dhurgham Ismail	Ousmane Viera	Godfrey Oboabona	Patryk Tuszyński
Eskişehirspor	Ruud Boffin	Anel Hadžić	Dossa Júnior	Jeremy Bokila	Axel Méyé	Tornike Okriashvili	Goran Čaušić	Jordi Figueras	Vladyslav Kulach						Matías Defederico Sebastián Pinto Cédric Mongongu Nzuzi Toko Jerry Akaminko Theofanis Gekas Raheem Lawal Nassim Ben Khalifa
Fenerbahçe	Diego	Fabiano	Fernandão	Souza	Michal Kadlec	Simon Kjær	Robin van Persie	Bruno Alves	Nani	Raul Meireles	Abdoulaye Ba	Lazar Marković			Moussa Sow
Galatasaray	Jason Denayer	Aurélien Chedjou	Lionel Carole	Lukas Podolski	Ryan Donk	Wesley Sneijder	Martin Linnes	José Rodríguez	Fernando Muslera						Alex Telles Felipe Melo Kevin Großkreutz
Gaziantepspor	Anton Putsila	Abuda	Fernando Marçal	Habib Habibou	Prince-Désir Gouano	Žydrūnas Karčemarskas	Gbenga Arokoyo	John Chibuike	Daniel Larsson						Ognjen Vranješ Demba Camara
Gençlerbirliği	Djalma	Alexander Hleb	Sergey Politevich	Ante Kulušić	Martin Spelmann	Guy-Michel Landel	Ólafur Ingi Skúlason	Moestafa El Kabir	Iasmin Latovlevici	Bogdan Stancu	Johannes Hopf	Panajotis Dimitriadis			Walid Atta Nemanja Tomić
İstanbul Başakşehir	Sokol Cikalleshi	Edin Višća	Doka Madureira	Márcio Mossoró	Stefano Napoleoni	Alexandru Epureanu	Musa Muhammed	Rajko Rotman							Stéphane Badji
Kasımpaşa	Óscar Scarione	Titi	Strahil Popov	Vasil Bozhikov	David Pavelka	Olivier Veigneau	Bengali-Fodé Koita	Kenneth Omeruo	André Castro	Andreas Isaksson	Yonathan Del Valle				Ryan Donk
Kayserispor	Derley	Diego Lopes	William Alves	Ali Ahamada	Larrys Mabiala	Samba Sow	Marko Simić	Adnane Tighadouini	Diego Biseswar	Yakubu	Srđan Mijailović
Konyaspor	Alban Meha	Amir Hadžiahmetović	Riad Bajić	Dimitar Rangelov	Abdou Traoré	Marc Mbamba	Tomáš Borek	Ibrahim Sissoko	Barry Douglas	Jagoš Vuković	Nejc Skubic	Samuel Holmén			Dossa Júnior Ciprian Marica Mário Felgueiras
Mersin İdman Yurdu	Ricardo Pedriel	Welliton	Préjuce Nakoulma	Loret Sadiku	Márkó Futács	Milan Mitrović	Abdul Khalili								Nikolay Mihaylov
Osmanlıspor	Avdija Vršajević	Artur Moraes	Pierre Webó	Anas Sharbini	Václav Procházka	Aminu Umar	Raheem Lawal	Łukasz Szukała	Tiago Pinto	Dzon Delarge	Gabriel Torje	Raul Rusescu	Badou Ndiaye		Bakary Soro Takayuki Seto Tonia Tisdell
Sivasspor	Cicinho	Djakaridja Koné	John Boye	Joan Oumari	Ernestas Šetkus	Aatif Chahechouhe	Mehdi Taouil	Etzaz Hussain	Cristian Tănase	David Texeira					Jerónimo Barrales Michael Eneramo Dani Abalo
Trabzonspor	Luis Pedro Cavanda	Douglas	Esteban Alvarado	Marko Marin	Óscar Cardozo	José Bosingwa	Serge Akakpo								Carl Medjani Stéphane Mbia Kévin Constant Dame N'Doye

League table

1. ^ Since the winners of the 2015–16 Turkish Cup, Galatasaray, were excluded from European competitions by UEFA, the Europa League group stage berth awarded to the Turkish Cup winners was transferred to the third-placed team (Konyaspor), the third qualifying round berth was awarded to the fourth-placed team (İstanbul Başakşehir), and the second qualifying round berth was awarded to the fifth-placed team (Osmanlıspor).
2. Galatasaray would have qualified for the Europa League group stage by winning the 2015–16 Turkish Cup, but were excluded by the Adjudicatory Chamber of the UEFA Club Financial Control Body (CFCB).

Results

Positions by round

The following table represents the teams position after each round in the competition.

Results by round

The following table represents the teams game results in each round.

Attendances

Updated to games played on 19 May 2016
Source:
Notes:
1: Team played last season in TFF First League
2: Kayserispor - T.Konyaspor, Trabzonspor - Gençlerbirliği, Bursaspor - Kayserispor, Bursaspor - Fenerbahçe, Trabzonspor - Çaykur Rize and Trabzonspor - Kasımpaşa games were played behind closed gates

Statistics

Top goalscorers

As of 19 May 2016

"Süper Lig Top Goalscorers". TFF. Retrieved 19 May 2016.
"Süper Lig Top Goalscorers". NTV Spor. Retrieved 19 May 2016.

Pos.	Player	Team	Goals
1	Mario Gómez	Beşiktaş	26
2	Samuel Eto'o	Antalyaspor	20
3	Hugo Rodallega	Akhisar Belediyespor	19
4	Edin Višća	İstanbul Başakşehir	17
5	Robin van Persie	Fenerbahçe	16
6	Lukas Podolski	Galatasaray	13
	Eren Derdiyok	Kasımpaşa
	Fernandão	Fenerbahçe
9	Aatif Chahechouhe	Sivasspor	12
10	6 players		11

Hat-tricks

As of 19 May 2016

Clean sheets

Player As of 19 May 2016 Rank Player Club Match Played Clean sheets 1 Volkan Demirel Fenerbahçe 32 17 2 Serkan Kırıntılı Konyaspor 31 13 3 Volkan Babacan İstanbul Başakşehir 34 12 4 Milan Lukač Akhisar Belediyespor 24 11 Tolga Zengin Beşiktaş 30 11

Club Most clean sheets: 17 Fenerbahçe

Awards

Annual awards

Team of the Season
Goalkeeper	Volkan Babacan (Basaksehir)
Defence	Gökhan Gönül (Fenerbahçe)	Simon Kjær (Fenerbahçe)	Yalçın Ayhan (Basaksehir)	İsmail Köybaşı (Beşiktaş)
Midfield	Edin Višća (Başakşehir)	Atiba Hutchinson (Beşiktaş)	Oğuzhan Özyakup (Beşiktaş)	Volkan Şen (Fenerbahçe)
Attack	Mario Gómez (Beşiktaş)	Samuel Eto'o (Antalyaspor)

See also

• 2015–16 Turkish Cup
• 2015–16 TFF First League
• 2015–16 TFF Second League
• 2015–16 TFF Third League

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External links

• Official website (in Turkish and English)

• Süper Lig seasons
• 2015–16 in European association football leagues
• 2015–16 in Turkish football