2015–16 Montenegrin First League Explained

Competition:Montenegrin First League
Season:2015–16
Winners:Mladost
1st title
Relegated:Mornar
Continentalcup1:Champions League
Continentalcup1 Qualifiers:Mladost
Continentalcup2:Europa League
Continentalcup2 Qualifiers:Budućnost
Rudar
Bokelj
League Topscorer:Marko Šćepanović (19 goals)
Biggest Home Win:Mladost 5–0 Iskra
(9 March 2016)
Biggest Away Win:Mornar 1–5 Zeta
(26 August 2015)
Iskra 0–4 Budućnost
(22 August 2015)
Iskra 0–4 Sutjeska
(28 November 2015)
Sutjeska 0–4 Budućnost
(9 March 2016)
Petrovac 0–4 Sutjeska
(23 April 2016)
Highest Scoring:Petrovac 5–3 Zeta
(26 October 2015)
Matches:186
Total Goals:432
Longest Wins:9 games
Mladost
Budućnost
Longest Unbeaten:8 games
Rudar
Longest Losses:7 games
Mornar
Prevseason:2014–15
Nextseason:2016–17
Updated:1 October 2015

The 2015–16 Montenegrin First League was the tenth season of the top-tier football in Montenegro. The season began on 8 August 2015 and ended on 29 May 2016. Rudar are the defending champions.

Teams

FK Iskra Danilovgrad, the 2014-15 Second League champion, got promoted to the top level for the first time. FK Dečić won 7–1 on aggregate against two-times Montenegrin champion FK Mogren in the promotion play-offs, and returns to the First League after just one year of absence.

Stadia and locations

Team City Stadium Capacity Coach
5,000 Slobodan Drašković
15,230 Miodrag Vukotić
3,000 Fuad Krkanović
1,500 Dragoljub Đuretić
2,000 Milija Savović
5,000 Milorad Malovrazić
2,000 Nikola Rakojević
2,500 Zoran Mijović
1,630 Ivan Brnović
10,000 Vuko Bogavac
6,180 Aleksandar Nedović
5,000 Dejan Vukićević
Source: Scoresway

League table

Results

The schedule consisted of three rounds. During the first two rounds, each team played each other once home and away for a total of 22 games. The pairings of the third round were then set according to the standings after the first two rounds, giving every team a third game against each opponent for a total of 33 games per team.

Third round

Key numbers for pairing determination (number marks position after 22 games):

Rounds
23rd24th25th26th27th28th29th30th31st32nd33rd
1 – 12
2 – 11
3 – 10
4 – 9
5 – 8
6 – 7
1 – 2
8 – 6
9 – 5
10 – 4
11 – 3
12 – 7
2 – 12
3 – 1
4 – 11
5 – 10
6 – 9
7 – 8
1 – 4
2 – 3
9 – 7
10 – 6
11 – 5
12 – 8
3 – 12
4 – 2
5 – 1
6 – 11
7 – 10
8 – 9
1 – 6
2 – 5
3 – 4
10 – 8
11 – 7
12 – 9
4 – 12
5 – 3
6 – 2
7 – 1
8 – 11
9 – 10
1 – 8
2 – 7
3 – 6
4 – 5
11 – 9
12 – 10
5 – 12
6 – 4
7 – 3
8 – 2
9 – 1
10 – 11
1 – 10
2 – 9
3 – 8
4 – 7
5 – 6
12 – 11
6 – 12
7 – 5
8 – 4
9 – 3
10 – 2
11 – 1

Relegation play-offs

The 10th-placed team (against the 3rd-placed team of the Second League) and the 11th-placed team (against the runners-up of the Second League) will both compete in two-legged relegation play-offs after the end of the season.

Matches

Iskra won 8–2 on aggregate.----Petrovac won 1–0 on aggregate.

Top goalscorers

The top scorer was won the 2016 Radio Montenegro Trophy.

RankScorerClubGoals[1]
1 Marko ŠćepanovićMladost19
2 Darko BjedovZeta18
3 Dejan ZarubicaSutjeska16
4 Boris KopitovićPetrovac13
5 Šaleta KordićSutjeska11
6 Darko NikačBudućnost10
7 Pjeter LjuljđurajDečić9
8 Dejan ĐenićBokelj8
Ivan MarkovićRudar
Miloš NikezićBokelj
Blažo PerutovićLovćen
Petar VukčevićGrbalj

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Montenegro » 1. CFL 2015/2016 » Top Scorer . worldfootball.net. 19 July 2020.