2015–16 2. Liga (Slovakia) Explained

Competition:	DOXXbet liga
Season:	2015–16
Winners:	1. FC Tatran Prešov
Promoted:	1. FC Tatran Prešov
Relegated:	OFK Dunajská Lužná FK Slovan Duslo Šaľa ŠK Senec
League Topscorer:	Marko Milunović (19 goals)
Prevseason:	2014–15
Nextseason:	2016–17

The 2015–16 2. Liga (Slovakia) season, named DOXXbet liga due to sponsorship reasons, was the 23rd edition of the second tier Slovakian league system annual football competition in Slovakia, since its establishment in 1993.^[1]

For the second time in its history, 24 teams contested in two groups, with the top six sides from each of group advanced to the next round.^[2]

Changes from last season

Team changes

• MFK Zemplín Michalovce and MFK Skalica were promoted to the Slovak First Football League after the 2014–15 season.
• MFK Košice and FK Dukla Banská Bystrica were relegated from the Slovak First Football League after the 2014–15 season.
• OFK Dunajská Lužná, TJ Iskra Borčice, OFK Teplička nad Váhom, FK Spišská Nová Ves and FK Haniska were promoted from the Slovak Third Football League after the 2014–15 season.

Teams (Western Group)

Stadiums and locations

Team	Home city	Stadium	Capacity	2014–15 season
Dukla Banská Bystrica	Banská Bystrica	SNP Stadium
FC Nitra	Nitra	Stadium pod Zoborom
ŠK Senec	Senec	NTC Stadium
Spartak Trnava juniori	Trnava	Stadium FK Lokomotíva Trnava
FK Pohronie	Dolná Ždaňa	FK Pohronie Stadium
Slovan Duslo Šaľa	Šaľa	Šaľa Stadium
ŠKF Sereď	Sereď	Stadium ŠKF Sereď
AFC Nové Mesto nad Váhom	Nové Mesto nad Váhom	Mestský štadión NMnV
Slovan Bratislava B	Bratislava	Stadium Rapid - Prievoz
MŠK Žilina B	Žilina	Stadium pod Dubňom
TJ Iskra Borčice	Borčice	Stadium TJ Iskra Borčice
OFK Dunajská Lužná	Dunajská Lužná	NTC Dunajská Lužná

Personnel and kits

Team	Head coach	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Dukla Banská Bystrica	Ľubomír Faktor	Peter Boroš	Adidas
Nitra	Róbert Barborík	Marek Kostoláni	Jako	Mesto Nitra
Senec	Attila Pinte	Peter Polgár	Adidas	Kukkonia
Trnava B	Pavol Bartoš	Juraj Galba	Adidas	ZOŠ Trnava
Pohronie		Jozef Sekereš	Adidas	Remeslo
Duslo Šaľa	Peter Gergely	Ján Čirik		DUSLO
Sereď	Tibor Meszlényi	Kamil Vaško	Nike	MH SPORT
Nové Mesto nad Váhom	Vladimír Hyža
Slovan B	Ján Kozák jr.	Marcel Oravec		Niké
Žilina B	Jaroslav Kentoš	Tomáš Ďurica		Preto
Borčice	Alexander Homér	Jozef Decký		Fabuš
Dunajská Lužná	Peter Fieber	František Kecskéš	Luanvi

League table

Teams (Eastern Group)

Stadium and locations

Team	Home city	Stadium	Capacity	2014–15 season
Partizán Bardejov	Bardejov	Stadium mestský Bardejov
Tatran Prešov	Prešov	Tatran Stadium
MŠK Rimavská Sobota	Rimavská Sobota	Na Záhradkách Stadium
Tatran Liptovský Mikuláš	Liptovský Mikuláš	Stadium Liptovský Mikuláš
MFK Dolný Kubín	Dolný Kubín	Stadium MUDr. Ivan Chodák
FK Poprad	Poprad	NTC Poprad
Haniska	Haniska	Štadión FK Haniska	1,000
Lokomotíva Košice	Košice	Stadium Družstevná pri Hornáde
MFK Lokomotíva Zvolen	Zvolen	MFK Lokomotíva Zvolen Stadium
FC VSS Košice	Košice	Štadión Lokomotívy v Čermeli
OFK Teplička nad Váhom	Teplička nad Váhom	Stadium OFK Teplička nad Váhom
FK Spišská Nová Ves	Spišská Nová Ves	Mestský štadión (Lokomotíva)

Personnel and kits

Team	Head coach	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
FC VSS Košice	Ivan Lapšanský	Peter Šinglár		Steel Trans
Prešov	Stanislav Varga	Dávid Leško	ATAK Sportswear	DÚHA
Liptovský Mikuláš	Jozef Kostelník	Ivan Lišivka	Sportika SA	VEREX
Bardejov	Rastislav Kica	Vladislav Palša	Adidas	BARDENERGY
Poprad	Vladimír Lajčák	Matúš Bendík	Adidas
Lokomotíva Košice	Dušan Ujhely	Martin Hloušek	Jako, Colo	McCarter
Rimavská Sobota	Vladimír Goffa	Jozef Čertík	Givova	CLIPtec
Dolný Kubín	Pavol Bača	Michal Drengubiak
Haniska	Pavol Mikloš	Matúš Horváth	Jako	VEMI
Spišská Nová Ves	Branislav Ondáš	Karol Sedláček		DEVELOP & REVITAL
Zvolen	Anton Jánoš	Andrej Kamendy	Luanvi
Teplička nad Váhom	Stanislav Lojdl	Marek Filo	Nike	El Toro

League table

Play-offs

Championship round

League table

Relegation round

League table (East)

Season statistics

Top goalscorers

Updated through matches played on 10 June 2016.

Rank	Player	Club	Goals^[3]
1	Marko Milunović	Bardejov	19
2	Matúš Paukner	FC Nitra	17
	Lukáš Šebek	Nové Mesto n. V.
4	Dávid Leško	Tatran Prešov	16
5	Rudolf Bilas	FK Poprad	13
6	Marko Lukáč	FK Poprad	12
	Róbert Ujčík	FK Poprad
8	Peter Katona	Tatran Prešov	11
	Šimon Valachovič	Duslo Šaľa
10	Ján Novák	Iskra Borčice	10
	Hector Tubonemi	Tatran Prešov
	Peter Jasenovský	Liptovský Mikuláš
	Kamil Karaš	VSS Košice

Hat-tricks

Round	Player	For	Against	Result	Date	Ref
2				5–1	8 August 2015	^[4]
4				3–0	22 August 2015	^[5]
6				6–1	5 September 2015	^[6]
6				6–1	5 September 2015	^[7]
6				0–4	5 September 2015	^[8]
8				5–0	15 September 2015	^[9]
9				3–0	19 September 2015	^[10]
9				2–3	21 September 2015	^[11]
12				3–1	10 October 2015	^[12]
14				4–1	24 October 2015	^[13]
20				6–0	12 March 2016	^[14]
26	Kouakou Privat Yao			1–4	23 April 2016	^[15]
31	Kamil Karaš			3–1	22 May 2016	^[16]

See also

• 2015–16 Slovak First Football League
• 2015–16 3. Liga (Slovakia)

Stats

• List of transfers summer 2015
• List of transfers winter 2015–16

Notes and References

1. News: Slovak . 16 June 2014 . 6 July 2014 . Druhá najvyššia súťaž bude od novej sezóny DOXXbet liga . THE SECOND HIGHEST TIER WILL BE CALLED "DOXXbet liga" . Fortuna liga . https://web.archive.org/web/20140714202920/http://www.fortunaliga.sk/clanok/3244/druha-najvyssia-sutaz-bude-od-novej-sezony-doxxbet-liga . 2014-07-14 . dead .
2. Web site: Reorganization . 2015-05-31 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140701060113/http://ssfz.sk/data/reorganizacia/Reorganizacia_sutazi.xls . 2014-07-01 . dead .
3. Web site: DOXXbet liga | Slovenský futbalový zväz.
4. Web site: Profutbal.sk :: II. liga :: 2. kolo - Nitra - Sere 5:1 . 2015-09-06 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150923163442/http://www.profutbal.sk/ligy/svk2/index.php?rl=2&zapas=399454 . 2015-09-23 . dead .
5. Web site: Profutbal.sk :: II. liga :: 4. kolo - Pre ov - Zvolen 3:0 . 2015-09-06 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150923144319/http://www.profutbal.sk/ligy/svk2/index.php?rl=4&zapas=399588 . 2015-09-23 . dead .
6. Web site: Profutbal.sk :: II. liga :: 6. kolo - Nitra - Slovan Bratislava B 6:1 . 2015-09-06 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150923143424/http://www.profutbal.sk/ligy/svk2/index.php?rl=6&zapas=399477 . 2015-09-23 . dead .
7. Web site: Profutbal.sk :: II. liga :: 6. kolo - Nitra - Slovan Bratislava B 6:1 . 2015-09-06 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150923143424/http://www.profutbal.sk/ligy/svk2/index.php?rl=6&zapas=399477 . 2015-09-23 . dead .
8. Web site: Profutbal.sk :: II. liga :: 6. kolo - Spi sk Nov Ves - Haniska 0:4 . 2015-09-06 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150923133216/http://www.profutbal.sk/ligy/svk2/index.php?rl=6&zapas=399597 . 2015-09-23 . dead .
9. Web site: Profutbal.sk :: II. liga :: 8. kolo - Nitra - Dunajsk Lu n 5:0 . 2015-09-16 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150923141450/http://www.profutbal.sk/ligy/svk2/index.php?rl=8&zapas=399487 . 2015-09-23 . dead .
10. Web site: Profutbal.sk :: II. liga :: 9. kolo - Poprad - Rimavsk Sobota 3:2 . 2015-09-21 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150923133707/http://www.profutbal.sk/ligy/svk2/index.php?rl=9&zapas=399616 . 2015-09-23 . dead .
11. Web site: Profutbal.sk :: II. liga :: 9. kolo - Slovan Bratislava B - Bor ice 2:3 . 2015-09-21 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150923141149/http://www.profutbal.sk/ligy/svk2/index.php?rl=9&zapas=399494 . 2015-09-23 . dead .
12. Web site: Profutbal.sk :: II. liga :: 12. kolo - Liptovsk Mikul - Rimavsk Sobota 3:1 . 2015-10-14 . https://web.archive.org/web/20151121130705/http://www.profutbal.sk/ligy/svk2/index.php?rl=12&zapas=399631 . 2015-11-21 . dead .
13. Web site: Profutbal.sk :: II. liga :: 14. kolo - Poprad - Doln Kub n 4:1 . 2015-10-26 . https://web.archive.org/web/20151121165220/http://www.profutbal.sk/ligy/svk2/index.php?rl=14&zapas=399646 . 2015-11-21 . dead .
14. Web site: Profutbal.sk :: II. liga :: 20. kolo - Pre ov - Haniska 6:0 . 2016-03-14 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160315041553/http://www.profutbal.sk/ligy/svk2/index.php?rl=20&zapas=399681 . 2016-03-15 . dead .
15. Web site: DOXXbet liga 26. Kolo | ŠK 1923 Gabčíkovo - FC Spartak Trnava.
16. Web site: Profutbal.sk :: II. liga :: 31. kolo - VSS Ko ice - Slovan Bratislava B : . 2016-05-23 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160520103914/http://www.profutbal.sk/ligy/svk2/index.php?rl=31&zapas=422114 . 2016-05-20 . dead .