2015–16 I liga

I liga
Season	2015–16
Champions	Arka Gdynia
Promoted	Arka Gdynia Wisła Płock
Relegated	Zawisza Bydgoszcz Rozwój Katowice GKS Bełchatów
Matches played	291
Goals scored	735 (2.53 per match)
Top goalscorer	Szymon Lewicki (16 goals)
Biggest home win	Dolcan Ząbki 6–1 Pogoń Siedlce Zawisza Bydgoszcz 6–1 Zagłębie Sosnowiec Wisła Płock 5–0 Zawisza Bydgoszcz
Biggest away win	Chojniczanka Chojnice 1–6 Bytovia Bytów
Highest scoring	Chojniczanka Chojnice 1–6 Bytovia Bytów Dolcan Ząbki 6–1 Pogoń Siedlce Zawisza Bydgoszcz 6–1 Zagłębie Sosnowiec Dolcan Ząbki 3–4 Miedź Legnica
Highest attendance	11,503^[1] Arka Gdynia 1–1 Chrobry Głogów
Lowest attendance	0^[1] GKS Katowice 2–2 Stomil Olsztyn GKS Katowice 2–0 Dolcan Ząbki GKS Katowice 1–0 Zawisza Bydgoszcz Chrobry Głogów 0–1 Arka Gdynia Chrobry Głogów 1–1 Sandecja Nowy Sącz Zawisza Bydgoszcz 0–3 GKS Katowice
← 2014–15 2016–17 → All statistics correct as of 13 June 2016.

The 2015–16 I liga is the eighth season of the Polish I liga under its current title, and the sixty-eighth season of the second highest division in the Polish football league system. The season began on 1 August 2015.^[2]

According to the competition rules, all clubs are required to field at least one youth player (born on 1995 or later and Polish or trained in Poland) in every game (except for the times when the only youth player on the roster is sent off or unable to continue playing).^[3]

Changes from last season

The following teams have changed division since the 2014–15 season.

To I Liga

Promoted from II liga

Relegated from Ekstraklasa

From I Liga

Relegated to II liga

GKS Tychy

Promoted to Ekstraklasa

Team overview

Stadiums and locations

Team	Stadium	Capacity
Arka Gdynia !Arka Gdynia	Stadion GOSiR	15,139
Bytovia Bytów !Bytovia Bytów	Stadion MOSiR	1,500
Chojniczanka Chojnice !Chojniczanka Chojnice	Stadion Miejski	3,000
Chrobry Głogów !Chrobry Głogów	Stadion Chrobego Głogów	2,817
Dolcan Ząbki !Dolcan Ząbki	Stadion Dolcanu Ząbki	2,100
GKS Bełchatów !GKS Bełchatów	GIEKSA Arena	5,238
GKS Katowice !GKS Katowice	Stadion GKS Katowice	6,710
Miedź Legnica !Miedź Legnica	Stadion Miejski	6,244
MKS Kluczbork !MKS Kluczbork	Stadion Miejski	2,776
Olimpia Grudziądz !Olimpia Grudziądz	Stadion Miejski	5,000
Pogoń Siedlce !Pogoń Siedlce	Stadion ROSRRiT ¹	2,901
Rozwój Katowice !Rozwój Katowice	Stadion GKS Katowice ²	6,710
Sandecja Nowy Sącz !Sandecja Nowy Sącz	Stadion im. Ojca Władysława Augustynka	2,850
Stomil Olsztyn !Stomil Olsztyn	OSiR Stadium	3,500
Wigry Suwałki !Wigry Suwałki	Stadion Miejski	3,060
Wisła Płock !Wisła Płock	Kazimierz Górski Stadium	10,978
Zagłębie Sosnowiec !Zagłębie Sosnowiec	Stadium Ludowy	7,500
Zawisza Bydgoszcz !Zawisza Bydgoszcz	Zdzisław Krzyszkowiak Stadium	20,247

^ Pogoń Siedlce played autumn round (8 home games) at Stadion Znicza (cap. 2,000) in Pruszków.
^ Rozwój Katowice played autumn round (11 home games) at their own Stadion Rozwoju (cap. 2,472).

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or Relegation
1	Arka Gdynia (C, P)	34	19	12	3	60	29	+31	69	Promotion to Ekstraklasa
2	Wisła Płock (P)	34	19	6	9	51	28	+23	63	Promotion to Ekstraklasa
3	Zagłębie Sosnowiec	34	16	4	14	53	53	0	52^{[lower-alpha 1]}
4	GKS Katowice	34	15	7	12	42	36	+6	52^{[lower-alpha 1]}
5	Zawisza Bydgoszcz^{[lower-alpha 2]} (R)	34	15	7	12	57	51	+6	52^{[lower-alpha 1]}	Relegation to II liga
6	Chrobry Głogów	34	14	9	11	47	33	+14	51^{[lower-alpha 3]}
7	Miedź Legnica	34	13	12	9	41	34	+7	51^{[lower-alpha 3]}
8	Bytovia Bytów	34	11	15	8	46	44	+2	48
9	Sandecja Nowy Sącz	34	13	8	13	51	43	+8	47
10	Wigry Suwałki	34	12	9	13	41	35	+6	45
11	Stomil Olsztyn	34	11	11	12	34	42	−8	44
12	Chojniczanka Chojnice	34	12	7	15	40	45	−5	43
13	Olimpia Grudziądz	34	11	9	14	39	43	−4	42
14	Pogoń Siedlce	34	11	8	15	31	46	−15	41^{[lower-alpha 4]}
15	MKS Kluczbork	34	11	8	15	40	55	−15	41^{[lower-alpha 4]}
16	GKS Bełchatów (R)	34	10	8	16	35	40	−5	38	Relegation to II liga
17	Rozwój Katowice (R)	34	11	2	21	35	56	−21	35	Relegation to II liga
18	Dolcan Ząbki^{[lower-alpha 5]}	34	8	6	20	37	67	−30	30

Source: 90minut.pl
Rules for classification: 1. points won; 2. points in head-to-head matches; 3. goal difference in hth matches; 4. goals scored in hth matches; 5. away goals in hth matches (only if two teams are tied); 6. total goal difference; 7. total goals scored; 8. fairplay ranking.^[6]
(C) Champion; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated.
Notes:

1 2 3 Head-to-head record: Zagłębie 9 points, GKS Katowice 6 points, Zawisza 3 points.
↑ Zawisza Bydgoszcz did not receive a license for the 2016–17 season, thus relegation play-off between the 15th-placed team of I liga (MKS Kluczbork) and the 4th-placed team of II liga (Wisła Puławy) was not held and both will play in the 2016–17 I liga.^[4]
1 2 Head-to-head record: Chrobry - Miedź 2–1, Miedź - Chrobry 0–2
1 2 Head-to-head record: Pogoń - Kluczbork 3–0, Kluczbork - Pogoń 3–2.
↑ Dolcan Ząbki withdrew from a competition after 19th round.^[5]

Results

Home ╲ Away	Arka Gdynia !ARK	Bytovia Bytów !BYT	Chojniczanka Chojnice !CCH	Chrobry Głogów !GŁO	Dolcan Ząbki !DOL	GKS Bełchatów !BEŁ	GKS Katowice !KAT	Miedź Legnica !MLE	MKS Kluczbork !KLU	Olimpia Grudziądz !GRU	Pogoń Siedlce !PSI	Rozwój Katowice !ROZ	Sandecja Nowy Sącz !SNS	Stomil Olsztyn !STO	Wigry Suwałki !WIG	Wisła Płock !WPK	Zagłębie Sosnowiec !ZSO	Zawisza Bydgoszcz !ZAW
Arka Gdynia !Arka Gdynia		1–1	0–0	1–1	3–2	2–1	1–0	2–0	1–1	0–0	3–0	4–0	2–1	0–1	0–2	4–2	2–2	1–1
Bytovia Bytów !Bytovia Bytów	1–1		1–1	0–3	1–4	2–2	0–3	0–0	2–1	2–2	3–1	2–1	1–0	1–1	0–0	1–2	3–0	2–2
Chojniczanka Chojnice !Chojniczanka Chojnice	2–3	1–6		1–1	1–1	2–0	0–2	1–0	3–1	2–1	1–0	1–3	0–1	1–1	0–1	2–1	2–0	0–2
Chrobry Głogów !Chrobry Głogów	0–1	0–1	0–1		3–0²	1–2	0–0	2–1	5–1	2–1	1–1	1–2	1–1	3–0	3–0	2–0	1–3	3–1
Dolcan Ząbki !Dolcan Ząbki	0–3²	0–3²	0–3²	1–1		0–3²	0–3²	3–4	1–1	0–3²	6–1	1–0	0–3²	1–0	0–3²	0–1	4–1	0–3²
GKS Bełchatów !GKS Bełchatów	1–1	5–1	2–1	1–1	1–1		1–2	0–1	0–2	1–2	0–0	0–2	1–0	0–1	0–2	0–2	2–0	2–1
GKS Katowice !GKS Katowice	0–2	0–2	2–2	0–0	2–0	1–0		0–1	5–1	0–2	1–0	2–2	2–4	2–2	2–0	2–1	0–1	1–0
Miedź Legnica !Miedź Legnica	0–0	2–0	2–2	0–2	1–1	1–1	1–1		4–1	4–0	1–1	4–0	3–1	1–0	0–0	1–0	1–4	1–1
MKS Kluczbork !MKS Kluczbork	0–2	1–1	1–3	0–2	3–0²	0–0	1–2	0–0		1–0	3–2	1–0	2–4	3–0	1–1	1–2	1–1	0–1
Olimpia Grudziądz !Olimpia Grudziądz	1–2	1–1	1–0	2–1	1–1	1–3	1–0	0–1	1–2		0–1	0–1	3–2	2–0	0–2	1–1	4–2	2–3
Pogoń Siedlce !Pogoń Siedlce	2–2	0–0	1–0	1–0	0–4	1–0	2–0	0–0	3–0	1–2		2–0	0–0	0–1	1–0	0–0	3–2	0–3
Rozwój Katowice !Rozwój Katowice	1–4	1–1	1–3	0–1	3–0²	2–1	1–2	2–1	0–1	0–2	2–3		2–0	2–1	1–3	2–1	0–1	1–3
Sandecja Nowy Sącz !Sandecja Nowy Sącz	0–1	0–1	3–1	1–1	3–2	2–0	4–0	3–2	1–2	0–0	3–0	1–0		0–2	1–0	1–3	3–3	4–0
Stomil Olsztyn !Stomil Olsztyn	0–4	0–0	2–0	2–1	3–0²	0–2	0–0	0–1	1–0	1–1	2–0	2–1	2–2		2–2	1–1	2–4	1–1
Wigry Suwałki !Wigry Suwałki	0–1	2–2	0–1	1–2	0–1	2–2	0–1	0–0	2–2	2–1	3–1	4–0	2–0	1–2		1–2	0–2	0–1
Wisła Płock !Wisła Płock	0–2	2–1	2–1	0–1	3–0²	2–0	2–0	2–0	3–0	3–0	0–2	1–0	0–0	0–0	0–0		3–1	5–0
Zagłębie Sosnowiec !Zagłębie Sosnowiec	4–2	2–0	2–1	2–0	3–0²	0–1	2–1	0–1	0–2	0–0	2–1	0–1	2–0	2–1	2–3	0–1		2–1
Zawisza Bydgoszcz !Zawisza Bydgoszcz	2–2	2–3	1–0	4–1	0–3	1–0	0–3	4–1	2–3	1–1	1–0	2–1	2–2	3–0	1–2	1–3	6–1

Updated to games played on 5 June 2016.
Source: 90minut.pl
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
²00Dolcan withdrew from a competition after 19th round.^[5]
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

I liga play-off

The 15th place team from the regular season will compete in a play-off with the 4th place team from II liga. Matches will be played 11 and 19 June 2016. The winner will compete in the I liga.^[6] Host of first match was decided on 6 June 2016.^[7]

On 9 June 2016 Zawisza Bydgoszcz did not receive a license for the 2016–17 season, thus relegation play-off between the 15th-placed team of I liga (MKS Kluczbork) and the 4th-placed team of II liga (Wisła Puławy) was not held and both will play in the 2016–17 I liga.^[4]

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals^[8]
1	Szymon Lewicki	Zawisza Bydgoszcz	16
2	Arkadiusz Aleksander	Sandecja Nowy Sącz	15
2	Maciej Górski	Chrobry Głogów	15
4	Janusz Surdykowski	Bytovia Bytów	14
5	Kamil Drygas	Zawisza Bydgoszcz	13
5	Mikołaj Lebedyński	Wisła Płock	13
7	Paweł Abbott	Arka Gdynia	12
	Michał Fidziukiewicz	Zagłębie Sosnowiec	12
	Grzegorz Goncerz	GKS Katowice	12
	Arkadiusz Reca	Wisła Płock	12
11	Kamil Adamek	Wigry Suwałki	11

References

1 2 "I liga". 90minut.pl. Retrieved 23 August 2015.
↑ "Terminarz I ligi 2015/2016". 90minut.pl. Retrieved 24 July 2015.
↑ "Regulamin rozgrywek I ligi" (PDF). Polski Związek Piłki Nożnej. Retrieved 1 August 2015.
1 2 "Wisła Puławy w I lidze". 90 minut. Retrieved 11 June 2016.
1 2 "Dolcan wycofał się z rozgrywek I ligi". 90 minut. Retrieved 4 March 2016.
1 2 "I Liga: season rules". scoresway.com. Retrieved 24 July 2015.
↑ "Pierwszy mecz barażowy o I ligę w Kluczborku". 90minut. Retrieved 7 June 2016.
↑ "Najlepsi strzelcy". 90minut.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 23 August 2015.

I liga · 2016–17 clubs

Bytovia Bytów Chojniczanka Chojnice Chrobry Głogów GKS Katowice GKS Tychy Górnik Zabrze Miedź Legnica MKS Kluczbork Olimpia Grudziądz Podbeskidzie Bielsko-Biała Pogoń Siedlce Sandecja Nowy Sącz Stal Mielec Stomil Olsztyn Wigry Suwałki Wisła Puławy Zagłębie Sosnowiec Znicz Pruszków

Second level football seasons in Poland

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2015–16 in Polish football

Domestic leagues

Domestic cups

International club
competitions

Men	Champions League Europa League

Youth	Youth League

Club seasons

2015–16 Ekstraklasa	Cracovia Górnik Łęczna Górnik Zabrze Jagiellonia Białystok Korona Kielce Lech Poznań Lechia Gdańsk Legia Warsaw Piast Gilwice Podbeskidzie Pogoń Szczecin Ruch Chorzów Śląsk Wrocław LKS Nieciecza Wisła Kraków Zagłębie Lubin

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