2015–16 Scottish League Two

Scottish League Two

Season	2015–16
Champions	East Fife
Promoted	East Fife
Matches played	180
Goals scored	517 (2.87 per match)
Top goalscorer	Nathan Austin (22 goals)^[1]
Biggest home win	Stirling Albion 7–0 Montrose (9 February 2016)^[2]
Biggest away win	Stirling Albion 0–6 East Fife (19 March 2016)^[2]
Highest scoring	East Fife 5–3 East Stirlingshire (14 November 2015)^[2]
Longest winning run	4 matches:^[2] Clyde East Fife Elgin City
Longest unbeaten run	7 matches:^[2] East Fife
Longest winless run	8 matches:^[2] Montrose
Longest losing run	6 matches:^[2] Berwick Rangers
Highest attendance	1,387^[2] Montrose 0–2 Arbroath (2 January 2016)
Lowest attendance	238^[2] East Stirlingshire 3–1 Montrose (21 November 2015) Berwick Rangers 3–2 Annan Athletic (16 February 2016)
Total attendance	99,947^[2]
Average attendance	555^[2]
← 2014–15 2016–17 → All statistics correct as of 1 May 2016.

The 2015–16 Scottish League Two (referred to as the Ladbrokes League Two for sponsorship reasons) is the 21st season in the current format of 10 teams in the fourth-tier of Scottish football. The last placed team will enter a play-off with a team nominated by the Scottish Football Association from outside the SPFL determining which team enters League Two in the 2016–17 season.^[3]

Teams

Relegated from Scottish League One

Stirling Albion

Stadia and locations

Annan Athletic	Arbroath	Berwick Rangers	Clyde
Galabank	Gayfield Park	Shielfield Park	Broadwood Stadium
Capacity: 2,514^[4]	Capacity: 6,600^[5]	Capacity: 4,500^[6]	Capacity: 7,936^[7]

East Fife	Annan Athletic Arbroath Clyde Berwick Rangers East Fife East Stirlingshire Elgin City Montrose Queen's Park Stirling 2015–16 Scottish League Two (Scotland)		East Stirlingshire
Bayview Stadium			Ochilview Park
Capacity: 1,980^[8]			Capacity: 3,746^[9]

Elgin City	Montrose	Queen's Park	Stirling Albion
Borough Briggs	Links Park	Hampden Park	Forthbank Stadium
Capacity: 4,520^[10]	Capacity: 3,292^[11]	Capacity: 51,866^[12]	Capacity: 3,808^[13]

Personnel

Team	Manager	Captain	Manufacturer	Sponsors
Annan Athletic	Jim Chapman	Steven Black	Stanno	M&S Engineering Ltd
Arbroath	Dick Campbell	Mark Whatley	Pendle	Megatech
Berwick Rangers	John Coughlin	Jonny Fairbairn	Zoo Sport	Automatic Retailing Vending Ltd
Clyde	Barry Ferguson	Mark McLaughlin	Hummel	Cash for Kids
East Fife	Gary Naysmith	Steven Campbell	Joma	OLS Laundry Service
East Stirlingshire	Craig Tully	Richard Barnard	Jako	Shire Trust
Elgin City	Jim Weir	Jamie Duff	EC 1893	McDonald & Munro
Montrose	Paul Hegarty	Paul Watson	Nike	Intervention Rentals
Queen's Park	Gus MacPherson	Tony Quinn	Under Armour	Irn-Bru
Stirling Albion	Stuart McLaren	Ross McMillan	Macron	Prudential

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Berwick Rangers	name !Colin Cameron	Sacked	31 October 2015^[14]	7th	John Coughlin	6 November 2015^[15]
Arbroath	name !Todd Lumsden	Sacked	6 March 2016^[16]	8th	Dick Campbell	8 March 2016^[17]

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	East Fife (C, P)	36	18	8	10	62	41	+21	62	Promotion to Scottish League One
2	Elgin City (Q)	36	17	8	11	59	46	+13	59	Qualification to League One play-offs
3	Clyde (Q)	36	17	6	13	56	45	+11	57
4	Queen's Park (Q)	36	15	11	10	46	32	+14	56
5	Annan Athletic	36	16	8	12	69	57	+12	56
6	Berwick Rangers	36	14	7	15	45	50	−5	49
7	Stirling Albion	36	13	9	14	47	46	+1	48
8	Montrose	36	11	10	15	50	70	−20	43
9	Arbroath	36	11	6	19	42	51	−9	39
10	East Stirlingshire (Q)	36	9	5	22	41	79	−38	32	Qualification to League Two play-offs

Updated to match(es) played on 30 April 2016. Source: BBC Sport
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Number of goals scored
(C) Champion; (P) Promoted; (Q) Qualified to the phase indicated.

Results

Teams play each other four times, twice in the first half of the season (home and away) and twice in the second half of the season (home and away), making a total of 36 games.

First half of season

Home ╲ Away	Annan Athletic !ANN	Arbroath !ARB	Berwick Rangers !BER	Clyde !CLY	East Fife !EFI	East Stirlingshire !EST	Elgin City !ELG	Montrose !MON	Queen's Park !QPA	Stirling Albion !STI
Annan Athletic !Annan Athletic		2–2	1–0	2–3	2–0	3–1	1–1	3–2	3–1	1–1
Arbroath !Arbroath	0–2		3–1	0–1	1–1	0–0	0–3	3–1	1–2	2–0
Berwick Rangers !Berwick Rangers	0–2	2–2		0–5	1–1	2–1	2–3	2–1	1–0	1–2
Clyde !Clyde	4–2	0–2	1–1		2–0	3–1	4–2	3–1	0–2	0–1
East Fife !East Fife	0–1	0–1	5–0	1–0		5–3	2–1	1–1	0–2	1–1
East Stirlingshire !East Stirlingshire	3–1	0–4	0–4	0–3	1–0		2–0	3–1	2–1	2–3
Elgin City !Elgin City	3–2	2–0	4–1	1–1	4–2	4–0		2–0	0–0	1–0
Montrose !Montrose	1–1	3–0	4–1	2–0	1–4	2–1	2–0		1–6	1–3
Queen's Park !Queen's Park	0–1	1–0	0–1	1–1	0–2	5–1	3–1	0–1		1–0
Stirling Albion !Stirling Albion	1–0	3–1	1–3	0–1	1–3	0–0	3–1	1–0	1–2

Updated to games played on 8 March 2016.
Source: Scottish League 2
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Second half of season

Home ╲ Away	Annan Athletic !ANN	Arbroath !ARB	Berwick Rangers !BER	Clyde !CLY	East Fife !EFI	East Stirlingshire !EST	Elgin City !ELG	Montrose !MON	Queen's Park !QPA	Stirling Albion !STI
Annan Athletic !Annan Athletic		4–1	1–0	3–3	2–4	1–3	4–2	3–3	1–0	2–2
Arbroath !Arbroath	2–1		1–2	0–1	0–1	3–0	2–3	0–0	0–1	1–1
Berwick Rangers !Berwick Rangers	3–2	3–0		3–0	2–0	2–2	2–0	1–0	1–1	1–0
Clyde !Clyde	2–1	1–2	2–1		0–0	0–1	1–0	3–3	0–1	3–1
East Fife !East Fife	4–2	2–1	1–0	2–0		1–1	0–2	3–0	1–1	1–0
East Stirlingshire !East Stirlingshire	0–1	0–3	0–0	2–4	1–3		0–3	2–4	0–3	3–2
Elgin City !Elgin City	2–2	4–1	1–0	1–0	1–3	2–0		1–1	1–1	2–1
Montrose !Montrose	0–5	0–2	1–0	2–1	2–2	3–2	3–1		1–1	1–1
Queen's Park !Queen's Park	1–3	2–1	0–0	2–1	3–0	0–3	0–0	1–1		1–1
Stirling Albion !Stirling Albion	2–1	1–0	2–1	1–2	0–6	3–0	0–0	7–0	0–0

Updated to games played on 30 April 2016.
Source: Scottish League 2
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Season statistics

Scoring

Top scorers

As of matches played on 30 April 2016^[1]

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Nathan Austin	East Fife	22
2	Craig Gunn	Elgin City	21
3	Gary Fraser	Montrose	19
4	Blair Henderson	Berwick Rangers	17
5	Peter Weatherson	Annan Athletic	15
6	Josh Todd	Annan Athletic	13

Hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Result	Date	Ref
Austin, NathanNathan Austin	East Fife	Montrose	4–1	000000002015-09-26-000026 September 2015	^[18]
Gormley, DavidDavid Gormley⁴	Clyde	Berwick Rangers	5–0	000000002015-11-21-000021 November 2015	^[19]
Smith, DarrenDarren Smith	Stirling Albion	Montrose	3–1	000000002015-12-12-000012 December 2015	^[20]
Austin, NathanNathan Austin	East Fife	Stirling Albion	3–1	000000002015-12-26-000026 December 2015	^[21]
Smith, DarrenDarren Smith	Stirling Albion	Montrose	7–0	000000002016-02-09-00009 February 2016	^[22]

Note

⁴ Player scored 4 goals

Discipline

Player

Yellow cards

As of matches played on 30 April 2016^[23]

Rank	Player	Club	Cards
1	Michael McKenna	Berwick Rangers	13
2	Reece Donaldson	East Stirlingshire	11
3	Steven Notman	Berwick Rangers	10
	Gary Fraser	Montrose
	Ross Forsyth	Stirling Albion
6	Mark McLaughlin	Clyde	9
	Mark Nicolson	Elgin City
	Ross Smith	Stirling Albion
9	Graham Webster	Montrose	8
10	6 players		7

Red cards

As of matches played on 30 April 2016^[23]

Rank	Player	Club	Cards
1	Peter Weatherson	Annan Athletic	2
	Ricky Little	Arbroath
	Jordan McGregor	Berwick Rangers
	Kevin Walker	Berwick Rangers
	Reece Donaldson	East Stirlingshire
	Ross Smith	Stirling Albion
7	33 players		1

Club

Yellow cards

As of matches played on 30 April 2016^[24]

Rank	Club	Cards
1	Berwick Rangers	74
2	East Stirlingshire	73
3	Stirling Albion	64

Red cards

As of matches played on 30 April 2016^[24]

Rank	Club	Cards
1	Berwick Rangers	8
1	Stirling Albion	8
3	Clyde	7

Awards

Monthly awards

Month	Manager of the Month		Player of the Month		Ref.
Month	Manager	Club	Player	Club	Ref.
August	Gary Naysmith	East Fife	Smart Osadolor	Annan Athletic	^[25]
September	Gus MacPherson	Queen's Park	Bobby Linn	Arbroath
October	Paul Hegarty	Montrose	Matty Flynn	Annan Athletic
November	Barry Ferguson	Clyde	David Gormley	Clyde
December	Stuart McLaren	Stirling Albion	Darren Smith	Stirling Albion
January	Jim Weir	Elgin City	Nathan Austin	East Fife
February	Barry Ferguson	Clyde	Steven Doris	Stirling Albion
March	Gary Naysmith	East Fife	Kyle Wilkie	East Fife
April	John Coughlin	Berwick Rangers

League Two Play-offs

The first round was contested between Cove Rangers and Edinburgh City, the winners of the Highland League and Lowland League respectively.

City, the winners, will now play off against the bottom club in League Two, East Stirlingshire, with the winner securing a place in the 2016–17 Scottish League Two and the loser securing a place in the 2016–17 Lowland Football League.

Semi-finals

First leg

23 April 2016	Cove Rangers	0–3	Edinburgh City	Harlaw Park, Inverurie
15:00		BBC Report	Allum 22', 45' Donaldson 41'

Second leg

30 April 2016	Edinburgh City	1–1	Cove Rangers	Meadowbank Stadium, Edinburgh
15:00	Gair 32'	BBC report	Watt 86'	Attendance: 839

Final

First leg

7 May 2016	Edinburgh City	v	East Stirlingshire	Meadowbank Stadium, Edinburgh
15:00

Second leg

14 May 2016	East Stirlingshire	v	Edinburgh City	Ochilview Park, Stenhousemuir
15:00

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2015–16 Premiership teams	Aberdeen Celtic Dundee Dundee United Hamilton Academical Heart of Midlothian Inverness Caledonian Thistle Kilmarnock Motherwell Partick Thistle Ross County St Johnstone

2015–16 Championship teams	Alloa Athletic Dumbarton Falkirk Greenock Morton Hibernian Livingston Queen of the South Raith Rovers Rangers St Mirren

2015–16 League One teams	Airdrieonians Albion Rovers Ayr United Brechin City Cowdenbeath Dunfermline Athletic Forfar Athletic Peterhead Stenhousemuir Stranraer

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