2015–16 Montenegrin First League

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.

Montenegrin First League

Season	2015–16
Dates	8 August 2015 – 29 May 2016
Champions	Mladost 1st title
Relegated	Mornar
Champions League	Mladost
Europa League	Budućnost Rudar Bokelj
Matches played	186
Goals scored	432 (2.32 per match)
Top goalscorer	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)
Longest winning run	9 games Mladost Budućnost
Longest unbeaten run	8 games Rudar
Longest losing run	7 games Mornar
← 2014–15 2016–17 → All statistics correct as of 1 October 2015.

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

 

 

Bokelj

 

Budućnost

 

Grbalj

 

Dečić

 

Iskra

 

Lovćen

 

Mladost

 

Mornar

 

Petrovac

 

Rudar

 

Sutjeska

 

Zeta

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Location of the 2015–16 Montenegrin First League teams

Team	City	Stadium	Capacity	Coach
Bokelj	Kotor	Stadion pod Vrmcem	5,000	Slobodan Drašković
Budućnost	Podgorica	Stadion pod Goricom	15,230	Miodrag Vukotić
Dečić	Tuzi	Stadion Tuško Polje	3,000	Fuad Krkanović
Grbalj	Radanovići	Stadion Donja Sutvara	1,500	Dragoljub Đuretić
Iskra	Danilovgrad	Stadion Braće Velašević	2,000	Milija Savović
Lovćen	Cetinje	Stadion Obilića Poljana	5,000	Milorad Malovrazić
Mladost	Podgorica	Stadion FK Mladost	2,000	Nikola Rakojević
Mornar	Bar	Stadion Topolica	2,500	Zoran Mijović
Petrovac	Petrovac	Stadion pod Malim brdom	1,630	Ivan Brnović
Rudar	Pljevlja	Stadion pod Golubinjom	10,000	Vuko Bogavac
Sutjeska	Nikšić	Stadion kraj Bistrice	6,180	Aleksandar Nedović
Zeta	Golubovci	Stadion Trešnjica	5,000	Dejan Vukićević

Source: Scoresway

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Mladost (C)	33	21	4	8	53	28	+25	67	Qualification for the Champions League second qualifying round
2	Budućnost	33	19	6	8	48	21	+27	63	Qualification for the Europa League first qualifying round^[a]
3	Rudar	33	16	10	7	39	26	+13	58
4	Bokelj	33	17	5	11	43	28	+15	56
5	Sutjeska	33	15	9	9	46	31	+15	54
6	Dečić	33	11	6	16	38	49	−11	39
7	Grbalj	33	11	5	17	38	49	−11	38^[b]
8	Zeta	33	10	8	15	37	42	−5	38^[b]
9	Lovćen	33	9	9	15	32	42	−10	36
10	Iskra (O)	33	7	13	13	29	51	−22	34	Qualification for the relegation play-offs
11	Petrovac (O)	33	8	9	16	33	51	−18	33^[c]
12	Mornar (R)	33	9	6	18	30	48	−18	33^[c]	Relegation to the Second League

Source: Football Association of Montenegro (in Montenegrin), Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Head-to-head goals scored; 5) Head-to-head away goals scored; 6) Goal difference; 7) Goals scored; 8) Draw.^[1]
(C) Champions; (O) Play-off winners; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. Rudar qualified for the Europa League first qualifying round by winning the 2015–16 Montenegrin Cup.
2. Grbalj ahead of Zeta on head-to-head record; Grbalj–Zeta 4–1, Zeta–Grbalj 1–2, Grbalj–Zeta 1–2.
3. Petrovac ahead of Mornar on head-to-head record; Petrovac–Mornar 2–1, Mornar–Petrovac 1–1, Mornar–Petrovac 0–0.

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.

First and second round

Home \ Away	BOK	BUD	DEČ	GRB	ISK	LOV	MLA	MOR	PET	RUD	SUT	ZET
Bokelj		0–1	4–1	3–0	1–2	1–0	0–1	2–0	2–1	1–1	3–1	1–1
Budućnost	0–0		2–0	3–0	1–0	0–0	1–3	3–0	1–2	2–1	0–0	0–1
Dečić	0–1	1–2		3–1	1–1	3–2	2–2	1–0	3–1	0–2	1–0	3–1
Grbalj	1–1	0–2	2–1		1–2	0–0	1–0	2–1	4–1	0–1	1–1	4–1
Iskra	0–0	0–4	1–2	0–2		0–0	2–3	2–0	0–0	0–0	0–4	1–0
Lovćen	1–2	2–2	0–0	3–1	4–1		1–2	3–1	1–0	1–1	0–0	1–2
Mladost	1–0	2–0	4–0	3–1	5–0	2–0		2–1	1–2	1–0	4–3	2–0
Mornar	0–1	1–0	2–2	1–0	0–0	0–1	2–0		1–1	1–2	1–3	1–5
Petrovac	0–3	0–2	1–0	0–1	2–4	2–1	1–2	2–1		2–0	0–4	5–3
Rudar	1–0	1–0	2–0	2–1	2–2	1–1	0–0	2–2	3–2		4–1	1–0
Sutjeska	1–0	0–0	0–2	2–0	3–0	2–0	0–1	4–1	0–0	0–2		1–1
Zeta	1–0	0–0	1–1	1–2	0–2	0–2	1–0	1–2	2–0	2–0	0–1

Source: Football Association of Montenegro (in Montenegrin)
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Third round

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

Rounds
23rd	24th	25th	26th	27th	28th	29th	30th	31st	32nd	33rd
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

Home \ Away	BOK	BUD	DEČ	GRB	ISK	LOV	MLA	MOR	PET	RUD	SUT	ZET
Bokelj				3–0	0–1			2–0	2–1	1–0	0–2
Budućnost	4–2		2–0			4–0	1–2	1–0				1–0
Dečić	1–2			3–1	2–1			2–0	1–2	0–1
Grbalj		0–1				2–0	2–0				1–2	1–2
Iskra		1–3		1–3			0–0				1–1	1–1
Lovćen	1–2		2–1		2–2				1–0	0–1
Mladost	1–0		2–0			1–0		0–1		2–3		2–0
Mornar				3–1	3–0	0–1			0–0			2–2
Petrovac		0–1		1–1	1–1		1–1				0–2
Rudar		2–0		1–1	0–0			0–1	1–1		0–1
Sutjeska		0–4	1–1			4–1	2–1	0–1				0–0
Zeta	2–3		3–0			2–0			1–1	0–1

Source: Football Association of Montenegro (in Montenegrin)
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

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.

Summary

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Bratstvo	2–8	Iskra	2–2	0–6
Cetinje	0–1	Petrovac	0–0	0–1

Matches

2 June 2016

17:30 CEST

Bratstvo	2–2	Iskra
Popović   58', 65'		Kljajić   55' (o.g.) Novović   60'

Stadion Trešnjica, Golubovci

Attendance: 500

Referee: Milovan Milačić

6 June 2016

17:30 CEST

Iskra	6–0	Bratstvo
Memčević   3', 62' Novović   24' Golubović   25' Redžović   69' Begović   84'

Stadion Braće Velašević, Danilovgrad

Attendance: 700

Referee: Milovan Milačić

Iskra won 8–2 on aggregate.

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2 June 2016

17:30 CEST

Cetinje	0–0	Petrovac

Stadion Obilića Poljana, Cetinje

Attendance: 1,000

Referee: Miloš Savović

6 June 2016

17:30 CEST

Petrovac	1–0	Cetinje
Woo Sang-Hoon   53'

Stadion pod Malim brdom, Petrovac

Attendance: 800

Referee: Miloš Savović

Petrovac won 1–0 on aggregate.

Top goalscorers

The top scorer was won the 2016 Radio Montenegro Trophy.

Rank	Scorer	Club	Goals^[2]
1	Marko Šćepanović	Mladost	19
2	Darko Bjedov	Zeta	18
3	Dejan Zarubica	Sutjeska	16
4	Boris Kopitović	Petrovac	13
5	Šaleta Kordić	Sutjeska	11
6	Darko Nikač	Budućnost	10
7	Pjeter Ljuljđuraj	Dečić	9
8	Dejan Đenić	Bokelj	8
	Ivan Marković	Rudar
	Miloš Nikezić	Bokelj
	Blažo Perutović	Lovćen
	Petar Vukčević	Grbalj

References

1. . Scoresway. Archived from the original on 2 November 2016. Retrieved 19 May 2016.
2. "Montenegro » 1. CFL 2015/2016 » Top Scorer". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 19 July 2020.

External links

• Soccerway