National League A (handball) 2015/16

National League A
master	Cadets Schaffhausen
Cup winners	Cadets Schaffhausen
Relegation ↑	TSV Fortitudo Gossau
Relegation ↓	TV Endingen
Relegated	Lakers Stafa
Teams	10
Games	156 + 2 relegation games  (156 played)
Gates	8186  (ø 52.47 per game)
spectator	100283  (ø 643 per game)
Top scorer	Lukas von Deschwanden  (221 goals)
Time penalties	1147  (ø 7.35 per game)
Red cards	27  (ø 0.17 per game)
← National League A 2014/15 National League A 2016/17 →
National League B 2015/16 ↓

Teams

The 2015/16 season was the 67th regular time of the Swiss National League A in handball . The season started on August 30th.

mode

The 10 teams play two double rounds of 18 games each.

Then a final round is played with the best six teams from the main round. The best four teams determine the Swiss champions in play-off style. The semi-finals and the final are played according to the best-of-five mode .

The other four teams from the main round determine the direct relegated team in a relegation round. The penultimate team of the relegation round played two barrage games against the second of the National League B.

Main round

Ranking list

League leader

Bottom of the table

Pl.		society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
01.		Cadets Schaffhausen (M)	18th	15th	01	02	0563: 4400	+123	0031: 5000
02.		Pathfinder Winterthur (C)	18th	11	03	04th	0474: 4090	+65	0025:1100
03.		Wacker Thun	18th	11	03	04th	0515: 4560	+59	0025:1100
04th		HC Kriens-Lucerne	18th	12	01	05	0510: 4690	+41	0025:1100
05.		TSV St. Otmar St. Gallen	18th	10	02	06th	0477: 4290	+48	0022:1400
06th		BSV Bern Muri	18th	08th	01	09	0455: 4330	+22	0017:1900
07th		GC Amicitia Zurich	18th	08th	00	10	0469: 4750	−6	0016:2000
08th.		TSV Fortitudo Gossau	18th	05	00	13	0408: 4800	−72	0010:2600
09.		RTV 1879 Basel (A)	18th	04th	01	13	0427: 5320	−105	0009:2700
10.		Lakers Stäfa (R)	18th	00	00	18th	0414: 5890	−175	0000:3600

As of October 19, 2017

At the end of the main round 2015/16:
	Qualification for the final round
	Relegation round
At the end of the 2014/15 season:
(M)	Swiss champions 2014/15: Cadets Schaffhausen
(C)	Cup winner 2014/15: Pfadi Winterthur
(R)	Winner of the promotion / relegation round 2014/15: Lakers Stäfa
(A)	Newcomers from the National League B 2014/15 : RTV 1879 Basel

Crosstab

The crosstab shows the results of all games this season. The home team is listed in the left column, the visiting team in the top row.

2015/16
BSV Bern Muri		22:27	26:27	35:25	22:28	20:20	25:19	20:17	32:16	24:27
GC Amicitia Zurich	25:27		25:33	39:26	24:32	19:24	24:22	23:26	39:23	31:22
HC Kriens-Lucerne	31:27	39:26		25:20	26:27	27:31	27:20	32:27	28:24	28:26
Lakers Stafa	23:27	24:31	26:32		25:39	20:32	22:23	21:35	17:22	23:33
Cadets Schaffhausen	26:20	22:28	33:23	47:21		35:28	38:24	28:25	38:19	30:30
Pathfinder Winterthur	28:18	28:21	24:23	31:21	21:27		24:20	24:24	40:21	22:22
TSV Fortitudo Gossau	17:29	28:25	25:28	27:20	26:32	24:25		23:21	25:18	27:31
TSV St. Otmar St. Gallen	31:25	33:19	26:20	34:24	26:24	18:22	27:18		32:26	26:26
RTV 1879 Basel	26:36	22:24	27:27	34:28	25:27	21:19	31:20	27:29		22:35
Wacker Thun	22:20	22:21	29:34	39:28	27:30	28:27	33:20	27:20	36:23
As of October 19, 2017

Table history

	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	17th	18th
Cadets Schaffhausen	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Pathfinder Winterthur	2	3	2	4th	4th	5	4th	5	4th	4th	6th	3	4th	3	4th	3	2	2
Wacker Thun	6th	7th	5	3	3	3	3	4th	3	3	2	4th	2	2	2	2	3	3
HC Kriens-Lucerne	4th	8th	4th	2	5	4th	5	2	2	2	3	2	3	4th	5	4th	4th	4th
TSV St. Otmar St. Gallen	7th	6th	8th	6th	2	2	2	3	5	5	4th	5	5	5	3	5	5	5
BSV Bern Muri	8th	4th	7th	8th	7th	6th	7th	6th	6th	6th	5	6th	6th	6th	6th	6th	7th	6th
GC Amicitia Zurich	3	2	3	7th	8th	8th	6th	8th	7th	7th	7th	7th	7th	7th	7th	7th	6th	7th
TSV Fortitudo Gossau	9	5	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	8th	8th
RTV 1879 Basel	5	9	6th	5	6th	7th	8th	7th	8th	8th	8th	8th	8th	8th	8th	8th	9	9
Lakers Stafa	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10
As of October 19, 2017

List of goalscorers

If the number of hits is the same, the players are sorted alphabetically.

Pl.	player	Gates	cut	team
1	Lukas von Deschwanden	221	6th	Wacker Thun
2	Gabor Csaszar	194	5.7	Cadets Schaffhausen
3	Nicolas Raemy	167	4.9	Wacker Thun
4th	Manuel Liniger	166	4.7	Cadets Schaffhausen
5	Tomas Babak	162	5.4	TSV St. Otmar St. Gallen
6th	Bruno Kozina	140	4.7	RTV 1879 Basel
7th	Boris Stankovic	137	4.9	HC Kriens-Lucerne
8th	Rares Jurca	132	4.9	RTV 1879 Basel
9	Luka Maros	131	4.5	Cadets Schaffhausen
10	Christoph Piske	131	4.4	TSV Fortitudo Gossau

Spectator table

	society	spectator	per game	workload	sold out
1.	Wacker Thun	21940	1218	60.90%	0/9
2.	Cadets Schaffhausen	19855	1045	30.74%	0/9
3.	TSV St. Otmar St. Gallen	12300	820	23.43%	0/9
4th	HC Kriens-Lucerne	9363	668	51.38%	0/9
5.	Pathfinder Winterthur	9909	619	26.91%	0/9
6th	BSV Bern Muri	8230	587	39.13%	0/9
7th	Lakers Stafa	6675	445	26.18%	0/9
8th.	TSV Fortitudo Gossau	4460	297	34.94%	0/9
9.	GC Amicitia Zurich	4131	275	11.00%	0/9
10.	RTV 1879 Basel	3420	228	15.20%	0/9
total		100283	643	31.98%	0/90
As of July 29, 2017

Relegation round

Ranking list

League leader

Bottom of the table

Pl.		society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
01.		GC Amicitia Zurich	30th	14th	01	15th	0795: 7960	−1	0029:3100
02.		RTV 1879 Basel	30th	12	03	15th	0754: 8270	−73	0027:3300
03.		TSV Fortitudo Gossau	30th	10	00	20th	0716: 8070	−91	0020:4000
04th		Lakers Stafa	30th	03	01	26th	0706: 8990	−193	0007:5300

As of July 29, 2017

At the end of the 2015/16 season:
	End of season
	Promotion / Relegation Round
	Direct relegation to the National League B 2016/17

Final round

Ranking list

Pl.		society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
01.		Cadets Schaffhausen	28	22nd	01	05	0828: 6860	+142	0045:1100
02.		Pathfinder Winterthur	28	18th	04th	06th	0738: 6430	+95	0040:1600
03.		Wacker Thun	28	17th	04th	07th	0791: 7130	+78	0038:1800
04th		TSV St. Otmar St. Gallen	28	15th	03	10	0752: 6930	+59	0033:2300
05.		HC Kriens-Lucerne	28	12	03	13	0754: 7560	−2	0027:2900
06th		BSV Bern Muri	28	09	04th	15th	0690: 7030	−13	0022:3400

As of July 29, 2017

At the end of the main round 2015/16:
	Qualification for the playoff
	Season ended

Promotion / Relegation Round

	total		First leg	Return leg
TSV Fortitudo Gossau	53:52	TV Endingen	24:24	29:28

Playoff

Play-off tree

	Semifinals					final
	1	Cadets Schaffhausen	3
	4th	TSV St. Otmar St. Gallen	0
						1	Cadets Schaffhausen	3
						3	Wacker Thun	2
	2	Wacker Thun	1
	3	Pathfinder Winterthur	3

Semifinals

			series	1	2	3	4th	5	[MR]	[FR]
Cadets Schaffhausen	-	TSV St. Otmar St. Gallen	3-0	35:23	35:24	37:24	-	-	[:]	[:]
Pathfinder Winterthur	-	Wacker Thun	1: 3	27:22	16:17	22:27	22:25	-	[:]	[:]

HR = main round , FR = final round

final

			series	1	2	3	4th	5	[MR]	[FR]
Cadets Schaffhausen	-	Wacker Thun	3: 2	31:25	23:24	32:21	24:25	30:28	[:]	[:]

HR = main round , FR = final round

Master team of the cadet Schaffhausen

Swiss master cadets Schaffhausen

Goalkeepers: Nikola Marinovic , Nikola Portner , Kaj Stokholm Left wing: Manuel Liniger Right wing: Nikola Cvijetić , Markus Richwien Back room left: David Graubner , Albin Alili , Zoran Markovic , Luka Maros Back center: Gábor Császár , Andrija Pendic Right back: Dimitrij Küttel , Aleksandar Stojanović Circular runners : Christoffer Brännberger , Johan Koch Head coach: Peter Kukučka

Venues

The venues are arranged according to the capacity of the stadiums.

society	Stadion	capacity
TSV St. Otmar St. Gallen	Kreuzbleiche sports facility	3500
Cadets Schaffhausen	BBC arena	3400
GC Amicitia Zurich	Sports hall	2500
Pathfinder Winterthur	Eulachhalle	2300
Wacker Thun	Sports hall laughter	2000
Lakers Stafa	Frohberg	1700
RTV 1879 Basel	Basel Rankhof	1500
BSV Bern Muri	Sports hall Moos Gümligen	1500
HC Kriens-Lucerne	Mourning Hall	1300
TSV Fortitudo Gossau	Oberbüren Thurzelg	850

Individual evidence

1. ↑ table. In: handball.ch. SHV, accessed July 29, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Games. (No longer available online.) In: handball.ch. SHV, archived from the original on May 22, 2015 ; Retrieved July 29, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ table history. (No longer available online.) In: handball.ch. SHV, archived from the original on July 29, 2017 ; Retrieved July 29, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ Audience statistics main round. In: handball.ch. SHV, accessed July 29, 2017 . 
5. ↑ Hall directory. (No longer available online.) In: handball.ch. SHV, archived from the original on October 18, 2015 ; accessed on May 1, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.