2015–16 Highland Football League

Press & Journal Highland League

Season	2015–16
Champions	Cove Rangers
Biggest home win	Brora Rangers 11–0 Rothes
Biggest away win	Strathspey Thistle 0–10 Formartine United
Highest scoring	Clachnacuddin 12–2 Rothes
Longest winning run	16 – Cove Rangers
Longest unbeaten run	18 – Cove Rangers F.C.
Longest winless run	29 – Rothes
Longest losing run	15 – Fort William 15 – Rothes
← 2014–15 2016–17 →

The 2015–16 Highland Football League started on 25 July 2015 and ended on 7 May 2016.

Brora Rangers

Buckie Thistle

Clachnacuddin

Cove Rangers

Deveronvale

Formartine United

Forres Mechanics

Fort William

Fraserburgh

Huntly

Inverurie Loco Works

Keith

Lossiemouth

Nairn County

Rothes

Strathspey Thistle

Turriff United

Wick Academy

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Location of teams in 2015–16 Highland Football League

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or qualification
1	Cove Rangers (C)	34	29	2	3	98	28	+70	89	Qualification to League Two play-off semi-finals
2	Formartine United	34	27	4	3	137	35	+102	85
3	Brora Rangers	34	27	4	3	128	35	+93	85
4	Turriff United	34	20	8	6	88	31	+57	68
5	Wick Academy	34	18	6	10	76	42	+34	60
6	Inverurie Loco Works	34	18	4	12	71	43	+28	58
7	Buckie Thistle	34	18	4	12	80	77	+3	58
8	Nairn County	34	17	6	11	75	55	+20	57
9	Fraserburgh	34	15	8	11	63	49	+14	53
10	Keith	34	17	1	16	70	76	−6	52
11	Forres Mechanics	34	15	4	15	60	65	−5	49
12	Lossiemouth	34	12	2	20	46	70	−24	38
13	Deveronvale	34	8	8	18	46	64	−18	32
14	Clachnacuddin	34	10	2	22	59	80	−21	32
15	Huntly	34	7	5	22	49	89	−40	26
16	Strathspey Thistle	34	6	2	26	38	118	−80	20
17	Fort William	34	5	1	28	38	116	−78	16
18	Rothes	34	1	1	32	16	165	−149	4

Source: BBC Sport
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Number of goals scored
(C) Champions

Results

Home \ Away	BROR	BUCK	CLAC	COVE	DEVE	FORM	FORR	FORT	FRAS	HUNT	LOCO	KEITH	LOSS	NAIRN	ROTH	STRA	TURR	WICK
Brora Rangers		4–0	3–0	2–0	2–1	0–2	6–0	4–2	6–0	4–3	1–1	4–1	2–0	1–2	11–0	3–0	1–1	3–1
Buckie Thistle	1–8		3–2	0–5	1–1	1–2	2–6	6–2	2–2	4–3	0–1	4–1	0–2	1–6	5–0	7–1	1–0	3–0
Clachnacuddin	1–10	0–4		0–3	1–2	2–2	1–0	1–2	1–2	0–2	2–1	3–4	2–1	0–0	12–2	6–1	1–2	1–2
Cove Rangers	3–0	5–2	1–0		2–0	1–0	3–1	5–0	3–3	3–0	3–4	3–0	1–0	6–1	6–0	5–0	1–0	1–0
Deveronvale	0–2	0–2	6–1	1–3		1–8	0–3	4–1	2–2	0–0	1–4	0–4	2–2	1–4	3–0	2–1	1–1	1–2
Formartine United	3–3	10–3	5–1	0–1	4–1		1–0	6–1	1–0	5–1	4–0	4–3	5–1	5–1	9–0	6–1	0–0	2–1
Forres Mechanics	0–3	0–3	3–0	1–5	2–1	0–5		6–0	1–2	3–0	0–5	2–0	0–1	2–2	1–0	2–2	1–1	2–2
Fort William	3–5	1–3	1–2	0–4	2–1	1–4	0–3		1–4	0–2	0–4	1–6	2–2	0–3	3–1	1–2	0–1	1–3
Fraserburgh	1–2	1–2	4–1	4–2	0–1	1–1	1–2	2–1		6–0	0–1	0–3	1–2	1–0	7–0	4–0	0–1	0–4
Huntly	2–3	1–4	1–2	1–2	0–0	0–6	2–5	1–3	2–2		2–1	2–6	3–1	2–2	5–0	0–2	2–4	1–1
Inverurie Loco Works	0–1	1–0	2–3	1–2	2–2	4–3	4–0	4–1	1–1	3–1		2–4	0–2	1–1	6–0	3–0	1–2	0–2
Keith	2–6	1–0	1–0	1–5	2–0	2–3	3–4	1–0	1–2	1–5	0–4		4–2	0–2	3–2	3–2	0–0	0–1
Lossiemouth	0–3	0–1	2–0	1–3	1–0	2–8	0–2	2–1	1–2	2–0	0–1	1–2		1–5	3–1	4–1	0–4	0–2
Nairn County	1–7	1–2	4–3	1–2	3–2	0–1	3–1	5–2	1–1	1–0	1–0	1–2	4–1		2–1	3–1	1–2	3–3
Rothes	0–7	2–2	1–7	0–3	0–7	0–8	0–5	0–3	1–3	0–2	0–4	1–4	0–2	0–3		1–3	0–9	1–5
Strathspey Thistle	1–6	4–5	1–0	2–3	0–0	0–10	0–2	2–1	1–2	5–2	0–2	1–4	2–5	0–7	1–2		0–2	1–2
Turriff United	1–3	3–3	2–0	2–2	1–0	2–3	5–0	9–0	1–2	5–1	0–1	6–1	4–1	1–0	4–0	7–0		2–1
Wick Academy	2–2	1–3	0–3	0–1	1–2	0–1	2–0	8–1	0–0	3–0	4–2	3–0	2–1	2–1	7–0	6–0	3–3

Source: highlandfootballleague.com
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Promotion play-offs

Main article: 2015–16 Scottish League Two § League Two Play-offs

As Highland League champions, Cove Rangers played Edinburgh City, champions of the 2015–16 Lowland League, over two legs. Cove Rangers lost the first leg at home 0–3 and drew 1–1 away, losing 1–4 on aggregate. Therefore, Cove Rangers will remain in the Highland League for the 2016–17 season.