The 2015–16 3. Liga was the eighth season of the

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Teams

A total of 20 teams contested the league, including 14 sides from the

2014–15 3. Liga The 2014–15 3. Liga was the seventh season of the 3. Liga, Germany's third-level football league. The league consisted of twenty teams: The teams placed fourth through seventeenth of the 2013–14 season, the lowest two teams from the 2013� ...

. Arminia Bielefeld and

MSV Duisburg Meidericher Spielverein 02 e. V. Duisburg, commonly known as simply MSV Duisburg (), is a German association football club based in Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia. Nicknamed ''Die Zebras'' for their traditional striped jerseys, the club was on ...

were directly promoted to the 2015–16 2. Bundesliga at the end of the 2014–15 season. Bielefeld made an immediate return to the 2. Bundesliga after being relegated in 2013–14. Duisburg returned to the 2. Bundesliga after two seasons in the third tier. The two promoted teams were replaced by

FC Erzgebirge Aue Fußball Club Erzgebirge Aue e.V., commonly known as simply FC Erzgebirge Aue or Erzgebirge Aue (), is a German football club based in Aue-Bad Schlema, Saxony. The former East German side was a founding member of the 3. Liga in 2008–09, ...

and

VfR Aalen Verein für Rasenspiele 1921 Aalen e.V., known simply as VfR Aalen, is a German football club based in Aalen, Baden-Württemberg. The football team is part of a larger sports club which also offers its members gymnastics, table tennis, and cheer ...

, who finished in the bottom two places of the 2014–15 2. Bundesliga table. At the other end of the table, Borussia Dortmund II,

SpVgg Unterhaching Spielvereinigung Unterhaching () is a German sports club in Unterhaching, a semi-rural municipality on the southern outskirts of the Bavarian capital Munich. The club is widely known for playing in the first-division association football league ...

and SSV Jahn Regensburg were relegated to the 2015–16 Regionalliga. The three relegated teams were replaced by the three winners of the 2014–15 Regionalliga promotion playoffs. SV Werder Bremen II from the ''Regionalliga Nord'' returned to the national level after three seasons in the fourth tier, while 1. FC Magdeburg from the ''Regionalliga Nordost'' and

Würzburger Kickers Würzburger Kickers is a German association football club playing in Würzburg, Bavaria. In pre-World War II football, the club competed briefly at the highest level in the Bezirksliga Bayern, and during the war, in the Gauliga Bayern. Post-war, ...

from the ''Regionalliga Bayern'' are playing their debut seasons in the 3. Liga. A further place in the league was available via a two-legged play-off between third-placed 2014–15 3. Liga team

Holstein Kiel Kieler Sportvereinigung Holstein von 1900 e.V., simply as KSV Holstein or Kieler SV Holstein, commonly known as Holstein Kiel (), is a German association football and sports club based in the city of Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein. From the 1900s thro ...

and 16th-placed 2014–15 2. Bundesliga side

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. The tie ended 2–1 on aggregate and saw Kiel remaining in the 3. Liga.

Stadiums and locations

Personnel and kits

Managerial changes

League table

Results

Top goalscorers

Number of teams by state

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:3. Liga 2015-16 3 2015-16

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