2015 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, vs Tennessee Volunteers
Alabama broke on top early on a 20-yard touchdown run by Henry with 7:14 left in the first quarter. The score marked the 13th consecutive game in which Henry has scored a rushing touchdown. Tennessee struck back to tie it at 7–7 on an 11-yard pass from quarterback Joshua Dobbs to wide receiver Josh Smith with 3:00 left in the opening period.


2015 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, vs Tennessee Volunteers
Tied at halftime, 7-7, Alabama broke on top on the first possession of the second half by driving 73 yards in 12 plays to a 19-yard field goal by Adam Griffith for a 10–7 lead with 9:00 left in the third period.


2015 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, vs Tennessee Volunteers
Three Tennessee scoring opportunities ended in missed field goals, a 43-yarder in the first quarter on the game's first series, a 51-yarder on the final play of the first half, and another 51-yarder with 14:06 left in the fourth period. The first would have given the Vols a 3–0 lead, the second would have given UT a 10-7 halftime lead, and the third would have tied the game at 10-10 early in the fourth quarter.


2015 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, vs Tennessee Volunteers
Taking the ball at the Tide 33 with 14:06 left in the fourth period, Alabama moved 56 yards in 12 plays while eating 6:58 of game time. A key sequence on the drive began with a third-and-11 play at the UT 46 with 10:19 left. Coker completed a 15-yard pass to Stewart for a first down at the UT 31. After a 10-yard penalty created a first-and-20 at the UT 41, a pass to receiver Calvin Ridley gained 26 yards to the UT 15.


2015 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, vs Tennessee Volunteers
Ridley adjusted back to the pass after being covered on the play, grabbing the ball at the sideline and gaining several more yards after the catch. Henry gained five yards on a rush at right tackle to the Vol 10 on first down, then was dropped for a loss of a yard on second down. On third-and-six at the UT 11, Coker's fade pass to receiver Richard Mullaney was incomplete in the end zone. That set up a 28-yard field goal attempt by Griffith with 7:13 on the clock. Griffith kicked it true to give the Tide a 13–7 lead with 7:08 left in the fourth period.


2015 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, vs Tennessee Volunteers
Tennessee stormed back with authority to take a 14–13 lead, blazing 75 yards in four plays to take the lead on a 12-yard run by tailback Jalen Hurd with 5:49 on the clock. Dobbs connected with Smith for 27 yards on a crossing patter to start the drive, reaching the Tide 48. Two plays later, Dobbs hit a slant pass to receiver Josh Malone for 34 yards to the Tide 12. Hurd raced around left end into the end zone on the next play.


2015 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, vs Tennessee Volunteers
Alabama responded on the ensuing possession. Facing 2nd and 11 at the Tide 27, Coker completed a 27-yard pass to Stewart at the UT 44 with 4:29 left. Stewart made an acrobatic catch despite tight coverage. Henry gained two yards at left guard to the UT 42 on first down, then carried for two more to Vols 40. Facing third-and-six at the 40, Coker lobbed a pass to Ridley at the left sideline and Ridley made a leaping catch over a Tennessee defender for a 15-yard gain to the Tennessee 25.


2015 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, vs Tennessee Volunteers
Henry gained six yards at right guard on first down to the UT 19. Tennessee called its first timeout with 3:02 left. On second-and four, Henry muscled up the middle for five yards to a first down at the UT 14. With the clock running under 2:30, Henry took a handoff at left end and ran behind good blocking for 14 yards and a touchdown with 2:24 left. Leading by five points, Alabama went for a two-point conversion. A pass to Ridley was incomplete, broken up by Tennessee cornerback Justin Martin, and the Tide held a 19–14 lead with 2:24 left.


2015 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, vs Tennessee Volunteers
Tennessee took possession at its 25 following a touchback on the kickoff. On the third play of the possession, Alabama defensive end Jonathan Allen sacked Dobbs for a nine-yard loss at the UT 26. Facing a second-and-24 at the UT 21 following a false start penalty, Dobbs was sacked by Tide linebacker Ryan Anderson for a loss of 10 at the UT 11. Dobbs fumbled on the play and Alabama's A'Shawn Robinson recovered at the UT 13. Robinson returned the fumble nine yards to the UT 4 with 1:18 left. Coker took a knee on three consecutive snaps to end the game.


2015 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, vs #2 LSU Tigers
The University of Alabama defense limited Louisiana State University running back Leonard Fournette to 31 rushing yards while the Crimson Tide offense rode a 210-yard, three-touchdown rushing performance by running back Derrick Henry to a 30–16 victory before a capacity crowd of 101,821 on Saturday night at Bryant–Denny Stadium. The victory moved No. 4 Alabama (9-1 overall; 5–1 in the Southeastern Conference) into a tie with No. 2 LSU (7-2 overall; 4–1 in the SEC) for the lead in the SEC's West Division.


2015 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, vs #2 LSU Tigers
Fournette, who entered the game as the nation's leading rusher averaging 193.1 yards rushing per game, could not get going against the Crimson Tide defense. But Henry rushed for touchdowns of two yards, one yard and seven yards while carrying the ball 38 times, the third-most carries by one player in a single game in Alabama football history. Fournette had an 18-yard run at the 11:00 mark of the fourth quarter after a Henry fumble set up the Tigers at the Tide 22. But by that time, the Tide had built a 30–10 lead and the outcome was decided.


2015 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, vs #2 LSU Tigers
Alabama was dominant early, breaking out to a 10–0 lead in the second quarter on a 22-yard Adam Griffith field goal and Henry's two-yard scoring rush that came after a 40-yard run in which he fended off three would-be tacklers while rumbling deep into LSU territory. But the Tigers struck back to tie it at 10–10 with an explosive passing game. Quarterback Brandon Harris hit wide receiver Travin Dural for a 40-yard touchdown pass and Trent Domingue followed with a 39-yard field goal to tie it. But Alabama took a 13–10 lead at halftime on a career-long 55-yard field goal by Griffith with 14 seconds left in the half.


2015 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, vs #2 LSU Tigers
After Tide linebacker Dillon Lee intercepted a Harris pass on the first play of the third quarter to set Alabama up at the LSU 28, Henry capped a touchdown drive with a 1-yard run to stake the Tide to a 20–10 lead with 13:00 left in the period. Henry extended the lead with a seven-yard scoring run with 2:47 left in the third quarter and Griffith added a 29-yard field goal with 12:45 left in the fourth period for a 30-10 Alabama lead.


2015 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, vs #2 LSU Tigers
LSU showed life late after Henry lost a fumble at the Tide 22. The Tigers marched 22 yards in four plays with Fournette scoring on a one-yard run with 9:18 on the clock. The extra-point was blocked by the Tide's A'Shawn Robinson as the Tide held a 30–16 lead.


2015 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, vs #2 LSU Tigers
The Alabama defense created seven plays of negative yardage by the LSU offense in the game, including seven tackles for loss and two quarterback sacks. LSU was limited to 182 total yards in the game (54 rushing, 128 passing). The Alabama offense gained 434 total yards, including 250 rushing, and had the ball for 39:27 of game time. Tide safety Geno Matias-Smith led the Tide defense with six tackles. Alabama punter JK Scott averaged 45.0 yards on three punts with a long of 50 yards, including one punt downed inside the LSU 20. Griffith made all three field goal attempts, running his streak of successful attempts to seven straight.


2015 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, @ #17 Mississippi State Bulldogs
The University of Alabama defense sacked Mississippi State (7-3 overall; 3–3 in the SEC) quarterback Dak Prescott nine times and Crimson Tide running back Derrick Henry rushed for 204 yards and two touchdowns in a 31–6 victory over the Bulldogs before an overflow crowd of 62,435 at Davis Wade Stadium at Scott Field on Saturday.


2015 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, @ #17 Mississippi State Bulldogs
Alabama's defense produced 12 plays for losses against a high-powered State offense, limiting the explosive Prescott to 14 rushing yards on 26 attempts and holding the Bulldogs out of the end zone for the first time in 36 games dating back to MSU's 2013 season opener. It also marked the end of a 32-game streak by Prescott in which he had scored a touchdown in a game, the longest streak in the Football Bowl Subdivision. The nine quarterback sacks by the Tide defense is the most by an Alabama defense since 1998 when it also tallied nine against Vanderbilt.


2015 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, @ #17 Mississippi State Bulldogs
Henry scored on runs of 75 and 65 yards as the Crimson Tide offense overcame a slow start with a methodical ground game while the Tide defense held off several State scoring threats. Henry turned in over 200 yards rushing in a game for the third time in 2015, becoming the second Alabama back to do that three times in a single season, following Bobby Humphrey who rushed for 200+ yards in three games during the 1986 season.


2015 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, @ #17 Mississippi State Bulldogs
Tide linebacker Reuben Foster led Alabama with 10 tackles (six solo). Defensive end Jonathan Allen had three quarterback sacks among his seven tackles. Defensive end A'Shawn Robinson had 2.5 sacks among his five tackles, linebacker Ryan Anderson had two sacks among his five tackles and linebacker Tim Williams added two sacks in his five stops. Nose guard Daron Payne had 1.5 sacks in his three stops while linebacker Denzel Devall had one sack on his only tackle of the day. Alabama racked up 12 tackles for losses totaling 58 yards, forced three fumbles (recovering one), broke up seven passes and had four quarterback hurries on the day.


2015 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, @ #17 Mississippi State Bulldogs
Alabama broke on top, 7–0, early in the second quarter on a 69-yard punt return by Cyrus Jones. On Alabama's next possession, wide receiver Calvin Ridley took a pass from Coker at the Tide 49 in the middle of the field, cut back and juked a defender, then raced to the end zone to complete a 60-yard scoring play, extending the Tide lead to 14–0. State responded on the next possession with a 31-yard field goal by Westin Graves that narrowed the lead to 14-3 before Henry raced 74 yards for a touchdown to give the Tide a 21–3 lead at the half.


2015 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, @ #17 Mississippi State Bulldogs
A 42-yard field goal by Adam Griffith gave Alabama a 24–3 lead early in the third quarter. State added a 39-yard field goal by Graves late in the third quarter before Henry sealed the verdict with a 65-yard touchdown run with 7:53 left in the game.


2015 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, vs Charleston Southern Buccaneers
The second-ranked University of Alabama Crimson Tide in a 56–6 victory before a crowd of 100,611 at Bryant–Denny Stadium Saturday. Alabama raced to a 28–0 lead after the first quarter on the way to a 49-0 halftime advantage, scoring touchdowns on its first five offensive possessions and adding scores on a pair of punt returns.


2015 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, vs Charleston Southern Buccaneers
Playing only the first quarter of Saturday's game, Alabama running back Derrick Henry rushed for 68 yards and two touchdowns on only nine carries. He also caught a pass for 28 yards. Henry's two rushing touchdowns opened the scoring and Cyrus Jones' punt returns highlighted the opening half onslaught as the Tide prepared for its annual Iron Bowl clash with Auburn by dispatching the Buccaneers quickly. The Alabama defense was dominant throughout, allowing only 31 total yards and three first downs in the opening half.


2015 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, vs Charleston Southern Buccaneers
Due to the big lead, Alabama's starters sat out the second half. In two quarters of play, quarterback Jake Coker completed 11 of 13 pass attempts for 155 yards and two touchdowns without throwing an interception. Wide receiver Calvin Ridley had four catches for 49 yards, wide receiver ArDarius Stewart had four catches for 45 yards and wideout Richard Mullaney had one catch for a 21-yard touchdown. The offensive starters yielded to the Tide's second-team offense late in the second period. Reserve running back Bo Scarborough had a game-high 69 rushing yards and a touchdown on 10 carries.


2015 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, vs Charleston Southern Buccaneers
The Alabama defense limited CSU to 134 total yards (85 rushing, 49 passing) and eight first downs in the game, holding the Buccaneers to 1-of-10 on third downs while causing two turnovers (one fumble and one interception). Cornerback Bradley Sylve and defensive end Dalvin Tomlinson both had four tackles each to lead the Tide.


2015 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, vs Charleston Southern Buccaneers
Henry started the scoring with a 17-yard touchdown run with 11:36 left in the first quarter, capping the game's first possession. It was Henry's 16th consecutive game with a touchdown. Henry ended the Tide's next possession with a 2-yard scoring run to give Alabama a 14–0 lead with 5:50 left in the opening period. That gave him 21 rushing touchdowns in 2015, tying the school record set by Trent Richardson in 2011, and also gave Henry 35 career rushing scores to tie Richardson for fourth on the Tide's career rushing touchdowns list.


2015 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, vs Charleston Southern Buccaneers
After the Tide forced another CSU punt, Alabama capped its third possession with its third touchdown of the game, this one a 21-yard pass from Coker to wide receiver Richard Mullaney with 2:28 left in the opening quarter. Cyrus Jones closed the quarter with a 43-yard punt return for a touchdown on the final play of the period for a 28-0 Alabama lead, marking the second consecutive game in which Jones has taken a punt the distance.


2015 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, vs Charleston Southern Buccaneers
A 30-yard pass from Coker to wide receiver Calvin Ridley gave the Tide a 35–0 lead at 7:07 of the second quarter, capping an 86-yard drive and giving Alabama four touchdowns in four offensive possessions. Three minutes later, following CSU's next possession, Jones took another punt for a touchdown, this one going 72 yards for a 42–0 lead. It marked the first time in Crimson Tide history that an Alabama player has returned two punts for touchdowns in the same game. Alabama led, 49–0, at the half via Bo Scarborough's one-yard run with 1:53 left in the half.


2015 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, vs Charleston Southern Buccaneers
The 49 points scored by the Tide was the most in a half by an Alabama team since scoring 52 points against Vanderbilt 1990. CSU quarterback Kyle Copeland's three-yard run early in the fourth quarter prevented a shutout. Alabama running back Damien Harris scored on a six-yard run in the fourth period to end the Tide's scoring.


2015 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, @ Auburn Tigers
University of Alabama running back Derrick Henry rushed for 271 yards and a touchdown on a school-record 46 carries to lead the Crimson Tide (11-1 overall; 7–1 in the Southeastern Conference) to a 29–13 over the Auburn Tigers (6-6 overall; 2–6 in the SEC) Saturday afternoon before a capacity crowd of 87,451 at Jordan-Hare Stadium. The victory gave the Crimson Tide the SEC's Western Division title and earned Alabama a berth in the SEC Championship Game against the Florida Gators next Saturday, December 5, in Atlanta's Georgia Dome.


2015 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, @ Auburn Tigers
With the game on the line in the final quarter, Henry rushed 19 times for 114 yards in the fourth quarter alone to lead the Tide out of a tense situation in which they were clinging to a 19–13 lead midway through the period. After Alabama took a 22–13 lead on Adam Griffith's fifth field goal of the game with 10:04 left, Henry carried on every Crimson Tide snap the rest of the way, carrying the ball on 14 consecutive plays to close out the game. Henry's totals stand as the third-most rushing yards in a game by any Alabama back, and his yardage is the most ever gained by an Auburn opponent.


2015 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, @ Auburn Tigers
In addition to Henry's heroics, Alabama's offense was keyed by an accurate passing performance by quarterback Jake Coker, who completed 17 of 26 attempts for 179 yards and a touchdown. Wide receiver ArDarius Stewart caught a game-high eight catches for 81 yards and a score while wideout Calvin Ridley had 90 yards receiving on six catches. Griffith made good on all five field goal attempts in the game, the most by a Tide kicker in four seasons. The Alabama defense permitted only one big play in the game while limiting the explosive Tigers offense to 260 total yards (169 passing, 91 rushing).


2015 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, @ Auburn Tigers
Alabama outgained Auburn, 465 to 260, while the Tide rushed for 286 yards and passed for 179. The Tide notched 24 first downs to Auburn's 12, limited the Tigers to 3-of-15 on third downs, and had the ball for 35 minutes, 23 seconds, compared to Auburn's 24:37. Safety Geno Matias-Smith led the Tide with eight tackles and a forced fumble. Linebacker Reuben Foster had six stops, a pass breakup and a quarterback hurry, while Tide cornerback Marlon Humphrey had six tackles on the night. Linebacker Reggie Ragland had five stops while directing the Tide defense on the field.


2015 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, @ Auburn Tigers
Alabama broke on top early with a field goal to cap its first offensive possession of the game. The Tide marched 48 yards in eight plays to the Auburn 9 where Adam Griffith entered to kick a 26-yard field goal, giving Alabama a 3–0 lead with 11:28 on the clock. Henry carried four times for 36 yards on the march, keying the drive with a 30-yard run to the Auburn 14. Stewart caught three passes for 12 yards on the opening drive.


2015 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, @ Auburn Tigers
Auburn struck right back, moving 68 yards in nine plays to a 24-yard field goal by Daniel Carlson that tied the game at 3–3 with 7:35 on the clock. Auburn took the lead on its next series, a seven-play, 22-yard drive that stalled at the Tide 27. From there, Carlson entered to kick a 44-yard field goal that gave Auburn a 6–3 lead with 1:49 on the clock. The Tide came right back with a field goal to tie it, this one a 41-yarder by Griffith with 11:47 left to knot the score at 6-6. Henry carried seven times for 51 yards on the 14-play drive that covered 67 yards.


2015 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, @ Auburn Tigers
The Tide moved 55 yards in 5 plays to take the lead early in the second quarter, highlighted by a 46-yard pass from Coker to Ridley, who made an outstanding catch in double coverage at the Tiger 5. Alabama settled for a third field goal, this one a 26-yarder by Griffith, for a 9–6 lead with 6:58 left in the half. After an Auburn drive ended in a missed 48-yard field goal with 1:24 left, Alabama moved quickly.


2015 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, @ Auburn Tigers
ArDarius Stewart made a spectacular leaping catch for a 17-yard gain on the first play, then Henry took a handoff around right tackle for 15 yards to the Auburn 36. After Henry gained three on a rush up the middle, two incompletions forced a 50-yard field goal try by Griffith. Griffith nailed it for his fourth of the half to give the Tide a 12–6 lead with 24 seconds left.


2015 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, @ Auburn Tigers
Alabama lengthened its lead late in the third period, moving 85 yards in nine plays to a touchdown on an impressive 34-yard pass from Coker to Stewart with 5:14 on the clock. Under a heavy rush, Coker left the pocket and evaded two rushers before firing a dart on the run to Stewart in the end zone. Griffith's kick gave Alabama a 19–6 lead with 5:14 left in the third quarter.


2015 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, @ Auburn Tigers
But Auburn retaliated quickly, as quarterback Jeremy Johnson hit wide receiver Jason Smith on a 77-yard touchdown pass on a third and long play in which Smith bobbled the ball twice into the air before hauling it in and racing untouched to the end zone. With the point-after kick by Carlson, Alabama's lead was trimmed to 19–13 with 4:27 left in the third period.


2015 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, @ Auburn Tigers
On a first down at the Tide 35, Coker was flushed from the pocket and rushed to the sidelines for a one-yard gain. A 15-yard personal foul was called on Auburn safety Johnathan Ford for a late hit on Coker as he exited the field. Another 15-yard penalty was assessed to Auburn for unsportsmanlike conduct after that play, moving the ball to the Auburn 34. Three plays later, Griffith kicked a 47-yard field goal to give the Tide a 22–13 lead with 10:04 left in the fourth period. This drive is infamous for the commentary by the Auburn radio announcers, who showed extreme bias in complaining about the officiating, and attacking Coach Nick Saban in their deflection of Auburn's sideline penalty.


2015 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, @ Auburn Tigers
After forcing an Auburn punt, Alabama took over possession with 7:49 left at its own 18. Henry and the Tide offensive line took over from there, beginning with a 16-yard gain on the first play and giving the ball to Henry 14 consecutive times. The first 10 of those plays ended when Henry was stopped on a fourth-and-one play at the Auburn 31 with 2:46 left. After Auburn was stuffed on the next possession, Alabama took over again at the Tiger 34. Henry carried the next four plays, closing it out with a 25-yard burst around right end for the clinching touchdown with 26 seconds left in the game.


2015 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, vs. #18 Florida Gators
The Alabama Crimson Tide (12-1 overall) used a dominant performance by its defense and a record-setting day by running back Derrick Henry to defeat the Florida Gators (10-3 overall), 29–15, to win the 2015 Southeastern Conference Championship Game in front of a crowd of 75,320 at the Georgia Dome (capacity: 71,500). The SEC title, the 25th in Crimson Tide history, made the Tide the first team to earn back-to-back SEC Championship Game victories since Tennessee did so in 1997–98.


2015 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, vs. #18 Florida Gators
The Alabama defense stifled Florida's offense for much of the game, holding the Gators to 180 total yards including only 15 yards rushing. From the end of the first quarter through Florida's first possession of the fourth period (13:16 left in the game), the Alabama defense held the Gators to only three yards of total offense. During that time frame, the Tide erased an early 7–2 deficit while running off 27 unanswered points to secure the victory.


2015 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, vs. #18 Florida Gators
Henry rushed for 189 yards and a touchdown on 44 carries, increasing his 2015 season rushing total to 1,986 yards. He broke the SEC single-season rushing yards record previously held by Herschel Walker of Georgia (1,891 yards in 1981) on a second-and-three play on which Henry ran at right tackle and gained seven yards with 4:00 left in the third period. Henry earned Most Valuable Player honors for his performance. Tide quarterback Jake Coker completed 18 of 26 passes for 204 yards and two touchdowns without throwing an interception. Wide receiver Calvin Ridley had 103 yards on a game-high eight catches and receiver ArDarius Stewart had four catches for 64 yards.


2015 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, vs. #18 Florida Gators
The Crimson Tide defense registered five quarterback sacks, posted nine tackles for loss, intercepted a pass and forced a fumble. Florida's offense managed only seven first downs and had the ball for 16:31 of game time while Alabama dominated in time of possession with 43:29. Linebacker Ryan Anderson led Alabama with four tackles and three quarterback hurries while cornerback Marlon Humphrey had three stops and an interception.


2015 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, vs. #18 Florida Gators
Alabama opened the scoring with a safety on a blocked punt as Tide linebacker Keith Holcombe's block of Florida punter Johnny Townsend's kick bounced through the back of the end zone for a safety to give the Tide a 2–0 lead in the first quarter. Early in the second quarter, Florida took a 7–2 lead on an 85-yard punt return by Antonio Calloway, the longest in SEC Championship Game history. Moments later, Alabama responded with a 28-yard field goal by Adam Griffith, narrowing the Gator lead to 7–5. Late in the first half, a 55-yard bomb from Coker to receiver Calvin Ridley took the ball to the Gator 3, setting up a two-yard touchdown run by Henry to put the Tide in the lead, 12–7, at halftime.


2015 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, vs. #18 Florida Gators
Alabama extended its lead to 15-7 midway through the third period on a 30-yard field goal by Griffith. The lead moved to 22-7 later in the third on a leaping touchdown grab of a Coker pass amidst three Florida defenders by receiver ArDarius Stewart. Alabama's lead grew to 29–7 on a nine-yard pass from Coker to receiver Richard Mullaney midway in the fourth quarter. Florida's offense reached paydirt in the fourth period on a 46-yards pass from Treon Harris to receiver C.J. Worton. Harris ran for two points and the Alabama lead had narrowed to 29–15 with 5:02 on the clock. Even though Alabama was forced to punt on their next possession, their defense held by sacking Harris on a fourth down attempt.


2015 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, CFP Playoff, vs. #3 Michigan State Spartans – (Cotton Bowl Classic – CFP Semifinal)
The Alabama Crimson Tide (13-1 overall), ranked No. 2 in the College Football Playoff (CFP) rankings, produced a dominant performance for a 38–0 victory over the No. 3 Michigan State Spartans (12-2) Thursday night in the College Football Playoff Semifinal at the Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic in front of a crowd of 82,812 at AT&T Stadium (capacity: 71,815). With the victory, Alabama advances to the CFP National Championship Game against the No. 1 Clemson Tigers set for Monday, January 11, 2016, at University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona.


2015 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, CFP Playoff, vs. #3 Michigan State Spartans – (Cotton Bowl Classic – CFP Semifinal)
The Alabama defense produced another excellent performance against a quality opponent, shutting down the Spartans' offense for much of the game, holding the Spartans to only 29 rushing yards and 239 total yards. Meanwhile, Tide cornerback Cyrus Jones produced game-changing plays with an interception to stop an MSU scoring threat and a punt return for a touchdown that sealed the verdict. The Tide defense registered four quarterback sacks, posted six tackles for loss, and intercepted two passes.


2015 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, CFP Playoff, vs. #3 Michigan State Spartans – (Cotton Bowl Classic – CFP Semifinal)
Linebacker Reggie Ragland led Alabama with seven tackles while linebacker Dillon Lee had six stops and intercepted a pass. Linebacker Ryan Anderson had four tackles, including a sack and two tackles for losses. Linebacker Reuben Foster and safety Geno Matias-Smith also had four tackles in the game. Alabama limited MSU's outstanding quarterback, Connor Cook, to 186 passing yards on 17 completions in 33 attempts with 2 interceptions and no touchdowns.


2015 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, CFP Playoff, vs. #3 Michigan State Spartans – (Cotton Bowl Classic – CFP Semifinal)
Alabama's offense produced 440 total yards (286 passing, 154 rushing) led by senior quarterback Jake Coker's career-best 286 passing yards and two touchdowns. Coker was deadly accurate, completing 25 of 30 pass attempts. Freshman wide receiver Calvin Ridley had 138 receiving yards on 8 catches for 2 touchdowns, setting a new Alabama freshman record for single-season receiving yards in the process (1,031 yards). Heisman Trophy winning running back Derrick Henry rushed for 75 yards and 2 touchdowns on 20 carries, becoming only the 25th running back in NCAA history (encompassing all divisions) to rush for 2,000 yards in a season. He enters the CFP title game with 2,061 rushing yards in 2015.


2015 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, CFP Playoff, vs. #3 Michigan State Spartans – (Cotton Bowl Classic – CFP Semifinal)
After a scoreless first quarter, the teams continued in a standoff well into the second quarter until the Tide moved 80 yards in six plays to a touchdown to break on top, 7–0, on a 1-yard run by Henry with 5:36 left in the first half. Clutch plays in the passing game keyed the drive that was highlighted by a 50-yard pass from Coker to Ridley that reached the MSU 1-yard line.


2015 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, CFP Playoff, vs. #3 Michigan State Spartans – (Cotton Bowl Classic – CFP Semifinal)
Henry's touchdown run was his 24th, breaking the Southeastern Conference record for rushing TDs in a season (previously held by Auburn's Tre Mason in 2013 and Florida's Tim Tebow in 2006). Placekicker Adam Griffith connected on a 47-yard field goal to give the Tide a 10–0 lead with 1:25 left in the half. Tide cornerback Cyrus Jones made a huge play at the end of the first half. The Spartans had marched to the Tide 12 in the final minute of the half before Jones leaped high to intercept a Connor Cook pass at the Tide 2-yard line in the waning seconds of the half, ending a scoring threat and protecting the Tide's 10–0 lead heading into halftime.


2015 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, CFP Playoff, vs. #3 Michigan State Spartans – (Cotton Bowl Classic – CFP Semifinal)
Alabama extended the lead to 17–0 on the opening drive of the second half, moving 75 yards in nine plays to pay dirt on a six-yard pass to Ridley along the sideline in the end zone. Later in the third period, Jones returned an MSU punt 57 yards for a touchdown to give the Tide a 24–0 lead with 3:24 left in the third period. Just 1:04 later, Coker and Ridley connected on a 50-yard touchdown bomb to move the Tide to a 31–0 lead with 2:20 left in the third period. Henry closed the scoring with an 11-yard run with 7:52 left in the game.


2015 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, CFP Playoff, vs. #1 Clemson Tigers
Alabama came off a stellar defensive performance in the semifinal game, and was looking to contain Clemson's QB Deshaun Watson, but Alabama defense was quickly forced into conceding most of the field and stopping Clemson in the redzone. Alabama's offense was stressed at the line of scrimmage by Clemson's defensive line led by Shaq Lawson.


2015 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, CFP Playoff, vs. #1 Clemson Tigers
Despite being statistically outplayed by Clemson (550 Clemson offensive yards to 473 Alabama) offensively and statistically tied in other areas, Alabama was able to capitalize on three key plays: an interception of Deshaun Watson's pass early in the second quarter, a surprise Alabama onside kick early in the fourth quarter, and an Alabama kickoff return for a touchdown in the middle of the fourth quarter. These plays accounted for 21 points, and Alabama won the game 45 to 40.


2015 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, CFP Playoff, vs. #1 Clemson Tigers
Having won the coin toss to start the game, Clemson elected to defer to the second half. Characteristic of Alabama, the offensive opening drive was slow and cautious but notable for utilizing Derrick Henry four times, a schematic change of pace from that of the Semifinal game against Michigan State. Alabama and Clemson would trade punting drives before, on the next Alabama possession, Derrick Henry was utilized three times. On the third run, Derrick would find an opening for a 50-yard touchdown run (7-0).


2015 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, CFP Playoff, vs. #1 Clemson Tigers
However, on the next two Clemson possessions Deshaun Watson used his characteristic speed, agility, and elusiveness to sustain drives with a mixture of QB runs and fade routes against Alabama's top-ranked defense. These two drives both culminated in TD throws to Hunter Renfrow (7-14) the later of which ended the first quarter.


2015 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, CFP Playoff, vs. #1 Clemson Tigers
On Alabama's next possession to start the second quarter, despite a promising start in a 29-yard pass to Richard Mullaney, Alabama's offensive line conceded a sack by Kevin Dodd and a tackle for loss on Derrick Henry. Characteristic of Alabama, facing third and long offensive coordinator Lane Kiffin enacted for extra field position on a punt with a short throw to Ridley rather than attempting a first down pass. Despite the seemingly dire situation, on the ensuing Clemson drive Deshaun Watson was intercepted by Eddie Jackson at the Clemson 42 yard line.


2015 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, CFP Playoff, vs. #1 Clemson Tigers
The resulting Alabama possession culminated in a 1-yard TD run by Derrick Henry (14-14). After this flurry, both Clemson and Alabama played more cautiously as each of the three following possessions by both teams went no further than 40 yards. Clemson's last possession of the half resulted in a blocked field goal.


2015 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, CFP Playoff, vs. #1 Clemson Tigers
Going into the third quarter, Clemson opted to receive the ball but was forced into a quick three and out. On Alabama's next possession, TE OJ Howard found himself open in space for a 53-yard touchdown (21-14). Clemson responded with a mixture of QB runs, pass plays by Deshaun Watson, and key run plays by RB Wayne Gallman on its next two drives to get a 37-yard field goal by Greg Hugel (21-17) and a 1-yard touchdown run by Wayne Gallman (21-24). Both teams were then stalled for three and outs or near three and outs on their next two possessions to close the Third quarter.


2015 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, CFP Playoff, vs. #1 Clemson Tigers
On Alabama's first possession of the fourth quarter, Jake Coker found ArDarius Stewart in single man coverage for 38 yards. This gain, however, did not translate into a touchdown as the offense was stalled by good secondary play from Clemson. Alabama settled for a field goal from 33 yards to tie the game (24-24). On the ensuing kickoff Alabama gambled on a surprise onside kick, executed to perfection by Adam Griffith and caught by Marlon Humphrey. Alabama capitalized almost immediately with another 50+ touchdown pass to a wide open OJ Howard (31-24). Clemson pulled within 4 once again.


2015 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, CFP Playoff, vs. #1 Clemson Tigers
However, Alabama's defense held in the red zone and forced a field goal from Clemson (31-27). On the ensuing kickoff, Alabama RB Kenyan Drake stunned Clemson by taking the ball 95 yards for an Alabama touchdown (38-27). Deshaun Watson quickly answered with an 8 play 75 yard touchdown drive which culminated in a 15-yard touchdown pass to WR Artavius Scott.


2015 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, CFP Playoff, vs. #1 Clemson Tigers
In attempt to pull within three points of Alabama (and thus within a field goal of tying the game), Clemson attempted a two-point conversion with what morphed into a naked bootleg QB run by Deshaun Watson which was stopped short (38-33). On Alabama's next possession QB Jake Coker passed the ball in a checkdown screen to OJ Howard who, getting good blocking, ran for 63 yards. With less than 3 minutes left in the game, Alabama ran the ball up the middle to convert downs.


2015 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, CFP Playoff, vs. #1 Clemson Tigers
After a key third down scramble for a first down by Jake Coker, Derrick Henry, on third down, broke the touchdown plane with the nose of the ball over the top of the goal line pile of players for a 1-yard TD run (45-33). A stellar performance by Deshaun Watson on a 55-second drive culminated in a 24-yard touchdown pass to Jordan Leggett with 12 seconds left on the clock (45-40). Clemson attempted an onside kick but the ball was recovered by Alabama sealing the victory and the national championship for the Crimson Tide. This was the fourth Alabama national championship win in seven years, first of the CFP era, and Head Coach Nick Saban's fifth overall.


2015 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Statistics, Defense
Key: POS: Position, SOLO: Solo Tackles, AST: Assisted Tackles, TOT: Total Tackles, TFL: Tackles-for-loss, SACK: Quarterback Sacks, INT: Interceptions, BU: Passes Broken Up, PD: Passes Defended, QBH: Quarterback Hits, FF: Forced Fumbles, FR: Fumbles Recovered, BLK: Kicks or Punts Blocked, SAF: Safeties


2015 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Postseason and awards, Conference awards
SEC Offensive Player of the Year - Derrick Henry, RB


2015 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Postseason and awards, Conference awards
SEC Defensive Player of the Year - Reggie Ragland, LB


2015 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Postseason and awards, Honors, All-Americans
Each year several publications release lists of their ideal "team". The athletes on these lists are referred to as All-Americans. The NCAA recognizes five All-American lists. They are the Associated Press (AP), American Football Coaches Association (AFCA), Football Writers Association of America (FWAA), Sporting News (SN), and the Walter Camp Football Foundation (WCFF). If a player is selected to the first team of three publications he is considered a consensus All-American, if a player is selected to the first team of all five publications he is considered a unanimous All-American.


2015 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Postseason and awards, Honors, SEC All-Conference Team
The Crimson Tide had TBA players honored as members of the 2015 SEC All-Conference team, with five each on the first and second teams, respectively. TBA other Crimson Tide earned honorable mention honors.


2015 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Postseason and awards, All-Academic Teams, SEC Conference All-Academic Players
The Crimson Tide had two players selected to the Southeastern Conference All-Academic Second Team, six players granted honorable mention and no players selected to the First Team. In order to be eligible for the academic team a player must maintain a minimum 3.0 overall grade-point average and play in at least 50 percent of their team's games.


2015 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Postseason and awards, Records broken
1. Alabama played the most difficult schedule of any national championship team in NCAA history. Of the 15 teams Alabama played, 14 had a winning record, 13 played in bowl games and Alabama defeated 12 of them, 8 won bowl their games, 6 won 10 or more games, 3 won 9 games, 2 won 8 games, and 2 won 7 games. Two conference champions (Big 10 and ACC) were defeated in the Playoffs by Alabama. 7 of Alabama's opponents were ranked in the final AP Poll (#2 Clemson, #6 Michigan State, #10 Ole Miss, #16 LSU, #21 Wisconsin, #22 Tennessee, #25 Florida). In the final Coaches Poll, 8 of Alabama's opponents were ranked (the same teams as in the AP plus #24 Georgia).


2015 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Postseason and awards, Records broken
2. Alabama's opponents had a 134-49 combined record for a 73% combined winning percentage (not counting head to head games against Alabama): the highest opponent combined winning percentage of any national championship team in NCAA history.


2015 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Postseason and awards, Records broken
3. Derrick Henry set an SEC rushing record in 2015: 395 rushes for 2219 yards, eclipsing Herschel Walker's 1981 SEC rushing record of 1891 yards on 381 carries.


2015 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Postseason and awards, Records broken
4. Derrick Henry set an SEC rushing TD record with 28 rushing TDs, eclipsing the previous record of 23 previously held by Tim Tebow (2007) and Tre Mason (2013).


2015 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Postseason and awards, Records broken
5. Derrick Henry set an SEC single season rushing carries record with 395 carries, eclipsing the previous 1981 record of 381 carries set by Georgia's Herschel Walker.


2015 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Postseason and awards, Records broken
6. O.J. Howard set a BCS/Playoff national championship game receiving yards record with 5 receptions totaling 208 yards.


2015 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, NFL Draft
The following members of 2015 Alabama Crimson Tide football team were selected in the 2016 NFL Draft.


2015 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, NFL Draft, NFL Draft Combine
Seven members of the 2015 team were invited to participate in drills at the 2016 NFL scouting Combine.


2015 Alabama Crimson Tide softball team
The 2015 Alabama Crimson Tide softball team is an American softball team, representing the University of Alabama for the 2015 NCAA softball season. The Crimson Tide play their home games at Rhoads Stadium. After losing in the 2014 Women's College World Series, the 2015 team looks to make the postseason for the 17th straight year, and the Women's College World Series for tenth time. This season represents the 19th season of softball in the school's history.


2015 Alabama Hammers season
The 2015 Alabama Hammers season was the fifth and final season for the indoor football franchise, and their fourth in the Professional Indoor Football League (PIFL).


2015 Alabama Hammers season, Roster
Rookies in italics updated June 4, 201528 Active, 14 Inactive


2015 Alabama State Hornets baseball team
The 2015 Alabama State Hornets baseball team represented Alabama State University during the 2015 NCAA Division I baseball season. The Hornets played their home games at the Wheeler–Watkins Baseball Complex as a member of the Southwestern Athletic Conference. They were led by head coach Mervyl Melendez, in his fourth season at Alabama State.


2015 Alabama State Hornets baseball team, Previous Season
In 2014, the Hornets finished the season as champions of the SWAC's East division with a record of 37–20, 21–3 in conference play. They qualified for the 2014 Southwestern Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament, and were eliminated in the finals. They failed to qualify for the 2014 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.


2015 Alabama State Hornets football team
The 2015 Alabama State Hornets football team represented Alabama State University in the 2015 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Hornets were led by first-year head coach Brian Jenkins and played their home games at The New ASU Stadium. They were a member of the East Division of the Southwestern Athletic Conference. They finished the season 6–5 overall and 5–4 in SWAC play to finish in second place in the East Division


2015 Alamo Bowl
The 2015 Alamo Bowl was an American college football bowl game played on January 2, 2015, at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas. The 22nd edition of the Alamo Bowl featured the Kansas State Wildcats from the Big 12 Conference and the UCLA Bruins from the Pac-12 Conference. It was televised  at 5:45 p.m. CST on ESPN and heard on the ESPN Radio. It was one of the 2014–15 bowl games that conclude the 2014 FBS football season. The game was sponsored by the Valero Energy Corporation and was officially known as the Valero Alamo Bowl. The Bruins defeated the Wildcats, 40–35, and ended the season with 10 wins.


2015 Alamo Bowl, Teams
This was the third overall meeting between these two teams, with the series standing tied, 1–1 before the game. The last time these two teams met was in 2010.


2015 Alamo Bowl, Teams, Kansas State
Kansas State entered the season ranked #20 in the preseason polls, and were predicted as one of the teams that could win the Big 12 Conference. After winning their first two games, the Wildcats lost to then 5th-ranked Auburn 20-14 to fall to 2-1. The Wildcats then won 5-straight games to improve to 7-1, including a 31-30 win over Oklahoma, and rose to #7 in the rankings. They would then lose 41-20 to TCU for their first loss of Conference play. After beating West Virginia and Kansas, Kansas State lost their season finale to Baylor 38-27 to finish 9-3, with a 7-2 conference record


2015 Alamo Bowl, Teams, UCLA
The UCLA Bruins were ranked No. 7 in preseason national polls, and were expected to contend for not only one of the four berths in the College Football Playoff, but also the national championship. They started the season 4–0, often struggling, before suffering consecutive home losses to the Utah Utes and Oregon Ducks. After dropping out of the polls, they re-emerged as playoff contenders with five straight wins. However, UCLA lost their final home game to the Stanford Cardinal. A win in the Alamo Bowl would give the Bruins their ninth 10-win season in school history, and it would be just the third time in their history that they have won 10 games in consecutive seasons.


2015 Alamo Bowl, Game summary
No . 14 UCLA jumped to a large halftime lead and held on for a 40–35 win over No. 11 Kansas State. Paul Perkins scored on a 67-yard run to give the Bruins a 40–28 lead with just over two minutes left in the game, and he helped recover an onside kick to seal the game after the Wildcats final score. He finished with a career-high 194 yards with two touchdowns, and was named the bowl's offensive most valuable player (MVP). UCLA ran for 331 yards, including 96 by Brett Hundley. After making a team-high 10 tackles, including three for a loss, the Bruins' Eric Kendricks was voted the game's defensive MVP. The win earned UCLA their second straight 10–3 season, and their first consecutive bowl victories since winning eight in a row from 1983 through 1991.


2015 Alamo Bowl, Game summary
UCLA's Hundley ran for two touchdowns in the first quarter, when he also completed nine of 11 passes for 85 yards. The Bruins led 31–6 at the half after holding Kansas State to just 87 total yards. However, the Wildcats rallied to score 15 straight points and controlled the ball for almost 13 minutes in the third quarter. They pulled to within 34–28 after a touchdown with five minutes remaining. The scoring drive was extended by two penalties by UCLA, who had 15 for an Alamo Bowl record 128 yards. UCLA responded with Perkins' touchdown run on a second-and-13 play, extending the lead to 40–28. The Wildcats came as close as 40–35 with 1:21 remaining after Tyler Lockett caught a 29-yard touchdown pass from Jake Waters, but the comeback ended after their failed onside attempt.


2015 Alamo Bowl, Game summary
Hundley accounted for three touchdowns and threw for 136 yards, but completed only three of 13 passes after the first quarter. The UCLA defense had a season-high seven sacks after entering the contest averaging just 1.8 (22 in 12 games). Perkins finished the season as the Pac-12 rushing leader with 1,575 yards. Kendricks led the Football Bowl Subdivision with 149 solo tackles. Kansas State's Lockett had an Alamo Bowl record 13 receptions for 164 yards, and tied the bowl record with two TD receptions. His 249 all-purpose yards were also a bowl record. Waters was 31-of-48 passing for 338 yards, but was intercepted twice and lost a fumble.


2015 Albanian Cup Final
The 2015 Albanian Cup Final was a football match played on 29 May 2015 to decide the winner of the 2014–15 Albanian Cup, the 63rd edition of Albania's primary football cup.


2015 Albanian Cup Final
The match, contested by FK Kukësi and KF Laçi, took place on 29 May 2015 at Qemal Stafa Stadium in Tiranë, and kicked off at 20:00 p.m. It was the second time either club had reached the final of the Albanian Cup, with KF Laçi having won the 2012–13 Albanian Cup Final against Bylis Ballsh and FK Kukësi having lost to Flamurtari Vlorë in the 2013–14 Albanian Cup Final. KF Laçi won the game through a Segun Adeniyi winner to win the Albanian Cup for a second time in their history and a second time. In Albania, the match was televised by TVSH and SuperSport.


2015 Albanian Cup Final
The first goal of the game was scored by Emiljano Veliaj through a free kick in the 29th minute, and Edon Hasani scored the equaliser just before half time, with Segun Adeniyi scoring the winning goal in the 61st minute. The competition winners were awarded a place in the first qualifying round of the 2015–16 Europa League competition.


2015 Albanian Supercup
The 2015 Albanian Supercup was the 22nd edition of the Albanian Supercup, an annual Albanian football match played between the winner of the previous season's Albanian Superliga and the winner of the Albanian Cup. The match was contested by KF Skënderbeu Korçë, champions of the 2014–15 Albanian Superliga, and KF Laçi, the 2014–15 Albanian Cup winners. It was held at the Qemal Stafa Stadium on 12 August 2015. KF Laçi won the match 8–7 on penalties after regular and overtime game ended 2–2 draw. The game was watched by 2,200 spectators and was broadcast through DigitAlb's SuperSport Albania.


2015 Albanian local elections
Local elections were held in Albania on 21 June 2015. Voters elected mayors, municipal council members, municipal unit mayors and municipal unit members. The Central Election Commission of Albania was responsible for administrating the elections. These were the first local elections in Albania since substantial administrative reforms legislated in 2014 reduced the number of municipalities in the country to 61.


2015 Albany Great Danes football team
The 2015 Albany Great Danes football team represented the University at Albany, SUNY in the 2015 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by Greg Gattuso, who was in his second season as head coach, and played their home games  Bob Ford Field at Tom & Mary Casey Stadium. The Great Danes were in their third season as members of the Colonial Athletic Association. They finished the season 3–8, 2–6 in CAA play to finish in 11th place.


2015 Alberta Scotties Tournament of Hearts
The 2015 Jiffy Lube Alberta Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Alberta's provincial women's curling championship, was held from January 21 to 25 at the Lacombe Arena in Lacombe, Alberta. The winning team Val Sweeting team represented Alberta at the 2015 Scotties Tournament of Hearts in Moose Jaw.


2015 Alberta Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Qualification
Twelve teams qualified for the provincial tournament through several methods. The qualification process is as follows:


2015 Alberta general election
The 2015 Alberta general election was held on May 5, 2015, following a request of Premier Jim Prentice to the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Donald Ethell to dissolve the Legislative Assembly on April 7, 2015. This election elected members to the 29th Alberta Legislature. It was only the fourth time in provincial history that saw a change of government, and was the last provincial election for both the Alberta Progressive Conservative and Wildrose Parties, which would merge in 2017 to form the United Conservative Party (although each would run a token candidate in the 2019 election).


2015 Alberta general election
The provincial Election Act fixed the election date to a three-month period between March 1 and May 31 in the fourth calendar year after the preceding election day – in this case, April 23, 2012. However, the Act does not affect the powers of the Lieutenant Governor to dissolve the Legislature before this period.


2015 Alberta general election
The Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta (PCs) had a majority in the outgoing Assembly. As a result of the election, the Alberta New Democratic Party (NDP) were elected to a majority government under leader Rachel Notley. The NDP formed Government for the first time in Alberta history, ousting the PCs, who were reduced to third place in seats. Prentice resigned as PC leader and MLA for Calgary-Foothills on election night. The Progressive Conservatives had won every provincial election since the 1971 election, making them the longest-serving provincial government in Canadian history—being in office for 44 years.


2015 Alberta general election
This was only the fourth change of government in Alberta since Alberta became a province in 1905, and one of the worst defeats a provincial government has suffered in Canada. It also marked the first time in almost 80 years that a left-of-centre political party had formed government in Alberta since the defeat of the United Farmers of Alberta in 1935 and the Depression-era radical monetary reform policies of William Aberhart's Social Credit government.


2015 Alberta general election
The Wildrose Party under leader Brian Jean remained the Official Opposition, gaining four seats since 2012 despite winning 81,814 fewer votes and a 10.1% lower share of the popular vote than in the previous election. The Alberta Liberal Party and Alberta Party each won a single seat with Alberta Party leader Greg Clark becoming the party's first MLA. The Alberta Liberal Party lost four seats, only returning interim leader David Swann to the Legislative Assembly.


2015 Alberta general election
The election is sometimes called the "Orange Chinook", a reference to the province's dramatic swing to the NDP, the NDP's orange colour and the weather shifts occasioned by strong "winds of change" that southern Alberta commonly experiences.


2015 Alberta general election
Following the election, Notley and her cabinet were sworn in on May 24, 2015.


2015 Alberta general election, Background
In the 2012 general election the PCs lost a portion of their caucus, but were able to continue as majority government, despite their share of the popular vote decreasing to under 50%. The Wildrose Party formed the official opposition for the first time, while the other two parties in the Assembly, the Alberta Liberal Party and Alberta New Democratic Party (NDP), both held official party status with five and four seats respectively. On September 4, 2014, the PCs became the longest serving political dynasty in Canadian history, at 43 years, 5 days.


2015 Alberta general election, Background
Prentice, who succeeded former premier and interim leader of the Progressive Conservatives Dave Hancock in September 2014, was not obligated to call an election until 2016. However, seeking a new mandate to pass his budget, he asked Lieutenant Governor Donald Ethell to dissolve the legislature on April 7. In accordance with Canadian constitutional practice, Ethell granted the request, beginning a month long campaign. The early election call was criticized by some as unethical, as it violated the fixed election dates specified in the Elections Act, but it was constitutionally valid and followed the general practice of the reserve powers of the Crown, specifically the constitutional convention of following the advice of the premier.


2015 Alberta general election, Results
The NDP received the most votes, receiving 40.6 percent of the vote and capturing 62 percent of the seats.


2015 Alberta general election, Results
NDP candidates received over 50% of the votes in all Edmonton ridings as well as the ridings of Sherwood Park, St. Albert and Lethbridge-West. All opposition candidates won with less than half the votes in the riding where they ran, except forthe Wildrose candidates in Cypress-Medicine Hat, Strathmore-Brooks and Olds-Disbury, each of whom captured over a majority of its respective votes.


2015 Alberta general election, Results
The election produced some very close races and small leads for some winning candidates. In Calgary Glenmore the winning candidate won with a lead of six votes over her leading contender. In Calgary McCall an NDP candidate won with less than 30 percent of the vote; in Calgary Shaw an NDP candidate won with but 31 percent of the vote; in Calgary South-East a PC won with only 32.5 percent of the votes cast.


2015 Alberta general election, Results
In many ridings the combined votes of the Progressive Conservative and the Wildrose candidates surpassed that of the NDP.


2015 Alberta general election, Results
In some ridings such as Red Deer North, Spruce Grove-St. Albert, Calgary-Buffalo, Calgary-Varsity, Lethbridge East and Lethbridge West, the combined vote of the NDP and the Liberal candidates totalled more than 50 percent of the district's votes, thus overwhelming the combined vote of the Conservative and Wild Rose candidate. This also held true for Calgary Mountain View where a Liberal was elected.


2015 Alberta general election, Results
In many ridings no Liberal ran, which probably aided the NDP victory in those ridings. These included Lesser Slave Lake, Peace River, Edmonton-McClung, Sherwood Park, West Yellowhead and Whitecourt.


2015 Alberta general election, Results
The election resulted in a majority government led by the New Democratic Party.


2015 Alberta general election, Results
The result in Calgary-Glenmore remained unresolved on election night, as incumbent PC MLA Linda Johnson and NDP challenger Anam Kazim finished the vote count in an exact tie of 7,015 votes each, necessitating a recount process. On May 15, the recount determined NDP candidate Anam Kazim won the riding by six votes.


2015 Alberta general election, Results
The Alberta NDP had been leading in most polls since late April. They had been expected to do well in Edmonton, which historically had been more favourable to centre-left parties and candidates than Alberta in general. However, in a result that exceeded even the most optimistic projections for the NDP, Edmonton swung dramatically to support Notley, who represents an Edmonton riding. The NDP took every seat in the city, all by very large margins (4,000 votes or more with absolute majority support).


2015 Alberta general election, Results
The NDP also won 15 of the 25 seats in Calgary, the power base of the PCs for most of the previous four decades. The NDP also swept the province's third and fourth-largest cities, Lethbridge and Red Deer. NDP support remained relatively lower in rural Alberta, where they won only a handful of ridings in the north of the province, as well as some rural ridings around Edmonton.


2015 Alberta general election, Results
Notley later said that she had known a week before the election that the NDP would win. She told the Canadian Press that she had been sitting in a hotel room in either Calgary or Lethbridge when she saw a very credible poll showing the NDP was poised to rebound from a mere four seats in the legislature – the minimum for official party status – to an outright majority. She was stunned at first, but recovered long enough to drop her plans for a whirlwind schedule to close out the campaign. Her original plan would have not only resulted in her looking extremely haggard in her first speech as premier-elect, but would have left her without time to begin a transition.


2015 Alberta general election, Results
The PCs finished second in the popular vote, 53,099 votes ahead of the Wildrose. However, their caucus was decimated due to a near-total collapse in the major cities, as well as a more pronounced split in the right-of-centre vote. They were completely shut out in Edmonton, Lethbridge, and Red Deer, and lost 12 of their 20 seats in Calgary. Since the first-past-the-post system awards power solely on the basis of seats won (not by proportional representation), the PCs were knocked down to third place with 10 seats, and only two outside Calgary.


2015 Alberta general election, Results
This was further reduced to nine when Prentice disclaimed victory in his riding. The PCs were reduced to their smallest presence in the Legislative Assembly since 1967. With a few exceptions, their support in the cities transferred to the NDP, while their rural support moved to the Wildrose. All but three members of Prentice's cabinet were defeated.


2015 Alberta general election, Results
The Wildrose had its legislative caucus greatly reduced in 2014 when then-leader and Leader of the Official Opposition Danielle Smith and all but 5 Wildrose MLAs crossed the floor to sit with the governing PCs. In the 2015 general election, the party rebounded to 21 seats and retained Official Opposition status. All of their gains were in rural ridings taken from the PCs, and they failed to win a seat in Edmonton or Calgary.


2015 Alberta general election, Results
Greg Clark, leader of the Alberta Party, won the first ever seat for his party in the Legislative Assembly.


2015 Alberta general election, Results
For the first time since the 1920s, centre-left candidates won a majority of seats in Calgary (15 NDP, 1 Liberal, 1 Alberta Party).


2015 Alberta general election, Results by riding
Bold indicates cabinet members, and party leaders are italicized. Candidate names appear as they appeared on the ballot.


2015 Alberta general election, Opinion polls
The following is a summary of published polls of voter intentions.


2015 Alberta general election, Media endorsements
The following media outlets endorsed the Progressive Conservatives during the campaign:


2015 Alberta general election, Media endorsements
No media endorsements were made for any of the other parties.


2015 Alberta municipal censuses
Alberta has provincial legislation allowing its municipalities to conduct municipal censuses between April 1 and June 30 inclusive. Municipalities choose to conduct their own censuses for multiple reasons such as to better inform municipal service planning and provision, to capitalize on per capita based grant funding from higher levels of government, or to simply update their populations since the last federal census.


2015 Alberta municipal censuses
Alberta had 357 municipalities between April 1 and June 30, 2015, which marked the closure of the 2015 legislated municipal census period. This was reduced to 356 on July 1, 2015 when the former Village of Minburn dissolved to become a hamlet under the jurisdiction of the County of Minburn No. 27. At least 52 of these municipalities (14.6%) conducted a municipal census in 2015. Alberta Municipal Affairs recognized those conducted by 50 of these municipalities.


2015 Alberta municipal censuses
By municipal status, it recognized those conducted by 12 of Alberta's 18 cities, 20 of 108 towns, 5 of 92 villages, 3 of 5 specialized municipalities, 2 of 64 municipal districts, and all 8 Metis settlements. In addition to those recognized by Municipal Affairs, censuses were conducted by the villages of Kitscoty and Warburg.


2015 Alberta municipal censuses
Some municipalities achieved population milestones as a result of their 2015 censuses. Red Deer became the third city in Alberta to exceed 100,000 residents, while Grande Prairie not only surpassed 60,000 people, but also overtook both St. Albert and Medicine Hat to become Alberta's fifth-largest city. Spruce Grove grew beyond the 30,000 mark, while both the Town of Blackfalds and the County of Vermilion River eclipsed 8,000. The Town of Westlock's population resurfaced above 5,000 after first doing so in 2006 but dropping back below in 2008. The Village of Thorsby surpassed 1,000, making it eligible to apply for town status.


2015 Alberta municipal censuses, Municipal census results
The following summarizes the results of the numerous municipal censuses conducted in 2015.


2015 Alberta municipal censuses, Breakdowns, Lloydminster
The following is a breakdown of the results of the City of Lloydminster's 2015 municipal census by provincial component.


2015 Alberta municipal censuses, Breakdowns, Hamlets
The following is a list of hamlet populations determined by 2015 municipal censuses conducted by the County of Vermilion River, Strathcona County and the Regional Municipality (RM) of Wood Buffalo excluding the urban service areas of Fort McMurray and Sherwood Park that are presented above.


2015 Alberta municipal censuses, Shadow population counts
Alberta Municipal Affairs defines shadow population as "temporary residents of a municipality who are employed by an industrial or commercial establishment in the municipality for a minimum of 30 days within a municipal census year." The RM of Wood Buffalo conducted a shadow population count in 2015. The following presents the results of this count for comparison with its concurrent municipal census results.


2015 Albirex Niigata Singapore FC season
The 2015 season will be Albirex Niigata FC (Singapore)'s 12th season in the S.League.


2015 Alcorn State Braves football team
The 2015 Alcorn State Braves football team represented Alcorn State University in the 2015 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Braves were led by fourth-year head coach Jay Hopson and played their home games at Casem-Spinks Stadium. They were a member of the East Division of the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) and finished with a record of 9–4 as SWAC champions after they defeated Grambling State in the SWAC Championship Game. Alcorn State then played in the Celebration Bowl against North Carolina A&T, losing by a score of 41–34.


2015 Alcorn State Braves football team
On January 30, 2016, head coach Jay Hopson resigned to become the head coach at Southern Miss. He finished at Alcorn State with a record of 32–17 and two SWAC championships.


2015 Alexandria, Virginia mayoral election
The general election for mayor of Alexandria, Virginia was held on November 3, 2015. Allison Silberberg defeated incumbent mayor Bill Euille, who was running as a write-in after being defeated by Silberberg in his attempt to seek renomination in the Democratic primary.


2015 Alexandria, Virginia mayoral election, Democratic primary
The Democratic primary was held June 9, 2015. Vice-mayor Silberberg, a relative political newcomer, unseated longtime mayor Euille, and also defeated former mayor Donley, in what was regarded to be an upset victory.


2015 Algarve Cup
The 2015 Algarve Cup was the 22nd edition of the Algarve Cup, an invitational women's football tournament held annually in Portugal. It took place on 4–11 March.


2015 Algarve Cup, Format
Because of the number of competitive teams this year, the format was changed. Previously Group C teams were unable to get into the final, which was played between Group A and B winners. This year however, the final was played between the two best group winners.


2015 Algarve Cup, Format
Points awarded in the group stage followed the standard formula of three points for a win, one point for a draw and zero points for a loss. In the case of two teams being tied on the same number of points in a group, their head-to-head result determine the higher place.


2015 Algarve Cup, Group stage, Tie-breaking criteria
For the group stage of this tournament, where two or more teams in a group tied on an equal number of points, the finishing positions will be determined by the following tie-breaking criteria in the following order:


2015 Algarve Cup, Group stage, Ranking of teams for placement matches
The ranking of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th placed teams in each group to determine the placement matches:


2015 Algarve Cup squads
This article lists the squads for the 2015 Algarve Cup, the 22nd edition of the Algarve Cup. The cup consisted of a series of friendly games, and was held in the Algarve region of Portugal from 4 to 11 March 2015. The twelve national teams involved in the tournament registered a squad of 23 players.


2015 Algarve Cup squads
The age listed for each player is as of 4 March 2015, the first day of the tournament. The numbers of caps and goals listed for each player do not include any matches played after the start of tournament. The club listed is the club for which the player last played a competitive match prior to the tournament. The nationality for each club reflects the national association (not the league) to which the club is affiliated. A flag is included for coaches that are of a different nationality than their own national team.


2015 Algerian Cup Final
The 2015 Algerian Cup Final was the 51st final of the Algerian Cup. The final took place on May 2, 2015, at Stade Mustapha Tchaker in Blida with kick-off at 16:00.


2015 Algerian Super Cup
The 2015 Algerian Super Cup was the  9th edition of Algerian Super Cup, a football match contested by the winners of the 2014–15 Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1 and 2014–15 Algerian Cup competitions. The match was played on November 1, 2015 at Stade Mohamed Hamlaoui in Constantine between 2014-15 Ligue 1 winners ES Sétif and 2014–15 Algerian Cup winners MO Béjaïa. ES Sétif won the match 1–0 with a lone goal in the 84th minute by El Hedi Belameiri.


2015 All England Super Series Premier
The 2015 All England Super Series Premier was the first super series tournament of the 2015 BWF Super Series. The tournament took place in Birmingham, England from 3–8 March 2015 and had a total purse of $500,000. A qualification draw occurred to fill four places in all five disciplines of the main draws.


2015 All England Super Series Premier Qualification
Qualification for 2015 All England Super Series Premier was held on 3 March 2015.


2015 All Ireland Ladies' Club Football Championship
The 2015 All Ireland Ladies' Club Football Championship was the 39th edition of the All-Ireland Ladies' Club Football Championship.


2015 All Ireland Ladies' Club Football Championship
Donaghmoyne (Monaghan) won the title after defeating Mourneabbey by 0-11 to 0-8 in the final.


2015 All Stars match
The 2015 All Stars Match was the fifth annual representative exhibition match played between the Indigenous All Stars and the NRL All Stars. It was held on 13 February 2015, returning from a one-year hiatus.


2015 All Stars match
The Indigenous side was selected through public voting which lasted from 1 December 2014 through to 9 January 2015. The NRL side wasn't voted on by the public, as in previous games, but selected by the team's coach, Wayne Bennett. Both sides were officially announced on 19 January.


2015 All Stars match
Preceding games included a touch football game between an Indigenous and Australian sides which featured rugby league legend Scott Prince, won 5-4 by the Indigenous team, a QLD Under 16s Indigenous All Stars vs. NSW Under 16s Indigenous All Stars game, drawn 24-24 and the Women's All Stars exhibition match which was won by the NRL Women's All Stars 26-8.


2015 All Stars match, Teams
1 - Chris Sandow was originally selected to play but withdrew due to injury. He was replaced by Tyrone Roberts. 2 - Will Hopoate was originally selected to play but withdrew due to injury. He was replaced by Joseph Paulo. 3 - Michael Ennis was originally selected to play but withdrew due to injury. He was replaced by Nathan Friend. 4 - Tom Learoyd-Lahrs was originally selected to play but withdrew due to injury. He was replaced by Chris Grevsmuhl. 5 - Greg Bird was originally selected to play but withdrew due to injury. Chris Grevsmuhl was promoted to the starting lineup as a result and Bird was replaced by David Fifita. 6 - Sam Thaiday was originally selected to play but withdrew due to injury. Kyle Turner was promoted to the starting lineup as a result and Thaiday was replaced by Tyson Andrews.


2015 All Stars match, Women's All Stars match
The NRL has announced the Women's and Indigenous Women's All Stars teams to take the field as part of the Harvey Norman Rugby League All Stars match on Saturday 13 February in Brisbane. This will be the fourth Women's rugby league match for the women as part of the fixture, with the level of competition stepping up again next year, thanks to increased women's pathways nationally and female participation levels across the game at an all-time high.


2015 All Stars match, Women's All Stars match, Women's Teams
The Women's All Stars exhibition match which was held as a curtain raiser for the men's 2015 All Stars match and was won by the NRL Women's All Stars 26-8.


2015 All Thailand Golf Tour
The 2015 All Thailand Golf Tour is the 17th season of the All Thailand Golf Tour, the main professional golf tour in Thailand since it was established in 1999.


2015 All-Australian team
The 2015 Virgin Australia All-Australian team represents the best performed Australian Football League (AFL) players during the 2015 season. It was announced on 22 September as a complete Australian rules football team of 22 players. The team is honorary and does not play any games.


2015 All-Australian team, Selection panel
The selection panel for the 2015 All-Australian team consisted of chairman Gillon McLachlan, Kevin Bartlett, Luke Darcy, Mark Evans, Danny Frawley, Glen Jakovich, Cameron Ling, Matthew Richardson and Warren Tredrea.


2015 All-Australian team, Team, Initial squad
The initial 40-man squad was announced on 8 September. For the first time since 2006, neither Lance Franklin nor Geelong received a nomination. Other notable omissions included Rory Sloane, Luke Hodge, Isaac Smith, Bernie Vince, David Armitage, Jack Steven, Luke Parker, Mark LeCras, Luke Shuey and Marcus Bontempelli.


2015 All-Australian team, Team, Final team
Hawthorn, Richmond, West Coast and the Western Bulldogs had the most selections, with three each. Western Bulldogs captain Robert Murphy was announced as the All-Australian captain, with West Coast forward Josh Kennedy announced as vice-captain. The team saw eleven players selected in an All-Australian side for the first time in their careers.


2015 All-Australian team, Team, Final team
Note: the position of coach in the All-Australian team is traditionally awarded to the coach of the premiership team.


2015 All-Big 12 Conference football team
The 2015 All-Big 12 Conference football team consists of American football players chosen as All-Big 12 Conference players for the 2015 Big 12 Conference football season. The conference recognizes two official All-Big 12 selectors: (1) the Big 12 conference coaches selected separate offensive and defensive units and named first- and second-team players (the "Coaches" team); and (2) a panel of sports writers and broadcasters covering the Big 12 also selected offensive and defensive units and named first- and second-team players (the "Media" team).


2015 All-Big 12 Conference football team, Key
Bold = selected as a first-team player by both the coaches and media panel


2015 All-Big Ten Conference football team
The 2015 All-Big Ten Conference football team consists of American football players chosen as All-Big Ten Conference players for the 2015 Big Ten Conference football season. The conference recognizes two official All-Big Ten selectors: (1) the Big Ten conference coaches selected separate offensive and defensive units and named first- and second-team players (the "Coaches" team); and (2) a panel of sports writers and broadcasters covering the Big Ten also selected offensive and defensive units and named first- and second-team players (the "Media" team).


2015 All-Big Ten Conference football team, Key
Bold = Consensus first-team selection by both the coaches and media


2015 All-Ireland Intermediate Hurling Championship
The 2015 All-Ireland Intermediate Hurling Championship was the 32nd staging of the All-Ireland hurling championship for players in the intermediate grade since its establishment by the Gaelic Athletic Association in 1961. The championship began on 26 May 2015 and ended on 8 August 2015.


2015 All-Ireland Intermediate Hurling Championship
Cork were the defending champions, however, they were defeated by 0-23 to 0-14 by Galway in the final.


2015 All-Ireland Minor B Hurling Championship
The 2015 All-Ireland Minor B Hurling Championship was the most recent staging of the All-Ireland hurling championship for players under the age of eighteen since its establishment by the Gaelic Athletic Association. The championship began on 1 August 2015 and ended on 5 September 2015.


2015 All-Ireland Minor B Hurling Championship
Kerry were the defending champions and successfully retained the title following a 6-17 to 1-8 defeat of Roscommon.


2015 All-Ireland Minor Football Championship
The 2015 All-Ireland Minor Football Championship is the GAA's premier inter-county Gaelic football competition for under 18's. 31 teams take part.


2015 All-Ireland Minor Football Championship
The defending champions were Kerry who defeated Donegal in the 2014 final.


2015 All-Ireland Minor Football Championship
Kerry retained their title with a comprehensive 4-14 to 0-06 win over Munster rivals Tipperary.


2015 All-Ireland Minor Football Championship, Teams
A total of 31 teams will contest the championship. Kilkenny, New York and London do not participate in the competition.


2015 All-Ireland Minor Football Championship, Format
Connacht, Leinster, Munster and Ulster organise four provincial championships on a knock-out basis. The four provincial winners  play the four provincial runners-up in the All-Ireland Quarter Finals.


2015 All-Ireland Minor Football Championship, Fixtures and results, Leinster Minor Football Championship
LOSERS ROUND - The five losers from the preliminary round play-off and two teams advance to the Leinster Quarter Final


2015 All-Ireland Minor Football Championship, Fixtures and results, Munster Minor Football Championship
Clare were the winners of a playoff round between the quarter final losers*


2015 All-Ireland Minor Football Championship, Fixtures and results, All-Ireland Knockout, Quarter-Finals
The four provincial champions play the four beaten finalists from the provincial championships.


2015 All-Ireland Minor Football Championship, Fixtures and results, All-Ireland Knockout, Semi-finals
There is no draw for the semi-finals as the fixtures are pre-determined on a three yearly rotation. This rotation ensures that a provinces's champions play the champions of all the other provinces once every three years in the semi-finals if they each win their quarter-finals. If a provincial winner loses their quarter final, then the provincial runner-up who beat them takes their place in the semi-final.


2015 All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship
The 2015 All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship was the 85th staging of the All-Ireland hurling championship for players under the age of eighteen since its establishment by the Gaelic Athletic Association in 1928. The championship began on 8 April 2014 and ended on 6 September 2014.


2015 All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship
Galway won the title after a 4–13 to 1–16 win against Tipperary in the final on 6 September.


2015 All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship
Kilkenny's Andrew Gaffney was the championship's top scorer with 1-38.


2015 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship
The 2015 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship—known as the Liberty Insurance All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship for sponsorship reasons— is the premier competition of the 2015 camogie season. Ten county teams compete in the Senior Championship out of twenty-seven who compete overall in the Senior, Intermediate and Junior Championships. It commenced on 20 June.


2015 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship, Format
The ten teams are drawn into two groups of five teams. All the teams play each other once, scoring two points for a win and one for a draw.


2015 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship, Format
In the two quarter-finals, 2nd in  Group A plays 3rd in Group B and 3rd in Group A plays 2nd inGroup B..


2015 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship, Format
The two group winners and the two quarter-final winners play in the semi-finals.


2015 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship, Format
The semi-final winners contest the 2015 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship Final


2015 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship, Fixtures and results, Group Stages, Group 2
ASstated in the rules, it was originally planned that a coin toss would take place to decide which of Dublin and Clare would progress to the quarter-finals. The head-to-head match between them had ended in a 1-8 1-8 draw and competition rules meant that they were level in the group. Both teams withdrew in protest at the proposed coin toss and eventually the Camogie Association decided that a play-off match would take place instead.


2015 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship Final
The 2015 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship Final was the eighty-fourth All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 2015 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship, an inter-county camogie tournament for the top teams in Ireland. It took take place on Sunday 13 September in Croke Park.


2015 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship Final
The match was shown live on RTÉ Two with commentary by Marty Morrissey.


2015 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship Final
Cork won the title after a 1-13 to 0-9 victory against Galway.


2015 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship Final
The 2015 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship final was a hurling match played at Croke Park on 17 March 2015 to determine the winners of the 2014–15 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship, the 45th season of the All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship, a tournament organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association for the champion clubs of the four provinces of Ireland. The final was contested by Ballyhale Shamrocks of Kilkenny and Kilmallock of Limerick, with Ballyhale Shamrocks winning by 1-18 to 1-6.


2015 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship Final
The All-Ireland final between Ballyhale Shamrocks and Kilmallock was a unique occasion as it was the first ever championship meeting between the two teams. Ballyhale Shamrocks were appearing in their third final in a decade, while Kilmallock were lining out in their second All-Ireland decider ever and their first since 1993.


2015 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship Final
It was an evenly contested game for most of the first half, but missed opportunities cost Kilmallock dear. They shot 10 first-half wides in total, with Paudie O'Brien, who opened their scoring early on, going on to shoot four wides. Ballyhale were much more efficient when attacking, and Colin Fennelly opened his account before Eoin Reid pointed to put them 0-6 to 0-3 ahead. Fennelly's 27th-minute goal put serious daylight between them for the first time. T. J. Reid added another free on the stroke of half-time to leave the Leinster champions with a healthy 1-7 to 0-4 advantage.


2015 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship Final
In the second half Kilmallock failed to score a point from play. In contrast, Ballyhale added another 11 points to their tally and corner-back Alan Cuddihy even got on the scoresheet with captain T. J. Reid tallying 0-6 and describing the win as "a dream come true" in his victory speech.


2015 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship Final
Ballyhale's All-Ireland victory was their first since 2010. The win gave them their sixth All-Ireland title over all and put them as outright leaders on the all-time roll of honour.


2015 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship Final
Kilmallock's All-Ireland defeat was their second ever. They remain a team who has contested All-Ireland deciders but has never claimed the ultimate prize.


2015 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
The 2015 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 128th edition of the GAA's premier inter-county Gaelic football since its establishment in 1887. 33 teams took part − 31 counties of Ireland (excluding Kilkenny), London and New York.


2015 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
Dublin dethroned defending champions Kerry in the final, winning by 0–12 to 0–9.


2015 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, Teams
A total of 33 teams contested the championship – 31 teams from Ireland plus London and New York. As in previous years, Kilkenny footballers did not field a team. New York does not participate in the qualifiers.


2015 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, Format
Connacht, Leinster, Munster and Ulster organise four provincial championships on a knock-out basis. All the teams beaten in the provincial matches (except New York) enter the All-Ireland Qualifiers in rounds 1, 2 and 4. The qualifier matches are knock-out and eventually result in four teams who play in the All-Ireland Quarter-Finals against the four provincial winners. From the quarter-finals onwards the competition is entirely knock-out.


2015 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, Broadcasting
RTÉ, the national broadcaster in Ireland provided live television coverage of the championship. In the second year of a deal running from 2014 until 2016, a number of matches were also broadcast by Sky Sports, with Sky having exclusive rights to some games.


2015 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, Broadcasting
Australia's terrestrial Seven Network announced it would not broadcast Gaelic games following its coverage of the 2014 Championship.


2015 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, Broadcasting
As in the 2014 season, the GAA and RTÉ provided a streaming service called GAAGO intended to stream championship games worldwide. The subscription-based service was available to fans everywhere in the world outside of the island of Ireland, including all the games broadcast in Ireland exclusively by Sky Sports. All televised games from the football and hurling championships, as broadcast by both RTÉ and Sky were be available to watch on GAAGO.


2015 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, Fixtures and results, All-Ireland Qualifiers, A and B Teams
An A and B system for the qualifying draws was introduced in 2014 and continued in 2015. The teams were designated as A or B depending on which half of their provincial championships they were initially drawn to play in. Typically the provincial draws are not seeded resulting in random A and B team designations.


2015 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, Fixtures and results, All-Ireland Qualifiers, A and B Teams
In all qualifier rounds A teams play A teams and B teams play B teams. Usually the A teams complete their provincial games before the B teams which allows the A qualifier games to be scheduled a week before the B qualifier games.


2015 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, Fixtures and results, All-Ireland Qualifiers, Round 1
The first round consists of all teams that fail to reach their provincial semi-finals with the exception of New York. 16 teams in total take part.


2015 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, Fixtures and results, All-Ireland Qualifiers, Round 1
In round 1 four A teams play four A teams and four B teams play four B teams. The eight round 1 winners played the eight beaten provincial semi-finalists in round 2 of the qualifiers.


2015 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, Fixtures and results, All-Ireland Qualifiers, Round 2
In the second round of the qualifiers the eight winning teams from Round 1A and Round 1B played the eight beaten provincial semi-finalists. The round 2 draw was unrestricted − if two teams have played each other in a provincial match they can be drawn to meet again. The eight winners of these matches play each other in Round 3.


2015 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, Fixtures and results, All-Ireland Qualifiers, Round 3
In the third round of the qualifiers winning teams from round 2A played against winning teams from round 2A and winning teams from round 2B played against winning teams from round 2B. Round 3 rules do not allow two teams that have played each other in a provincial match to meet again. The four winners of these matches play the four beaten provincial finalists in Round 4.


2015 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, Fixtures and results, All-Ireland Qualifiers, Round 4
In the fourth round of the qualifiers, the four winning teams of Round 3A and Round 3B  play the four provincial beaten finalists. Round 4 rules do not allow two teams that have played each other in a provincial match to meet again if such a pairing can be avoided. The four winners of these matches played the provincial winners in the All-Ireland Quarter-Finals.


2015 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, Fixtures and results, All-Ireland Knockout, Quarter-Finals
The four provincial champions play the winners from Round 4 of the qualifiers. If one of the provincial champions has already met one of the qualifiers in an earlier match then those two teams cannot be drawn together.


2015 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, Fixtures and results, All-Ireland Knockout, Semi-Finals
There is no draw for the semi-finals as the fixtures are pre-determined on a three yearly rotation. This rotation ensures that a provinces's champions play the champions of all the other provinces once every three years in the semi-finals if they each win their quarter-finals. If a qualifier team beats a provincial winner in a quarter-final, the qualifier team takes that provincial winner's place in the semi-final.


2015 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, Awards
The Sunday Game team of the year was picked on 20 September, the night of the final. Dublin's Jack McCaffrey was named as the Sunday Game player of the year.


2015 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, Awards
The All Star football team was announced on 6 November. Dublin's Jack McCaffrey was named as the All Stars Footballer of the Year with Diarmuid O'Connor of Mayo being named as the All Stars Young Footballer of the Year.


2015 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final
The 2015 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, the 128th event of its kind and the culmination of the 2015 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, was played at Croke Park in Dublin on 20 September 2015. Leinster Champions Dublin and Munster Champions Kerry competed for the Sam Maguire Cup.


2015 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final
Dublin won the game on a 0–12 to 0–9 scoreline to claim their third title in five years and 25th title overall.


2015 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final
With over one million viewers, the match was the most-watched show on Irish television at that point in 2015. An average of 875,300 people watched the game, with a peak figure of 1.08 million as the match reached its climax.


2015 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Paths to the final
Dublin opened their campaign by defeating Longford by 4–25 to 0–10 at Croke Park on 31 May. They then defeated Kildare by 5–18 to 0–14 and returned to the Leinster football final. In the Leinster final they defeated Westmeath on a 2–13 to 0–6 to claim their tenth Leinster title in 11 years. In the All-Ireland quarter final, Dublin defeated Fermanagh 2–23 to 2–15 to advance to a semi-final meeting with Mayo. The semi-final finished up in a draw, 2–12 to Dublin, 1–15 to Mayo with a replay taking place the week after. Dublin won the replay on a 3–15 to 1–14 scoreline with three goals in the final fifteen minutes after trailing by four points.


2015 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Paths to the final
Kerry started the Munster Championship by defeating Tipperary by 2–14 to 2–8 in Semple Stadium in the semi-final on 14 June. They then went on to defeat Cork in the Munster Final, the first game ended in a draw on a 2–15 to 3–12 scoreline, with Kerry winning the replay by 1–11 to 1–6. In the All-Ireland quarter-final on 2 August, Kerry defeated Kildare by 7–16 to 0–10. In the All-Ireland Semi-final, Tyrone were defeated by 0–18 to 1–11.


2015 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, History
This was the 13th time Kerry and Dublin had met in an All-Ireland football final and the first since 2011, when Stephen Cluxton converted a late free-kick to win it for Dublin. Kerry had won eight of the previous meetings, and Dublin had won four.


2015 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, History
Kerry entered the game as the most successful Gaelic football team in the history of the competition, having previously won 37 and taken part in 57 All Ireland Football finals since the competition's inception in 1887. Dublin were the second most successful team, having won 24 and taken part in 37 finals prior to this match.


2015 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, History
The first senior final meeting between Dublin and Kerry was in 1892. Dublin defeated Kerry  in the 1923 final but would not do so again until the 1976 final. The 1970s was a particularly important time in the history of the rivalry between the sides due to the regularity with which the teams encountered one another.


2015 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Build-up, Tickets and match odds
Demand for tickets for the final was extremely high. There was no general sale, with all tickets being distributed via the county boards and clubs. A pair of tickets for the match was sold on eBay for €2,020. The GAA warned that the holders of any tickets that becomes known to them as having been bought on the black market could be denied entry to the match.


2015 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Build-up, Tickets and match odds
Dublin were priced at odds of 10/11 to win the match, with Kerry at 6/5 and the draw at 15/2 at Paddy Power bookmakers.


2015 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Build-up, Minor final
Kerry played Tipperary in the All-Ireland Minor Football Championship final which took place before the senior final. Kerry won the game on a 4–14 to 0–6 scoreline to retain the title.


2015 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Build-up, Jubilee team
The Cork All-Ireland-winning team of 1990, who won the title following a 0–11 to 0–9 defeat of Meath, were the jubilee team that were presented to the crowd before the final.


2015 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Build-up, Team selection
Dublin's Cian O'Sullivan was a doubt for Dublin after picking up a hamstring injury in the dying seconds of the semi-final replay victory over Mayo. Jim Gavin named an unchanged team for the final on 18 September with Cian O’Sullivan having recovered from his injury.


2015 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Build-up, Team selection
Jack McCaffrey would later reveal that he had contracted food poisoning "in around the Thursday" before the game, which left him unable to complete it. "I couldn't keep any food or water down so I got a drip to stay hydrated. But that was actually great at the time because it completely distracted from the build-up to a final ... all you were worried about is, 'Am I going to be okay?' You're no thinking about the occasion itself. And then thankfully I pulled through and performed okay for the 50 minutes that I lasted".


2015 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Build-up, Team selection
The Kerry team was named on 17 September, with three changes made by manager Eamonn Fitzmaurice. Captain Kieran Donaghy, Marc ó Sé and Paul Murphy were not named in the starting fifteen, with the latter two recovering from recent injuries. Paul Geaney, Aidan O'Mahony and Fionn Fitzgerald came into the team. The omission of Marc Ó Sé meant Kerry started (and, in the end, completed) an All-Ireland final without a member of the Ó Sé family for the first time in 43 years, since the 1972 All-Ireland final.


2015 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Build-up, Officials
On 8 September, David Coldrick of Meath was named as the referee for the final. It was his third time to referee an All-Ireland senior final, having previously officiated over the 2007 decider between Cork and Kerry and the 2010 final between Cork and Down.


2015 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Match, Summary
After fifteen seconds of the game, Dublin's Brian Fenton got the opening point of the game, playing into the canal end of the stadium. Dean Rock missed a goal scoring chance after four minutes when his low shot after a pass from Denis Bastick was saved by Brendan Kealy. After eight minutes the score was two points each with James O'Donoghue getting Kerry's opening score. O'Donoghue got his second after seventeen minutes to put Kerry one point ahead. Steven Cluxton scored from a free after twenty one minutes to put Dublin one point ahead on 0–4 to 0–3 scoreline.


2015 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Match, Summary
Paul Geaney made the score 0–4 to 0–4 five minutes later before Bernard Brogan again put Dublin back in front with a point a minute later. Jack McCaffrey, Paddy Andrews and Philly McMahon get three more point for Dublin to put them into a four-point lead at half time on 0–8 to 0–4 scoreline.


2015 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Match, Summary
Darran O'Sullivan replaced Stephen O'Brien for Kerry at half-time, with Kevin McManaman replacing Dean Rock for Dublin. Jonathan Lyne and Darran O'Sullivan get the opening points of the second half to make the score 0–8 to 0–6 after thirty nine minutes. Bernard Brogan scored from a free after forty one minutes for Dublin's first score of the second half with Paul Flynn getting his first point seven minutes later. James O'Donoghue got his third point of the game to make the score 0–10 to 0–8 after fifty minutes.


2015 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Match, Summary
After sixty minutes Kerry's Aidan O’Mahony took down McManaman and he received a black card. Paul Flynn got his second point with eight minutes to go to put Dublin into a three-point lead. Alan Brogan who had come on as a substitute got Dublin's final score of the game with three minutes remaining to put them four in front. Bryan Sheehan scored from a free in injury time for the final score of the game, the final score 0–12 to Dublin 0–9 to Kerry.


2015 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Match, Reaction
Highlights of the final were shown on The Sunday Game programme which aired at 9:30 pm that night on RTÉ Two and was presented by Des Cahill, with analysis from Kevin McStay, Tomás Ó Sé and Ciarán Whelan. On the man of the match award shortlist were Brian Fenton, Rory O'Carroll and Philly McMahon, with Fenton winning the award which was presented by GAA president Aogan O' Fearghail at the Gibson hotel in Dublin.


2015 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Match, Reaction
Dublin manager Jim Gavin speaking after the match was happy with the overall performance of the team saying "It was our structure in our defence that won it for us in the end. We were very compact and very composed on the ball against massive threats all around, they came close to poaching one or two goals towards the end. We knew we had to maintain our structure throughout the game and I felt we did that and that’s why we got over the line.