2015 Super League of Malawi, Clubs
15 teams compete in this season: the top 12 teams from the previous season and three promoted teams from the regional leagues. Dedza Young Soccer (Central Region Football League), Surestream Academy (Southern Region Football League) and Mzuni FC (Northern Region Football League) entered as the three promoted teams, instead of the three relegated teams from previous season, Blantyre United, Chikwawa United and Karonga United.


2015 Super Rugby Final
The 2015 Super Rugby Final, was played between the Hurricanes and the Highlanders. It was the 20th final in the Super Rugby competition's history and the fifth under the expanded 15-team format. This was the first Super Rugby final between two New Zealand teams since 2006 when the Hurricanes were beaten by the Crusaders.


2015 Super Rugby Final
The match was won by the Highlanders who beat the Hurricanes by seven points. Upon winning the match, the Highlanders became the first team to win the competition having failed to win a conference. They also became the first team to win the competition having played in the qualifiers round.


2015 Super Rugby Final, Road to the Final
The 2015 Super Rugby competition involved fifteen teams, five each from South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. The 2015 season was the fifth year of an expanded 15 team format (12 teams competed between 1996 and 2005, before increasing to 14 between 2006 and 2010).


2015 Super Rugby Final, Road to the Final
The competition began on 13 February with the regular season consisting of 120 matches over eighteen weeks. Each team played the others from their own conference (both home and away), plus four out of five teams from the other two countries (two at home and two away in each case). The top six teams after the regular season advanced to the finals.


2015 Super Rugby Final, Road to the Final
The Hurricanes finished top of the New Zealand conference and topped the overall standings, with fourteen wins and just two losses during the season (one being to the  Australian conference winner, the Waratahs). The South African conference winner was the Stormers, and the three wildcard teams making the playoffs were the Highlanders, Chiefs, and Brumbies.


2015 Super Rugby season
The 2015 Super Rugby season was the 20th season of Super Rugby and the fifth season featuring an expanded 15-team format. For sponsorship reasons, this competition was known as Asteron Life Super Rugby in Australia, Investec Super Rugby in New Zealand and Vodacom Super Rugby in South Africa. The round-robin matches took place every weekend from 13 February until 13 June, followed by the finals series and culminating in the final on 4 July. This was the final season that featured a 15-team format.


2015 Super Rugby season, Competition format
Covering 21 weeks, the schedule featured a total of 125 matches. The 15 teams were grouped geographically, labelled the Australian Conference, New Zealand Conference and the South African Conference. The regular season consisted of two types of matches:


2015 Super Rugby season, Competition format
The top team of each conference, plus the next top three teams in table points regardless of conference (wild card teams), moved on to the finals. The top two conference winners, based on table points, received byes in the qualifier round. In the qualifier round, the third conference winner was the number three seed and hosted the wild card team with the worst record, and the best wild card team hosted the second-best wild card team. In the semi-finals, the number two conference winner hosted the higher surviving seed from the first round, and the number one conference winner hosted the other first-round winner. The final was hosted by the top remaining seed.


2015 Super Rugby season, Standings
The top six teams qualified to the finals, with their final positions in the overall log determining their seedings in the finals. The third-placed team (i.e. the conference winners with the worst overall record) hosted the sixth-placed team in the qualifiers, while the fourth-placed team hosted the fifth-placed team.


2015 Super Rugby season, Standings
The top two teams (i.e. the two conference winners with the best overall record) qualified directly to the semi-finals, where they had home advantage against the two qualifier winners, with the top team hosting the qualifier winner with the lower seeding and the second-placed team hosting the qualifier winner with the higher seeding. The two semi-final winners progressed to the final, with the team with the higher seeding having home advantage.


2015 Super Rugby season, Standings
Points breakdown:* 4 points for a win* 2 points for a draw* 1 bonus point for a loss by seven points or less* 1 bonus point for scoring four or more tries in a matchClassification:Teams standings were calculated as follows:* Conference Leaders (i.e. conference leaders will always be ranked in the top three)* Log points* Number of games won* Overall points difference* Number of tries scored* Overall try difference


2015 Super Rugby season, Standings, Round-by-round
The table below shows each team's progression throughout the season. For each round, their cumulative points total is shown with the overall log position in brackets:


2015 Super Rugby season, Matches
The following matches were played during the 2015 Super Rugby regular season:


2015 Super Rugby season, Players, Player statistics
The following table contain points which were scored in the 2015 Super Rugby season:


2015 Super Rugby season, Referees
The following refereeing panel was appointed by SANZAR for the 2015 Super Rugby season:


2015 Superbike World Championship
The 2015 Superbike World Championship was the twenty-eighth season of the Superbike World Championship. Jonathan Rea became 2015 World Superbike Champion.


2015 Supercar Challenge
The 2015 Supercar Challenge powered by Pirelli was the fifteenth Supercar Challenge season since it replaced the Supercar Cup in 2001. It began at Circuit Park Zandvoort on April 3 and ended at TT Circuit Assen on October 18. Roger Grouwels, Arjan van der Zwaan and Robert de Graaff entered the season as the defending Drivers' Champions in the highest class, the Super GT.


2015 Supercar Challenge, Championship standings, Scoring system
Championship points are awarded for the first ten positions in each race. The pole-sitter in Race 1 and Race 2 and the driver with the fastest lap in Race 1 and Race 2 also receive one point. The grid for Race 1 is decided by a normal qualifying, but the grid for Race 2 is decided by everyone's second best time in qualifying. If a guest driver gets Pole Position, the point will go to the best qualified regular driver. If a guest driver has the fastest lap, the point will go to the regular driver with the fastest lap.


2015 Supercar Challenge, Championship standings, Scoring system
Entries are required to complete 75% of the winning car's (per division) race distance in order to be classified and earn points. Participants who join less than 4 events (8 races) will be treated as guest drivers and will not be included in the scoring and will not receive any points. All results shall count towards the year-end standings. There are no scratch results. If there are in a division on average less than 6 participants the overall points standing will be reduced with 75%.


2015 Supercar Challenge, Championship standings, Drivers' Championship, Super GT/GTB
Bold – Point for PoleItalics – Point for Fastest Lap


2015 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000
The 2015 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 was an Australian touring car motor race for V8 Supercars and was the twenty-fifth race of the 2015 International V8 Supercars Championship, held on  11 October 2015 at the Mount Panorama Circuit in Bathurst, New South Wales.


2015 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000
The race was won by Triple Eight Race Engineering pairing Craig Lowndes and Steven Richards in their Holden VF Commodore. Lowndes became the fifth driver to win at least six Bathurst 1000s, while Richards himself became a four-time winner of the race with his fourth different co-driver. Lowndes and Richards finished 1.3 seconds clear of the Prodrive Racing Australia Ford FG X Falcon of championship leader Mark Winterbottom and his partner Steve Owen. The podium was completed by Holden Racing Team of Garth Tander and Warren Luff with an Star Wars: The Force Awakens livery, by 2.6 seconds behind.


2015 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000, Background
The 2015 race was the nineteenth running of the Australian 1000 race, which was first held after the organisational split between the Australian Racing Drivers Club and V8 Supercars Australia that saw two "Bathurst 1000" races contested in both 1997 and 1998. The 2015 race was the 59th race for which the lineage can be traced back to the 1960 Armstrong 500 – held at Phillip Island – and the 56th to be held at Mount Panorama.


2015 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000, Background
In addition to the twenty-five regular championship entries, two wildcard entries were accepted for the 2015 race. The first was a Holden VF Commodore run by Dunlop Series team Novocastrian Motorsport for Aaren Russell and Drew Russell. The second was a Prodrive Racing Australia-prepared Ford FG X Falcon for the all-female driver combination of Renee Gracie and Swiss IndyCar Series and Formula E racer Simona de Silvestro, run under the name "Harvey Norman Supergirls".


2015 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000, Background
Regular Holden Racing Team driver James Courtney did not take part in the race due to injuries sustained at the 2015 Sydney Motorsport Park Super Sprint in August. Russell Ingall replaced Courtney, having done the same at the preceding Wilson Security Sandown 500.


2015 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000, Background
Chaz Mostert and Paul Morris were the defending race winners, though Morris did not compete in the race due to his role as co-driver for Mostert being taken by Cameron Waters.


2015 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000, Background, Entry list
Entries with a grey background were wildcard entries which did not compete in the full championship season.


2015 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000, Report, Free Practice
The first free practice session took place on the Thursday morning prior to the race and was open to both championship drivers and co-drivers. Defending race winner Chaz Mostert set the fastest lap time during the session, his time of 2:06.3223 being 1.7 seconds quicker than his time in the corresponding session in 2014. David Reynolds was second fastest ahead of Shane van Gisbergen. Garth Tander was the first driver to go off the circuit, spinning into the sand at Hell Corner, while Tim Blanchard was the first driver to hit the wall, also at Hell Corner.


2015 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000, Report, Free Practice
The second practice session was held on Thursday afternoon and was open only to co-drivers. Warren Luff set the fastest lap time ahead of Dean Canto and Steven Richards. David Russell crashed at the Cutting, causing enough damage to take the car out of the third practice session held later that afternoon. The third session saw Fabian Coulthard break his own practice lap record with a time of 2:05.4786, compared to the time of 2:05.6080 he set in the 2014 qualifying session. Mark Winterbottom, Reynolds, Mostert and Van Gisbergen all set times in the 2:05 bracket as well. Reynolds was fined A$25,000 following the Thursday press conference where he referred to the entry of Renee Gracie and Simona de Silvestro as the "pussy wagon". Reynolds later apologised for his remark.


2015 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000, Report, Free Practice
The fourth free practice session was held on Friday morning and was another session for co-drivers only. Cameron Waters was fastest with a time of 2:05.7220, while Luke Youlden was the only other driver to set a time under 2:06. In the fifth practice session, held later on Friday morning, Jamie Whincup became the first driver to set a lap time under 2:05 in a V8 Supercar, recording a time of 2:04.9097. Scott Pye also went faster than Coulthard's record, setting a time of 2:05.2436.


2015 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000, Report, Qualifying
A forty-minute qualifying session was scheduled to take place on Friday afternoon, with the fastest ten drivers in the session to proceed to the Top Ten Shootout on Saturday. However, the session was stopped after five minutes following a heavy crash for Mostert. He clipped the inside wall at turn 16 on the run down to Forrest's Elbow before making heavy contact with the opposite wall.


2015 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000, Report, Qualifying
The car then bounced across the circuit and rode up along the outside wall at the right-hand bend preceding Forrest's Elbow, with the rear end of the car knocking the roof off of a marshals' post, the contact resulting in a slow 360° spin before coming to rest at the entry to Forrest's Elbow. Mostert suffered a broken left femur and left wrist, while three of the marshals stationed at the marshals' post were also injured. Mostert and one of the marshals were flown to Orange Hospital while the other two marshals were treated at the circuit's medical centre.


2015 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000, Report, Qualifying
The remainder of the qualifying session, as well as a following support race, were cancelled due to the damage caused to the marshals' post and the surrounding safety fencing. The entry of Mostert and Waters was withdrawn from the event due to the damage sustained by the car and Mostert's injuries, while the qualifying session was postponed to Saturday afternoon and shortened to thirty minutes.


2015 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000, Classification, Starting grid
The following table represents the final starting grid for the race on Sunday:


2015 Supercopa Argentina
The 2015 Supercopa Argentina Final was the 4th edition of the Supercopa, an annual football match contested by the winners of the Argentine Primera División and Copa Argentina competitions. Because Boca Juniors had won both competitions, San Lorenzo, the runners-up to the Argentine Primera División, were selected as the other finalist of Supercopa Argentina. San Lorenzo beat Boca Juniors 4–0 in Córdoba and won the trophy. As champions, San Lorenzo qualified to the 2016 Copa Sudamericana.


2015 Supercopa Centroamericana
The 2015 Supercopa Centroamericana was an announced two-legged football match-up scheduled to be played in July and August 2015 between C.S. Cartaginés, winners of the 2014 Costa Rican Cup, and C.D. Olimpia, winners of the 2015 Honduran Cup. It was intended to be the first edition of the competition; however, without further explanation from the organizers, the matches were never played.


2015 Supercopa Euroamericana
The 2015 Supercopa Euroamericana was the first edition of the Supercopa Euroamericana, a men's football friendly tournament created by DirecTV, disputed between the Copa Sudamericana and the UEFA Europa League winners. The match was played in 2015 by River Plate, the 2014 Copa Sudamericana champions, and Sevilla, the 2013–14 UEFA Europa League champions. The match took place on 26 March at the Estadio Monumental Antonio Vespucio Liberti in Buenos Aires. River Plate won the match 1–0.


2015 Supercopa Euroamericana, Format
The match was played for 90 minutes. In the case of a draw after regulation, the winners were determined via a penalty shoot-out.


2015 Supercopa MX
The 2015 Supercopa MX was a Mexican football match-up which was played on July 20, 2015 between the champions of the Apertura 2014 Copa MX, Monarcas Morelia, and the winner of the Clausura 2015 Copa MX, Puebla. Unlike the 2014 edition, which was played over two-legs hosted by each participating team, the 2015 Supercopa MX was a one match at a neutral venue, Toyota Stadium in Frisco, Texas, United States.


2015 Supercopa MX
The winner of Supercopa MX typically earns a spot in the Copa Libertadores first stage as "Mexico 3". However, Santos Laguna who won the Apertura 2014 Copa MX qualified to the 2015–16 CONCACAF Champions League after winning the Clausura 2015 league title and are therefore ineligible for South American competitions. Which meant Puebla automatically earned a spot in the 2016 Copa Libertadores first stage. Winning the Clausura 2015 league title also meant Santos Laguna played the 2015 Campeón de Campeones against the winner of the Apertura 2014 league title Club América later that night. Therefore, Santos Laguna was replaced by Monarcas Morelia, the winners of the Apertura 2013 Copa MX and the 2014 Supercopa MX.


2015 Supercopa MX
The 2015 Supercopa MX was part of a doubleheader, which also includes the 2015 Campeón de Campeones, organized by Univision Deportes, Soccer United Marketing (SUM), FC Dallas and Liga MX.


2015 Supercopa MX, Match details
Assistant referees: Adam Garner (United States)Jonathan Johnson  (United States)Fourth official:Luis Guardia (United States)


2015 Supercopa de Chile
The 2015 Supercopa de Chile was the third edition of this championship organised by the ANFP.


2015 Supercopa de Chile
The match was played between the 2014-15 Primera División Best-Champions Universidad de Chile, and the 2014–15 Copa Chile Winners Universidad de Concepción.


2015 Supercopa de Chile, Road to the final
The two teams that contested the Supercopa were Universidad de Chile, that qualified as Apertura 2014 Champion and the Best Champion in the accumulated table, and Universidad de Concepción, that qualified for the match as the winner of the 2014–15 Copa Chile, defeating Palestino 3:2 at the Estadio Fiscal de Talca.


2015 Supercopa de España
The 2015 Supercopa de España was a two-legged football match-up that was played in August 2015 between Athletic Bilbao, runners-up of the 2014–15 Copa del Rey, and Barcelona, the champions of 2014–15 La Liga and the 2014–15 Copa del Rey. It was also a repetition of the 2015 Copa del Rey Final.


2015 Supercopa de España
Athletic Bilbao won the trophy 5–1 on aggregate for their first honour in 31 years. Aritz Aduriz scored a hat-trick for Athletic Bilbao in the first leg in a 4–0 win on 14 August. He added a fourth goal three days later in the second leg, which ended in a 1–1 draw at the Camp Nou.


2015 Supercopa de España, Background
This was the 26th appearance of Barcelona in the Supercopa, more than any other club. For Athletic Bilbao, it was their fifth appearances in the competition. The duel between the two clubs in the Supercopa was the fourth, with Barcelona winning on all the three previous occasions.


2015 Supercopa de España, Match details, First leg
Assistant referees:José María Sánchez SantosIgnacio Rubio PalominoFourth official:Germán Cid Camacho


2015 Supercopa de España, Match details, Second leg
Assistant referees:Roberto Alonso FernándezMarcos Álvarez MorenoFourth official:Miguel Ángel Ortiz Arias


2015 Supercopa de España de Baloncesto
The Supercopa de España de Baloncesto 2015 is the 12th edition of the tournament since it is organized by the ACB and the 16th overall. It is also called Supercopa Endesa for sponsorship reasons.


2015 Supercopa de España de Baloncesto
It will be played in the Palacio de Deportes José María Martín Carpena in Málaga on October 2 and 3. After the 2004 and 2006 editions, this will be the third Supercopa at the Andalusian city.


2015 Supercopa de España de Baloncesto, Participant teams
The ACB board confirmed the participants on June 22, 2015 and they were drawn on September 23.


2015 Supercoppa Italiana
The 2015 Supercoppa Italiana was the 28th edition of the Supercoppa Italiana, Italian football supercup. It was played on 8 August 2015 at the Shanghai Stadium in Shanghai, China. With Juventus winning both the 2014–15 Serie A championship and the 2014–15 Coppa Italia, the game was played between Juventus and the 2014–15 Coppa Italia runners-up, Lazio. Juventus won the game 2-0.


2015 Supercoppa Italiana, Background
Juventus made a record 11th appearance, and won a record seventh cup in their fourth successive appearance in the Supercoppa, with an overall record of seven wins and four defeats. Lazio made its sixth appearance, and first since 2013, with an overall record of three wins and three defeats. The two teams had met twice before (1998, 2013), each winning once.


2015 Supercupa României
The 2015 Supercupa României was the 17th edition of Romania's season opener cup competition. The game was contested between Liga I title holders, Steaua București, and 2nd place holders, Târgu Mureș. It was played at Stadionul Farul in Constanța in July. Târgu Mureș won the trophy for the first time in history, after defeating Steaua, 1–0.


2015 Superettan
The 2015 Superettan, part of the 2015 Swedish football season, was the 15th season of Superettan, Sweden's second-tier football league in its current format. The 2015 fixtures were released in December 2014. The season began on 3 April 2015 and ended on 1 November 2015. A total of 16 teams contested the league.


2015 Superettan, Teams
A total of 16 teams contest the league. The top two teams qualify directly for promotion to Allsvenskan, the third has to play a play-off against the fourteenth team from Allsvenskan to decide who will play in Allsvenskan 2016. The bottom two teams qualified directly for relegation to Division 1, the thirteenth and the fourteenth has to play a play-off against the numbers two teams from Division 1 Södra and Division 1 Norra to decide who will play in Superettan 2016.


2015 Superettan, Teams
2014-champions Hammarby IF and runner-up GIF Sundsvall were promoted to the Allsvenskan at the end of the 2014 season. They were replaced by Mjällby AIF and IF Brommapojkarna. Landskrona BoIS and Husqvarna FF were relegated at the end of the 2014 season after finishing in the bottom two places of the table. They were replaced by Division 1 Norra champions AFC United and Division 1 Södra champions Utsiktens BK. Östers IF was also relegated after losing the relegation play-offs to Division 1 Norra runner-up IK Frej.


2015 Superettan, Teams, Personnel and kits
Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players and Managers may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2015 Superettan, League table, Playoffs
The 13th-placed and 14th-placed teams of Superettan meets the two runners-up from 2015 Division 1 (Norra and Södra) in Two-legged ties on a home-and-away basis with the team from Superettan finishing at home.


2015 Superliga Colombiana
The 2015 Superliga Colombiana was the fourth edition of the Superliga Colombiana.


2015 Superliga Colombiana
Santa Fe was the winner and qualified for the 2015 Copa Sudamericana.


2015 Supersport World Championship
The 2015 Supersport World Championship was the seventeenth season of the Supersport World Championship—the nineteenth taking into account the two held under the name of Supersport World Series. Kenan Sofuoğlu claimed the title for the fourth time in the championship's history with one race to spare.


2015 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira
The 2015 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira was the 37th edition of the Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira. It took place on 9 August 2015, and it featured the winners of the 2014–15 Primeira Liga, Benfica, and the winners of the 2014–15 Taça de Portugal, Sporting CP. This edition was sponsored by Vodafone and was known as 2015 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira Vodafone.


2015 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira, Background
Benfica featured in their 17th Supertaça appearance. Their previous appearance was in 2014, where they defeated Rio Ave 3–2 on penalties at the Estádio Municipal de Aveiro. Benfica have won five Supertaças, in 1980, 1985, 1989, 2005 and 2014.


2015 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira, Background
Sporting CP played in the fixture for the ninth time. Their last appearance was in 2008, where they defeated Porto 2–0 at the Estádio Algarve. Sporting CP have won seven Supertaças, in 1982, 1987, 1995, 2000, 2002, 2007 and 2008.


2015 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira, Pre-match, Entry
Benfica qualified for their second consecutive Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira by clinching the league title. At matchday 33, Benfica drew 0–0 against Vitória de Guimarães at the Estádio D. Afonso Henriques to clinch the Primeira Liga for the 34th time.


2015 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira, Pre-match, Entry
Sporting CP qualified by winning the Taça de Portugal, defeating Braga 3–1 on penalties after a 2–2 draw. The 2015 victory was Sporting's 16th Taça de Portugal triumph.


2015 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira, Pre-match, Broadcasting
The final was once again broadcast by Rádio e Televisão de Portugal on RTP1 (and in HD on RTP HD).


2015 Suphanburi F.C. season
The 2015 season is Suphanburi's fifth season in the Thai Premier League of Suphanburi Football Club. Since 2006–2007 and 2013 to present.


2015 Suphanburi F.C. season, Transfers
First Thai footballer's market is opening on 6 November 2014 to 28 January 2015


2015 Suphanburi F.C. season, Transfers
Second Thai footballer's market is opening on 3 June 2015 to 30 June 2015


2015 Surabaya mayoral election
A mayoral election was held in Surabaya on 9 December 2015, as part of the 2015 simultaneous local elections across Indonesia. The incumbent mayor, Tri Rismaharini, popularly known as Risma, was running for re-election against the former Provincial Secretary of East Java, Rasiyo. Risma won by a landslide margin of over 70%.


2015 Surabaya mayoral election, Candidates, Nominations
The election was close to being postponed until 2017 as less than two candidates was registered by the end of the nominations period. At that point, there was no rules or precedence concerning walkover elections (the Constitutional Court ruled the legality of WO elections only on the end of September). Risma-Wisnu was the only pair who managed to submit nomination papers on time.


2015 Surabaya mayoral election, Candidates, Nominations
Before Rasiyo-Lucy was registered, two attempts were made to register a challenger to Risma. In early August 2015, the PD and PAN attempted to nominate former journalist, Dhimam Abror Djuraid, paired with Haries Purwoko. The registration failed after Haries withdrew in the last minute. As no other attempts was made until the end of the nomination period, the local electoral committee (KPUD) extended the nomination period until early September. Several weeks after the failed first attempt, Dhimas was nominated again, this time with Rasiyo as his running mate. The KPUD rejected their nomination due to errors in their nomination papers. The PD and PAN finally managed to register a ticket in their third attempt. On 8 September,  Rasiyo, paired with Lucy Kurniasari, were registered in the KPUD, ending the saga and allowing the election to proceed as scheduled.


2015 Surabaya mayoral election, Results
Risma's popularity allowed her to win re-election comfortably. Risma defeated Rasiyo by 86% to 14%, one of the biggest landslides in the 9 December elections.


2015 Surinamese general election
Parliamentary elections were held in Suriname on 25 May 2015. The National Democratic Party won an absolute majority on its own for the first time.


2015 Surinamese general election, Electoral system
The 51 seats in the National Assembly were elected using proportional representation in ten multi-member constituencies containing between two and seventeen seats. The ten electoral constituencies are coterminous with the ten administrative districts of Suriname. The National Assembly subsequently elects the president.


2015 Surinamese general election, Aftermath
Incumbent president Dési Bouterse was reelected by the National Assembly unopposed on 14 July 2015.


2015 Surrey Heath Borough Council election
The 2015 Surrey Heath Borough Council election took place on 7 May 2015 to elect all members of Surrey Heath Borough Council in England as one of the 2015 local elections, held simultaneously with the General Election.


2015 Surrey Storm season
The 2015 Surrey Storm season saw them finish as Netball Superleague champions for the first time. Between 2011 and 2014, Surrey Storm played in three out of the four grand finals. After finishing as runners up in all three, Surrey Storm won their first Netball Superleague title in 2015. During the regular season they finish second behind Manchester Thunder. They subsequently defeated Yorkshire Jets at the semi-final stage before defeating Hertfordshire Mavericks in the grand final.


2015 Suruga Bank Championship
The 2015 Suruga Bank Championship (Japanese: スルガ銀行チャンピオンシップ2015; Spanish: Copa Suruga Bank 2015) was the eighth edition of the Suruga Bank Championship, the club football match co-organized by the Japan Football Association, the football governing body of Japan, CONMEBOL, the football governing body of South America, and J. League, the professional football league of Japan, between the winners of the previous season's J. League Cup and Copa Sudamericana.


2015 Suruga Bank Championship
The match was contested between Japanese team Gamba Osaka, the 2014 J. League Cup winners, and Argentine team River Plate, the 2014 Copa Sudamericana winners. It was hosted by Gamba Osaka at the Osaka Expo '70 Stadium in Suita on 11 August 2015.


2015 Suruga Bank Championship
River Plate won the match 3–0 to win their third international club title in 2015, after the 2015 Recopa Sudamericana and the 2015 Copa Libertadores (where they played in the finals less than a week before), and also became the first South American team to win this competition since 2009.


2015 Suruga Bank Championship, Format
The Suruga Bank Championship was played as a single match, with the J. League Cup winner hosting the match. If the score was tied at the end of regulation, a penalty shoot-out was used to determine the winner (no extra time was played). A maximum of seven substitutions could be made during the match.


2015 Suzhou Ladies Open
The 2015 Suzhou Ladies Open was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the fourth edition of the tournament and part of the 2015 ITF Women's Circuit, offering a total of $50,000 in prize money. It took place in Suzhou, China, on 19–25 October 2015.


2015 Suzhou Ladies Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2015 Suzhou Ladies Open – Doubles
Chan Chin-wei and Chuang Chia-jung were the defending champions, but chose not to participate.


2015 Suzhou Ladies Open – Doubles
Yang Zhaoxuan and Zhang Yuxuan won the title, defeating Tian Ran and Zhang Kailin in an all-Chinese final, 7–6(7–4), 6–2.


2015 Suzhou Ladies Open – Singles
Anna-Lena Friedsam is the defending champion, but decided not to participate this year.


2015 Suzhou Ladies Open – Singles
Zhang Kailin won the title, defeating Duan Yingying in an all-Chinese final, 1–6, 6–3, 6–4.


2015 Svenska Cupen Final
The 2015 Svenska Cupen Final was played on 17 May 2015. The match was played at Gamla Ullevi, the home ground of IFK Göteborg. It was the first time since 2011 that one of the final teams had a home ground instead of playing on the national stadium Friends Arena in Solna. It was the first time since 2000 that the final was played in Gothenburg and first time ever it was played on Gamla Ullevi. The final were the culmination of the 2014–15 Svenska Cupen. Allsvenskan clubs IFK Göteborg and Örebro SK contested the 2015 final. In Sweden the match was televised live on SVT.


2015 Svenska Cupen Final
IFK Göteborg won their seventh Svenska Cupen title after defeating Örebro SK 2–1.


2015 Svenska Cupen Final, Route to the final
Note: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first.


2015 Svenska Supercupen
Svenska Supercupen 2015, Swedish Super Cup 2015, was the 9th and last Svenska Supercupen, an annual football match contested by the winners of the previous season's Allsvenskan and Svenska Cupen competitions. The match was played on 8 November 2015 at the Nya Parken, Norrköping, between the 2015 Allsvenskan champions, IFK Norrköping, and the 2014–15 Svenska Cupen winners IFK Göteborg. The match was IFK Göteborg's fifth appearance in the competition and their first since 2013. It was the first appearance for IFK Norrköping.


2015 Svenska Supercupen
In Sweden the match was broadcast live on TV12. Johan Hamlin from Bro was the referee for match, his first time officiating the competition. IFK Norrköping won the match 3–0, scoring all three goals in the first half. The goal scorers were Alexander Fransson, Christoffer Nyman and Kujović.


2015 Svenska Supercupen, Background
IFK Göteborg qualified for Svenska Supercupen on 17 May 2015 when they won the 2015 Svenska Cupen Final against Örebro SK. They won the competition in 2008 and finished as runners-up in 2009, 2010 and in 2013.


2015 Svenska Supercupen, Background
The 2015 Allsvenskan champions, IFK Norrköping, qualified on 31 October, in the last round of Allsvenskan, when they secured their first league title in 26 years. This is the first time in Svenska Supercupen for IFK Norrköping, who had the home advantage as league winners, playing at Nya Parken, Norrköping.


2015 Svenska cupen (bandy)
2015 Svenska Cupen in bandy had its playoff in the weekend of 26–27 September 2015 in Lidköping. This was the eleventh annual Svenska Cupen.


2015 Svenska cupen (bandy)
Västerås SK won the final 6–2 (1–2) against Edsbyns IF. Sandvikens AIK won the bronze medals after 7–2 against Hammarby IF.


2015 Svijany Open
The 2015 Svijany Open was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the 3rd edition of the tournament which was part of the 2015 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Liberec, Czech Republic between 3 and 9 August 2015.


2015 Svijany Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2015 Svijany Open – Doubles
Roman Jebavý and Jaroslav Pospíšil were the defending champions, but Pospíšil did not participate this year. Jebavý played alongside Jan Šátral, but they lost in quarterfinals to Lubomír Majšajdr and Martin Zahrádka.


2015 Svijany Open – Doubles
Andrej Martin and Hans Podlipnik won the tournament, defeating Wesley Koolhof and Matwé Middelkoop in the final, 7–5, 6–7(3–7), [10–5].


2015 Svijany Open – Singles
Andrej Martin was the defending champion, but he lost in the final to Tobias Kamke.


2015 Swale Borough Council election
An election was held to Swale Borough Council in England as part of the United Kingdom local elections on 7 May 2015. All 47 seats were up for election under new ward boundaries.


2015 Swale Borough Council election
The party results were as follows: Conservative Party (UK) 32, UK Independence Party 9, Labour Party (UK) 4, Independent politician 2.


2015 Swale Borough Council election, By-elections between 2015 and 2019, Milton Regis
A by-election was held in Milton Regis on 3 August 2017 after the death of UKIP councillor Katy Coleman. The seat was gained for Labour by former councillor Tony Winckless with a majority of 318 votes over Conservative candidate Kane Roy Blackwell.


2015 Swale Borough Council election, By-elections between 2015 and 2019, Sheppey East
A by-election was held in Sheppey East on 3 May 2018 after the resignation of Conservative councillor Lesley Ingham. The seat was held for the Conservatives by Lynd Ernest Taylor with a majority of 184 votes over Labour candidate Gill Smith.


2015 Swale Borough Council election, Changes between 2015 and 2019
UKIP councillor Katy Coleman (Milton Regis) died suddenly on 30 May 2017. At the consequent by-election on 3 August 2017 Labour gained the seat. New councillor Tony Winckless.


2015 Swale Borough Council election, Changes between 2015 and 2019
Conservative councillor Lesley Ingham (Sheppey East) resigned her seat in March 2018. At the consequent by-election on 3 May 2018 the Conservatives held the seat. New councillor Lynd Taylor.


2015 Swale Borough Council election, Changes between 2015 and 2019
In April 2018, all 8 remaining UKIP councillors chose to sit as 'The Swale Group'. This was reduced by one on the 7 April 2019 when former UKIP councillor Padmini Nissanga (Sheppey East) was expelled from The Swale Group following accusations of racism and now sits as an Independent


2015 Swedish Golf Tour
The 2015 Swedish Golf Tour, known as the Nordea Tour for sponsorhip reasons, was the 32nd season of the Swedish Golf Tour, a series of professional golf tournaments held in Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Thailand with a winter series in Spain.


2015 Swedish Golf Tour
Most of the tournaments also featured on the 2015 Nordic Golf League (NGL).


2015 Swedish Golf Tour, Schedule
The season consisted of 19 events played between April and October with a winter series in February.


2015 Swedish Golf Tour (women)
The 2015 Swedish Golf Tour, known as the Nordea Tour for sponsorship reasons, was the 30th season of the Swedish Golf Tour, a series of professional golf tournaments for women held in Sweden and Norway.


2015 Swedish Golf Tour (women)
A number of the tournaments also featured on the 2015 LET Access Series (LETAS).


2015 Swedish Golf Tour (women), Schedule
The season consisted of 9 tournaments played between May and October, where two events were held in Norway.


2015 Swedish Men's Handball Championship final
The 2015 Swedish Men's Handball Championship final (Swedish: SM-finalen i handboll för herrar 2015) was a handball match that took place at Scandinavium in Gothenburg on 24 May 2015 to decide the winner of the 2014–15 Elitserien. The match was contested by regular season winners IFK Kristianstad and defending champions Alingsås HK. Kristianstad won the match by 28–25 to win their first Swedish title since 1953.


2015 Swedish Men's Handball Championship final, Background
Alingsås entered the match as defending champions, having won the title in 2014. Kristianstad had most recently won the title in 1953, having lost the finals in 2012 and 2013. Kristianstad had won the regular season, 10 points ahead of second placed Alingsås (2 points for a win). Kristianstad won both matches between the teams in the regular season, winning by 30–26 at home and 28–27 away. The teams had previously faced each other in the quarter-finals in 2012 and 2013, with Kristianstad winning both times. It was the fifth time that Scandinavium hosted the final, following 2006, 2008, 2011 and 2013.


2015 Swedish Men's Handball Championship final, Road to the final
Kristianstad defeated Hammarby IF by 3–2 in the quarter-final series, and Ystads IF by 3–1 in the semi-finals. Alingsås were undefeated in the playoffs before the final, having defeated both HK Malmö and Eskilstuna Guif in straight matches.


2015 Swedish Men's Handball Championship final, Match, Summary
The first half was close and the teams were tied at 14–14 at half-time. Alingsås started the second half best and took the lead by 18–15. Kristianstad coach Ola Lindgren used a time-out 9:11 into the half, after which his team scored six unanswered goals to take the lead by 21–18. Kristianstad led by 24–22 but Alingsås came back to 24–24. Kristianstad finished the match strongly and won by 28–25. Kristianstad's Markus Olsson was the top scorer of the match at 11 goals. Jesper Konradsson scored the most goals for Alingsås, 6.


2015 Swedish Men's Handball Championship final, Reactions
Ola Lindgren said after the match: "I feel a great joy for everyone. For the guys who have put in all the work, and for the club and everyone around it who have waited an extremely long time for the gold. Many had talked about how we couldn't win a final." He said that he did not feel certain that they were going to win until Alingsås gave the ball away with 20 seconds left. Lindgren also praised the support for both teams at the match.


2015 Swedish Men's Handball Championship final, Reactions
Alingsås coach Mikael Franzén said that "it was small margins – small things that were the difference. (...) But Kristiantad deserved to win. They are a good team and were better than us today." He also praised Kristianstad goalkeeper Leo Larsson, saying that "[he] made some really good saves, in many ways it was decisive". Alingsås player Daniel Tellander said that they committed too many turnovers, but praised the morale of the team.


2015 Swedish Open
The 2015 Swedish Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts as part of the ATP World Tour 250 Series of the 2015 ATP World Tour and as part of the International Series on the 2015 WTA Tour. It took place in Båstad, Sweden, from 13 through 19 July 2015 for the women's tournament, and from 20 through 26 July 2015 for the men's tournament. It was also known as the 2015 SkiStar Swedish Open for the men and the 2015 Collector Swedish Open for the women for sponsorship reasons. It was the 68th edition of the event for the men and the 7th edition for the women.


2015 Swedish Open, Points and prize money, Prize money
1 Qualifiers prize money is also the Round of 64 prize money* per team


2015 Swedish Open, ATP singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2015 Swedish Open, ATP doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:


2015 Swedish Open, WTA singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2015 Swedish Open, WTA doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:


2015 Swedish Open – Men's Doubles
Johan Brunström and Nicholas Monroe were the defending champions, but chose not to participate together. Brunström played alongside Robert Lindstedt, but lost in the quarterfinals to Thomaz Bellucci and João Souza. Monroe teamed up with Artem Sitak, but lost in the semifinals to Juan Sebastián Cabal and Robert Farah. Jérémy Chardy and Łukasz Kubot won the title, defeating Cabal and Farah in the final, 6–7(6–8), 6–3, [10–8].


2015 Swedish Open – Men's Singles
Pablo Cuevas was the defending champion. He lost his title in the semifinals to Benoît Paire. Paire went on to win the title, defeating Tommy Robredo in the final, 7–6(9–7), 6–3.


2015 Swedish Open – Men's Singles, Seeds
The top four seeds receive a bye into the second round.


2015 Swedish Open – Women's Doubles
Andreja Klepač and María Teresa Torró Flor were the defending champions, but they chose not to participate this year.


2015 Swedish Open – Women's Doubles
Kiki Bertens and Johanna Larsson won the title, defeating Tatjana Maria and Olga Savchuk in the final, 7–5, 6–4.


2015 Swedish Open – Women's Singles
Mona Barthel was the defending champion, but she lost to Johanna Larsson in the final, 3–6, 6–7(2–7).


2015 Swedish submarine wreck discovery
In 2015, Swedish diving group Ocean X Team found the wreck of what initially appeared to be a foreign mini-submarine off the east coast of Sweden.


2015 Swedish submarine wreck discovery
The Swedish Armed Forces subsequently issued a statement that it was "most likely" a Russian  Som-class submarine that went down with all hands in 1916.


2015 Swedish submarine wreck discovery, Find
On 27 July 2015, it was reported that a foreign mini-submarine, 20 m (66 ft) long and 3 m (9.8 ft) in diameter, had been located the previous week by Swedish diving group Ocean X Team, led by Dennis Åberg. The submarine was found 2.75 km (1.48 nmi; 1.71 mi) offshore on the east coast of central Sweden. The group had received coordinates for where to search from Icelandic company Ixplorer.


2015 Swedish submarine wreck discovery, Find
According to the divers who found the submarine, it was a modern model and it appeared to be intact, suggesting that the remains of the crew may still be on board. The hull was marked with Cyrillic letters. The pictures from the wreck showed that the yellow submarine was standing on the sea bottom with its tower pointing straight up. The diving group informed the Swedish Armed Forces on Monday 27 July 2015, and video material from the wreckage was handed over for analysis. The hull of the wreck features the "hard sign" Ъ in the final position. Since this usage was discontinued during the 1917 orthographic reform, it indicated that the ship predated the Soviet era.


2015 Swedish submarine wreck discovery, Find
On 28 July 2015, a statement was released by the Swedish Armed Forces public relations office that stated that analysis of the video footage and other evidence indicated that the wreck was "most likely" that of the Imperial Russian Navy Som-class submarine Som (Сомъ). Som sank with all hands on active service in 1916 after a collision with the steamship Ångermanland in the Sea of Åland, somewhere between Arholma and the Svartklubben lighthouse. According to several sources who previously worked with submarine analyses for the Swedish Armed Forces, the location of the submarine had been known for at least one year.


2015 Swedish submarine wreck discovery, Find
As of 28 July 2015, the Swedish Armed Forces considered the wreck to be of historical or marine archaeological interest rather than military, and handed over the case to the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. The ministry consequently informed the Russian embassy in Stockholm.


2015 Swedish submarine wreck discovery, Ocean X Team
The Ocean X diving group is a privately owned salvage operator not affiliated with the Swedish military. It previously found an American Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress in 1992, and 2,400 bottles of 1907 champagne in 1994.


2015 Swedish submarine wreck discovery, Ocean X Team
The wreck was discovered by using an ROV (remote operated vehicle) called V8 Sii from Ocean Modules in Åtvidaberg. The ROV was equipped with a grapple, a video camera and a Blueview sonar made by Teledyne.


2015 Swindon Borough Council election
The 2015 Swindon Borough Council election took place on 7 May 2015, to elect members of Swindon Borough Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections. The Conservative Party  increased their majority after gaining two seats. Of the 19 seats up for election, four seats changed hands to leave the Conservatives (32) with a majority of seven seats over Labour (23) and the Lib Dems (2).


2015 Swindon Borough Council election, Ward results
Sitting councillors seeking re-election, elected in 2012, are marked with an asterisk (*). The ward results listed below are based on the changes from the 2014 elections, not taking into account any party defections or by-elections.


2015 Swiss Federal Council election
An election for all seven members of the Federal Council, the Government of Switzerland, was held on 9 December 2015, following the federal election on 19 October 2015, for the 2016–2020 term.


2015 Swiss Federal Council election
Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf, a member of the Conservative Democratic Party (BDP/PBD), announced she would not run for reelection after the Swiss People's Party (SVP/UDC) won a record 29.4% of the vote, whilst her own party received 4.1% of the vote. The SVP/UDC was widely expected to fill her seat in the election; it chose Thomas Aeschi (Zug), Guy Parmelin (Vaud) and Norman Gobbi (Ticino) as candidates for the seat, with Aeschi being the favourite at the time.


2015 Swiss Federal Council election
Guy Parmelin, of the SVP/UDC, was ultimately elected by the Federal Assembly on 9 December 2015. Parmelin, a farmer and winegrower from Bursins in the canton of Vaud, became the first Federal Councillor of the Swiss People's Party from the French-speaking part of Switzerland.


2015 Swiss Federal Council election
There was a minor cabinet reshuffle after the election, as newly-elected Federal Councillor Parmelin was selected to become head of the Federal Department of Defence, Civil Protection and Sports, replacing fellow SVP/UDC member Ueli Maurer, who became head of the Federal Department of Finance. The SVP/UDC regained its second seat on the Federal Council, which it had lost in 2008, when the newly-created BDP/PBD split from the SVP/UDC.


2015 Swiss Federal Council election, Incumbents
Incumbents, in descending order of seniority, including political party affiliation and department at the time of the election:


2015 Swiss Federal Council election, Results
Source showing only the final tallies in favour of the winner of each seat:


2015 Swiss Federal Council election, Results, Seat held by Doris Leuthard
Doris Leuthard (CVP/PDC) was reelected in the first round of voting.


2015 Swiss Federal Council election, Results, Seat held by Ueli Maurer
Ueli Maurer (SVP/UDC) was reelected in the first round of voting.


2015 Swiss Federal Council election, Results, Seat held by Didier Burkhalter
Didier Burkhalter (FDP.The Liberals) was reelected in the first round of voting.


2015 Swiss Federal Council election, Results, Seat held by Simonetta Sommaruga
Simonetta Sommaruga (SPS/PSS) was reelected in the first round of voting.


2015 Swiss Federal Council election, Results, Seat held by Johann Schneider-Ammann
Johann Schneider-Ammann (FDP.The Liberals) was reelected in the first round of voting.


2015 Swiss Federal Council election, Results, Seat held by Alain Berset
Alain Berset (SPS/PSS) was reelected in the first round of voting.


2015 Swiss Federal Council election, Results, Vacant seat
Guy Parmelin (SVP/UDC) was elected to the Federal Council after three rounds of voting.


2015 Swiss Indoors
The 2015 Swiss Indoors was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the 46th edition of the event, and part of the 500 series of the 2015 ATP World Tour. It was held at the St. Jakobshalle in Basel, Switzerland, from 26 October through 1 November 2015. First-seeded Roger Federer won the singles title.


2015 Swiss Indoors, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2015 Swiss Indoors, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:


2015 Swiss Indoors – Doubles
Vasek Pospisil and Nenad Zimonjić were the defending champions, but Pospisil decided not to participate. Zimonjić plays alongside Marcin Matkowski but lost to Alexander Peya and Bruno Soares in the quarterfinals.


2015 Swiss Indoors – Doubles
Peya and Soares went on to win the title, defeating Jamie Murray and John Peers in the final 7–5, 7–5


2015 Swiss Indoors – Singles
Roger Federer was the defending champion and successfully defended his title, defeating Rafael Nadal in the final, 6–3, 5–7, 6–3. This was his tenth consecutive final in a row in this event.


2015 Swiss Open Grand Prix Gold
The 2015 Swiss Open Grand Prix Gold was the Fourth grand prix gold and grand prix tournament of the 2015 BWF Grand Prix and Grand Prix Gold. The tournament was held in St. Jakobshalle, Basel, Switzerland from March 10–15, 2015 and had a total purse of $120,000.


2015 Swiss Open Gstaad
The 2015 Swiss Open Gstaad presented by Visilab was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 48th edition of the Swiss Open, and part of the ATP World Tour 250 Series of the 2015 ATP World Tour. It took place at the Roy Emerson Arena in Gstaad, Switzerland, from 27 July through 2 August 2015. Third-seeded Dominic Thiem won the singles title.


2015 Swiss Open Gstaad, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2015 Swiss Open Gstaad, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:


2015 Swiss Open Gstaad – Doubles
Andre Begemann and Robin Haase were the defending champions, but Begemann chose not to participate this year. Haase played alongside Mikhail Youzhny, but lost in the first round to Oliver Marach and Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi. Aliaksandr Bury and Denis Istomin won the title, defeating Marach and Qureshi in the final, 3–6, 6–2, [10–5].


2015 Swiss Open Gstaad – Singles
Pablo Andújar was the defending champion, but lost to Thomaz Bellucci in the quarterfinals.


2015 Swiss Open Gstaad – Singles
Dominic Thiem won the title, defeating David Goffin in the final, 7–5, 6–2.


2015 Swiss Open Gstaad – Singles, Seeds
The top four seeds receive a bye into the second round.


2015 Swiss federal election
Federal elections were held in Switzerland on 18 October 2015 for the National Council and the first round of elections to the Council of States, with runoff elections to the Council of States being held in various cantons until 22 November.


2015 Swiss federal election
Results showed a shift, due to voter concerns regarding refugee immigration, to the right and increased support for the three largest parties, with the strong showing of Swiss People's Party and FDP.The Liberals possibly affecting future reforms of energy, social security and tax issues, as well as the make-up of the seven-member government.


2015 Swiss federal election
The Swiss People's Party won a record number of seats, taking a third of the 200-seat lower house. The SVP received the highest proportion of votes of any Swiss political party since 1919, when proportional representation was first introduced, and it received more seats in the National Council than any other political party since 1963, when the number of seats was set at 200.


2015 Swiss federal election
The federal election was followed by the 2015 Swiss Federal Council election on 9 December 2015, where the SVP won a second seat on the Federal Council.


2015 Swiss federal election, Electoral system
The 200 members of the National Council were elected by plurality in six single-member constituencies, and by proportional representation in 20 multi-member constituencies, with the 26 constituencies being the 26 cantons. The elections were held using the open list system where voters could cross out names on party lists, with voters also able to split their vote between parties (a system known as panachage) or draw up their own list on a blank ballot. Seats are allocated using the Hagenbach-Bischoff system.


2015 Swiss federal election, Electoral system
The 46 members of the Council of States were elected in 20 two-seat constituencies (representing the 20 full cantons) and six single-member constituencies (representing the six half-cantons). In Jura and Neuchâtel the elections were held using proportional representation, whilst the other 24 use the majority system.


2015 Swiss federal election, Electoral system
Compulsory voting was in force in the canton of Schaffhausen for both elections.


2015 Swiss federal election, Results
Global media commented on the gains of the Swiss People's Party, linking it to concerns of the electorate on the European migrant crisis. Combined, right-of-centre parties received a slim 101-seat majority in the National Council. While the right-of-centre SVP and FDP made gains, centrist and left-of-centre parties lost seats in the National Council. The FDP increased its share of the popular vote for the first time since the 1979 federal election.


2015 Swiss federal election, Results
In the Swiss capital Bern, a group of activists in favour of settling refugees held a demonstration on the day of the election, which is prohibited by law. A total of 110 were arrested.


2015 Swiss federal election, Results
The election results elicited various responses from the Swiss media, such as that the election represented "a return to normality" after a period when the legislative makeup was not as clear, or that it represented "a divided country." Newspapers, both in Switzerland and in other countries, also noted the SVP's historic gains.


2015 Swiss federal election, Aftermath
The 2015 federal election was followed by the 2015 Swiss Federal Council election on 9 December 2015.


2015 Swiss federal election, Aftermath
Owing to the results of the federal election, Federal Councillor Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf, a member of the Conservative Democratic Party (BDP), announced she would not run for re-election, as the Swiss People's Party (SVP) won a record percentage of the vote, while her own party decreased its share. The SVP was widely expected to fill her seat in the election, and it chose Thomas Aeschi (Zug), Guy Parmelin (Vaud) and Norman Gobbi (Ticino) as candidates for the seat, with Aeschi being the favorite at the time.


2015 Swiss federal election, Aftermath
Guy Parmelin, of the SVP, was ultimately elected on 9 December. Parmelin, a farmer and winegrower from Bursins in canton Vaud, was the first member of the Federal Council who is also a member of the Swiss People's Party from the French-speaking part of Switzerland.


2015 Swiss federal election, Aftermath
There was a minor cabinet reshuffle after the election, as newly elected Parmelin was selected to become head of the Federal Department of Defence, Civil Protection and Sports, replacing fellow SVP-member Ueli Maurer, who became head of the Federal Department of Finance. The SVP gained its second seat in the Federal Council, which it had lost in 2008, when the newly created BDP split from the SVP.


2015 Swiss referendums
Six national referendums were held in Switzerland during 2015, the first of which were held on 8 March.


2015 Swiss referendums, March referendums
Two referendums were held on 8 March. The family initiative proposal proposed that child and education allowances should be exempt from income tax, whilst second initiative called for the introduction of a tax on non-renewable energy, with the higher cost of energy consumption compensated by the abolition of VAT. The family initiative was initiated by the Christian Democratic People's Party and the energy initiative was initiated by the Green Liberal Party. The Swiss government recommended the rejection of both initiatives, and both were rejected by voters.


2015 Swiss referendums, March referendums
The failed energy initiative received worst vote result for an initiative since 1929.


2015 Swiss referendums, June referendums
Four referendums were held on 14 June 2015, covering a constitutional amendment regarding reproductive medicine and human gene technology, popular initiatives on scholarships and inheritance tax and a modification of the federal law on radio and television reducing the annual licence fee from 462 to 400 Francs.


2015 Sydney Darts Masters
The 2015 Sydney Darts Masters was the third staging of the tournament by the Professional Darts Corporation, as a fourth entry in the 2015 World Series of Darts. The tournament  featured 16 players (eight top PDC Players facing eight regional qualifiers) and was held at the Sydney Entertainment Centre in Sydney, Australia from 20–22 August 2015.


2015 Sydney Darts Masters
Phil Taylor was the defending champion after defeating Stephen Bunting 11–3 in the last year's final and he remained the only player to have won this event by claiming his third title with an 11–3 victory over Adrian Lewis. He also hit the first ever nine-dart finish in a World Series of Darts match, when he hit one in his semi-final victory over Peter Wright, which was Taylor's last televised nine-dart finish in his career.


2015 Sydney Darts Masters, Broadcasting
The tournament was available in the following countries on these channels:


2015 Sydney Motorsport Park Super Sprint
The 2015 Sydney Motorsport Park Super Sprint was a motor race for V8 Supercars held on the weekend of 21–23 August 2015. The event was held at the Sydney Motorsport Park in Sydney, New South Wales, and consisted of two sprint races, each over a distance of 60 kilometres (37 miles) and one endurance race over a distance of 200 kilometres (124 miles). It was the eighth round of fourteen in the 2015 International V8 Supercars Championship.


2015 Sydney Roosters season
The 2015 Sydney Roosters season was the 108th in the club's history. They competed in the 2015 National Rugby League season. The Sydney Roosters opened their 2015 season against the North Queensland Cowboys. In 2015, Trent Robinson coached the Sydney Roosters. Jake Friend and Mitchell Pearce captained the team in 2015 along with two vice-captains in Boyd Cordner and Jared Waerea-Hargreaves. The Sydney Roosters completed their 2015 regular season as Minor Premiers for the third year in a row, defeating the South Sydney Rabbitohs 30 – 0. The Sydney Roosters 2015 season ended in defeat against the Brisbane Broncos 31 – 12.


2015 Sydney Swans season
The 2015 AFL season will be the 119th season in the Australian Football League contested by the Sydney Swans.


2015 Sydney Swans season, Squad for 2015
Statistics are correct as of end of 2014 season. Flags represent the state of origin, i.e. the state in which the player played his Under-18s football.


2015 Sydney Swans season, Playing list changes
The following summarises all player changes between the conclusion of the 2014 season and the beginning of the 2015 season.


2015 Sydney Swans season, Individual awards and records, Bob Skilton Medal
Paul Roos Award for Best Player in a Finals Series: Josh Kennedy


2015 Sydney Swans season, Individual awards and records, AFL Players Association awards
Most Courageous Player: Luke Parker Best First Year Player: Isaac Heeney


2015 Sydney Swans season, Individual awards and records, AFL Rising Star
The following Sydney players were nominated for the 2015 NAB AFL Rising Star award:


2015 Sydney Swans season, Individual awards and records, 22under22 Team
The following Sydney players were selected in the 22under22 Team:


2015 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race
The 2015 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race, sponsored by Rolex, was the 71st annual running of the "blue water classic" Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race. As in past editions of the race, it was hosted by the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia based in Sydney, New South Wales.


2015 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race
As with previous Sydney to Hobart Yacht Races, the 2015 edition began on Sydney Harbour, at 1pm on Boxing Day (26 December 2015), before heading south for 630 nautical miles (1,170 km) through the Tasman Sea, past Bass Strait, into Storm Bay and up the River Derwent, to cross the finish line in Hobart, Tasmania.


2015 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race
Line honours were claimed by Comanche in a time of 2 days, 8 hours, 58 minutes and 30 seconds.


2015 Syed Modi International Grand Prix Gold
The 2015 Syed Modi International Grand Prix Gold was the second grand prix gold and grand prix tournament of the 2015 BWF Grand Prix Gold and Grand Prix. The tournament was held in Babu Banarasi Das Indoor Stadium, Lucknow, India from January 20 until January 25, 2015 and had a total purse of $120,000.


2015 Sylvania 300
The 2015 Sylvania 300 was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race held on September 27, 2015, at New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon, New Hampshire. Contested over 300 laps on the 1.058 mile (2.4 km) speedway, it was the 28th race of the 2015 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season, second race of the Chase and second race of the Challenger Round. Matt Kenseth won the race, his fifth of the season. Denny Hamlin finished second. Joey Logano, Greg Biffle and Carl Edwards rounded out the top-five.


2015 Sylvania 300
Edwards won the pole for the race and led 19 laps on his way to a fifth–place finish. Kevin Harvick led a race high of 216 laps before running out of gas with three laps to go and finished 21st. The race had 16 lead changes amongst seven different drivers, nine caution flag periods for 41 laps and one red flag period for six minutes and four seconds.


2015 Sylvania 300
This was the 36th career win for Kenseth, fifth of the season, second at New Hampshire Motor Speedway and eighth at the track for Joe Gibbs Racing. His points lead grew to six over Denny Hamlin. Despite being the winning manufacturer, Toyota left Loudon trailing Chevrolet by 40–points in the manufacturer standings.


2015 Sylvania 300
The Sylvania 300 was carried by NBC Sports on the cable/satellite NBCSN network for the American television audience. The radio broadcast for the race was carried by the Performance Racing Network and Sirius XM NASCAR Radio.


2015 Sylvania 300, Report, Background
New Hampshire Motor Speedway is a 1.058-mile (1.703 km) oval speedway located in Loudon, New Hampshire which has hosted NASCAR racing annually since the early 1990s, as well as an IndyCar weekend and the oldest motorcycle race in North America, the Loudon Classic. Nicknamed "The Magic Mile", the speedway is often converted into a 1.6-mile (2.6 km) road course, which includes much of the oval.


2015 Sylvania 300, Report, Background
The track was originally the site of Bryar Motorsports Park before being purchased and redeveloped by Bob Bahre. The track is currently one of eight major NASCAR tracks owned and operated by Speedway Motorsports.


2015 Sylvania 300, Report, Background
Matt Kenseth entered Loudon with a two–point lead over Denny Hamlin. Carl Edwards and Kyle Busch entered tied for third three–points back. Kurt Busch and Joey Logano entered tied for fifth four–points back. Jimmie Johnson entered seventh seven–points back. Ryan Newman entered eighth 12–points back. Brad Keselowski entered ninth 13–points back. Dale Earnhardt, Jr. entered 10th 14–points back. Martin Truex, Jr. entered 11th 17–points back. Jeff Gordon, the only driver to have started every race at Loudon and made his 42nd and final start at the track, entered 12th 21–points back. Jamie McMurray entered 13th 24–points back. Paul Menard entered 14th 25–points back. Kevin Harvick entered 15th 43–points back. Clint Bowyer entered 16th 52–points back.


2015 Sylvania 300, Report, Background, New NASCAR record
Jeff Gordon, who made his first career start in the 1992 Hooters 500 at what was then Atlanta International Raceway, surpassed Ricky Rudd's record of 788 consecutive starts and became NASCAR's all-time iron man when he made his 789th consecutive start. Although proud of the mark, he said that drivers like Rudd and Terry Labonte "are way tougher than me. I've never had to tape my eyelids open to make the race (referring to how Ricky Rudd famously taped his eyes open to race in the 1984 Daytona 500 after suffering a concussion in the previous week's Busch Clash).


2015 Sylvania 300, Report, Background, New NASCAR record
When you think of those guys and the conditions of the cars, they didn't have any kind of air conditioning, they dealt with some major injuries and fought through. I've had some injuries along the way that I've had to fight through, so I have a taste of it, but certainly nothing like those guys."


2015 Sylvania 300, Report, Background, Entry list
The entry list for the Sylvania 300 was released on Monday, September 21 at 9:00 a.m. Eastern time. Forty–four cars were entered for the race. All were entered for the previous week's race at Chicagoland.


2015 Sylvania 300, Report, Background, Entry list
Four driver changes from the previous race took place for this race: Josh Wise drove the No. 26 BK Racing Toyota, Jeffrey Earnhardt drove the No. 32 Go FAS Racing Ford, B. J. McLeod made his first career Sprint Cup Series start in the No. 33 Hillman-Circle Sport LLC Chevrolet, Timmy Hill returned to the seat of the No. 62 Premium Motorsports Chevrolet and Ryan Preece – 2013 NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour champion – made his first career Sprint Cup Series start in the No. 98 Premium Motorsports Ford.


2015 Sylvania 300, First practice
Carl Edwards was the fastest in the first practice session with a time of 27.823 and a speed of 136.894 mph (220.310 km/h).


2015 Sylvania 300, Qualifying
Carl Edwards won the pole with a time of 27.604 and a speed of 137.980 mph (222.057 km/h). Edwards stated that Loudon is "a tough place to decide where to be aggressive. This place is simple, so it’s pretty straight forward, but one little mistake here or there can cost you a lot. I really had to step it up. We got a great start to the Chase and we're keeping it rolling. We knew qualifying was important so we worked on it a lot today.”


2015 Sylvania 300, Qualifying
Kevin Harvick, after qualifying second, said that he "left it down in one and two down there, I just wasn’t too aggressive." Brad Keselowski – after qualifying fourth – said that for his team, they "just need to have a good, solid day. If we can win, that would be great. That’s what we want to do. That’s what we’re here to do, but a solid day would almost guarantee us advancing to the next round. The most important thing is to win Homestead and we want to be there when it counts.” Travis Kvapil failed to make the race.


2015 Sylvania 300, Practice (post-qualifying), Second practice
Carl Edwards was the fastest in the second practice session with a time of 28.527 and a speed of 133.516 mph (214.873 km/h). Roughly 22 minutes into the session, Jeffrey Earnhardt locked up the brakes and slammed the wall in turn 1.


2015 Sylvania 300, Practice (post-qualifying), Final practice
Kevin Harvick was the fastest in the final practice session with a time of 28.302 and a speed of 134.577 mph (216.581 km/h).


2015 Sylvania 300, Race, First half, Start
Under clear blue New England skies, Carl Edwards led the field to the green flag at 2:19 p.m. Kevin Harvick kept the second position for the first 10 laps. He got under Edwards in turn 1 on lap 18, but couldn't get the run off the turn and remained in second. Edwards got high exiting turn 1 and lost the lead to Harvick on lap 21. Lapped traffic allowed him to pull away to a one-second lead by lap 25.


2015 Sylvania 300, Race, First half, Start
The first caution of the race flew on lap 37 when Aric Almirola got the car turning on entry, but then shot up the track and slammed the wall. He finished a disappointing 43rd. Harvick swapped the lead on pit road with Brad Keselowski, but exited with that position. Austin Dillon was tagged for speeding on pit road and restarted the race from the tail-end of the field.


2015 Sylvania 300, Race, First half, Start
The race restarted on lap 44. The second caution flew on lap 48 when Landon Cassill blew an engine in turn 4. The issue stemmed from a loss of power steering.


2015 Sylvania 300, Race, First half, Start
The race restarted on lap 53. Harvick began pulling away from Keselowski. The third caution flew on lap 60 when Tony Stewart blew his left-front tire out after making contact with Martin Truex, Jr. on the restart and veered toward the wall. Luckily, he didn't make contact with it and pulled his car down pit road.


2015 Sylvania 300, Race, First half, Second quarter
The race restarted on lap 65. Kevin Harvick drove away to a three and a half second lead over Brad Keselowski by lap 85. The fourth caution of the race flew on lap 120 for a single-car wreck in turn 4. Rounding the turn, Alex Bowman suffered a right-front tire blowout and slammed the wall. Harvick swapped the lead on pit road with Keselowski, but exited with the lead. Casey Mears was tagged for an uncontrolled tire and restarted the race from the tail-end of the field.


2015 Sylvania 300, Race, First half, Second quarter
The race restarted on lap 125. The fifth caution of the race flew on lap 158 for a single-car wreck in turn 4. Kyle Busch suffered a right-front tire blowout and slammed the wall. Crew chief Adam Stevens said that the car had "just came off almost a green flag run and the tires looked fine, the balance was a little off and then had that short run there and the handling went away and just blew a right front.


2015 Sylvania 300, Race, First half, Second quarter
It looks like it just had a slow leak and just overworked the shoulder and finally blew out, but the balance was free, so it’s not like we abused it – especially after we just went a fuel run, you know what I mean? Just one of those things that happens – sometimes you get a pinhole or run something over and we found the fence.” Harvick swapped the lead on pit road with Keselowski, but exited with the lead. Carl Edwards was tagged for removing equipment out of the pit box and restarted the race from the tail-end of the field.


2015 Sylvania 300, Race, Second half, Halfway
The race restarted on lap 165. Kevin Harvick pulled to a two-second lead after nine laps. Debris in turn 3 brought out the sixth caution of the race on lap 192. Harvick swapped the lead with Keselowski on pit road, only this time he didn't exit with it. Matt Kenseth exited with the lead after taking just right-side tires.


2015 Sylvania 300, Race, Second half, Halfway
The race restarted on lap 197. Jimmie Johnson was running third when he cut down his left-front tire on lap 200. He rejoined the race in 29th one lap down. The seventh caution of the race flew for a two-car wreck in turn 1. Going into the turn, Ryan Newman got loose and sent Danica Patrick spinning into the wall. She made contact with the wall, slid back down the track and got t-boned by David Ragan.


2015 Sylvania 300, Race, Second half, Halfway
After a voluntary visit to the infield care center (she wasn't required to visit it since she drove her car back to the garage), she said that she was "on track to have a potentially good finish today. It was kind of back and forth with the two- and four-tire cycle that was happening but definitely on the long run with everyone with four tires or with everyone kind of stringing out we had gotten all the way up to 12th. It sucks.


2015 Sylvania 300, Race, Second half, Halfway
It seems like nothing ever goes wrong on those days that you’re just trudging along in 27th, you know? It only happens when you’re having a good race." Ragan commented that he didn't "know what happened to her, but typically when you hit the wall you hold onto the brakes, you lock it down -- you try not to come back across the track. I saw her coming back down and I was trying.


2015 Sylvania 300, Race, Second half, Halfway
I didn’t want to lock my brakes up because I knew I would hit her, so I was trying to just get it as low as I could and just couldn’t get it as low as I needed to. Unfortunate to get involved in a wreck like that. Just one of those deals. I hate it for everybody that works on these race cars. We needed a good finish today, but I wish that she would have locked her brakes up and would have stayed up on the wall." The race was red-flagged after the blue foam blocks that cover the sides of the roll cage were destroyed and scattered all over the turn. It was lifted after six minutes.


2015 Sylvania 300, Race, Second half, Halfway
The race restarted on lap 210. The next lap, Kevin Harvick passed Kenseth for the lead just as the eighth caution of the race flew for a single-car wreck on the backstretch involving Brett Moffitt. Kenseth opted not to pit under the caution and assumed the lead.


2015 Sylvania 300, Race, Second half, Halfway
The race restarted on lap 215. Denny Hamlin drove by teammate Matt Kenseth in turn 3 to take the lead with 81 laps to go. The ninth caution of the race flew with 63 laps to go for a single-car wreck in turn 3. Justin Allgaier suffered a right-front tire blowout and slammed the wall. Greg Biffle opted not to pit under the caution and assumed the lead.


2015 Sylvania 300, Race, Second half, Fourth quarter
Richard Buck, Sprint Cup managing director speaking to reporters after the race.


2015 Sylvania 300, Race, Second half, Fourth quarter
The race restarted with 58 laps to go. NASCAR decided to review the restart and black-flagged Brad Keselowski for a restart violation. He was forced to serve a drive-through penalty. After the race, he said that he "got the chance to do something again for the first time.


2015 Sylvania 300, Race, Second half, Fourth quarter
The first person to ever be penalized for jumping a restart when I didn’t pass anyone, so that’s a new one, but we moved on and we made the most of a good day with the Miller Lite Ford and got a solid finish that hopefully will make our Dover a little bit easier, so that was good.” NASCAR Managing Director Richard Buck told reporters after the race that "it was very clear-cut in our minds" that Keselowski had jumped the start. He also added that the sanctioning body is "not out to get anybody, [b]ut we're the keeper of the rules and the enforcer of the rules. All anybody asks for in this garage area is to be treated fairly, and we believe we did our job today."


2015 Sylvania 300, Race, Second half, Fourth quarter
After drag-racing Biffle down the backstretch, Kevin Harvick took back the lead with 48 laps to go. In the closing 15 laps, Matt Kenseth began stalking Harvick who was borderline on making the finish having last pitted on lap 212 and the fuel window being 76 laps. He didn't have enough, lost the lead and finished a disappointing 21st. Unsurprisingly, he left the track without speaking to the media. But he sent out a tweet an hour after the race that simply stated "Fast car. Great day. Bad ending." Kenseth inherited the lead and scored his 36th career victory.


2015 Sylvania 300, Race, Post-race, Driver comments
Kenseth said of his victory that he "had to be there to win it. I was giving Kevin everything I had. I thought he had us beat. He had the better car." He added that he "had to pit that one time today and (crew chief) Jason’s (Ratcliff) like 'it’s fine, relax.' We made it to the front faster I thought. I was giving Kevin everything I got, I thought he was gonna beat us, he had a better car today, I guess he was a little short on fuel.”


2015 Sylvania 300, Race, Post-race, Driver comments
Speaking on his third–place finish, Joey Logano said that he would "take it. It was a blue collar day. It maybe wasn't the fastest car and maybe not even a top–five car at times, but we did a good job working on it."


2015 Sylvania 300, Race, Post-race, Driver comments
After saving enough fuel to notch a fourth–place finish – his third of 2015 – Greg Biffle said that he felt "really good about this run, especially when we got out in clean air [and realized] how fast the car was. Our Ford Fusion ran really good, and we’re happy to have Kleen Performance on it this week, but we still have a little bit of work to do. They were on a little bit better tires than we were[.]


2015 Sylvania 300, Race, Post-race, Driver comments
[S]o they showed a little bit more speed than we did right there – the No. 4, the No. 11 and the No. 20 – but I was trying to save a little bit of gas too. I knew I had a long ways to go if we were going to make it that far, so it was a great run for us.”


2015 Sylvania 300, Race, Post-race, Driver comments
After falling to 23rd one–lap down following flat left-front tire at lap 200 and rallying to a sixth–place finish, Jimmie Johnson said that the whole ordeal "was really weird. I went into Turn 3 and got on the brakes and the car traveled and slowed down. It felt like something broke in the left-front, but they said there was a lugnut inside the wheel. I guess when I hit the brakes to slow down a lugnut hit the valve stem and took the tire out. Fortunately some cautions fell in quick order to let us get back on the lead lap. We had a solid car and got up there to ninth or something and some guys ran out of fuel and got us to sixth.”


2015 Sylvania 300, Race, Post-race, Driver comments
After struggling all day and rallying to a seventh–place finish in his record setting 789th career start, Jeff Gordon said that his team "had a bunch of things that didn't go our way, and then luckily there at the very end, we had it go our way where we came in and got four tires, had a decent restart and we were able to drive all the way up there."


2015 Sylvania 300, Race, Post-race, Driver comments
While neither Kevin Harvick nor crew chief Rodney Childers opted to speak to the media after the race (only the top–three finishers are obligated to do so), Childers took to Twitter roughly 90 minutes after the race with a screen grab of a note explaining why he wasn't worried about the team's fuel situation in a tweet titled "Great car all weekend.. To our real fans that actually care.. Not the ones that are jackasses.. Here ya go..".


2015 Sylvania 300, Race, Post-race, Media comments
MRN lead turn announcer and host of Sirius XM Speedway on Sirius XM NASCAR Radio Dave Moody giving his thoughts on the issue with restarts.


2015 Sylvania 300, Race, Post-race, Media comments
Brad Keselowski being black-flagged for jumping the final restart of the race added to an ongoing issue regarding NASCAR's enforcement, or lack thereof, of drivers jumping the restarts to gain an advantage. Several members of the NASCAR media gave their thoughts regarding the issue of restarts as a whole and whether NASCAR was right to black flag Keselowski.


2015 Sylvania 300, Race, Post-race, Media comments
Dave Moody of the Motor Racing Network said that because fans and drivers don't want NASCAR to show discretion but enforce down to the letter of the law, they should "[b]e careful what you wish for. Because you just got it."


2015 Sylvania 300, Race, Post-race, Media comments
Pete Pistone of MRN said that, while he didn't believe Keselowski jumped the start, there was no doubt "with restarts now under more scrutiny and officiating ramped up, Keselowski got flagged" when he wouldn't have felt the wrath of the sanctioning body two weeks ago.


2015 Sylvania 300, Race, Post-race, Media comments
Matt Weaver of Popular Speed said that "[s]ometimes[,] you get what you asked for[,] but never truly underst[and] what you were getting until it was too late" and that by black-flagging Keselowski, "NASCAR has now set a standard in which all future restarts will be judged."


2015 Sylvania 300, Race, Post-race, Media comments
Darrell Waltrip of Fox Sports said that while Keselowski maybe "did go a dog-hair early...he didn't pass the leader" and that "it should have been 'no harm, no foul.'" He also added that the issue will continue "to grow and quite honestly, I don't think we've seen the end of it yet."


2015 Sylvania 300, Race, Post-race, Media comments
In ESPN.com's weekly NASCAR's burning questions series, NASCAR analysts and writers Ricky Craven, Ryan McGhee, John Oreovicz and Bob Pockrass gave their answers if NASCAR made "the right call on Brad Keselowski's restart penalty." Craven said NASCAR made "the wrong decision to black-flag the leader for gaining nothing. Restarts in the past few years have become a flavorful, entertaining component of NASCAR racing. I had no problem with not black-flagging Jeff Gordon the week before ... until Brad got punished for doing much, much less." McGhee said "by the letter of the law, it was the right call.


2015 Sylvania 300, Race, Post-race, Media comments
But ultimately, it's not really a penalty unless there was intent or an advantage gained. I don't think there was any blatant intent, even Greg Biffle said that. And there was certainly no advantage gained. But this is like pit-road speeding used to be. Guys complained and complained about the way it was policed, it received more attention and received more rules-writing ... and well, be careful what you wish for, fellas!" Oreovicz said it looked "a lot more like the No. 16 slowed unexpectedly, whether through wheelspin or gamesmanship.


2015 Sylvania 300, Race, Post-race, Media comments
Tricking your rival has been part of the restart game long before NASCAR began examining things under a microscope. I don't think this violation was blatant enough to warrant calling." Pockrass said that NASCAR technically "may have been right (it is difficult from the replays we saw to determine that he truly jumped the restart)," but that giving him a drive-through "certainly didn't seem to fit the crime. The perception is that NASCAR is being heavy-handed and that adds to the confusion, ultimately hurting NACAR's credibility. This at the very least shows that NASCAR should adopt a rule similar to its Daytona/Talladega yellow-line rule that if a driver gives back any position gained with an illegal restart, there is no penalty."


2015 Sylvania 300, Race, Post-race, NASCAR comments
Steve O'Donnell, NASCAR executive vice-president and chief racing development officer, speaking to NASCAR.com about the final restart.


2015 Sylvania 300, Race, Post-race, NASCAR comments
On the Monday following the race, NASCAR Executive Vice-President and Chief Racing Development Officer Steve O'Donnell explained to Zach Albert of NASCAR.com the reason for NASCAR stepping up tighter enforcement of the restarts. Speaking on behalf of the sanctioning body, he said that it was their "job to utilize all the technology we have...and make a call" even though everyone isn't "going to agree with that." He also added that there's a lot "on the line each and every race, and so ultimately we've got to make a call."


2015 Sylvania 300, Media, Television
NBCSN covered the race on the television side. Rick Allen, Jeff Burton – the all-time wins leader at New Hampshire Motor Speedway with four wins – and Steve Letarte had the call in the booth for the race. Dave Burns, Mike Massaro, Marty Snider and Kelli Stavast handled pit road on the television side.


2015 Sylvania 300, Media, Radio
PRN had the radio call for the race, which was simulcast on Sirius XM NASCAR Radio. Wendy Venturini and Mark Garrow called the race from the booth when the field was racing down the front stretch. Rob Albright called the race from a billboard outside of turn 2 when the field was racing through turns 1 and 2. Pat Patterson called the race from the turn 4 stands when the field was racing through turns 3 and 4. Brad Gillie, Brett McMillan, Steve Richards and Hermie Sadler handled pit road on the radio side.


2015 Symetra Tour
The 2015 Symetra Tour was a series of professional women's golf tournaments held from February through October 2015 in the United States. The Symetra Tour is the second-tier women's professional golf tour in the United States and is the "official developmental tour" of the LPGA Tour. It was previously known as the Futures Tour. In 2015, total prize money on the Symetra Tour was $2,420,000.


2015 Symetra Tour, Leading money winners
The top ten money winners at the end of the season gained fully exempt cards on the LPGA Tour for the 2016 season.


2015 Symetra Tour, Schedule and results
The number in parentheses after winners' names show the player's total number of official money, individual event wins on the Symetra Tour including that event.


2015 Syracuse Orange football team
The 2015 Syracuse Orange football team represented Syracuse University in the 2015 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Orange were led by third year head coach Scott Shafer and played their home games at the Carrier Dome. They were members of the Atlantic Division of the Atlantic Coast Conference. They finished the season 4–8, 2–6 in ACC play to finish in fifth place in the Atlantic Division.


2015 Syracuse Orange football team
On November 23, head coach Scott Shafer was fired. He stayed on to coach their final game on November 28. He finished at Syracuse with a three-year record of 14–23.


2015 Syracuse Orange men's soccer team
The 2015 Syracuse Orange men's soccer team represented Syracuse University during the 2015 NCAA Division I men's soccer season. It was the program's 92nd season. The Orange reached the College Cup for the first time in program history, where they lost on penalties to eventual national champion, Stanford.


2015 Syracuse Orange men's soccer team, Roster, Squad
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2015 Syrian Air Force An-26 crash
On 18 January 2015, an Antonov An-26 operated by the Syrian Air Force crashed with no survivors while attempting to land at the besieged Abu al-Duhur military airport in Idlib Governorate, Syria. The plane was carrying troops as well as military equipment and ammunition. There were 35 people on board, 30 Syrian soldiers and 5 Iranian military experts.


2015 Syrian Air Force An-26 crash
Syrian state media and the SOHR said that the crash was due to heavy fog or "technical issues" and that the plane hit an electricity pylon. However, Al-Qaeda affiliated group Al-Nusra Front claimed that they shot it down.


2015 Syrian Air Force An-26 crash
Syrian media provided a list with the names of the 30 Syrian soldiers who were killed. The commander of the Syrian army division, Colonel Hussein Al-Yousif, was among those listed killed. Per SOHR, 13 Syrian officers were among the fatalities.


2015 Syrian Cup
The 2015 version of the Syrian Cup is the 45th edition to be played. It is the premier knockout tournament for football teams in Syria. Al-Jaish are the defending champions.


2015 Syrian Cup
The competition has been disrupted because of the ongoing Syrian Civil War, where some games have been awarded as 3:0 victories due to teams not being able to compete.


2015 Syrian Cup
The winners of the competition enter the 2016 AFC Cup.


2015 São Paulo Challenger de Tênis
The 2015 São Paulo Challenger de Tênis was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the fifth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2015 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in São Paulo, Brazil between 27 April and 2 May 2015.


2015 São Paulo Challenger de Tênis, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2015 São Paulo Challenger de Tênis, Doubles entrants, Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:


2015 São Paulo Challenger de Tênis – Doubles
Guido Pella and Diego Schwartzman were the defending champions, but Schwartzman decided not to participate this year. Pella played alongside Andrés Molteni, but they lost to Guido Andreozzi and Sergio Galdós in the semifinals.


2015 São Paulo Challenger de Tênis – Singles
Rogério Dutra Silva was the defending champion, but he lost in the quarterfinals to José Hernández.


2015 São Paulo Challenger de Tênis – Singles
Guido Pella won the title, defeating Christian Lindell in the final, 7–5, 7–6(7–1)


2015 São Paulo FC season
The 2015 season was São Paulo's 86th year since the club's existence. At the first half of the year, São Paulo played the Campeonato Paulista and Copa Libertadores. In the state league the club's performance led to semifinals when The Dearest lose to rival Santos in a single match on away field (1-2). By the continental tournament, Tricolor reach the round of 16 being beaten by Cruzeiro in penalty shootouts by 3-4 after two equal scores (1-0 home; 0-1 away).


2015 São Paulo FC season
In April, Muricy Ramalho left the São Paulo FC due to health problems and the team was trained by assistant coach Milton Cruz during a few matches and managed by Colombian Juan Carlos Osorio and Brazilian Doriva in the course of the season. After only 7 matches Doriva was replaced by Milton Cruz who trained the club again at the end of the year. In the Copa do Brasil, Tricolor was defeated by Santos in semifinals with two losses by 1-3, 2-6 on aggregate score.


2015 São Paulo FC season
By national league a final 4th position take a place in the first stage of the Copa Libertadores. The main event of the year was the retirement of goalkeeper Rogério Ceni in a symbolical match between the world champions players by São Paulo in 1992 and 2005. The final result was 5-3 to 2005 champions. Rogério Ceni stopped his career at 42 with a record of 1237 matches, 131 goals during his 23 seasons by Tricolor.


2015 São Paulo FC season, Players
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2015 São Paulo FC season, Players, Out on loan
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2015 São Paulo FC season, Players, Transfers, In
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2015 São Paulo FC season, Players, Transfers, Out
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2015 São Paulo FC season, Statistics, Disciplinary record
Source: Competitive matchesOrdered by ,  and  = Number of bookings;  = Number of sending offs after a second yellow card;  = Number of sending offs by a direct red card.


2015 São Paulo FC season, Statistics, Clean sheets
Includes all competitive matches. The list is sorted by shirt number when total clean sheets are equal.


2015 São Paulo Women's Sevens
The 2015 São Paulo Women's Sevens was the second tournament of the 2014–15 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series. It was held over the weekend of 7–8 February 2015 at Arena Barueri in São Paulo metropolitan area, and was the second edition of the Women's São Paulo Sevens as part of the World Rugby Women's Sevens Series.


2015 São Paulo Women's Sevens, Format
The teams are drawn into three pools of four teams each. Each team plays every other team in their pool once. The top two teams from each pool advance to the Cup/Plate brackets while the top 2 third place teams also compete in the Cup/Plate. The other teams from each group play-off for the Bowl.


2015 São Paulo Women's Sevens, Teams
The participating teams and schedule were announced on 15 October 2014.


2015 São Paulo World Cup
The 2015 São Paulo World Challenge Cup was a gymnastics competition held in the southeastern city of São Paulo, one of the largest cities in Brazil. It was held in the Geraldo José de Almeida Gym from May 1 to May 3, 2015.


2015 São Tomé First Division
The 2015 São Tomé (Island or Regional) First Division took place that season. The club was had 10 clubs and appeared in that number for the last time, the competition began in June and finished on 19 November. Geographically almost all clubs but Neves that took part in the Premier Division were in the east. Sporting Praia Cruz won the title and went on to participate in the national championships for the seventh time in November. Sporting Praia Cruz were first crowned as champions on October 26, a round before the season ended. A total of 90 matches were played and 231 goals were scored.


2015 São Tomé First Division, Overview
Agrosport, Trindade, Inter Bom Bom and Ké Morabeza (formerly Bela Vista) were in the top four of the Second Division with Agrosport winning the title.


2015 São Tomé First Division, Overview
Both Neves and Juba Diogo Simão were relegated into the Second Division in the following season as they were the last placed clubs. Neves did not return until 2017, Juba Diogo Simão did not return, in 2017, the club withdrew from the Third Division.


2015 São Tomé First Division, Overview
Folha Fede scored the most goals numbering 30, second was Sporting Praia Cruz and UDRA with 29, and fourth was 8th placed Correia  Juba Diogo Simão scored the least with only eight goals. On the opposites, Juba Diogo Simão conceded the most with 41, second was Neves with 30 and third was Aliança Nacional with 28.


2015 São Tomé First Division, Teams
Ten clubs participated in the 2014 season (third time since its reduction), Sporting Praia Cruz won their eight and recent title and went on to participate in the national championship match in November 15.


2015 São Tomé Second Division
The 2015 São Tomé (Island or Regional) Second Division was a third-tier competition that took place that season. The club had 10 clubs, the competition began on 9 May and finished on 28 October. Geographically almost all clubs but Porto Alegre and Ribeira Peixe were from the north. Agrosport won the title and participated in the Premier Division in the following season, as the number of clubs in that division had risen to 12, four clubs qualified alongside Trindade, Inter Bom Bom and Ké Morabeza (formerly Boa Vista). A total of 90 matches were played and 252 goals were scored.


2015 São Tomé Second Division
On the opposites, both Ribeira Peixe and Porto Alegre were relegated into the Third Division in the following season as they were the last placed clubs.


2015 São Tomé Second Division, Overview
Agrosport scored the most goals numbering 39, second was Trindade FC with 38 and third was Inter Bom Bom with 33. Ribeira Peixe scored the least with ten. On the opposites, Juba Diogo Simão conceded the most with 55, second was Oque d'El Rei with 33 and third was Ribeira Peixe with 30.


2015 São Tomé Second Division, Overview
In the following season, four clubs would be promoted as the Third Division would be reduced to 10 teams. Palmar, Boavista Uba Bodo, Sporting São Tomé and Ototó were promoted.


2015 São Tomé Third Division
The 2015 São Tomé (Island or Regional) Second Division was the third season of the fourth-tier competition that took place that season, also being the nation's lowest. The club was the third and last that hat 12 clubs. Geographically almost all clubs but Porto Alegre and Ribeira Peixe were from the north.


2015 São Tomé Third Division
Agrosport won the title and participated in the Second Division in the following season, as the number of clubs in the Premier Division  had risen to 12, four clubs qualified alongside Boavista Uba Budo, Sporting São Tomé and Ototó, the Third Division would feature only ten clubs next season. A total of 90 matches were played and 252 goals were scored.


2015 São Tomé Third Division, Overview
Sporting São Tomé scored the most goals numbering 30, second was Palmar with 28 and third was Ototó with 26. 6 de Setembro scored the fewest with 10, second fewest was seventh placed Santa Margarida with 16. On the opposites, Andorinha conceded the most with 32, second was Varzim with 31 and third was 6 de Setembro with 26. The fewest goals conceded were Palmar and Sporting São Tomé with 15.


2015 São Tomé Third Division, Overview
In the following season, four clubs would be promoted as the Third Division would be reduced to 10 teams. Palmar, Boavista Uba Bodo, Sporting São Tomé and Ototó were promoted.


2015 São Tomé and Príncipe Championship
The 2015 São Tomé and Principe Championship was the 30th season of the São Tomé and Principe Championship the top-level football championship of São Tomé and Principe. It began on 9 May, a day earlier than last season and concluded on 21 November. Two national final matches occurred in the season. Sporting Praia Cruz from São Tomé island won their seventh and recent title.


2015 São Tomé and Príncipe Championship, Teams
35 teams participated in the São Tomé and Principe Championship, 30 from São Tomé Island (10 in each division) and 5 from Príncipe Island. At the end of season champion of São Tomé Island League and champion of Principe Island League play one match for champion of São Tomé and Principe.


2015 São Tomé and Príncipe Championship, Principe teams 2015
Five clubs took part in the 2014 season. One of the clubs did not participate in the season. Sporting Príncipe won the title and participated in the national championship match in November.


2015 São Tomé and Príncipe Championship, National final
Two national final matches took place on November 15 and 21 at noon. It was another "Sporting" competition as the match featured Sporting Príncipe from Príncipe and Sporting Praia Cruz from São Tome Island.