2015 Northwestern Wildcats football team, Schedule
Northwestern announced their 2015 football schedule on June 3, 2013. The 2015 schedule consist of 7 home and 5 away games in the regular season. The Wildcats will host Big Ten foes Iowa, Minnesota, Penn State, and Purdue and will travel to Illinois, Michigan, Nebraska, and Wisconsin.


2015 Northwestern Wildcats football team, Schedule
The Wildcats hosted three of their four non conference games against Ball State, Eastern Illinois and Stanford. Northwestern traveled to Durham, North Carolina to face Duke of the Atlantic Coast Conference on September 19.


2015 Norwegian Figure Skating Championships
The 2015 Norwegian Figure Skating Championships was held at the Askerhallen in Asker from January 16 to 18, 2015. Skaters competed in the discipline of single skating.


2015 Norwegian First Division
The 2015 1. divisjon (referred to as the OBOS-ligaen for sponsorship reasons) was a Norwegian second-tier football league season. The league was contested by 16 teams, and the top two teams were promoted to Tippeligaen, while the teams placed from third to sixth place played a promotion-playoff against the 14th-placed team in Tippeligaen to win promotion. The bottom four teams were relegated to the 2. divisjon.


2015 Norwegian First Division
The first round of the season was played on 6 April 2015 and the season ended with the last round on 1 November 2015. The playoff-tournament was played between 7 and 21 November 2015.


2015 Norwegian First Division
An agreement with Oslo's housing cooperative OBOS was signed on 15 January 2015, branding the league as OBOS-ligaen until 2021.


2015 Norwegian First Division, Team changes from 2014
In the 2014 1. divisjon, Sandefjord, Tromsø and Mjøndalen won promotion to Tippeligaen, while Alta, HamKam, Tromsdalen and Ull/Kisa were relegated to the 2015 2. divisjon.


2015 Norwegian First Division, Team changes from 2014
Sogndal, Sandnes Ulf and Brann, were relegated from the 2014 Tippeligaen, while Follo, Jerv, Levanger and Åsane were promoted from the 2014 2. divisjon.


2015 Norwegian Football Cup
The 2015 Norwegian Football Cup was the 110th season of the Norwegian annual knock-out football tournament. It began with qualification matches in March 2015. The first round was played 21, 22 and 23 April 2015 and the tournament was ended with the Final being held on 22 November 2015.


2015 Norwegian Football Cup
The victory would have earned Rosenborg a place in the second qualifying round of the 2016–17 UEFA Europa League, but since the club already had qualified to the 2016–17 UEFA Champions League as winners of the 2015 Tippeligaen, this berth was passed down to Odd, fourth-place fininshers in the league.


2015 Norwegian Football Cup, Calendar
Below are the dates for each round as given by the official schedule:


2015 Norwegian Football Cup, First round
The 49 winners from the Second Qualifying Round joined with 79 clubs from the Tippeligaen, First Division and Second Division in this round of the competition.


2015 Norwegian Football Cup, Second round
The 64 winners from the First Round took part in this stage of the competition. These matches took place on 6 and 7 May 2015.


2015 Norwegian Football Cup, Third round
The 32 winners from the Second Round took part in this stage of the competition. These matches took place on 2, 3 and 4 June 2015.


2015 Norwegian Football Cup, Fourth round
The 16 winners from the Third Round took part in this stage of the competition. These matches took place on 24 June 2015.


2015 Norwegian Football Cup, Quarter-finals
The 8 winners from the Fourth Round took part in this stage of the competition. The matches were played on 12 and 13 August 2015.


2015 Norwegian Football Cup, Semi-finals
The 4 winners from the Quarter-finals takes part in this stage of the competition. These matches were played on 23 and 24 September 2015.


2015 Norwegian Football Cup, Final
The 2015 Norwegian Football Cup Final was played between Rosenborg and Sarpsborg 08 at Ullevaal Stadion in Oslo on 22 November 2015.


2015 Norwegian Football Cup Final
The 2015 Norwegian Football Cup Final took place at Ullevaal Stadion in Oslo on November 22, 2015. Rosenborg were in their 16th final (9 wins and 6 runners-up) with a chance to win a Double, after they won a Tippeligaen, while Sarpsborg 08 were in their first final ever and had the chance to win the first trophy in the club's history.


2015 Norwegian local elections
Local elections were held in Norway on 14 September 2015. Voters elected representatives to municipal and county councils, which are responsible for education, public transport, health, and elderly care, and for the levy of certain taxes. The Labour Party became the largest party, gaining 33% of the vote, while the nationally governing Conservative and Progress parties suffered losses relative to their performances in the 2013 parliamentary and 2011 local elections.


2015 Norwegian local elections
Term of office was 1 January 2016 until 31 December 2019.


2015 Norwegian local elections
The results meant that the Conservatives were set to lose control of Norway's two most populous cities, Oslo and Bergen.


2015 Norwegian local elections
In Tromsø the Red Party garnered a record 14.4% of the votes. They formed a majority along with the Labour Party and the Socialist Left Party, and chose to phase out the local parliamentary system.


2015 Norwich City Council election
The 2015 Norwich City Council election took place on 7 May 2015 to elect approximately one third of the members of Norwich City Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections and the UK general election. Thirteen seats were due to be contested, with a further two seats up for election where casual vacancies had arisen. Labour won ten of the available seats, the Green Party won four, and the Liberal Democrats one.


2015 Norwich City Council election
The Conservatives gained their highest ever vote in many city wards including Town Close and Thorpe Hamlet, and across Norwich came within almost 2000 votes of the Green Party, however failed to gain any seats. Just one seat changed hands - Wensum - which Labour gained from the Greens. Labour retained overall control of the council with 22 seats out of 39, the Greens continue to form the main opposition with 14 seats, and the Liberal Democrats have 3.


2015 Norwich City Council election
All changes in vote share are calculated with reference to the 2011 election, the last time these seats were contested.


2015 Norwich City Council election, Overall result
Changes in vote share are relative to the last time these seats were contested in 2011.


2015 Norwich City Council election, Ward Results
Below are the ward results for Norwich's 13 wards. All the ward are elected one councillor apart from Sewell and Mile Cross ward, who both elected two councillors. Changes in vote share shown are changes from the result for these seats in the 2011 City Council election.


2015 Norwich City Council election, Ward Results, Mile Cross
Mile Cross ward elected two seats in this election, with each voter casting up to two votes under the plurality-at-large voting system.


2015 Norwich City Council election, Ward Results, Sewell
Sewell ward elected two seats in this election, with each voter casting up to two votes under the plurality-at-large voting system.


2015 Notre Dame Fighting Irish baseball team
The 2015 Notre Dame Fighting Irish baseball team will represent the University of Notre Dame during the 2015 NCAA Division I baseball season. The Fighting Irish will play their home games at Frank Eck Stadium as a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference. They were led by head coach Mik Aoki, in his 5th season at Notre Dame.


2015 Notre Dame Fighting Irish baseball team, Previous season
In 2014, the Fighting Irish finished the season 7th in the ACC's Atlantic Division with a record of 22–31, 9–21 in conference play. They failed to qualify for the 2014 Atlantic Coast Conference Baseball Tournament or the 2014 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.


2015 Notre Dame Fighting Irish baseball team, 2015 MLB Draft
The following Notre Dame players were drafted in the 2015 Major League Baseball Draft.


2015 Notre Dame Fighting Irish baseball team, Ranking Movements
^ Collegiate Baseball ranks 40 teams in their preseason poll, but only ranks 30 teams weekly during the season. † NCBWA ranks 35 teams in their preseason poll, but only ranks 30 teams weekly during the season. * New poll was not released for this week so for comparison purposes the previous week's ranking is inserted in this week's slot.


2015 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team
The 2015 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team represented the University of Notre Dame in the 2015 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The team was coached by Brian Kelly and played its home games at Notre Dame Stadium in South Bend, Indiana. They competed as an independent.


2015 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team
The 2015 Fighting Irish squad was arguably the most explosive offense that Brian Kelly has coached at Notre Dame. During the regular season, the Irish were one of twenty-one schools in the country to average 200 or more passing yards and rushing yards per game. The Irish had fourteen plays of over 50 yards during the season, which ranked 13th in the country and was a school record. They also had two touchdowns of over 90 yards, (a 91-yard touchdown run by C.J. Prosise and a 98-yard touchdown run by Josh Adams).


2015 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team
The Irish only had two in the previous 126 years of Notre Dame football. The running game was dominant. The 5.76 yards per carry were fifth in the country. They finished the regular season averaging 34 points per game, including a 62-point effort against UMass, the most points in a game since 1996.


2015 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team
The Irish were defeated by Ohio State in the Fiesta Bowl by a score of 44–28.


2015 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Before the season, Previous season
The 2014 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team finished the regular season with a 7–5 record. They beat the LSU Tigers, 31–28, in the 2014 Music City Bowl.


2015 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Before the season, Transfers out / departures
On May 19, 2015, QB Everett Golson announced he was transferring to the Florida State Seminoles football team to complete his college eligibility. Golson will be able to play immediately as he has graduated from Notre Dame. On June 11, 2015, sophomore defensive end Jhonny Williams announced his transfer from the university. Williams transferred to Toledo. Sophomore defensive end Kolin Hill transferred from the university, and headed to Texas Tech.


2015 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Before the season, Transfers in
Avery Sebastian, a defensive back who previously played for the California Golden Bears, announced he would transfer to Notre Dame in June after he received his degree in May 2015. He would be enrolled in a graduate studies program while exhausting his final season of eligibility.


2015 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Before the season, Coaching changes
The off-season brought a few changes to the coaching staff, as Notre Dame lost three assistant coaches to other opportunities: Kerry Cooks left the coaching staff to take the same position at the University of Oklahoma. Matt LaFleur departed to take the same position for the Atlanta Falcons of the NFL, and  Tony Alford left the university to take the same position at Ohio State University. Also, Outside Linebackers coach Bob Elliott moved into an off-the-field coaching role within the program. To replace their losses, Notre Dame welcomed the addition of four new assistant coaches.


2015 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Before the season, Coaching changes
Mike Sanford Jr. former Offensive Coordinator/Quarterbacks coach at Boise State accepted the same position on the coaching staff. Todd Lyght, a former All-American at Notre Dame and Cornerbacks coach at Vanderbilt, accepted the same position on the coaching staff. Keith Gilmore, previously the Defensive line coach at North Carolina, accepted the same position on the coaching staff. Autry Denson, Notre Dame's all-time leading rusher and Running Backs coach at the University of South Florida, accepted the same position on the coaching staff.


2015 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Before the season, Recruiting class
Brian Kelly received 24 commitments in his fifth full recruiting class including one five-star, Aliz'e Jones. The class included student-athletes from 13 different states.


2015 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, During the season, On television
The 2015 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team was featured in the miniseries, A Season With Notre Dame Football on Showtime, which premiered on Tuesday September 8, 2015. It followed Fighting Irish football players and coaches at University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana. Each episode reviews highlights of every football game played during the current season of Notre Dame football. The series was narrated by actor and Fighting Irish fan Barry Pepper. The tagline was "It's more than just a game."


2015 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Season, Game summaries, Texas
Notre Dame would start the year out strong by beating the Texas Longhorns by a score of 38–3. Notre Dame quarterback Malik Zaire finished the game 19 for 22 for 313 yards and three touchdown passes. The Irish offense outgained Texas 527 to 163 and had 30 first downs compared to the Longhorns who had 8.


2015 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Season, Game summaries, Virginia
While leading 26–14 midway through the third quarter, the Irish would lose their starting Quarterback Malik Zaire to a broken ankle. Virginia would take advantage, scoring two touchdowns in the fourth quarter to take the lead 27–26 with 1:54 left in the game. Irish backup quarterback DeShone Kizer would then lead Notre Dame on a game-winning drive. Kizer would convert a 4th and 2 with a four-yard run and then three plays later hit William Fuller with a 39-yard touchdown pass with :12 left in the game to seal the win for the Irish. It was reported after the game that Zaire would be out for the remainder of the season.


2015 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Season, Game summaries, Georgia Tech
Despite being ranked higher than Georgia Tech in both the AP and Coach's Polls, Notre Dame would come into the game as underdogs, due to the injury to starting QB Malik Zaire. 19 year old quarterback DeShone Kizer would make his first career start. The result would be an impressive Irish win, 30–22. Despite the score, Notre Dame thoroughly dominated the game. Irish running back C.J. Prosise would score on a 91-yard touchdown run (longest in Notre Dame Stadium history) late in the fourth quarter to put Notre Dame up by a resounding 30–7 score.


2015 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Season, Game summaries, Georgia Tech
The Yellow Jackets would make a rally late, but it was too late and Notre Dame would hold on for the win. Kizer would finish 21 for 30 with 242 passing yards, one touchdown pass and an interception. Georgia Tech came into the game averaging 67 points a game and 457 rush yards a game, but the Irish defense would stifle them, holding them to just 216 rush yards and not allowing the Yellow Jackets to convert a third down until the fourth quarter.


2015 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Season, Game summaries, UMass
Though Notre Dame would have just a 21–20 lead over heavy underdog UMass, the Irish would score 41 consecutive points to put the game out of reach. Notre Dame would accumulate 681 total yards of offense, 457 of it from rushing and would score 62 points. It was the most points the Irish would score since 1996, when they beat Rutgers 62–0.


2015 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Season, Game summaries, Clemson
In a game where Notre Dame did everything it could to lose, they came just a 2-point conversion from sending the game into overtime. Down 21–3, the Irish storm back with three fourth quarter touchdowns, but failed to convert the 2 point conversion with :06 left in the game, and Clemson holds off the furious Irish comeback. Four turnovers and eight dropped passes (one which would've been a touchdown) doomed the Irish.


2015 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Season, Game summaries, USC
Looking to get revenge after last years blowout loss to USC, the Irish would respond by defeating the Trojans 41–31. USC would get the ball first and score a touchdown. It was the third consecutive game the Irish allowed an opponent to score an opening drive touchdown. The Irish would return the favor with a 75-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Deshone Kizer to Will Fuller on their first offensive play of the game to even the score at seven. Later in the first, Notre Dame would block a USC punt and Amir Carlisle would return it for a touchdown.


2015 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Season, Game summaries, USC
Notre dame would score 21 first quarter points, the most the Irish have scored in the first quarter against USC in the history of the rivalry. After taking a 24–10 lead in the second, the Trojans would score 21 unanswered points to take a 31–24 lead in the third quarter. In the fourth quarter, the Irish would take control and score 17 unanswered points themselves. Deshone Kizer's ten yard touchdown pass to Corey Robinson would give Notre Dame a 38–31 lead, and put the Irish up for good. The 41 points the Irish scored against USC would be the most since 1977.


2015 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Season, Game summaries, Temple
For this Primetime matchup, the Irish would travel to Philadelphia for a game against the 7–0 Temple Owls. For the first time in Temple school history, the Owls would host a top ranked team while ranked themselves. Despite Temple sporting the 14th best defense in the country, Notre Dame came into this game as double digit favorites. Notre Dame would outgain Temple in yardage 467 to 295, but turnovers and consistent miscues in the red zone by the Irish offense kept the game close.


2015 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Season, Game summaries, Temple
With 4:45 left in the game, and Temple leading 20–17, Irish freshman Quarterback Deshone Kizer would lead Notre Dame on a game-winning drive, finished off with a 17-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Will Fuller. The game was sealed when Irish cornerback KeiVarae Russell intercepted Temple quarterback PJ Walker's pass with 1:09 left in the game. Deshone Kizer would finish the game with 299 passing yards and 143 yards rushing, including a 79-yard touchdown run in the second quarter.


2015 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Season, Game summaries, Pittsburgh
Notre Dame's 12 point win is the largest margin of victory over Pittsburgh since 2005. Up until today, nine out of the last ten games were decided by 8 points or less.


2015 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Season, Game summaries, Wake Forest
Freshman running back Josh Adams, who was fourth on the depth chart during the summer, broke off for a Notre Dame record 98 yard rushing touchdown. It was the longest play from scrimmage in the FBS this year and tied for NCAAF record for longest run by a freshman. Despite looking sluggish all day, the Irish were able to keep Wake Forest out of the endzone for the most part and win 28–7. Wake Forest had more passing yards, total yards, first downs and red zone trips than the Irish.


2015 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Season, Game summaries, Boston College
Notre Dame's explosive offense would rack up 447 yards of offense against Boston College's defense, which was the #1 ranked defense in the country. But 5 Notre Dame turnovers kept the game closer than it should have been. Notre Dame's defense would only give up 88 passing yards, but failure to score in the redzone continued for the Irish, which leads the country in red zone turnovers with 15.


2015 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Season, Game summaries, Stanford
In arguably one of the best College Football games of the year, a game that had ten lead changes and almost 1,000 yards of offense, Notre Dame's playoff hopes ended as Stanford kicker Conrad Ukropina hit a game-winning field goal as time expired. With 6:48 left in the game, and the Irish trailing 35–29, the Irish marched 88 yards in 15 plays (using up 6:18 of the game clock). The drive was capped off by Irish Quarterback Deshone Kizer's two yard touchdown run to give Notre Dame the lead with just :30 left in the game. The Irish defense could not hold, however, as Stanford drove 45 yards in just 28 seconds to finish off the game with the win.


2015 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Season, Game summaries, Stanford
The Irish offense accumulated 533 yards of offense, 299 of those yards from rushing. The Irish had three scores of over 62 yards in the game. The first was a 93-yard kickoff return for a touchdown by C.J. Sanders. The second was a Deshone Kizer 73 yard touchdown pass to Will Fuller. And the third was a 62-yard rushing touchdown by Freshman running back Josh Adams. At one point in the second half, the Irish offense was averaging 11.6 yards a play.


2015 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Season, Game summaries, Stanford
The Irish defense left a lot to be desired though as they allowed Stanford's offense to have touchdown drives of 75, 78, 75, 76 and 74. And the most costly, allowing Stanford to get into field goal range with :30 left in the game. Stanford scored five touchdowns in five red zone trips.


2015 Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's soccer team
The 2015 Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's soccer team will represent University of Notre Dame during the 2015 NCAA Division I men's soccer season. It will be the 39th season of the university fielding a program.


2015 Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's soccer team, 2015 squad
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2015 Nottingham City Council election
The 2015 elections to Nottingham City Council were held on 7 May 2015 to elect all 55 members to the Council across 20 wards.


2015 Nottingham Open
The 2015 Nottingham Open (known for sponsorship reasons as the Aegon Open Nottingham) was a combined men's and women's tennis tournament played on outdoor grass courts. It was the fifth edition of the event for the women (the first since 1974) and the 20th edition for the men (the first since 2008). It was classified as a WTA International tournament on the 2015 WTA Tour and as an ATP World Tour 250 series tournament on the 2015 ATP World Tour. The event took place at the Nottingham Tennis Centre in Nottingham, United Kingdom from 8 June through 15 June 2015 for the women, and from 21 June through 27 June 2015 for the men.


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


2015 Nottingham Open, WTA doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following pair received a wildcard into the doubles main draw:


2015 Nottingham Open – Men's Doubles
This was the first edition of the tournament since 2008.


2015 Nottingham Open – Men's Doubles
Chris Guccione and André Sá won the title, defeating Pablo Cuevas and David Marrero in the final, 6–2, 7–5.


2015 Nottingham Open – Men's Singles
Ivo Karlović was the defending champion from when the tournament was last held in 2008, but chose not to participate.


2015 Nottingham Open – Men's Singles
Denis Istomin won the title, defeating Sam Querrey in the final, 7–6(7–1), 7–6(8–6).


2015 Nottingham Open – Women's Doubles
This was the first edition of the event as a WTA International tournament.


2015 Nottingham Open – Women's Doubles
Raquel Kops-Jones and Abigail Spears won the title, defeating Jocelyn Rae and Anna Smith in the final, 3–6, 6–3, [11–9].


2015 Nottingham Open – Women's Singles
This was the first edition of the event as a WTA International tournament.


2015 Nottingham Open – Women's Singles
Ana Konjuh won the title, defeating Monica Niculescu in the final, 1–6, 6–4, 6–2.


2015 Nova Scotia Scotties Tournament of Hearts
The 2015 Nova Scotia Scotties Tournament of Hearts, the provincial women's curling championship of Nova Scotia, was held from January 20 to 25 at the Dartmouth Curling Club in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. The winning team represented Nova Scotia at the national level 2015 Scotties Tournament of Hearts in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan.


2015 Novak Djokovic tennis season
The 2015 Novak Djokovic tennis season is generally considered one of the greatest seasons of all time.


2015 Novak Djokovic tennis season
Selected achievements/records from this season are: winning 3 Major titles, becoming only the third man to reach all four major finals in an Open Era season (after Rod Laver and Roger Federer), reigning as world number 1 for all 52 weeks of the year, winning a record 6 Masters 1000 tournaments, claiming the ATP World Tour Finals, reaching the final of 8 Masters 1000 tournaments, reaching 15 consecutive finals, a record 31 victories against players ranked in the top 10 at the time of the match and earning a record breaking amount of prize money. Djokovic had an impressive 15-4 record against the other 3 members of men's tennis's Big Four, including a 4-0 record versus Rafael Nadal, 6-1 record against Andy Murray, and a 5-3 record against Roger Federer.


2015 Novak Djokovic tennis season, Analysis
Some experts consider it the greatest season ever in men's tennis.


2015 Novak Djokovic tennis season, Year summary, Grand Slams
Djokovic reached the final of the 2015 Australian Open after beating Milos Raonic in the quarterfinals and defending champion Stan Wawrinka in the semifinals. He then defeated Andy Murray in the final, earning him a fifth Australian Open title, an Open Era record.


2015 Novak Djokovic tennis season, Year summary, Grand Slams
At the French Open, Djokovic reached the final by defeating arch-rival Rafael Nadal in the quarterfinals (becoming only the second man to beat Nadal at Roland Garros) and Andy Murray in the semifinals, but was defeated in the final by Stan Wawrinka to end a 28-match win streak and prevent Djokovic from completing the career Grand Slam.


2015 Novak Djokovic tennis season, Year summary, Grand Slams
At the 2015 Wimbledon Championships, he started his title defense by beating Philipp Kohlschreiber, Jarkko Nieminen, and Bernard Tomic in the first three rounds. In the fourth round, Djokovic dropped the first two sets before coming back to beat Kevin Anderson in five. He then went on to beat Marin Čilić and Richard Gasquet in straight sets to meet Roger Federer in the final, a repeat of last year's final. Djokovic would again prevail in 4 sets, giving him his 9th major and second major of the year, the first time he won multiple majors in a calendar year since 2011.


2015 Novak Djokovic tennis season, Year summary, Grand Slams
At the US Open, Djokovic reached the final by beating Feliciano López in the quarterfinals and soundly beating Marin Čilić in the semifinals, losing only three games in the entire match. In the final he trumped Roger Federer in a four setter to win the title. Djokovic knocked out the defending champion of every major other than Wimbledon, where he was reigning champion and knocked out 2014's runner up.


2015 Novak Djokovic tennis season, Year summary, Other tournaments
Djokovic began the year with a warm-up tournament at the World Tennis Championship, but later withdrew from his final against Andy Murray. He then began his season in Doha, Qatar. Djokovic's next tournament was the 2015 Dubai Tennis Championships in late February where he reached the semifinals in 2014 losing to Roger Federer. Djokovic however lost to Federer 3–6, 5–7. He met Federer again in the final of the 2015 BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells and won in three sets. Djokovic then competed in the 2015 Miami Open and won the tournament for the fifth time after defeating Andy Murray in the final in three sets.


2015 Novak Djokovic tennis season, Year summary, Other tournaments
In the clay season, Djokovic competed in the 2015 Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters and won the tournament for the second time after defeating Marin Čilić in the quarterfinals, Rafael Nadal in the semi-finals, and Tomáš Berdych in the final, thus extending his winning streak to 17 matches. He also won his 23rd Masters title, tying Roger Federer. Djokovic withdrew from the Madrid Open to rest for the Italian Open and the French Open. After withdrawing from Madrid, Djokovic won his fourth Rome title at the 2015 Internazionali BNL d'Italia by defeating Roger Federer in the final in straight sets, thus extending his winning streak to 22 matches.


2015 Novak Djokovic tennis season, Year summary, Other tournaments
In the summer hard court season, Djokovic competed in both the 2015 Rogers Cup and the 2015 Western & Southern Open where he reached the final in both tournaments. In the former, Djokovic lost to Andy Murray in three sets, ending his 8 match winning streak against Murray, while in the latter, Djokovic lost to Roger Federer in two sets, ending his 3 match winning streak against Federer, as well as ending his quest for a complete set of Masters 1000 titles.


2015 Novak Djokovic tennis season, Year summary, Other tournaments
After the US Open, during the fall Asian swing, Djokovic won his sixth China Open title and his third Shanghai Masters title, winning all his matches in straight sets. After winning in Shanghai, Djokovic won his sixth masters title of the year at the 2015 BNP Paribas Masters defeating Andy Murray in the final for his sixth win of the season against Murray.


2015 Novak Djokovic tennis season, Year summary, Other tournaments
Djokovic became the only player to beat each player from the top 10 in the 2015 tennis season.


2015 Novak Djokovic tennis season, All matches
This table lists all the matches of Djokovic this year, including walkovers W/O (they are marked ND for non-decision)


2015 Novak Djokovic tennis season, Yearly records, Head-to-head matchups
Novak Djokovic has a 31–5 (86.1%) record against the top 10, 25–1 (96.2%) against the top 11–50, 26–0 (100%) against other players; 64–6 (91.4%) against right-handed players and 18–0 (100%) against left-handed players. Ordered by number of wins (Bolded number marks a top 10 player at the time of first match of the year, Italic means top 50; "L" means left-handed player).


2015 Novilon EDR Cup
The 2015 Novilon EDR Cup  was a bicycle race in the Netherlands, which formed part of the Dutch one day women's elite race season. It was held on 15 March 2015 over a distance of 134.5 kilometres (83.6 miles). It was rated by the UCI as a 1.2 category race. The race was won in a sprint finish by Kirsten Wild (Team Hitec Products), ahead of Chloe Hosking (Wiggle–Honda) and Christine Majerus (Boels–Dolmans).


2015 Nuevo León state election
A local election  was held in the Mexican state of Nuevo León on Sunday, June 7, 2015, to elect, on the local level:


2015 Nuevo León state election, Gubernatorial election
Ten candidates ran for Governor of Nuevo Leon including, for the first time, an independent candidate. Two of the candidates, Fernando Elizondo and Raul Guajardo did not completed the campaign since both decided to decline and supported Jaime Rodriguez Calderon.


2015 Nürnberger Versicherungscup
The 2015 Nürnberger Versicherungscup was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the 3rd edition of the tournament, and part of the 2015 WTA Tour. It took place in Nuremberg, Germany, on 17–23 May 2015.


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


2015 Nürnberger Versicherungscup, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following pair received a wildcard into the doubles main draw:


2015 Nürnberger Versicherungscup – Doubles
Michaëlla Krajicek and Karolína Plíšková were the defending champions, but chose not to participate this year. Chan Hao-ching and Anabel Medina Garrigues won the title, defeating Lara Arruabarrena and Raluca Olaru in the final, 6–4, 7–6(7–5).


2015 Nürnberger Versicherungscup – Singles
Eugenie Bouchard was the defending champion, but chose not to participate this year.


2015 Nürnberger Versicherungscup – Singles
Karin Knapp won the title, defeating Roberta Vinci in the final, 7–6(7–5), 4–6, 6–1.


2015 O'Byrne Cup
The 2015 O'Byrne Cup is a Gaelic football competition played by the teams of Leinster GAA. The competition differs from the Leinster Senior Football Championship as it also features further education colleges and the winning team does not progress to another tournament at All-Ireland level. The O'Byrne Cup began on 3 January 2015 and was competed on a round robin basis, the top team in each group qualifying for the semi-finals. Dublin were the winners.


2015 OEC Kaohsiung
The 2015 OEC Kaohsiung was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the fourth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2015 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Kaohsiung, Taiwan between 21 and 27 September 2015.


2015 OEC Kaohsiung, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2015 OEC Kaohsiung – Doubles
Gong Maoxin and Peng Hsien-yin were the defending champions, but lost in the final to Hsieh Cheng-peng and Yang Tsung-hua 6–2, 6–2.


2015 OEC Kaohsiung – Singles
Lu Yen-hsun was the defending champion, but chose not to participate.


2015 OEC Taipei WTA Challenger
The 2015 OEC Taipei WTA Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts. It was the 8th edition of OEC's Taipei Open tournaments, and part of the 2015 WTA 125K series. It took place in Taipei, Taiwan, on 16–22 November 2015.


2015 OEC Taipei WTA Challenger, Singles entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2015 OEC Taipei WTA Challenger, Doubles entrants, Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:


2015 OEC Taipei WTA Challenger – Doubles
Chan Hao-ching and Chan Yung-jan were the defending champions, but they chose not to participate this year.


2015 OEC Taipei WTA Challenger – Doubles
Kanae Hisami and Kotomi Takahata won the title, defeating Marina Melnikova and Elise Mertens in the final, 6–1, 6–2.


2015 OEC Taipei WTA Challenger – Singles
Vitalia Diatchenko was the defending champion, but she chose not to participate.


2015 OEC Taipei WTA Challenger – Singles
Tímea Babos won the title, defeating Misaki Doi in the final 7–5, 6–3.


2015 OFC Champions League Final
The 2015 OFC Champions League Final was the final of the 2014–15 OFC Champions League, the 14th edition of the Oceania Cup, Oceania's premier club football tournament organized by the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC), and the 9th season under the current OFC Champions League name.


2015 OFC Champions League Final
The final was played between two New Zealand teams, Auckland City and Team Wellington. It was played at the National Stadium in Suva on 26 April 2015. The winner earned the right to represent the OFC at the 2015 FIFA Club World Cup, entering at the qualifying play-off round.


2015 OFC Champions League Final
Auckland City defeated Team Wellington 4–3 on penalties (1–1 after extra time) to win their fifth consecutive and seventh overall OFC club title.


2015 OFC Champions League Final, Background
This was the second final to be played as a single match during the OFC Champions League era. The previous single-match final, in 2013, was also the only previous final to feature two New Zealand teams, where Auckland City defeated Waitakere United.


2015 OFC Champions League Final, Background
Auckland City were the four-time defending champions. They had played in six previous finals, winning all of them in 2006, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014. For Team Wellington, this was the first time that they reach an OFC club final.


2015 OFC Champions League Final, Background
On 16 March 2014, Auckland City defeated Team Wellington 1–0 in the 2013–14 ASB Premiership grand final to be crowned domestic champions. Both teams qualified for the 2014–15 OFC Champions League as they also finished first and second in the regular season. On 19 October 2014, Team Wellington defeated Auckland City 4–3 on penalties (2–2 full-time) in the season-opening ASB Charity Cup. In the 2014–15 ASB Premiership, both teams again finished first and second in the regular season, with the two teams each winning their home match against their final opponent (Team Wellington 4–0 Auckland City on 29 November 2014; Auckland City 3–0 Team Wellington on 15 February 2015).


2015 OFC Champions League Final, Road to final
The final stage of the 2014–15 OFC Champions League was played in Fiji.


2015 OFC Champions League Final, Road to final
Note: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first.


2015 OFC Champions League Final, Rules
The final was played as a single match. If tied after regulation, extra time and, if necessary, penalty shoot-out would be used to decide the winner.


2015 OFC Champions League Final, Match
Auckland City took the lead in the 14th minute through João Moreira's penalty, but Team Wellington equalized in the 79th minute, when Ian Hogg hammered in a loose ball after a free kick. The match went to extra time, and Auckland City missed the chance to retake the lead when Michael O'Keeffe saved Darren White's penalty, and the match ended 1–1, meaning the title had to be decided by a penalty shoot-out.


2015 OFC Champions League Final, Match
In the penalty shoot-out, both teams missed one penalty in the first four rounds, with Tamati Williams saving from Luis Corrales and O'Keeffe saving from Ángel Berlanga. In the fifth round, Hogg sent his penalty over the bar, and Kim Dae-wook converted his shot to give Auckland City the title.


2015 OFC U-17 Championship
The 2015 OFC U-17 Championship was the 16th edition of the biennial international youth football tournament organized by the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) for players aged 17 and below. The tournament was held in American Samoa and Samoa from 13 to 26 January 2015.


2015 OFC U-17 Championship
New Zealand won the tournament and qualified as the OFC representative for the 2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup in Chile.


2015 OFC U-17 Championship, Participating teams
All 11 eligible teams participated in the tournament. It is only the second time all 11 OFC member associations have entered an Oceania competition since 2006.


2015 OFC U-17 Championship, Group stage
The draw of the tournament was held on 18 November 2014, with each group played as a round-robin tournament. The top two teams from each group advance to the semi-finals.


2015 OFC U-17 Championship, Group stage, Group B
Note: The last round of matches were moved from Pago Park Soccer Stadium to Kanana Fou Theological Seminary due to wet weather and deteriorating pitch conditions.


2015 OFC U-17 Championship, Knock-out stage, Final
No extra time was played. New Zealand won the fifth title in a row and qualified for the 2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup, while Tahiti lost for the final for the fourth time in five years.


2015 OFC U-17 Championship, Awards
The Golden Ball Award is awarded to the most outstanding player of the tournament. The Golden Glove Award is awarded to the best goalkeeper of the tournament. The Golden Boot Award is awarded to the top scorer of the tournament. The Fair Play Award is awarded to the team with the best disciplinary record at the tournament.


2015 OFC U-17 Championship squads
The 2015 OFC U-17 Championship is an association football competition for Oceanian national under 17 teams. The players called upon for the competition are listed below.


2015 OFC U-20 Women's Championship
The 2015 OFC U-20 Women's Championship was the 7th edition of the OFC U-20 Women's Championship, the biennial international youth football championship organised by the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) for the women's under-20 national teams of Oceania. The tournament was held in Tonga between 1–10 October 2015. The tournament was originally scheduled to be held between 16–30 January 2016.


2015 OFC U-20 Women's Championship
Same as previous editions, the tournament acted as the OFC qualifiers for the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup. The winner of the tournament qualified for the 2016 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Papua New Guinea as the OFC representative, besides Papua New Guinea who qualified automatically as hosts.


2015 OFC U-20 Women's Championship
New Zealand were confirmed as champions for the fifth consecutive time on 8 October 2015, sealing their qualification to the World Cup.


2015 OFC U-20 Women's Championship, Teams
A total of five OFC member national teams entered the tournament.


2015 OFC U-20 Women's Championship, Venue
The matches were played at the Loto-Tonga Soka Centre in Nuku'alofa.


2015 OFC U-20 Women's Championship, Squads
Players born on or after 1 January 1996 were eligible to compete in the tournament.


2015 OFC U-20 Women's Championship, Matches
The tournament was played in round-robin format. There were two matches on each matchday, with one team having a bye. The draw for the fixtures was held on 2 September 2015 at the OFC Headquarters in Auckland, New Zealand.


2015 OFC U-20 Women's Championship, Winners
New Zealand qualified for the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup for the sixth consecutive time. With hosts Papua New Guinea also participating, this is the first tournament to feature two teams from OFC.


2015 OFC U-20 Women's Championship, Awards
The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament.


2015 OKC Energy FC season
The 2015 Oklahoma City Energy FC season is the club's second season in existence, and their second season playing in the USL, the third tier of the American soccer pyramid.


2015 OKC Energy FC season, Background
This is the first season where Oklahoma City Energy FC plays its full season at Taft Stadium.


2015 OKC Energy FC season, Conference Finals, U.S. Open Cup
Oklahoma City Energy FC entered the U.S. Open Cup in the second round.


2015 Oadby and Wigston Borough Council election
The 2015 Oadby and Wigston Borough Council election took place on 7 May 2015 to elect all 26 members of Oadby and Wigston Borough Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections.


2015 Oakland Athletics season
The 2015 Oakland Athletics season was the 48th for the franchise in Oakland (all at O.co Coliseum), as well as the 115th in club history.


2015 Oakland Athletics season, Offseason
On November 28, 2014, the Athletics traded Josh Donaldson to the Toronto Blue Jays for Brett Lawrie, Kendall Graveman, Sean Nolin, and Franklin Barreto.


2015 Oakland Athletics season, Statistics, Batting
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = Runs scored; H = Hits; 2B = Doubles; 3B = Triples; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; BB = Base on balls; SO = Strikeouts; AVG = Batting average; SB = Stolen bases


2015 Oakland Athletics season, Statistics, Pitching
Note: W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; G = Games pitched; GS = Games started; SV = Saves; IP = Innings pitched; H = Hits allowed; R = Runs allowed; ER = Earned runs allowed; HR = Home runs allowed; BB = Walks allowed; K = Strikeouts


2015 Oakland Raiders season
The 2015 Oakland Raiders season was the franchise's 46th season in the National Football League, the 56th overall, the 21st of their second stint in Oakland, and the first under new head coach Jack Del Rio. Coming off a 3–13 season the prior year, the Raiders improved to 7–9 on the season. Despite their improvement, the Raiders were eliminated from playoff contention in Week 15 with a loss to the Green Bay Packers at home. They once again failed to finish with a winning record, not having done so since 2002.


2015 Oakland Raiders season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 1: vs. Cincinnati Bengals
The Bengals jumped on the Raiders early and often, leading 24–0 at the half. Derek Carr left the game in the first half with an injury to his throwing hand, which resulted in Matt McGloin taking over. The Raiders mustered two touchdowns in the fourth quarter, but it was too little too late, losing the game 33–13 to start their season 0–1. The loss marked the first ever loss by the Raiders to the Bengals at home (10–1).


2015 Oakland Raiders season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 2: vs. Baltimore Ravens
A high-scoring first half, highlighted by Amari Cooper's 68-yard touchdown catch resulted in a 20–20 tie at halftime. A field goal and touchdown catch by Michael Crabtree put the Raiders up 10 going in the fourth quarter. However, Baltimore stormed back with 13 points to take the lead. A late interception thrown by Derek Carr appeared to be the end, but with 30 seconds left in regulation, Carr threw a touchdown pass to Seth Roberts to take the lead. With the win, the Raiders improved to 1–1 on the season and 2–7 all-time against the Ravens.


2015 Oakland Raiders season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 3: at Cleveland Browns
The Raiders jumped out early on the Browns with two touchdown passes by Carr in the first half. A Latavius Murray touchdown run early in the fourth quarter seemed to seal it for the Raiders. However, the Browns made a comeback late, but Charles Woodson intercepted Josh McCown's pass in the final minute to seal the win. The Raiders snapped an 11-game road losing streak with the win and improved to 2–1 on the season.


2015 Oakland Raiders season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 4 at Bears
Two first-half touchdown passes by Carr gave the Raiders a one-point lead at the half. The teams exchanged field goals in the second half. Following a late Jay Cutler interception, the Raiders took a late lead on a Sebastian Janikowski field goal with just over two minutes remaining. However, the Bears stormed down the field, and Robbie Gould hit a 49-yard field goal with two seconds remaining to seal the win. With the loss, the Raiders dropped to 2–2 on the season.


2015 Oakland Raiders season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 5: vs. Denver Broncos
Charles Woodson said days prior to Week 5 that he always wanted to intercept a pass from Peyton Manning as he had not accomplished this feat in his entire 18-year career. He lived up to his word, intercepting Manning twice, but it was Carr's interception and the resulting return for a touchdown by Chris Harris that was the difference in the game. The Raiders fell to the Broncos 16–10 as the team dropped to 2–3 going into their bye week.


2015 Oakland Raiders season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 7: at San Diego Chargers
The Raiders jumped out to an early lead on the Chargers scoring on their first seven possessions. Three Janikowski field goals and two Carr touchdown passes led the way to a 30–6 lead at the half. The Chargers attempted a comeback in the fourth quarter, but it was too little too late as the Raiders won 37–29. With the win, the Raiders improved to 3–3 on the season.


2015 Oakland Raiders season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 8: vs. New York Jets
Carr threw four touchdown passes, three in the first half, and totaled 333 yard passing against the Jets' highly ranked defense. The Raiders took a 21–6 lead half time. Murray added 113 yards on the ground as the Raiders won easily 34–20. With the win, the Raiders improved to 4–3, marking the first time since 2011 the Raiders had a winning record this late in the season.


2015 Oakland Raiders season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 9: at Pittsburgh Steelers
Carr threw for 301 yards with four touchdowns and one interception and Murray ran for 96 yards before leaving with concussion-like symptoms. But, the Raiders defense could not stop Antonio Brown and DeAngelo Williams. The two Steelers combined for 531 total yards. Despite Ben Roethlisberger leaving the game in the fourth quarter with a foot injury, the Steelers could not be stopped. Williams led the Steelers to the Raiders one-yard line before the winning field goal sailed through the uprights as time expired. With the loss, the Raiders dropped to 4–4 on the season.


2015 Oakland Raiders season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 10: vs. Minnesota Vikings
Minnesota paid a visit to Oakland for Week 10. Adrian Peterson tied a record for most 200-yard rushing games by rushing for 203 yards against the Raiders beleaguered rush defense. Derek Carr threw two touchdown passes, but also two interceptions. Peterson's 80 yard touchdown run with less than two minutes remaining sealed the victory for the Vikings. The Raiders fell to 4–5 on the season.


2015 Oakland Raiders season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 11: at Detroit Lions
Looking to avoid a season-high three-game losing streak, the Raiders visited Detroit to face the 2–7 Lions. A defensive struggle in the first half led to three Detroit field goals and 9–0 deficit for Oakland. The Raiders came alive in third quarter, scoring 13 points on two Janikowski field goals and a Murray touchdown run. However, the Lions scored late on a Matthew Stafford touchdown run and the Raiders fell to 4–6.


2015 Oakland Raiders season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 12: at Tennessee Titans
The Raiders started well in Tennessee, taking a 13–6 lead at halftime over the Titans on a touchdown pass from Carr to Crabtree. The Raiders jumped out early in the third quarter on touchdown pass to Roberts. However, the Titans rallied scoring 15 points on two Marcus Mariota touchdown passes. Oakland drove late in the game looking for the winning score and appeared to have been stopped on an incomplete pass in the end zone on fourth down. However, the Titans were called for holding and Carr hit Roberts for the game-clinching touchdown two play later. The Raiders halted their three-game losing streak and moved to 5–6 on the season.


2015 Oakland Raiders season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 14: at Denver Broncos
Khalil Mack tied the Oakland Raiders franchise record for most sacks in a game with 5 sacks in the Raiders' hard-fought 15-12 victory over the Broncos at Mile High. It also snapped their 8-game losing streak to the Broncos.


2015 Oakland Raiders season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 15: vs. Green Bay Packers
With the loss, the Raiders fell to 6-8 and were officially eliminated from playoff contention for the 14th straight year. The Raiders also finished 0-4 against the NFC North.


2015 Oakland Raiders season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 16: vs. San Diego Chargers
In Charles Woodson's last game at the Coliseum, the game was hard-fought and the Raiders won 23-20 in an overtime thriller in order to go to 7-8 in what could be their final game in Oakland. Woodson addressed to Oakland's home crowd after the game saying, "I will never leave you".


2015 Oakland Raiders season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 17: at Kansas City Chiefs
This was Charles Woodson's last game in the NFL. With the loss, the Raiders ended their season 7-9 and clinched their 14th straight losing season.


2015 Oceania Athletics Championships
The 2015 Oceania Athletics Championships were held at Barlow Park in Cairns, Australia, between May 8–10, 2015. The event was held jointly with the 2015 Oceania Youth Athletics Championships and the 2015 Oceania Combined Events Championships. Moreover, there were also exhibition events for masters and athletes with a disability (parasports), as well as school events for age groups 5 to 15 years. Detailed reports on a day by day basis were given.


2015 Oceania Athletics Championships
Initially, a total of 48 events were scheduled. However, results for women's pole vault could not be retrieved. The event was most probably cancelled resulting in a total of 47 contested events, 24 by men, 22 by women, and 1 mixed.


2015 Oceania Athletics Championships, Medal summary
Complete results can be found on the Oceania Athletics Association webpage.


2015 Oceania Athletics Championships, Medal summary, Men
1.) In the 1500m event, George Yamak,  Papua New Guinea, finished 3rd in 4:11.07 competing as a guest. 2.) The pole vault event was won by Peter Hollenbeck, Athletics North Queensland,  Australia, in 4.50m competing as a guest.


2015 Oceania Athletics Championships, Participation (unofficial)
According to an unofficial count, 215 athletes (+ 2 guests) from 20 countries and territories participated. There were two additional teams: one athlete represented Australian Masters Athletics (dubbed "AMA" in the result lists).


2015 Oceania Athletics Championships, Participation (unofficial)
As in the years before, there was also a "Regional Australia Team" Northern Australia (dubbed "RAT" in the results list) comprising Australian athletes who "either have their normal place of residence (defined as being a place where an athlete is resident and/or educated) in an "athletically remote area" of Australia (defined as a being a place more than 300 km from any centre at which track and field competition is held on a regular basis i.e. basically weekly or fortnightly during the track season) or "Northern Australia" (defined as comprising the Northern Territory and any parts of Western Australia and North Queensland, north of 26th parallel south latitude)".


2015 Oceania Badminton Championships
The X 2015 Oceania Badminton Championships was the 10th tournament of the Oceania Badminton Championships. It was held in North Harbour, New Zealand from 12 to 15 February 2015.


2015 Oceania Badminton Championships, Venue
X-TRM North Harbour Badminton Centre in North Harbour, New Zealand.


2015 Oceania Badminton Championships, Medalists, Individual event
The table below gives an overview of the individual event medal winners at the 2015 Oceania Championships.


2015 Oceania Handball Champions Cup
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2015 Oceania Handball Champions Cup
The 2015 Oceania Handball Champions Cup was held in Sydney, Australia from 6 to 8 June 2015. This was organised by the Oceania Handball Federation and featured two teams from Australia and one from New Caledonia.


2015 Oceania Handball Champions Cup
The winner was Sydney University, retaining their title and will represent Oceania in the 2015 IHF Super Globe.


2015 Oceania Rugby Cup
The 2015 Oceania Rugby Cup for national rugby union teams in the Oceania region was held in Papua New Guinea at the Lloyd Robson Oval in Port Moresby in August 2015. Papua New Guinea won the title by finishing on top of the table after completing the round-robin tournament undefeated.


2015 Oceania Rugby Cup, Standings
Points breakdown:4 points for a win2 points for a draw1 bonus point for a loss by seven points or less1 bonus point for scoring four or more tries in a match


2015 Oceania Rugby Under 20 Championship
The 2015 Oceania Rugby Under 20s, was the first edition of the Oceania Rugby Junior Championship. It was played as two tournaments; the Oceania Under 20 Championship hosted on the Gold Coast in Australia, and the Oceania Under 20 Trophy hosted in Suva, Fiji.


2015 Oceania Rugby Under 20 Championship
The Championship tournament was played in May and won by New Zealand, who defeated Australia by 46–29 in the last match of the round-robin competition. A planned tournament for a further six national under 20 sides was postponed, however the Trophy competition was eventually played in December and won by Fiji, who defeated Tonga by 19–10 in the last round to qualify for the World Rugby Under 20 Trophy in 2016.


2015 Oceania Rugby Under 20 Championship, Teams
The teams for the 2015 Oceania Rugby Under 20 tournaments were:


2015 Oceania Rugby Under 20 Championship, Championship, Standings
Classification:Teams standings are calculated as follows:Most log points accumulated from all matchesMost log points accumulated in matches between tied teamsHighest difference between points scored for and against accumulated from all matchesMost points scored accumulated from all matches


2015 Oceania Rugby Under 20 Championship, Championship, Standings
Due to stormy weather conditions the first round matches were postponed by 24 hours.


2015 Oceania Rugby Under 20 Championship, Trophy, Standings
Classification:Teams standings are calculated as follows:Most log points accumulated from all matchesMost log points accumulated in matches between tied teamsHighest difference between points scored for and against accumulated from all matchesMost points scored accumulated from all matches


2015 Oceania Sevens Championship
The 2015 Oceania Sevens Championship was the eighth Oceania Sevens. It was held in Waitakere, Auckland, New Zealand on 14–15 November 2015. As well as determining the regional championship, the tournament was also a qualifying event for the 2016 Olympics sevens, with the highest-placed eligible team gaining a direct berth to Rio de Janeiro.


2015 Oceania Sevens Championship
Australia won the tournament, defeating Tonga 50–0 in the final. The second and third place getters Tonga and Samoa received invitations to the final qualification tournament. Fiji and New Zealand did not participate in the 2015 Oceania Sevens as they had already qualified for the 2016 Olympics.


2015 Oceania Sevens Championship, Final standings
Tonga and Papua New Guinea also qualified to the 2016 Hong Kong Sevens World Series qualifier.


2015 Oceania Women's Sevens Championship
The 2015 Oceania Women's Sevens Championship was the fifth Oceania Women's Sevens tournament. It was held in Auckland, New Zealand on 14–15 November 2015. As well as determining the regional championship, the tournament was also a qualifying event for the 2016 Olympics sevens, with the highest-placed eligible team not already qualified gaining a direct berth to Rio de Janeiro.


2015 Oceania Women's Sevens Championship
Fiji won the tournament, defeating Samoa 55–0 in the final. The second and third place getters Samoa and the Cook Islands received invitations to the final qualification tournament. Australia and New Zealand did not participate in the 2015 Oceania Women's Sevens as they had already qualified for the 2016 Olympics.


2015 Oceania Youth Athletics Championships
The 2015 Oceania Youth Athletics Championships were held at the Barlow Park in Cairns, Queensland, Australia, between May 8–10, 2015. They were held together with the 2015 Oceania Area Championships. Detailed reports on a day by day basis were given.


2015 Oceania Youth Athletics Championships
Initially, a total of 44 events were scheduled. However, results for girl's pole vault and mixed 800m sprint medley relay could not be retrieved. The events were most probably cancelled resulting in a total of 42 contested events, 22 by boys and 20 by girls.


2015 Oceania Youth Athletics Championships, Medal summary
Complete results can be found on the Oceania Athletics Association webpage.


2015 Oceania Youth Athletics Championships, Participation (unofficial)
According to an unofficial count, 127 athletes from 16 countries and territories participated.


2015 Oceania Youth Athletics Championships, Participation (unofficial)
As in the years before, there was also a "Regional Australia Team" Northern Australia (dubbed "RAT" in the results list) comprising Australian athletes who either have their normal place of residence (defined as being a place where an athlete is resident and/or educated) in an "athletically remote area" of Australia (defined as a being a place more than 300km from any centre at which track and field competition is held on a regular basis i.e. basically weekly or fortnightly during the track season) or "Northern Australia" (defined as comprising the Northern Territory and any parts of Western Australia and North Queensland, north of 26th parallel south latitude).


2015 Ocotlán ambush
On 19 March 2015, a convoy of the National Gendarmerie, a subdivision of the Mexican Federal Police (PF), was ambushed by gunmen of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), a criminal group based in Jalisco, Mexico. The attack occurred in a residential neighborhood in Ocotlán, Jalisco. Five policemen, four CJNG gunmen, and two civilian bystanders were killed. According to police reports, as the PF convoy pulled up next to a parked vehicle, gunmen shot at them from the vehicle and from rooftops. The police attempted to shield themselves using their patrol cars, but reinforcements from the CJNG arrived at the scene and overwhelmed them. The shootout lasted between thirty minutes to two hours before the CJNG fled the scene.


2015 Ocotlán ambush
The attack was one of the deadliest incidents against security forces during the administration of President Enrique Peña Nieto, and the first and deadliest against the National Gendarmerie, at that time the newest police force in Mexico, in the ongoing Mexican Drug War. The attack made national headlines and prompted reactions from the highest levels of the Mexican government. The motives behind the ambush remain unclear, but many have been proposed, including one that suggests that the gunmen ambushed the police to protect their leader, Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes (alias "El Mencho"), who was reportedly in the vicinity.


2015 Ocotlán ambush
Over the years, multiple suspects have been arrested, including high-ranking members of El Mencho's security group and officers from Ocotlán's municipal police force. Authorities believe the policemen arrested worked for the CJNG and aided them during the ambush. Law enforcement presence in Ocotlán increased after the ambush, but violent confrontations between the CJNG and security forces continued throughout the rest of 2015 in Jalisco and neighboring states.


2015 Ocotlán ambush, Background and possible motives
The attack was one of the deadliest incidents against security forces during the presidency of Enrique Peña Nieto (2012–2018), and the first and deadliest against the National Gendarmerie (es) – at that time the newest police force in Mexico – in the ongoing Mexican Drug War (2006–present). In addition, the attack was the third deadliest against any part of the Mexican Federal Police (PF) force since 2006. The National Gendarmerie was created on 22 August 2014 by Peña Nieto to combat crime in Mexico.


2015 Ocotlán ambush, Background and possible motives
All of the officers had received training from the Army and had not been part of any other police force prior to joining. The cadets were mostly young, college-educated recruits, and they were recruited without previous police training under the rationale that this prevented corruption in the National Gendarmerie's ranks. The commanders of the units were trained by police forces in the United States, Colombia, Chile, Spain, and France. The force was initially made up of 5,000 officers, and was a subdivision of the PF, which consisted of roughly 36,000 members when the National Gendarmerie was created. Though members were required to have military training, the National Gendarmerie was intended to be a civil police force capable of a rapid response to crime.


2015 Ocotlán ambush, Background and possible motives
Since late November 2014, around 300 National Gendarmerie officials had been stationed in Ocotlán to safeguard the borders of Jalisco–Michoacán and Jalisco–Guanajuato, and prevent the incursion of the Knights Templar Cartel, a Michoacán-based criminal group and a rival gang to the CJNG. They conducted patrols after there were reports of cargo theft in the region. Weeks prior to the ambush, law enforcement officers carried out several covert operations in Ocotlán and the entire Ciénega area. According to intelligence reports, they had information that the suspected CJNG leader, Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes (alias "El Mencho"), was in the area.


2015 Ocotlán ambush, Background and possible motives
On the day of the attack, the police reportedly had information that El Mencho was in a meeting in Oxnard street, in the neighborhood where the attack occurred. Investigators believe that the CJNG carried out the attack to restrict the mobility of the security forces and allow El Mencho to escape from the area. They also suspected that the CJNG planned the attack as a retaliation for attempted crackdowns against El Mencho, who became one of Mexico's most-wanted following the arrest of Servando Gómez Martínez (alias "La Tuta"), the suspected leader of the Knights Templar Cartel.


2015 Ocotlán ambush, Background and possible motives
Besides the proposal that the PF was in the area to apprehend El Mencho, other sources suggested different motives. One version suggests that the policemen were in the neighborhood investigating a previous attack against the local police. Another account states the policemen were heading to a house in Centenario street. An account cited by a PF official stated that the attack was carried out because the CJNG was moving a large shipment of narcotics to Ocotlán and wanted to prevent the police from intervening.


2015 Ocotlán ambush, Background and possible motives
Another report suggests that the CJNG was in the area for a meeting with municipal policemen from Ocotlán. After the meeting went wrong, the policemen called the PF as reinforcements, and the CJNG did the same with their gunmen; when the PF reached the scene, the shootout reportedly broke out. An account cited by federal government sources suggests that the policemen were ambushed after one of the senior officers in the convoy noticed that a woman was being abused by a man. When the policemen got out of their vehicles and tried to stop the man, they noticed he was armed and guarded by a large number of gunmen, who outnumbered them; the shootout reportedly broke out after this.


2015 Ocotlán ambush, Background and possible motives
The attack set a precedent for the PF, as it had not recorded casualties in Jalisco prior to the attack. According to government sources, the PF had two deadlier attacks prior to the incident in Ocotlán: on 27 May 2008 in Culiacán, Sinaloa, 8 PF officers were killed in a shootout with gunmen from the Beltrán Leyva Cartel; on 13 July 2009 in La Huacana, Michoacán, 12 PF officers were killed by La Familia Michoacana. However, the attack in Ocotlán demonstrated to police that the manpower and level of coordination of the CJNG was greater than they had expected.


2015 Ocotlán ambush, Background and possible motives
Investigators analyzed the offensive actions of the CJNG after the Ocotlán incident, and drew comparisons with their modus operandi during the 6 April 2015 attack that left 15 PF officers dead in San Sebastián del Oeste. They concluded that in their ambushes against security forces, the CJNG was employing a similar strategy. The CJNG would cut off their victim's vehicles from the road, have numerical superiority in foot soldiers and vehicles, and use a large arsenal of weapons and explosives to attack and overwhelm security forces.


2015 Ocotlán ambush, Ambush and shootout
At 9:15 p.m. on 19 March 2015, seven vehicles from the National Gendarmerie drove through a street in the La Mascota neighborhood of Ocotlán, Jalisco. As one of the police vehicles moved alongside a white car parked near the sidewalk, several gunmen from that vehicle began shooting at the police officers with high-caliber rifles. Other gunmen reportedly shot at the officers from rooftops. The ambush forced the policemen to take cover, using their vehicles as shields while they prepared to return fire.


2015 Ocotlán ambush, Ambush and shootout
However, as the policemen tried to protect themselves from the gunfire, twelve vehicles with additional gunmen arrived at the scene and began attacking them from several directions. In total around 40 CJNG gunmen participated in the attack. The shootout lasted between thirty minutes and two hours. It extended to nearby streets as the gunmen continued to fire their weapons while attempting the flee the scene. Eleven people were killed in the attack: five of them were officers from the National Gendarmerie; four were from the CJNG; and two were civilian bystanders who were killed in the crossfire. Five officers were wounded, though only one of them was reportedly in a serious condition; all of them were hospitalized.


2015 Ocotlán ambush, Ambush and shootout
During the shootout, a person in the neighborhood recorded the sound of the gunfire for approximately a minute-and-a-half. After the shootout, Mexican authorities seized eighteen assault rifles, ten handguns, two fragmentation grenades, and five vehicles used by the perpetrators. The Jalisco attorney general, Luis Carlos Nájera Gutiérrez de Velasco, said that twenty-nine vehicles and thirty-one houses in the neighborhood were damaged by the gunfire. Seven of the twenty-nine vehicles damaged were owned by the National Gendarmerie, seventeen were owned by civilians, two were motorcycles, and three had allegedly been used by the gunmen.


2015 Ocotlán ambush, Ambush and shootout
The damaged vehicles were removed from the neighborhood the next day. The street where the attack took place had several large bloodstains from those killed and wounded. According to investigators from the Jalisco Institute of Forensic Sciences (IJCF), over 2,000 bullet casings were found at the scene, most of them from high-caliber rifles. The investigation and evidence collection at the scene was first conducted by the Government of Jalisco, but the case was transferred to federal jurisdiction and given to Mexico's Attorney General's Office (PGR).


2015 Ocotlán ambush, Ambush and shootout
The government did not immediately state which criminal group it believed was responsible for the attack. The Jalisco State Police and the Mexican Army arrived in Ocotlán after the attack and conducted a search along the area's dirt roads and highways close to the border with Michoacán, one of the states adjacent to Jalisco, in an attempt to locate those responsible. Law enforcement explained that the Jalisco State Police took longer than usual to arrive at the scene after the National Gendarmerie called them for support because they were at the Federal Social Readaptation Center No. 2 (also known as "Puente Grande"), a maximum-security prison in Jalisco, carrying out an inspection.


2015 Ocotlán ambush, Ambush and shootout, Immediate reactions
Immediately after the shootout ended, the neighborhood was flooded with police officers and ambulances. Only two Televisa reporters and one cameraman were able to reach the ambush scene to report what occurred on national television, but an officer warned them to stay away from the scene because law enforcement was on high alert for a further attack. Local people who were on their way home were not able to get there due to several police roadblocks.


2015 Ocotlán ambush, Ambush and shootout, Immediate reactions
The Mexican Red Cross team in Ocotlán said that fireworks from a festival the previous night at the San José Church, a congregation close to where the ambush occurred, had masked the gunfire noises from the ambush. The head of the Red Cross said his team was not able to provide first aid for an attack of this scale, hence they had contacted the Red Cross in Guadalajara to provide assistance. Through the night, police checkpoints were set up in Ocotlán, and at least two military helicopters flew over the neighborhood for several hours. Electricity supply and telephone service was cut off for the entire night because lightpoles had been damaged by the gunfire.


2015 Ocotlán ambush, Ambush and shootout, Immediate reactions
On 20 May, the PF, Army, PGR, and Jalisco state authorities conducted an investigation at the scene and patrolled the vicinity before leaving without making an official announcement. Information about the attack continued to only be provided by media outlets and civilians, who shared images of the corpses, the property damage, and the bloodstained streets on social media. Municipal policemen also patrolled Ocotlán in police cars or on motorcycles or bicycles. Neighbors highlighted the fact that the local policemen were unusually calm and were not wearing bullet-proof vests. They stated that the PF, on the other hand, looked nervous. Others said they saw several CJNG scouts monitoring the area and passing on information to their superiors regarding the presence and mobility of law enforcement personnel.


2015 Ocotlán ambush, Ambush and shootout, Immediate reactions
Later that afternoon, the PF chief Enrique Francisco Galindo Ceballos (es) confirmed the attack in a joint communiqué with the National Security Commission (CNS) (es). On Twitter, Galindo Ceballos honored the officers killed, and stated that they gave their lives to protect their communities. He also asked civilians to anonymously report any information about the Ocotlán ambush to the police. Secretary of the Interior Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong also condemned the attack and issued condolences to the families of the police officers killed. He reiterated that efforts against organized crime would continue.


2015 Ocotlán ambush, Ambush and shootout, Immediate reactions
Nájera Gutiérrez de Velasco confirmed that the attack was carried out by the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG). He also admitted that Ocotlán was a major hub for cargo theft, though he clarified that investigators did not have information about an organized crime group with the capacity of the CJNG operating in the area. Following the attack the authorities stated that they were coordinating their efforts with the Mexican Navy and Army to increase security measures in the region.


2015 Ocotlán ambush, Ambush and shootout, Interviews and testimonies
Residents interviewed at the scene stated they were surprised and scared by the shootout. One of them explained that when the shootout occurred outside her home, everyone in her household threw themselves to the ground to avoid being shot. They said they were unaware that one of the houses in the neighborhood, No. 562, was being used by an organized crime group. Others complained that the bloodstains on the street from those wounded or killed during the ambush were not cleaned by the authorities after the attack.


2015 Ocotlán ambush, Ambush and shootout, Interviews and testimonies
Some of them said that the CJNG took several of those wounded from the scene. A number of them told the press that the casualties from the shootout were thereby higher than the government had reported; according to several residents, seven National Gendarmerie members were killed, and there were between fourteen and sixteen casualties in total. At the San Vicente Hospital, a private hospital in Ocotlán, unconfirmed reports stated that twenty people were hospitalized after the shootout. At the Mexican Social Security Institute, thirty more were reported. Sources consulted by the press were not able to determine if the people in these two hospitals were there to receive medical attention for gunshot wounds, minor injuries, or shock, as both hospitals were unable to provide information without legal authorization from the government.


2015 Ocotlán ambush, Ambush and shootout, Interviews and testimonies
In addition, school classes were cancelled in Ocotlán on 20 May after authorities recommended it as a "preventative measure". This included the University Center of the Ciénega. The local police reported that at one of the schools, students found abandoned assault rifles on the floor. They believe these weapons were left behind by the suspects involved in the shootout as they tried to escape the scene. The shootout occurred on Thursday, and classes restarted on Monday, 23 March.


2015 Ocotlán ambush, Ambush and shootout, Interviews and testimonies
The mayor of Ocotlán, Enrique Robledo Sahagún, spoke to the press about the attacks and refuted the idea that the city was going through a "cockroach effect", a term used in Mexico to describe how the presence police efforts in one area allows organized crime to operate more freely elsewhere. He denied that organized crime members from Michoacán were using Ocotlán, which lies on the Jalisco–Michoacán border, as a corridor. He claimed the attack was an "isolated incident" and that he would make sure the families of the civilians killed received support from the local government. He also said it was natural for civilians in Ocotlán to be scared, that the situation would return to normality, that he had not received any death threats, and that he was not collaborating with organized crime.


2015 Ocotlán ambush, Ambush and shootout, Interviews and testimonies
There were several rumors circulating in Jalisco's Ciénega Region (es), where Ocotlán is located, of other shootouts between security forces and organized crime groups. Many businesses and schools did not open the following day due to rumors and fears of other attacks. The same day, authorities received several calls and messages on social media with allegations of attacks by organized crime. However, authorities clarified that the rumors were false. Nájera Gutiérrez de Velasco criticized the rumors and said that he believed they were likely started by organized crime groups to cause confusion.


2015 Ocotlán ambush, Ambush and shootout, Interviews and testimonies
He specifically said that organized crime groups may create rumors to force law enforcement to deploy to other areas and facilitate their operations where security measures are high. To prevent this from occurring, he said that federal authorities were coordinating with the local police to spread their presence and prevent organized crime from having operational flexibility. Nájera Gutiérrez de Velasco mentioned two days after the shootout that civilians were able to renew their daily activities as usual, but did recognize that the risk of civilian bystanders being caught in a crossfire existed.


2015 Ocotlán ambush, Reactions, Civilian
A week after the attacks, on 26 March, several students from Ignacio Manuel Altamirano Middle School No. 24, the school where one of the civilians killed had studied, created an art piece on the school grounds using sawdust. The artwork was intended to promote peace awareness. The students also wrote several cards to the mayor of Ocotlán, asking him to help restore peace in their city and to ask the security forces to leave Ocotlán. On 27 March, a local TV station uploaded a short video online in memory of the deceased student.


2015 Ocotlán ambush, Reactions, Civilian
The following day, between 200 and 300 civilians dressed in white organized a peaceful march to protest against the violence in Ocotlán. The marchers gathered at the city's main square after organizing their efforts through Facebook. The organizers stated that the march was apolitical in nature; they also stated they were not only protesting against violence, but asking for peace and the demilitarization of Ocotlán. Among the protesters were relatives of the civilians killed in the ambush, who complained that no one in the Mexican government, including the mayor, had reached out to them to provide assistance.


2015 Ocotlán ambush, Reactions, Civilian
Other protesters complained that the military operations and home invasions were disturbing the tranquility of their community. When they gathered at the main square, the protesters read a pamphlet that was signed by several locals and directed to the authorities. However, the protesters were upset that the mayor was not present during the event. They gave the document to one of the mayor's public security heads.


2015 Ocotlán ambush, Reactions, Civilian
On 30 March, civilians organized a second march in Ocotlán; this time with over 5,000 attendees, including Cardinal Francisco Robles Ortega. He was accompanied by 10 priests from the archdiocese. Robles Ortega told the protesters that it was the duty of the government to protect civilians as part of the social contract between both parties. He also stated that praying was not enough: "It's not only about asking. It's not only about praying; it's also about acting". This second march was also organized online and by local churches across Ocotlán.


2015 Ocotlán ambush, Reactions, Civilian
The march concluded in the evening with a mass conducted in the city's main square. Most of the attendees were dressed in white and were from all age groups. In the religious ceremony, Robles Ortega asked the families to take care of their children because they could easily fall prey to organized crime. He also asked citizens to be brave and report crimes to the authorities, and that not doing so made them accomplices of criminal activity. Before the mass concluded, the attendees read a prayer together, and Robles Ortega closed the ceremony by talking about the importance of building a peaceful society together.


2015 Ocotlán ambush, Reactions, Government
On 20 March, Secretary of the Interior Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong posted a message in his Twitter account thanking the five officers killed in the ambush for their commitment to their duty. He also sent his condolences to the officers' families and colleagues, and stated that the government was working diligently to ensure public security. The same day the head of the CNS, Renato Sales Heredia, instructed National Gendarmerie chief Manelich Castilla Craviotto and Jalisco attorney general Jesús Eduardo Almaguer Ramírez to hold a ceremony at the scene where the ambush occurred in memory of the officers killed.


2015 Ocotlán ambush, Reactions, Government
Along with the mayor of Ocotlán, members of the Mexican Army, and other members of the PF, they publicly recognized their work, and stated that the crimes would not go unpunished. They stated that the government was committed to restoring peace in Mexico and that the ambush had helped to unify Mexico's security forces. At the end of the ceremony, civilians and government officials held a moment of silence in memory of the officers and civilians killed. This ceremony was carried out simultaneously with others at the PF headquarters in Mexico City and in other National Gendarmerie stations.


2015 Ocotlán ambush, Reactions, Government
The following day, Galindo Ceballos held another ceremony in memory of the officers at the PF hangar in the Mexico City International Airport. The bodies of the five officers lay inside coffins, wrapped in the flag of Mexico. Galindo Ceballos thanked the officers for their services, and then went directly to the victims' families and told them that the government would support them. Osorio Chong and former CNS chief Monte Alejandro Rubido García also expressed their solidarity with the officers' families.


2015 Ocotlán ambush, Reactions, Government
During the ceremony, Galindo Ceballos read the names the officers killed while the officers present yelled "present" for each of them. The PF then performed a three-volley salute and gave the family members a flag of Mexico and a sculpture. The ceremony concluded after the PF played their anthem and the Mexican National Anthem. On 24 March, the Senate of the Republic held a moment of silence as a senate tribune in memory of the officers and civilian bystanders killed in the ambush. They condemned the attacks and wrote a decree stating that the government should pursue an investigation to bring the perpetrators to justice.


2015 Ocotlán ambush, Reactions, Government
Nájera Gutiérrez de Velasco explained that attacks against security forces were "nothing new" in Jalisco. He told the press that civilians should only be concerned if the government were inactive and suspected gangsters were roaming the streets freely, and suggested that this was the case in some parts of Jalisco. He explained that when security forces crack down on organized crime, they run the risk of suffering attacks like the one in Ocotlán. He emphasized that the government had a responsibility to go after organized crime despite these risks.


2015 Ocotlán ambush, Reactions, Government
He clarified that the attacks were directed towards law enforcement and not against civilians. He went on to blame criminal groups for carrying out attacks against law enforcement personnel where civilians were at high risk, and stated that law enforcement officers in Mexico were attempting to operate with more caution than organized crime when dealing with civilians. He concluded the interview by asking civilians to remain calm and trust law enforcement efforts against organized crime groups.


2015 Ocotlán ambush, Reactions, Government
On 22 March, a few days after the ambush occurred, Gutiérrez de Velasco asked Ocotlán residents to ignore rumors of shootouts in the area and to stay alert for phone extortions. He stated that there were multiple rumors of shootouts in the area, and that organized crime members were creating them to distract security forces and allow some of their members to escape from the area that the authorities had under surveillance. Itzcoatl Tonatiuh Bravo Padilla, the rector of the University of Guadalajara, confirmed that classes would restart at all schools in Ocotlán the following day. He said that schools were working with the government to coordinate their security measures, and that additional security would be sent to their campuses. The majority of their student body had not attended classes since 19 March, when the shootout occurred, because of fears of future attacks.


2015 Ocotlán ambush, Reactions, Government
On the anniversary the attacks, the PF held another ceremony in the street where the ambush took place. In a speech, Castilla Craviotto said that they held the ceremony there because the ambush scene was important for the National Gendarmerie since it was the first time in the police force's history that they had lost members while on official duty. He added that the National Gendarmerie was committed to continuing their fight against organized crime. Almaguer Ramírez, other state officials, and members of the Army's 92 Infantry Battalion attended the ceremony.


2015 Ocotlán ambush, Reactions, Government
Ocotlán's mayor, Paulo Gabriel Hernández Zague, spoke to the press during the ceremony and expressed his discontent with the lack of support from the federal government. He said that the federal government had reduced public funding for Ocotlán after the attacks; the funding removed was for the Subsidy for Municipal Public Security (Spanish: Subsidio para la Seguridad en los Municipios, SUBSEMUN), and included over MXN$11 million in equipment for Ocotlán's municipal security forces. He stated that Ocotlán needed this funding to continue its security efforts.


2015 Ocotlán ambush, Reactions, Government, Memorial for officers
As part of the commemorations, the PF published a report with the photos and names of the officers, and a short biography of their service:


2015 Ocotlán ambush, Reactions, Government, Police reforms in Ocotlán
On 24 March 2015, the Government of Jalisco discussed the possibility of taking over government functions in Ocotlán and disarming the Ocotlán Municipal Police; measures similar to those they had taken with the police forces of Cocula and Casimiro Castillo in December 2014. In an interview with the press, Gutiérrez de Velasco stated they were investigating possible links between local officials and organized crime, but was unable to give them more details on the case. He stated that they were working with the federal government on any measures to be taken.


2015 Ocotlán ambush, Reactions, Government, Police reforms in Ocotlán
However, consideration of taking over the public security functions in Ocotlán began months prior to the ambush. Since 2014, Jalisco's State Public Security Council (Spanish: Consejo Estatal de Seguridad Pública, CESP) had identified two policemen in Ocotlán, out of the 1,324 registered officers, as "high risk" employees who it was thought likely that they had colluded with organized crime groups.


2015 Ocotlán ambush, Reactions, Government, Police reforms in Ocotlán
Other issues in Ocotlán's police force caught the attention of the state government after that. On 24 January 2015, four officers from Ocotlán's police force were arrested for their alleged participation in the sexual harassment of a sixteen-year-old girl. According to the testimonies of the detainees, Ocotlán policemen forced the minor to engage in sexual activities with them and other members of the police force for at least two years. The officers involved in the plot were charged with sexual harassment of a minor and human trafficking.


2015 Ocotlán ambush, Reactions, Government, Police reforms in Ocotlán
The disarmament discussion became a priority in early 2017, when several high-profile violent incidents occurred in Ocotlán. In early 2017, a 17-year-old high school medical student from Ocotlán was killed in a shootout after armed men attacked him and a group of friends. Weeks later, several employees from Reporte Jalisco  newspaper were intimidated by the CJNG. Reporte Jalisco print distributors were told by the CJNG to leave Ocotlán or they would be "disappeared". Página 24, another newspaper in the area, also received threats from the CJNG for its coverage of violence in Ocotlán.


2015 Ocotlán ambush, Reactions, Government, Police reforms in Ocotlán
On 14 March 2017, the Government of Jalisco disarmed the entire Ocotlán police force and took control of the city's public security functions. According to Ocotlán's mayor Pablo Gabriel Hernández, the ninety-three police officers stationed in Ocotlán were taken to Guadalajara for further training. He stated that none of them were being investigated for potential links with organized crime, though he clarified that ten officers had been dismissed earlier that year after failing performance evaluations. The mayor, however, complained that during the disarmament, state officials were "prepotent" and did not follow established collaboration protocols.


2015 Ocotlán ambush, Reactions, Government, Police reforms in Ocotlán
He said that state officials "took" the police installations and did not give them time to prepare. Some Ocotlán residents protested in the city's square against the replacement of Ocotlán's police by state level personnel. They stated that they did not want the Jalisco State Police in Ocotlán because of the alleged abuses they carried out against residents. The mayor asked civilians to report any abuses to the local government; protesters complained their past reports had not been responded to.


2015 Ocotlán ambush, Reactions, Government, Police reforms in Ocotlán
On 29 April 2017, fifty-three officers from Ocotlán's police force completed training and resumed activities in the city. The training they received included arrest and detention protocols, physical fitness, vehicle inspection, vehicle chases, weapon use, and understanding of Mexico's New Criminal Justice System (Spanish: Nuevo Sistema de Justicia Penal, NSJP). The mayor stated that several of the officers did not have training in these areas or were not up-to-date on their training prior to the disarming the month before. The state government stated in the police officers' graduation ceremony that this training was intended to help officers restore order in Ocotlán and help the municipality grow in economic prosperity.


2015 Ocotlán ambush, Investigation and crackdowns, Operations and raids
During the first week after the attack, law enforcement agencies carried out daily operations in Ocotlán with the intention of arresting members of the CJNG. On 22 March, Jalisco state authorities confirmed that they had discovered a property with a zoo in Ocotlán that was presumed to be owned by organized crime gang members. The property was found after the state police patrolled the area close to Ocotlán's toll road booths on the highway that connects Guadalajara with Mexico City. Inside the property they recovered three exotic animals: a lion, a tiger, and a bear. Investigators said that the animals were in excellent condition. No suspects were arrested during the operation. The animals were handed over to the Federal Attorney's Office of Environmental Protection (PROFEPA).


2015 Ocotlán ambush, Investigation and crackdowns, Operations and raids
On 26 March, police raided a house in the neighborhood where the ambush took place. The military entered the property illegally since they did not have a search warrant, breaking the windows of the door; it was empty as the owner of the house was at work. The mother of the home owner went to the property and told the soldiers that her son worked in the fields and was not involved in organized crime. Outside the house, the military seized a black Ford vehicle that they suspected belonged to the house owner.


2015 Ocotlán ambush, Investigation and crackdowns, Operations and raids
They later confirmed that the vehicle had been abandoned by the gunmen during the shootout. Neighbors told the press that the military had raided at least ten houses, seized multiple vehicles, and arrested several people that week. The government did not make an official statement about these operations. The Governor of Jalisco, Jorge Aristóteles Sandoval Díaz, told the public that they were actively providing assistance to home owners affected by the attack. However, the neighborhood residents said that the government had not reached out to them for assistance seven days after the attack, and that they had not provided them with assistance to repair the walls of their homes, which were damaged by the gunfire during the shootout.


2015 Ocotlán ambush, Investigation and crackdowns, Arrests and charges
Following the attacks, the PF ordered its seven departments to work on the case, and pledged that they would work diligently to arrest those involved. The federal government ordered an increase in the number of federal troops in Jalisco and the area close to the border with Michoacán by bringing in additional PF members and requesting additional support from the Mexican Army, the Jalisco State Police, and municipal forces. These reinforcements conducted patrols and erected checkpoints to neutralize organized crime groups operating in the area. The Jalisco State Police carried out multiple investigations across the Región Alto area of Jalisco. For security reasons, the government did not disclose the number of reinforcements they had sent to Jalisco. They did confirm that the government would pay for the damages caused by the attack.


2015 Ocotlán ambush, Investigation and crackdowns, Arrests and charges
On 23 March, the PF arrested two people in Ocotlán for their alleged participation in the ambush. Both of them were in possession of military-exclusive weapons, which is forbidden by Mexican federal law. One of them was sent to Puente Grande, while the other was sent to a special facility for minors as he was underage. Their names were not released to the press; the state government said it was not authorized to do so as the case was under federal jurisdiction. On 31 March 2015, the PF arrested six suspects in Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, for alleged participation in the attack.


2015 Ocotlán ambush, Investigation and crackdowns, Arrests and charges
On 9 June 2015, the PGR arrested four municipal policemen for their alleged participation in the ambush: Raúl Romero Ramírez; David Vázquez Estévez; José Guadalupe Echavarría Arcos; and Jonnathan Alejandro González González. According to investigators, the policemen were working for the CJNG. Authorities confirmed that the arrest was a result of intelligence sharing between the PGR and the PF. Three of the officers were arrested in Jalisco, while one of them was arrested in Puebla after he attempted to escape. They were charged with involvement in organized crime and homicide.


2015 Ocotlán ambush, Investigation and crackdowns, Arrests and charges
The CNS confirmed that additional public servants from Ocotlán were being investigated and had pending arrest warrants. A former municipal police officer, Abraham Pérez Murguía, was arrested about a year later in Ocotlán for his alleged participation in the attack and his involvement in organized crime. After his arrest, the officer confirmed that he worked for the CJNG and was involved in the ambush.


2015 Ocotlán ambush, Investigation and crackdowns, Arrests and charges
On 1 September 2015, federal authorities stationed in Zapotlán, Jalisco, confirmed the arrest of Javier Guerrero Covarrubias (alias "El Javi"), a suspected regional leader of the CJNG whom the authorities believe masterminded the Ocotlán ambush. Javier was part of a clan within the CJNG that investigators believe was responsible for providing armed protection to El Mencho. He was also wanted for drug trafficking, extortion, homicide, and kidnapping. At the scene, authorities found him in possession of two assault rifles, one of them equipped with sniper lenses, two handguns, a .38 Super and a 9mm parabellum, and thirteen cartridges.


2015 Ocotlán ambush, Investigation and crackdowns, Arrests and charges
El Javi avoided arrest for at least five months by coordinating his organized crime activities through intermediaries based in several municipalities in Jalisco and Michoacán. Upon his arrest, he was handed over to the Assistant Attorney General's Office for Special Investigations on Organized Crime (SEIDO), Mexico's anti-organized crime investigatory agency, in Mexico City.


2015 Ocotlán ambush, Investigation and crackdowns, Arrests and charges
On 9 November 2015, the PF was involved in a shootout with alleged affiliates of the CJNG in Ocotlán. In the aftermath, they captured two men who they suspected were involved in the ambush; another gunman who was with them was killed by security forces. According to residents from the Arboledas neighborhood, where the shootout occurred, the house where the suspects were found served as a gathering place for the CJNG. This account was later confirmed by the national press. The PF had gathered intelligence that there were armed men entering and exiting the house.


2015 Ocotlán ambush, Investigation and crackdowns, Arrests and charges
They arrested one individual outside the house and eventually proceeded inside. Once indoors, they were attacked by the CJNG but were able to neutralize them. At the scene, authorities seized one assault rifle, one handgun, and multiple cocaine packages. The three men were part of El Javi's mercenary group; one of them was reportedly the CJNG head of an assassin and extortion squad based in Ocotlán.