2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup
The 2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup was the 13th edition of the CONCACAF Gold Cup competition and the 23rd CONCACAF regional championship overall in the organization's fifty-four years of existence. It was held in the United States, with two matches being played in Canada, marking the first time the CONCACAF Gold Cup was played in that country.


2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup
Mexico won the competition after surviving both the quarter-finals and semi-finals in controversial circumstances, defeating Jamaica – the first Caribbean nation to reach such a stage – in the final. Of the co-hosts, Canada was eliminated in the group stage, while the United States, the defending champions, lost in the semi-finals to Jamaica. The competition included a third place match for the first time since 2003, in which Panama defeated the United States.


2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup, Qualification for other tournaments
The 2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup was used for qualification for the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup, to be played in Russia, and the Copa América Centenario, to be played in the United States in 2016.


2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup, Qualification for other tournaments, FIFA Confederations Cup
As champions of the 2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup, Mexico qualified for a one-off play-off match against the United States, the champion of the 2013 CONCACAF Gold Cup, to decide which team will represent CONCACAF in the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup. Mexico won the match 3-2 after extra time.


2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup, Qualification for other tournaments, Copa América Centenario
In addition, Panama, Trinidad and Tobago, Haiti, and Cuba, being the top four teams in the tournament not already qualified, qualified for play-offs which determined the remaining two teams to participate in the Copa América Centenario in 2016. The United States, Mexico, Costa Rica (winners of the 2014 Copa Centroamericana), and Jamaica (winners of the 2014 Caribbean Cup) had already qualified before the tournament, with Panama and Haiti rounding out the six representatives CONCACAF sent to the Copa América Centenario following their play-off victories over Cuba and Trinidad and Tobago, respectively.


2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup, Qualified teams
A total of 12 teams qualified for the tournament. Three berths were allocated to North America, four to Central America, and four to the Caribbean. For the first time, the two overall fifth-placed teams of the Caribbean zone and the Central American zone competed for the final berth of the CONCACAF Gold Cup. Previously, five berths were allocated to Central America and four were allocated to the Caribbean.


2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup, Qualified teams
Bold indicates that the corresponding team was hosting the event.


2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup, Venues
A total of 14 venues were used for the tournament. CONCACAF announced the host cities and venues for the tournament on December 16, 2014. Apart from Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia which hosted the final and PPL Park in Chester which hosted the third place match (both located in the Philadelphia metropolitan area), the other 12 venues hosted two matches. The assignment of matches for the knockout round and the awarding of the final were announced on March 12, 2015.


2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup, Draw
The seeded teams which headed up each group was announced on December 16, 2014: United States (Group A), Costa Rica (Group B), and Mexico (Group C). Seeded teams were determined based on November 27, 2014 FIFA rankings (shown in brackets).


2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup, Draw
The composition of the groups and the schedule of the tournament were announced by CONCACAF on March 12, 2015.


2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup, Squads
An initial provisional list of 35 players had to be submitted to CONCACAF before June 7, 2015. A final list containing 23 players was to have been submitted for June 27, 2015. Three of the players named in the final list had to be goalkeepers. The players named in the final list had to wear shirts numbered 1 to 23, with number 1 reserved for a goalkeeper.


2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup, Squads
Teams qualifying for the quarter-final stage were permitted to replace up to six players. The replacements had to  have been named on the provisional list and would be given a shirt numbered between 24 and 29.


2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup, Squads
An injured player from the final list could be replaced by another from provisional list 24 hours before his national team's first game.


2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup, Group stage
The top two teams from each group and the two best third-placed teams qualified for the quarter-finals. All match times listed are in Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).


2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup, Group stage, Tiebreakers
The ranking of each team in each group was determined as follows:


2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup, Knockout stage
In the knockout stage, the eight teams played a single-elimination tournament, with the following rules:


2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup, Knockout stage
All match times listed are in Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).


2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup, Awards, Individual awards
The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament.


2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup, Awards, Prize money
The total amount of prize money offered by CONCACAF for the tournament is US$2.75 million, with $1 million being the top prize. Listed below is a breakdown of how the total amount is to be distributed:


2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup, Theme songs
"Sun Goes Down" by German DJ Robin Schulz featuring English singer Jasmine Thompson was the official song for the tournament


2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup, Theme songs
"You Are Unstoppable" by Austrian singer Conchita Wurst was the official anthem for the tournament.


2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup, Theme songs
"All the Way" by Reykon featuring Bebe Rexha was used for Univision's coverage of the tournament.


2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup, Media
Multiple officials of Traffic Sports were identified in the 2015 FIFA corruption case, which alleged that bribes related to the 2015 Gold Cup amounted to two-thirds of the cost of staging the tournament.


2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup, Controversies, Jamaican players' strike
On July 6, the Jamaica national football team refused to attend a 7pm practice session at the StubHub Center because of a strike over bonus fees. The next day, Jamaica Football Federation president Horace Burrell announced the situation had been "settled" and thanked the players for backing down.


2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup, Controversies, Cuban defections
Cuban attacker Keiler García defected to the United States in Chicago on July 8, the day before his team's opening game against Mexico at Soldier Field. He did not show up for the team breakfast in the hotel and was absent from the subsequent training session. Because of problems obtaining US visas for players and staff, and the defection of García, Cuba only had 16 players available for the opening game against Mexico. Arael Argüellez also defected in Chicago, after being visited in the hotel by friends. He failed to turn up for the national team's flight to Phoenix to Cuba's second match, against Trinidad and Tobago.


2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup, Controversies, Cuban defections
On July 14, Darío Suárez did not return from his trip to a supermarket prior to the match against Guatemala in Charlotte. Later the same day, midfielder Ariel Martínez was reported in tears on the bus returning to the hotel following the 1–0 victory over Guatemala to qualify for the quarter-final stage. Upon arrival, he exited the bus, said goodbye to the coach and then ran off into the night.


2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup, Controversies, Cuban US visa issues
Cuba's opening game against Mexico was affected by United States visa issues. The head coach Raúl González Triana and six players (Adrián Diz, Arichel Hernandez, Daniel Luis, Andy Vaquero, Maikel Reyes and Sandy Sánchez) were unable to enter the United States before the match against Mexico which took place on the third day of the competition. They had all recently been involved in the 2015 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship qualification tournament in Antigua and Barbuda and it had caused some administration issues.


2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup, Controversies, Cuban US visa issues
Arichel Hernández did not enter the United States at all because of visa problems.


2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup, Controversies, Controversial refereeing
During the quarter-final match between Mexico and Costa Rica, Walter López's assistant referee Eric Boria marked a penalty for Mexico, in the last minute of stoppage time in the second half of extra time, for a push by Costa Rican defender Roy Miller on Oribe Peralta. Mexico's Andrés Guardado scored the penalty, eliminating Costa Rica. Daniel Jiménez of La Nación described the elimination as "a theft", although Costa Rica's coach defended the call saying "he [the referee] is human. He saw something in the area and that's why he called the penalty."


2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup, Controversies, Controversial refereeing
Miller himself claimed Peralta's reaction was "exaggerated" and that there had only been minimal contact between them. In an interview conceded to Prensa Libre on July 23, Wálter López admitted that the call was mistaken, alleging that "due to my position in the field, I was unable to properly see the action. It was my assistant who helped me".


2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup, Controversies, Controversial refereeing
In the semi-final match between Mexico and Panama, the US referee Mark Geiger lost control of the match which began with him showing a questionable red card to Panama's Luis Tejada in the 24th minute. Later, as a 10-man Panama was a minute away from winning the match 1-0, he also awarded Mexico a controversial penalty kick for a handball. While defending in the penalty box against the Mexican midfielder Carlos Esquivel, Panama's captain Román Torres lost balance and fell backwards on the ball, touching it (fouls for handling the ball must be deliberate).


2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup, Controversies, Controversial refereeing
The decision to award the penalty kick outraged the Panama team who walked off the field and threatened to abandon the match. While the players were involved in a long scuffle with the officials, coaches and other players on the sidelines, the fans repeatedly pelted them with beer glasses and objects. Panama returned to the field after approximately ten minutes. Andrés Guardado scored the penalty and forced the match into extra time, which Mexico subsequently won.


2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup, Controversies, Controversial refereeing
After the final whistle, the Panamanian players and coaching staff ran en masse on the field towards the referees, who had to be escorted off the field by security. Later, Guardado said in the interview that it hurt to take the penalty and he considered missing the kick on purpose, but "had to be professional". Mexico's coach Miguel Herrera argued there was no reason for Guardado to purposely miss the kick, referencing the controversial decision that awarded penalty to Netherlands over Mexico in the World Cup. "I didn't hear that question in the World Cup when we were knocked out for a penalty that wasn't", he said. "It seems that only Mexico should declare itself guilty."


2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup, Controversies, Controversial refereeing
On July 23, the Football Associations from both Panama and Costa Rica released their respective statements on their websites regarding such controversies, and requesting the removal of the CONCACAF referees committee members.


2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup, Controversies, Controversial refereeing
On July 24, the CONCACAF Disciplinary Committee suspended the Panamanian goalkeeper Jaime Penedo for two matches for insulting the referee. This meant he would miss the Cup's third-place game and a World Cup qualifier game in November. On top of missing the third-place game because of the red card, forward Luis Tejada was given an additional one match suspension for insulting the referee.


2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup, Controversies, Panama team banner
After the semi-final match against Mexico, the Panamanian players reunited in their locker room and brandished a banner which read "CONCACAF Ladrones ("CONCACAF thieves") and three times "Corruptos" ("corrupt"), while pointing thumbs down in protest. The image was then circulated on Twitter. The CONCACAF Disciplinary Committee subsequently fined Panamanian Football Federation $15,000 for this display.


2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup, Controversies, Referee Committee controversy
Both the Costa Rican Football Federation and Panamanian Football Federation publicly called for those within the Referee Committee at CONCACAF to be removed from their position.


2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup, Controversies, Referee Committee controversy
CONCACAF announced that they would discuss the matter at their executive committee meeting.


2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup, Controversies, Tournament organization
United States captain Michael Bradley criticized the organization of the tournament, commenting that there was too much traveling involved for teams and the stadiums had poor playing surfaces, while questioning the need for the two best third-placed teams to qualify to the next round.


2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup, Controversies, Tournament organization
Mexico's head coach Miguel Herrera was also critical of the travel arrangements "It's a disorder in the airplanes, having rival teams on the same flight, with so much people from CONCACAF, we were all squeezed in, we didn't even have room for our luggage, there was no room for our baggage, Mexico has been transporting their luggage on road and that's how we have been working". Both Herrera and Bradley were fined by CONCACAF for their comments.


2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup Final
The 2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup Final decided the winners of the 2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup. It was held on 26 July 2015 at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, and contested by Jamaica and Mexico. It was Jamaica's first final of a CONCACAF championship, and Mexico's 12th; they won a record 10th with a 3–1 victory. It was also the first Gold Cup Final since 2003 not to feature the United States.


2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup Final
Mexico advanced to a one-match play-off, which was held on 10 October 2015, against the 2013 CONCACAF Gold Cup winners, the United States, for the opportunity to represent CONCACAF in the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup in Russia.


2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup Group A
Group A of the 2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup was one of three groups competing of nations at the 2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup. The group's matches were played in July. All six group matches were played at venues in the United States. Matches were played at Frisco's Toyota Stadium on July 7, Foxborough's Gillette Stadium on July 10 and Kansas City's Sporting Park on July 13.


2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup Group A, Matches
All times EDT (UTC−4). If the venue is located in a different time zone, the local time is given in parentheses.


2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup Group A, Matches, Panama vs Haiti
Assistant referees:Leonel Leal (Costa Rica)Warner Castro (Costa Rica)Fourth official:Ricardo Montero (Costa Rica)


2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup Group A, Matches, Honduras vs Panama
Assistant referees:Ricardo Morgan (Jamaica)Garnet Page (Jamaica)Fourth official:Joel Aguilar (El Salvador)


2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup Group A, Matches, United States vs Haiti
Assistant referees:Warner Castro (Costa Rica)José Luis Camargo (Mexico)Fourth official:Roberto García (Mexico)


2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup Group A, Matches, Haiti vs Honduras
Assistant referees:Ricardo Morgan (Jamaica)Garnet Page (Jamaica)Fourth official:Marlon Mejía (El Salvador)


2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup Group A, Matches, Panama vs United States
Assistant referees:Alberto Morín (Mexico)Leonel Leal (Costa Rica)Fourth official:Henry Bejarano (Costa Rica)


2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup Group B
Group B of the 2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup was one of three groups competing of nations at the 2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup. The group's matches were played in July. Four group matches were played at venues in the United States and two were played in Canada. Matches were played at Carson's StubHub Center on July 8, Houston's BBVA Compass Stadium on July 11 and Toronto's BMO Field on July 14.


2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup Group B
It was the first time Canada had hosted a CONCACAF Gold Cup match.


2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup Group B, Matches
All times EDT (UTC−4). If the venue is located in a different time zone, the local time is given in parentheses.


2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup Group B, Matches, El Salvador vs Canada
Assistant referees:Daniel Williamson (Panama)CJ Morgante (United States)Fourth official:Héctor Rodríguez (Honduras)


2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup Group B, Matches, Costa Rica vs El Salvador
Assistant referees:Charles Morgante (United States)Gersón López (Guatemala)Fourth official:Walter López (Guatemala)


2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup Group B, Matches, Canada vs Costa Rica
Assistant referees:CJ Morgante (United States)Daniel Williamson (Panama)Fourth official:Jair Marrufo (United States)


2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup Group C
Group C of the 2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup was one of three groups competing of nations at the 2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup. The group's matches were played in July. All six group matches were played at venues in the United States. Matches were played at Chicago's Soldier Field on July 9, Glendale's University of Phoenix Stadium on July 12 and Charlotte's Bank of America Stadium on July 15.


2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup Group C, Matches
All times EDT (UTC−4). If the venue is located in a different time zone, the local time is given in parentheses.


2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup Group C, Matches, Trinidad and Tobago vs Guatemala
Assistant referees:Eric Boria (United States)Philippe Brière (Canada)Fourth official:Mark Geiger (United States)


2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup Group C, Matches, Mexico vs Cuba
Assistant referees:Octavio Jara (Costa Rica)Juan Zumba (El Salvador)Fourth official:Armando Castro (Honduras)


2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup Group C, Matches, Trinidad and Tobago vs Cuba
Assistant referees:Philippe Brière (Canada)Daniel Belleau (Canada)Fourth official:Elmer Bonilla (El Salvador)


2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup Group C, Matches, Guatemala vs Mexico
Assistant referees:Octavio Jara (Costa Rica)Juan Zumba (El Salvador)Fourth official:Wálter Quesada (Costa Rica)


2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup Group C, Matches, Mexico vs Trinidad and Tobago
Assistant referees:Eric Boria (United States)Peter Manikowski (United States)Fourth official:John Pitti (Panama)


2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup disciplinary record
In the 2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup, the main disciplinary action taken against players comes in the form of red and yellow cards.


2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup disciplinary record
Any player picking up a red card is expelled from the pitch and automatically banned for his country's next match, whether via a straight red or second yellow. After a straight red card, FIFA will conduct a hearing and may extend this ban beyond one match. If the ban extends beyond the end of the finals (i.e. if a player is sent off in the match in which his team was eliminated), it must be served in the team's next competitive international match(es). In most cases, that will be the first matches of 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifying.


2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup knockout stage
The knockout stage of the 2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup began on 18 July 2015 and ended with the Final on 26 July 2015, to decide the champions of the 2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup. A total of eight teams competed in the knockout stage.


2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup knockout stage, Qualified teams
The top two placed teams from each of the three groups, plus the two best-placed third teams, qualified for the knockout stage.


2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup knockout stage, Bracket
In the knockout stage, the eight teams played a single-elimination tournament, with the following rules:


2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup knockout stage, Bracket
Scores after extra time are indicated by (a.e.t. ), and penalty shoot-out are indicated by (pen. ).


2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup knockout stage, Quarter-finals, United States vs Cuba
Assistant referees:Warner Castro (Costa Rica)Leonel Leal (Costa Rica)Fourth official:Joel Aguilar (El Salvador)


2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup knockout stage, Quarter-finals, Haiti vs Jamaica
Assistant referees:Alberto Morín (Mexico)Octavio Jara (Costa Rica)Fourth official:John Pitti (Panama)


2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup knockout stage, Quarter-finals, Trinidad and Tobago vs Panama
Assistant referees:Hermenerito Leal (Guatemala)Juan Zumba (El Salvador)Fourth official:Óscar Moncada (Honduras)


2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup knockout stage, Quarter-finals, Mexico vs Costa Rica
Assistant referees:Eric Boria (United States)Charles Morgante (United States)Fourth official:David Gantar (Canada)


2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup knockout stage, Semi-finals, United States vs. Jamaica
Assistant referees:Octavio Jara (Costa Rica)Warner Castro (Costa Rica)Fourth official:Henry Bejarano (Costa Rica)


2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup knockout stage, Semi-finals, Panama vs. Mexico
Assistant referees:Philippe Brière (Canada)Daniel Belleau (Canada)Fourth official:Joel Aguilar (El Salvador)


2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup knockout stage, Third place play-off
Assistant referees:Garnet Page (Jamaica)Cristian Ramírez (Honduras)Fourth official:David Gantar (Canada)Fifth official:Octavio Jara (Costa Rica)


2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup qualification (CFU–UNCAF play-off)
The 2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup qualification (CFU–UNCAF play-off) was a home-and-away two-legged qualification play-off that took place on the 25th and 29th of March 2015 to determine the final team that qualified for the 2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup. In March 2014, CONCACAF Vice-President Horace Burrell announced that the fifth-placed teams from the 2014 Caribbean Cup and 2014 Copa Centroamericana would meet in the play-off.


2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup qualification (CFU–UNCAF play-off), Overview
The Caribbean Football Union (CFU) representative, French Guiana, met the Central American Football Union (UNCAF) representative, Honduras, in the play-off.


2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup qualification (CFU–UNCAF play-off), Overview
The CONCACAF-published Free Kick magazine confirmed that there would be two legs to the competition.


2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup qualification (CFU–UNCAF play-off), Overview
The games took place on 25 and 29 March 2015 during the only international window on the FIFA International Match Calendar that occurred after the completion of the 2014 Caribbean Cup and before the 2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup is scheduled to begin. The games were originally scheduled to take place in January 2015.


2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup qualification (CFU–UNCAF play-off), Matches, Second leg
Honduras won 4–3 on aggregate and qualified for the 2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup.


2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup squads
An initial list of 35 players ("provisional list") for each participating nation was published by CONCACAF on 10 June 2015. A "final list" containing 23 players for each participating nation was published by CONCACAF on 23 June 2015.


2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup squads
Three of the players named in the final list had to be goalkeepers. The players named in the final list had to have shirts numbered 1 to 23; number 1 was reserved for a goalkeeper.


2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup squads
Teams that qualified for the knockout stage could replace up to six players. The replacements had to have been named on the provisional list and were given a shirt numbered between 24 and 29.


2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup squads, Player representation, By club nationality
Nations in bold are represented by their national teams in the tournament.


2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup squads, Player representation, By club nationality
The above table is the same when it comes to league representation, with only the following exceptions:


2015 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship
The 2015 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship was the fourteenth edition of the CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying, the quadrennial, international, age-restricted football tournament organised by CONCACAF to determine which men's under-23 national teams from the North, Central America and Caribbean region qualify for the Olympic football tournament. It was held in the United States, from 1 and 13 October 2015


2015 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship
Mexico successfully defended their title after a 2–0 win over Honduras in the final. It was their seventh Pre-Olympic title and second in a row, after previous wins in 1964, 1972, 1976, 1996, 2004 and 2012. As the top two teams, Mexico and Honduras both qualified for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Brazil as the CONCACAF representatives, just as the same sides had in the previous Olympics. Third-placed United States later lost to Colombia in the CONCACAF–CONMEBOL play-off and failed to qualify for the Olympics for the second consecutive time.


2015 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship, Qualification
The eight berths were allocated to the three regional zones as follows:


2015 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship, Qualification
Regional qualification tournaments were held to determine the five teams joining Canada, Mexico, and the United States at the final tournament


2015 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship, Draw
The draw for the tournament took place on 18 August 2015 at 09:00 PDT (UTC−7) at the Torrance Marriot Redondo Beach hotel in Torrance, California. The draw was conducted by Eddie Lewis and Brad Friedel.


2015 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship, Draw
The eight teams were drawn into two groups of four teams. Tournament host United States were seeded in Group A, while defending CONCACAF Olympic Qualifying Championship champion and 2012 Olympic gold medalist Mexico were seeded in Group B.


2015 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship, Draw
The draw took place before the final UNCAF qualifier (Costa Rica) had been confirmed.


2015 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship, Squads
Players born on or after 1 January 1993 were eligible to compete in the tournament. Each team could register a maximum of 20 players (two of whom must be goalkeepers).


2015 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship, Group stage
The top two teams of each group advanced to the semi-finals. The teams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If tied on points, tiebreakers would be applied in the following order:


2015 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship, Group stage
The final round of fixtures in the group stage and the knockout stage fell within the FIFA International Match Calendar period of 5–13 October 2015. As a result, teams were able to call on their first choice under-23 players worldwide.


2015 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship, Knockout stage
In the knockout stage, extra time and a penalty shoot-out were used to decide the winner if necessary.


2015 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship, Statistics, Awards
The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament.


2015 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship, Statistics, Final ranking
As per statistical convention in football, matches decided in extra time were counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by a penalty shoot-out were counted as draws.


2015 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship, Qualified teams for Olympics
The following two teams from CONCACAF qualified for the 2016 Summer Olympics.


2015 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship, Cuban defections
Four Cuban players were confirmed to have defected to the United States during the tournament: they were Emmanuel Labrada (CF Granma), Frank López García (FC Cienfuegos), Dairon Pérez (FC La Habana), and Yendry Torres (FC Cienfuegos).


2015 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship qualification
The 2015 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship qualification was a men's under-23 football competition which decided the participating teams of the 2015 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship. Players born on or after 1 January 1993 were eligible to compete in the tournament.


2015 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship qualification
A total of eight teams qualified to play in the final tournament, where the berths were allocated to the three regional zones as follows:


2015 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship qualification
The top two teams of the final tournament qualified for the 2016 Summer Olympics men's football tournament in Brazil, while the third-placed team advanced to the CONCACAF–CONMEBOL play-off against the 2015 South American Youth Football Championship runner-up for the final berth in the Olympics.


2015 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship qualification, Teams
A total of 27 CONCACAF member national teams entered the tournament. Among them, three teams qualified automatically for the final tournament, and 24 teams entered the regional qualifying competitions.


2015 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship qualification, Central American Zone
In the Central American Zone, all seven UNCAF member national teams entered the qualifying competition. They were divided into two groups, one with four teams and the other with three teams. The draw to allocate teams to each group was made on 28 February 2015 at the UNCAF Executive Committee meeting in Managua, Nicaragua. The groups were played between 11–15 August 2015 in Panama (Group A) and Guatemala (Group B) respectively. The two group winners and the winner of the repechage playoff between the two group runners-up (two-legged tie), played between 19–23 August 2015, qualified for the final tournament as the UNCAF representatives.


2015 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship qualification, Central American Zone
Times UTC−5 for Group A; UTC−6 for Group B and Repechage playoff.


2015 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship qualification, Central American Zone, Repechage playoff
Costa Rica won 1–0 on aggregate and qualified for 2015 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship.


2015 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship qualification, Caribbean Zone
In the Caribbean Zone, 17 CFU member national teams entered the qualifying competition. Among them, two teams (Dominica and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines) played in the preliminary round (two-legged tie) between 22–24 May 2015. The winner advanced to the first round to join the other 15 teams.


2015 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship qualification, Caribbean Zone
In the first round, the 16 teams were divided into four groups of four teams. The groups were played between 24–28 and 25–29 June 2015 and hosted by one of the teams in each group. The four group winners advanced to the final round.


2015 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship qualification, Caribbean Zone
In the final round, played between 14–16 August 2015 and hosted by one of the teams in the final round, the four teams played a single-elimination tournament. The top two teams qualified for the final tournament as the CFU representatives.


2015 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship qualification, Caribbean Zone, Preliminary round
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines won 5–0 on aggregate and advanced to Group 4.


2015 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship qualification, Caribbean Zone, First round, Group 2
Matches played in Antigua and Barbuda (changed from original hosts Aruba).


2015 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship qualification, Caribbean Zone, First round, Group 3
Matches played in Dominican Republic (changed from original host Saint Lucia).


2015 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship squads
The 2015 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship was an international football tournament that was held in the United States from 1 and 13 October 2015. The eight national teams involved in the tournament were required to register a squad of twenty players, three of whom had to be goalkeepers.


2015 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship squads
The final lists were published by CONCACAF on 25 September 2015.


2015 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship squads
All registered players had to have been born on or after 1 January 1993 (Regulations Article 13). The age listed for each player is on 1 October 2015, the first day of the tournament. A flag is included for coaches who are of a different nationality than their own national team. Players marked in bold have been capped at full international level.


2015 CONCACAF U-13 Champions League
The 2015 CONCACAF U-13 Champions League was the inaugural season of the CONCACAF U-13 Champions League, a North American youth club football competition organized by CONCACAF.


2015 CONCACAF U-13 Champions League, Teams
A total of eight teams from seven of the 40 CONCACAF member associations entered the tournament. The teams were split into two groups of four.


2015 CONCACAF U-13 Champions League, Schedule
The tournament was held over the span of four days. The schedule was released by CONCACAF on 31 July 2015.


2015 CONCACAF U-17 Championship
The 2015 CONCACAF U-17 Championship was a scheduled age-restricted international association football tournament organised by CONCACAF. The competition was used to determine the four CONCACAF representatives at the 2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup in Chile. The competition was hosted by Honduras.


2015 CONCACAF U-17 Championship, Qualified teams
Note: no titles or runners-up between 1999 and 2007. Bold indicates that the corresponding team was hosting the event.


2015 CONCACAF U-17 Championship, New format
Previously there were four groups of three teams during the group stage of the competition, each team played a minimum of two games and the previous format had a total of 20 matches. As from 2015 there will be two groups of six teams, each team will play a minimum of five games and the competition will have a total of 33 matches. CONCACAF stated that the new format would aid development and competition.


2015 CONCACAF U-17 Championship, New format
The knockout phase, which included eight matches, consisted of four quarterfinals, two semifinals, a third-place playoff and a final, has been replaced with two playoff games and a final.


2015 CONCACAF U-17 Championship, Draw
The draw took place on 8 December at the Chamber of Commerce and Industries of Cortés, Honduras.


2015 CONCACAF U-17 Championship, Draw
On 2 December 2014, CONCACAF announced the procedure of the draw. The 12 teams were divided into three differing pots:


2015 CONCACAF U-17 Championship, Draw
Prior to the draw, hosts Honduras were assigned to position A1. The remaining teams in Pot 1 were drawn, alternating between groups A and B. Teams were assigned a position from Pot A (Group A) or Pot B (Group B). After all teams had been drawn from Pot 1, the draw proceeded (continuing to alternate between Groups A and B) to Pot 2, then Pot 3.


2015 CONCACAF U-17 Championship, Squads
Only players born on or after 1 January 1998 were eligible to play in the tournament. Each participating national association had to provide a provisional list of twenty to thirty players to CONCACAF thirty days before their first match. A final twenty-man selection had to be provided upon arrival in the venue.


2015 CONCACAF U-17 Championship, Final stage
In the final stage, if a match was level at the end of normal playing time, penalty shoot-out was used to determine the winner (no extra time was played).


2015 CONCACAF U-17 Championship, Final stage, Playoff stage
The second-and third-place teams from each group were re-seeded by group stage results, with the best team facing the fourth-best team, and the second-best team facing the third-best team.


2015 CONCACAF U-17 Championship, Final stage, Playoff stage
Because all four teams finished with the same number of points and not all of them faced each other, the first playoff tiebreaker used for reseeding was goal differential in all group matches. Because two teams were tied on goal differential, the No. 3 and 4 seeds were determined based on total goals scored in the tournament. This resulted in both third-place teams being ranked ahead of both second-place teams.


2015 CONCACAF U-17 Championship, Final stage, Playoff stage
Costa Rica and the United States qualified for the 2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup.


2015 CONCACAF U-17 Championship, Final stage, Final
Both Honduras and Mexico qualified for the 2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup.


2015 CONCACAF U-17 Championship qualifying
The qualifying competitions for the 2015 CONCACAF U-17 Championship were handled by two regional of CONCACAF's bodies; the Caribbean Football Union (Caribbean zone) and the Central American Football Union (Central American zone).


2015 CONCACAF U-17 Championship qualifying
Representative teams from Canada, Mexico and the United States automatically qualified for the final competition.


2015 CONCACAF U-17 Championship qualifying, Caribbean zone
The Caribbean qualification competition (2014 CFU Men's U-17 Tournament) was organised by the Caribbean Football Union (CFU).


2015 CONCACAF U-17 Championship qualifying, Caribbean zone
All match times are UTC−4, except Group 1 which are UTC−5.


2015 CONCACAF U-17 Championship qualifying, Caribbean zone, First round
The group winners and the two best runners-up advanced to the final round.


2015 CONCACAF U-17 Championship qualifying, Caribbean zone, First round, Ranking of runners-up
Since Group 5 contains three teams, only the results against the first and third placed teams are counted. The Dominican Republic were given the tie-breaker over Suriname and would play in the final round of qualifying.


2015 CONCACAF U-17 Championship qualifying, Caribbean zone, Final round
The CFU released a new fixtures list. Guadeloupe were given the spot assumed to be given to Suriname or The Dominican Republic. The dates of the matches were changed from late September to October 19–26. The top two from each group and the best third placed team advanced to the 2015 CONCACAF U-17 Championship.


2015 CONCACAF U-17 Championship qualifying, Central American zone
The Central American qualification competition was organised by the Central American Football Union (UNCAF). Honduras, host of the 2015 CONCACAF U-17 Championship, did not participate in the qualifying tournament. The remaining six UNCAF teams were drawn on 19 May 2014 into two triangulars, which were hosted in Costa Rica and Panama, respectively. The first-place teams from each triangular qualified for the 2015 CONCACAF U-17 Championship, while the second-place teams contested a repechage playoff for the final UNCAF berth.


2015 CONCACAF U-17 Championship qualifying, Central American zone
All match times are UTC−6, except Triangular 2 which are UTC−5.


2015 CONCACAF U-17 Championship qualifying, Central American zone, Repechage playoff
The two triangular runners-up played a two-legged repechage playoff to determine the last qualifier. The draw for the order of legs was held on 25 November 2014.


2015 CONCACAF U-17 Championship qualifying, Central American zone, Repechage playoff
Guatemala won 2–1 on aggregate and qualified for the 2015 CONCACAF U-17 Championship.


2015 CONCACAF U-20 Championship
The 2015 CONCACAF Under-20 Championship was an association football tournament that took place from 9 to 24 January 2015 in Jamaica. It determined the four CONCACAF teams that would participate at the 2015 FIFA U-20 World Cup in New Zealand.


2015 CONCACAF U-20 Championship, Qualification
Note: no titles or runners-up between 1998 and 2007. Bold indicates that the corresponding team was hosting the event.


2015 CONCACAF U-20 Championship, Venues
In March 2014, Enrique Sanz invited nations to bid for the hosting rights of the tournament. The deadline for submissions was 14 April 2014. On 23 July, it was announced that Jamaica would be the host nation.


2015 CONCACAF U-20 Championship, New format
Previously there were four groups of three teams during the group stage of the competition, each team played a minimum of two games and the previous format had a total of 20 matches. For this tournament, there was two groups of six teams, each team played a minimum of five games and the competition had a total of 33 matches. CONCACAF stated that the new format would aid development and competition.


2015 CONCACAF U-20 Championship, New format
The knockout phase, which included eight matches, comprised four quarter finals, two semi-finals, a third-place playoff and a final games was replaced with two playoff games and a final.


2015 CONCACAF U-20 Championship, Draw
The draw took place on 30 October at the Hilton Rose Hall Resort in Montego Bay, Jamaica.


2015 CONCACAF U-20 Championship, Draw
On 28 October 2014, CONCACAF announced the procedure of the draw. The 12 teams were divided into three differing pots:


2015 CONCACAF U-20 Championship, Draw
Prior to the draw, hosts Jamaica were assigned to position A1. Teams were grouped according to the order in which they were drawn, the odd numbered drawn teams were assigned a position from Pot A (Group A) and the even numbered draws were assigned a position from Pot B (Group B).


2015 CONCACAF U-20 Championship, Squads
Only players born on or after 1 January 1995 were eligible to play in the tournament. Each participating national association were required to provide a provisional list of 20-30 players to CONCACAF before 10 December 2014, and a final 20-man selection was required by 30 December 2014.


2015 CONCACAF U-20 Championship, Final stage
In the final stage, if a match was level at the end of normal playing time, extra time was played (two periods of fifteen minutes each) and followed, if necessary, by a penalty shoot-out to determine the winner.


2015 CONCACAF U-20 Championship, Final stage, Playoff stage
The second-and third-place teams from each group were re-seeded by group stage results, with the best team facing the fourth-best team, and the second-best team facing the third-best team.


2015 CONCACAF U-20 Championship, Final stage, Playoff stage
Honduras and the United States qualified to the 2015 FIFA U-20 World Cup.


2015 CONCACAF U-20 Championship, Final stage, Final
Both Mexico and Panama qualified to the 2015 FIFA U-20 World Cup.


2015 CONCACAF U-20 Championship, Final Ranking
Note: Per statistical convention in football, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-out are counted as draws.


2015 CONCACAF U-20 Championship qualifying
The qualifying competitions for the 2015 CONCACAF U-20 Championship were handled by two regional of CONCACAF's bodies; the Caribbean Football Union (Caribbean zone) and the Central American Football Union (Central American zone).


2015 CONCACAF U-20 Championship qualifying
Representative teams from Canada, Mexico and the United States automatically qualified for the final competition.


2015 CONCACAF U-20 Championship qualifying, Caribbean zone
The Caribbean qualification competition (2014 CFU Men's U-20 Tournament) was organised by the Caribbean Football Union (CFU).


2015 CONCACAF U-20 Championship qualifying, Caribbean zone, First round
The teams taking part in the first round were announced on 21 June 2014. The group winners and the two best runners-up advanced to the final round.


2015 CONCACAF U-20 Championship qualifying, Caribbean zone, First round, Ranking of runners-up
On 22 June 2014, CFU published that the best ranked runner-up also qualifies for the Second round. On 26 June 2014, CONCACAF published that the best and second best ranked runner-up qualifier for the Second Round. Since Group 4 contains three teams, only the results against the first and third placed teams are counted.


2015 CONCACAF U-20 Championship qualifying, Caribbean zone, Final round
On 22 June 2014, CFU announced that Jamaica would also receive a bye to the Second round, however four days later CONCACAF published that the second-best ranked runner-up would be taking part in the Second round.


2015 CONCACAF U-20 Championship qualifying, Caribbean zone, Final round
The groups and resulting fixtures were changed at a later date. Antigua and Barbuda were removed and Saint Kitts and Nevis added (no explanation given). The top two from each group advanced to the 2015 CONCACAF U-20 Championship.


2015 CONCACAF U-20 Championship qualifying, Central American zone
The Central American qualification competition was organised by the Central American Football Union (UNCAF). The competition was contested by the seven UNCAF teams in a round-robin tournament, hosted in El Salvador, where the top four teams qualified for the 2015 CONCACAF U-20 Championship.


2015 CONCACAF U-20 Championship qualifying, Central American zone
By winning this tournament, Panama qualified for the 2015 Pan American Games men's football tournament.


2015 CONCACAF U-20 Championship squads
Below are the rosters for the 2015 CONCACAF U-20 Championship held in Jamaica from 9–24 January 2015.


2015 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship
The 2015 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship was the 8th edition of the CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship, the biennial international youth football championship organised by CONCACAF for the women's under-20 national teams of the North, Central American and Caribbean region. The tournament was hosted by Honduras and took place between 3–13 December 2015, as announced by CONCACAF on 7 May 2015. A total of eight teams played in the tournament.


2015 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship
Same as previous editions, the tournament acted as the CONCACAF qualifiers for the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup. The top three teams qualified for the 2016 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Papua New Guinea.


2015 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship
The United States won their fifth title overall and fourth in a row with a 1–0 final victory over Canada. Both finalists and third-placed Mexico qualified for the World Cup.


2015 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship, Qualification
The eight berths were allocated to the three regional zones as follows:


2015 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship, Qualification
Regional qualification tournaments were held to determine the four teams joining Canada, Mexico, the United States, and hosts Honduras at the final tournament.


2015 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship, Venues
The tournament was hosted in San Pedro Sula. In the original schedule, the Estadio Francisco Morazán would host the opening day matches for Group A, as well as the semifinals, third place match and the final, while the Estadio Olímpico Metropolitano would host the remaining Group A matches and all of the Group B matches. In the final schedule, eight group matches were relocated to the Escuela Internacional Sampedrana due to rain, while all matches initially scheduled for the Estadio Francisco Morazán was played at the Estadio Olímpico Metropolitano.


2015 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship, Draw
The draw for the tournament took place on 4 November 2015 at 10:00 CST (UTC−6) at the Hotel Real Intercontinental in San Pedro Sula.


2015 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship, Draw
The eight teams were drawn into two groups of four teams. Tournament host Honduras were seeded in Group A, while defending CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship champion United States were seeded in Group B.


2015 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship, Squads
Players born on or after 1 January 1996 were eligible to compete in the tournament. Each team could register a maximum of 20 players (two of whom must be goalkeepers).


2015 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship, Group stage
The top two teams of each group advanced to the semi-finals. The teams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If tied on points, tiebreakers would be applied in the following order:


2015 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship, Group stage
The two matches originally scheduled on 5 December 2015 (Jamaica vs Canada and Trinidad and Tobago vs Honduras) were postponed due to heavy rain. As a result, all subsequent group matches were delayed by a day and relocated to the Escuela Internacional Sampedrana in San Pedro Sula.


2015 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship, Knockout stage
In the knockout stage, extra time and penalty shoot-out would be used to decide the winner if necessary.


2015 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship, Qualified teams for FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup
The following three teams from CONCACAF qualified for the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.


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


2015 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship qualification
The 2015 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship qualification was a women's under-20 football competition which decided the participating teams of the 2015 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship. Players born on or after 1 January 1996 were eligible to compete in the tournament.


2015 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship qualification
A total of eight teams qualified to play in the final tournament, where the berths were allocated to the three regional zones as follows:


2015 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship qualification
The top three teams of the final tournament qualified for the 2016 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Papua New Guinea.


2015 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship qualification, Teams
A total of 23 CONCACAF member national teams entered the tournament. Among them, four teams qualified automatically for the final tournament, and 19 teams entered the regional qualifying competitions.


2015 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship qualification, Central American Zone
In the Central American Zone, initially six UNCAF member national teams entered the qualifying competition. They were divided into two groups of three teams, as drawn on 28 February 2015 at the UNCAF Executive Committee meeting in Managua, Nicaragua. Group A, consisting of Panama, Honduras and El Salvador, was to be played between 23–27 June 2015 in Panama, while Group B, consisting of Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Guatemala, was to be played between 1–5 July 2015 in Costa Rica. The two group winners would qualify for the final tournament as the UNCAF representatives.


2015 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship qualification, Central American Zone
However, after Honduras were named as hosts and qualified automatically, UNCAF changed the format of the qualifying competition. The five remaining teams were placed in a single group, as confirmed on 3 June 2015 by UNCAF. The matches were played between 31 July and 8 August 2015 in Panama. The winner qualified for the final tournament as the UNCAF representative besides hosts Honduras.


2015 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship qualification, Central American Zone, Goalscorers
Note: One goal each scored by Guatemala and Nicaragua missing goalscorer information.


2015 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship qualification, Caribbean Zone
In the Caribbean Zone, 14 CFU member national teams entered the qualifying competition. Among them, 13 teams entered the first round, where they were divided into one group of four teams and three groups of three teams. The groups were played between 19–23 June and 26–30 July 2015 and hosted by one of the teams in each group. The four group winners, the runner-up of the four-team group, and the two best runners-up of the three-team groups advanced to the final round to be joined by final round hosts Haiti.


2015 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship qualification, Caribbean Zone
In the final round, played between 14–23 October 2015 in Haiti, the eight teams were divided into two groups of four teams, where the top two teams of each group advanced to play a single-elimination tournament. The top three teams qualified for the final tournament as the CFU representatives.


2015 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship qualification, Caribbean Zone, First round, Group 2
The final match was postponed due to heavy rain. It was eventually not played, and Jamaica advanced to the final round.


2015 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship qualification, Caribbean Zone, First round, Ranking of second-placed teams
In addition to the runner-up of Group 1 (with four teams), the two best runners-up of Groups 2, 3 and 4 (with three teams) also advance to the final round.


2015 CONIFA European Football Cup
The 2015 ConIFA European Football Cup was the first edition of the ConIFA European Football Cup, an international football tournament for states, minorities, stateless peoples and regions unaffiliated with FIFA organised by CONIFA. The tournament was originally planned to be hosted by Ellan Vannin on the Isle of Man; this expanded to then see the group games and placement rounds held in South East England, while the semi-finals, third-place play-off and final would take place in Douglas.


2015 CONIFA European Football Cup
However, in March 2015, at the draw for the tournament, it was announced that the tournament would no longer be held in the Isle of Man, instead moving to be hosted by new entrant Székely Land in Hungary. In 2015, ConIFA announced that the tournament would serve as part of the qualification process for the 2016 ConIFA World Football Cup, with the top three teams qualifying automatically.


2015 CONIFA European Football Cup, Tournament
In June 2014, following the success of the first ConIFA World Football Cup, CONIFA announced that a European international tournament would be held under its auspices in 2015. On the announcement, three CONIFA members applied to host the first European Football Cup, Abkhazia, Nagorno-Karabakh and Ellan Vannin. Ellan Vannin was announced as the host in August 2014.


2015 CONIFA European Football Cup, Tournament, Hosts
As initially planned, the tournament was to take place wholly on the Isle of Man, with The Bowl, the main stadium on the island, holding all matches. However, the Isle of Man TT races were scheduled for the period of 30 May to 12 June 2015, the day prior to the start of the tournament.


2015 CONIFA European Football Cup, Tournament, Hosts
As a consequence of the unexpected interest in the tournament, with a consequent lack of hotel and ferry space for both spectators at the TT races and fans wishing to attend the European Football Cup, CONIFA took the decision to restructure the tournament, with the group and placement games to be held at venues in and around London between 14 and 18 June, and The Bowl to be used for the semi-finals and final on the 20 and 21 June.


2015 CONIFA European Football Cup, Tournament, Hosts
In February 2015, soon after the announcement that the tournament would be split between the Isle of Man and Southern England, the two venues chosen for the group phase of the competition were confirmed as the Kingfield Stadium and Paddy Power Park, respectively the home grounds of Woking, of the Conference National, and Farnborough, who play in the Conference South.


2015 CONIFA European Football Cup, Tournament, Hosts
However, in March 2015, at the draw for the tournament, CONIFA announced that it had taken the decision to move the tournament away from the Isle of Man, with the new hosts being announced as Székely Land. The reasoning for the move was that the logistical and financial issues of hosting what was becoming an increasingly large and potentially popular event, which then was increased from one venue to three, were too great for the Manx hosts to surmount, with the suggestion that Székely Land would be able to obtain the necessary support from the Hungarian government. As a consequence, the whole event was moved; initially intended to take place in the Hungarian capital, Budapest, it was finally placed in the country's second largest city, Debrecen.


2015 CONIFA European Football Cup, Participants
The participants will be drawn into 4 groups of 3. The top 2 teams from each group advance to the quarter finals. There will also be placement games. The following teams will participate in the tournament. The 12 teams have been seeded into three pots, according to CONIFA's rankings: Originally, the Sápmi football team, who had hosted the World Football Cup in 2014, were due to take part, but they were subsequently replaced by Monaco.


2015 CONIFA European Football Cup, Participants
Subsequently, 3 teams (Franconia, Monaco, Nagorno-Karabakh) cancelled their participation for the 2015 European Football Cup in Hungary, which forced the originally planned scheduled to be revised. The presence of a total of nine teams led to three groups of three being formed. In May 2015, Occitania also announced their withdrawal from the competition, which led to another revision of the match schedule into two groups of four, which CONIFA based upon their ranking points system. In June 2015, another three teams, South Ossetia, Abkhazia and Northern Cyprus, were all forced to withdraw, as a result of visa difficulties, while the Felvidek team was added to the line up - leaving two groups of three and six participants in total.


2015 CONSUR Cup
The 2015 CONSUR Cup was the second year of the top division of Confederación Sudamericana de Rugby. Argentina were automatic seeds into the competition, with the top two teams from the 2014 South American Rugby Championship "A"; Paraguay and Uruguay playing alongside Los Pumas. For the second consecutive year, Argentina won the tournament, remaining as the top South American side.


2015 CONSUR Sevens
The 2015 CONSUR Men's Sevens championship was an Olympic qualification tournament for rugby sevens at the 2016 Summer Olympics which was held in Santa Fe, Argentina on 5-7 June 2015. It was the tenth edition of the CONSUR Sevens. The tournament used a round-robin format, with the winners (Argentina) qualifying directly to the Olympics, and the second and third place teams (Uruguay and Chile respectively) qualifying for the Final Olympic Qualification Tournament.


2015 CONSUR Women's Sevens
The 2015 CONSUR Women's Sevens Championships is an Olympic qualification tournament for Rugby sevens at the 2016 Summer Olympics which will be held in Santa Fe, Argentina on 5-7 June 2015. The tournament will use a round-robin format, with the top team qualifying directly to the Olympics, and the second and third place teams qualifying for the Final Olympic Qualification Tournament.


2015 COSAFA Cup
The 2015 COSAFA Cup was the 15th edition of the COSAFA Cup, an international football competition consisting of national teams of member nations of the Council of Southern Africa Football Associations (COSAFA). It was hosted by South Africa in May 2015. All matches took place in the North West province.


2015 COSAFA Cup, Venues
On 15 May 2015, COSAFA announced that fixtures would no longer be hosted at Olympia Park due to ongoing construction work and would instead be hosted by Royal Bafokeng Sports Palace in Phokeng.


2015 COSAFA Cup, Draw procedure
The draw took place on 26 February 2015 and was televised by South Africa's SuperSport 4.


2015 COSAFA Cup, Knockout stage
Ghana, South Africa, Zambia, Mozambique, Malawi and Botswana all received a bye to this stage.


2015 CPISRA World Games
The 2015 CPISRA World Games were held in Nottingham, England from 6 to 16 August 2015.


2015 CPISRA World Games, Venues
The venues to be used for the World Championships were located in Nottingham.


2015 CR Vasco da Gama season
The 2015 season was Club de Regatas Vasco da Gama's 117th year in existence, the club's 100th season in existence of football, and the club's 43rd season playing in the Brasileirão Série A, the top flight of Brazilian football.


2015 CR Vasco da Gama season, Players, Current squad
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. Squad correct as of 15 November 2015.


2015 CR Vasco da Gama season, Players, Current squad, Reserve squad (Vasco da Gama B)
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. Squad correct as of 15 November 2015.


2015 CR Vasco da Gama season, Players, Current squad, Out of loan
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. Squad correct as of 15 September 2015.


2015 CR Vasco da Gama season, Match results, Pre-season, SuperSeries Tournament
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2015 CR Vasco da Gama season, Match results, Rio de Janeiro State Championship, Squad
The initial report was released on 27 January. The teams involved in the tournament are required to register a squad of a maximum 31 players in total, including 3 goalkeepers.


2015 CR Vasco da Gama season, Match results, Rio de Janeiro State Championship, Squad
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2015 CR Vasco da Gama season, Statistics, Appearances and goals
Players in italics have left the club during the season.


2015 CR Vasco da Gama season, Statistics, Goalkeeper statistics
Updated to match played 6 December 2015Source:Italic: denotes player is no longer with team


2015 CR Vasco da Gama season, Statistics, Starting eleven
Last updated: 5 September 2015Source: Squad statistics and Start formations Only competitive matches. Using the most used start formation. Ordered by position on pitch (from back right to front left).


2015 CS Denkova-Staviski Cup
The 2015 Denkova-Staviski Cup was a senior international figure skating competition held in October 2015 at the Winter Sports Palace in Sofia, Bulgaria. It was part of the 2015–16 ISU Challenger Series. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, and ice dancing.


2015 CS Finlandia Trophy
The 2015 Finlandia Trophy was a senior international figure skating competition in the 2015–16 season. A part of the 2015–16 ISU Challenger Series, the 20th edition of the annual event was held on October 9–11, 2015 at the Barona Areena in Espoo. October 8th was an unofficial practice day. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, ice dancing, and synchronized skating.


2015 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb
The 2015 Golden Spin of Zagreb was the 48th edition of the annual senior-level international figure skating competition held in Zagreb, Croatia. It was held at the Dom sportova on December 2015 as part of the 2015–16 ISU Challenger Series. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.


2015 CS Ice Challenge
The 2015 Ice Challenge was a senior international figure skating competition held in late October 2015 at the Liebenauer Eishalle in Graz, Austria. It was part of the 2015–16 ISU Challenger Series. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.


2015 CS Mordovian Ornament
The 2015 Mordovian Ornament is a senior international figure skating competition in the 2015–16 season. A part of the 2015–16 ISU Challenger Series, the 1st edition of the annual event were held on 15–18 October 2015 at the Palace of Sports of the city Saransk, Russia. Medals will be awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.


2015 CS Nebelhorn Trophy
The 2015 Nebelhorn Trophy was a senior international figure skating competition in the 2015–16 season. Part of the 2015–16 ISU Challenger Series, it was held on September 24–26, 2015 at the Eislaufzentrum Oberstdorf. Medals were awarded in men's and ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dance.


2015 CS Ondrej Nepela Trophy
The 2015 Ondrej Nepela Trophy was the 23rd edition of an annual senior international figure skating competition held in Bratislava, Slovakia. A part of the 2015–16 ISU Challenger Series, it was held on October 1–3, 2015 at the Ondrej Nepela Ice Rink. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.


2015 CS Tallinn Trophy
The 2015 Tallinn Trophy was an international figure skating competition held in November 2015 at the Tondiraba Ice Hall in Tallinn, Estonia. Its senior-level event was part of the 2015–16 ISU Challenger Series. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.


2015 CS U.S. International Figure Skating Classic
The 2015 CS U.S. International Figure Skating Classic was a senior international figure skating competition held in September 2015 at the Salt Lake City Sports Complex in Salt Lake City, Utah. It was part of the 2015–16 ISU Challenger Series. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.


2015 CS Warsaw Cup
The 2015 Warsaw Cup was a senior international figure skating competition held in November 2015 in Warsaw, Poland. It was part of the 2015–16 ISU Challenger Series. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.


2015 CSIO Gijón
The 2015 CSIO Gijón was the 2015 edition of the Spanish official show jumping horse show, at Las Mestas Sports Complex in Gijón. It was held as CSIO 5*.


2015 CSIO Gijón
This edition of the CSIO Gijón was held between August 26 and 31.


2015 CSIO Gijón, Nations Cup
The 2015 FEI Nations Cup of Spain was the sixth competition of the European Division 2 in the 2014 Furusiyya FEI Nations Cup and was held on Saturday, 30 August 2015. Ukraine was the only team that could win points for the ranking.


2015 CSIO Gijón, Nations Cup
The competition was a show jumping competition with two rounds. The height of the fences were up to 1.60 meters. The best eight teams of the eleven which participated were allowed to start in the second round. The competition was endowed with €76,000. France won its tenth Nations Cup.


2015 CSIO Gijón, Gijón Grand Prix
The Gijón Grand Prix, the Show jumping Grand Prix of the 2015 CSIO Gijón, was the major show jumping competition at this event. The sponsor of this competition was Banco Sabadell Herrero. It was held on Monday 4 August 2014. The competition was a show jumping competition over two rounds, the height of the fences were up to 1.60 meters.


2015 CWHL Draft
The 2015 CWHL Draft was held on August 23, 2015. With the first pick overall, the Brampton Thunder selected Sarah Edney from the Harvard Crimson. Selecting second overall, the Toronto Furies picked Emily Fulton from the Cornell Big Red. Marie-Philip Poulin went third overall to the Montreal Stars, while the Calgary Inferno opted for Brianne Jenner. The defending Clarkson Cup champion Boston Blades had the fifth pick overall and selected Kristina Brown from Boston College.


2015 Cactus Bowl
The 2015 Cactus Bowl was an American college football bowl game that was played on January 2, 2015, at Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, Arizona. It was one of the 2014–15 bowl games that concluded the 2014 FBS football season. The game started at 10:15 p.m. ET and was televised on ESPN. Sponsored by the TicketCity ticket broker company, the game was officially known as the TicketCity Cactus Bowl.


2015 Cactus Bowl
The 26th edition of the Cactus Bowl featured the Oklahoma State Cowboys from the Big 12 Conference and the Washington Huskies from the Pac-12 Conference. Oklahoma State beat Washington by a score of 30–22.


2015 Cactus Bowl
At 45 °F, the game featured the coldest kickoff temperature in Cactus Bowl history.


2015 Cactus Bowl, Teams
The game represents the third overall meeting between these two teams, with the series previously tied 1–1. The last time these two teams met was in 1985.


2015 Cairo restaurant fire
On December 4, 2015 a molotov cocktail was thrown into the El Sayad restaurant in Cairo, Egypt. The resultant fire killed 17 people, and wounded six. The restaurant was also a nightclub and was located in the Agouza district of the city.


2015 Cairo restaurant fire
The restaurant was located in a basement and had no fire exits.


2015 Cairo restaurant fire, Investigation
The prime perpetrators were two young men who were denied entry by the club's security personnel at the door on Thursday night. The duo with the aid of two others then came back at 6:00 a.m. on Friday to the restaurant & bar, named Al-Sayyad, with a Molotov cocktail. They picked a fight with door security and then threw the firebomb inside the club before fleeing the scene. All victims, 12 men and 5 women, were employees of the club. Investigations revealed that the emergency exit door was locked with chains, contributing to the high death toll. On 16 January 2016, Cairo prosecutors charged all four suspects with murder in relation to the arson attack.


2015 Caja Rural–Seguros RGA season
The 2015 season for the Caja Rural–Seguros RGA cycling team began in January at the Trofeo Santanyi–Ses Salines–Campos. The team participated in UCI Europe Tour races and UCI World Tour events when given a wildcard invitation.


2015 Cal Poly Mustangs football team
The 2015 Cal Poly Mustangs football team represented California Polytechnic State University in the 2015 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Mustangs were led by seventh-year head coach Tim Walsh and played their home games at Alex G. Spanos Stadium. They were members of the Big Sky Conference. They finished the season 4–7, 3–5 in Big Sky play to finish in a three-way tie for eighth place.


2015 Cal Poly Mustangs football team, Schedule
Despite also being a member of the Big Sky Conference, the game with Montana on September 5 is considered a non conference game.


2015 Cal Poly Mustangs men's soccer team
The 2015 Cal Poly Mustangs men's soccer team represents the California Polytechnic State University during the 2015 NCAA Division I men's soccer season. The Mustangs are led by head coach Steve Sampson, in his first season at the helm. They play all home games at Alex G. Spanos Stadium.


2015 Cal State Fullerton Titans baseball team
The 2015 Cal State Fullerton Titans baseball team represents California State University, Fullerton in the 2015 NCAA Division I baseball season. The Titans play their home games at Goodwin Field and are members of the Big West Conference. The team is coached by Rick Vanderhook in his 4th season at Cal State Fullerton.


2015 Calder Cup playoffs
The 2015 Calder Cup playoffs of the American Hockey League began on April 22, 2015, with the playoff format that was introduced in 2012. The sixteen teams that qualified, eight from each conference, will play best-of-five series in the conference quarterfinals, with the playoffs to continue with best-of-seven series for the conference semi-finals, conference finals, and Calder Cup finals. The Manchester Monarchs defeated the Utica Comets in five games to win the Calder Cup for the first time in franchise history, and the last prior to their relocation as the Ontario Reign.


2015 Calder Cup playoffs, Playoff seeds
After the 2014–15 AHL regular season, 16 teams qualified for the playoffs. The top eight teams from each conference qualifies for the playoffs.


2015 Calder Cup playoffs, Conference semifinals, Eastern Conference, (2) Hershey Bears vs. (3) Hartford Wolf Pack
*The games scheduled for May 10 and May 11 were played at DCU Center due to the lack of availability at XL Center.


2015 Calder Cup playoffs, Playoff statistical leaders, Leading skaters
These are the top ten skaters based on points. If there is a tie in points, goals take precedence over assists.


2015 Calder Cup playoffs, Playoff statistical leaders, Leading skaters
GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/– = Plus-minus; PIM = Penalty minutes


2015 Calder Cup playoffs, Playoff statistical leaders, Leading goaltenders
This is a combined table of the top five goaltenders based on goals against average and the top five goaltenders based on save percentage with at least 180 minutes played. The table is initially sorted by goals against average, with the criterion for inclusion in bold.


2015 Calder Cup playoffs, Playoff statistical leaders, Leading goaltenders
GP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; SA = Shots against; GA = Goals against; GAA = Goals against average; SV% = Save percentage; SO = Shutouts; TOI = Time on ice (in minutes)


2015 Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council election
The 2015 Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council election took place on 7 May 2015 to elect members of Calderdale in England. This was on the same day as other local elections and a general election. One councillor was elected in each ward for a four-year term so the councillors elected in 2015 last stood for election in 2011. Each ward is represented by three councillors, the election of which is staggered, so only one third of the councillors were elected in this election.


2015 Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council election
Before the election there was no overall control with a minority Labour administration which was over-ruled at a Budget vote by a coalition of Conservatives & Liberal Democrats leading to a Conservative minority administration. After the election there was still no overall control & a Labour minority administration was formed again.


2015 Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council election, Council results
The percentage change for the National Front vote is compared to the combined showing for the BNP & BPP parties in 2011.


2015 Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council election, Council composition
Prior to the election the composition of the council was:


2015 Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council election, Ward results
The electoral division results listed below are based on the changes from the last time this third was up for election, in the 2011 elections, not taking into account any mid-term by-elections or party defections.


2015 Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council election, Ward results, Greetland & Stainland ward
The incumbent Peter Wardhaugh for the Liberal Democrats stood down at this election.


2015 Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council election, Ward results, Luddendenfoot ward
The incumbent was Richard Marshall for the Conservative Party who stood down at this election.


2015 Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council election, Ward results, Park ward
The Swing is from the Liberal Democrat party to the Labour party.


2015 Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council election, Ward results, Skircoat ward
The incumbent was Marcus Thompson for the Conservative Party. The Swing is from Liberal Democrat to Conservative.


2015 Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council election, Ward results, Todmorden ward
The percentage change for the National Front is expressed compared to the showing of the BPP party in 2011.


2015 Calgary Roughnecks season
The Calgary Roughnecks are a lacrosse team based in Calgary playing in the National Lacrosse League (NLL). The 2015 season is the 14th in franchise history.


2015 Calgary Roughnecks season, Regular season, Final standings
x: Clinched playoff berth; c: Clinched playoff berth by crossing over to another division; y: Clinched division; z: Clinched best regular season record; GP: Games PlayedW: Wins; L: Losses; GB: Games back; PCT: Win percentage; Home: Record at Home; Road: Record on the Road; GF: Goals scored; GA: Goals allowedDifferential: Difference between goals scored and allowed; GF/GP: Average number of goals scored per game; GA/GP: Average number of goals allowed per game


2015 Calgary Roughnecks season, Transactions, Entry Draft
The 2014 NLL Entry Draft took place on September 22, 2014. The Roughnecks made the following selections:


2015 Calgary Stampeders season
The 2015 Calgary Stampeders season was the 58th season for the team in the Canadian Football League and their 81st overall. The Stampeders finished in second place in the West Division with a 14-4 record in John Hufnagel's last year as head coach before he hands over the reins to offensive coordinator Dave Dickenson in 2016.


2015 Calgary Stampeders season
With Ottawa's defeat of Montreal on October 1, Calgary qualified for the playoffs for the 11th straight season. The Stampeders gained home field advantage in the 2015 West Division playoffs with their Week 15 win over the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, in the team's first visit to Tim Hortons Field. The Stampeders defeated the BC Lions in the West Semi-Final, but lost to the Edmonton Eskimos in the West Final game and failed to defend their Grey Cup title.


2015 Calgary Stampeders season, Offseason, CFL Draft
The 2015 CFL Draft took place on May 12, 2015. The Stampeders had eight selections in the seven-round draft after acquiring an additional pick in the third round with the trade of Justin Phillips. Their fourth-round pick was swapped for Montreal's third-round pick after conditions were met following the Larry Taylor trade.


2015 California Dream season
The 2015 California Dream season was the 23rd and final season of the franchise in World TeamTennis (WTT) and its first and only season based in California.


2015 California Dream season
Led by Anabel Medina Garrigues, who was WTT Female Co-Most Valuable Player, Neal Skupski, who was WTT Male Rookie of the Year, and Jarmila Gajdošová, who led WTT in winning percentage in women's singles, the Dream had 9 wins and 5 losses and qualified for the franchise's first playoff berth since 2013. The Dream fell to the Austin Aces, 25–14, in the Western Conference Championship Match.


2015 California Dream season
On January 13, 2016, WTT announced that the Dream franchise had been terminated due to noncompliance with the team's obligations to the league.


2015 California Dream season, Season recap, Relocation to California
On February 23, 2015, WTT announced that a new ownership group had taken control of the Texas Wild and moved the team to Citrus Heights, California, renaming it the California Dream.


2015 California Dream season, Season recap, Trade for Bryan brothers and draft
At the WTT draft on March 16, 2015, it was announced that 2014 WTT Coach of the Year David Macpherson had become the new head coach of the Dream replacing Brent Haygarth. Macpherson has deep roots in the Sacramento area and wanted to return there with its new WTT team. Upon announcing his move to the Dream, Macpherson said, "I’m very excited to be coaching in the city where I started my WTT career back in 1992."


2015 California Dream season, Season recap, Trade for Bryan brothers and draft
Since Macpherson has long served as the coach for the Bryan brothers, it was inevitable that the twins would want to follow him just as they did when he was hired as the San Diego Aviators' head coach in 2014. Consequently, prior to the draft, the Aviators traded Bob and Mike Bryan to the Dream for financial consideration. The Bryan brothers were the only selection made by the Dream in the marquee portion of the draft.


2015 California Dream season, Season recap, Trade for Bryan brothers and draft
In the roster portion of the draft, the Dream left 2014 WTT Female Rookie of the Year Anabel Medina Garrigues unprotected in the first round and instead chose Jarmila Gajdošová. Medina was still available in the second round, and the Dream selected her but had to risk leaving Aisam Qureshi unprotected to do so. The Dream then left Alex Bogomolov, Jr. unprotected in the third round and selected Tennys Sandgren. In the fourth round of the draft, the Dream could not protect Darija Jurak, because it already had two female full-time players. Instead, the Dream used its final pick to select Qureshi who was still available.


2015 California Dream season, Season recap, Other player transactions
On July 9, 2015, the Dream announced it had signed Neal Skupski as a roster player to replace Aisam Qureshi who withdrew from WTT for undisclosed reasons. Under WTT Rule 402C, unless Qureshi demonstrates that his withdrawal was due to an injury, he is ineligible to play in WTT for the 2016 and 2017 seasons.


2015 California Dream season, Season recap, Opening the season
The franchise played its first match as the California Dream on the road against the San Diego Aviators on July 12, 2015. Jarmila Gajdošová lost the opening set of women's singles to Chanelle Scheepers in a tiebreaker. Tennys Sandgren earned the first set win in Dream history when he took a men's singles tiebreaker from James Blake in the second set to tie the match at 9. The Aviators won each of the final three sets to secure a 24–19 victory.


2015 California Dream season, Season recap, Opening the season
The following evening, the Dream played its inaugural match at the new Dream Stadium at Sunrise Mall against the Springfield Lasers. Sandgren won the opening set of men's singles for the Dream in a tiebreaker. Gajdošová and Anabel Medina Garrigues followed with a 5–2 set win in women's doubles to give the Dream a 10–6 lead. Medina teamed with Neal Skupski in mixed doubles for another 5–2 set win, and the Dream was on top, 15–8. After Gajdošová lost the women's singles set in a tiebreaker, the Lasers took the final set of men's doubles, 5–3, to cut the Dream's lead to 22–18 and send the match to extended play. Sandgren and Skupski won the first game of extended play to secure a 23–18 victory.


2015 California Dream season, Season recap, Five consecutive wins after a slow start
At the midway point of the season, the Dream found itself with 3 wins and 4 losses. Two of those losses were matches against the Austin Aces in which the Dream carried leads into the final set. However, the Dream started the second half of its season with a home victory over the Springfield Lasers. It followed this by sweeping a home-and-home series with the San Diego Aviators before heading to the East Coast. A road win over the Boston Lobsters was the Dream's fourth straight victory and put its record at 7 wins and 4 losses.


2015 California Dream season, Season recap, Five consecutive wins after a slow start
On July 26, the Dream had an opportunity to clinch a playoff berth if the Aces would defeat the Aviators and the Dream could beat the Philadelphia Freedoms. While both matches started at the same time, the Aces raced to a quick 25–8 victory and spent only an hour and 31 minutes on the court in doing so. In contrast, the second set of the Dream's match with the Freedoms was wrapping up around the time the Austin-San Diego match ended.


2015 California Dream season, Season recap, Five consecutive wins after a slow start
After two sets against the Freedoms, the Dream found itself trailing, 9–7, with the knowledge that a win would mean a playoff spot. Bob and Mike Bryan turned things around with a 5–1 set win in men's doubles that put the Dream on top, 12–10, after three sets. Jarmila Gajdošová and Anabel Medina Garrigues increased the lead to 17–14, when they took a tiebreaker in the women's doubles set. Medina and Bob Bryan put the match away with a 5–2 mixed doubles set win that gave the Dream a 22–16 victory in the match and the first playoff berth for the franchise since 2013.


2015 California Dream season, Season recap, Playoffs
The Dream went on the road to play the Austin Aces in the Western Conference Championship Match on July 30, 2015. The originally-scheduled start time of the match of 7:00 p.m. CDT was pushed back, because weather issues caused the Dream's flight to be delayed. The first ball was finally struck at 9:43 p.m. CDT, and the Aces took charge from the start with Teymuraz Gabashvili and Alla Kudryavtseva opening the match with a 5–2 set win in mixed doubles over Neal Skupski and Anabel Medina Garrigues.


2015 California Dream season, Season recap, Playoffs
Kudryavtseva and Elina Svitolina followed with a 5–3 set win in women's doubles over Medina and Jarmila Gajdošová to give the Aces a 10–5 lead. Gabashvili and Jarmere Jenkins won a tiebreaker in men's doubles over Skupski and Tennys Sandgren to increase the Aces' lead to 15–9 at halftime. Svitolina broke Jarmila Gajdošová, the top-ranked player in WTT in women's singles during the regular season, in the fourth and sixth games of the set for a 5–1 win and a 20–10 Aces lead with one set remaining.


2015 California Dream season, Season recap, Playoffs
With the clock having already struck midnight, Gabashvili served an ace to end the tiebreaker in men's singles against Sandgren and give the Aces a dominant 25–14 victory and the Western Conference championship. The Aces won all five sets in securing the franchise's first conference title since 2006, when they were the Newport Beach Breakers.


2015 California Dream season, Season recap, Financial troubles and termination of franchise
In December 2015, Randy Peters Catering of Citrus Heights, California sued the Dream and its three owners in Sacramento County Superior Court demanding $19,249 for its unpaid bills as the team's food concessionaire. Also in December 2015, one of the Dream's minority owners, Bob Kaliski, told The Sacramento Bee that he had personally lost $175,000 investing in the team and that majority owner Jeff Launius had told him the Dream owed its vendors $192,000 at the end of the season. Kaliski said, "I don't know if the team is going to be back or not. I know I'm not going to be back. I don't know about the rest of the team." WTT said that the Dream had until the end of December to meet its financial commitments to the league in order to secure its spot for 2016.


2015 California Dream season, Season recap, Financial troubles and termination of franchise
On January 13, 2016, WTT announced that the Dream franchise had been terminated due to noncompliance with the team's obligations to the league.


2015 California Dream season, Draft picks
Since the Wild had the second-worst record among nonplayoff teams in 2014, the Dream selected second in each round of the draft. Unlike previous seasons in which WTT conducted its Marquee Player Draft and its Roster Player Draft on different dates about one month apart, the league conducted a single draft at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden in Indian Wells, California on March 16, 2015. The selections made by the Dream are shown in the table below.


2015 California Dream season, Statistics
Players are listed in order of their game-winning percentage provided they played in at least 40% of the Dream's games in that event, which is the WTT minimum for qualification for league leaders in individual statistical categories.


2015 California Dream season, Individual honors and achievements
The following table shows individual honors bestowed upon players of the California Dream in 2015.


2015 California Dream season, Individual honors and achievements
Anabel Medina Garrigues led WTT in winning percentage in mixed doubles. Jarmila Gajdošová led WTT in winning percentage in women's singles. Neal Skupski was second in WTT in winning percentage in mixed doubles.


2015 California Golden Bears football team
The 2015 California Golden Bears football team represented the University of California, Berkeley in the 2015 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Bears were led by third-year head coach Sonny Dykes and played their home games at Memorial Stadium.


2015 California Golden Bears football team
At the beginning of the season, Cal jumped out to a 5–0 start, their best since 2007. In Week 3, the Bears defeated Texas 45–44 in Austin, marking the program's first-ever victory over the Longhorns. The following week, Cal beat Washington 30–24, earning their first victory in Seattle since 2005 and snapping a six-game losing streak to the Huskies. Cal then went on to lose five of its next six games, including losses to rivals UCLA, USC, and Oregon, and a 13-point loss to arch-rival Stanford for their sixth consecutive Big Game defeat.


2015 California Golden Bears football team
The Golden Bears rebounded with a 54–24 win over last-place Oregon State, in which Cal gained a school-record 760 yards while becoming bowl-eligible for the first time since 2011. With a 48–46 win over Arizona State on Senior Day, Cal finished the regular season with a 7–5 record, clinching their first winning season since 2011. They finished the year 8–5 including a 55–36 victory over Air Force in the Armed Forces Bowl. Nevertheless, at 4–5 Cal finished with a losing Pac-12 the record for the third consecutive season.


2015 California Golden Bears football team
The 2015 season was the last at Cal for three-year starting quarterback Jared Goff, who entered the program at the same time as Dykes and set 26 team records during his time in Berkeley. Following the Armed Forces Bowl, Goff declared for the 2016 NFL Draft. He was selected first overall by the Los Angeles Rams, and went on to lead the Rams to Super Bowl LIII.


2015 California Golden Bears football team
Following the season, Sonny Dykes' contract was extended until 2019, owing to the team's athletic and academic improvements during his tenure.


2015 California Golden Bears football team, Personnel, Recruiting, Incoming class 2015
, , as well as the official  are the primary sources. The incoming class was ranked #25 by , #36 by , and #53 by .


2015 California Golden Bears football team, Personnel, Recruiting, Commitments for 2016
and  are the primary sources. As of 10/9/2015 the 2016 class is ranked #25 by # and #38 by .


2015 California Vulcans football team
The 2015 California Vulcans football team represented California University of Pennsylvania during the 2015 NCAA Division II football season.


2015 California wildfires
A total of 8,745 wildfires burned a total area of 893,362 acres (3,615 km2) in California during 2015.


2015 California wildfires
On September 11, after the Butte Fire exploded from a size of 32,000 acres (129 km2) to 65,000 acres (263 km2), in the Amador and Calaveras counties, Governor Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency.


2015 California wildfires, Nationwide fire season
The National Interagency Fire Center reported in mid-August that the 2015 fire season had been the most destructive since 2011. Nationwide, a total of 6,058,694 acres (24,519 km2) had burned, which is roughly triple the total land area burned from the same time span in 2014. By the end of August, in terms of the land area burned, the 2015 nationwide wildfire season had surpassed any other wildfire season in the last 10 years, with 7,825,559 acres (31,669 km2) burned.


2015 California wildfires, Fatalities
The season also proved to be a deadly one for firefighters battling the many blazes throughout the state. A United States Forest Service member from South Dakota died on July 31 from carbon monoxide poisoning, while battling the Frog Fire in the Modoc National Forest. A second firefighter was killed on August 8 by a falling tree, while battling the Sierra Fire south of Echo Summit. A 72-year-old handicapped woman was killed in her home by the fast-moving Valley Fire.


2015 California wildfires, Fires
Below is a list of all fires that exceeded 1,000 acres (400 ha) during the 2015 California wildfire season, as well as the fires that caused significant damage. The information is taken from CAL FIRE's list of large fires, and other sources where indicated.


2015 Cambodian League
2015 Cambodian League is the 31st season of the Cambodian League. Contested by 12 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with Cambodia Division 1 League. With 12 teams playing 22 games each totaling 132 games in the season. With the newcomer Abilrex Niigata  from Japan. However, Albirex has announced that they won't participate in 2015 Cambodian League due to financial crisis and replaced by CMAC United.


2015 Cambodian League
Boeung Ket Angkor who finished top of the regular season also qualified for the Mekong Club Championship.


2015 Cambodian League
The end of the season was mired in match-fixing claims by Phnom Penh Crown who claimed that several players of the club had under performed. They announced these claims with only the two-legged playoff final remaining.


2015 Cambodian League, Foreign players
The number of foreign players is restricted to five per team. A team can use three foreign players on the field in each game and one as substitution..


2015 Cambridge City Council election
The 2015 Cambridge City Council election took place on 7 May 2015 to elect members of Cambridge City Council in England as part of the English local elections of that year coinciding with the 2015 General Election.


2015 Camellia Bowl
The 2015 Raycom Media Camellia Bowl was a post-season American college football bowl game between the Ohio Bobcats of the Mid-American Conference (MAC) and the Appalachian State Mountaineers of the Sun Belt Conference. Played on December 19, 2015 at Cramton Bowl in Montgomery, Alabama, it was the second edition of the bowl game and the final matchup of the 2015 NCAA Division I-Football Bowl Subdivision (Division I-FBS) football season for both teams.


2015 Camellia Bowl
The Ohio Bobcats entered the game with an 8–4 record, having finished second in the East Division of the MAC behind the Bowling Green Falcons. The Appalachian State Mountaineers, in their first year of FBS bowl eligibility following a two–year transition from the Division I-Football Championship Subdivision (Division I-FCS), entered with a 10–2 record and had finished second in the Sun Belt, having lost only to the Clemson Tigers and the conference champion Arkansas State Red Wolves. Appalachian State entered the game as 4.5 point favorites and were expected to have an edge due to their strong rushing offense.


2015 Camellia Bowl
The Mountaineers led 7–0 at the end of the first quarter but trailed 17–7 at halftime following three Ohio scores in the last two minutes of the second half. After an Ohio touchdown in the third quarter extended the lead to 24–7, the Mountaineers rallied to take a 28–24 lead early in the fourth. The Bobcats took a 29–28 lead with 1:31 left in the fourth quarter but the Mountaineers were able to drive down the field and score a game-winning 23-yard field goal as time expired to secure a 31–29 win. Appalachian State running back Marcus Cox, who rushed for 162 yards and a touchdown, was named the game's most valuable player.


2015 Camellia Bowl, Team selection
The Camellia Bowl, created and owned by ESPN, was created in 2014 and designed to match up a team from the Sun Belt Conference with a team from the Mid-American Conference. The game's creation was requested by the two conferences, both lower-tier conferences in the Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) that desired additional bowl bids. Its payout of $100,000 per team was the smallest of any bowl game for the 2015 season.


2015 Camellia Bowl, Team selection
Seven teams from the MAC and four from the Sun Belt were bowl-eligible. All 11 were selected for bowls, tying records for both conferences. For the 2015 Camellia Bowl, the Ohio Bobcats were chosen to represent the MAC and the Appalachian State Mountaineers were chosen to represent the Sun Belt. The Mountaineers entered the game as 4.5 point favorites; analysts pointed to their strong ground game as an advantage, although some felt that the Ohio defense could provide a challenge.


2015 Camellia Bowl, Team selection, Ohio Bobcats
Although the Ohio Bobcats had finished the 2014 season with a bowl-eligible record of 6–6, they were not selected to play in a bowl game. It marked the end of a five-game bowl appearance streak under head coach Frank Solich. A preseason poll of MAC media members predicted that Ohio would finish tied for second place in the conference's East division while Athlon Sports predicted they would finish in fourth in the East division. The Bobcats finished the regular season with an 8–4 overall record and a 5–3 record in MAC conference games, ranking second in the East division. Although the team lost three consecutive games in November, they closed out the regular season with three consecutive wins. Five Ohio players were named to the MAC's all-conference team.


2015 Camellia Bowl, Team selection, Ohio Bobcats
Ohio's defense ranked 49th in the country. The Bobcats dealt with a series of major injuries throughout the season. Due to injuries, the team was forced to rely on two separate quarterbacks, Derrius Vick and JD Sprague, for much of the season. Ohio entered the Camellia Bowl with a large number of their major contributors on the injury report; most of the team's running backs, their starting tight end, and their starting cornerback all were questionable or out for the game, and although Sprague and Vick were both initially expected to play, Vick was ultimately held out due to injury.


2015 Camellia Bowl, Team selection, Appalachian State Mountaineers
The Mountaineers entered the 2015 season in their first year of bowl eligibility following a two-year transition period from the FCS to the FBS; although the team had finished 7–5 in 2014, they were ineligible to compete in a bowl game. The team was coached by Scott Satterfield, in his third year with the Mountaineers; Satterfield had led the Mountaineers through their transition to the FBS. Ahead of the 2015 season, the team was predicted to finish fourth in the conference by Athlon Sports as well as in a poll of all 11 Sun Belt Conference head coaches. The Mountaineers would ultimately finish the regular season with a 10–2 record. Their only losses were against the Clemson Tigers and the Arkansas State Red Wolves and their 7–1 conference record was second only to Arkansas State, who finished a perfect 8–0 in conference play.


2015 Camellia Bowl, Team selection, Appalachian State Mountaineers
The team was led on offense by a formidable running game that ranked sixth in the FBS with an average of 268.8 yards per game. Running back Marcus Cox, a junior, finished the regular season with 11 touchdowns and over 1,200 rushing yards while redshirt freshman Jalin Moore contributed an additional five touchdowns and averaged seven yards a carry. Quarterback Taylor Lamb, a sophomore, had passed for over 2,200 yards, completing 61% of passes and throwing 29 touchdowns and eight interceptions while rushing for 385 yards and four touchdowns.


2015 Camellia Bowl, Team selection, Appalachian State Mountaineers
Defensively, the team ranked 12th in the FBS in yards allowed and had the best red zone defense in the FBS. Several Appalachian State players were recognized in the Sun Belt’s yearly awards; senior defensive lineman Ronald Blair was named the Sun Belt Defensive Player of the Year and nine players were named to the Sun Belt all-conference team.


2015 Camellia Bowl, Game summary, Broadcast and game notes
The 2015 Camellia Bowl was broadcast on television on ESPN and on radio at ESPN Radio. Dave Neal, Anthony Becht, and Paul Carcaterra served as the announcers for the television broadcast. The weather during the game was sunny, with temperatures of 52 °F (11 °C) and wind heading northwest at 3 miles per hour (4.8 km/h). The referee, the head of the officiating team, was Todd LaPenta.


2015 Camellia Bowl, Game summary, Broadcast and game notes
The national anthem was performed by United States Air Force Technical Sergeant Paige Wroble, while the halftime show was performed by the Appalachian State University Marching Mountaineers and Ohio University Marching 110. Overall attendance was recorded at 21,395, an increase of over 1,000 people from the inaugural game. The game kicked off at 4:40 p.m. central time and ended at 8:19, having lasted a total of three hours and 39 minutes.