The 2015–16 SV Darmstadt 98 season is the club's 118th season. This will be the club's third season in the Bundesliga overall and its first since its most recent promotion.
Background Darmstadt 98 will be playing in their 118th overall season, and third overall in the top-flight Bundesliga, after they were promoted following a 1–0 win over FC St. Pauli on the final matchday of the 2014–15 2. Bundesliga season. This is their second-straight promotion after they were promoted from the 3. Liga the previous year. The promotion finished a 33-year run outside of top-flight football. They had previously played in the Bundesliga in the 1978–79 and 1981–82 seasons.
Friendlies
Pre-season
Mid-season
Competitions
Bundesliga
League table
Results summary
Results by round
Matches
DFB-Pokal
Squad
Squad
Squad and statistics
Transfers
In No.Pos.NameAgeNATEUMoving fromTypeTransfer WindowContract endsTransfer feeSources 6 Midfielder Mario Vrančić Yes SC Paderborn Transfer Summer 30 June 2017 €500,000 10 Midfielder Jan Rosenthal Yes Eintracht Frankfurt Transfer Summer 30 June 2017 Free 13 Defender György Garics Yes Bologna Transfer Summer 30 June 2017 undisclosed 14 Forward Sandro Wagner Yes Hertha BSC Transfer Summer 30 June 2017 Free 15 Defender Júnior Díaz No Mainz 05 Transfer Summer 30 June 2017 Free 18 Midfielder Peter Niemeyer Yes Hertha BSC Transfer Summer 30 June 2018 Free 32 Defender Fabian Holland Yes Hertha BSC Transfer Summer 30 June 2017 €300,000 33 Defender Luca Caldirola Yes Werder Bremen Loan Summer 30 June 2016 €100,000 34 Midfielder Konstantin Rausch Yes VfB Stuttgart Transfer Summer 30 June 2016 Free 35 Defender Slobodan Rajković Yes Hamburger SV Transfer Summer 30 June 2017 Free 36 Midfielder Jan Finger Yes Darmstadt 98 U19 Transfer Summer 30 June 2016 Free 37 Midfielder Ali Kazimi Yes Darmstadt 98 U19 Transfer Summer 30 June 2016 Free 38 Defender Nick Volk Yes Darmstadt 98 U19 Transfer Summer 30 June 2016 Free 39 Defender Noel Wembacher Yes Darmstadt 98 U19 Transfer Summer 30 June 2016 Free 40 Goalkeeper Łukasz Załuska Yes Celtic Transfer Summer 30 June 2016 Free
Out No.Pos.NameAgeNATMoving toTypeTransfer WindowTransfer feeSources 10 FW Maurice Exslager 1. FC Köln End of Loan Summer – 13 FW Ronny König Chemnitzer FC Transfer Summer Free 14 DF Leon Balogun Mainz 05 Transfer Summer Free 17 MF Hanno Behrens 1. FC Nürnberg Transfer Summer Free 18 DF Romain Brégerie FC Ingolstadt Transfer Summer Free 28 FW Jan Rosenthal Eintracht Frankfurt End of Loan Summer – 31 GK Marius Sauss Lupo Martini Wolfsburg Transfer Summer Free 32 DF Fabian Holland Hertha BSC End of Loan Summer – DF Marco Komenda Sportfreunde Siegen End of Contract Summer – DF Janik Bachmann Hannover 96 II End of Contract Summer Free DF Serkan Fırat unknown End of Contract Summer – DF Timon Fröhlich unknown End of Contract Summer –
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