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2014–15 Manchester United F.C. season

2014–15 Manchester United F.C. season: Louis van Gaal's first campaign, Premier League 4th place with 70 points, Rooney top scorer (12 league goals), FA Cup quarter-final exit, no European football, Di María British-record £59.7m signing.

2014–15 National League 2 South

The 2014–15 National League 2 South was an English rugby union season won by Henley Hawks, who earned promotion to National One, while Shelford, Dings Crusaders, and Lydney were relegated.

2014–15 NBA season

The 2014-15 NBA season, the league's 69th, ran from October 28, 2014 to June 16, 2015. The 67-15 Golden State Warriors, led by first-year coach Steve Kerr and MVP Stephen Curry, beat LeBron James's Cavaliers 4-2 for the title.

2014–15 Newcastle United F.C. season

2014-15 Newcastle United season: Premier League campaign finishing 15th with 39 points under Alan Pardew then interim John Carver, including an eight-match losing run, a 2-1 win over Chelsea, and survival on the final day.

2014–15 NFL playoffs

2014–15 NFL playoffs: January–February 2015 postseason ending in Super Bowl XLIX, where the Patriots beat the Seahawks 28–24 on Malcolm Butler's goal-line interception of Russell Wilson with 20 seconds left.

2014–15 NHL season

The 2014–15 NHL season was the 98th season of the National Hockey League, won by the Chicago Blackhawks, who took the Stanley Cup over the Tampa Bay Lightning.

2014–15 Premier League

2014-15 Premier League, 23rd season of England's top flight. Chelsea won a fourth PL title under Jose Mourinho with 87 points, an eight-point margin; Aguero top scorer with 26; Hull, Burnley, and QPR relegated.

2014–15 Real Madrid CF season

2014-15 Real Madrid CF season: Ancelotti's second campaign; won UEFA Super Cup and FIFA Club World Cup, 22-match winning run, but finished second in La Liga (92 points) and lost the Champions League semi-final 2-3 to Juventus.

2014–15 Scottish Premiership

2014–15 Scottish Premiership, second season of Scotland's top division. Celtic won a fourth straight title (46th overall) with 92 points, 17 ahead of Aberdeen; Dundee and Hamilton were promoted; Hearts and Hibernian absent.

2014–15 Southampton F.C. season

2014-15 Southampton F.C. season: Premier League campaign under Ronald Koeman after Pochettino's exit and a summer player exodus; Southampton finished 7th with a club-record 60 points and qualified for the Europa League.

2014–15 UEFA Champions League

The 2014–15 UEFA Champions League was the 60th season of Europe's premier club football competition, ending in Barcelona's 3–1 final win over Juventus in Berlin on 6 June 2015.

2014–15 UEFA Europa League

2014–15 UEFA Europa League, sixth Europa League season, won by Sevilla FC 3-2 over Dnipro in Warsaw on 27 May 2015 for a record fourth title; winners gained a Champions League place.

2014–2015 Ukrainian banking crisis

The 2014–2015 Ukrainian banking crisis was a wave of bank insolvencies in which roughly half of Ukraine's banks were closed amid war, recession, and a collapsing hryvnia.

2014–2016 El Niño event

The 2014–2016 El Niño event was a prolonged Pacific warming whose 2015–16 peak tied 1997–98 as the strongest El Niño on record, affecting over 60 million people.

2015

2015: calendar year defined by the Paris climate agreement, Iran nuclear deal, SDGs adoption, record 60-million displacement, Charlie Hebdo and Paris attacks, hottest year on record, and Nepal earthquake.

2015 24 Hours of Le Mans

2015 24 Hours of Le Mans, 83rd running, won by Porsche 919 Hybrid #19 of Hulkenberg, Tandy, and Bamber in a one-two, Porsche's 17th win and first since 1998, ending Audi's five-year streak.

2015 Accra floods and fire

The 2015 Accra floods and fire, known in Ghana as Black Wednesday, killed 159 people on June 3, 2015, when leaked fuel ignited in floodwater at a GOIL filling station.

2015 AFC Asian Cup

The 2015 AFC Asian Cup was the 16th edition, hosted by Australia 9-31 January 2015, the first held outside Asia. Australia won its first title, beating Korea Republic 2-1 after extra time in Sydney.

2015 AFL draft

2015 NAB AFL Draft, held November 24, 2015 in Adelaide; Jacob Weitering went No. 1 to Carlton. First draft under the points-based father-son/academy bidding system and future-pick trading; GWS matched four academy bids.

2015 AFL season

2015 AFL season: 119th Australian Football League season, 23 rounds from April 2. Hawthorn beat West Coast 16.11 (107) to 8.13 (61) for a third straight premiership; Nat Fyfe won the Brownlow with 31 votes.

2015 Africa Cup of Nations

2015 Africa Cup of Nations (Orange AFCON, Equatorial Guinea 2015): 30th edition, 17 January–8 February 2015, moved from Morocco after its Ebola postponement request; Côte d'Ivoire beat Ghana on penalties.

2015 Alabama Crimson Tide football team

The 2015 Alabama Crimson Tide football team went 14-1 under coach Nick Saban, winning the SEC title and the national championship by beating Clemson 45-40 in January 2016.

2015 Ankara bombings

Twin suicide bombings at about 10:04 am on 10 October 2015 outside Ankara train station killed around 100 people at a Labor, Peace and Democracy rally, Turkey's deadliest terrorist attack, attributed to Islamic State-linked perpetrators.

2015 Ashes series

The 2015 Ashes series, the Investec Ashes Series, was a five-Test cricket contest played in England from July to August 2015, which England won 3-2 to regain the Ashes from Australia.

2015 Atlantic hurricane season

The 2015 Atlantic hurricane season was a below-normal season of 11 named storms and 4 hurricanes, including Joaquin, the strongest storm, suppressed by a strong El Niño.

2015 ATP World Tour

2015 ATP World Tour: the men's professional tennis circuit for the 2015 season. Novak Djokovic won three Grand Slams, six Masters 1000 titles, and the ATP Finals, becoming the first player to earn $20 million in one season.

2015 Australian Grand Prix

2015 Australian Grand Prix, Formula One season opener at Albert Park, Melbourne, 15 March 2015; won by Lewis Hamilton for Mercedes in 1:31:54.067 over 58 laps, ahead of Rosberg and Vettel, in a race of heavy attrition.

2015 Baga massacre

The 2015 Baga massacre was a January 2015 attack by Boko Haram on Baga and surrounding villages in Borno State, Nigeria, with death estimates ranging from dozens to 2,000.

2015 Baltimore protests

The 2015 Baltimore protests, also called the Baltimore uprising, followed Freddie Gray's death after his April 12, 2015 arrest; rioting on April 27 brought a curfew, National Guard, charges, a $6.4 million settlement, and a federal consent decree.

2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election

The 2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election was a five-phase October-November 2015 vote in which Nitish Kumar and Lalu Prasad Yadav's Grand Alliance won 178 of 243 seats against the BJP-led NDA's 58, ending the NDA's post-2014 dominance in Bihar.