The season started on November 6, 2015, and ended on May 3, 2016.
[1] AEK Larnaca won the previous championship, and successfully defended its title.
The participating teams first play a conventional round-robin schedule, with every team playing each opponent once "home" and once "away", for a total of 14 games.
The league is then split up into two groups of four teams, with each of them playing teams within its group in a home-and-away cycle of games.
The four teams of the top group will join the championship playoffs.