The 2016 Richmond Kickers season was the club's twenty-fourth season of existence.

It is also the Kickers' ninth-consecutive year in the third-tier of American soccer, playing in the United Soccer League for their fifth season.

The Kickers finished the season ranked seventh in the Eastern Conference, and earned a berth into the 2016 USL Playoffs.

Richmond lost in their first round match-up to Louisville City.

The Kickers entered the U.S. Open Cup with the rest of the USL, in the second round.