Mersin İdmanyurdu (also Mersin İdman Yurdu, Mersin İY, or MİY) Sports Club; located in Mersin, east Mediterranean coast of Turkey in 2015–16. Mersin İdmanyurdu football team has participated in 2015–16 season in Turkish Süper Lig. 2015–16 season was the 15th season of Mersin İdmanyurdu football team in Süper Lig, the top level division in Turkey. Team participated in 2015–16 Turkish Cup at third round.
At the start of the season Ali Kahramanlı was club president for eight years since 24 September 2008. Mesut Bakkal has started as head coach, later e resigned and Bülent Korkmaz replaced him after fifth round loss against Osmanlıspor. In the mid-season, Hüseyin Çalışkan was elected new president and agreed with Ümit Özat as the new head coach. Due to transfer bans by UEFA and then by TFF, no new transfers had been realized. Mid-fielder Murat Ceylan was the mostly appeared player during the season (33). Considering only the league matches stoppers Loret Sadiku and Milan Mitrović made the most appearances, 29, and Préjuce Nakoulma and Welliton were top goalscorers with 7 goals each.
2015–16 Süper Lig participation 2015–16 Süper Lig was played as "Spor-Toto Süper Lig" for Spor-Toto, a publicly owned betting institution, was sponsor for the season. The season named as "Hasan Doğan Season" after the name of former president of Turkish Football Federation who died at office in 2008. Start day of the season is 14 August 2015 and the end day is 22 May 2016.See fixture on official TFF page. Champions was eligible for 2016–17 UEFA Champions League in Group stage. Runners-up were eligible for Champions League 3rd qualifying round. Third and fourth placed teams were eligible for 2016–17 UEFA Europa League at 3rd and 2nd qualifying rounds respectively. Starting from previous season 5th team in the league table was eligible for Europa League if the cup winner was among in first four placed teams. If otherwise, winner of 2015–16 Turkish Cup was eligible for Europa League at group stage. Bottom three teams were relegated to 2016–17 TFF First League.
Results summary Mersin İdmanyurdu (MİY) 2015–16 Süper Lig season league summary:
Overall Home Away Stage First half 171724112136-1510 82151219-77 9036917-83 Second half 1732121035-2511 9225714-78 8107321-183 Overall 183456233171-4021 1743101933-1415 1713131238-266 Sources: 2015–16 Spor-Toto Süper Lig pages.2015–16 Spor-Toto Süper Lig official page from TFF website; Qualifications and relegations from Turkish-Soccer; and detailed information and news from Maçkolik. Retrieved on 5 July 2015.
League table Mersin İdmanyurdu (MİY)'s place in 2015–16 Süper Lig season league table:
Results by round Results of games MİY played in 2015–16 Süper Lig by rounds:
First half Mersin İdmanyurdu (MİY) 2015–16 Süper Lig season first half game reports is shown in the following table. Kick off times are in EET and EEST.
Sources: 2015–16 Süper Lig pages.Numbers of spectators were obtained from team page at ntvspor.net. Retrieved on 5 July 2015 . Later ntvspor.net removed content for previous seasons. Number of spectators starting from 23rd round through the end of the season were obtained from ligtv.com.tr team page. Retrieved on 1 October 2016
Second half Mersin İdmanyurdu (MİY) 2015–16 Süper Lig season second half game reports is shown in the following table. Kick off times are in EET and EEST.
Ricardo Pedriel Abdul Khalili | stadium = FT Stadium, Başakşehir, Istanbul | attendance = 1.182 | referee = | result = L
Sources: 2015–16 Süper Lig pages.
2015–16 Turkish Cup participation 2015–16 Turkish Cup was played for 54th time as Ziraat Türkiye Kupası for sponsorship reasons. The cup was played by 159 teams in three stages. In the first stage, a preliminary qualification round and three elimination rounds were played in one-leg elimination system. In the second stage, 32 teams played two-legs round-robin games in 8 groups, 4 in each. In the third stage, knock-out games were played in two-leg elimination system. Mersin İdmanyurdu attended the cup in 3rd elimination round and eliminated Second League (third division) team Fatih Karagümrük after penalties and promoted to group stage. In group stage MİY took place in Group D. After the group games İdmanyurdu became 3rd in Group D and was eliminated. Galatasaray won the Cup for 17th time.See elimination and group stage games and Group C table and finals at tff.org.tr, official page of 2015–16 Ziraat Türkiye Kupası at TFF (Turkish Football Federation) website. An alternative source is maçkolik.com. Also Turkish Soccer site provides information in English.
Cup track The drawings and results Mersin İdmanyurdu (MİY) followed in 2015–16 Turkish Cup are shown in the following table.
RoundOwn LeagueOpponent's LeagueOpponentAwayHomeResultRound 3Süper Lig2nd League Red GroupFatih Karagümrük8–7– PromotedGroup DSüper Lig2nd League Red GroupAydınspor 19230–44–0Group DSüper LigSüper LigÇaykur Rizespor0–12–2Group DSüper Lig2nd League Red GroupBucaspor0–11–2 Eliminated Note: In the above table 'Score' shows For and Against goals whether the match played at home or not.
Game details Mersin İdmanyurdu (MİY) 2015–16 Turkish Cup game reports is shown in the following table. Kick off times are in EET and EEST.
Source: 2015–16 Turkish Cup (Ziraat Türkiye Kupası) official TFF page. Attendance data from ntvspor.net.
Management At the start of the season, president Ali Kahramanlı continued in his position which he held in 2008. In the mid-season Hüseyin Çalışkan who was former president and a businessman from Mersin was elected president. Former president Hamit İzol was declared honorary president. Club address was: Palmiye Mah. Adnan Menders Bl. 1204 Sk. Onur Ap. K.2 D.3 Yenişehir/Mersin.Obtained from Club's official page at tff.org.tr.
Club management On 11 January 2016 club congress was held and a new executive committee took over the club: Executive committee: Hüseyin Çalışkan (president); Senan İdin, Özgür Sanal (vice -presidents); Beşir Acar (deputy vice-president); Abdi Kurt, Mahsum Sevimli (General Secretary); Hikmet Kaya, Vedat Yüksel (football division); Sedat Aydöner (financial affairs), Akif Serin (public institutions and foreign affairs); Sabri Tekli (the 1925 project); Mehmet Can Duman, Abdi Öztürk, Vedat Yüksel (amateur divisions and youth setup); Mahsum Sevimli (legal affairs); Murat Altındere (spokesman and trademark); Metin Yıldıran (ads, sponsorships and funding); Engin Şahin (facilities, investments, projects); Cihat Gündoğar (spectators).Obtained from Spor33, an internet site making news related to local sports events, on 12 January 2016. See the news in Turkish at Work distribution in Mersin. President Kahramanlı resigned due to health problems and financial difficulties after eight years on 9 December 2015. Later he turned back until the new congress on 11 January 2016. Before his resignation the club management was as follows:Obtained from club website. Executive committee from Yönetim Kurulu , administrative personnel from İdari kKadro ve Personel Listesi . Retrieved on 9 December 2015. Executive committee: Ali Kahramanlı (president); Senan İdin (vice-president); Mehmet Özgür Sanal (vice-president); Beşir Acar (deputy vice-president); Sedat Aydöner (financial affairs); Hikmet Kaya (football division and youth setup); Ahmet Turan Serttaş (professional football); Adem Serin (General secretary); Şerafettin Kadooğlu (deputy vice-president); İlkay Mahanoğlu (legal affairs); Ahmet Nusret Canözkan (advertisements, sponsorships and fund searching); Mustafa Yüksel Güngör and Murat Harman (facilities, investments and projects); Ayhan Erdem (spokesman); Metin Yıldıran (deputy vice-president). Administrative personnel: Mesut Bilir (general coordinator); Murat Öğ (general director); Duygu Gürani (accreditations); Özcan Ulusoy (bookkeeping); Rıfkı Çınar (press relations); Barış Köksal (social media); Mustafa Kaya (security); Ökkeş Aybar (A team driver).
Coaching team 2015–16 Mersin İdmanyurdu head coaches Head coach Period NotesRıza Çalımbay15.06.2015 – 28.06.2016––––Resigned.Mesut Bakkal03.07.2015 – 18.09.20165014Resigned.Bülent Korkmaz22.09.2015 – 04.01.201615258Unilateral cancellation (dismissed in mid-season camp).Hakan Kutlu05.01.2016 – 06.01.2016––––Attended and left the camp next day.Serkan Damla06.01.2016 – 18.01.20162002Trainer. Managed the team in cup matches in interim period.Nurullah Sağlam12.01.2016 – 14.01.2016––––Signed for 1,5 years, but left after two days.Ümit Özat19.01.2016 – 06.05.2016164210 Contract was terminatedSerkan Damla06.05.2016 – 31.05.20163003Trainer. Managed the team at the end of the season. Note: Only official games were included.
Other coaching team members were as follows:Information obtained from club's official website at Teknik Kadro (retrieved on 9 December 2015); and TFF website TFF coach search (retrieved on 9 December 2015). Mesut Bakkal's team: Ümit Bozkurt (trainer), Zafer Özgültekin (goalkeeper coach); Bülent Korkmaz's team: Çağdaş Çavuş (trainer), Ümit Bozkurt (trainer), Zafer Özgültekin (goalkeeper coach), Murat Kuyucuoğlu (trainer); Ümit Özat's team: Önder Engin (trainer), Gökhan Tokgöz (trainer), Sonkan Konak (youth team). Tamer Sivrikaya (trainer), Serkan Damla (trainer), Nezih Ali Boloğlu (goalkeeper coach), Eren Matyar (U21 team), Muzaffer Tozlu (U21 team), Ali ÖmerSakarya (U19 team), Sedat Hazımoğlu (U17 team), Mesud Cömert (U16 team), Tarkan Özyılmaz (U15 team), Burhan Baygın (U15 team), Oğuzhan Doğar (U15 team), Önal Arıca (U14 team), Ahmet Edremit (physician), Serkan Sağlık (physiotherapist), Abdulkadir Topal, Kemal Gürgez, Ersoy Şenel Oktay Baş (masseurs).
2015–16 squad Appearances, goals and cards count for 2015–16 Süper Lig and Türkiye Kupası (2015–16 Turkish Cup) games. Only the players who appeared in game rosters were included.Stats obtained from TFF team page Mersin İdmanyurdu 2015–16 team squad Player's are listed in order of appearance. MİY could not signed with new players in Summer 2015, because FIFA decided on two season transfer ban for MİY due to termination of the contract of the MİY's former player David Bičík.Details from spor33.com. Retrieved on 3 February 2015. (Turkish) The ban was applied for 2015 Winter and Summer transfer seasons. Although the UEFA ban was removed after two transfer seasons, this time TFF did not open transfer table due to financial difficulties. Therefore, no new transfers became possible in 2015–16 season.