2016–17 Mersin İdmanyurdu season

Mersin İdmanyurdu (also Mersin İdman Yurdu, Mersin İY, or MİY) Sports Club; located in Mersin, east Mediterranean coast of Turkey in 2016–17. Mersin İdmanyurdu football team has participated in 2016–17 season in Turkish TFF First League in the league's 16th season since its foundation in 2001. 2015–16 season was the 8th season of Mersin İdmanyurdu football team in TFF First League, and 35th season in the second level division in Turkey since 1963. Team participated in 2016–17 Turkish Cup at second round and was eliminated immediately.

At the start of the season Hüseyin Çalışkan was club president. Levent Arıkdoğan has started as head coach. Hüseyin Çalışkan called for extraordinary congress and leaved the position. Ali Tekin was elected new president. Yusuf Şimşek replaced Arıkdoğan as head coach before 9th round league games.

2016–17 TFF First League participation

2016–17 TFF First League was played as "Türkiye Birinci Lig" for Spor-Toto has withdrawn and no new sponsorship was given for the season. Start day of the season is 19 August 2019 and the end day is 21 May 2016. Champions and runners-up were promoted to 2017–18 Süper Lig. Following four teams were eligible for promotion play-offs to determine the third team to be promoted. Bottom three teams were relegated to 2017–18 TFF Second League.

Results summary

Sources: 2016–17 TFF First League pages.

League table

Mersin İdmanyurdu (MİY)'s place in 2016–17 Süper Lig season league table:

Results by round

Note: Due to financial difficulties, Mersin İdmanyurdu received 3 points deduction penalty before the start of the 9th round games and its position for 8th round was changed to 16th from 14th.

Matches

Kick off times are in EET and EEST.

Sources: 2016–17 TFF First League pages.

2016–17 Turkish Cup participation

2016–17 Turkish Cup was played for 55th time as Ziraat Türkiye Kupası for sponsorship reasons. The cup was played by 158 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 2nd elimination round and eliminated by Third League (fourth division) team Kızılcabölükspor.

Cup track

The drawings and results Mersin İdmanyurdu (MİY) followed in 2016–17 Turkish Cup are shown in the following table.

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: 2016–17 Turkish Cup (Ziraat Türkiye Kupası) official TFF page. Attendance data from ntvspor.net.

Management

• President: Hüseyin Çalışkan (between 11 January 2016 and 28 September 2016)
• President: Ali Tekin (since 28 September 2016)

Club management

On 11 January 2016 club congress had been held and Hüseyin Çalışkan had taken over the presidency of the club. Later Çalışkan sought for cession and called the congress for extraordinary session in June 2016. Finally, the congress was rallied on 28 September 2016 after several attempts. Ali Tekin, a businessman from İzmir, who is descent from Mut, Mersin, emerged as a candidate and became new president by unanimity. The new executive committee was formed as follows:

• Executive Committee: Ali Tekin (president); Serhan Antalyalı (football division); Hasan İpek (vice-president); Mahmut Karak, Abdi Öztürk, and Hüseyin Yıldırım (deputy vice-presidents); Ertan Gülnar (general secretary) Muharrem Çağatay (press spokesman); Barış Topçu (bookkeping); İlhan Çokgün (youth teams); Nevzat Göçer (financial affairs); Mehmet Tolga Ulaş (legal affairs); Duran Birinci and Serkan Arguz (amateur teams); Sinan Akpolat (facilities); Mehmet Duman (heath affairs); Ayhan Göğebakan (foreign and public institutions relations); Oğuz Karadadaş (sponsorship and fund raising); Murat Ulusoy (responsible from spectators).

Coaching team

2016–17 Mersin İdmanyurdu head coaches

Note: Only official games were included.

Other coaching team members under the head coaches were as follows:

• M. Levent Arıkdoğan (head coach); Nasır Belci (assistant coach); Burhan Baygın (assistant coach); Semih Dülger (goalkeeper coach); Turhan Aktarla (assistant coach); M. Kahraman Karataş and Eren Matyar (scouting).
• Yusuf Şimşek (head coach); Alaattin Gülerce (assistant coach); Ali Postacı (assisstant coach).
• Youth teams: Önal Arıca and Sedat hazımoğlu (U21 team coaches); Mesud Cömert and Gökhan Kolomoç (U19 team coaches); Murat Ebe (U17 team coach; Erol Yaşar Ayas and Tarkan Özyılmaz (U16 team coaches); Ali Ömer Sakarya (U15 team coach); Ayhan Öz (U14 team coach);
• Other: Ersoy Şenel and Kemal Gürgez (masseurs).

2016–17 squad

Appearances, goals and cards count for 2016–17 TFF First League and Türkiye Kupası (2016–17 Turkish Cup) games. Only the players who appeared in game rosters were included. Player's are listed in order of appearance. MİY could not signed with new players in Summer 2016, because TFF decided on transfer ban for MİY due to club' debt to former coach Giray Bulak and former player Joseph Boum. The UEFA transfer ban due to removal of contract wit former player David Bičík had been applied for 2015 Winter and Summer transfer seasons. later TFF did not open transfer table in 2016 Winter and 2016 Summer transfer seasons. By the way, TFF has declared a three-point deduction penalty due to financial inefficiencies on 20 September 2016. However, on 27 September 2016 it was declared by then president Çalışkan that the debts were discharged.

Sources: TFF club page and maçkolik team page.

U-21 and U-19 teams

Mersin İdmanyurdu U-21 team participated in U21 League First League.

See also

• Football in Turkey
• 2016–17 TFF First League
• 2016–17 Turkish Cup