2008–09 Mersin İdmanyurdu season


Mersin İdmanyurdu Sports Club; located in Mersin, east Mediterranean coast of Turkey in 2008–09. The team participated in TFF Second League for 4th time in the league's 7th season. Mersin İdmanyurdu has finished 2007–08 TFF Second League Promotion Group at 2nd place and directly promoted to 2009–10 TFF First League season.
Hüseyin Çalışkan was club president at the start of the season. On 24 September 2008, Ali Kahramanlı was elected president. Ercan Albay managed the team during the season. Erdal Sezek and Sami İzcican were most appeared players, while Zafer Biryol was the top goalscorer with 16 goals.

2008–09 TFF Second League participation

participated in 2008–09 TFF Second League. League was played by 54 teams in three stages. League was started on 31 August 2008. In the first stage teams fought in regionally specified five ranking groups for top two rankings to be qualified for Promotion Group in the next stage. In the second stage 10 teams fought for promotion to 2009–10 TFF First League. Champions and runners-up directly were promoted. Remaining teams played in Classification Groups. Classification group winners were qualified to promotion play-offs, while bottom two teams relegated to 2009–10 TFF Third League. In the third stage, the third team to be promoted was determined in promotion-play-offs played in one-leg elimination system in a neutral venue. Play-offs were played by 8 teams in Ankara Cebeci İnönü Stadium between 26–31 May 2009.
Mersin İdmanyurdu took place in 2008–09 TFF Second League Ranking Group 3 in the first stage and finished 2nd. In Promotion Group, team finished at 2nd again and gained direct promotion to 2009–10 TFF First League.

Results summary

Mersin İdmanyurdu 2008–09 TFF Second League season league summary:
Sources: 2008–09 TFF Second League pages.

Ranking group league table

Mersin İY's league performance in 2008–09 TFF Second League Ranking Group 3 is shown in the following table.
Three points for a win. Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) tie-break; 3) goal difference; 4) number of goals scored. In the score columns first scores belong to MİY.
: Qualified to 2008–09 Second League Promotion Group.
Source: 2008–09 TFF Second League pages from TFF website, Turkish-Soccer website, and Maçkolik website.

Ranking group games

Mersin İdmanyurdu 2008–09 TFF Second League season first half game reports in Ranking Group 2 is shown in the following table.
Kick off times are in EET and EEST.
Sources: 2008–09 TFF Second League pages.

Promotion group league table

Mersin İY's league performance in 2008-09 TFF Second League Promotion Group season is shown in the following table.
Three points for a win. Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) tie-break; 3) goal difference; 4) number of goals scored. In the score columns first scores belong to MİY.
': Champions; ': Promoted to 2009–10 TFF First League; : Qualified to 2008–09 Promotion Play-offs.
Source: 2008–09 TFF Second League pages from TFF website, Turkish-Soccer website, and Maçkolik website.

Promotion group games

Mersin İdmanyurdu 2008–09 TFF Second League season first half game reports in Promotion Group is shown in the following table.
Kick off times are in EET and EEST.
Sources: 2008–09 TFF Second League pages.

2008–09 Turkish Cup participation

MİY did not participate in 2008–09 Turkish Cup due to eligibility rules. 47th Turkish Cup was played by 54 teams in three stages. Top four teams in previous year's TFF Second League groups were eligible to play. MİY had finished 2007–08 season in 6th place was not eligible to play in the Cup. In the first stage two qualification rounds were played in one-leg elimination system. In the second stage 20 teams played in four groups, 5 teams in each, in a one-leg round-robin system. Top two teams in each group played in knock-out stage. Beşiktaş won the cup for the 8th time.

Management

Club management

Hüseyin Çalışkan was club president at the start of the season. Ali Kahramanlı, a businessman, was elected president in the club congress held on 24 September 2008 after fourth round in the first stage.

Coaching team

Ercan Albay managed the team during the season. He was commonly mentioned with Adana sides who were main rivals of the fans, so he met with reaction, but he come down to the history of the club by the promotion to upper league in this season.
2008–09 Mersin İdmanyurdu head coaches
Head CoachPeriodNotes
Ercan Albay14.08.2008 – 31.05.20093818128Contract ended at the end of the season.

Note: Only official games were included.

2008–09 squad

Appearances, goals and cards count for 2008–09 TFF Second League Ranking and Promotion Group games. This season optional kit numbers selected by players were allowed for the first time in the league's history. 18 players appeared in each game roster, three to be replaced. Only the players who appeared in game rosters were included and listed in order of appearance.
NameBirthBorn← Season Notes →
199Levent Taşkın27 Jan 1977AnkaraGK35356 previous season.
244Zafer Sağdıç20 Jul 1976MalatyaDF20120131 previous season.
328Cihan Gökal3 Nov 1981TrabzonDF28328310 Etimesgut Şekerspor.
44Erdal Sezek10 Jan 1980KiğıDF36236211 Etimesgut Şekerspor.
535Orhan Terzi31 Dec 1979İzmirDF222231 previous season.
621Ercan Naşal15 Oct 1983HazroMF24245 DBB Diskispor.
762Sertaç Şahin23 Jul 1983İneboluMF33133121 previous season.
86Faruk Atalay18 Mar 1981OfMF2742748 Fatih Karagümrük.
98Zafer Biryol2 Oct 1976RizeFW3016301691 Çaykur Rizespor.
1072Nurullah Kaya20 Jul 1986BatmanMF2642644 previous season.
1165Sami İzcican19 Oct 1983VanFW361036106 previous season.
1267Burak Onur5 Apr 1986DevrekGK33 Türk Telekomspor.
1387Veysel Kılıç7 Sep 1987SeyhanMF2022024 previous season.
1427Ferit Karataş15 Sep 1980ArabanFW1212 previous season.
1522Emre Horoslu25 May 1980BoluDF664 Diyarbakırspor.
165Onur Güney10 Dec 1982KozanDF30305 previous season.
1790Birol Parlak1 Mar 1990PazarFW1414 previous season.
183Mehmet Çolak17 Mar 1979MersinDF14144 previous season.
1910Altan Aksoy5 Feb 1976RizeMF2252252 Çaykur Rizespor.
2011Hakan Delil23 Jan 1981BakırköyMF21211 Karabükspor.
2113Hakan Genç13 Jul 1980MerzifonMF881 Karabükspor.
2234Evren Gayır12 Aug 1982BeykozMF111 previous season.
2333Fuat Onur20 Jan 1987AltınözüDF1711712 previous season.
2491Emre Kanağı6 Feb 1991BatmanGK Batman Petrolspor.
2563Metin İmece22 Mar 1988MersinMF22 previous season.
2638Tuna Kaya3 Feb 1984TomarzaDF16163 Kayseri Erciyesspor.
271Ünal Odabaş10 Mar 1974TrabzonGK Konya Şekerspor.
2853Cumhur Bozacı23 Aug 1974PazarMF1511516 Eskişehirspor.
299Abdullah Halman15 Aug 1987ŞanlıurfaFW1341342 Eskişehirspor.

Sources: TFF club page and maçkolik team page.

U-18 team

organized Deplasmanlı Süper Gençler Ligi in 2008–09. League was formed by 10 regional groups. Mersin İdmanyurdu U-18 team took place in Adana Group with 12 other teams from clubs that participated that year in professional leagues. MİY youth team finished 2nd after Adana Demirspor.
WeekPositionPlayedWinDrawLostForAgainstDiff.Points
First half131129302662030
Second half26224166253183554

Being runners-up of Adana Group, MİY U-18 team promoted to national group stage, where three teams played elimination games. MİY eliminated Şanlıurfaspor 1-0 and Tokatspor 7-6 in Group B. The group B games were played in Kahramanmaraş. In quarter-finals MİY U-18 team lost to Gaziantepspor 1-2 in İstanbul and was eliminated. Later Gaziantepspor was eliminated at semi-finals.