2013–14 Mersin İdmanyurdu season


Mersin İdmanyurdu Sports Club; located in Mersin, east Mediterranean coast of Turkey in 2013–14. Team participated in 13th season of the league for 7th time. Mersin İdmanyurdu football team has finished 2013–14 season in 6th place in Turkish TFF First League and became eligible to play play-off games. At the end of play-off games MİY has promoted to 2014–15 Süper Lig after one year disappearance. Mersin İdmanyurdu participated in 2013–14 Turkish Cup and was eliminated in second elimination round.
Ali Kahramanlı was club president. Hakan Kutlu has continued from previous season as head coach. Later Yılmaz Vural took over the team. Kutlu managed the final game. Güven Varol was both most appeared player and top goalscorer.

2013–14 TFF First League participation

took place in 2013–14 TFF First League. League was played as PTT First League for sponsorship reasons. 19 teams attended due to return of Ankaraspor who were withdrawn from the league in 2010–11 season and reserved their right to attend depending on a court decision. Winners, runners-up and play-off winners were promoted to 2014–15 Süper Lig. Play-offs were played among four teams who finished season at 3rd thru 6th positions. Bottom four teams were relegated to 2014–15 TFF Second League.
Mersin İdmanyurdu finished 2013–14 TFF First League season at 6th place and was qualified for play-offs. Team won the play-offs and promoted to 2014–15 Süper Lig at the end of the season.

Results summary

Mersin İdmanyurdu 2013–14 TFF First League season league summary.
Sources: 2013–14 TFF First League pages.

League table

Mersin İdmanyurdu 2013–14 TFF First League season place in league table.

Results by round

Results of games MİY played in 2013–14 TFF First League by rounds.

First half

Mersin İdmanyurdu 2013–14 TFF First League season first half game reports is shown in the following table.
Kick off times are in EET and EEST.
Sources: 2013–14 PTT First League pages.

Second half

Mersin İdmanyurdu 2013–14 TFF First League season second half game reports is shown in the following table.
Kick off times are in EET and EEST.
Sources: 2013–14 PTT First League pages.

Play-offs

Mersin İdmanyurdu 2013–14 TFF First League finished the normal season at sixth place and became eligible to play play-off games. After play-off round the team promoted to 2014–15 Süper Lig. Semifinals played in a round-robin elimination rule while final match was played in a neutral venue, İstanbul Şükrü Saracoğlu Stadium, Fenerbahçe's grounds.
Semifinals
At semifinals Mersin İdmanyurdu paired with Orduspor who finished normal season at third place. At semifinals teams played home and away matches. İdmanyurdu won both of the games and promoted to finals.
Sources: 2013–14 PTT First League pages.
Finals
At finals, teams played a single match at a neutral venue. İdmanyurdu defeated Samsunspor who finished normal season at 5th place, and promoted to 2014–15 Süper Lig.
Sources: 2013–14 PTT First League pages.

2013–14 Turkish Cup participation

was played for 52nd time as Ziraat Türkiye Kupası for sponsorship reasons. The Cup was played by 158 teams in 1 preliminary and 5 one-leg elimination stages and a two-legs group stage in two groups, after which first and second teams in each group played semifinals. Galatasaray won the Cup for 15th time. Mersin İdmanyurdu took place in second elimination stage and eliminated to then amateur league team Niğde Belediyespor.

Cup track

The drawings and results Mersin İdmanyurdu followed in 2013–14 Turkish Cup are shown in the following table.
RoundOwn LeagueOpponent's LeagueOpponentScoreResult
Round 2First LeagueRegional AmateurNiğde BelediyesporA1–3Eliminated

Note: In the above table 'Score' shows For and Against goals whether the match played at home or not.

Game details

Mersin İdmanyurdu 2013–14 Turkish Cup game reports is shown in the following table.
Kick off times are in EET and EEST.
Source: 2013–14 Ziraat Türkiye Kupası pages.

Management

President Ali Kahramanlı continued in his position which he held in 2008. * Club address was: Palmiye Mah. Adnan Menderes Bl. 1204 Sk. Onur Ap. K.2 D.3 Yenişehir/Mersin.

Club management

Club President was Ali Kahramanlı.

Coaching team

At the start of the season head coach was Hakan Kutlu. His assistants were Hakan Çobanoğlu, Hail İbrahim Özdemir, Serhat Kandemir and Ercan Akça, Kemal Gürgez and Barış Demirdizen. Yılmaz Vural took the position prior to 29th round derby against Adana Demirspor. Hakan Kutlu signed on 16 May 2014 only for the final game. His contract ended on 31 May 2014.
2012–13 Mersin İdmanyurdu head coaches
Head CoachPeriodNotes
Hakan Kutlu12.07.2013 – 06.03.2014271386Left after 28th round.
Yılmaz Vural20.12.2012 – 08.03.201312543Left after play-offs semifinals.
Hakan Kutlu16.05.2014 – 31.05.20141100Managed team in play-offs finals.

Note: Only official games were included.

2013–14 squad

Appearances, goals and cards count for 2013–14 TFF First League and 2013–14 Turkish Cup games. Only the players who appeared in game rosters were included. Kit numbers were allowed to select by players. 18 players appeared in each game roster, three to be replaced. Players are listed in order of appearance.
NameBirthBorn← Season Notes →
191Mahmut Bezgin1 Mar 1986GaziantepGK15152 Gaziantepspor.
221Ali Tandoğan25 Dec 1987SalihliDF33433471 Antalyaspor.
369Murat Kalkan20 May 1986BayburtDF211311 Konyaspor.
433Efe Özarslan29 Mar 1990MersinDF34343 Bucaspor.
515Milan Mitrović2 Jul 1988ProkupljeDF34348 previous season.
65Murat Ceylan2 Mar 1988GaziantepMF222271 previous season.
710Raheem Lawal4 May 1990LagosMF15515531 previous season.
87Güven Varol2 Jun 1981AdapazarıMF3611361131 Karabükspor.
977Nduka Ozokwo25 Dec 1988EnuguMF31231281 previous season.
109Emrah Bozkurt5 Mar 1980AnkaraFW2742741 K. Erciyesspor.
1111Kenan Şahin27 Oct 1984CologneFW11111211 K. Erciyesspor.
1214Behram Zülaloğlu30 Aug 1982TokatGK516 Körfez FK.
1328Eren Tozlu27 Dec 1990GiresunFW22112314 previous season.
1420Veli Acar30 Aug 1981DenizliMF28112912 Denizlispor.
156Burak Can Kalender24 Jun 1995SeyhanMF11 previous season.
164Ömer Kulga8 Jan 1989Sint-NiklaasDF3141 Orduspor.
1772Nurullah Kaya20 Jul 1986BatmanMF33113416 previous season.
188Mahmut Temür8 Oct 1989CologneMF26626621 FC 08 Homburg.
1917Adem Güven11 Sep 1985KuluFW10211121 Odds BK.
203Anıl Karaer4 Jul 1988ŞişliDF34534551 Karabükspor.
2158Mehmet Yıldız14 Sep 1981YozgatFW301030109 previous season.
2293Abdulkadir Korkut7 Nov 1993MersinDF213 previous season.
2313Wissem Ben Yahia9 Sep 1984TunisMF26312739 previous season.
2450Mahmut Metin12 Jul 1994BesniMF11 previous season.
2590Muammer Yıldırım14 Sep 1990EğilGK11 B. Vanspor.
2623Coşkun Kayhan24 Aug 1986YozgatMF11 1. SC Sollenau.
2794Yusuf Türkmen7 Feb 1994İslahiyeMF previous season.
2878Ahmet Şahin22 Mar 1978İstanbulGK2020 Balıkesirspor.
2987Serkan Yanık2 Apr 1987TroyesDF22 Gençlerbirliği.
3099Cem Sultan27 Feb 1991BahçelievlerFW1121122 Kayserispor.
3116Gökhan Erdoğan4 Apr 1991BeypazarıMF22 Ankaragücü.
3242Berkan Afşarlı1 Mar 1991LindauMF717121 FC Wil 1900.
3362Sinan Kaloğlu10 Jun 1981TunceliFW10101 K. Erciyesspor.
3488Ivan Perić5 May 1982PristinaFW442 FC Zhetysu.
3527Oğuzhan Biçer17 Apr 1994YenimahalleMF11 Ankaragücü.

Sources: TFF club page and maçkolik team page.

U-21 team

Mersin İdmanyurdu U-21 team had participated in 2013–14 U-21 League. League was played in three stages. In the first stage, 61 teams played ranking group games in 8 groups on regional basis. 5 consisted of 8 and 3 consisted of 7 teams. In the second stage winners of each group consisted final group while the rest played classification group games. In the third stage, winners of classification groups played elimination matches and winners played quarterfinals with first four placed teams in final group. Mersin İdmanyurdu U-21 team took place in Ranking Group 5 and finished 3rd in the first stage. In the second stage the team took place in Classification Group 5 and finished 3rd with 7 wins, 6 deuces and 9 losses.