2014–15 Mersin İdmanyurdu season


Mersin İdmanyurdu Sports Club; located in Mersin, east Mediterranean coast of Turkey in 2014–15. Mersin İdmanyurdu football team in 2014–15 season in Turkish Süper Lig. 2014–15 season was the 14th season of Mersin İdmanyurdu football team in Süper Lig, the top level division in Turkey. Mersin İdmanyurdu football team has finished 2014–15 season in 7th place in Turkish Süper Lig and remained in the league. Team participated in 2014–15 Turkish Cup and was eliminated at quarterfinals.
Ali Kahramanlı was club president. Rıza Çalımbay was head coach. Attacking midfielder Güven Varol and defensive midfielder Murat Ceylan were the most appeared players with 39 appearances in total. Captain and centre back Servet Çetin was most appeared player in league matches with 33 appearances. Welliton was the top goalscorer with 13 goals.

2014–15 Süper Lig participation

was played as "Spor-Toto Süper Lig" for Spor-Toto, a publicly owned betting institution, was sponsor for the season. The name of the season was inscribed as "Süleyman Seba Season" in memory of Beşiktaş's former president Süleyman Seba. 18 teams attended. MİY was one of the new entrants along with Balıkesirspor and İstanbul Büyükşehir Belediyespor who changed their names as İstanbul Başakşehir F.K. before the start of the season. Champions was eligible for 2015–16 UEFA Champions League in Group stage. Runners-up were eligible for Champions League 3rd qualifying round. Third and fourth placed teams were eligible for 2015–16 UEFA Europa League at 3rd and 2nd qualifying rounds respectively. Starting from this 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 2014–15 Turkish Cup was eligible for Europa League at group stage. Bottom three teams were relegated to 2015–16 TFF First League.

Results summary

Mersin İdmanyurdu 2014–15 Süper Lig season league summary:
Sources: 2014–15 Spor-Toto Süper Lig pages.

League table

Mersin İdmanyurdu 2014–15 Süper Lig season place in league table.

Results by round

Results of games MİY played in 2014–15 Süper Lig by rounds:

First half

Mersin İdmanyurdu 2014–15 Süper Lig season first half game reports is shown in the following table.
Kick off times are in EET and EEST.
Sources: 2014–15 Süper Lig pages.

Second half

Mersin İdmanyurdu 2014–15 Süper Lig season second half game reports is shown in the following table.
Kick off times are in EET and EEST.
Sources: 2014–15 Süper Lig pages.

2014–15 Turkish Cup participation

was played for 53rd time as Ziraat Türkiye Kupası for sponsorship reasons. The Cup was played by 156 teams in four stages. In the first stage 1 preliminary and 3 elimination rounds were played in one-leg elimination system. In the second stage 16 teams played in eight groups in a two-leg round-robin system. In the third stage, first and second ranked teams in each group played 1/8 games in one-leg elimination system at first ranked team's home. In the fourth stage quarterfinals and semifinals were played in two-leg elimination system, second games being played at higher ranked team's home. Final was played in one game system in a neutral venue. Mersin İdmanyurdu took place in the Cup starting from second elimination round and promoted to group stage. MİY took place in Group C and finished second. In the third stage MİY was paired with Karabükspor and promoted after extra time. In quarterfinals, Fenerbahçe was drawn as opponents, second game being played in opponents' grounds. MİY was eliminated by Fenerbahçe who was eliminated by Bursaspor at semifinals. Galatasaray won the Cup for 16th time.

Cup track

The drawings and results Mersin İdmanyurdu followed in 2014–15 Turkish Cup are shown in the following table.
RoundOwn LeagueOpponent's LeagueOpponentAwayHomeResult
Round 2Süper LigThird LeagueKemer Tekirovaspor–3–0Promoted
Round 3Süper LigSecond LeagueHatayspor–2–0Promoted
Group StageSüper LigSecond LeagueCentone Karagümrük0–13–0
Group StageSüper LigSüper LigBursaspor1–10–5
Group StageSüper LigFirst LeagueSamsunspor1–13–1Promoted
Round of 16Süper LigSüper LigKardemir Karabükspor4–2–Promoted
Q-FinalsSüper LigSüper LigFenerbahçe1–41–2Eliminated

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

Game details

Mersin İdmanyurdu 2014–15 Turkish Cup game reports is shown in the following table.
Kick off times are in EET and EEST.
Source: 2014–15 Turkish Cup official TFF page. Attendance for quarterfinals from ntvspor.

Management

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

Club management

The incumbent board of management was elected on 27 October 2014. The division of labor in the board was as follows : Ali Kahrahramanlı, Senan İdin, Sedat Aydöner, Hikmet Kaya and Ahmet Turan Serttaş, Apti Öztürk and Şerafettin Kadooğlu, Sabri Tekli and Ufuk Maya, Ayhan Erdem and Metin Yıldıran.
The administrative staff were as follows: Mesut Bilir, Murat Öğ, Duygu Bilir, Özcan Ulusoy, Rıfkı Çınar and Barış Köksal, Mustafa Kaya, Ökkeş Aybar.

Coaching team

Since 3 June 2014 Rıza Çalımbay has been the Technical Director. Other technical staff includes: Kerem Atılmaz, Bülent Albayrak, Kenan Oktay and Ayhan Tenbeloğolu, M. Cengiz Birgen, Burhan Kılıç, Serkan Damla, Ahmet Edremit, Serkan Sağlık, Ersoy Şenel, Oktay Baş and Abdülkadir Topal, Abdülkadir Reşiti and Caner Çakmak.
Head CoachPeriodNotes
Rıza Çalımbay03.06.2014 – 31.05.201445181017Contract ended at the end of the season.

Note: Only official games were included.

2014–15 squad

Appearances, goals and cards count for 2014–15 Süper Lig and Türkiye Kupası 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 the mid-season, because FIFA decided on two season transfer ban for MİY due to termination of the contract of the MİY's former player David Bičík. The ban was applied for 2015 Winter and Summer transfer seasons.
NameBirthBorn← Season Notes →
11Nihat Şahin15 Sep 1989İzmirGK221234 Sivasspor.
230Serkan Balcı22 Aug 1983NazilliDF252279 Antalyaspor.
376Servet Çetin17 Mar 1981TuzlucaDF3333333 Eskişehirspor.
444Mehmet Sığırcı24 Feb 1993GüngörenDF1121 Hatayspor.
56Wederson22 Jul 1981CamposDF32332372 Antalyaspor.
63Loret Sadiku28 Jul 1991PristinaDF262632251 Helsingborgs.
75Murat Ceylan2 Mar 1988GaziantepMF3183983 previous season.
813Oktay Delibalta27 Oct 1985SamsunMF19542353 Gençlerbirliği.
958Ricardo Pedriel19 Jan 1987Santa CruzFW2511043556 Club Bolívar.
1022Préjuce Nakoulma21 Apr 1987OuagaFW31633463 Górnik Zabrze.
119Márkó Futács22 Feb 1990BudapestFW264923568 Leicester City.
1223Günay Güvenç25 Jun 1991Neu-UlmGK Beşiktaş
1391Mehmet Taş20 Mar 1991MersinDF8191714 Nazilli Belediye.
1433Efe Özarslan29 Mar 1990MersinDF1511025161 previous season.
1555Abdul Khalili7 Jun 1992Raus, SeMF30273728 Helsingborgs.
1610Tita20 Jul 1981Rio de J.FW242813235 Antalyaspor.
1711Sinan Kaloğlu10 Jun 1981OvacıkFW24841289 previous season.
1873Welliton22 Oct 1986ConceiçãoFW30104334139 Spartak Moscow.
1921Muammer Yıldırım14 Sep 1990EğilGK72911 previous season.
2072Nurullah Kaya20 Jul 1986BatmanMF358 previous season.
217Güven Varol2 Jun 1981AdapazarıMF2821143963 previous season.
2215Milan Mitrović2 Jul 1988ProkupljeDF244923365 previous season.
2363Nikolay Mihaylov28 Jun 1988SofiaGK68143 Verona.
2428Eren Tozlu27 Dec 1990GiresunFW16171 previous season.
2588Serol Demirhan5 Dec 1988AltındağDF11011112 Eskişehirspor.
268Mahmut Temür8 Oct 1989CologneMF33 previous season.
2799Cem Sultan27 Feb 1991İstanbulFW11 previous season.
2877Serkan Yanık2 Apr 1987TroyesDF48126 previous season.
2942Berkan Afşarlı1 Mar 1991LindauMF22 previous season
3017Adem Güven11 Sep 1985KuluDF123 previous season.
3147Tekin Oğrak13 Apr 1994NusaybinFWFirst time professional.
3295Hasan Daş6 Jan 1995MersinGKFirst time professional.

Sources: TFF club page and maçkolik team page.

U-21 and U-19 teams

Mersin İdmanyurdu U-21 team participated in U21 League Süper Lig and U19 team in Elite U19 League.