2015–16 Mersin İdmanyurdu season


Mersin İdmanyurdu 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. 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

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. 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 2015–16 Süper Lig season league summary:
Sources: 2015–16 Spor-Toto Süper Lig pages.

League table

Mersin İdmanyurdu '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 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.

Second half

Mersin İdmanyurdu 2015–16 Süper Lig season second half game reports is shown in the following table.
Kick off times are in EET and EEST.
Sources: 2015–16 Süper Lig pages.

2015–16 Turkish Cup participation

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 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.

Cup track

The drawings and results Mersin İdmanyurdu followed in 2015–16 Turkish Cup are shown in the following table.
RoundOwn LeagueOpponent's LeagueOpponentAwayHomeResult
Round 3Süper Lig2nd League Red GroupFatih Karagümrük8–7–Promoted
Group DSüper Lig2nd League Red GroupAydınspor 19230–44–0
Group DSüper LigSüper LigÇaykur Rizespor0–12–2
Group DSüper Lig2nd League Red GroupBucaspor0–11–2Eliminated

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

Game details

Mersin İdmanyurdu 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 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.

Club management

On 11 January 2016 club congress was held and a new executive committee took over the club:
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:
2015–16 Mersin İdmanyurdu head coaches
Head CoachPeriodNotes
Rıza Çalımbay15.06.2015 – 28.06.2016––––Resigned.
Mesut Bakkal03.07.2015 – 18.09.20165014Resigned.
Bülent Korkmaz22.09.2015 – 04.01.201615258Unilateral cancellation.
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 – 06.05.2016164210Contract was terminated
Serkan 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:
Appearances, goals and cards count for 2015–16 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 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. 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.
NameBirthBorn← Season Notes →
11Nikolay Mihaylov28 Jun 1988SofiaGK33 previous season.
23Loret Sadiku28 Jul 1991PristinaDF29297 previous season.
36Wederson22 Jul 1981CamposDF264127492 previous season.
410Tita20 Jul 1981Rio de J.FW254229221 previous season.
511Welliton22 Oct 1986ConceiçãoFW216112274 previous season.
613Oktay Delibalta27 Oct 1985SamsunMF15153 previous season.
715Milan Mitrović2 Jul 1988ProkupljeDF2922131391 previous season.
822Préjuce Nakoulma21 Apr 1987OuagaFW276413174 previous season.
925Mehmet Taş20 Mar 1991MersinDF2217229351 previous season.
1030Serkan Balcı22 Aug 1983NazilliDF28133119 previous season.
1155Abdul Khalili7 Jun 1992Raus, SeMF2312312 previous season.
1290Muammer Yıldırım14 Sep 1990EğilGK26262 previous season.
137Güven Varol2 Jun 1981AdapazarıMF27243125 previous season.
1433Efe Özarslan29 Mar 1990MersinDF2241 previous season.
154Mehmet Sığırcı24 Feb 1993GüngörenDF46101 previous season.
1658Ricardo Pedriel19 Jan 1987Santa CruzFW2754131681 previous season.
1772Nurullah Kaya20 Jul 1986BatmanMF961521 previous season.
1899Márkó Futács22 Feb 1990BudapestFW44 previous season.
195Murat Ceylan2 Mar 1988GaziantepMF276335 previous season.
2076Servet Çetin17 Mar 1981TuzlucaDF1411414 previous season.
2117Sinan Kaloğlu10 Jun 1981OvacıkFW1731201 previous season.
2290Nihat Şahin15 Sep 1989İzmirGK5611 previous season.
2339Eren Tozlu27 Dec 1990GiresunFW186247 previous season.
2488Serol Demirhan5 Dec 1988AltındağDF116171 previous season.
2542Berkan Afşarlı1 Mar 1991LindauMF541911 previous season.
2692Hakan Olkan9 Jan 1992ŞişliDF56114 previous season.
2795Hasan Daş6 Jan 1995MersinGK123 previous season.
2847Tekin Oğrak13 Apr 1991NusaybinMF3582 previous season.
2977Rahmi Çelik11 Aug 1995GüzelyurtDF11 previous season.
3094Emrah Özyaylaz1 Dec 1994MersinMF213 previous season.
3196Taner Çukadar4 Aug 1998MersinDF415 previous season.
3298Mahmut Metin12 Jul 1994BesniMF411511 previous season.
3346Mehmet Ali Kaçar18 Jan 1998AfşinMF112 previous season.
3466Gökhan Akkan30 Aug 1998SeyhanDF711811 previous season.
3545Hilmi Reşiti29 Jul 1997BornovaDF previous season.

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.