2016–17 Mersin İdmanyurdu season


Mersin İdmanyurdu 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 left 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

was played as "Türkiye Birinci Lig" for Spor-Toto has withdrawn and no new sponsorship was given for the season.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.
Note: Mersin İdmanyurdu were penalized 3 points deduction by TFF, due to financial difficulties.

League table

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

Results by round

Matches

Kick off times are in EET and EEST.
Sources: 2016–17 TFF First League pages.

2016–17 Turkish Cup participation

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 team Kızılcabölükspor.

Cup track

The drawings and results Mersin İdmanyurdu followed in 2016–17 Turkish Cup are shown in the following table.
RoundOwn LeagueOpponent's LeagueOpponentAwayHomeResult
Round 21st League3rd League Group 1Kızılcabölükspor1–5–Eliminated

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: 2016–17 Turkish Cup official TFF page. Attendance data from ntvspor.net.

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:
Ali Tekin had promised that the transfer table of the club will be opened by TFF in the mid-season. However, payable amounts to previous coaches and players could not be paid, which was a condition for opening the table. Rumors arose and Tekin declared that he resigned and called for another extraordinary congress. Congress was held on 25 February 2017 and Mahmut Karak, a business man and previous deputy vice president who emerged as a candidate during the process was elected new president. His new executive committee was as follows:
2016–17 Mersin İdmanyurdu head coaches
Head CoachPeriodNotes
Levent Arıkdoğan21.07.2016 – 28.10.20169216Started at pre-season, left after 8th round.
Yusuf Şimşek28.10.2016 – 19.01.20179135Started before 9th round, left after 17th round.
Memduh Özbalta09.02.2017 – 02.03.20175131Started before 18th round, left after 22nd round.
Levent Eriş03.03.2017 –Started before 23rd round.

Note: Only official games were included.
Other coaching team members under the head coaches were as follows:
Appearances, goals and cards count for 2016–17 TFF First League 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 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. Ali Tekin who followed Çalışkan as president had tried to open the transfer table but could not do so, because he couldn't find sources to close club's debts payable to previous coaches and players. After it was clear that transfer table could not be opened Tekin resigned. New management under Mahmut Karak was planning to open the table in Summer 2017.
NameBirthBorn← Season Notes →
113Nikolay Mihaylov28 Jun 1988SofiaGK previous season.
25Kudbettin Oğrak13 Apr 1991NusaybinMF previous season.
36Serol Demirhan5 Dec 1988AltındağDF previous season.
47Mahmut Metin12 Jul 1994BesniMF previous season.
510Tolga Şahin30 Sep 1997GaziantepMF previous season.
615Milan Mitrović2 Jul 1988ProkupljeDF previous season.
719Abdulkadir Korkut7 Nov 1993MersinDF previous season.
824Hakan Olkan9 Jan 1992ŞişliDF previous season.
933Nurullah Kaya20 Jul 1986BatmanMF previous season.
1065Emrah Özyaylaz1 Dec 1994MersinMF previous season.
1166Gökhan Akkan30 Aug 1998SeyhanDF previous season.
1223Hasan Daş6 Jan 1995MersinGK previous season.
1311Ahmet Bener31 Oct 1994CeyhanFW previous season.
1417Emre Can Dönmez12 Apr 1999MersinMF previous season.
1532Mesut Ağgül15 Aug 1995ÇatDF previous season.
1646Mehmet Ali Kaçar18 Jan 1998AfşinMF previous season.
1755Abdul Khalili7 Jun 1992Raus, SeMF previous season.
1899Furkan Aydemir15 Oct 1996BelgiumMF previous season.
192Taner Çukadar4 Aug 1998MersinDF previous season.
209Ricardo Pedriel19 Jan 1987Santa CruzFW previous season.
2177Güven Varol2 Jun 1981AdapazarıMF previous season.
2286Tita20 Jul 1981Rio de J.FW previous season.
2381Sinan Kaloğlu10 Jun 1981OvacıkFW previous season.
243Gökhan Akman3 Jan 1995MersinDF previous season.
2514Bekir Can Sönmez22 Aug 1999MersinMF previous season.
264Mehmet Sığırcı24 Feb 1993GüngörenDF previous season.
2725Furkan Güzel27 Feb 1997MersinGK previous season.

Sources: TFF club page and maçkolik team page.