Süper Lig 17 (R 20) | ||
President Ali Kahramanlı(till 11 January 2016) Hüseyin Çalışkan(since 11 January 2016) Head coach Mesut Bakkal(till 18 September 2015) Bülent Korkmaz(till 4 January 2016) Ümit Özat(since 19 January 2016) Turkish Cup Eliminated at Group Stage | ||
Mersin İdmanyurdu (also Mersin İdman Yurdu, Mersin İY, or MİY) 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.
Contents
- 201516 Sper Lig participation
- Results summary
- League table
- Results by round
- First half
- Second half
- 201516 Turkish Cup participation
- Cup track
- Game details
- Management
- Club management
- Coaching team
- 201516 squad
- U 21 and U 19 teams
- References
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 (33). Considering only the league matches stoppers Loret Sadiku and Milan Mitrović were mostly appeared players with 29 appearances. Préjuce Nakoulma and Welliton were top goalscorers with 7 goals each.
2015–16 Süper Lig participation
2015–16 Süper Lig 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. Runner-ups was 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 (MİY) 2015–16 Süper Lig season league summary:
League table
Mersin İdmanyurdu (MİY)'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:
Source: TFF League page u=19:35, 1 October 2016 (UTC)
Ground: A = Away; H = Home. Result: D = Draw; L = Loss; W = Win; P = Postponed.
First half
Mersin İdmanyurdu (MİY) 2015–16 Süper Lig season first half game reports is shown in the following table. Kick off times are in EET and EEST.
Second half
Mersin İdmanyurdu (MİY) 2015–16 Süper Lig season second half game reports is shown in the following table. Kick off times are in EET and EEST.
2015–16 Turkish Cup participation
2015–16 Turkish Cup 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 (third division) 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 (MİY) followed in 2015–16 Turkish Cup are shown in the following table.
Game details
Mersin İdmanyurdu (MİY) 2015–16 Turkish Cup game reports is shown in the following table. Kick off times are in EET and EEST.
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:
Coaching team
2015–16 Mersin İdmanyurdu head coaches
Other coaching team members were as follows:
2015–16 squad
Appearances, goals and cards count for 2015–16 Süper Lig and Türkiye Kupası (2015–16 Turkish Cup) 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.
U-21 and U-19 teams
Mersin İdmanyurdu U-21 team participated in U21 League Süper Lig and U19 team in Elite U19 League.