2009–10 Mersin İdmanyurdu season

Mersin İdmanyurdu SK Mersin, Turkey
MİY 2009–10
Season: TFF First League 2009–10
League position:	13th
Turkish Cup:	Eliminated at R 3
Most appearances:	Kerem İnan (33)
Top goal scorers:	Caner Ağca (7) Tunç Murat Behram (7)
President:	Ali Kahramanlı
Coach:	Ergün Penbe
Previous season 2008–09	Next season 2010–11

Mersin İdmanyurdu football team has finished 2008–09 season in second place in TFF Second League Promotion Group and promoted to 2009–10 TFF First League. This was the second promotion of the team and MİY became the first team that promoted to TFF First League twice. After formation of the league in 2001 (as Lig A), MİY became second team which relegated and then promoted again, after Adanaspor (the third became Çanakkale Dardanelspor after promotion play-offs in 2008–09 season.

Mersin idmanyurdu participated in 2009–10 Turkish Cup and eliminated at third round, which was the play-off round for group stage. In play-off game Antalyaspor beat MİY after 11 penalties.

2009–10 league participation

TFF First League was played as "Bank Asya Birinci Lig" due to sponsorship reasons. 18 teams attended. The winners and runners-up will promote to 2010–11 Süper Lig. The third team to be promoted this year will be determined through promotion group games organized as a one-leg league system. Bottom three teams will be relegated to 2010–11 TFF Second League.

Mersin İdmanyurdu (MİY) 2009–10 TFF First League season place in league table.

Number of games MİY played in 2009–10 TFF First League by goals scored:

Results by round

Last updated: 21:08, 19 June 2010 (UTC).
Source: TFF League page
Ground: A = Away; H = Home. Result: D = Draw; L = Lose; W = Win; P = Postponed.

First half

Mersin idmanyurdu has started to league with a claim of direct promotion to 2010-11 Süper Lig. During the first transfer period contacts were signed with 15 new transfers and 3 newly professionalized ones. On the other hand ways were parted with 17 previous season players. In the first half, however, the team has shown an undulant profile and become eleventh. The club management revised the goal for the rest of the season as taking sixth position. At the end of first half, contracts with 11 players were terminated (6 of which were new transfers of first transfer period, 2009–10) and nine new contracts were signed (6 new transfer, 2 loans, 1 newly professionalized) before the start of the second half.

Mersin İdmanyurdu (MİY) TFF First League 2009-10 season first half game reports is shown in the following table.

Second half

In the second half of the season, MİY had a bad starting. After 20th week, head coach Serhat Güller resigned. New head coach Ergün Penbe watched 21st week game at Giresun among audience and signed on 10 Feb 2010 with commitment messages to fans related to a better league results: "nothing has finished yet.".^[1] However, as the time takes the team has shown an instable performance; and couldn't score goals in many matches. Therefore at the end of the league the aim of the team was revised as "remaining in the league".^[2] MİY played a relegation game in the last game of the season with Hacettepe, and remained in the league next season.

Mersin İdmanyurdu (MİY) TFF First League 2009-10 season second half game reports is shown in the following table.

2009-10 Turkish Cup participation

It is determined by TFF that MİY take place in Turkish Cup (Türkiye Kupası 2009-10) by the first round.^[3][4]

Ali Zitouni
 Veysel Cihan
 Musa Nizam
 Ertuğrul Arslan
 Şenol Can
 Polat Keser

Management

Mersin İdmanyurdu Sports Club president and managerial board members are elected by general vote of club members. Last election was held in September 2008.^[6]

• President : Ali Kahramanlı since September 2008.
• Football Division Manager: Mehmet Işık (replaced resigning Mustafa Ağaoğlu in December 2009).^[7]

Coaching Team

After January 2010

• Coach: Ergün Penbe, after 20th week (signed after 21st week on 10 Feb 2010).^[1] Previous team was Hacettepe, details).
• Trainers: Kemalettin Şentürk (previous team was Hacettepe, details), Volkan Kilimci, Ali Asım, and Serkan Damla (MİY's U-14 team coach, details).
• Advisor: Bülent Uygun (previous coach of Sivasspor, details).

Before February 2010

• Coach: Serhat Güller, between Aug 2009-Jan 2010 (resigned after 20th week game,^[8] previous team was Boluspor, details).
• Trainers: Enver Şen (previous team was Boluspor, details), Alper Şemsi Edis (previous team was Boluspor, details), Ahmet Arslaner (details), Mehmet Varlıer (goalkeeping trainer, previous team was Boluspor, details).^[9]
• Sports Director: Ahmet Yıldırım, since August 2009 (details).

2009-10 squad

Appearances, goals and cards count for Bank Asya 1. Lig (TFF First League) and Türkiye Kupası (Turkish Cup) games.^[10][11] However serial penalties are not included in goal stats.

U-23 team

TFF organized A2 League in 2009-10 season. Süper Lig and 1. Lig teams participated in this league. League was organized in four geographical groups and top two teams are labeled for play-off group. Mersin İdmanyurdu A2 team took place in Güney (South) group with other eight southern and central Anatolian cities' teams.^[12]

References

See also

• Football in Turkey
• 2009–10 TFF First League