1998–99 Mersin İdmanyurdu season

Mersin İdmanyurdu SK
Mersin, Turkey
MİY 1998–99
Season: Second League 1998–99
League position: Ranking Group 1: 3rd
Classification Group: 1st
Turkish Cup: Eliminated at R2
Most appearances: Turkey ( )
Top goal scorers: Turkey ( )
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Mersin İdmanyurdu (also Mersin İdman Yurdu, Mersin İY, or MİY) Sports Club; located in Mersin, east Mediterranean coast of Turkey in 1998–99. Mersin İdmanyurdu (MİY) participated in Second League 1998–99 season for the 25th time. MİY couldn't attend promotion group but had finished classification in the first place and attended promotion play-offs, but couldn't promote.The team also participated in Turkish Cup in 1998–99 and eliminated at Round 2.

1998–99 league participation

Mersin İdmanyurdu took place in Group 1 in Second League 1998–99 season. League played in three stages. In the first stage 50 teams in five groups (10 clubs in each) played for first two rankings to play in promotion group. The promotion group consisted of those 10 teams. At the end of the second stage top two teams promoted to First League 1999–00. Remaining 8 teams in each ranking group played in classification groups, by carrying points and goals from ranking groups. Bottom two teams relegated to Third League 1999–00 at the end of the season. In the third stage, 8 clubs (3 from the promotion group and 1 each from 5 classification groups) played one-leg play-off games in Antalya to determine the third team to be promoted to First League.[1]

Mersin İdmanyurdu took place in Group 1 consisted of 10 teams and finished first stage at third place and couldn't took place in promotion group. In classification group, team finished 1st again and attended to promotion play-off games but eliminated at first round (quarter finals).

Ranking group

Mersin İY's league performance in TFF Second League Ranking Group 1 in 1998-99 season is shown in the following table.[2] First team is MİY for both home and away matches.

place team games goals points home away
P W D L F A F-A week plc F-A week plc
1 Sarıyer 181134452636 0–453 0–2 142
2 İstanbul Büyükşehir Belediyespor 181125412435 1–283 0–2173
3 Mersin İdmanyurdu 181107312133
4 Konyaspor 18927292827 2–0112 2–123
5 Zeytinburnuspor 18846241928 2–073 0–2162
6 Sankospor 18729263124 2–0132 3–041
7 Adana Demirspor 18486192220 3–1183 3–193
8 Hatayspor 18549202819 2–1152 0–164
9 Bakırköyspor 184410183116 2–012 4–0103
10 Kilimli Belediyespor 183510285114 4–131 1–3123

Classification group

Classification group 1 was played with 8 teams remaining after top two of ranking group were promoted to promotion group. Top team in the group promoted to promotion play-offs, while bottom two teams relegated to Turkish Third Football League 1999–2000 season. Points and goals were carried from ranking group. MİY obtained 6 wins, 3 draws and 5 losses and finished fourth.

Mersin İY's league performance in Turkish Second Football League Classification Group 1 in 1998–99 season is shown in the following table.[4] First team is MİY for both home and away matches.

place team games goals points home away
P W D L F A F-A week plc F-A week plc
1 Mersin İdmanyurdu 3217312534054
2 Sankospor 3214414575446 2–11 2–48
3 Zeytinburnuspor 3212812403644 2–010 0–23
4 Bakırköyspor 32101111404241 3–14 0–111
5 Hatayspor 3211813454941 4–19 1–22
6 Konyaspor 3211813405141 0–06 3–313
7 Adana Demirspor 3281311374237 2–012 1–15
8 Kilimli Belediyespor 3261016417528 2–114 0–27

Promotion play-offs

Mersin İdmanyurdu played a semifinal game against Çaykur Rizespor who finished Promotion Group at 5th place in 1998–99 Turkish Second Football League season and was eliminated.

1998–99 Turkish Cup participation

Mersin İdmanyurdu had participated in Turkish Cup in 1998–99 and eliminated at 2nd Round.[5] MİY attended to the cup starting from second round. In the second round MİY has been eliminated to Hatayspor, which was the case in previous season round 4.

round own league opponent's league opponent A/H score result
2nd Second League Second League Hatayspor H3–4 Eliminated

1998–99 squad

Appearances, goals and cards count for Turkish Second Football League Ranking and Classification Groups games.[6]

No Nat Name Birth Born Pos LA LG CA CG TA TG Red card Notes

Sources: TFF club page and maçkolik team page.[7]

See also

Notes and references

  1. ↑ Details can be found in Cem Pekin Archives. Retrieved on 30 March 2010.
  2. ↑ Standings and results from TFF Archive
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Sankospor which is a side from Gaziantep, merged with and took name of Gaziantep Büyükşehir Belediyespor before the start of 1999–2000 Turkish Second Football League. Therefore, entries for Sankospor appears as "Gaziantep Büyükşehir Belediyespor" in TFF pages before then
  4. ↑ Standings and results from TFF Archive
  5. ↑ Select 1998–99 season fixtures at TFF team page game details at TFF page.
  6. ↑ Stats obtained from TFF team page Mersin İdmanyurdu 1998-99 team squad
  7. ↑ TFF club page (select season to confirm), retrieved on 8 September 2013 from tff.org; and maçkolik.com team page, retrieved on 07 February 2015 from maçkolik.com.