# 2009–10 Mersin İdmanyurdu season

Mersin İdmanyurdu (also Mersin İdman Yurdu, Mersin İY, or MİY) Sports Club; located in Mersin, east Mediterranean coast of Turkey in 2009–10. 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.
Ali Kahramanlı was club president. Serhat Güller was head coach at the start of the season. Ergün Penbe took over the position after 20th round. Goalkeeper Kerem İnan was the most appeared player, while Caner Ağca and Tunç Behram were top goalscorers.

## 2009–10 TFF First League participation

2009–10 TFF First League was played as Bank Asya Birinci Lig due to sponsorship reasons. 18 teams attended. The winners and runners-up were promoted to 2010–11 Süper Lig. The third team to be promoted was determined through Promotion Group games organized as a one-leg league system. Bottom three teams were relegated to 2010–11 TFF Second League.

### Results summary

Mersin İdmanyurdu (MİY) 2009–10 TFF First League season league summary:
| | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
| Stage | Pc | Pl | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pt | Pl | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pt | Pl | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pt |
| First half | 11 | 17 | 7 | 1 | 9 | 18 | 25 | -7 | 22 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 13 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 7 | 14 | -7 | 9 |
| Second half | | 17 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 18 | 19 | -1 | 19 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 9 | +1 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 10 | -2 | 9 |
| Overall | 13 | 34 | 11 | 8 | 15 | 36 | 44 | -8 | 41 | 17 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 21 | 20 | +1 | 23 | 17 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 15 | 24 | -9 | 18 |

### League table

Mersin İdmanyurdu (MİY) 2009–10 TFF First League season place in league table.
| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 11 | Erciyesspor | 34 | 10 | 11 | 13 | 42 | 53 | −11 | 41 |
| 12 | Gaziantep B.B. | 34 | 11 | 8 | 15 | 31 | 38 | −7 | 41 |
| 13 | Mersin İdmanyurdu | 34 | 11 | 8 | 15 | 36 | 44 | −8 | 41 |
| 14 | Kartalspor | 34 | 11 | 8 | 15 | 32 | 43 | −11 | 41 |
| 15 | Çaykur Rizespor | 34 | 10 | 10 | 14 | 37 | 53 | −16 | 40 |
* 1 2 3 4 KEC: 11 pts, 7–4; GBB: 10 pts, 6–4; MİY: 6 pts, 2–3; KRT: 5 pts, 2–6

### Results by round

Results of games MİY played in 2009–10 TFF First League by rounds:
| Round | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 |
| Ground | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A |
| Result | L | L | W | W | W | D | L | L | L | W | W | L | L | W | L | L | W | D | L | L | L | D | L | D | W | W | D | L | D | L | W | D | W | D |
| Position | 14 | 17 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 13 | 12 | 12 | 15 | 15 | 16 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 13 |

### 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 players resigned (6 new transfer, 2 loans, 1 newly professionalized) before the start of the second half.
Mersin İdmanyurdu (MİY) 2009–10 TFF First League season first half game reports is shown in the following table: Kick off times are in EET and EEST.

### 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 February 2010 with commitment messages to fans related to a better league results: "nothing has finished yet." 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". MİY played a relegation game in the last game of the season with Hacettepespor, and remained in the league next season.
Mersin İdmanyurdu (MİY) 2009–10 TFF First League season second half game reports is shown in the following table: Kick off times are in EET and EEST.

## 2009–10 Turkish Cup participation

2009–10 Turkish Cup was played with 71 teams in three stages. The 48th Cup was played as Ziraat Türkiye Kupası for sponsorship reasons. In the first stage 2 elimination rounds and a play-off round were played in one-leg elimination system. In the second stage 20 remaining teams played one-led round-robin group games in 4 groups, 5 teams in each group. In the third stage; quarter- and semifinals and finals played again in one-leg elimination rule. Finals played at a neutral venue. It was determined by TFF that MİY take place in 2009–10 Turkish Cup starting from the first round and was eliminated at play-offs round. Trabzonspor won the Cup for 8th time.

### Cup track

The drawings and results Mersin İdmanyurdu (MİY) followed in 2009–10 Turkish Cup are shown in the following table.
| Round | Own League | Opponent's League | Opponent | A/H | Score | Result |
| Round 1 | First League | Third League | Hatayspor | A | 2–4 | Promoted |
| Round 2 | First League | Second League | Eyüpspor | A | 1–2 | Promoted |
| Play-offs | First League | Süper Lig | Antalyaspor | H | 8–9 | Eliminated |

### Game details

Mersin İdmanyurdu (MİY) 2009–10 Turkish Cup game reports is shown in the following table. Kick off times are in EET and EEST.

## Management
### Club 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.
* Executive committee:President : Ali Kahramanlı since September 2008. Football Division Manager: Mehmet Işık (replaced resigning Mustafa Ağaoğlu in December 2009).

### Coaching team

* Before 10 February 2010: Coach: Serhat Güller. Trainers: Enver Şen, Alper Şemsi Edis, Ahmet Arslaner, Mehmet Varlıer (goalkeeping trainer). Sports Director: Ahmet Yıldırım, since August 2009.
* After 10 February 2010: Coach: Ergün Penbe. Trainers: Kemalettin Şentürk, Volkan Kilimci, and Ali Asım. U-14 team coach: Serkan Damla. Advisor: Bülent Uygun
2009–10 Mersin İdmanyurdu head coaches
| Nat | Head Coach | Period | Pl | W | D | L | Notes |
| | Serhat Güller | 19.08.2009 – 10.02.2010 | 24 | 9 | 2 | 13 | Left after 21st round. |
| | Ergün Penbe | 12.02.2010 – 31.05.2010 | 13 | 4 | 6 | 3 | Contract ended at the end of the season. |

## 2009–10 squad

Appearances, goals and cards count for 2009–10 TFF First League and 2009–10 Turkish Cup games. Serial penalties were not included in goal statistics. Kit numbers were allowed to be selected by players. 18 players appeared in each game roster, three to be replaced. Only the players who appeared in game rosters were included and listed in order of appearance.
| O | N | Name | Birth | Born | Pos | LA | LG | CA | CG | TA | TG | | | ← Season Notes → |
| 1 | 1 | Kerem İnan | 25 Mar 1980 | Istanbul | GK | 33 | | | | 33 | | 8 | | 2009 ST Karşıyaka. |
| 2 | 38 | Mustafa Tuna Kaya [de] | 3 Feb 1984 | Tomarza | DF | 29 | 3 | 1 | | 30 | 3 | 4 | 1 | → previous season. |
| 3 | 26 | Zafer Şahin | 29 Dec 1977 | Ankara | DF | 22 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 24 | 4 | 8 | | 2009 ST Diyarbakırspor. |
| 4 | 16 | Ahmet Çağıran | 15 Jun 1968 | Bursa | DF | 25 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 27 | 2 | 2 | | 2009 ST Karşıyaka. |
| 5 | 55 | Can Ulun | 26 Jan 1983 | Samsun | DF | 8 | | 1 | | 9 | | 2 | | 2009 ST Samsunspor. |
| 6 | 10 | Ramazan Durdu | 1 Jan 1983 | Esenköy [tr] | MF | 27 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 29 | 3 | 5 | | 2009 ST K. Erciyesspor. |
| 7 | 7 | Aytekin Viduşlu (C) | 28 Aug 1978 | Manisa | MF | 27 | | 1 | | 28 | | 2 | | 2009 ST Orduspor. |
| 8 | 20 | Mehmet Düz | 13 Jan 1988 | Berlin | FW | 13 | | 3 | 1 | 16 | 1 | 1 | | 2009 ST Galatasaray. |
| 9 | 35 | Caner Ağca | 28 Oct 1984 | İzmir | MF | 31 | 7 | 1 | | 32 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 2009 ST Ankaraspor. |
| 10 | 11 | Zafer Demiray | 19 Oct 1976 | Berlin | MF | 18 | 1 | | | 18 | 1 | 1 | | 2009 ST Karşıyaka. |
| 11 | 54 | Serkan İrdem | 5 May 1983 | Adapazarı | FW | 25 | 3 | | | 25 | 3 | 5 | | 2009 ST Karşıyaka. |
| 12 | 99 | Levent Taşkın | 27 Jan 1977 | Ankara | GK | 3 | | | | 3 | | | | → previous season. |
| 13 | 22 | Ozan Özkan | 11 Jun 1984 | Muğla | DF | 10 | | 3 | | 13 | | 4 | | 2009 ST Denizlispor. |
| 14 | 4 | Erdal Sezek | 10 Jan 1980 | Kiğı | DF | 8 | | | | 8 | | 2 | 2 | → previous season. |
| 15 | 8 | Nurullah Kaya | 20 Jul 1986 | Batman | MF | 21 | 4 | 3 | | 24 | 4 | 3 | | → previous season. |
| 16 | 17 | Tunç Behram | 21 Jul 1990 | Mersin | FW | 28 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 31 | 7 | 5 | | → previous season. |
| 17 | 62 | Sertaç Şahin | 23 Jul 1983 | İnebolu | MF | 19 | | 3 | | 22 | | 4 | | → previous season. |
| 18 | 61 | Faruk Atalay | 18 Mar 1981 | Of | MF | 3 | | 3 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 1 | | → previous season. |
| 19 | 9 | Sami İzcican | 19 Oct 1983 | Van | FW | 19 | 2 | 2 | | 21 | 2 | 2 | | → previous season. |
| 20 | 33 | Fuat Onur | 20 Jan 1987 | Altınözü | DF | 22 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 24 | 2 | 1 | | → previous season. |
| 21 | 90 | Birol Parlak | 1 Mar 1990 | Pazar | FW | 5 | | 1 | | 6 | | 1 | | → previous season. |
| 22 | 25 | Güngör Tuğcu | 15 Sep 1981 | Üsküdar | DF | 2 | | 2 | | 4 | | 1 | | 2009 ST Malatyaspor. |
| 23 | 18 | Aime Emo | 6 Aug 1988 | Douala | FW | | | 2 | | 2 | | 1 | | 2009 ST Bursaspor. |
| 24 | 6 | Murat Uluç | 15 May 1981 | Bornova | FW | 17 | 3 | 1 | | 18 | 3 | 7 | | 2009 ST Çaykur Rizespor. |
| 25 | 88 | Raymond Ndong | 23 Mar 1988 | Douala | FW | | | 1 | | 1 | | | | 2009 ST abroad. |
| 26 | 19 | Anıl Gezer | 31 Jul 1990 | Erdemli | DF | | | | | | | | | → previous season. |
| 27 | 91 | Emre Gürbüz | 25 Mar 1991 | Mersin | DF | | | | | | | | | 2009 ST E. Şekerspor. |
| 28 | 3 | Joseph Boum | 26 Sep 1989 | Yaoundé | DF | 10 | | | | 10 | | 2 | | 2010 WT Tatlısu Halkodası. |
| 29 | 77 | Sertaç Güzel | 19 Jun 1990 | Mersin | GK | | | | | | | | | First time professional. |
| 30 | 89 | Mustafa Aydın | 30 Apr 1986 | Bakırköy | DF | 11 | 1 | | | 11 | 1 | 5 | | 2010 WL MKE Ankaragücü. |
| 31 | 5 | Fatih Egedik | 2 May 1982 | Karşıyaka | DF | 14 | | | | 14 | | 4 | | 2010 WT Konyaspor. |
| 32 | 23 | Kaya Tarakçı | 23 Apr 1981 | Adana | GK | 1 | | | | 1 | | | | 2010 WT Adana Demirspor. |
| 33 | 14 | Fatih Şen | 10 Aug 1979 | Bafra | FW | 13 | 2 | | | 13 | 2 | 3 | | 2010 WT Giresunspor. |
| 34 | 92 | Onur Karakabak | 8 Apr 1992 | Zonguldak | DF | 10 | | | | 10 | | 1 | | 2010 WL Fenerbahçe. |
| 35 | 13 | Vedat Çoban | 8 Sep 1984 | Tatvan | MF | | | | | | | | | 2010 WT Kastamonuspor. |
| 36 | 21 | Alex Wilton | 10 Jun 1987 | Morada | FW | 2 | | | | 2 | | | | 2010 WT abroad. |
| 37 | 39 | Cenker Pehlivan | 15 Nov 1990 | Lüleburgaz | FW | | | | | | | | | → previous season. |

## 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.
| | Week | Position | Played | Win | Draw | Lost | For | Against | Diff. | Points |
| First quarter | 9 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 17 | -14 | 4 |
| Second quarter | 18 | 8 | 16 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 13 | 32 | -19 | 11 |
| Third quarter | 27 | 7 | 24 | 6 | 4 | 14 | 23 | 46 | -23 | 22 |
| Fourth quarter | 36 | 6 | 32 | 8 | 7 | 17 | 27 | 54 | -27 | 31 |