# 1976–77 Mersin İdmanyurdu season

Mersin İdmanyurdu (also Mersin İdman Yurdu, Mersin İY, or MİY) Sports Club; located in Mersin, east Mediterranean coast of Turkey in 1976–77. Mersin İdmanyurdu has promoted from Second League 1975–76, after two season break to first division. It was the second time the team promoted to first division. In the first time, they have remained at the league for seven season. This second promotion had let the team to stay two more seasons. The 1976–77 season was the eighth season of Mersin İdmanyurdu (MİY) football team in Turkish First Football League in total. They finished seventh in the league.
General captain was Mustafa Oğultürk (11.10.1976).

## Pre-season

Before the start of the league, MİY played eight preparation matches. Two matches were played with İskenderunspor in Mersin on 14 and 15 August. Then the team moved to Adana to play "Çukurova Football Tournament".
* 29.08.1976 - MİY-Adana Demirspor: 2-0.

## 1976–77 First League participation

First League was played with 16 teams in its 20th season, 1976–77. Winner became eligible for European Champion Clubs Cup, runner-up and third teams became eligible for UEFA Cup next season. Trabzonspor also won the Turkish Cup. Beşiktaş was the cup finalist and became eligible for European Cup Winners Cup next year. Last two teams relegated to Second League 1977-78. Mersin İY became 7th with 9 wins and 25 goals.

### Results summary

Mersin İdmanyurdu (MİY) 1976–77 First 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 | 8 | 15 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 10 | 13 | -3 | 16 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 5 | +1 | 9 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 8 | -4 | 7 |
| Second half | | 15 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 15 | 13 | -1 | 15 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 5 | +4 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 8 | -2 | 5 |
| Overall | 7 | 30 | 9 | 13 | 8 | 25 | 26 | -1 | 31 | 15 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 15 | 10 | +5 | 19 | 15 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 10 | 16 | -6 | 12 |

### League table

Mersin İY's league performance in First League in 1976–77 season is shown in the following table.
| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 5 | Galatasaray | 30 | 10 | 13 | 7 | 36 | 26 | +10 | 33 | Invitation to Balkans Cup |
| 6 | Bursaspor | 30 | 10 | 11 | 9 | 34 | 30 | +4 | 31 | |
| 7 | Mersin İdman Yurdu | 30 | 9 | 13 | 8 | 25 | 26 | −1 | 31 | |
| 8 | Boluspor | 30 | 9 | 13 | 8 | 32 | 34 | −2 | 31 | |
| 9 | Eskişehirspor | 30 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 25 | 26 | −1 | 30 | |
Won, drawn and lost points are 2, 1 and 0. F belongs to MİY and A belongs to corresponding team for both home and away matches. Champions went to ECC 1977–78, and runners-up and second runners-up became eligible for EUC 1977–78.

### Results by round

Results of games MİY played in 1976–77 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 |
| Ground | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | A | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | H |
| Result | L | D | L | D | D | W | L | W | L | W | W | D | D | W | D | W | L | D | D | D | L | W | D | L | L | W | D | D | D | W |
| Position | 14 | 13 | 15 | 14 | 12 | 12 | 13 | 10 | 12 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 11 | 11 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 7 |

### Second half
## 1976–77 Turkish Cup participation

1976–77 Turkish Cup was played for the 15th season as Türkiye Kupası by 96 teams. First and second elimination rounds were played in one-leg elimination system. Third and fourth elimination rounds and finals were played in two-legs elimination system. Mersin İdmanyurdu participated in 1976–77 Turkish Cup from round 3 and eliminated at round 4 by Göztepe. Göztepe was eliminated by Beşiktaş at quarterfinals. Trabzonspor won the Cup for the first time. Cup finalist Beşiktaş became eligible for playing 1977–78 ECW Cup, because Trabzonspor also won the league title.

### Cup track

The drawings and results Mersin İdmanyurdu (MİY) followed in 1976–77 Turkish Cup are shown in the following table.
| Round | Own League | Opponent's League | Opponent | A | H | Result |
| Round 3 | First League | Second League White Group | Beykoz | 2–0 | 3–2 | Promoted to R4 |
| Round 4 | First League | First League | Göztepe | 0–2 (2–4 p) | 2–0 | Eliminated |

### Game details

Mersin İdmanyurdu (MİY) 1976–77 Turkish Cup game reports is shown in the following table. Kick off times are in EET and EEST.

## Management
### Club management

Burhan Kanun was club president.

### Coaching team

1976–77 Mersin İdmanyurdu head coaches:
| Nat | Head Coach | Period | Pl | W | D | L | Notes |
| | Kadri Aytaç | 01.08.1976 – 31.05.1977 | | | | | |

## 1976–77 squad

Stats are counted for 1976–77 First League matches and 1976–77 Turkish Cup (Türkiye Kupası) matches. In the team rosters five substitutes were allowed to appear, two of whom were substitutable. Only the players who appeared in game rosters were included and listed in the order of appearance.
| O | N | Name | Birth | Born | Pos | LA | LG | CA | CG | TA | TG | | | ← Season Notes → |
| 1 | 1 | Atıf Öztoprak | 8 May 1952 | Sakarya | GK | 4 | | 1 | | 5 | | | | → previous season. |
| 2 | 2 | Mehmet Dayan | 1951 | Balıkesir | DF | 28 | 1 | 4 | | 32 | 1 | 1 | | → previous season. |
| 3 | 3 | Feridun Alkan | | | DF | 19 | 1 | 2 | | 21 | 1 | | | 1976 ST Karabükspor. |
| 4 | 4 | Tahir Temur | 1954 | Istanbul | DF | 29 | | 4 | | 33 | | | | → previous season. |
| 5 | 5 | Kemal Damkal | 1950 | Adana | DF | 28 | | 3 | 1 | 31 | 1 | 2 | | → previous season. |
| 6 | 6 | Şeref Başoğu | 1947 | Adapazarı | MF | 4 | | | | 4 | | 1 | | → previous season. |
| 7 | 7 | Hikmet Erön | 1948 | Istanbul | MF | 26 | | 2 | | 28 | | 2 | | → previous season. |
| 8 | 8 | Yalçın Tarzan | 1948 | | FW | 28 | 2 | 4 | | 32 | 2 | 1 | | 1976 ST Malatyaspor. |
| 9 | 9 | İbrahim Arayıcı | 1949 | Silifke | FW | 25 | 3 | 2 | | 27 | 3 | 5 | | → previous season. |
| 10 | 10 | Zeki Temizer | 1945 | Istanbul | FW | 20 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 24 | 7 | 2 | | → previous season. |
| 11 | 11 | Müjdat Karanfilci | 28 Feb 1950 | Gelibolu | FW | 27 | 10 | 3 | | 30 | 10 | | 1 | 1976 ST Giresunspor. |
| 12 | 13 | Rüçhan Dağdeviren | 1951 | Istanbul | DF | 27 | | 4 | 1 | 31 | 1 | | | → previous season. |
| 13 | 14 | Ayhan Öz | 20 Jul 1945 | Mersin | FW | 14 | 2 | 3 | | 17 | 2 | | | → previous season. |
| 14 | 1 | Aydın Tohumcu | 1 Feb 1943 | Bilecik | GK | 22 | | 3 | | 25 | | | | → previous season. |
| 15 | 3 | Lütfü Isıgöllü | 1943 | | DF | 8 | | 2 | | 10 | | | | 1976 ST Beşiktaş. |
| 16 | 10 | Doğan Küçükduru | 1949 | Istanbul | FW | 25 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 29 | 2 | 2 | 1 | → previous season. |
| 17 | 9 | Tuğrul Şener | 19 May 1952 | Yalova | FW | 5 | | 3 | | 8 | | | | 1976 ST Beşiktaş. |
| 18 | 1 | Erdoğan Demirefe | 1947 | | GK | 4 | | | | 4 | | | | 1976 ST Samsunspor. |
| 19 | 13 | İsmail Akdağcık | | | DF | 8 | | | | 8 | | | | → previous season. |
| 20 | 8 | Ramazan Göktem | | | FW | 2 | | | | 2 | | | | 1976 ST. |
| 21 | 13 | Nasır Belci | 1 Dec 1955 | Adana | DF | 2 | | | | 2 | | | | First time professional. |
* Transfers in (Summer 1976): Tuğrul (Beşiktaş), Müjdat (İstanbulspor), Enver (Balıkesirspor). After lose against Adana Demirspor, Lütfü from Beşiktaş, Serdar from Galatasaray and Erdoğan from Fenerbahçe have signed.
* Transfers out: Burhan (Düzcespor); Doğan (Göztepe); Ramazan (İskenderunspor).