2015–16 Mersin İdmanyurdu season
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. 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 made the most appearances, 29, and 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. Runners-up were 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: "Sources": 2015–16 Spor-Toto Süper Lig pages. 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: 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. "Sources": 2015–16 Süper Lig pages. 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. "Sources": 2015–16 Süper Lig pages. 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. "Note": In the above table 'Score' shows For and Against goals whether the match played at home or not. 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. "Source": 2015–16 Turkish Cup ("Ziraat Türkiye Kupası") official TFF page. Attendance data from ntvspor.net. 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" "Note:" Only official games were included. 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. "Sources": TFF club page and maçkolik team page. U-21 and U-19 teams. Mersin İdmanyurdu U-21 team participated in U21 League Süper Lig and U19 team in Elite U19 League.