Mersin İdmanyurdu (also Mersin İdman Yurdu, Mersin İY, or MİY) Sports Club; located in Mersin, east Mediterranean coast of Turkey in 1974–75. Mersin İdmanyurdu had relegated from Turkish First Football League in 1973–74 season. It was the first relegation of the team after 7 season first league experience. The 1974–75 season was the fifth season of Mersin İdmanyurdu (MİY) football team in Turkish Second Football League, the second level division in Turkey. They finished 3rd in the red group.
In its 12th season (), Second League was played with 32 teams, 16 in red group and 16 in white group. Group winners promoted to First League1975–76 and last teams relegated to Third League in each group. Mersin İY became 3rd with 14 wins in Red Group.
Results summary[]
Mersin İdmanyurdu (MİY) Second League Red Group league summary:
Overall
Home
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
15
5
4
6
15
13
+2
14
7
4
1
2
10
4
+6
9
8
1
3
4
5
9
-4
5
Second half
15
9
2
4
21
10
+11
20
8
7
1
0
15
1
+14
15
7
2
1
4
6
9
-3
5
Overall
3
30
14
6
10
36
23
+13
34
15
11
2
2
25
5
+20
24
15
3
4
8
11
18
-7
10
Sources: 1974–75 Turkish Second Football League pages.[1]
League table[]
Mersin İY's league performance in Second League Red Group in season is shown in the following table.[2]
1974–75Turkish Cup was played for the 13th season as Türkiye Kupası by 22 teams. Two elimination rounds and finals were played in two-legs elimination system. Top ten first division teams from previous season participated. Mersin İdmanyurdu did not participate in 1974–75Turkish Cup because they had finished previous season at 15th place. Beşiktaş won the Cup for the first time and became eligible for 1975–76ECW Cup.[7]
Management[]
Club management[]
Kaya Mutlu was club president.
Coaching team[]
1974–75 Mersin İdmanyurdu head coaches:
Nat
Head Coach
Period
Pl
W
D
L
Notes
01.08.1974 – 31.05.1975
Note: Only official games were included.
1974–75 squad[]
Stats are counted for Second League matches.[8][9] 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.
^TFF website does not have an official page for 1974–75 Turkish Cup, but results for finals at TFF Turkish Cup page, retrieved on 15 August 2015, (in Turkish). See some details on cup matches at Türkiye Kupası by Cem Pekin, retrieved on 15 August 2015, (in English); and maçkolik.com Cup page, retrieved on 15 August 2015, (in Turkish).
^Stats were not provided by TFF for this season. See TFF Club page. Search for 1974–75 squad and 1974–75 matches are not provided. Retrieved on 7 August 2015.
^ Jump up to: abData were obtained from; Erbil, Cihat (1975). Story of the 50 YearsRetrieved on 29 July 2011 from 50 Yılın Öyküsü, p. 57. And an advanced search performed in Milliyet online archive for 1974–75 Mersin İdmanyurdu season. The maçkolik.com page was blank for the squad of this season, because game reports are blank. The rsquad below is obtained from the game reports of four games retrieved from Milliyet. Retrieved on 27 August 2015.
^Kemal Damkal. Kemal II. Player signed in Summer 1974. His previous team was Ankara Güneşspor. He continued in the next season. Details from maçkolik.com pageArchived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine.
^Mehmet Levent Arıkdoğan. In the team since Summer 1972. He grew up in MİY youth team. He continued in the next season. Details from maçkolik.com pageArchived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine.