1976–77 Mersin İdmanyurdu season
Mersin İdmanyurdu 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 football team in Turkish First Football League in total. They finished seventh in the league.
General captain was Mustafa Oğultürk.
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
Results summary
Mersin İdmanyurdu 1976–77 First League summary:Sources: 1976–77 Turkish First Football League pages.
League table
Mersin İY's league performance in First League in 1976–77 season is shown in the following table.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:First half
Second half
1976–77 Turkish Cup participation
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 followed in 1976–77 Turkish Cup are shown in the following table.| Round | Own League | Opponent's League | Opponent | 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 | 2–0 | Eliminated |
Note: In the above table 'Score' shows For and Against goals whether the match played at home or not.
Game details
Mersin İdmanyurdu 1976–77 Turkish Cup game reports is shown in the following table.Kick off times are in EET and EEST.
Source: 1976–77 Turkish Cup pages.
Management
Club management
Burhan Kanun was club president.Coaching team
1976–77 Mersin İdmanyurdu head coaches:| Head Coach | Period | Notes | |||||
 | Kadri Aytaç | 01.08.1976 – 31.05.1977 |
Note: Only official games were included.
1976–77 squad
Stats are counted for 1976–77 First League matches and 1976–77 Turkish Cup 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.| Name | Birth | Born | ← 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 | Karabükspor. | |||||
| 4 | 4 | | Tahir Temur | 1954 | İstanbul | 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 | İstanbul | MF | 26 | 2 | 28 | 2 | previous season. | ||||
| 8 | 8 | | Yalçın Tarzan | 1948 | FW | 28 | 2 | 4 | 32 | 2 | 1 | Malatyaspor. | |||
| 9 | 9 | | İbrahim Arayıcı | 1949 | Silifke | FW | 25 | 3 | 2 | 27 | 3 | 5 | previous season. | ||
| 10 | 10 | | Zeki Temizer | 1945 | İstanbul | 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 | Giresunspor. | ||
| 12 | 13 | | Rüçhan Dağdeviren | 1951 | İstanbul | 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 | Beşiktaş. | ||||||
| 16 | 10 | | Doğan Küçükduru | 1949 | İstanbul | FW | 25 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 29 | 2 | 2 | 1 | previous season. |
| 17 | 9 | | Tuğrul Şener | 19 May 1952 | Yalova | FW | 5 | 3 | 8 | Beşiktaş. | |||||
| 18 | 1 | | Erdoğan Demirefe | 1947 | GK | 4 | 4 | Samsunspor. | |||||||
| 19 | 13 | | İsmail Akdağcık | DF | 8 | 8 | previous season. | ||||||||
| 20 | 8 | | Ramazan Göktem | FW | 2 | 2 | . | ||||||||
| 21 | 13 | | Nasır Belci | 1 Dec 1955 | Adana | DF | 2 | 2 | First time professional. |
Sources: 1976–77 season squad data from maçkolik com, Milliyet, and Cem Pekin Archives.
- Transfers in : Tuğrul, Müjdat, Enver. After lose against Adana Demirspor, Lütfü from Beşiktaş, Serdar from Galatasaray and Erdoğan from Fenerbahçe have signed.
- Transfers out: Burhan ; Doğan ; Ramazan.