1966–67 Mersin İdmanyurdu season


Mersin İdmanyurdu Sports Club; located in Mersin, east Mediterranean coast of Turkey in 1966-1967. The 1966–67 season was the 3rd season of Mersin İdmanyurdu football team in Second League, the second level division in Turkey. The team became the champions of the league and promoted to 1967-68 Turkish First Football League at the end of the season.
The team's name was changed to Mersin İdmanyurdu from Çukurova İdmanyurdu which was the name adopted under Çukurova Group sponsorship. This decision was made in the congress of the club held on 15.06.1966. In the congress, following were elected for executive committee: Nevzat Emrealp, Mehmet Karamehmet, Halit Gazioğlu, Mahir Turhan, Mustafa Sözmen, Faruk Niskavi, Ünal Şıhman, Erol Tarhan, Sungur Baydur, Sezai Sak, Aydın Özlü. The committee declared that an amount of TL 500.000 was allocated for transfers and Sabri Kiraz was decided to be spoken with as manager of the football team. However, later, Lefter Küçükandonyadis has become the manager, famous former player of Fenerbahçe and Turkey national football team. In the mid-season Küçükandonyadis left his previous team Feriköy and started his manager career in MİY on 16.02.1967. He demanded that existing coach Fahrettin Cansever should also remain as trainer.
Executive committee at the beginning of the season had been consisted of: Nevzat Emrealp, Nail Turan, Dr. Aydın Özlü, Sezai Sak, Sungur Baydur, Halil Gazioğlu, Ünal Şıhman.
Mersin İdmanyurdu has won the league title in Turkish Second Football League, 1966–67 season. They finished the season in Red Group at first place. After season they won Second League Championship match against Bursaspor. As champions they were eligible to play Prime Minister's Cup against champions of the amateur leagues.

Pre-season

Spor–Toto Cup games:
was played for the fourth time in 1966–67 season with 33 teams grouped in red and white groups. In each group top teams promoted to First League 1967–68 and last teams relegated to Third League 1967–68 formed that year. Mersin İY took place in Red Group and finished first. The most scorer player was Osman Arpacıoğlu with 23 goals. They won all the home games during the league.

Results summary

Mersin İdmanyurdu 1966–67 Second League Red Group league summary:
Sources: 1966–67 Turkish Second Football League pages.

League table

The final league table of Red Group of Second League in 1966–67 season and results of games played by Mersin İY are provided in the following table.
Two points for a win. Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored. First team is MİY in both cases, home and away. Bye weeks are shown in team's raw.
': Promoted to 1967–68 Turkish First Football League; ': Relegated to 1967–68 Turkish Third Football League.
Source: 1966–67 Turkish Second Football League in ; and in ; and advanced searched performed in for 1966–67 Mersin İdmanyurdu season.

Results by round

Results of games MİY played in 1966–67 Second League Red Group by rounds:

First half

Second half

Championship match

Mersin İdmanyurdu won the second league championship against Bursaspor, the White Group's winner.

1966–67 Chancellor Cup

MİY has won the Chancellor Cup in 1967.

1966–67 Turkish Cup participation

The fifth Turkish Cup in 1966–67 was played as Türkiye Kupası by 81 teams: 17 from First league, 33 from Second league, 18 from regional leagues and 15 from amateurs. Three elimination rounds were played in one-leg elimination system at first team's grounds. QF, SF, and finals were played in two-leg elimination system. But starting from the previous Cup finals were played in single match if the finalist were from the same city. Two İzmir teams drew in the final match; and Altay won the fifth cup by casting lots after extra time against Göztepe and become eligible for ECW. Mersin İdmanyurdu participated in Turkish Cup in 1966–67 and was eliminated at preliminary round 2 of round 3 by Gençlerbirliği.

Cup track

The drawings and results Mersin İdmanyurdu followed in 1966–67 Turkish Cup are shown in the following table.
RoundOwn LeagueOpponent's LeagueOpponentScoreResult
Round 2 Preliminary 2Second League Red GroupSecond League White GroupAdana DemirsporH2–1Promoted to R2
Round 2Second League Red GroupAmateurKayseri ŞekersporA5–2Promoted to R3 P2
Round 3 Preliminary 2Second League Red GroupFirst LeagueGençlerbirliğiA0–1Eliminated

Note: In the above table 'Score' shows For and Against goals whether the match played at home or not.

Game details

Mersin İdmanyurdu 1966–67 Turkish Cup game reports is shown in the following table.
Kick off times are in EET and EEST.
Source: 1966–67 Turkish Cup pages.

Management

Club management

Executive committee:
Head Coach: Lefter Küçükandonyadis. Trainer: Fahrettin Cansever.
1966–67 Mersin İdmanyurdu head coaches:
Head CoachPeriodNotes
Fahrettin Cansever01.08.1966 – 20.01.196710732Replaced after 11th round
Lefter Küçükandonyadis20.01.1966 – 31.05.1967262033Started after 11th round

Note: Only official games were included.

1966–67 squad

Stats are counted for 1966–67 Second League matches and 1966–67 Turkish Cup matches. In the team rosters four 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.
NameBirthBorn← Season Notes →
11Doğan ÖlçücüGK1717 previous season.
22Nihat Fırat1936DF17118 PTT.
33Refik Çoğum1940MF2821292 previous season.
44İhsan TınazMF44 previous season.
55Tarık Arıtan1939MF2361246 previous season.
66Ayhan Öz20 Jul 1945MersinFW1851195 previous season.
77Kadri Aytaç 6 Aug 1931İstanbulFW3091319 Galatasaray.
88Yahya Kurt1941FW33 Adana Demirspor.
99Vural Olşen1936FW9595 Gençlerbirliği.
1010Renda DikmenFW173173 Güneşspor.
1111Uğur Yıldırım1942FW111111 Gençlerbirliği.
122Mümtaz Sümer1937DF20121 Ankaragücü.
133Selahattin YapaMF66
146Alp Sümeralp1938FW2551265 previous season.
158FikretFW33 previous season.
162Battal Toktay1939İstanbulDF2711281 previous season.
175Osman Arpacıoğlu5 Jan 1947AnkaraFW292313023 Hacettepe.
187Mustafa Aksoy1942MF1010 Galatasaray.
199Erol Yılmaz1937FW22 previous season.
202Emin Akkoç1937DF1212 previous season.
214İhsan Temen1938DF2621272 Gençlerbirliği.
2210TuranFW22
231Fikret Özdil1943GK19120 previous season.
Mustafa ÖzborMF Feriköy.
Abdurrahim KayaMF

Sources: 1966–67 season squad data from maçkolik com, Milliyet, and Erbil.