Mersin İdmanyurdu (also Mersin İdman Yurdu, Mersin İY, or MİY) Sports Club; located in Mersin, east Mediterranean coast of Turkey in 1995–96. Mersin İdmanyurdu (MİY) participated in Second League 1995–96 season for the 22nd time. MİY had finished promotion group in 8th place and later couldn't take place in neither among the promoted teams nor promotion play-offs. The team also participated in Turkish Cup (Türkiye Kupası) in 1995–96 and eliminated at Round 3.

President was H. Okan Merzeci, mayor of the Mersin city. Most appeared player was. head coach was Levent Arıkdoğan in the start of the season. In the mid-season Candan Dumanlı took over the team. Türkay Başaran with 36 appearances, while Sedat Varak was the league and season top goalscorer with 18 goals.

Mersin İdmanyurdu took place in Group 3 in Second League 1995–96 season. League was played in three stages. In the first stage 50 teams in five groups (10 teams each) played for first two rankings to play in promotion group. The promotion group consisted of those 10 teams. At the end of the second stage top two teams promoted to First League 1996–97. Remaining 8 teams in each ranking group played in classification groups, by carrying points and goals from ranking groups. Bottom two teams relegated to Third League 1996–97 at the end of the season. In the third stage, 8 clubs (3 from the Promotion Group and 1 from each 5 Classification groups) played one-leg play-off games in Ankara to determine the third team to be promoted to First League.

Mersin İdmanyurdu took place in Group 3 consisted of 10 teams and finished first stage at first place. In promotion group, team finished 8th and couldn't promote; and couldn't play promotion play-off games either.

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