Türkay Başaran had the most appearances, 32, while Hakan Kayalar was the league and season top goalscorer with 10 goals.

In the third stage, 8 clubs (3 from the promotion group and 1 each from 5 classification groups) played one-leg play-off games in Eskişehir Atatürk Stadium to determine the third team to be promoted to First League.

In classification group, team finished 6th again and couldn't attend to promotion play-off games.

[4] Mersin İdmanyurdu (MİY) 1997–98 Second League season first half game reports in Ranking Group 1 is shown in the following table.

[6] Mersin İdmanyurdu (MİY) 1997–98 Second League season first half game reports in Classification Group 1 is shown in the following table.

In the second round MİY eliminated their historical rivals Adana Demirspor which took place in 2nd League Group 2 in that season.

[8] The drawings and results Mersin İdmanyurdu (MİY) followed in 1997–98 Turkish Cup are shown in the following table.

Mersin İdmanyurdu (MİY) 1997–98 Turkish Cup game reports is shown in the following table.

Halil Kuriş acted as mayor while municipality official Mehmet Küver became president of the club.

[12] Starting from this season, the number of players in roster were increased to 18; of the 7 substitutes 3 were eligible to be replaced.