Tevfik Sırrı Gür Stadium was the previous ground of the team with a capacity of 10,125.

[1] In 2013, their new 25,534 person capacity stadium, Mersin Arena, was inaugurated on 23 March 2013 with a TFF First League match against Gaziantep Büyükşehir Belediyespor.

Their main rivals were Adana Demirspor, Adanaspor and Tarsus İdman Yurdu, and were friendly with Bucaspor.

However, because of the norm that noun phrases which have lost their meaning are written contiguously, the team's name has become "Mersin İdmanyurdu".

The club was founded on 16 August 1925 as Mersin Gençlerbirliği (English: Mersin Youth Union) during a meeting between Edip Buran and his friends İbrahim Yekta, Fevzi Serdengeçti, Asım Güler, Muhip Batıbeki, Necati Salim, Lütfi Resimci, Sami İstanbullu, Hayri Güntekin, Hakkı Cemal Üçer, Hasan Tahsin, and Mustafa Lütfi.

Later, the club obtained a license with the participation of other founders, namely İbrahim Bigam, İhsan Dağıstan, Hamit Abey, Rauf Süleymaniyeli, Semih Can, Ömer, Cevdet Türkmenli, Kazım Kırzade, and Muharrem Yeğin.

In 1952, the club inaugurated their new stadium, Tevfik Sırrı Gür Stadyumu,[5] by playing an opening match that was tied 3–3 with Galatasaray.

[6] Çukurova İdmanyurdu, as "a rather well-known amateur club from the city of Mersin",[7] turned professional and was promoted to Turkey's first second level league founded in 1963.

At the end of that season they won the Prime Minister's Cup by defeating the Amateur League champions.

The same season on 6 April 1968, Pakistani internationals Maula Bakhsh and Abdul Jabbar became the team's first foreign transfers.

Because of their place in the 2000–01 season they were automatically relegated to third level formed under the name of "Second League, Category B".

After spending two seasons in the TFF First League, MİY became the champions of 2010–11 Bank Asya 1.

Their championship was widely attributed to coach Nurullah Sağlam, who took over the team after the 9th week during that season.

Eventually MİY relegated to second level after a 2-0 defeat to Çaykur Rizespor on 29 April 2016.