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Persija Jakarta

Full name	Persatuan Sepakbola Indonesia Jakarta
Nickname(s)	Macan Kemayoran (Kemayoran Tigers)
Short name	PSJ, PSJA
Founded	28 November 1928; 90 years ago (1928-11-28) as Voetbalbond Indonesische Jacatra (V.I.J.)
Ground	Gelora Bung Karno Stadium
Capacity	77.193
Owner	PT. Persija Jaya Jakarta
Director	Kokoh Afiat
Team manager	Ardhi Tjahjoko
Coach	Ivan Kolev
League	Liga 1
2018	Liga 1, 1st
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours Third colours
Current season

Persatuan Sepakbola Indonesia Jakarta (commonly known as Persija Jakarta) is a football club based in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Persija Jakarta is the most successful football club in Indonesia. The club has won 11 league titles and have never been relegated since the competition start in 1930.^[1] Persija is one of the teams who founded the PSSI (Indonesia football federation) in 1930 along with several other teams.^[2] They are the current champion of Liga 1.

History

In 1928, some youth from Jakarta had the idea to create a football team with one goal is making the struggle movement at that time occupiers through sport. And finally, they founded the club as Voetbalbond Indonesische Jacatra (VIJ).^[3]MH Thamrin is one of the youth who founded Persija and highly involved in VIJ which is now Persija Jakarta. He aqiltook care and helped VIJ in many ways, one of them was to construct the VIJ Stadium in Petojo, Central Jakarta using his own money.^[4] On the journey, Persija became the most successful team in the Perserikatan, successfully winning it , 9 times and managing to become champion by the time the start of the competition was held.

Rivalries

Indonesia Classico

Persija have a rivalry with Persib Bandung. Both teams first met in the 1933 Perserikatan and competed to be champions, and at that time Persija won the competition while the Persib were runners-up. Likewise the following year in the 1934 Perserikatan, again they competed and Persija won again by beating Persib who to be runner-up again in the competition at that time.^[5] This derby is usually called as the "Indonesian Derby". Some people also call it as "Indonesian El Clásico". But, the rivalry between the two teams only heated up in the 2000s. Because of the enmity of their two supporters and the rivalry now is seen more as a rivalry between each team's supporters group (Persija's The Jakmania and Persib's Bobotoh and/or Viking Persib Club). Influenced by the media and some individuals that want the rivalry to be preserved, many hostile incidents involving the two supporters group are still occurring even until this day.
There have been many events and incidents that occurred as the result of enduring hostility between these two hard-line supporters. In 2014, there had been a reconciliation held by the West Java Police to avoid unnecessary future clashes.^[6]

Despite the reconciliation, in Thursday, March 24, 2017, an incident happened again when a group of people threw rocks at a group of Persija supporters. On Thursday evening, a group of Persija supporters were on their way to Cilacap using Serayu Train to support their team at the 2017 Cilacap Cup. A group of people threw rocks at the train that they were in when it was transiting at the Serayu Train Station in Bandung. As the result, windows and doors on 4 carriages were broken and 3 people were injured. Shortly after, the perpetrators were caught and arrested by the police. The perpetrators were consisted of 9 people and the police suspected that they were Persib supporter, they were right. When the police were questioning them for the reasoning behind their action, they simply answered that they wanted to avenge the Persib supporters who have been attacked by Persija supporters in the last time Persib vs Persija met and ended 0-1.^[7]

Rivalry with Persebaya

In Perserikatan era Persija have rivalry with Persebaya Surabaya.^[8] Both team often meet in final of Perserikatan league and beat each other in final.

They competed in 1938 Perserikatan at that time when Persija competed with Persebaya in a match held in Solo when Persija won a victory over Persebaya with a score of 4-0 and in that year Persija won. Then in 1952 in the final match Perserikatan in the decisive match champion Persebaya beat Persija with a score of 2-1 and Persebaya won the Perserikatan title for the first time in Surabaya. In 1971-73 Perserikatan in the last match which was held in Jakarta Persija won over Persebaya in this decisive match final result 1-0. The next 5 years Persija faced Persebaya in the final Perserikatan which took place in Jakarta. Persebaya embarrassed Persija in the final held at Jakarta in the Gelora Bung Karno Main Stadium with a score of 4-3 and also in 1988 in the final Perserikatan and Persebaya humiliated Persija again in Jakarta through penalty shoot-out final result 3-2 for Persebaya's victory. However, since it was held Liga Indonesia Premier Division both teams rarely met because this league uses a 2 region system. But, they both returned to compete as in the Perserikatan era first precisely in the 2004 Indonesian League season. There are teams that compete in the last week to become champions, namely Persija Jakarta, Persebaya Surabaya and PSM Makassar. In the last week in the match which was held in Surabaya, Persebaya defeated Persija and Persebaya for the second time to grab the Indonesian League trophy for the second time. In addition, not only the two teams have rivalry but their supporters also have a rivalry, namely The Jak and Bonek. Often the two groups clashed.

Stadium

Gelora Bung Karno Stadium

Persija currently plays their home matches at Gelora Bung Karno Stadium along with Indonesia National Football Team.

In their history, the club used several stadium for their home ground. There are VIJ Stadium, Menteng Stadium, and Lebak Bulus Stadium. For the 2017 Liga 1, Persija along with Bhayangkara F.C^[9]) used the Patriot Chandrabhaga Stadium^[10] as their home stadium because the GBK stadium was being renovated for the 2018 Asian Games.

For the 2018 Liga 1, Persija had no fixed home pitch due to Gelora Bung Karno Stadium being used for the 2018 Asian Games, 2018 Asian Para Games, and the 2018 AFC U-19 Championship, and switched between playing their home matches at GBK, Patriot Chandrabhaga Stadium, Pakansari Stadium,^[11]Wibawa Mukti Stadium,^[12]Sultan Agung Stadium and PTIK Stadium.^[13]

Current Jakarta governor Anies Baswedan have decide to build a new stadium for Persija in North of Jakarta, which will be called Jakarta International Stadium. The plan is still in early planning stages and no construction has been done yet.^[14]
From other source, the new stadium will be named as M.H. Thamrin Stadium to appreciate the Indonesia national hero Mohammad Husni Thamrin, which also one of the founder of Persija Jakarta.^[15]

Players

Current squad

Bambang Pamungkas and Ismed Sofyan are two players with longest serving period at Persija Jakarta. Bambang has joined the club since 1999 as his first profesional club career when he was a youngster. Ismed began his career with Persija on 2002 and never joined any other club since that year until now.

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Gianluca Pagliuca Rossy 3 DF Dany Saputra 4 DF Ryuji Utomo 6 DF Maman Abdurrahman 7 MF Ramdhani Lestaluhu 8 MF Yan Pieter Nasadit 9 FW Marko Šimić 10 MF Bruno Matos 11 MF Novri Setiawan 14 DF Ismed Sofyan (2nd captain) 16 DF Tony Sucipto 17 MF Fitra Ridwan 19 MF Muhamad Fadil Redian 20 FW Bambang Pamungkas (3rd captain)

No. Position Player 21 FW Sílvio Escobar 23 MF Nugroho Fatchurahman 25 MF Riko Simanjuntak 26 GK Andritany Ardhiyasa (captain) 28 DF Rezaldi Hehanusa 32 MF Rohit Chand 34 GK Daryono 41 DF Anan Lestaluhu 45 MF Sandi Sute 72 FW Rishadi Fauzi (on loan from Mitra Kukar) 77 MF Yogi Rahadian 86 DF Steven Paulle 88 GK Shahar Ginanjar 89 MF Septinus Alua 94 FW Heri Susanto

Note: The club policy lists the supporters as player number #12.

Coaching Staff

In 2018 Stefano Cugurra (commonly called as Teco) succeed to bring the glory back to Jakarta on his second years with Persija. Teco brings Persija to reach the top of league standings and become champion. He is also awarded as The Best Coach of The Year in the same years.^[16]

In 2019, he left Persija to join Bali United and the position was replaced by Ivan Kolev which are former Persija and Indonesia national team head coach.

Position	Staff
Head Coach	Ivan Kolev
Assistant Coach	Mustaqim
Goalkeeper Coach	Ahmad Fauzi
Fitness Coach	Antonio Claudio
Physical Coach	Sansan Susanpur
Team Doctor	Dr. Donny Kurniawan
Physioterapist	Muhammad Yanizar Lubis

Kit Colours

Persija Jakarta's traditional football club colour is red as their home kit. On 1997 Persija replaced it with orange colour due to the decision of Jakarta governor at that time, Sutiyoso, as he wants to make Persija's colour similar to Jakarta's government colour. Because of it, when Persija's supporter (The Jakmania) founded in the same year, they decide to wear orange colour as the identity of Jakarta's football supporter colour. After 19 years, on 2016 they decide to return to their traditional red colour. As they believe that wearing their old colour will bring back the spirit of their glory in old era. Frequently, the colour of their away jersey is white. But in some era, black is also picked as the colour of their away jersey while orange colour was chosen as their third jersey in current era.^[17]

Supporters

Persija Jakarta's supporters called The Jakmania. Founded in 1997 by Gugun Gondrong and Ferry Indrasjarief with orange colour as their identity.^[19]The Jakmania is one of the biggest football club supporters in Indonesia. Mostly in every Persija's home match over 50.000 spectators come to support Persija. While in away match, they also come in every single match excluded match against Persib Bandung and Persebaya Surabaya due to restriction by the Indonesia national security otoritation in order to avoid the clash between each supporters.

Honours

Persija team and official celebrates the winning of Liga 1 2018

Persija has been honoured with many titles included some international tournament titles. It makes the club as the most successful club in Indonesia history. Currently, Persija Jakarta is the title holder of Liga 1 2018 which is the highest level of Indonesia football competition.^[20]

International Competition

Asian Club Championship/AFC Champions League

• 
  2001-02 - First round


• 
  2019 - Preliminary round 2

AFC Cup

• 
  2018 - Knockout stage (ASEAN Zonal)

Former Coaches

Persija Jakarta has been trained several times by foreign trainers, but is often trained by local coaches. Sofyan Hadi is the last coach to bring Persija Jakarta become champions as head coach and also as a player.^[21]
While in 2001, Antonio Claudio also became a champion with Persija as a player and repeated that moment in 2018 as fitness coach.

Years	Name
1999–2000	Ivan Kolev
2001	Sofyan Hadi
2003	Atanas Georgiev
2004	Carlos García Cambón
2005–2006	Arcan Iurie
2006–2007	Rahmad Darmawan
2007–2008	Sergei Dubrovin
2008–2009	Danurwindo
2009–2010	Benny Dollo
2010–2011	Rahmad Darmawan
2011–2012	Iwan Setiawan
2013–2014	Benny Dollo
2014–2015	Rahmad Darmawan
2015–2016	Bambang Nurdiansyah
2016	Paulo Camargo
2016	Zein Al Hadad
2017–2018	Stefano Cugurra
2019–	Ivan Kolev

Notable former players

This is the list of severals domestic and foreign former notable or famous players of Persija from time to time.

Indonesia

• 
  Soetjipto Soentoro
  


• 
  Tan Liong Houw
  


• 
  Sutan Harhara
  


• 
  Rully Nere
  


• 
  Dede Sulaiman
  


• 
  Rahmad Darmawan
  


• 
  Widodo Cahyono Putro
  


• 
  Anang Ma'ruf
  


• 
  Budiman Yunus
  


• 
  Imran Nahumarury
  


• 
  Francis Wawengkang
  


• 
  Hendro Kartiko
  


• 
  Kurniawan Dwi Yulianto
  


• 
  Charis Yulianto
  


• 
  Elie Aiboy
  


• 
  Budi Sudarsono
  


• 
  Aples Gideon Tecuari
  


• 
  Hamka Hamzah
  


• 
  Ortizan Solossa
  


• 
  Atep Rizal
  


• 
  Muhammad Ilham
  


• 
  Aliyudin
  


• 
  Agus Indra Kurniawan
  


• 
  Rochy Putiray
  


• 
  Anindito Wahyu
  


• 
  Beto Gonçalves
  


• 
  Osas Saha
  


• 
  Adam Alis
  


• 
  Gendut Doni Christiawan
  


• 
  Alexander Pulalo
  


• 
  Muhammad Roby
  


• 
  Leo Saputra
  


• 
  Greg Nwokolo
  


• 
  Addison Alves
  


• 
  Firman Utina
  


• 
  Ponaryo Astaman
  


• 
  Amarzukih
  


• 
  Stefano Lilipaly
  


• 
  Raphael Maitimo
  

Asia

• 
  Miro Baldo Bento
  


• 
  Precious Emuejeraye
  


• 
  Agu Casmir
  


• 
  Baihakki Khaizan
  


• 
  Fahrudin Mustafic
  


• 
  Jahongir Abdumominov
  


• 
  Lam Hok Hei
  


• 
  Park Kyung-min
  


• 
  Jeong Kwang-sik
  


• 
  Hong Soon-Hak
  


• 
  Reinaldo Elias da Costa
  

Africa

• 
  Roger Batoum
  


• 
  Abanda Herman
  


• 
  Emaleu Serge
  


• 
  Boakay Eddie Foday
  


• 
  Louis Berty Ayock
  


• 
  Olinga Atangana


• 
  Pierre Njanka
  


• 
  Dahiru Ibrahim


• 
  Sam Ayorinde
  


• 
  Olivier Makor
  


• 
  Eric Bayemi
  


• 
  Frank Jean Seator
  


• 
  Emmanuel Kenmogne
  


• 
  Mbeng Jean Mambalou

Europe

• 
  Martin Vunk
  


• 
  Evgeny Kabaev
  


• 
  Ivan Bosnjak
  


• 
  Evgheni Hmaruc
  


• 
  Želimir Terkeš
  

America

• 
  Antonio Claudio
  


• 
  Lorenzo Cabanas
  


• 
  Ronald Fagundez
  


• 
  Emanuel De Porras
  


• 
  Gustavo Hernan Ortiz
  


• 
  Robertino Pugliara
  


• 
  Luciano Leandro


• 
  Javier Rocha
  


• 
  Gustavo Chena
  


• 
  Pedro Velázquez
  


• 
  Fabiano Beltrame
  


• 
  Renan Silva
  


• 
  Willian Pacheco
  


• 
  Jaimerson Xavier
  


• 
  Bruno da Silva Lopes
  


• 
  Luiz Júnior
  


• 
  Ivan Carlos
  


• 
  Rodrigo Tosi
  

Further reading

• 
  Ayati, Nur (2010). Liga Indonesia: Persija vs Persib (in Indonesian). Jakarta: Elex Media Komputindo. p. 24. ISBN 978-979-27-7425-2..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}
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