Persija Jakarta

Persija Jakarta

Full name	Persatuan Sepakbola Indonesia Jakarta
Nickname(s)	Macan Kemayoran (The Kemayoran Tigers)
Short name	PSJ
Founded	28 November 1928 (1928-11-28) as Voetbalbond Indonesische Jacatra (VIJ)
Ground	Patriot Candrabaga Stadium Sultan Agung Stadium[1]
Capacity	30,000 35,000
Owner	PT. Persija Jaya Jakarta[2]
Chairman	I Gede Widiade
Head coach	Stefano Cugurra
League	Liga 1
2018	Liga 1, 4th
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Persatuan Sepakbola Indonesia Jakarta, commonly known as Persija Jakarta, is a Football club and they are based in Jakarta. The club has won 10 League titles, and they have not been relegated since the competition start in 1930.^[3] Persija is one of the teams who founded the PSSI in 1930 along with several other teams.^[4] They currently compete in the 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).^[5] 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.^[6] On the journey, Persija is the most successful team in the Perserikatan with successfully won it 9 times and managed to become champion at the beginning of the competition was held.

Rivalries

Nowadays, Persija have a rivalry with Persib Bandung. This derby is usually called as the "Indonesian Derby". Some people also call it as "Indonesian El Clásico" or "Indonesian Old Firm". However, this rivalry is seen more as a rivalry between both supporters. It have turned into hostility between both clubs hard-line supporters, Persija's The Jakmania and Persib's Bobotoh or Viking Persib Club. Influenced by the media and some individuals that want the hostility to be preserved, many hostile incidents have occurred until today.

There have been many events and incidents that occurred as a result of enduring hostility these two hard-line supporters. However in 2014, there had been a reconciliation held by the West Java Police to avoid unnecessary future clashes.^[7]

Despite the reconciliation, in Thursday, March 24, 2017, an incident happened again when a mysterious 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. As they were on their way, at Serayu Train Station in Bandung, a mysterious group of people throw rocks at the train they were riding. As a result, mirrors of the Serayu Train's four carriages were broken. Shortly after the incident happened, the mysterious group of people were caught and arrested by the police. This mysterious group of people consist of 9 people. The police suspected that they were Persib supporters, and the police were right. When they were asked on why they did it, they simply replied that they only avenged the Persib supporters who have been attacked by Persija supporters in the last time Persib vs Persija ended 0-1.^[8]

Stadium

Gelora Bung Karno Stadium

Persija currently plays their home matches at Gelora Bung Karno Stadium,^[9] but for the 2017 Liga 1, Persija will use the Patriot Chandrabhaga Stadium^[10] as their home stadium because the GBK stadium is being renovated for the 2018 Asian Games.

There have been plans 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.^[11]

Players

Current Squad

As of 5 April 2018^[12]

Note 1: The official club website lists the supporters as player number #12. 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 Rossy 5 DF Jaimerson 6 DF Maman Abdurrahman 7 MF Ramdani Lestaluhu 9 FW Marko Šimić 10 FW Rudi Widodo 11 MF Novri Setiawan 13 DF Gunawan Dwi Cahyo 14 DF Ismed Sofyan (Captain) 16 MF Asri Akbar 20 FW Bambang Pamungkas (Vice-captain) 23 MF Nugroho Fatchurahman 24 MF Yan Pieter Nasadit 25 MF Riko Simanjuntak 26 GK Andritany Ardhiyasa

No. Position Player 27 MF Fitra Ridwan 28 DF Rezaldi Hehanusa 29 MF Sandi Sute 32 MF Rohit Chand 34 GK Daryono 41 DF Anan Lestaluhu 43 DF Desly Romandhiance 70 MF Renan Silva 77 MF Frengky Kogoya 79 FW Osas Saha 81 DF Vava Mario Yagalo 85 DF Michael Orah 88 GK Shahar Ginanjar (on Loan from PSM Makasar) 89 MF Septinus Alua 99 FW Ahmad Syaifullah

Out on loan

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

No. Position Player 77 MF Jefri Kurniawan (at Arema until 31 December 2018) 33 MF Dany Saputra (at Bhayangkara F.C.) 44 MF Muhammad Rasul (at Kalteng Putra)

Coaching staff

Position	Staff
First-team Coach	Stefano Cugurra
Assistant Coach	Mustaqim
Assistant Coach	Yogie Nugraha
Goalkeeper Coach	Ahmad Fauzi
Physioterapy	Muhammad Yanizar Lubis
Team Doctor	Donny Kurniawan

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 coach and also as a player.^[13]

Years	Name
1999–2000	Ivan Venkov Kolev
2001	Sofyan Hadi
2003	Atanas Georgiev Georgiev
2004	Carlos García Cambón
2004	Sergei Dubrovin
2005–2006	Arcan Iurie
2006–2007	Rahmad Darmawan
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–	Stefano Cugurra

Kit Colors

Persija Jakarta's traditional football club color is red as the home kit, which is originally Persija Jakarta's color. Now the home kit is composed of orange color, accompanied by orange or red shorts and the socks is traditionally white. However the socks can be either be orange or red depending on the design. The traditional away kit is always all white but Persija also wears all black for the away kit. Persija originally wore a red color for home jersey but from 1997 Persija replaced it with orange color due to the decision from Jakarta governor at that time, Sutiyoso.^[14]

Honours

Further reading

• Ayati, Nur (2010). Liga Indonesia: Persija vs Persib (in Indonesian). Jakarta: Elex Media Komputindo. p. 24. ISBN 978-979-27-7425-2. ^[18]

References

External links

• Persiwa Wamena Official Website