Persija Jakarta


Persatuan Sepakbola Indonesia Jakarta, is a football team based in Jakarta, Indonesia. Persija Jakarta is the most successful football team in Indonesia. The team has won 11 league titles and have never been relegated since the competition start in 1930. Persija is one of the teams who founded the Indonesian football association in 1930 along with several other teams.

History

Foundation and early years (1928–1951)

Persija was established on November 28, 1928, with the forerunner to be appointed Voetbalbond Indonesish Jakarta. VIJ is one of the clubs participating in PSSI with the participation of VIJ representatives, Mr. Soekardi in the formation of PSSI in Societeit Hadiprojo Yogyakarta, Saturday 19 April 1930.
During the Dutch East Indies era, Persija's initial name was VIJ. Post-Republic of Indonesia returned to the form of a unitary state, VIJ changed its name to Persija. At that time, NIVU as a rival organization for PSSI still existed. On the other hand, VBO as a rival match for Persija also still exists.

Perserikatan era (1951–1994)

In mid-1951, the VBO held a meeting to liquidate and ask for approval to join Persija. In its development, VBO joined Persija. In the triangle tournament, a combination of Indonesian Nation players joined in the "new" Persija associated with the Netherlands and the Chinese.

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) used the Patriot Chandrabhaga Stadium 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, Wibawa Mukti Stadium, Sultan Agung Stadium and PTIK Stadium.
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, and now it is being built. The new stadium is targeted to be completed by October 2021.
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.

Players

Current squad

Naturalized player

Out on loan

Personnel

Kit Colours

Persija Jakarta's traditional football club colour is red as their home kit. In 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 founded in the same year, they decide to wear orange colour as the identity of Jakarta's football supporter colour. After 19 years, in 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.
PeriodKit Provider
1970s–1990sAdidas
1998–2000Reebok
2000–2003Nike
2004–2007Specs
2007–2009Diadora
2009–2017League
2018–2019Specs
2020–Juara

Supporters and rivalries

Supporters

Persija Jakarta's supporters called :id:The Jakmania|The Jakmania. Founded in 1997 by Gugun Gondrong and Ferry Indrasjarief with orange colour as their identity. :id:The Jakmania|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. They were allowed to come to every place of the away match, except for the matches against Persib Bandung and Persebaya Surabaya because of restrictions by the Indonesia national security otoritation in order to avoid the clash between each supporters.
Not only rival clubs that have anthems.
The song "Satu Jiwa" is an anthem that is always sung when the match is over, this song was also created directly by the Chairman of Jakmania.

Rivalries

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. 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. 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.
The rivalries with PSM Makassar is very emotional up to now and can be called the Red Derby Perserikatan recalling the Perserikatan era.
Persija Jakarta's has competition with several clubs in the Perserikatan between PSM Makassar, Persebaya Surabaya, and PSMS Medan.

Honours

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.

AFC (Asian competitions)

Current Rank Country Team Points
78Al-Faisaly17.78
79Dhaka Abahani16.37
80Persija Jakarta16.13
81Al-Wahda15.66
82Bangkok United15.17

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.
While in 2001, Antonio Claudio also became a champion with Persija as a player and repeated that moment in 2018 as fitness coach.
YearsName
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
2019 Julio Bañuelos
2019 Edson Tavares

Notable former players

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

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