2014 Indonesia Super League

Football league season

Indonesia Super League
Season	2014
Dates	1 February – 7 November
Champions	Persib Bandung 2nd title
Relegated	Persepam Madura United Persita Tangerang Persijap Jepara Persiba Bantul
Champions League	Persib Bandung
AFC Cup	Persipura Jayapura
Matches played	247
Goals scored	670 (2.71 per match)
Top goalscorer	Emmanuel Kenmogne (25 goals)
Biggest home win	Arema Cronus 5–0 Persik Kediri (6 February 2014) Putra Samarinda 5–0 Perseru Serui (9 February 2014) Arema Cronus 5–0 Gresik United (8 May 2014) Persib Bandung 5–0 Persijap Jepara (19 August 2014)
Biggest away win	Persijap Jepara 0–8 Arema Cronus (5 September 2014)
Highest scoring	Persijap Jepara 0–8 Arema Cronus (5 September 2014)
Longest winning run	5 matches Arema Cronus
Longest unbeaten run	18 matches Persipura Jayapura
Longest winless run	10 matches Persiba Bantul
Longest losing run	9 matches Persijap Jepara
Highest attendance	66,143 Persija Jakarta 0–0 Persib Bandung (10 August 2014)
Lowest attendance	79 Persiram Raja Ampat 1–0 Putra Samarinda (17 March 2014)
← 2013 2015 →

The 2014 Indonesia Super League was the sixth season of the Indonesia Super League (ISL), a fully professional football competition as the top tier of the football league pyramid in Indonesia. The season was scheduled to begin in January 2014,^[1]^[2] but in the end PSSI decided that the competition would begin on 1 February 2014 and possibly end on 7 November 2014.^[3]^[4] Competition schedule was released on 17 January 2014 by PT Liga Indonesia in Jakarta.^[5]^[6]

Persipura were the defending champions, having won their fourth league title in 2013.

This season saw the merging of the ISL with the Indonesian Premier League (IPL) after three years of dualism. It was decided that only four teams from the Premier League would join the new Super League.^[7]

The 22 clubs were divided into two groups (regions) so that each group contained eleven participating teams; this was due to the many political agenda in Indonesia in 2014 such as the parliamentary election on 9 April 2014 and the presidential election on 9 July 2014.^[8]

Teams

Indonesia Super League was followed by 22 clubs consisting of fourteen Super League teams, four teams of the Premier League, three Premier Division teams and one team winning the play-off between ranked 15th Super League and ranked 4th Premier Division.^[9]

PSPS Pekanbaru, Persidafon Dafonsoro and Persiwa Wamena were relegated during the end of the Previous season. They were replaced by the best three teams from the 2013 Liga Indonesia Premier Division (LI), Persebaya DU (Bhayangkara), Perseru Serui and Persik Kediri.^[10]^[11]^[12]

Fourth-placed Premier Division side Persikabo Bogor failed to be promoted to the Super League after losing to the 15th-placed finishers of 2013 Super League, Pelita Bandung Raya by the score of 2–1.^[13]

Four teams of the 2013 Indonesian Premier League would participate: Semen Padang, Persiba Bantul, Persijap Jepara and PSM Makassar.

The whole composition of the 22 teams above was decided by the PSSI executive committee members that were qualified as participants in the Indonesia Super League at a meeting held on 10 December 2013 at The Sultan Hotel, Jakarta. But the composition was still provisional because some clubs still had to resolve their financial problems. If not completed, they were then dropped from the competition.^[14]^[15]^[16] In addition, PSSI also gave an opportunity for the three clubs (Perseman Manokwari, Persepar Palangkaraya and Pro Duta) that were not included in the composition of the participants had been decided by PSSI to make an appeal.^[15]^[16]

PSSI and PT Liga Indonesia officially announced the 22 clubs were eligible to enter the Indonesia Super League (ISL) next season. See 2014 ISL schedule.^[17] The announcement of next season's participants was done by PSSI secretary general Joko Driyono in the office of PT Liga Indonesia in Kuningan Place, Kuningan, South Jakarta on Monday, 23 December 2013.^[18] With the 22 participants of the ISL, then certainly for the next season, the highest caste of Indonesian football league was divided into two areas/groups, with each area comprising 11 clubs.^[19]

Stadium and locations

Arema

Barito Putera

Gresik Utd

Persepam
Persebaya ISL (Bhayangkara)

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Locations of the teams in the 2014 Indonesia Super League. Blue: Western Group. Red: Eastern Group

Club	Regency or City	Province	Stadium	Capacity	2013 season
Arema Cronus	Malang	East Java	Kanjuruhan	42,449	2nd in Super League
Barito Putera	Banjarmasin	South Kalimantan	Demang Lehman	15,000	6th in Super League
Gresik United	Gresik	East Java	Petrokimia	25,000	9th in Super League
Persepam Madura United	Pamekasan	East Java	Gelora Bangkalan	15,000	10th in Super League
Mitra Kukar	Kutai Kartanegara	East Kalimantan	Aji Imbut	35,000	3rd in 2013 Super League
Pelita Bandung Raya	Bandung	West Java	Si Jalak Harupat	40,000	15th in Super League
Persebaya ISL (Bhayangkara)	Surabaya	East Java	Gelora Bung Tomo	55,000	Premier Division Champions
Persela Lamongan	Lamongan	East Java	Surajaya	14,000	12th in Super League
Perseru Serui	Yapen Islands	Papua	Marora¹ Mandala¹	5,000 30,000	Premier Division Runner-up
Persib Bandung	Bandung	West Java	Si Jalak Harupat	40,000	4th in Super League
Persiba Balikpapan	Balikpapan	East Kalimantan	Persiba Stadium	12,500	13th in Super League
Persiba Bantul	Bantul	Yogyakarta	Sultan Agung	18,000	Premier League team
Persija Jakarta	Jakarta	Jakarta	Gelora Bung Karno	88,083	11th in Super League
Persijap Jepara	Jepara	Central Java	Gelora Bumi Kartini	23,000	Premier League team
Persik Kediri	Kediri	East Java	Brawijaya Stadium	20,000	Premier Division Third Place
Persipura Jayapura	Jayapura	Papua	Mandala	30,000	Super League Champions
Persiram Raja Ampat	Sorong Regency	West Papua	Maguwoharjo²	31,700	8th in Super League
Persita Tangerang	Tangerang	Banten	Singaperbangsa	20,000	14th in 2013 Super League
PSM Makassar	Makassar	South Sulawesi	Andi Mattalatta³ Gelora Mandiri³ Gelora Bung Tomo³	15,000 20,000 55,000	Premier League team
Putra Samarinda	Samarinda	East Kalimantan	Segiri⁴ Palaran⁴	16,000 60,000	7th in 2013 Super League
Semen Padang	Padang	West Sumatra	Haji Agus Salim	10,000	Premier League team
Sriwijaya	Palembang	South Sumatera	Gelora Sriwijaya	36,000	5th in Super League

Note:

^1 Perseru Serui used Mandala Stadium in Jayapura due to Marora Stadium being renovated to meet the stadium standards set by the league.^[20]
^2 Persiram Raja Ampat this season used Maguwoharjo Stadium in Sleman because their new stadium in Waisai was under construction and targeted to be completed in 2015.^[21]
^3 PSM Makassar used Gelora Bung Tomo Stadium in Surabaya because their stadium was being renovated to meet standards.^[22]

^4 Putra Samarinda moved the remaining home games of the Segiri Stadium towards Palaran Stadium.^[23]

Personnel and kits

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

Team	Coach	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Arema Cronus	Suharno	Ahmad Bustomi	Joma^[24]	Anker Sport
Barito Putera	Salahudin	Mekan Nasyrow¹	SPECS	Hasnur Group
Gresik United	Ángel Vera	Otávio Dutra²	Joma	Phonska
Persepam MU	Arcan Iurie	Zaenal Arief	Joma	Carrefour
Mitra Kukar	Stefan Hansson	Zulkifli Syukur	Mitre	Petrona
Pelita Bandung Raya	Dejan Antonić	Gastón Castaño	Mitre
Persebaya ISL (Bhayangkara)	Rahmad Darmawan	Greg Nwokolo	SPECS	Avian Brands
Persela Lamongan	Eduard Tjong	Choirul Huda	Diadora	So Nice^[25]
Perseru Serui	Vacant	Liston Fonataba	TBA	Bank Papua
Persib Bandung	Djajang Nurdjaman	Firman Utina	League	Achilles (home kit) Corsa (away kit) Bank BJB (homeaway kit)
Persiba Balikpapan	Liestiadi	Patrice Nzekou³	Injers^[26]	Philips,^[26] Bankaltim
Persiba Bantul	Sajuri Syahid	Ezequiel González⁴	Reds!	Bantul
Persija Jakarta	Benny Dollo	Fabiano Beltrame	League^[27]	K-Vision
Persijap Jepara	Yudi Suryata	Evaldo Silva	Eureka^[28]	Bank Jateng
Persik Kediri	Hartono Ruslan	Kusnul Yuli	Joma
Persipura Jayapura	Jacksen F. Tiago	Boaz Solossa⁵	SPECS	Freeport Indonesia
Persiram Raja Ampat	Gomes de Olivera	Kubay Quaiyan		Fourking Mandiri
Persita Tangerang	Fabio Oliveira	Maman Abdurrahman	Mitre	Samudera Chandra Persada Indonesia
PSM Makassar	Rudi Keltjes	Ponaryo Astaman	Nike	Semen Bosowa
Putra Samarinda	Nil Maizar	Muhammad Roby	Joma	Bankaltim
Semen Padang	Jafri Sastra	Hengky Ardiles	Mizuno	Semen Indonesia
Sriwijaya	Subangkit	Erol Iba⁶	Joma	Bukit Asam

^1 Coach has appointed Mekan Nasyrow as captain Barito Putera replace Fathlul Rahman.
^2 Coach has appointed Shohei Matsunaga as captain Gresik United replace Mahyadi Panggabean.^[29] Mahyadi take back the team captaincy before he suffered an injury, now captaincy handed by Otávio Dutra.
^3 Wawan Hendrawan was captain of Persiba Balikpapan, replaced by Fernando Soler began on 15 March in a game against PSM Makassar.^[30] After Soler leave club captaincy handed by Patrice Nzekou.
^4 Coach has appointed Ezequiel González as captain Persiba Bantul replace Eduardo Bizarro.
^5 Boaz is Persipura captain but he suffered an injury. Ian Kabes was handed the captaincy in Boaz's absence on February.
^6 Coach has appointed Erol Iba as captain Sriwijaya replace Lancine Koné.^[31]

Coach changes

Pre-season

Team	Outgoing coach	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Incoming coach	Date of appointment
Sriwijaya	Kas Hartadi	Contract terminated	September 2013	Subangkit	October 2013
Persebaya ISL	Tony Ho	Mutual consent	September 2013	Rahmad Darmawan	7 November 2013^[32]
Putra Samarinda	Sartono Anwar	Resigned	September 2013	Mundari Karya	12 November 2013^[33]
Persita	Giman Nurjaman	End of caretaker role	September 2013	Arcan Iurie	2 December 2013^[34]
Gresik United	Widodo C. Putro	End of contract	October 2013	Agus Yuwono	17 November 2013^[35]
Persik	Aris Budi	Mutual consent	7 October 2013^[36]	Hartono Ruslan	5 December 2013^[37]
Pelita Bandung Raya	Darko Janacković	Contract terminated	26 October 2013^[38]	Dejan Antonić	19 November 2013^[39]
Persela	Didik Ludiyanto	End of caretaker role	October 2013	Eduard Tjong	29 November 2013^[40]
Gresik United	M. Basri	End of contract	October 2013	Sajuri Syahid	30 January 2014^[41]
Persiram	Gomes de Oliveira	Contract ended	November 2013	Widodo C. Putro	November 2013
PSM	Imran Amirullah	End of caretaker role	November 2013	Jörg Steinbrünner	24 November 2013^[42]
Arema Cronus	Rahmad Darmawan	Signed by Persebaya ISL	7 November 2013	Suharno	26 November 2013^[43]
Persiba Balikpapan	Herry Kiswanto	Sacked	November 2013	Jaya Hartono	4 December 2013^[44]
Persiram	Widodo C. Putro	Signed by Indonesia	17 December 2013^[45]	Gomes de Oliveira	17 December 2013^[45]

In season

Team	Outgoing coach	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming coach	Date of appointment
PSM	Jörg Steinbrünner	Resigned	12 February 2014^[46]	11th East	Rudi Keltjes	12 February 2014^[47]
Persepam MU	Daniel Roekito	Resigned	15 March 2014^[48]	9th East	Arcan Iurie	25 March 2014^[49]
Persita	Arcan Iurie	Resigned	21 March 2014^[50]	7th West	Fabio Oliveira	30 March 2014^[51]
Gresik United	Agus Yuwono	Sacked	21 April 2014^[52]	9th West	Alfredo Vera	21 April 2014^[53]
Persijap	Raja Isa	Sacked	29 April 2014	11th West	Evaldo Silva (interim player-coach)	29 April 2014^[54]
Perseru	Robby Maruanaya	Contract terminated	2 May 2014^[55]	10th East	Choirul Huda (interim)	2 May 2014
Putra Samarinda	Mundari Karya	Resigned	9 May 2014	9th East	Nil Maizar	11 May 2014^[56]
Persijap	Evaldo Silva (interim player-coach)	End of caretaker role	13 May 2014	11th West	Yudi Suryata	13 May 2014^[57]
Persiba Balikpapan	Jaya Hartono	Resigned	29 May 2014^[58]	9th East	Liestiadi	29 May 2014

Foreign players

Club	Visa 1	Visa 2	Visa 3	Asian Visa	Non-Visa Foreign¹	Former Player(s)
Arema Cronus	Alberto Gonçalves	Thierry Gathuessi	Gustavo López^[60]	None	Victor Igbonefo Cristian Gonzáles	None
Barito Putera	Herman Abanda^[61]	James Koko Lomell^[62]	Mekan Nasyrow^[63]	Ha Dae-won	None	Shaka Bangura Juan Acuña
Gresik United	Otávio Dutra^[64]	Gustavo Chena^[65]	Pedro Velázquez^[66]	Shohei Matsunaga	None	Pape N'Diaye
Persepam MU	Sílvio Escobar^[67]	Diego Fretes	Eduard Văluţă	None	None	José Jara Alain N'Kong Aboubakar Sillah
Mitra Kukar	Erick Weeks Lewis^[68]	Reinaldo Lobo	Herman Dzumafo	Park Chul-hyung	Raphael Maitimo Diego Michiels	None
Pelita Bandung Raya	Gastón Castaño	Deniss Romanovs	Boban Nikolić	None	Kim Kurniawan	None
Persebaya ISL	Emmanuel Kenmogne	O.K. John	Isaac Pupo	None	Greg Nwokolo	Julio Larrea Agu Casmir Patrice Nzekou Marcus Mokake
Persela	Roman Golian	Srđan Lopičić	Addison Alves	None	None	None
Perseru	Seme Pattrick	Ali Khaddafi	Jean-Paul Boumsong	None	None	Sunday Oboh
Persib	Makan Konaté	Vladimir Vujović	Djibril Coulibaly	None	None	None
Persiba Balikpapan	Ansu Toure	Patrice Nzekou	Pape Latyr N'Diaye	None	None	Fernando Soler
Persiba Bantul	Émile Mbamba	Ezequiel González	George Oyedepo	Atsushi Yonezawa	None	Ngon A Djam Eduardo Bizzaro
Persija	Fabiano Beltrame	Ivan Bošnjak	Boakay Foday	Rohit Chand	None	Želimir Terkeš
Persijap	Evaldo Silva	John Tarkpor	Carlos Sciucatti	None	None	Christian Lenglolo Han Dong-won Claudinho
Persik	Guy Mamoun	Udo Fortune	Franck Bezi	TBD	None	J.P. Boumsong Michael Onwatuegwu
Persipura	Bio Paulin	Yoo Jae-hoon	Robertino Pugliara	Lim Joon-sik	None	Boakay Foday
Persiram	Kubay Quaiyan	Georges Mbida Messi	Habib Bamogo	None	None	Osas Saha
Persita	Cristian Carrasco	Luis Durán	None	Kenji Adachihara	None	None
PSM	Boman Aimé	Mamadou Diallo	Camara Fassawa	Michael Baird	None	Mario Costas Robertino Pugliara Roman Chmelo
Putra Samarinda	Ilija Spasojević	Pavel Solomin	Naser Al Sebai	None	None	Ebrahim Loveinian
Semen Padang	Esteban Vizcarra	David Pagbe	Osas Saha	Yoo Hyun-goo	None	Ezequiel González
Sriwijaya	Lanciné Koné	Abdoulaye Maïga	Frank Ongfiang	None	None	Vali Khorsandipish

Note:

^1 Those players who were born and started their professional career abroad but have since gained Indonesian residency
^2 Injury replacement players
^1 Those players who were born and started their professional career abroad but have since gained Indonesian residency

^2 Foreign residents or foreign residents of Indonesian descent who have chosen to represent Indonesia at international level

First round

The first round matches took place between 1 February and 5 September 2014.

Tie-breaking criteria^[69]

Ranking in each group shall be determined as follows:

Greater number of points obtained in all the group matches;
Result of the direct match between the teams concerned;
Goal difference in all the group matches;
Greater number of goals scored in all the group matches.

If two or more teams are equal on the basis on the above four criteria, the place shall be determined as follows:

Drawing lots by the Organising Committee.

West

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Arema Cronus	20	14	4	2	49	13	+36	46	Advance to second round
2	Persib	20	12	5	3	42	20	+22	41
3	Semen Padang	20	11	5	4	30	17	+13	38
4	Pelita Bandung Raya	20	10	5	5	30	21	+9	35
5	Persija	20	9	7	4	27	15	+12	34
6	Sriwijaya	20	6	5	9	22	29	−7	23
7	Barito Putera	20	6	4	10	23	31	−8	22
8	Persik Kediri	20	6	3	11	29	36	−7	21^[a]
9	Gresik United	20	4	9	7	20	32	−12	21^[a]
10	Persita (R)	20	4	3	13	21	35	−14	15	Relegation to Premier Division
11	Persijap Jepara (R)	20	2	2	16	11	55	−44	8	Relegation to Premier Division

Updated to match(es) played on 5 September 2014. Source: ISL table, Source
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head goals scored; 5) goal difference; 6) number of goals scored.
(R) Relegated
Notes:

^ ^a ^b Persik Kediri 4 points, +3 GD; Persegres 1 point, −3 GD

Results

Home \ Away	ARE	BPT	GRE	PBR	PSB	PSJ	PSJP	PSIK	PTA	SPD	SRI
Arema Cronus		2–0	5–0	3–0	2–2	1–0	4–1	5–0	1–1	1–2	3–1
Barito Putera	1–4		0–0	1–0	0–2	1–2	4–1	3–0	2–0	0–0	0–0
Gresik United	0–0	2–2		0–0	1–4	1–1	3–2	1–1	3–1	1–0	3–0
Pelita Bandung Raya	0–1	1–0	4–1		1–0	2–2	3–0	3–2	2–0	1–1	0–1
Persib	3–2	3–1	4–1	2–2		0–0	5–0	3–0	2–1	1–2	1–0
Persija	0–1	3–1	1–0	1–1	0–0		4–1	1–0	1–0	2–0	1–1
Persijap Jepara	0–8	0–2	0–0	1–2	1–1	0–2		1–0	0–2	1–2	1–0
Persik Kediri	2–2	4–1	3–0	1–2	0–3	2–1	4–0		3–1	1–2	5–1
Persita	0–1	1–2	3–2	1–3	1–2	0–4	4–0	1–1		2–4	1–1
Semen Padang	0–1	2–0	1–1	2–1	3–1	0–0	3–0	3–0	0–1		2–1
Sriwijaya	0–2	4–2	0–0	1–2	2–3	3–1	2–1	2–0	1–0	1–1

Updated to match(es) played on 5 September 2014. Source: ISL schedule & result
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

East

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Persebaya ISL (Bhayangkara)^[a]	20	14	4	2	47	13	+34	43	Advance to second round
2	Persipura	20	10	9	1	29	15	+14	39
3	Mitra Kukar	20	11	4	5	34	18	+16	37
4	Persela	20	8	4	8	28	33	−5	28
5	Persiba	20	7	4	9	21	28	−7	25^[b]
6	Putra Samarinda	20	6	7	7	29	22	+7	25^[b]
7	PSM	20	7	4	9	22	26	−4	25^[b]
8	Perseru	20	6	5	9	21	29	−8	23^[c]
9	Persiram	20	6	5	9	17	21	−4	23^[c]
10	Persepam Madura United (R)	20	6	5	9	28	35	−7	23^[c]	Relegation to Premier Division
11	Persiba Bantul (R)	20	2	3	15	17	53	−36	9	Relegation to Premier Division

^ Persebaya ISL (Bhayangkara) three points deducted as a punishment from FIFA because their salary arrears former foreign players they are Serge Ngankou Elongo, they also fined worth 5% each year of the total arrears of salary on the player.^[70]
^ ^a ^b ^c Persiba 12 points, +5 GD; Putra Samarinda 4 points, −1 GD; PSM 1 point, −4 GD
^ ^a ^b ^c Perseru 8 points, +4 GD; Persiram Raja Ampat 4 points, 0 GD; Persepam MU 4 points, −4 GD

Results

Home \ Away	PPMU	MKU	BHA	PSL	PSR	PBA	PSBN	PPR	PSRM	PSM	PUSA
Persepam Madura United		1–1	1–4	3–1	1–1	4–1	3–1	1–2	2–1	1–0	1–1
Mitra Kukar	3–1		2–4	5–1	1–0	4–0	4–0	0–0	1–0	2–1	2–0
Persebaya ISL (Bhayangkara)	3–1	2–1		3–0	4–0	4–0	4–1	1–1	1–1	4–0	1–0
Persela	3–0	1–1	3–0		1–3	1–1	2–0	2–0	2–1	3–1	2–2
Perseru	4–1	1–0	0–1	0–0		3–2	1–1	0–0	1–1	0–1	2–1
Persiba	2–1	0–1	0–0	0–2	2–0		1–1	1–2	3–0	1–0	1–0
Persiba Bantul	0–2	1–2	0–5	2–3	3–2	3–2		2–5	0–1	1–3	1–1
Persipura	2–2	1–1	2–1	3–0	2–1	1–0	2–0		1–0	1–1	2–0
Persiram	2–0	2–0	0–3	2–0	0–1	0–0	3–0	0–0		1–2	1–0
PSM	1–0	0–2	0–2	3–1	2–1	0–2	4–0	0–0	1–1		1–1
Putra Samarinda	2–2	2–1	0–0	3–0	5–0	1–2	3–0	2–2	3–0	2–1

Updated to match(es) played on 5 September 2014. Source: ISL schedule & result
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Second round

This round divided the top four teams of each region in the first round into two groups of four. The second round matches took place between 4 October and 30 October 2014. ^[71]

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Persipura	6	4	0	2	9	6	+3	12	Advance to knockout stage
2	Arema Cronus	6	3	2	1	14	7	+7	11	Advance to knockout stage
3	Semen Padang	6	3	1	2	10	8	+2	10
4	Persela	6	0	1	5	6	18	−12	1

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

4 October 2014

13:30

Persipura Jayapura	2–0	Persela Lamongan
Bonai 62' Kayame 89'	Report

Mandala Stadium, Jayapura

Attendance: 3,315

Referee: Nusur Fadillah

4 October 2014