PSM Makassar
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| Full name | Persatuan Sepak Bola Makassar |
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| Founded | 2 November 1915 (as Makassar Voetbal Bond) |
| Ground | Andi Mattalatta Stadium |
| Capacity | 15,000 |
| Owner | PT. PSM |
| Chairman | Munafri Arifuddin |
| Head coach | Robert Alberts |
| League | Liga 1 |
| 2014 | Indonesia Super League, 7th in First Round of East Zone |
| Website | Club home page |
PSM Makassar, or PSM, is an Indonesian professional football club based in Makassar, South Sulawesi. The club was founded in 1915 (as Makassar Voetbal Bond) and currently competes in the Liga 1. PSM plays their home matches in Andi Mattalatta Stadium.
PSM is the oldest team in the history of Indonesian football. They are also considered as one of the most successful ones in eastern Indonesia.
PSM was founded on November 2, 1915 as Makassar Voetbal Bond (MVB). They are considered as the oldest football club in Indonesia and as one of the oldest in South East Asia. During the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies, all type of organization with Dutch spellings are removed and MVB changed to PSM Makassar.
Some of the early players of PSM Makassar was regularly called to the Indonesia national football team, the most famous was the club legend Ramang. They won their first Perserikatan title in 1957 by beating PSMS Medan. They managed to also won the championship in 1959, 1965, 1966 and 1992.
After the merger of Perserikatan and Galatama in 1994, they won their first Indonesia Premier Division title in 2000. The squad consists of the combination of national team players, such as Miro Baldo Bento, Aji Santoso, Bima Sakti, Kurniawan Dwi Yulianto and Hendro Kartiko, and local talents, such as Ronny Ririn, Syamsudin Batola, Yusrifar Djafar, dan Rachman Usman. They won the 1999–2000 Liga Indonesia Premier Division by only losing 2 from 31 matches.
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