Persija
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| Full name | Persatuan Sepak Bola Indonesia Jakarta |
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| Nickname(s) | Macan Kemayoran (The Kemayoran Tigers) |
| Founded | 28 November 1928 (as Voetbalbond Indonesische Jacatra) |
| Ground | Manahan Stadium |
| Capacity | 25,000 |
| Owner | PT. Persija Jaya |
| Chairman | Ferry Paulus |
| Head coach | Stefano Cugurra |
| League | Liga 1 |
| 2016 | 14th |
| Website | Club home page |
Persatuan Sepak Bola Indonesia Jakarta, commonly known as Persija Jakarta, is a professional football club based in Jakarta, Indonesia. They currently compete in the Indonesia Soccer Championship A.
MH Thamrin is one of the national heroes who was a fan and highly involved in VIJ which is now Persija Jakarta. He took care and helped VIJ in many ways, one of them was to construct the VIJ Stadium in Petojo, Central Jakarta using his own money.
Nowadays, Persija have a rivalry with Persib Bandung, which is more seen as a rivalry between both supporters and have turned into hostility between both clubs hard-line supporters. Influenced by the media and some individuals that want the hostility to be preserved, many hostile incidents have occurred until today. In 2014, there had been a reconciliation held by Polda Jabar to avoid unnecessary future clashes.
Despite the reconciliation, an incident happened in 22 October 2016 when a Persib supporter was beaten to death by tens of Persija supporters. The supporter was on his way to Wibawa Mukti Stadium to watch the Persib play against Persegres Gresik United, where before he reached the stadium, was thrown by rocks and helmets when he was on his motorcycle and assaulted after he fell to the ground. He was brought to the hospital but died the next day.
Persija currently plays their home matches at Gelora Bung Karno Stadium. There have been a plan to make a new stadium for Persija in north Jakarta, which will be called Jakarta BMW Stadium. The plan is still in early planning and no construction have been done.
As of 11 February 2017.
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
Note 1: The official club website lists the supporters as player number #12.
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.
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