2008–09 Liga Indonesia Premier Division

The 2008–09 Liga Indonesia Premier Division (also known as Liga Esia for sponsorship reasons) was the 14th season of the

Indonesia Super League

as the first tier.

Changes from 2007–08 season

The Football Association of Indonesia's decision to create a new Indonesia Super League relegated the Liga Indonesia Premier Division to the second tier of Indonesian football for the first time.^[1]

For the 2007 season, teams were allocated to one of two groups (with 15 and 14 teams respectively) in the first round. The top four in each group advanced to the second round, or quarter final. The eight teams in the second round were divided into two groups of four, the top two teams in each group advancing to the semifinal in a knock-out system. Champions, runners-up, and 3rd-place teams were promoted to the Indonesia Super League, while the 4th-place team faced the 15th-place team from the Indonesia Super League in a promotion/relegation play-off match. The 14th and 15th-place teams in the first round from each group were relegated to the First Division.^[2]

Season overview

Twenty-nine teams took part. The season began on 4 August 2008 and the last games were played on 29 May 2009.^[2]

The top four from group 1 in the first round were

Persigo Gorontalo. The group winners – Persisam Samarinda and Persema Malang – hosted the quarter-finals, both advancing to the semifinal, again as group winners. In the semifinal Persisam Samarinda beat PSPS Pekanbaru and Persema Malang beat Persebaya Surabaya. The championship was won by Persisam Samarinda with a 1–0 victory over Persema Malang.^[2]

Persisam Samarinda,

PSPS Pekanbaru were automatically promoted to the Indonesia Super League. The promotion/relegation playoff was won by Persebaya Surabaya, who beat Indonesia Super League 15th-place team PSMS Medan in a penalty shoot-out to also win promotion. Persibat Batang, PSP Padang, and Persekabpas Pasuruan were relegated to the Liga Indonesia First Division.^[2]

On 12 November 2008, in their match away to

PSSI in recognition of their justice, bravery and loyalty, which was considered to have promoted the image of football in Indonesia.^[6]

On 7 March 2009, during a match between

PKT Bontang at Mulawarman Stadium, Jumadi Abdi was hospitalized after colliding with Persela's Deny Tarkas.^[7]^[8] Abdi suffered an injury to the stomach and had surgery on his intestines, but died eight days later.^[9]^[7]

Teams

Promoted from First Division:

Stadiums and locations

Persigo

Persibom

Perseman

Padang teams

PSP

Semen Padang

Yogyakarta teams

PSIM

PSS

Persiba Bantul

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Locations of the teams in the 2008-2009 Liga Indonesia Premier Division.

Blue: West Division;

Red: East Division

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Group 1	Group 2
Persisam Samarinda	Persema Malang
PSPS Pekanbaru	Persebaya Surabaya
Mitra Kukar	Persiba Bantul
Persikabo Bogor	Persigo Gorontalo
Persikab Bandung	Persibom Bolaang Mongondow
Persiraja Banda Aceh	Persibo Bojonegoro
Semen Padang	Perseman Manokwari
Persih Tembilahan	PSIR Rembang
PSDS Deli Serdang	Gresik United
Persikad Depok	PSS Sleman
PSAP Sigli	Persis Solo
PSSB Bireun	PSIM Yogyakarta
Persikota Tangerang	Persiku Kudus
Persibat Batang	Persekabpas Pasuruan
PSP Padang

Club	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3
Mitra Kukar	Germain Bationo	Marc Orland Etougou	-
Persibat	-	-	-
Persih	Raymond Nsangue	Sadissou Bako	-
Persikab	Amos Marah	Mamadou Niane	-
Persikabo	Mauro Gaston	-	-
Persikad	Jean-Paul Boumsong	Nnana Onana	Yusuke Sasa
Persikota	Esteban Busto	Esteban Guillén	-
Persiraja	Leonardo Felicia	Tong Ely Mourel	-
Putra Samarinda	Gustavo Ortiz	Patricio Jiménez	Aldo Barreto
PSAP	Serge Elembe	Fallah Johnson	Sunday Seah
PSDS	Anderson Pohos	Mahop Guy	Osas Saha
PSP	Noah Romuald	-	-
PSPS	Cyril Tchana	Henry Njobi	Herman Dzumafo
PSSB	Antônio Teles	-	-
Semen Padang	Wanderson da Silva	Edward Junior Wilson	Stephen Mennoh

Club	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3
Gresik	Brahima Traoré	Christopher Ikechukwu	-
Persebaya	Anderson da Silva	Jairon	Javier Roca
Persekabpas	Francisco Rotunno	Udie Mathias	-
Persema	Christian Lenglolo	Seme Pattrick	Brima Pepito
Perseman	Moussa Keita	George Oyedepo	-
Persiba	Ezequiel González	Cristiano	Michael Onwatuegwu
Persibo	Bessala	Varney Boakay	-
Persibom	Antônio Cláudio	Aleksandar Paunovic	-
Persigo	Claudio Martínez	Daouda Sylla	-
Persiku	Crepin Owang Abong	-	-
Persis	-	-	-
PSIM	-	-	-
PSIR	Evandro	Michael Babouaken	Roberto Kwateh
PSS	Angel Vera	Peter Lipede	-

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Persisam Samarinda	28	17	7	4	52	24	+28	58	Advance to second round
2	PSPS Pekanbaru	28	17	5	6	47	25	+22	56
3	Mitra Kukar	28	17	1	10	38	28	+10	52
4	Persikabo Bogor	28	13	10	5	44	27	+17	49
5	Persikab Bandung	28	14	6	8	46	34	+12	48
6	Persiraja Banda Aceh	28	12	5	11	32	34	−2	41
7	Semen Padang	28	10	10	8	42	30	+12	40
8	Persih Tembilahan	28	10	7	11	39	35	+4	37
9	PSDS Deli Serdang	28	10	4	14	27	34	−7	34
10	Persikad Depok^[a]	28	10	6	12	33	42	−9	33
11	PSAP Sigli	28	10	3	15	28	47	−19	33
12	PSSB Bireun	28	7	6	15	23	34	−11	27
13	Persikota Tangerang	28	7	6	15	29	52	−23	27
14	Persibat Batang (R)	28	8	2	18	25	44	−19	26	Relegation to First Division
15	PSP Padang (R)	28	6	6	16	24	39	−15	24	Relegation to First Division

Home \ Away	MKU	BAT	TEM	PSBD	BOG	PUR	PTA	PBA	PSA	PSAP	PDS	PPA	PEK	PSSB	SPA
Mitra Kukar		2–0	2–1	2–1	1–0	3–0	1–0	1–0	1–0	6–0	1–0	1–0	1–0	5–1	1–0
Persibat Batang	2–1		1–2	2–2	0–1	0–3	0–1	3–0	0–1	1–0	1–1	3–1	2–1	2–0	1–0
Persih Tembilahan	1–2	1–0		4–0	1–1	0–0	4–1	1–0	1–2	5–0	1–0	1–0	2–2	2–1	2–2
Persikab Bandung	3–1	4–2	3–1		2–2	2–0	4–0	3–1	0–1	2–0	1–0	3–0	2–1	3–2	1–1
Persikabo Bogor	3–0	2–0	1–0	1–1		1–1	3–0	2–0	2–2	3–1	2–0	2–1	2–0	1–0	0–0
Persikad Depok	3–1	5–2	1–0	2–0	2–1		0–0	2–1	0–1	4–0	3–0	1–3	0–2	2–1	1–1
Persikota Tangerang	2–3	3–0	5–2	1–3	1–3	1–0		0–0	0–1	0–1	2–0	0–3	2–2	1–1	3–2
Persiraja Banda Aceh	2–0	1–0	1–0	2–1	2–0	1–1	2–1		2–1	3–3	1–0	3–1	0–1	2–1	1–0
Persisam Samarinda	1–0	1–0	1–1	2–0	2–1	6–0	6–1	1–1		2–0	5–1	1–0	3–0	2–1	4–2
PSAP Sigli	0–0	1–0	2–1	1–2	1–2	2–0	4–0	2–1	1–1		1–0	3–0	1–2	1–0	1–0
PSDS Deli Serdang	2–0	2–1	2–0	3–2	3–2	1–1	2–0	0–1	1–0	1–0		1–0	0–1	5–0	1–1
PSP Padang	1–2	0–1	1–1	0–1	2–2	1–0	2–2	3–2	1–1	2–1	0–0		1–1	1–0	0–1
PSPS Pekanbaru	2–0	2–0	2–1	2–0	2–2	3–0	2–0	1–0	2–2	6–1	2–0	2–0		2–0	3–2
PSSB Bireuen	1–0	1–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	3–1	0–1	1–1	3–0	2–0	3–0	1–0	0–1		1–1
Semen Padang	2–0	5–1	2–3	0–0	2–2	5–0	1–1	3–0	2–2	1–0	2–1	2–0	1–0	1–0

2008–09 Liga Indonesia Premier Division

Changes from 2007–08 season

Season overview

Teams

Stadiums and locations

Groups

Foreign Players

Group 1

Group 2

First round

Group 1

Standings

Positions by round

Result

Group 2

Standings

Positions by round

Result

Second round

Group A

Group B

Knockout phase

Semifinals

Third place playoff

Final

Promotion/relegation playoff

Awards

Top scorers

Best Player

See also

References

External links

Persebaya Surabaya	1–1 (a.e.t.)	PSMS Medan
Jairon 88'	Report	Zada 32'
Penalties
Anderson	6–5	Guillen Carbiny Okto

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