The 2021 Menpora Cup ( id, Piala Menpora 2021) was a pre-season tournament held by the

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ahead of the 2021 Liga 1. The tournament started on 21 March and finished with a two-legged final on 22 and 25 April 2021. Due to the

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, all matches were played behind closed doors. The 2021 edition was the second edition of Menpora Cup, with the first edition being held in 2013 which was won by Arema who defeated Australian side

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by 2–1 in the final. Persija won the finals 4–1 on aggregate against

Persib Persatuan Sepakbola Indonesia Bandung ( 'Indonesian Football Association of Bandung'), commonly referred to as Persib Bandung, or simply Persib, is a professional football club based in Bandung, West Java, which competes in Liga 1, the to ...

for the title.

Teams

PT Liga Indonesia Baru (LIB) decided that only 18 teams that participated in the 2020 Liga 1 could join this tournament. Previously, two Liga 2 teams,

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and

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, were invited. However, their participation was canceled after PT LIB held a virtual meeting.

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decided not to take part in the tournament which led to only 17 teams participating.

Draw

The draw of the tournament was held on 8 March 2021. Eighteen teams were divided into four groups, the first two groups contain five teams, while the rest contain only four teams. Four teams, Persija,

, Arema, and

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, were distributed to separate groups to ensure they do not meet each other in order to mitigate security risks from travelling fans of these rivalling teams. The draw resulted in the following groups:

Venues

Four venues in four cities on Java Island were selected for the tournament.

Regulations

The regulations were as follows: * Each team might register 30 players and did not require bringing all players to the stadium. * Teams must register three goalkeepers. * Player registration started on 9 March 2021 until one day before of each group's first match. * Each team allowed to register four foreign players, including one slot for a player from AFC countries. * Teams could only register a maximum of 10 officials with eight people allowed to sit on the bench. * Each match was held for 90 minutes by adding a cooling break in the 30th and 75th minutes. The duration of the cooling break was 3 minutes and would be added to the extra time at the end of each round. * Each team was allowed to substitute a maximum of six players on three occasions. * There were additional substitutions when entering the knock-out stage. When the match was drawn for up to 90 minutes, then in the extra round, each team was allowed to add one substitution.

Group stage

The top two teams of each group advanced to the quarter-finals. All times were local, WIB (

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Group A

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Group B

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Group C

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Group D

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Knockout stage

In the quarter-finals,

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would not be played, and a match would go straight to a

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to determine the winner. In the semi-finals and finals, the

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would not be applied, and a penalty shoot-out would be used if necessary. All times were local, WIB (

Bracket

Quarter-finals

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Semi-finals

''0–0 on aggregate. No extra time played. Persija won 4–3 on penalties.'' ---- ''Persib won 3–2 on aggregate.''

Third place

Finals

''Persija won 4–1 on aggregate.''

Goalscorers

Awards

* Best referee was awarded to

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. * Top scorer was awarded to Assanur Rijal ( Persiraja) with four goals. * Best young player was awarded to

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( PSIS). * Best player was awarded to Marc Klok ( Persija). * Fair play team was awarded to PSM. * Best XI were as follows:

Tournament team rankings

As per statistical convention in football, matches decided in

were counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-outs were counted as draws.

References

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