The 2022–23 Liga 1 season (also known as the 2022–23
BRI Liga 1 season for sponsorship reasons) will be the 13th season of the
Liga 1, the top Indonesian professional league for association football clubs since its establishment in 2008. It is planned to be started on 27 July 2022.
Bali United
Bali United Football Club is a professional football club based in Gianyar, Bali, Indonesia. The club competes in the Liga 1, the top tier of Indonesian football. Bali United emerged in 2015 as the result of the total rebranding of Indonesia ...
are the two-time defending champions.
Teams
Eighteen teams will compete in the league – the top fifteen teams from the previous season and the three teams promoted from the
Liga 2. The promoted teams are
Persis
Persis ( grc-gre, , ''Persís''), better known in English as Persia ( Old Persian: 𐎱𐎠𐎼𐎿, ''Parsa''; fa, پارس, ''Pârs''), or Persia proper, is the Fars region, located to the southwest of modern-day Iran, now a province. T ...
(returned to the top flight after fourteen years),
RANS Nusantara and
Dewa United (both teams will play in the Liga 1 for the first time in their history). They replaced
Persipura
Persatuan Sepakbola Indonesia Jayapura, or Persipura, is an Indonesian association football, football club based in Jayapura, Papua (province), Papua. The club was founded in 1963 and currently competes in the Liga 2 (Indonesia), Liga 2. Per ...
,
Persela
Persatuan Sepakbola Lamongan, or commonly known as Persela, is an Indonesian football club based in Lamongan, East Java. Currently the club plays in Liga 2, the second tier of football in the country.
History
Although it has been establishe ...
(both teams were relegated for the first time since 2008) and
Persiraja (relegated after just two seasons back in the top flight).
Name changes
On 30 May 2022, during the 2022 PSSI Ordinary Congress, four teams had their name change requests accepted by the federation:
*
Dewa United removed "Martapura" from its official name, having previously acquired
Martapura to play in Liga 2 last season.
* Borneo added their home city of "Samarinda" to their full name, thus becoming
Borneo Samarinda.
* TIRA-Persikabo officially changed its name to
Persikabo 1973
Persatuan Sepakbola Indonesia Kabupaten Bogor 1973, commonly known as Persikabo 1973, is an Indonesian professional football club based in Bogor Regency, West Java, that competes in Liga 1.
History
This club started from an initiative to par ...
, even though the name already used for last season as a commercial arrangement.
* RANS Cilegon changed its name to
RANS Nusantara and moved their homebase to Jakarta.
Stadiums and locations
Personnel and kits
Coaching changes
Foreign players
PSSI
The Football Association of Indonesia ( id, Persatuan Sepakbola Seluruh Indonesia; 'All-Indonesian Football Association'; abbreviated as PSSI) is the governing body of football in Indonesia. It was founded on 19 April 1930, fifteen years before ...
restricts the number of foreign players to four per team with one of them must come from an association member from the
Asian Football Confederation
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. Teams can use all the foreign players at once.
* Players name in bold indicates the player was registered during the mid-season transfer window.
* Former Player(s) were players that out of squad or left club within the season, after pre-season transfer window, or in the mid-season transfer window, and at least had one appearance.
League table
Results
See also
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2022–23 Liga 2
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2022–23 Liga 3
References
External links
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Indonesia
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