Gresik United Football Club, commonly known as GUFC, is an Indonesian professional
football
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club based in
Gresik
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,
East Java
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. They currently compete in
Liga 2, after promotion from
Liga 3. They are considered to be one of the relatively good football clubs in the country, and have the nickname ''"Kebo Giras"'' ("The Mad Buffalo" in
Javanese).
History
Galatama era
The club was founded as Petrokimia Putra Gresik, which was established on May 20, 1988. The club was funded by the fertilizer company, PT Petrokimia Gresik, which has been active in the
Liga Indonesia Premier Division for more than 15 years. Petrokimia Putra competed in
Galatama Liga Sepak Bola Utama (English: ''Premier Football League''), commonly known by its acronym Galatama, was a semi professional football league in Indonesia, established in 1979 by the Indonesian Football Association, PSSI. Prior to the establishment ...
, which at the time was a professional football league in Indonesia. Many big clubs from Galatama that were once in the same class with Petrokimia Putra are now already defunct, such as
Krama Yudha Tiga Berlian
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,
Bandung Raya,
Warna Agung,
Pardedetex Medan,
Assyabaab Surabaya
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History
The club founded in 1930 in Ampel, Surabaya as Al-Nasher and joined NIVB competition in 1932 and later changed t ...
,
Perkesa 1978,
BPD Jateng,
Yanita Utama,
Makassar Utama, and
Indonesia Muda
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. The clubs which are still surviving until now are
Arema,
Barito Putera, and
Semen Padang
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The company owns the football club Semen Padang F.C., that competes in the Liga 2 (Indonesia).
History
PT Semen Padang ...
and some of them now have their names changed,
Niac Mitra
Persatuan Sepakbola Mitra Kutai Kartanegara is an Indonesian association football club based in Tenggarong, Kutai Kartanegara, East Kalimantan. They currently compete in the Liga 3.
History
This club was founded in 1979 as NIAC Mitra. NIAC sto ...
now is known as
Mitra Kukar,
Pelita Jaya
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changed their name so many times until their recent current name,
Madura United
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.
PKT Bontang
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Bontang FC prides itself as th ...
became
Bontang FC and Petrokimia Putra merged with Persegres United and became Gresik United.
When they first entered
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, Gresik already had Persegres Gresik playing in the same division. In fact, some of the first batch of Petrokimia Putra players were Persegres alumni. At that time, the enthusiasm of the people of Gresik was more inclined to Persegres than to Petrokimia Putra. Some of Petrokimia Putra's first batch of players who graduated from Persegres, including Sasono Handito, Ferril Raymond Hattu, Rubianto, Reno Latupeirissa, Karyanto, Abdul Muis, Masrukan, Lutfi, Hasan Maghrobi, Derry Krisyanto, and many others.
Premier Division era
When the first edition of
Liga Indonesia Premier Division was held in 1994–95, Petrokimia Putra was given with title "Champion without trophy". Because, in the final at the
Gelora Bung Karno Stadium
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, they lost to
Persib Bandung
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with a score of 0–1. In fact, in that match, Petrokimia scored the first goal through
Jacksen F. Tiago. However, the referee annulled for no apparent reason.
Petrokimia Putra became the champion of
2002 Liga Indonesia Premier Division after beating
Persita Tangerang
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at the final by a score 2–1. This achievement broke the hegemony of big city clubs in the main row of national football. Usually the league champions are won by teams from big cities. Unfortunately, in the next season, Petrokimia was relegated to
Liga Indonesia First Division.
They qualified for the
2003 ASEAN Club Championship, which is the first edition of the
Southeast
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Asia competition. This season they qualified to semi-final after defeating
S.League
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club
Singapore Armed Forces
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with a score of 3–2.
On 2 December 2005 as a merger between two clubs from
Gresik
Gresik Regency ( older spelling: Grissee, ) is a regency within East Java Province of Indonesia. As well as a large part of the Surabaya northern and western suburbs, it includes the offshore Bawean Island, some 125 km to the north of Java ...
, which were
Petrokimia Putra
Petrokimia Putra was an Indonesian football club based in Gresik, East Java, Indonesia. They last played in the Liga Indonesia First Division. They merged with Persegres Gresik and became Gresik United in 2005.
History
Petrokimia Putra Gresik ...
and Persegres Gresik. So Gresik United was established to replace Petrokimia Putra and Persegres, who once made City of Gresik the champion of Ligina.
With their fanatical supporters, Ultras Gresik is famous for its noise when the club competes and creativity in its actions. Their identity was removed (2012 - 2019) with the addition of the identity Persegres in their first name (Persegres Gresik United) by the management who was said to be an investor at the time. in 2017, they played in
2017 Liga 1 and only managed to finish in the last position of the
Liga 1 standings by only collecting 10 points from 34 games (2 wins and 4 draws). With that result, Gresik United were relegated to
Liga 2.
In
2018 Liga 2, they again experienced the same thing, where they only finished in 10th place out of 12 teams in the East Region of Liga 2, so they were relegated two seasons in a row to
Liga 3. Until the 2021 season, Gresik United are still in the lowest tier of Liga 3. and in the
2021 Liga 3 East Java zone, they finished in 3rd position out of 69 clubs and they qualified for the National Round.
Players
Naturalized players
Coaching Staff
Honours
*
Liga Indonesia Premier Division
** Champion:
2002
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Continental record
AFC Competitions
AFF Competitions
References
External links
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Gresik United on
Liga Indonesia
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Gresik United
Sport in East Java
Football clubs in Indonesia
Football clubs in East Java
2005 establishments in Indonesia
Association football clubs established in 2005
Gresik Regency
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