Persatuan Sepakbola Indonesia Kabupaten Bogor 1973, commonly known as Persikabo 1973, is an Indonesian professional football club based in

Bogor Regency Bogor Regency (Indonesian: ''Kabupaten Bogor'') is a landlocked regency (''kabupaten'') of West Java, Indonesia, south of DKI Jakarta. Covering an area of 2,986.20 km2, it is considered a bedroom community for Jakarta, and was home to 5,4 ...

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, that competes in Liga 1.

History

This club started from an initiative to participate in the 2015 Piala Jenderal Sudirman tournament with a team that incorporated players from the professional

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club into the Indonesian National Armed Forces (TNI)'s amateur club, PS TNI. After this tournament, PS TNI parted ways with PSMS Medan but decided to become a professional club that combines soldiers with professional players. In March 2016, PS TNI appointed their first professional coach, Englishman

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and acquired

Persiram Raja Ampat Persatuan Sepak Bola Indonesia Raja Ampat, commonly known as Persiram Raja Ampat, or Persiram, was an Indonesian professional football club based in Raja Ampat Islands, West Papua. They last competed in the Indonesia Super League before being ...

, a cash-strapped first-tier team from the impoverished West Papua province, for a cost of 17 billion

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. For the 2018 Liga 1 season, PS TNI were renamed as PS TIRA to dilute the TNI association and moved to

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. The team finished 2018 Liga 1 in 15th position and escaped relegation after securing a vital 3-1 win against Borneo F.C. in the last match of the season. PS TIRA later merged with Liga 3 club

Persikabo Bogor Persikabo Bogor was a football club based in Cibinong, Bogor Regency. They competed for the last time in Liga 3 2018, the third tier of Indonesian football. Their home stadium was Pakansari Stadium and also used Persikabo Stadium for traini ...

in early 2019 to form TIRA-Persikabo and play at

Pakansari Stadium Stadion Pakansari is an all-seater stadium at Pakansari, Cibinong, Bogor, West Java in Indonesia. It is mostly used for football matches and is the home stadium of Persikabo 1973. It can hold 30,000 spectators. The stadium is one of the venues for ...

. Ahead of the

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season, TIRA-Persikabo changed its name to Persikabo 1973. But they used the name TIRA-Persikabo and the same logo for the

season because these changes were not approved by the

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(PSSI). During its May 2021 annual congress, PSSI said the club cancelled the plan to propose for a name change. But they used the name Persikabo 1973 as a commercial arrangement for the 2021–22 Liga 1 season.

Season to season record

Colours and badges

Image:TIRA-Persikabo logo.svg,

Stadium

When competing in 2016 Indonesian Soccer Championship as PS TNI, the club played at Siliwangi Stadium in Bandung. For the

2017 Liga 1 The 2017 Liga 1, also known as Go-Jek Traveloka Liga 1 for sponsorship reasons, was the inaugural season of Liga 1 under its current name and the eighth season of the top-flight Indonesian professional league for association football clubs since ...

season, they moved to Pakansari Stadium, and moved again to Sultan Agung Stadium in

for the 2018 season. As the result of their merger with Persikabo Bogor, the club in 2019 returned to Pakansari to play their home matches.

Supporter

Persikabo has a fan base in

and spread across the

Greater Jakarta The Jakarta metropolitan area or Greater Jakarta, known locally as Jabodetabek (an acronym of Jakarta– Bogor–Depok–Tangerang–Bekasi), and sometimes extended to Jabodetabekjur (with the acronym extended to include part of Cianjur Regenc ...

area, they have become one of the representatives of a football club in West Java with a Sundanese identity. ''Kabomania'' is the name for the club's supporters who are all over the stands. There are other, more exclusive supporter groups, ''UPCS'' is a group that only fills in the north stand at the

Rivalries

* Jabodetabek Rivalries Rivalry with

Persija Jakarta Persatuan Sepakbola Indonesia Jakarta ( 'Indonesian Football Association of Jakarta'; abbreviated as Persija), is an Indonesian professional football club based in the Indonesian capital city of Jakarta. Persija Jakarta is one of the most suc ...

has been going on from their supporters since 2008 and has become a new rival for clubs with adjacent locations. * Pasundan Derby The match with

Persib Bandung 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 ...

is a big match with the fight for the best in

Players

Current squad

Out on loan

Staff

Coaches

References

External links

* * {{Football clubs in Indonesia * Bogor Regency Football clubs in Indonesia Football clubs in West Java 2015 establishments in Indonesia Association football clubs established in 2015 Military association football clubs in Indonesia PS TIRA