Persatuan Sepakbola Indonesia Purwodadi, commonly known as Persipur Purwodadi, or Persipur, is an

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club based in Purwodadi, Grobogan Regency,

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. They compete in Liga 3. Their home ground is Krida Bakti Stadium.

History

The first time the club was founded was led by Suhartoyo, a sports teacher who teaches at Christian

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of Purwodadi, there were several other names who took part. Among them, Marno, M. Supa'at and Tohari who are members of the

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, football leaders in Purwodadi saw that at that time many football clubs had sprung up but there was no parent organization that accommodated them. In 1970, Persipur began to participate in the official PSSI competition. Both for junior and senior teams. however, for almost five years of participating in the competition, Persipur has not had any outstanding achievements, the condition of football in Grobogan from 1975 to 1980 seemed a vacuum. In 1981, football in

Grobogan Grobogan Regency ( jv, ꦒꦿꦺꦴꦧꦺꦴꦒꦤ꧀) is a regency ( id, kabupaten) located in northeastern part of the Central Java province in Indonesia. Created on 4 March 1726, the Grobogan Regency has an area of 2,022.25 km2, and is ...

began to thrive again, after the position of General Chairperson of Persipur was taken over by Sutarmanto BA. Under his leadership, Persipur returned to take part in the official PSSI competition more seriously.

Mascot

Persipur Purwodadi has a mascot which is a ''Javanese

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'' which is green and named Si Dodi which means Si Kodok Purwodadi.

Current squad

Honours

* 2011/12 : Position 6th Division 1 ''(Promotion to Premier Division)'' * 2012/13 : Position 7th Premier Division

References

External links

Persipur Purwodadi
at Liga-Indonesia.co.id * Football clubs in Indonesia Football clubs in Central Java Association football clubs established in 1969 1969 establishments in Indonesia {{Indonesia-footyclub-stub