2023–24 Liga 2 (Indonesia)

The 2023–24 Liga 2 (Indonesia) (also known as the 2023–24 Pegadaian Liga 2 for sponsorship reasons) was the seventh season of the Liga 2 under its current name and the 14th season under its current league structure. PT Liga Indonesia Baru (LIB) are responsible for administrating the league. Plans to change Liga 2's operator were shelved for this season and will be postponed to at least the 2024–2025 season.

As Liga 2's previous season and 2022–23 Liga 3 were abandoned due to a combination of factors with the most notable among them being the Kanjuruhan Stadium disaster, participants of the league remain unchanged from last season, 28 teams (an increase of four teams from the 2021–22 Liga 2 season). The new season also marked the return of foreign players to the second division of Indonesian football.

The league format was announced on 16 August 2023. The season started on 10 September 2023.

Teams

Team changes

As the 2022–23 Liga 2 and 2022–23 Liga 3 were abandoned along with the relegation rule which was being scrapped from 2022–23 Liga 1, the league's teams remain unchanged. The following teams changed division after the 2021 season.

Name changes

* AHHA PS Pati relocated to Bekasi and were renamed to Bekasi Football Club. However, following a lawsuit by Bekasi FC's original rights holder, the club is subject to another name change. On 30 May 2022, during the 2022 PSSI Ordinary Congress, the club finally changed their name once again to Bekasi City.
* Mataram Utama handed over their senior team to a group of investors, who subsequently rebranded the club as Nusantara United. The two clubs exist as separate entities, with Nusantara United taking over Mataram Utama's place in the Liga 2, while Mataram Utama redirected their focus towards youth development and their football academy. On 5 July 2022, Nusantara United, on an Instagram post unveiling their new logo, revealed that they are now based in Nusantara, the planned new capital of Indonesia.
* Muba Babel United were acquired by Liga 3 side Persipal Palu. As a result, Persipal took over Muba Babel United's place in Liga 2 starting from the 2022–23 season and they will compete under name Persipal BU.
*The license for Putra Delta Siduarjo were bought by owners of PT Mineral Trobos, David Glenn and Kenneth Jehezkiel, through PT Malut Maju Sejahtera and were renamed to Malut United. Malut stands for Maluku Utara, the home province of the club, as the club's new owners moved its base to Ternate, North Maluku.
* Karo United changed its name to Sada Sumut. The word 'Sada' means 'one' in Batak Karo language and the word 'Sumut' is an acronym for the name of the province of Sumatra Utara or North Sumatra hence the name change was intended by the club in order to represent all of North Sumatra.

Stadiums and locations

Notes:

Personnel and kits

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players and coaches may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

Notes:

# On the front of shirt.
# On the back of shirt.
# On the sleeves.
# On the shorts.
# Apparel made by club.

Coaching changes

Notes:

Foreign players

PSSI, for the first time since 2014, allowed second division teams to sign foreign players after prohibiting clubs to register them for the past six editions. For this Liga 2 season, clubs were allowed to register two foreign players per team (with one of them coming from a member association of the AFC).
* Players named in bold indicates the player was registered during the mid-season transfer window.
* Former players named in ''italics'' are players that were out of squad or left the club within the season, after the pre-season transfer window, or in the mid-season transfer window, and at least had one appearance.

Schedule

The schedule of the competition is as follows.

Notes:

Preliminary Round

A total of 28 teams will be drawn into 4 groups of seven teams based on the geographical location of their homebase. The preliminary round will be played in home-and-away round-robin matches.

The top three teams from each group will advance to the championship round. The bottom four teams from each group will advance to the relegation round.

Group 1

Group 2

Group 3

Group 4

Championship Round & Relegation Round

Championship Round

The twelve teams that advanced from the preliminary round were divided into 3 groups of four teams to play home-and-away round-robin matches.

Three group winners and the one best runner-up advanced to the knockout round.

Group X

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Group Y

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Group Z

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Ranking of runner-up teams

Relegation Round

The sixteen teams that advanced from the preliminary round were divided into 4 groups of four teams to play home-and-away round-robin matches.

The bottom two teams from each group will be relegated to 2024–25 Liga 3.

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 Round

In the knockout round, the 4 teams that advanced from championship round played against each other over two legs on a home-and-away basis.
The champions, runner-up and third place of 2023–24 Liga 2 will be promoted to 2024–25 Liga 1.

Bracket

Semi-finals

''PSBS won 5–1 on aggregate and promoted to 2024–25 Liga 1.''
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''Semen Padang won 2–1 on aggregate and promoted to 2024–25 Liga 1.''

Third place play-off

''Malut United won 3–2 on aggregate and promoted to 2024–25 Liga 1.''

Final

''PSBS won 6–0 on aggregate and wins Liga 2.''

Promoted and relegated teams

Promotion to the 2024–25 Liga 1

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! Method of
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! Date of
promotion
! Promoted
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, -
, PSBS , , {{Sort, Semi-final winner , , {{sort, 01, 29 February 2024 , , 2024–25 Liga 1
, -
, Semen Padang , , {{Sort, Semi-final winner , , {{sort, 01, 29 February 2024, , 2024–25 Liga 1
, -
, Malut United , , {{Sort, Third place play-off winner , , {{sort, 01, 9 March 2024, , 2024–25 Liga 1

Relegation to the 2024–25 Liga 3

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, -
! Team
! Method of
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! Date of
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! Relegated
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, -
, Sada Sumut , , {{Sort, Fourth-placed team of relegation round Group A , , {{sort, 01, 21 January 2024, , 2024–25 Liga 3
, -
, Persiba , , {{Sort, Fourth-placed team of relegation round Group C, , {{sort, 01, 27 January 2024, , 2024–25 Liga 3
, -
, Kalteng Putra , , {{Sort, Fourth-placed team of relegation round Group D, , {{sort, 01, 27 January 2024, , 2024–25 Liga 3
, -
, Perserang , , {{Sort, Third-placed team of relegation round Group A, , {{sort, 01, 2 February 2024, , 2024–25 Liga 3
, -
, PSDS , , {{Sort, Third-placed team of relegation round Group B, , {{sort, 01, 2 February 2024, , 2024–25 Liga 3
, -
, Persikab , , {{Sort, Fourth-placed team of relegation round Group B, , {{sort, 01, 2 February 2024, , 2024–25 Liga 3
, -
, Sulut United , , {{Sort, Third-placed team of relegation round Group C, , {{sort, 01, 3 February 2024, , 2024–25 Liga 3
, -
, PSCS , , {{Sort, Third-placed team of relegation round Group D, , {{sort, 01, 3 February 2024, , 2024–25 Liga 3

Season statistics

Top goalscorers

{{updated, 10 March 2024{{cite web , title=Statistik Liga 2 2023–24, url=https://ligaindonesiabaru.com/top_actions/player/PEGADAIAN_LIGA_2_2023-24 , website=ligaindonesiabaru.com

{, class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
, -
! Rank
! Player
! Team
! Goals
, -
, 1
, align="left", {{fbicon, BRA Alexsandro
, align="left", PSBS
, 19
, -
, 2
, align="left", {{fbicon, BRA Matheus Silva
, align="left", Nusantara United
, 14
, -
, 3
, align="left", {{fbicon, NGA Kenneth Ngwoke
, align="left", Semen Padang
, 13
, -
, rowspan="3", 4
, align="left", {{fbicon, CHA Ezechiel N'Douassel
, align="left", Bekasi City
, rowspan="3", 10
, -
, align="left", {{fbicon, IDN Irvan Mofu
, align="left", Persipal BU
, -
, align="left", {{fbicon, IDN Ramai Rumakiek
, align="left", Persipura
, -
, 7
, align="left", {{fbicon, BRA Rafinha
, align="left", PSCS
, 9
, -
, rowspan="5", 8
, align="left", {{fbicon, BRA Jose Wilkson
, align="left", Malut United
, rowspan="5", 8
, -
, align="left", {{fbicon, IDN Boaz Solossa
, align="left", Persewar
, -
, align="left", {{fbicon, IDN Mamadou Barry
, align="left", PSBS
, -
, align="left", {{fbicon, JPN Noriki Akada
, align="left", PSDS
, -
, align="left", {{fbicon, IDN Rossy Noprihanis
, align="left", Sulut United
, -
, rowspan="5", 13
, align="left", {{fbicon, ESP Víctor Bertomeu
, align="left", Gresik United
, rowspan="5", 7
, -
, align="left", {{fbicon, IDN Guy Junior
, align="left", Kalteng Putra
, -
, align="left", {{fbicon, UZB Azamat Abdullaev
, align="left", Persikab
, -
, align="left", {{fbicon, BRA Thales Lima
, align="left", Persipal BU
, -
, align="left", {{fbicon, IDN Ahmad Ihwan
, align="left", Semen Padang
, -
, 18
, align="left", 8 players
, align="left", various clubs
, 6
, -
, -
, 26
, align="left", 8 players
, align="left", various clubs
, 5
, -
, -
, 34
, align="left", 17 players
, align="left", various clubs
, 4
, -
, -
, 51
, align="left", 22 players
, align="left", various clubs
, 3
, -
, -
, 73
, align="left", 48 players
, align="left", various clubs
, 2
, -
, -
, 121
, align="left", 128 players
, align="left", various clubs
, 1
, -

Top assists

{{updated, 12 November 2023

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, -
! Rank
! Player
! Team
! Assists
, -
, 1
, align="left", {{fbicon, IDN Gustur Cahyo
, align="left", Persipa
, 4
, -
, rowspan="5", 2
, align="left", {{fbicon, IDN Hambali Tolib
, align="left", Bekasi City
, rowspan="5", 3
, -
, align="left", {{fbicon, IDN Hamsa Lestaluhu
, align="left", Nusantara United
, -
, align="left", {{fbicon, IRN Ali Nouri Zangir
, align="left", Persiba
, -
, align="left", {{fbicon, IDN Rifal Bustan
, align="left", Persipal
, -
, align="left", {{fbicon, UZB '' Mukhammad Isaev''
, align="left", Malut United
, -
, rowspan="4", 7
, align="left", {{fbicon, IDN Raka Cahyana
, align="left", Deltras
, rowspan="4", 2
, -
, align="left", {{fbicon, IDN Lee Yu-jun
, align="left", Persela
, -
, align="left", {{fbicon, IDN Beto Gonçalves
, align="left", PSBS
, -
, align="left", {{fbicon, IDN Rian Ramadan
, align="left", Sada Sumut
, -
, 11
, align="left", Numerous players
, align="left", Various club
, 1
, -

Hat-tricks

{{updated, 6 January 2024

{, class="wikitable"
, -
! Player !! For !! Against !! style="text-align:center", Result !! Date
, -
, {{flagicon, CHA Ezechiel N'Douassel
, Bekasi City
, PSIM
, align="center"
3–2 (A)
, 11 September 2023
, -
, {{flagicon, NGR Kenneth Ngwoke
, Semen Padang
, PSDS
, align="center"
3–2 (A)
, 4 November 2023
, -
, {{flagicon, IDN '' Habibi Jusuf''
, Sriwijaya
, PSDS

3–0 (H)
, 19 November 2023
, -
, {{flagicon, BRA Alexsandro
, PSBS
, Persiba

6–2 (A)
, 23 November 2023
, -
, {{flagicon, BRA Matheus Silva⁴
, Nusantara United
, Perserang

5–3 (H)
, 27 November 2023
, -
, {{flagicon, ESP Víctor Bertomeu
, Gresik United
, PSCS

3–0 (H)
, 17 December 2023
, -
, {{flagicon, BRA Matheus Silva
, Nusantara United
, PSDS

7–3 (H)
, 6 January 2024

* ⁴ Player scored 4 goals

Own goals

{{updated, 23 January 2024

{, class="wikitable"
, -
! Player !! Club !! Against !! Date
, -
, {{flagicon, IDN Ragil Dimas
, Persipal BU
, Sulut United
, 16 September 2023
, -
, {{flagicon, IDN Dia Syayid
, Sriwijaya
, Semen Padang
, 1 October 2023
, -
, {{flagicon, IDN Komang Tri
, Nusantara United
, Malut United
, 9 October 2023
, -
, {{flagicon, CAF Jacob Youmbi
, Persipa
, Deltras
, 15 October 2023
, -
, {{flagicon, IDN Airlangga Mutamasidqina
, Gresik United
, Persijap
, 10 December 2023
, -
, {{flagicon, IDN Tri Rahmad Priadi
, PSKC
, Perserang
, 17 December 2023
, -
, {{flagicon, KOR Jeong Ho-min
, Malut United
, Bekasi City
, 18 January 2024
, -
, {{flagicon, IDN Adittia Gigis
, Bekasi City
, Malut United
, 23 January 2024

Clean sheets

{{updated, 23 October 2023

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!Rank
!Player
!Club
!Clean sheets
, -
, rowspan="1", 1
, align="left", {{fbicon, IDN Muhammad Fahri
, align="left", Persiraja
, rowspan="1", 4
, -
, rowspan="3", 2
, align="left", {{fbicon, IDN Harlan Suardi
, align="left", Bekasi City
, rowspan="3", 3
, -
, align="left", {{fbicon, IDN Lutfi Mutohar
, align="left", Nusantara United
, -
, align="left", {{fbicon, IDN Geril Kapoh
, align="left", Sulut United
, -
, rowspan="8", 5
, align="left", {{fbicon, IDN Ulul Arham
, align="left", Gresik United
, rowspan="8", 2
, -
, align="left", {{fbicon, IDN Teddy Heri Setiawan
, align="left", Persekat
, -
, align="left", {{fbicon, IDN Samuel Reimas
, align="left", Persela
, -
, align="left", {{fbicon, IDN Yogi Triana
, align="left", Persela
, -
, align="left", {{fbicon, IDN Imam Arief Fadillah
, align="left", Perserang
, -
, align="left", {{fbicon, IDN Panggih Prio
, align="left", PSBS
, -
, align="left", {{fbicon, IDN Chairil Zul Azhar
, align="left", PSCS
, -
, align="left", {{fbicon, IDN Fakhrurrazi Quba
, align="left", Semen Padang
, -
, 13
, align="left", 18 players
, align="left", Various clubs
, 1
, -

Discipline

{{updated, 9 October 2023

*Most yellow card(s) : 4
**{{fbicon, UZB '' Mukhammad Isaev'' ( Malut United)
*Most red card(s) : 2
**{{fbicon, IDN Elvis Harewan ( Persewar)

Attendances

''Note: Excluding matches played behind closed door.''

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{{fb a team, p=4 , t= Persipura , s=42471 , h=10121 , l=4021 , a=8494 , pr=9702
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{{fb a team, p=16 , t= Persiba , s=13394 , h=5284 , l=932 , a=2232 , pr=4454
{{fb a team, p=17 , t= PSDS , s=10840 , h=2500 , l=252 , a=1747 , pr=3691
{{fb a team, p=18 , t= Sulut United , s=10667 , h=3007 , l=760 , a=1778 , pr=1782
{{fb a team, p=19 , t= Persipa , s=9506 , h=3870 , l=636 , a=1901 , pr=3467
{{fb a team, p=20 , t= Persekat , s=7446 , h=2027 , l=828 , a=1241 , pr=3354
{{fb a team, p=21 , t= Perserang , s=7208 , h=3135 , l=311 , a=1201 , pr=1791
{{fb a team, p=22 , t=Kalteng Putra , s=7180 , h=3012 , l=290 , a=1197 , pr=5150
{{fb a team, p=23 , t= Bekasi City , s=4429 , h=2654 , l=75 , a=738 , pr=2083
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{{fb a team, p=27 , t= PSKC , s=1356 , h=431 , l=250 , a=339 , pr=210
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, u=6 January 2024 , date=2023

Awards

Half of season awards

{, class="wikitable"
, +
!Awards
!Winner
!Club
!Ref.
, -
, Best player
, {{flagicon, CHA Ezechiel N'Douassel
, Bekasi City
, {{Cite web , title=Prestasi Dua Mantan Persib Bandung di Kompetisi Liga 2, Jadi yang Terbaik di Tengah Musim , url=https://jabar.tribunnews.com/2023/11/20/prestasi-dua-mantan-persib-bandung-di-kompetisi-liga-2-jadi-yang-terbaik-di-tengah-musim , access-date=2023-11-28 , website=Tribunjabar.id , language=id-ID
, -
, Best young player
, {{flagicon, IDN Zikri Ferdiansyah
, Persiraja
,
, -
, Best coach
, {{flagicon, IDN Djadjang Nurdjaman
, Persela
,
, -
, Best goal
, {{flagicon, IDN Januar Eka
, Deltras
,
, -
, Best assist
, {{flagicon, IDN Ruben Sanadi
, PSBS
,
, -
, Best save
, {{flagicon, IDN Bimasakti Andiko
, Deltras
, {{Cite web , date=16 November 2023 , title=Kiper Deltras FC, Muhammad Bimasakti Andiko menerima penghargaan Save of Half Season Pegadaian Liga 2 2023/24. , url=https://www.instagram.com/p/CztAqoqLNfH/ , access-date=28 November 2023 , website=Instagram , publisher=Pegadaian Liga 2 , language=id

Full season awards

{, class="wikitable"
, +
!Awards
!Winner
!Club
!Ref.
, -
, Topscorer
, {{flagicon, BRA Alexsandro
, rowspan="2", PSBS Biak
,
, -
, Best player
, {{flagicon, BRA Alexsandro
,
, -
, Best young player
, {{flagicon, IDN Firman Juliansyah
, rowspan="2", Semen Padang
,
, -
, Best coach
, {{flagicon, IDN Delfi Adri
,
, -
, Fair play team
, colspan="2" align="center", PSBS Biak
,

Team of the season

{, class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
, -
!{{Tooltip, Pos., Position
!Player
!Team
, -
, {{Tooltip, GK, Goalkeeper
, align=left, {{flagicon, IDN Mario Londok
, align=left, PSBS Biak
, -
, rowspan=4, {{Tooltip, DF, Defender
, align=left, {{flagicon, IDN Raka Cahyana
, align=left, Deltras
, -
, align=left, {{fbicon, KOR Kim Min-gyu
, align=left, Semen Padang

, -
, align=left, {{flagicon, IDN Zikri Ferdiansyah
, align=left, Persiraja
, -
, align=left, {{flagicon, IDN Ruben Sanadi
, align=left, PSBS Biak
, -
, rowspan=3, {{Tooltip, MF, Midfielder
, align=left, {{flagicon, IDN Rosad Setiawan
, align=left, Semen Padang
, -
, align=left, {{flagicon, IDN Diandra Diaz
, align=left, PSBS Biak
, -
, align=left, {{flagicon, IDN Kaka Youwe
, align=left, Persewar
, -
, rowspan=3, {{Tooltip, FW, Forward
, align=left, {{flagicon, IDN Frets Butuan
, align=left, Malut United
, -
, align=left, {{flagicon, IDN Firman Juliansyah
, align=left, Semen Padang
, -
, align=left, {{flagicon, BRA Alexsandro
, align=left, PSBS Biak

See also

* 2023–24 Liga 1
* 2023–24 Liga 3

Notes

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References

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