2016 Indonesia Soccer Championship A

Indonesia Soccer Championship A, also known as Torabika Soccer Championship presented by IM3 Ooredoo for sponsorship reasons,^[2] was a football competition that replaced the temporarily-suspended Indonesia Super League.^[3]

Indonesia Soccer Championship A

Season	2016
Dates	29 April – 18 December 2016
Champions	Persipura[1]
Matches played	306
Goals scored	803 (2.62 per match)
Top goalscorer	Alberto Gonçalves (25 goals)
Biggest home win	Madura United 7–1 Perseru (10 December 2016)
Biggest away win	Sriwijaya 0–4 Bhayangkara (2 October 2016)
Highest scoring	Persipura 5–4 Barito Putra (13 June 2016)
Longest winning run	6 matches Madura United
Longest unbeaten run	10 matches Madura United PSM
Longest winless run	14 matches Persija
Longest losing run	6 matches Persela
Highest attendance	50,177 Persija 1–0 Semen Padang (8 May 2016)
Lowest attendance	0 Arema 3–0 Bhayangkara (15 May 2016) Perseru 2–0 Persipura (8 October 2016) Persija 1–0 Persiba (13 November 2016) Persija 1–1 Bhayangkara (27 November 2016) Persija 0–1 Persegres (7 December 2016)
Total attendance	2,334,733
Average attendance	7,630
← 2015 ISL 2017 Liga 1 →

This football competition was considered as unofficial, but the official PT Liga Indonesia Baru website has added this edition as the predecessor of current Indonesia top flight league Liga 1.^[4]

Persipura won the title on the final matchday.^[1]

Teams

Eighteen teams competed in this tournament – all teams from the abandoned 2015 Indonesia Super League.^[5]

Name changes

• Persipasi Bandung Raya were relocated to Pamekasan and renamed Madura United.^[6]
• Persiram were bought by the Indonesian National Armed Forces, and relocated to Bandung as PS TNI.^[7]
• Persebaya ISL were (after temporary name changes to Persebaya United, Bonek, and Surabaya United, following an injunction to use the name Persebaya) renamed to Bhayangkara Surabaya United (as a merger with Indonesian National Police club PS Polri).^[8] On 10 September 2016, Bhayangkara Surabaya United changed name to Bhayangkara and were relocated to Sidoarjo.^[9]

Stadium and locations

Arema Cronus

Bali United

Barito Putera

Bhayangkara

Madura United

Mitra Kukar

Persegres

Persela

Perseru

Persib

Persiba

Persija

Persipura

PS TNI

PSM

Pusamania Borneo

Semen Padang

Sriwijaya

Locations of the 2016 Indonesia Soccer Championship A teams

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity
Arema Cronus	Malang	Kanjuruhan[a]	42,449
Bali United	Gianyar	Kapten I Wayan Dipta	25,000
Barito Putera	Banjarmasin	May 17th	15,000
Bhayangkara	Sidoarjo	Gelora Delta	35,000
Madura United	Bangkalan	Gelora Bangkalan[b]	15,000
Mitra Kukar	Tenggarong	Aji Imbut	35,000
Persegres	Gresik	Petrokimia	25,000
Persela	Lamongan	Surajaya	14,000
Perseru	Serui	Marora	10,000
Persib	Bandung	Si Jalak Harupat[c]	27,000
Persiba	Balikpapan	Persiba	12,500
Persija	Surakarta	Manahan[d]	25,000
Persipura	Jayapura	Mandala	30,000
PS TNI	Cibinong	Pakansari[e]	30,000
PSM	Makassar	Andi Mattalata	15,000
Pusamania Borneo	Samarinda	Segiri	16,000
Semen Padang	Padang	Haji Agus Salim	10,000
Sriwijaya	Palembang	Gelora Sriwijaya	36,000

Notes:

1. Arema Cronus held several of their home matches at Gajayana.
2. Madura United held several of their home matches at Gelora Ratu Pamelingan.
3. Persib held their home matches at Gelora Bandung Lautan Api starting from week 7 because Si Jalak Harupat was renovated for 2016 Indonesian National Games (PON XIX).^[10] But they back again to Si Jalak Harupat since week 28 as 2016 Indonesian National Games (PON XIX) have ended.^[11]
4. Persija used Manahan as their home ground since week 12 because Gelora Bung Karno was renovated for 2018 Asian Games.^[12][13]
5. PS TNI held their first two home matches at Siliwangi before they moved to Pakansari.^[14]

Personnel and kits

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

Team	Coach	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Front sponsor(s)
Arema Cronus	Milomir Seslija	Hamka Hamzah	Specs	Corsa, Ijen Suites
Bali United	Indra Sjafri	Fadil Sausu	Made by Club	Achilles, Corsa, Datsun, Indofood
Barito Putera	Yunan Helmi[15]	Aditya Harlan	Vision of Superior	Hasnur Group
Bhayangkara	Ibnu Grahan	Indra Kahfi	Made by Club	Bank BRI
Madura United	Gomes de Olivera	Fabiano Beltrame	MBB	JD.id, Smartfren
Mitra Kukar	Jafri Sastra[16]	Bayu Pradana	Joma	PT. Petrona
Persegres	Eduard Tjong	Agus Indra	Creative Color	HMSS, HSS, PGN
Persela	Aji Santoso[17]	Choirul Huda	DJ Sport	So Nice, Visit Lamongan
Perseru	Hanafi	Arhur Bonai	Junior	Bank Papua
Persib	Djadjang Nurdjaman[18]	Atep Rizal	Sportama Soccer	Datsun, Indofood
Persiba	Jaino Matos	Bima Sakti	Eureka
Persija	Zein Alhadad[19]	Bambang Pamungkas	League	Corsa
Persipura	Alfredo Vera[20]	Boaz Solossa	Specs	Bank Papua
PS TNI	Suharto AD	Legimin Raharjo	Made by Club	Mogu Mogu
PSM	Robert Alberts[21]	Rizky Pellu	Nike	Semen Bosowa
Pusamania Borneo	Dragan Đukanović	Ponaryo Astaman	Salvo	Nahusam, Cahaya Tiara Plantation
Semen Padang	Nil Maizar	Hengky Ardiles	Mizuno	Semen Padang, Semen Indonesia
Sriwijaya	Widodo C. Putro	Supardi Nasir	Joma	Bank Sumsel Babel, Bukit Asam, PT. TEL

Additionally, referee kits are made by Joma and Nike supplied the match ball.

Coaching changes

Team	Outgoing coach	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming coach	Date of appointment
PSM	Luciano Leandro	Sacked	19 May 2016[22]	13th	Tony Ho[22]	19 May 2016[22]
Persela	Stefan Hansson	Resigned	24 May 2016[23]	18th	Didik Ludianto[24]	28 May 2016[24]
PSM	Tony Ho	End of caretaker spell	1 June 2016[21]	10th	Robert Alberts[21]	1 June 2016[21]
Persela	Didik Ludianto	End of caretaker spell	5 June 2016[25]	18th	Sutan Harhara[25]	5 June 2016[25]
Persib	Dejan Antonić	Resigned	11 June 2016[26]	13th	Herrie Setyawan	13 June 2016[27]
PS TNI	Eduard Tjong	Resigned	23 June 2016[28]	17th	Suharto AD	23 June 2016[28]
Persib	Herrie Setyawan	End of caretaker spell	28 June 2016[18]	12th	Djadjang Nurdjaman	28 June 2016[18]
Mitra Kukar	Subangkit	Resigned	1 August 2016[29]	9th	Jafri Sastra	2 August 2016[16]
Persipura	Jafri Sastra	Mutual Termination	1 August 2016[30]	7th	Alfredo Vera	2 August 2016[20]
Persija	Paulo Camargo	Resigned	1 August 2016[31]	16th	Jan Saragih	1 August 2016[31]
Persija	Jan Saragih	End of caretaker spell	31 August 2016[19]	17th	Zein Alhadad	31 August 2016[19]
Persegres	Liestiadi	Resigned	30 August 2016[32]	16th	Sasi Kirono	30 August 2016[33]
Persela	Sutan Harhara	Resigned	2 September 2016[17]	18th	Aji Santoso[17]	7 September 2016[17]
Barito Putera	Mundari Karya	Sacked	10 October 2016[15]	18th	Yunan Helmi	10 October 2016[15]

Foreign players

Football Association of Indonesia restricted the number of foreign players to four per team, including one slot for a player from AFC countries. Teams can use all the foreign players at once.^[34]

• Players name in bold indicates the player was registered during the mid-season transfer window.
• Players in italics were 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.

Team	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	Asian Player	Former Player(s)
Arema Cronus[35]	Esteban Vizcarra	Goran Gančev	Márcio Teruel	Nick Kalmar	Srđan Lopičić[36] Gustavo Marulanda[36]
Bali United[37][38]	Nemanja Vidaković	Zoran Knežević	Daniel Heffernan	Ahn Byung-keon	Lucas Patinho[39] Kiko Insa[39]
Barito Putera[40][41][42][43]	Luiz Júnior	Thiago Amaral	Thierry Gathuessi	Lim Joon-sik	Mohammadou Al Hadji[44] Ibrahim Conteh[45]
Bhayangkara[46][47][48]	Otávio Dutra	Thiago Furtuoso	Khairullah Abdelkabir	Lee Yoo-joon	Paulo Helber[48]
Madura United[49][50]	Fabiano Beltrame	Erick Weeks	Pablo Rodriguez	Dane Milovanović
Mitra Kukar[51][52]	Arthur Cunha	Marlon da Silva	Victor Herrero		Alan Leandro[53] Rodrigo Ost[54] Fellipe Bertoldo[55]
Persegres[56][57]	Patrick da Silva	Saša Zečević	Gustavo Marulanda	Oh In-kyun	Eduardo Maciel[58]
Persela[59][60]	Hédipo Gustavo	Ivan Carlos	Paulo Eduardo	Choi Hyun-yeon	Shane Malcolm[61] Kristian Adelmund[62] José Galán[63] Herman Dzumafo[63] Romeo Filipović[64]
Perseru[65][66]	Amadou Gakou	Osas Saha	Boman Aimé		Henry Njobi[65] Siaka Dembélé[65]
Persib[67][68][69]	Robertino Pugliara	Vladimir Vujović	Marcos Flores	Diogo Ferreira	Juan Belencoso[70]
Persiba[71][72]	Antônio Teles	Dirkir Glay	Maycon Calijuri	Shohei Matsunaga	Vinicius Reis[73]
Persija[74][75]	Willian Pacheco	Rodrigo Tosi	Emmanuel Kenmogne	Hong Soon-hak	Jose Guerra[76] Djibril Coulibaly[77]
Persipura[78][79]	Ricardinho	Edward Wilson		Yoo Jae-hoon	James Lomell[79] Boakay Foday[79] Thiago Fernandes[79]
PS TNI
PSM[80]	Luiz Ricardo	Wiljan Pluim	Ronald Hikspoors	Kwon Jun	Boman Aimé[81] Lamine Diarrassouba[81] Alex da Silva[81] Paulo Martins[81]
Pusamania Borneo[82][83]	Edilson Tavares	Pedro Velázquez	Flávio Júnior	Jad Noureddine	Tárik Boschetti[83]
Semen Padang[74][84]	Cássio	Marcel Sacramento	Muamer Svraka	Lee Kil-hoon	Mekan Nasyrow[85] Diego Santos[86]
Sriwijaya[74][87]	Alberto Gonçalves	Hilton Moreira	Mauricio Leal	Yoo Hyun-goo

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Persipura (C)	34	20	8	6	53	27	+26	68
2	Arema Cronus	34	18	10	6	46	22	+24	64
3	Madura United	34	18	7	9	56	40	+16	61
4	Sriwijaya	34	15	11	8	62	39	+23	56
5	Persib	34	15	10	9	45	33	+12	55
6	PSM	34	16	6	12	52	46	+6	54
7	Bhayangkara	34	15	9	10	50	34	+16	54
8	Semen Padang	34	15	7	12	46	34	+12	52
9	Pusamania Borneo	34	14	8	12	62	41	+21	50
10	Mitra Kukar	34	13	10	11	47	43	+4	49
11	Perseru	34	13	7	14	38	51	−13	46
12	Bali United	34	10	10	14	36	52	−16	40
13	Persiba	34	9	8	17	38	52	−14	35
14	Persija	34	8	11	15	25	42	−17	35
15	Persela	34	9	8	17	40	59	−19	35
16	Barito Putera	34	8	9	17	40	50	−10	33
17	Persegres	34	7	8	19	30	63	−33	29
18	PS TNI	34	7	5	22	37	75	−38	26

Source: Liga Indonesia, Indonesia Soccer Championship^[usurped]
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head goal difference; 3) Goal difference; 4) Goals scored; 5) Draw.^[88]
(C) Champions

Results

Home \ Away	ARE	BLU	BPT	BHA	MDU	MKU	PGU	PSL	PSR	PSB	PBA	PSJ	PPR	TNI	PSM	PBO	SPD	SRI
Arema Cronus	—	1–0	0–0	3–0	2–1	0–0	3–1	3–0	3–0	0–0	2–0	1–0	0–0	2–1	2–0	1–2	1–0	3–2
Bali United	2–2	—	3–2	2–2	0–0	1–1	1–1	3–1	3–0	1–0	1–2	1–1	0–1	2–2	0–2	1–1	2–1	1–0
Barito Putera	0–1	0–1	—	1–2	1–0	0–1	3–1	1–0	5–1	1–1	3–1	1–0	0–0	1–0	1–2	1–0	1–1	1–1
Bhayangkara	0–1	3–1	1–1	—	0–1	4–0	1–0	3–0	3–1	4–1	1–0	2–1	1–2	0–0	0–1	2–1	2–2	0–1
Madura United	0–0	0–0[a]	1–0	1–1[b]	—	3–2	4–1	2–1	7–1	2–1	3–1	1–0	2–0	4–1	4–1	2–1	2–1	2–5
Mitra Kukar	2–1	3–1	1–1	2–3	2–1	—	2–1	1–2	1–0	2–1	0–0	2–0	1–2	3–2	2–2	3–2	2–0	1–0
Persegres	1–0	0–1	2–1	0–0	1–2	0–0	—	1–1	1–1	2–1	1–2	2–2	0–3	0–0	1–3	2–1	1–1	2–1
Persela	0–2	3–0[c]	4–2	0–1	2–1	1–0	0–1	—	2–0	2–1	1–2	1–1	0–1	3–2[d]	2–2	1–0	3–3[e]	3–3
Perseru	1–0	2–0	3–1	1–0	1–1	0–0	4–1	1–1	—	1–0	2–0	0–0	2–0	2–1	1–0	3–0[f]	2–0	0–0
Persib	0–0	2–0	2–0[g]	2–1[h]	0–0	2–1	2–0[i]	1–0	6–2	—	2–1[j]	0–0	2–0	4–0	3–2	1–0	1–0	1–1
Persiba	0–0	3–1	1–1	0–2	1–2	2–2	5–3	3–3	1–2	1–1	—	1–0	1–4	2–0	0–2	0–1	2–1	0–0
Persija	1–4[k]	1–2[l]	3–2	1–1	0–3[m]	1–1	0–1	2–1	2–1	0–0	1–0	—	1–1	1–0	0–1	0–2	1–0	0–3[n]
Persipura	2–0	0–0	5–4	2–1	2–0	1–0	3–0	5–0	1–0	0–2	1–1	1–1	—	3–2	4–2	0–0	2–0	1–0
PS TNI	2–1	2–4	2–1	1–1[o]	1–2	1–4	2–0	3–1	1–0	0–3	0–2[p]	1–2	1–3	—	1–1	3–1	1–0	2–5[q]
PSM	0–1	4–0	1–0	1–2	1–0	2–1	3–2	2–1	1–1	2–2	3–2	0–1	0–0	4–0	—	0–2	3–2	2–1
Pusamania Borneo	2–2	4–0	4–1	1–1	1–1	3–2	5–0	3–1	6–1	0–0	1–0	3–0	0–3	6–1	4–1	—	0–0	2–2
Semen Padang	1–3	3–0	2–0	2–1	3–1	3–2	2–0	4–0	2–0	4–0	1–0	0–0	2–0	1–0	2–1	2–1	—	2–1
Sriwijaya	1–1	2–1	2–2	0–4	5–0	0–0	3–0	2–2	1–0	3–0	3–1	2–1	1–0	6–1	1–0	3–2	1–1	—

Source: Liga Indonesia, Indonesia Soccer Championship^[usurped]
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For upcoming matches, an "a" indicates there is an article about the rivalry between the two participants.
Notes:

1. This match was held at Gelora Delta and without spectators as a part of PSSI Disciplinary Committee punishment because Madura United's supporters lit flares in their match against Persiba.^[89]
2. This match was held at Gelora Delta, which was the home ground of Bhayangkara due to the election of village heads in Bangkalan.^[90]
3. This match was held at Gelora Delta due to the renovation of Surajaya.^[91]
4. This match was held at Gelora Delta due to the renovation of Surajaya.^[91]
5. This match was held at Gajayana due to the renovation of Surajaya.^[91]
6. Perseru awarded a 3–0 walkover win against Pusamania Borneo because the away team didn't attend to match.^[92]
7. This match was held at Pakansari.^[93]
8. This match was held at Wibawa Mukti.^[94]
9. This match was held at Wibawa Mukti.^[94]
10. This match was held at Wibawa Mukti.^[94]
11. This match was held at Gajayana, which was the alternative home ground of Arema Cronus.^[95]
12. This match was held at Kapten I Wayan Dipta, which was the home ground of Bali United.^[95]
13. This match was held at Gelora Bangkalan, which was the home ground of Madura United.^[95]
14. Sriwijaya awarded a 3–0 win over Persija due to the riots of supporters.^[96]
15. This match was held at Wibawa Mukti.^[97]
16. This match was held at Wibawa Mukti.^[98]
17. This match was held at Wibawa Mukti.^[99]

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals[100][101]
1	Alberto Gonçalves	Sriwijaya	25
2	Marcel Sacramento	Semen Padang	21
3	Luiz Júnior	Barito Putera	17
4	Marlon da Silva	Mitra Kukar	16
5	Cristian Gonzáles	Arema Cronus	15
	Thiago Furtuoso	Bhayangkara
7	Pablo Rodríguez	Madura United	14
	Pedro Velázquez	Pusamania Borneo
9	Shohei Matsunaga	Persiba	13
10	Sergio van Dijk	Persib	12

Attendances

Pos	Team	Total	High	Low	Average	Change
1	Persib	297,122	35,125	5,949	17,478	n/a†
2	Persija	212,004	50,177	0	12,471	n/a†
3	Arema Cronus	202,309	44,807	0	11,901	n/a†
4	Persipura	201,234	21,000	2,500	11,837	n/a†
5	Sriwijaya	194,539	22,500	4,270	11,443	n/a†
6	Bali United	181,240	21,175	1,566	10,661	n/a†
7	PSM	135,589	14,208	4,325	7,976	n/a†
8	Persegres	131,335	18,417	3,143	7,726	n/a†
9	Persela	122,565	13,150	935	7,210	n/a†
10	Madura United	111,999	15,169	1,135	6,588	n/a†
11	PS TNI	94,812	26,213	425	5,577	n/a†
12	Semen Padang	89,332	11,900	1,542	5,255	n/a†
13	Pusamania Borneo	83,029	16,722	1,823	4,884	n/a†
14	Bhayangkara	76,826	11,015	2,143	4,519	n/a†
15	Barito Putera	59,823	8,178	1,377	3,519	n/a†
16	Mitra Kukar	59,231	12,371	1,036	3,484	n/a†
17	Persiba	46,744	6,867	629	2,750	n/a†
18	Perseru	35,000	8,407	0	2,059	n/a†
	League total	2,334,733	50,177	0	7,630	n/a†

Source: Torabika Soccer Championship^[usurped]
Notes:
There was no comparison as this competition was not counted as an official league season.

See also

• 2016 Indonesia Soccer Championship B
• 2016 Liga Nusantara
• 2016 Indonesia Soccer Championship U-21
• 2016 Soeratin Cup