Kendal Tornado F.C.

Kendal Tornado Football Club (formerly known as Tornado Football Club Pekanbaru) is an Indonesian football team based in Kendal, Central Java. They set to play in Championship from 2025–26 after promotion from Liga Nusantara in 2024–25^[1] and their homebase is Kebondalem Stadium.^[2]

Kendal Tornado

Full name	Kendal Tornado Football Club
Nickname(s)	Laskar Badai Pantura (The North Java Coast Storm Warriors)
Short name	KTFC
Founded	2018; 7 years ago (2018), as Tornado FC Pekanbaru 2025; 0 years ago (2025), as Kendal Tornado FC
Ground	Kebondalem Stadium
Capacity	15,000
Chairman	Fardan Nandana
Manager	Heri Sasongko
Coach	Stefan Keltjes
League	Liga 2
2024–25	Liga Nusantara, runner-up
Home colours Away colours
Current season

History

The club was founded in 2018 as Tornado Football Club Pekanbaru and played its inaugural season that same year. The club was crowned champions of the 2019 Liga 3 Riau and finished as runners-up in both 2021 and 2023.

Tornado joined Liga Nusantara for the 2024–25 season after finishing fourth in Group 2 of the fourth round of the Liga 3 National Phase. On 17 February 2025, the club secured promotion to Liga 2 for the first time in its history, following a 3–0 victory over PSGC in Matchweek 5 of the Championship Round, Group X.^[3]

Ahead of the 2025–26 season, the club relocated its home base to Kendal, Central Java, and officially changed its name to Kendal Tornado Football Club.^[4]

Players

Current squad

As of 1 August 2025^[5]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 3 DF  IDN Damar 4 DF  IDN Fernando Lekatompessy 5 DF  IDN Yoga Pratama 6 DF  IDN Derry Herlangga 7 DF  IDN Difo Prasetya 8 MF  IDN Sandi Septian 10 FW  IDN Rendhi Saputra 11 MF  IDN Ludi Pratama 12 MF  IDN Aprianto 15 FW  IDN La Sami La Ode 16 DF  IDN Dio Samudra 17 FW  IDN Muh Rahmatullah 19 FW  IDN Yanuar Baehaki 20 MF  IDN Saiful Arifin 23 GK  IDN Firdaus Mataram 24 MF  IDN Sri Rangga 25 GK  IDN Ababil Syahbela 26 DF  IDN Rio Valentino 27 FW  IDN Raja Pandiangan 28 FW  IDN Marius Ahoren 29 FW  IDN Fahri Akbar 30 MF  IDN Feri Aman Saragih (captain) 31 FW  IDN Muhammad Ferdiansa 53 DF  IDN Putra Ramadhan 77 MF  IDN Adib Nasution

No. Pos. Nation Player 88 MF  IDN Vikrian Akbar 90 GK  IDN Mohammad Yudha 96 FW  IDN Antok Triyatmono 99 MF  IDN Saeful Abdul — GK  IDN Pualam Bahari — GK  IDN Husein Akbar — DF  IDN Dimas Sukarno — DF  IDN Risna Prahalabenta — DF  IDN Agung Prasetyo — DF  IDN Bayu Fiqri — DF  COL Juan Pablo Morales — DF  IDN Ilham Syafri — DF  IDN Gevin Simopiaref — MF  IDN Yudha Alkanza — MF  IDN Ibnu Hajar — MF  IDN Gufroni Al Maruf — MF  IDN Akbar Firmansyah — MF  BRA Felipe Ryan — MF  IDN Taufiq Febriyanto — FW  IDN Kushedya Hari Yudo — FW  IDN Diaz Ardika — FW  IDN Alfath Diaz — FW  IDN Ivan Syahdana — FW  BRA Patrick Cruz

Coaching staff

Position	Name
Technical Director	Danilo Fernando
Head coach	Stefan Keeltjes
Assistant coach	Ridwan Oesman
Physical Coach	Abil Mahdi Almukhdlor
Goalkeeper coach	Ruben Christof

Seasons

Champions

Runners-up

Third place

Promoted

Relegated

Season	Division	Position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Notes
2023–24	Liga 3 Riau	2nd (Group A)	10	6	2	2	37	14	+23	20	Accepted to Liga Nusantara through National phase Fourth round in Group 2
2024–25	Liga Nusantara	1st (Group 1)	14	9	2	3	27	14	+13	29	Promoted to Liga 2 in Championship round in Group X
2025–26	Championship

Season by season

Season	Tier	Division	Place	Piala Indonesia
2018	3	L3	Eliminated in Provincial round	–
2019	3	L3	4th in Group A (First round)	–
2020	3	L3	declared void	–
2021–22	3	L3	4th in Group K (First round)	–
2022–23	3	L3	not finished	–
2023–24	3	L3	4th in Group 2 (Fourth round)	–
2024–25	3	LN	Runner-up	–
2025–26	2	CH		–

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Current league

• 1 season in Championship
• 7 seasons in Liga 3/Liga Nusantara

Honours

• Liga 3 Riau
  • Champion (1): 2019
  • Runner-up (2): 2021, 2023
• Liga Nusantara
  • Runner-up (1): 2024–25

Name and logo change

• 
  Tornado FC Pekanbaru (2024–2025)
• 
  Kendal Tornado FC (2025–present)