2014 Indonesia Super League
The 2014 Indonesia Super League was the 6th season of the Indonesia Super League, a fully professional football competition as the top tier of the football league pyramid in Indonesia. The season was scheduled to begin in January 2014, but in the end PSSI decided that the competition would begin on 1 February 2014 and possibly end on 7 November 2014. Competition schedule was released on 17 January 2014 by PT Liga Indonesia in Jakarta.
Persipura were the defending champions, having won their fourth List of [Indonesian football champions|league title] in 2013.
This season saw the merging of the ISL with the Indonesian Premier League after three years of dualism. It was decided that only four teams from the Premier League would join the new Super League.
The 22 clubs were divided into two groups so that each group contained eleven participating teams; this was due to the many political agenda in Indonesia in 2014 such as the parliamentary election on 9 April 2014 and the presidential election on 9 July 2014.
Teams
Indonesia Super League was followed by 22 clubs consisting of fourteen Super League teams, four teams of the Premier League, three Premier Division teams and one team winning the play-off between ranked 15th Super League and ranked 4th Premier Division.PSPS Pekanbaru, Persidafon Dafonsoro and Persiwa Wamena were relegated during the end of the Previous season. They were replaced by the best three teams from the 2013 [Liga Indonesia Premier Division (LI)], Persebaya DU (Bhayangkara), Perseru Serui and Persik Kediri.
Fourth-placed Premier Division side Persikabo Bogor failed to be promoted to the Super League after losing to the 15th-placed finishers of 2013 Super League, Pelita [Bandung Raya] by the score of 2–1.
Four teams of the 2013 Indonesian Premier League would participate: Padang F.C.|Semen Padang], Persiba Bantul, Persijap Jepara and PSM Makassar.
The whole composition of the 22 teams above was decided by the PSSI executive committee members that were qualified as participants in the Indonesia Super League at a meeting held on 10 December 2013 at The Sultan Hotel, Jakarta. But the composition was still provisional because some clubs still had to resolve their financial problems. If not completed, they were then dropped from the competition. In addition, PSSI also gave an opportunity for the three clubs that were not included in the composition of the participants had been decided by PSSI to make an appeal.
PSSI and PT Liga Indonesia officially announced the 22 clubs were eligible to enter the Indonesia Super League next season. See . The announcement of next season's participants was done by PSSI secretary general Joko Driyono in the office of PT Liga Indonesia in Kuningan Place, Kuningan, South Jakarta on Monday, 23 December 2013. With the 22 participants of the ISL, then certainly for the next season, the highest caste of Indonesian football league was divided into two areas/groups, with each area comprising 11 clubs.
Stadium and locations
Personnel and kits
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