The 2017 Liga 1, also known as

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sanction. The season started on 15 April 2017 and ended on 12 November 2017. Fixtures for the 2017 season were announced on 11 April 2017.

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was abandoned midway due to

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Overview

Referees

In December 2016,

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and the league operator planned to use foreign referees for the 2017 competition. The use of foreign referee was intended to improve the quality of the competition. However, two weeks before the league starts, this plan was cancelled. After a wide criticism, protest and dissatisfaction towards the local referees during the first round of the season, PSSI revisited the idea. On 18 July 2017, PSSI and the league operator officially announced the use of foreign referees and assistant referees in select matches for the second round. There were two sets of officials (consisted of 1 referee and 2 assistant referees), each coming from

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Player regulation

League operator also introduced several new regulations, such as requiring clubs to contract a minimum of five U-23 local players with three of them having to play as starting lineup minimum of 45 minutes in a match, restricting clubs to have more than two players older than 35 years old, and increasing the maximum number of substitutions to five for each team in a match. On 30 July 2017, in preparation for the

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, all regulations concerning under-23 players were suspended. Later on 31 August 2017, PSSI decided to extend the suspension of all regulations concerning under-23 players until end of season.

Substitution rule

FIFA approved the five substitution rule on 12 April 2017. However, the two additional substitutions (in addition of three substitutions, in accordance to FIFA Laws of the Game) were only allowed for U-23 players.

Teams

Eighteen teams competed in the league – all teams from the abandoned

. As such, no promoted team competed this season.

Name changes

* Arema Cronus changed name to Arema before the start of the season. * Pusamania Borneo changed name to

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before the start of the season.

Stadiums and locations

Notes:

Personnel and kits

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under

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supplied the match ball.

Coaching changes

Foreign players

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. Teams can use all the foreign players at once. * Players name in bold indicates the player was registered during the mid-season transfer window. * Former Player(s) were players that 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. Source
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League table

Results

Season statistics

Top goalscorers

Hat-tricks

Note: ⁵ Player scored 5 goals

Discipline

* Most yellow card(s): 12 ** Jorge Gotor (

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) * Most red card(s): 3 ** Sandi Sute ( Persija)

Attendances

Awards

Annual

These were the list of Liga Indonesia First & Excellence (LIFE) Awards 2017 winners that held on 22 December 2017.

Team of the season

References

Works cited

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:2017 Liga 1 Liga 1 seasons Liga 1 1

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