The Liga 1 Putri (English: "Women's League 1"), is the top-flight women's football league in

Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania, between the Indian Ocean, Indian and Pacific Ocean, Pacific oceans. Comprising over List of islands of Indonesia, 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, ...

. Supervised by the

PSSI The Football Association of Indonesia (; 'All-Indonesian Football Association'; abbreviated as PSSI) is the governing body of football in Indonesia. It was founded on 19 April 1930. The PSSI joined FIFA in 1952 and the Asian Football Confedera ...

, the league is participated by ten clubs, with each side fielding a team in the Liga 1 men's league. The league's inaugural season began on 5 October 2019.

History

On 25 July 2019, during a general assembly meeting with all Liga 1 club representative in

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, Acting Chairperson of

Iwan Budianto announced the formation of the new Liga 1 Putri. From 2006, the

Pertiwi Cup Piala Pertiwi ( English: ''Motherland's Cup'') is the main national women's football cup competition in Indonesia, thus the female counterpart to the Piala Indonesia. This competition is managed by women's football board, under supervision of the ...

was Indonesia's top women's association football competition. However compared to the Liga 1 Putri, the Pertiwi Cup was contested by Indonesian provincial selection teams and not by clubs. The league was formed as a means to aid the selection of players for the Indonesian women's national team and so that the competition between boys and girls is balanced. Ten teams out of 18 in

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teams announced their participation in the inaugural season of Liga 1 Putri:

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, Arema, PSIS, Persipura, PSS,

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Format

There are 10 teams in the league, divided into two groups for the first round. In the first round, all groups play four-series home tournament with five matches for each series. The best two teams advance to semi-finals. Semi-finals and finals play home and away format.

Past winners

Performances

Awards

Top scorer

Best players

Best young players

Broadcasters

In Indonesia, the league was broadcast by free-to-air public television network

TVRI TVRI (, Television of the Republic of Indonesia) is an Indonesian national public television network and one of Indonesia's two national Public Broadcasting Institutions, the other being the public radio network RRI. First publicly airing in ...

and Djarum Media's premium multi platform network Mola through 2022. For the first edition, Mola broadcast selected matches from opening series and TVRI from third series, the rights also included four semi finals and both finals. Live matches on Nasional were also available for viewers outside Indonesia through TVRI website and TVRI Klik app.

References

External links

* {{Top level women's association football leagues around the world 1 1

Sports leagues established in 2019 2019 establishments in Indonesia Professional sports leagues in Indonesia