Gresik United Football Club, commonly known as GUFC, is an Indonesian professional
football
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club based in
Gresik
Gresik Regency ( older spelling: Grissee, ) is a regency within East Java Province of Indonesia. As well as a large part of the northern and western suburbs of the city of Surabaya, it includes the offshore Bawean Island, some 125 km to the ...
,
East Java
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. They currently compete in the
Liga Nusantara
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.
History
The club was founded as Petrokimia Putra Gresik, which was established on May 20, 1988. The club was funded by the fertilizer company, PT Petrokimia Gresik, which has been active in the
Liga Indonesia Premier Division for more than 15 years. Petrokimia Putra competed in
Galatama
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, which at the time was a professional football league in Indonesia. Many big clubs from Galatama that were once in the same class with Petrokimia Putra are now already defunct, such as
Krama Yudha Tiga Berlian
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,
Bandung Raya,
Warna Agung
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Former players
Former coach
* Endang Witarsa
Season by season records
Referen ...
,
Pardedetex Medan,
Assyabaab Surabaya
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History
The club founded in 1930 in Ampel, Surabaya as Al-Nasher and joined NIVB co ...
,
Perkesa 1978,
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Medical
* Biliopancreatic diversion
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* Brief psychotic disorder
* Bronchopulmonary dysplasia
Organizations
* Bharat Punarnirman Dal, a national politic ...
,
Yanita Utama
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History
The club was founded in 1979 under the name Jaka Utama, headquartered in Lampung. It was involved in a bribery case in L ...
,
Makassar Utama, and
Indonesia Muda
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. The clubs which are still surviving until now are
Arema,
Barito Putera
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, and
Semen Padang
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The company owns the football club Semen Padang F.C., that competes in the Liga 1 (Indonesia).
History
PT Semen Padang (P ...
and some of them now have their names changed,
Niac Mitra
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History
This club was fou ...
now is known as
Mitra Kukar
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,
Pelita Jaya
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changed their name so many times until their recent current name,
Madura United
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.
PKT Bontang
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became
Bontang FC
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and Petrokimia Putra merged with Persegres United and became Gresik United.
When they first entered
Galatama
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, Gresik already had Persegres Gresik playing in the same division. In fact, some of the first batch of Petrokimia Putra players were Persegres alumni. At that time, the enthusiasm of the people of Gresik was more inclined to Persegres than to Petrokimia Putra. Some of Petrokimia Putra's first batch of players who graduated from Persegres, including Sasono Handito,
Ferril Hattu
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Early life
Ferril Raym ...
, Rubianto, Reno Latupeirissa, Karyanto, Abdul Muis, Masrukan, Lutfi, Hasan Maghrobi, Derry Krisyanto, and many others.
When the first edition of
Liga Indonesia Premier Division
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was held in 1994–95, Petrokimia Putra was given with title "Champion without trophy". Because, in the final at the
Gelora Bung Karno Stadium
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, they lost to
Persib Bandung
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with a score of 0–1. In fact, in that match, Petrokimia scored the first goal through
Jacksen F. Tiago. However, the referee annulled for no apparent reason.
Petrokimia Putra became the champion of
2002 Liga Indonesia Premier Division
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8th season of the Liga Indonesia Premier Division, the top Indonesian professional league for association football clubs, since its fo ...
after beating
Persita Tangerang
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at the final by a score 2–1. This achievement broke the hegemony of big city clubs in the main row of national football. Usually the league champions are won by teams from big cities. Unfortunately, in the next season, Petrokimia was relegated to
Liga Indonesia First Division
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.
They qualified for the
2003 ASEAN Club Championship
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, which is the first edition of the
Southeast
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Asia competition. This season they qualified to semi-final after defeating
S.League club
Singapore Armed Forces
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with a score of 3–2.
On 2 December 2005 as a merger between two clubs from
Gresik
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, which were
Petrokimia Putra
Persatuan Sepakbola Petrokimia Putra was an Indonesian football club based in Gresik, East Java, Indonesia. They last played in the Liga Indonesia First Division. They merged with Persegres Gresik and became Gresik United in 2005.
History
Pet ...
and Persegres Gresik. So Gresik United was established to replace Petrokimia Putra and Persegres, who once made City of Gresik the champion of Ligina.
With their fanatical supporters, Ultras Gresik is famous for its noise when the club competes and creativity in its actions. Their identity was removed (2012 - 2019) with the addition of the identity Persegres in their first name (Persegres Gresik United) by the management who was said to be an investor at the time. in 2017, they played in
2017 Liga 1
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and only managed to finish in the last position of the
Liga 1 standings by only collecting 10 points from 34 games (2 wins and 4 draws). With that result, Gresik United were relegated to
Liga 2.
In
2018 Liga 2
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PSS won the title after a 2–0 win over Semen Padang in the final at Pakansari Stadium, Cibinong on 4 Decemb ...
, they again experienced the same thing, where they only finished in 10th place out of 12 teams in the East Region of Liga 2, so they were relegated two consecutive seasons to
Liga 3. Until the 2021 season, Gresik United are still in the lowest tier of Liga 3. and in the
2021 Liga 3 East Java zone, they finished in 3rd position out of 69 clubs and they qualified for the National Round.
Players
Coaching staff
Season by season records
Continental record
AFC Competitions
;As Petrokimia Putra
AFF Competitions
;As Petrokimia Putra
Honours
*
Liga Indonesia Premier Division
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** Champions (1):
2002
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References
External links
*
Gresik United on
Liga Indonesia
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