Pekanbaru Football Club is an Indonesian

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...

club based in

Pekanbaru Pekanbaru is the capital city of the Indonesian province of Riau, and a major economic center on the eastern side of Sumatra, Sumatra Island with its name derived from the Malay language, Malay (Indonesian language, Indonesian) word for 'new mar ...

Riau Riau (Jawi script, Jawi: ) is a Provinces of Indonesia, province of Indonesia. It is located on the central eastern coast of the island of Sumatra, and extends from the eastern slopes of the Barisan Mountains to the Malacca Strait, including s ...

. They set to compete in the

Liga Nusantara Liga Nusantara (English language, English: ''Archipelago League''), officially known as PNM Liga Nusantara for sponsorship reasons, is the third-tier of the Indonesian football league system, football competition system in Indonesia, organized by ...

from 2025–26, the third tier of Indonesian football after promotion from Liga 4 in 2024–25. Their homebase is Garuda Sakti (Buluh Cina) Field.

History

Pekanbaru Football Club was founded in August 2024 with the nickname ''Cempaka Kuning'' (The Yellow Champaca) and homebase in Garuda Sakti Field. Pekanbaru FC will start competing inaugural season in Liga 4 starting from 2024–25. Despite finishing in third place, Pekanbaru advanced to the national phase with Wahana, who were the champions of the Liga 4 Riau after Persemai withdrew for financial reasons. On 15 May 2025, Pekanbaru secured promotion to

for the first time in their history from next season after draw against Persikoba Kota Batu 0–0 in UMS Stadium,

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on National phase Third round Liga 4 and advanced to Fourth round.

Performance by season

Records

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Season by season

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* 1 season in Liga 4

References

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* Football clubs in Indonesia Football clubs in Riau Association football clubs established in 2024 2024 establishments in Indonesia {{Indonesia-footyclub-stub