2013 Persija Stats

The 2014 Indonesia Super League (ISL) season is about to start in a couple of days. Before the new season begins, I’d like to share Persija’s stats from the previous 2013 season. It is late, I know, but it’s better to be late than not showing, right?

source: ligaindonesia.co.id

As you may already know, at the end of the season, Persija was on the 11^th spot with 42 points from 12 wins, 6 draws, and 16 defeat. They scored 46 goals and conceded 45. Not a good result compared with 2011-2012 season, where they ended the campaign on the 5^th position.

Persija had a lot of problem even before the season started. Some players, including the iconic Bambang Pamungkas, refused to extend their stay at the club due to unfulfilled terms by the club. Hence, a poor display of performance by Macan Kemayoran at the beginning of the season.

With a very limited quality on the squad, the management decided to sack coach Iwan Setiawan after 11 matches (2W, 2D, 7L, 12-22, 18^th position). They called back Benny Dollo to lead Persija to salvation.

It took 4 matches for Coach Benny before he won his first 3 points. After that, Persija’s performance got better. As the club managed to get new sponsors, they utilized the second transfer window neatly by signing several quality players to lift their performance, such as Rohit Chand, Emmanuel Kenmogne, Lam Hok Hei, and Andritany Ardhiyasa. In fact, Persija is the most improved club of the 2013 ISL season after the half-season break. They secured 10 wins, 3 draws, and 4 defeats on the second half of the season.

Players' Individual Stats

Throughout the season, Persija utilized 32 players, 25 locals and 7 foreigners. Each of those players have earned playing minutes. Both Fabiano and Amarzukih hold most appearance as starter with 30 starts. Robertino Gabriel Pugliara shares total number of appearance with Fabiano and Amarzukih (30), but his name only showed 26 times on the starting line-up.

 

In total, Persija scored 45 legitimate goals + 1 own goal. The 45 legitimate goals came from 12 different players, 6 locals, 6 foreigners. The locals scored 12 and the foreigners scored 33. 4 goals are scored from the spot. 24 goals were scored by strikers, 16 by midfields, and 5 from players on the defensive zone.

Persija’s disciplinary record on the 2013 season is quite poor. 63 yellow cards were awarded to 21 players. 16 different local players received a combined number of 45 yellow cards, while 18 were awarded to 5 different foreigners. Fabiano holds most yellow card received with 8, followed by his defensive tandem, A. A. Ngurah Wahyu Trisnajaya with 7 yellow cards. 3 Persija players were sent off throughout the season: Fabiano da Rosa Beltrame, Defri Riski, and Park Kyeong Min.

Persija’s activity on the second transfer window was vaguely successful. They signed 7 players, where 6 of them became regular starter on the second half of the season. Kenmogne Emmanuel is undoubtedly the most successful signing. Replacing Pedro Javier up front, he managed to score 14 goals in 16 matches. He is also club’s top scorer of the season.

Season Results

Home Attendance Record

Diagram 1 - 2013 Persija Home Attendance Record
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Out of 17 home games, Persija played 7 of them outside Jakarta (in Solo and Sleman) due to security reasons. They also had to play 3 home matches behind closed doors for the same reason. Nonetheless, they were still able to attract 100,000+ spectators on 7 matches played at Stadion Utama Gelora Bung Karno and 7 matches played as a wanderer. Their record on most attendance came when they hosted Arema, which attracted 21,463 spectators. The other big match against Persib was played in Sleman on a Wednesday afternoon, but still managed to reach 20,000+ spectators.

Table Movement

Diagram 2 - 2013 Persija Table Movement
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Benny Dollo’s impact on bringing Persija to salvation can be seen (especially) after the half-season break. He managed to lift Persija from the bottom of the table up to the 9^th position in 10 games, and ended the season on the 11^th. This was also helped by good signings in the second transfer window.

Other stats

Persija’s matches were being broadcasted 25 times out of 34, with the composition of 13 home matches and 12 away matches. On home matches, 10 were broadcasted by ANTV, and 3 by TvOne. While for away matches, each ANTV and TvOne got 6 matches.

In terms of clean sheets, Persija is on the top 3 with 11 clean sheets (same number with Mitra Kukar). 5 clean sheets recorded at home, and 6 from away matches.

Persija recorded biggest away win margin when they trashed PSPS 6-0 away in Pekanbaru, which is also season’s record. At home, their biggest winning margin is 5-0 against Persita. Their biggest home defeat margin is 0-3 against Persepam MU, where they had to play the game in Solo. Away, their biggest defeat came from Sriwijaya FC with 4 goals to 1.