2014 Indonesia Super League - Disciplinary Record and (Unofficial) Fair Play Award

source: ligaindonesia.co.id

The 2014 Indonesia Super League (ISL) qualifying round was finished on September 5. Starting October, the competition continues for the Last 8 phase up until the grand final on November.

The qualifying round, however, has left several notes on the record book. Based on official tally, from 220 matches (110 from each West and East zones), there are 597 goals (304 West, 293 East) scored in which 7 of them were own goals (4 West, 3 East) and 76 of them were scored from the penalty’s spot (41 West, 35 East). Also, the season recorded 1,546,674 attendance (1,124,574 West, 422,100 East) with 7,030 in average.

In terms of disciplinary, the 220 matches from both Zones have produced 841 yellow cards (413 West, 428 East), and 22 red cards (15 West, 7 East). In average, there are 3.8 yellow cards per match, and 1 red card in every 10 matches.

Speaking of disciplinary, the Indonesian Football Association (PSSI) have also imposed several sanctions and fines on clubs for violations done by their players and personnel. Sanctions and fines were also given for negative behaviors caused by supporters in a match. Also, based on the regulation, when a team receives 5 or more bookings in a match, the team will be fined as well. Here’s the list of sanctions and fines imposed by the Indonesian FA’s (PSSI) Disciplinary Committee in the 2014 ISL (From February to August 2014):

Flare burning, major cause of fines
source: bolaindo.com

The sanctions and fines were imposed for several reasons, mostly unsportmanship behavior from players and flare burning and throwing of object into the pitch by supporters.

 





This season, the Disciplinary Committee is more active on imposing sanctions and fines. In total, they have imposed fine of IDR 2,400,000,000 on ISL clubs throughout the qualifying round of the season, and that doesn’t include fines on clubs in Divisi Utama. It is good to make the perpetrators learn some lessons and behave themselves, but that sum of money should also be used to improve the quality of referees and their linesmen. Many questionable decision made by the refs and/or the linesmen still occurred in the 2014 ISL. The point is: sanctions and fines should not be imposed on players and club’s personnel only, but also on referees and linesmen who made questionable decisions way too often. Because, it is quite obvious that some –though not always- unsportmanship behavior done by players and club personnel were caused by those unfair decisions.

Still, many questionable decisions made by ISL referees and linesmen this season
source: indopos.co.id

Persib had to pay the most amount of fines this season. There was half billion rupiah of total fine imposed on their name. Rumor had it that the Disciplinary Committee were being very harsh towards Persib because Maung Bandung is one of the club with deep pocket. That, actually, can be confirmed as the second club with the most amount of fines is Arema, with IDR 310,000,000 in total. It seemed that the Disciplinary Committee put rich clubs under a microscope and imposing expensive fines easily.

Total amount of fines per club
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Hinca Panjaitan, Head of Disciplinary Committee
source: sundul.com

Persib’s short-fused Ferdinand Sinaga got the most fined player this season. He likes to be an outlaw as he likes to score goals. For his “misdemeanors”, he had to pay IDR 100,000,000 in total. An inside source said that the U-23 players made a joke about it, saying that Sinaga “opened a tab at the Disciplinary Committee and made a routine deposit.”

Ferdinand Sinaga, opened a tab and made routine deposit to the Disciplinary Committee
source: bola.okezone.com

Because the league nor the federation has no system on determining Fair Play Award, I’ve made my version of Fair Play table of 2014 ISL using the same system as La Liga. Here it is:

2014 ISL Disciplinary Table
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Point system:
yellow card = 1 point/yellow card
2nd yellow card = 2 points/2nd yellow card
direct red card = 3 points/red card
games of suspension (player) = as many as banned games
games of suspension (club's personnel) = 5 points/banned games
audience behaviour = determined by amount of fine
- IDR 0 - 100,000,000 = mild
- IDR 100,000,000 - 200,000,000 = serious
- > IDR 200,000,000 = very serious
closure of stadium = 10 points/closure of stadium
*when serious incidents happen which are punished by the closure of stadium

Persiram players collected more bookings than any other 2014 ISL contestants. There are 54 yellow cards and 2 red cards given to Persiram players. However, Persiram’s disciplinary point collection is still fewer than Persiba Bantul’s. The fact that one of Persiba (BTL)’s personnel got banned for the whole season, as well as 1 closure of stadium have worsened their relegation. Lastly, congratulations to Semen Padang as the most behaved team in the qualifying round of the 2014 ISL.

Semen Padang, most behaved team in 2014 ISL
qualifying round
source: fcsemenpadang.com

Persiram, collected more bookings than any
other 2014 ISL contestants
source: goal.co.id

Sources:
Disciplinary Committee Release, February 12 
Disciplinary Committee Release, February 19 
Disciplinary Committee Release, February 27 
Disciplinary Committee Release, April 21 
Disciplinary Committee Release, 8 May 
Disciplinary Committee Release, 12, 22, 31 May 
Disciplinary Committee Release, June 12 
Disciplinary Committee Release, July 10 
Appeal Committee Release, July 11 
Disciplinary Committee Release, August 6 
Disiciplinary Committee Release, 14, 21, 26 August 
Sanction for Syakir Sulaiman  

Card data sourced and processed from ligaindonesia.co.id and cross-referenced with goal.com