PSPS Pekanbaru

PSPS Pekanbaru

Full name	Persatuan Sepak Bola Pekanbaru dan Sekitarnya
Nickname(s)	Asykar Bertuah (id: Pasukan Beruntung) (en: Lucky Warrior)
Founded	1955[1]
Ground	Rumbai Stadium, Pekanbaru (Capacity: 20,000)
Owner	PT. PSPS Pekanbaru
Chairman	H. Herman Abdullah M.M[1]
Manager	Boy Sabirin
Coach	Mundari Karya
League	Indonesia Super League
2010–11	11th
Home colours Away colours
Current season

PSPS, an acronym for Persatuan Sepak Bola Pekanbaru dan Sekitarnya is an Indonesian football team based in Pekanbaru. They compete in the division of Indonesian football, Liga Indonesia. In media, the club is often referred as the tautology PSPS Pekanbaru.

After finished in third position in Liga Indonesia Premier Division 2008-2009, PSPS directly promoted to Indonesia Super League for 2009-2010 season. They play at 20,000 capacity Rumbai Stadium.^[2]

History

Before Sriwijaya FC founded, PSPS alongside PSMS Medan were teams with best reputations at Sumatera. They have got their best era during 2002-2004 when most of national team players, like Kurniawan Dwi Yulianto, Hendro Kartiko and Uston Nawawi played there. PSPS started going downhill since they got stucked at Premier Division before getting promoted to Super League in 2009-10 season.

Supporters

PSPS Pekanbaru's supporters call themselves Asykar Theking.

Current squad

As of 20 April 2012.^[3]

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 3 MF April Hadi 4 DF Dika Hanggara 5 DF Agus Cima 7 MF Ali Khadaffi 8 DF Tengku Lutfi Hidayat 9 FW Kabir Bello 10 MF Patrice Nzekou 11 MF Ade Suhendra 14 MF Gusripen Efendi 15 DF Danil Junaidi 16 MF Windu Hanggono Putra 17 GK Fance Hariyanto 18 MF M. Zahrul Bin Azhar

No. Position Player 19 DF Ambrizal 21 GK Fauzal Mubaraq 24 MF Fajar Handika 27 DF Dedi Gusmawan (Captain) 28 DF Pawira Putra 32 GK Susanto 37 FW Michael Orah 38 DF Joo Ki-Hwan 77 MF Ko Jae-Hyo 88 FW Muhammad Isnaini 89 FW Victory Yendra 96 FW Zaenal Arif − FW Hady Rinazta Saputra

Fance Harianto D.Junaedi D.Gusmawan Ki-Hwan Agus Cima Ali Khadaffi Fajar Handika April Hadi Patrice Nzekou Zaenal Arif Kabir Bello

PSPS's Starting 11 in their 4-4-2 Formation

Achievements & honors

• Liga Indonesia First Division

• Winners (1): 1999

Notable former players

Foreign player

CAF

• Bertin Ebwellé
• Dzumafo Herman Epandi
• Joseph Lewono
• Mbeng Jean Mamboo
• Simon Tin Atangana
• Marco Mourmada
• Essama Amougu Raymond
• Joe Nagbe
• Moses Nyeman

CONMEBOL

• Gustavo Hernan Ortiz
• Felipe E. Cortez

AFC

• Park Chul-Hyung
• Shin Hyun Joon

Local player

Kit Supplier

• Lotto (2009 – present)

External links

• (Indonesian) Unofficial Website PSPS Pekanbaru
• (Indonesian) FACEBOOK PSPS PEKANBARU
• (Indonesian) PSPS KEBANGGAANKU
• (Indonesian) Blog PSPS Pekanbaru
• (Indonesian) Blog Asykar Theking
• (Indonesian) Facebook PSPS

References