Since 1994, Liga Indonesia is the league competition featuring association football clubs, as a result of two existing top-flight football leagues merger: Perserikatan (amateur) and Galatama (semi professional).
Liga Indonesia is managed by PSSI, the Indonesian national football federation, and operated by PT.
[2][3][4] LIB also organized the youth competition, Elite Pro Academy.
Men's From 1914 to 1930, Indonesia featured an amateur national football league organized by the Nederlandsch Indische Voetbal Bond (NIVB), called the Dutch East Indies city championship (DEI Championship).
Beginning in 1931, the Perserikatan was founded as a separate amateur national football league system consisting of several levels of competition.
From 1932 to 1950, the DEI Championship competition ran in conjunction with the Perserikatan as a competition for the Dutch and other European players, while the Tiong Hoa Championship was held for players of Chinese descent.
This new league was created to introduce full professionalism in Indonesian football.
Level League/Division 1 2 3 However, the league season in 2015 was paused at first due to threats of sanctions from Badan Olahraga Profesional Indonesia (BOPI) and the Ministry of Youth and Sports on PSSI and PT LI because two ISL clubs, Arema and Persebaya, didn't get BOPI recommendations.
[6] This got FIFA's attention who threatened to ban Indonesian football altogether due to external meddling from BOPI and the Ministry in PSSI affairs.
The number of clubs in the top flight wavered from 18–28, and seasons would last from 34–38 games.
The top four clubs in each division qualified for a group stage "Final Eight Championship Playoff."
Starting with the 2003–2004 season, the championship was decided a double round-robin league system involving the top clubs of each division.