Liga 1 2024/2025 Continues To Roll During The Indonesia Mentas National Team In The 2024 AFF Cup

Liga 1 2024/2025 continues to roll out when the Indonesian national team plays in the 2024 AFF Cup (doc. PSSI).

JAKARTA - PSSI General Chairperson (Ketum), Erick Thohir, ensured that Liga 1 2024/2025 will continue when the Indonesian national team appears in the 2024 AFF Cup. This was decided after PSSI reached an agreement with the parties involved in organizing the competition.

"The agreement with the league and club has an umbrella rule. All clubs, coaches signed, when the national team (Indonesia) called (the requested player) must be released," said Erick Thohir as quoted on Thursday, August 8, 2024.

Furthermore, Erick also said that not all Indonesian national team matches required League 1 to stop. One of them, Erick ensured that Liga 1 will continue when the 2024 AFF Cup rolls out later this year.

Liga 1 will only be paused when the Indonesian national team appears in the Third Round of the 2026 World Cup Qualification in the Asian Zone.

"However, we live next door. So, we made a calendar that has been agreed for three years. For the senior Indonesian national team, there is already a big schedule, namely the Third Round of 2026 World Cup Qualification. At that time, the league stopped H-4," said the chairman of PSSI.

"For the 2024 AFF Cup, the league does not stop. For the SEA Games, the league stops. For the U-17 Indonesian national team, the club needs to be grateful when the players are played against big countries."

"Indonesia U-19 is the same, when will young players be able to fight South Korea. Yesterday they also played in the Toulon Cup in France against big countries."

"So, this is filling in with each other. So, it's not who wins and loses. We must be able to produce quality players who can contribute to Indonesian clubs and national teams," he said.

In the 2026 Asian Zone World Cup Qualification, the Indonesian national team joined Group C with Japan, Australia, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and China.

The Indonesian national team will face Saudi Arabia in the first match, September 5, 2024, before hosting Australia at the Gelora Bung Karno Main Stadium on September 10, 2024.

Meanwhile in the 2024 AFF Cup, the Indonesian national team is in Group B with Vietnam, the Philippines, Myanmar, and Laos. Garuda's first match will face Myanmar on December 10, 2024.