JAKARTA - President Director of PT Liga Indonesia Baru (LIB), Ferry Paulus, stated that Liga 1 2024/2025 will continue when the 2024 AFF Cup agenda takes place. Despite being together, all League 1 clubs are also committed to releasing their players.
The 2024 AFF Cup starts rolling from 8 December 2024 to 5 January 2025. Leaving this agenda not to be included in the official FIFA calendar, PT LIB and all League 1 participants agreed not to take a break in the competition.
Ferry Paulus emphasized that Liga 1 will only stop during FIFA Matchday on November 1-19 2024. In that period, the Indonesian national team will compete in Group C of the Third Round of the 2026 Asian Zone Qualification World Cup against Japan and Saudi Arabia on host status.
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"The league will continue (during the 2024 AFF Cup). We will stop when it is D-4 FIFA Matchday. The rest will continue, including U-20 or U-17," said Ferry Paulus in his statement quoted on Wednesday, October 23, 2024.
"For this season, when the 2024 AFF Cup was held, Liga 1 continued. Qualification (World Cup 2026) had just stopped (League 1) and others continued," he said again.
Despite running the same time, Ferry Paulus ensured that there would be no protests from the club if later there were players who were called to finish the 2024 AFF Cup.
Ferry emphasized that this had become a joint commitment in order to prioritize the interests of the Indonesian national team.
"Yes, no (detaining players to appear in the 2024 AFF Cup). It's already a committee," said Ferry again.
Furthermore, the Director of LIB said that Liga 1 will only temporarily pause during the 2025 Thailand SEA Games which will be played on December 7-19, 2025.
"We'll think about the SEA Games later. You see, we've given the slot to stop. We'll see the schedule for the next three years," he said.
In the 2024 AFF Cup, PSSI will field players from the U-20 and U-23 Indonesian national teams. You see, the federation makes this event a target between.
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