PSSI Provides 3 Thousand Guest Tickets, Bahrain Supporters Choose Not To Take Allotments

Bahrain supporters will likely not come to SUGBK when they are hosted by the Indonesian national team (Instagram/@bahraint).

JAKARTA - Bahrain will visit Jakarta to play the match against the Indonesian national team in the 2026 World Cup Qualifiers. For the match on March 25, 2025, PSSI allocated three thousand tickets for the support of the visitors.

However, a week before the match at the Gelora Bung Karno Main Stadium (SUGBK), Jakarta, the Bahrain Football Federation (BFA) has not taken a slot of three thousand tickets allocated to its supporters.

"We gave a slot of three thousand tickets to Bahrain. However, until day H they did not take any," said President Director of PT Garuda Sepak Bola Indonesia (GSI), Marsal Masita, in a statement quoted on Wednesday, March 19, 2025.

"So, we can't wait. We have to match the deadline. So we have to sell the three thousand tickets."

"So, tickets are among those that we announced. However, we have given you the opportunity, there is already a deadline. It's just that, until the deadline is there, they don't take it. Yes, that's it," he said.

BFA's decision not to take a supporter ticket as a visiting team was the result of the meeting between the two previous teams. Bahrain, who was the host at that time, was considered to have benefited from the referee's decision after a 2-2 draw.

Due to this situation, Bahrain received repeated cyber attacks from Indonesian netizens. As a result, BFA also asked the AFC to move its traveling match against the Indonesian national team to a neutral venue, but the request was rejected.

Regarding the three thousand tickets that were not taken by BFA, PSSI emphasized that they had tried to be good hosts for Bahrain by providing an official entry route to SUGBK.

"We don't know. If the entry is through the official channels that we have provided for them, what is certain is not taken."

"We want to try to be good hosts. You see, Mr. Chairman of PSSI (Erick Thohir) also said that there would be guests from FIFA and AFC."

"We want to be good hosts, we want the match to be comfortable, safe, and orderly, we hope to win too," said Marsal Masita.