The Kick Off Of Liga 1 2022/2023 Will Be Accelerated, This Is The Reason For PT LIB

The Indonesian Liga 1 2022/2023 kick off will be accelerated. (Photo: PT Liga Indonesia Baru official website)

JAKARTA - The Director of PT Liga Indonesia Baru (LIB) confirmed that the kick off of the Liga 1 2022/2023 competition will be held earlier, namely on July 23, 2022. Previously, the highest caste competition for national football was scheduled to take place on July 27, 2022.

The progress of the 2022/2023 Liga 1 kick off was revealed by Akhmad Lukita because the date chosen coincided with the weekend. For this reason, he said the LIB also continues to establish communication with all stakeholders in order to obtain permission to accelerate the competition.

"We submitted it to the government on 23 (July) because it was a weekend, while 27 was on a weekday. We hope it can be faster," said Akhmad Hadian Lukita in a written statement received by reporters, Monday, July 4.

Furthermore, Lukita said the schedule for the Liga 1 competition was accelerated because there would be an Indonesian Cup in the near future. He said his party did not want the Liga 1 schedule to clash with the Indonesian Cup which was under the authority of PSSI.

"So the Indonesian Cup is indeed (held) by PSSI, not at LIB. LIB is Liga 1, with the announcement from PSSI yesterday, we are trying to synchronize the schedule so that it doesn't clash," said Akhmad Lukita.

Akhmad Lukita admitted that he did not want to make these two competitions mutually detrimental to each other. For this reason, communication continues to be carried out to achieve profitable results for the club to the operator.

"Don't let the club not be able to play in one of the competitions so it will be a loss. We are currently having intense discussions with the PSSI competition team and the LIB competition," Akhmad concluded.