Bali United F.C.
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Bali United Football Club is a professional football club based in Gianyar, Bali, Indonesia. The club competes in the Liga 1, the top tier of Indonesian football. Bali United emerged in 2015 as the result of the total rebranding of Indonesia Super League club Putra Samarinda (popularly known as Pusam) after its new owner relocated the club to Gianyar from Samarinda, East Kalimantan. The rebranded club retained Putra Samarinda's top-tier rights to compete in the 2015 Indonesia Super League season. It only took four years for the club to win its first top-level football championship title in the 2019.
Full name | Bali United Football Club | ||||
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Nickname(s) | Serdadu Tridatu (Tridatu Warriors) | ||||
Short name | BUFC, BU | ||||
Founded | 15 February 2015; 9 years ago (2015-02-15) | ||||
Ground | Kapten I Wayan Dipta Stadium | ||||
Capacity | 18,000[1] | ||||
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Chairman | Pieter Tanuri | ||||
Head coach | Stefano Cugurra | ||||
League | Liga 1 | ||||
2022–23 | Liga 1, 5th of 18 | ||||
Website | Club website | ||||
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Bali United was the first professional football club in Indonesia and Southeast Asia, also second in Asia after Guangzhou Evergrande, to be publicly traded after its shares were offered through the Indonesia Stock Exchange on 17 June 2019.[4][5] PT Bali Bintang Sejahtera Tbk released as much as 2 billion shares of the total issued and paid up capital after the initial public offering (IPO). Shares were set to go on sale for between IDR 120 and IDR 180 each,[6] and actually became IDR 175 by the launch of the IPO on 10 June.[7]