Piala Indonesia is the professional annualcup competition for football clubs in Indonesia. Originally, it started from the semi-professional football era in 1985 as Piala Liga, which running during 1985 to 1989 under Galatama competition. The Football Association of Indonesia organised the full professional cup competition from 2005 until now. Traditionally, this tournament involves all the clubs from the whole layers in football competition in Indonesia, which are Liga 1, Liga 2, and Liga 3. The competition was founded in 2005. Piala Indonesia winners qualify for the AFC Cup the following season. Sriwijaya was the most successful club in the competition, winning its third consecutive title against Arema Indonesia in the 2010 Final held at the Manahan Stadium. There were no competition in 2011 and 2013–2017 due to the PSSI's ban on handling all of the football competition by FIFA in 2015-16.
History
Originally, it started from the semi-professional football era in 1985 as Piala Liga, which running during 1985 to 1989 under Galatama competition. The competition was not held from 1990 to 1991, until it was start again during 1992 and 1994 as Piala Galatama. Since then, there's no Cup competition was played from 1995 to 2004. PSSI started the professional cup competition in 2005. The competition has been named Copa Dji Sam Soe Indonesia in 2005–2009 due to sponsorship reason. PT. Philip Morris International is the sponsor of Copa Indonesia for 2005–2009. For five consecutive editions, PSSI as the organizer or tournament operator uses the name Copa Dji Sam Soe. However, after 2010, for one reason or another, the name of the tournament returned to being the Piala Indonesia. In 2012, after a one-year vacuum, the dualism of the league that hit PSSI made the Indonesian Cup competition only followed by teams playing in the Liga Prima Indonesia, where at that time the dark horse team, Persibo Bojonegoro, won the 2012 edition. After 2012, the Piala Indonesia not be held for 6 years before finally rising to the 2018–19 edition. In 2018, Kratingdaeng is the new title sponsor of Piala Indonesia.
