Java - Club Championships
1929 | 1939 | 1941
1935 (Oost-Java) | 1935 (West-Java) | 1938/39 (Midden-Java)
City Championships
Java: Batavia | Soerabaja | Bandoeng | Semarang | Malang
Sumatra: Oost-Sumatra (Medan)
Celebes: Makassar
Java - City Competitions (Stedenwedstrijden)
N.I.V.B./N.I.V.U. ("European") 1914-1950 | Chinese 1917-1950 | P.S.S.I. ("native") 1923-1950
Additional Data (N.I.V.B./N.I.V.U.) | Additional Data (Chinese) | Additional Data (P.S.S.I. until 1950)
Sumatra - City Competitions (Stedenwedstrijden)
Oost-Sumatra (Gouverneur van Suchtelenbeker) 1934-1940 | West-Sumatra (S.W.K. Stedentoernooi) 1939-1941
Java - Interprovincial Championship 1939
Seasonwise Data
1904/05 | 1905/06 | 1906/07 | 1907/08 | 1908/09 | 1909/10 |
1910/11 | 1911/12 | 1913 | 1913/14 | 1915 | 1916 | 1917 | 1918 | 1919 | 1920 |
1921/22 | 1922 | 1922/23 | 1923/24 | 1924/25 | 1925/26 | 1926/27 | 1927/28 | 1928/29 | 1929/30 |
1930/31 | 1931/32 | 1932/33 | 1933/34 | 1934/35 | 1935/36 | 1936/37 | 1937/38 | 1938/39 | 1939/40 |
1940/41 | 1941/42 | | 1946/47 | 1947/48 | 1948/49 | 1949/50
General remark on terminology:
In this introduction, the words "European" and "native" are
written between quotation marks throughout, for the following
reason: while "European" refers to federations and clubs founded
and dominated by the European (mostly but not exclusively Dutch)
population, these clubs and federations were not closed to other
groups, as "European" clubs fielded Chinese and "native" players and
"European" federations included Chinese and "native" clubs in their
leagues; on the other hand, while "native" clubs and federations
were restricted to people of Indonesian descent (inlandsch
in contemporary Dutch), many of the "European" players excluded by
these clubs and federations were actually born and raised in the
Dutch East Indies (indisch in contemporary Dutch) and thus
"native" in the literal sense (and more often than not of
mixed European and Asian parentage).
General remark on league tables:
Traditionally, the first criterium for classification in league
tables in the Dutch East Indies was not number of points won, but
the points per match ratio (as it was in the Netherlands; it again
found application a century later in various competitions abandoned
due to the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020); as clubs
seldom had all played an equal number of matches during the season,
this leads to somewhat unusually looking tables in which clubs may
be ranked higher in spite of having fewer points. (At the end of
the season, when all clubs had completed their fixtures, the two
criteria are of course identical.) The second criterium was (as
customary at the time) goal average, which for instance decided the
winners of the stedenwedstrijden, the main competition
on Java during the colonial era, on four occasions (in 1926, 1929,
1941 and 1948).
As an aside, second place in the 1909 competition
for the Coorde-medaille in Bandoeng was decided on goal difference, the
first known application of this tie-breaker worldwide.
In fact, the first ever competition in which goal difference served as the
first tie-breaker was the 1890/91 season
of the Eerste Klasse in
the Netherlands itself (the first ever official league tournament there);
it was adopted as such by the N.V.A.B. at its meeting on 26 October 1890 in
Rotterdam, but no clubs finished equal on points at the end of that season
and it was replaced by the goal average rule for the 1891/92 season by a
decision at a board meeting on 21 November 1891 in Leiden.
Another oddity was the point system used in the local league of
Tjepoe (central Java) in the 1939 season, in which the six participating
clubs (four from Tjepoe and two from nearby Blora) were awarded two
points for a win but none for a draw or loss, thus essentially only
counting wins, reminiscent of the original proposal for the Football
League prior to its start in 1888.
Irrespective of tie-breakers or point allocation rules, in most
cities teams having finished equal on points had to play an extra match
against each other to settle championship, promotion or relegation issues.
The first mention of football in the archipelago originates from Medan.
On 16 November 1887, the "Gymnastiek Vereeniging Medan" was founded there,
and apart from gymnastics, its members soon began to play cricket
and football, later followed by tennis and athletics.
As early as January 1890, a team from Penang crossed the Straits to play a
cricket match (in the morning, Penang won) and a football game (in the
afternoon, drawn). This match predates the first ever meeting of a Dutch club
with an English one by more than three years (Sparta of Rotterdam hosting
Harwich & Parkeston F.C.
on 13 March 1893, losing 0-8)
and occurred more
than two months before any club in the Netherlands itself met foreign
opposition (Concordia of Rotterdam playing Antwerp F.C.
on 30 March 1890 in
Breda, winning 1-0 against eight (three had failed to travel) mostly British
players).
However, after a few years activities ceased, partially because of the
foundation of a cycling club (Deli Wielrijders Club) in 1893.
Thereupon, little or no football was played in Medan
until the foundation of the Sport Club Sumatra's Oostkust
(better known as S.O.K. or simply Sportclub) on 1 June 1899. (They
even officially joined the N.V.B. (the Dutch federation) during the
1899/1900 season, although they of course did not play any matches
in its competitions.)
Meanwhile, the first football clubs on Java were founded in the last
decade of the nineteenth century. On 28 September 1893, the
Bataviasche Cricket-Football club "Rood-Wit" was founded in the capital
and obtained legal recognition (by official approval of its
statutes) in May 1894. The club is known to have played cricket
matches later that year against the Bataviasche Cricket Club (in
existence since the 1880s) but it is unclear to what extent football
was played, and in which form (rugby or soccer). On Boxing Day 1896,
a football match was played between a Dutch and an English team on
the Koningsplein.
In Soerabaja,
the first club to be founded was Victoria, reportedly in 1894.
Apparently ignorant of the earlier efforts in Medan,
[Ber 34], which concentrates almost
exclusively on Java, takes this as starting point for football in
the colony, although one contribution (Tempo Doeloe, pp. 174-178)
reports on football played (in unorganised fashion) in Batavia in the 1880s.
The first known match between local clubs took place in July 1896
in Soerabaja (Victoria 6-1 Sparta).
Inspired by Go Ahead from the
small Dutch town of Wageningen, home to the national high school for
agriculture and forestry, of which many alumni obtained work in
the Dutch East Indies, residents from both
Malang and Semarang
founded a club of the same name in 1898, and now the first meetings
between clubs from different towns were organised in eastern Java:
Go Ahead of Malang and E.C.A. of Soerabaja visited each other in 1898
and S.V.V. of Semarang travelled to Soerabaja to play Vitesse in May 1899.
In contrast, the first ever reported trip of a Batavian club did not
take place until April 1904, when B.V.C. visited their namesakes
from Bandoeng, founded in 1900.
The organisation of city championships is first reported in the first
decade of the twentieth century (Soerabaja 1902, Batavia 1904, Bandoeng 1905,
Semarang 1906 and Medan 1907), and at the same time, local and regional football
federations were founded (and often dissolved soon after).
Already in those early years dissensions between clubs and officials
led to frequent schisms, a curse to burden "European" football in
the Dutch East Indies throughout the colonial era:
the B.V.B., the local city federation for the capital Batavia,
founded in 1906, fell apart in the spring of 1912 and was
succeeded by the W.J.V.B. (renamed V.B.O. in 1928), while the
O.J.V.B., founded in Soerabaja, the second
most important city of both Java and the territory, in 1907,
after several earlier organisations had been dissolved,
was replaced by the S.V.B. in 1909.
The 1910/11 Droogdokbeker, the Batavian league competition,
saw its start delayed by three months due to a conflict on the
participation of military players (a substantial factor in the
"European" football community on Java) after an army commander
had ruled soldiers of different ranks were not allowed to play
against each other, apparently due to a number of injuries to
army officers incurred at football matches.
At the occasion of the Koloniale Tentoonstelling in Semarang
in 1914, a football tournament between representations of the four
major cities on Java (Batavia, Soerabaja, Bandoeng and Semarang)
was organised at the end of August.
Bertus Stom,
captain of the winning side, Batavia (or more precisely its city
federation, the W.J.V.B.), and the first player to hold the Dutch cap
record in sole possession, then offered (on behalf of the W.J.V.B.) to play
again for the trophy (the silver Koloniale-Tentoonstellings-Beker)
the following year in Batavia. In spite of the fact that the trophy
was stolen on that second occasion, the competition proved to be
a great success, and was held annually ever since, normally at the
Pentecost weekend (pinksteren).
After a few years, the sizable Chinese community on Java followed suit
and organised a similar event,
played between the leading Chinese club sides
from the participating cities, which was usually held at the Easter
weekend (pasen). It was played for various trophies donated by
Chinese businessmen until a committee was formed in 1927 (the C.K.T.H.)
for its organisation; in 1930 the H.N.V.B., a federation for all Chinese
clubs on Java, succeeded the C.K.T.H.
A third version of the javaansche stedenwedstrijden
was established in 1930 after the P.S.S.I. was founded as island-wide
"native" football organisation. In fact, already in 1923
inlandsche stedenwedstrijden were organised in Bandoeng,
between "native" selections from the four major cities (Bandoeng,
Batavia, Semarang and Soerabaja), held in parallel with the "European"
tournament in Batavia, but it is not clear who was responsible for the
event nor whether any other editions took place; it is only certain 1923
was the first time it was held in Bandoeng.
It should be noted that while the events organised by the C.K.T.H./H.N.V.B.
and P.S.S.I. were ethnically exclusive, the original version (organised by
the N.I.V.B. after 1919 and the N.I.V.U. after 1935) was not. Not only
did the "European" city federations enter selections involving players
from all their member clubs, including Chinese and "native" ones; also
their "European" member clubs did not refrain from lining up Chinese or
"native" players.
After about two decades of football in the Dutch East Indies, most major cities had functioning federations and leagues, and on April 20, 1919, at the occasion of the sixth edition of the stedenwedstrijden, the football federations of Batavia, Soerabaja, Bandoeng and Semarang founded the N.I.V.B. (Nederlandsch-Indische Voetbal Bond). Its statutes were approved by governmental decree on October 20, 1919 and the N.I.V.B. was admitted provisionally to F.I.F.A. on April 15, 1924, before obtaining official affiliation to the world body on May 24, 1924. (The Dutch East Indies thus became the first Dutch colony to obtain separate F.I.F.A. membership, five years before Surinam and eight years before Curaçao.) One of its first actions was assuming responsibility for the organisation of the stedenwedstrijden, an activity which would eventually lead to its own liquidation.
After half a decade, membership of the N.I.V.B. started increasing. On 8 February 1925, the N.J.V.B. (Noord-Java Voetbal Bond), which had been founded on 27 July 1924 by 11 clubs from Cheribon, Tegal and Pekalongan, joined to enter the stedenwedstrijden. It did so twice, losing a qualifying match for the final tournament to Bandoeng in both 1925 and 1926 before succumbing to financial problems; it was suspended by the N.I.V.B. for failing to pay membership fees and thus excluded from the 1927 edition of the stedenwedstrijden before finally being dissolved in 1930. Next to join were Malang in 1926, Soekaboemi in 1928 and Djokjakarta in 1929. In addition, three federations from outside Java (those of Oost-Sumatra (based in Medan), Makassar (on Celebes) and Bandjermasin (on Borneo)) had joined the N.I.V.B. as donateur by 1930, a status also granted to the Hwa Nan Voetbal Bond (H.N.V.B., the Chinese federation based in Semarang, on which more below).
On May 16, 1932, an N.I.V.B. meeting at which a Soerabaja-based
notary, Willem van Buuren (a former president of both Vios (a
military club from Meester Cornelis) and the W.J.V.B. federation
in Batavia), succeeded Dick Veenman from Batavia as
president of the federation, decided to move the seat of the
N.I.V.B. to Soerabaja, which appears to have caused discontent
in Batavia (the two cities entertaining a rivalry not unlike that
of Amsterdam and Rotterdam in the Netherlands itself).
In 1933, the new board decided to reorganise the main football
event on Java, the stedenwedstrijden, in order to accommodate
the increasing number (by then 11) of participating city federations.
The new set-up required all city federations to enter a qualifying stage
played in regional mini-leagues before being able to participate
in the final, 4-team tournament. Batavia opposed the new set-up
and withdrew from the competition on December 10, 1933.
The V.B.O. was then suspended by the N.I.V.B. at an extraordinary
general meeting in Bandoeng on December 23, 1933, with only Buitenzorg
opposing the relevant motion and Soekaboemi abstaining (as both towns
are close to the capital, their football federations relied on matches
with the major clubs from Batavia to generate income). In turn,
Batavia organised an alternative city tournament in which
Soekaboemi (which resigned from the N.I.V.B. on March 31, 1934) and
a rebel federation (B.V.U.) from Bandoeng entered.
Later in 1934, several smaller city federations resigned from the
N.I.V.B., and on December 9, 1934, a year after the start of the conflict,
the V.S.O. from Semarang. In January 1935, the B.V.B., the official
federation for Bandoeng followed suit, as well as Tiong Hoa, champions of
Soerabaja, who were unhappy with the organisation of the regional league
(comprising clubs from Soerabaja, Malang, Blitar, Pasoeroean and Probolinggo)
established by the N.I.V.B. on Eastern Java after the S.V.B. had halted
the Soerabaja league due to a number of conflicts. The Chinese H.N.V.B.
left the N.I.V.B. at the occasion of its general meeting at the Chinese
stedenwedstrijden with Easter 1935. By June 1935, the N.I.V.B.
had only 5 member federations left: Soerabaja, Malang, Djokjakarta, Solo
and Tegal.
The federations on Western Java had meanwhile organised themselves
(provisionally in the W.J.V.F., the West Java Voetbal Federatie) and
managed to stage the stedenwedstrijden in Batavia in 1935, with Soerabaja
represented by the S.V.U. (a shortlived rebel organisation whose team consisted
mostly of Tiong Hoa players). During this tournament, on June 9, 1935,
the N.I.V.U. (Nederlandsch-Indische Voetbal Unie) was founded by
the federations of Batavia, Soerabaja (S.V.U.), Bandoeng
(the B.V.B.O., formed on February 28, 1935 when B.V.B. and B.V.U.
joined forces, and renamed V.B.B.O. on December 15, 1935), Semarang,
Buitenzorg and Soekaboemi (with the other relevant
city federations on Java joining immediately). Two weeks later,
the S.V.B. and S.V.U. reunited (with the S.V.U. being dissolved
and all clubs joining the S.V.B. again).
Shortly after it had sent a representative side (roughly corresponding
to a Soerabaja city selection, enhanced with a handful of players from
Makassar and Malang) to the
1935 Philippines Football Championship,
an invitation earned after participating in the
1934 Far Eastern Games in
Manila, the N.I.V.B. was liquidated (at the end of July 1935) and
succeeded by the N.I.V.U. as the official football association on Java
(it was admitted provisionally to F.I.F.A. on
May 13, 1936, before obtaining official affiliation to the
world body on August 14, 1936).
The H.N.V.B. joined the N.I.V.U. as extraordinary member in September 1940.
Regarding the stedenwedstrijden, the main change made by
the N.I.V.U. was installing a system of promotion and relegation,
with only the bottom (fourth placed) finishers of each year required
to enter the qualifying tournament for the next year, and that at a
late stage, only playing the winners of the regional qualifying
leagues for West Java and Oost Java for the fourth and last spot
in the next final tournament.
While the N.I.V.B. and later the N.I.V.U. had their origins in the
"European" population of Java and concentrated their efforts on the
"European" federations, clubs and players, ethnically Chinese clubs
entered the "European" leagues in many cities as a matter of course,
winning championship titles in most of them: U.M.S. won the league of
Batavia in 1932/33, Tiong Hoa that of
Soerabaja on five occasions before World War II
(in July 1939, they even won the Java club championship
organised in Soerabaja), Excelsior and Nan Hwa that of
Makassar at least five times, and C.S.C. from
Medan that of Oost-Sumatra in 1931/32, with their
namesakes from Pematang Siantar following suit in 1937/38, to name but
the most important leagues; Chinese clubs also won local league titles in
e.g. Buitenzorg, Cheribon, Djokjakarta, Kediri, Malang
(where Hak Sing Hwee and their successors H.C.T.N.H. dominated the local
league), Semarang (once by local club side Union
and twice by Pekalongan guest side T.H.H.), Soekaboemi, Solo, Tegal, Tjepoe
(both by the local T.N.H. side and by the T.N.H. side from Blora)
and Toeloengagoeng; in fact the inland city of Bandoeng
is the only major town on Java where no Chinese club came to championship
honours.
Following the immediate success of the "European"
stedenwedstrijden, a Chinese version was held since 1917,
organised by the Comité Kampioenswedstrijden Tiong Hoa (C.K.T.H.)
since 1927. It soon became a tradition that the final tournament of
the Chinese city matches was played at the Easter weekend while the
"European" one followed at Pentecost. In 1930, the C.K.T.H. was
reformed as the H.N.V.B. (see above), which joined the N.I.V.B. (as
associate member) soon after. The H.N.V.B. apparently never organised
any club leagues (its member clubs played in the "European" leagues),
though Chinese city federations are documented for both Palembang and
Soerabaja (the S.C.V.B., Soerabaiasche Chineesche Voetbal Bond,
founded 1924 when leading Chinese club Tiong Hoa had already established
itself in the local Eerste Klasse; the S.C.V.B. organised a
championship, won by Hak Sing Hwee in 1925).
Of course, the relationship between the "European" and Chinese football
communities was not entirely friction free. The first major conflict
arose in 1928. At the beginning of the year, Chinese club Tiong Hoa
had been suspended for two months by the Soerabaja federation (S.V.B.)
following crowd trouble at a match against H.B.S. That suspension had
finished before the start of the final tournament of the
stedenwedstrijden held at the end of May in Soerabaja (and in
time for Tiong Hoa to enter the 1928 Soerabaja league), but out of anger,
the club gave permission for matches to be played at its ground at the
Cannalaan which were organised with the sole purpose of attracting (Chinese
and "native") fans who might otherwise have attended the stedenwedstrijden
held simultaneously. That unfriendly act was sanctioned by the N.I.V.B.
with a one-year suspension, forcing Tiong Hoa to sit out the 1928 season
in Soerabaja. (They would return with a vengeance in 1929, winning the
Soerabaja league for the first time in their history.)
An even more bitter conflict arose four years later, again at the
occasion of the stedenwedstrijden in Soerabaja. In October 1931,
the S.V.B. had withdrawn the press cards for the Chinese newspapers Sin Tit Po
and Pewarta Soerabaia following match reports in those papers deemed defamatory
and insulting by the S.V.B. board; after a request by the S.V.B., the N.I.V.B.
decided on 28 March 1932 to extend this measure to the stedenwedstrijden.
Then, the editor-in-chief of Sin Tit Po, Liem Koen Hian, started a boycot movement
(supervised by the Comité van Actie Persatoean Bangsa Asia) aimed at dissuading
Chinese and "natives" to attend the matches (partially by organising simultaneous
matches elsewhere in Soerabaja) and pressurising Chinese and "native" players not to
represent their cities; this had a particularly unfortunate effect on the Blitar side
making its maiden appearance, as it had to replace more than half of the regular first
eleven.
Nevertheless, for most of its existence, the H.N.V.B. was an associate member of the N.I.V.B. or its successor, the N.I.V.U. (it only withdrew from the N.I.V.B. when that organisation was falling apart in 1935). The integration of Chinese football on Java within the "European" structures is possibly best illustrated by the 1941 election of Liem Hwie Giap as president of the N.I.V.U.
Local "native" leagues had been played since the beginning of the
century, often organised by a leading "European" club in the
relevant city (e.g. B.V.C. in Batavia and D.S.V. in Medan,
who also offered the use of their grounds for the relevant
fixtures). Later, "native" clubs proceeded to enter the
"European" leagues; in Oost-Sumatra, the
"native" club M.S.V. made their debut in the "European" league
in 1923 and within a decade, the two "native" clubs M.S.V. and
I.V.C. had won the local league (O.S.V.B. Eerste Klasse)
on five occasions; by the end of the thirties, only one "European"
club (D.L.S.V.) remained in the Eerste Klasse of Medan.
The team representing the medical school Stovia
(School tot opleiding van inlandsche artsen) in Weltevreden
(a suburb of Batavia), targeted at "native" students, which
entered league competitions in Batavia as early as 1904 (first
playing as Dokters Djawa, later renamed Stovia) consisted of
"native" players as well. In 1910, two "native" clubs,
Daja Oepaja and Stovia, were among the nine member clubs of
the B.V.B., the then "European" football federation of Batavia.
Likewise, in Medan a league was first organised in 1907 and its
top level consisted of 3 clubs: "European" Voorwaarts, "native"
Maimoen S.C. and Chinese team C.S.C. (the second level contained
additional "European" and "native" teams).
It should also be noted that the so-called "European" clubs did
not bar other nationalities from playing for them, and the
N.I.V.B./N.I.V.U. (the only official F.I.F.A. member organisations
during the colonial era) allowed clubs from all nationalities
to enter the leagues organised by its local and regional member
federations. In all major cities, "European" clubs in the
"European" leagues included "native" players, and such players
(as well as Chinese ones, and any players from "native" or Chinese
clubs participating in the relevant "European" city leagues)
were also eligible for the city selections entering the
stedenwedstrijden organised by the N.I.V.B. (later N.I.V.U.).
The famous Chinese forward Lee Wai-tong, then playing league football
at U.M.S., represented Batavia in 1933.
After World War I, "native" city federations were formed in the
major cities of Java. Batavia and Bandoeng both had a B.I.V.B.
(Bataviasche resp. Bandoengsche Inlandsche Voetbal Bond) in
spring 1919; in Magelang, the I.V.B.M. was formed
on March 15, 1919 by four clubs (Mosvia, Stormvogels, H.K.S.
and Among Rogo), the Voetbalbond Boemipoetra
organised matches in Semarang in 1922,
the V.V.B. in Solo was founded in 1923 (soon followed
by the I.V.B. in the same city), the S.I.V.B. in Soerabaja in 1927
(a local Comité voor Inlandsche voetbalvereenigingen was
already mentioned in 1923), and the V.I.J. in Batavia in 1928
(apparently unrelated to the earlier B.I.V.B.); in addition,
the P.S.M. in Djokjakarta and the N.V.B. in Bandoeng
came into existence during this decade.
On April 19, 1930, seven of these "native" city federations
founded the P.S.S.I. (Persatoean Sepakraga Seloeroeh Indonesia):
those of Batavia (V.I.J. (Voetbalbond Indonesia
Jacatra), later Persidja/Persija), Bandoeng (B.I.V.B. (Bandoengsche Indonesische
Voetbal Bond), later Persib), Djokjakarta (P.S.M. (Persatoean Sepakraga
Mataram), renamed P.S.I.M. (Persatoean Sepakbola Indonesia Mataram)
in July 1930), Madioen (M.V.B. (Madioensche Voetbal Bond), later
P.S.M.), Magelang (I.V.B.M. (Indonesische Voetbal Bond Magelang),
later P.P.S.M.), Soerabaja (S.I.V.B. (Soerabajasche Indonesische
Voetbal Bond), later Persibaja/Persebaya) and Solo (V.V.B. (Vorstenlandsche
Voetbal Bond), later Persis). (Some on-line sources erroneously
include P.S.M. from Makassar (instead of Madioen) as one of the
original seven members; however, membership of the P.S.S.I. was
restricted to Java during the thirties. Moreover, the P.S.M. of
Makassar did not exist as such at the time; it was then called
M.V.B. and in fact a "European" federation with Chinese and "native"
member clubs. The seven founding members met in a tournament on the
occasion of the
golden anniversary of the P.S.S.I. in 1980.)
By May 1939, the P.S.S.I. had twenty member federations; apart from
the founding seven (V.I.J., Persib, P.S.I.M., P.S.M., P.P.S.M., Persibaja
and Persis) these were: Persibo (Buitenzorg), Persitas (Tasikmalaja),
P.S.I.T. (Cheribon), Persibas (Poerwokerto), P.S.K.S. (Keboemen),
P.S.I.A. (Ambarawa), P.S.I.Sa. (Salatiga), P.S.I.S. (Semarang),
P.S.I.K. (Klaten), K'Satrya (Sragen), R.E.N.S. (Bodjonegoro),
P.S.B.I. (Blitar) and Persim (Malang).
Most of the P.S.S.I. member federations organised local club leagues. This is confirmed for the V.I.J. (M.O.S. were its champions in 1931, Malay Club in 1936/37, and Ster in 1937/38 and 1939/40), S.I.V.B./Persibaja (S.E.L.O. were champions 1934/35 before joining the "European" S.V.B. in 1937, Hizboel Wathon in 1939 before joining the S.V.B. in 1941), the B.I.V.B. (the 1931/32 championship was won by R.A.N.) and its successor Persib (1939/40 champions Siap), Persis (Indonesia Moeda were champions 1938, Mars 1939), P.S.I.S. (S.S.S. won at least two titles), P.S.I.M. (both Browidjojo and Hizboel Wathon won multiple titles), Persim (organised a league competition in Malang 1939), P.S.I.T. (Zwarte Ster were its 1934/35 and 1936/37 champions; this "native" club had been among the five founding members of the "European" V.C.O. in 1932 (which replaced an earlier "European" federation, the C.V.B., by then dissolved)), P.P.S.M. (its 1932 champions were Stormvogels) and Persibo (Sangkoeriang were champions 1938/39). In smaller towns, "native" federations (or clubs) entered the "European" leagues, occasionally winning the championship: in Blitar, the "native" federation, P.S.B.I., founded in 1928, won the "European" league on several occasions in the early thirties, P.S.P.I. were champions of Toeloengagoeng in 1933, and in Kediri, P.S.H.W. won the 1939 league organised by the "European" K.V.U.
The P.S.S.I. itself appears to have concentrated on organising
"native" stedenwedstrijden between its member federations.
A first, unofficial event was held in 1930 at the occasion of the
foundation of the P.S.S.I.; after that, the tournament was held
each year in parallel with the annual congress of the P.S.S.I.
Even now, most of the teams playing in the nationwide Indonesian
league structure essentially correspond to city federations, many
based on P.S.S.I. member federations in the colonial era, although
some "proper" clubs (such as Arema, Barito Putera and Semen Padang)
have remained from the 15-year (1979-1994) period
in which a club-based semi-professional league (Galatama)
was organised. A number of these city federations entering the
national league as club-like entities, such as Persija in Jakarta
and Persebaya in Surabaya, organise local club leagues just as the
V.I.J. and S.I.V.B./Persibaja did in the 1930s.
Apart from clubs with "European", Chinese and "native" identities, there were also clubs catering to Arabs (e.g. J.A.V.V. in Batavia, Annasher in Soerabaja, Al Ittihad, multiple champions of the "European" competition in Solo, and Al Hilaäl of Pekalongan, champions of Semarang in 1934/35) or Ambonese (e.g. S.V.J.A., Batavia league champions in 1936 and 1937, Mena Moeria in Soerabaja, Jong Ambon in Bandoeng and V.O.P. in Medan) exclusively, as well as clubs connected to the military (e.g. Velocitas in Tjimahi near Bandoeng and a number of clubs called Ajax, Mars or Sparta; in Soerabaja, the navy was represented by Zeemacht). Apart from the Ambonese diaspora (mostly caused by military commitments), also communities from the Minahassa (northern Celebes) and of the Bataks (from Sumatra) were present in various cities on Java and elsewhere and founded their own football clubs entering the "European" city federations.
Finally note that several cities, including at least Batavia, Soerabaja, Bandoeng, Semarang, Malang and Medan, additionally had a Kantoorvoetbalbond which organised leagues between company clubs. These federations were occasionally accused of hidden professionalism by the official N.I.V.B. members (Dutch football was (officially) staunchly amateur until the mid-fifties).
In January 1937, the N.I.V.U. and the P.S.S.I. signed an agreement
in which they recognised each other as the two only top level football
organisations in the Dutch East Indies, allowed matches between member
clubs and federations of the two organisations, and promised to respect
each other's disciplinary decisions (in particular suspensions of clubs
or players).
However, new controversies arose regarding the 1938 World Cup, for
which the Dutch East Indies eventually qualified, albeit without
playing a single qualifying match, after withdrawals by both
their intended opponents, Japan and the United States of America.
To choose a team, the N.I.V.U. (as F.I.F.A. members for the territory)
organised a series of selection matches all over Java between December 1937
and February 1938, without directly involving the P.S.S.I. (although
representatives from that organisation attended some of these matches).
The squad eventually chosen consisted entirely of players from N.I.V.U.
member federations (reasonably enough given results of matches between
representative teams from "European" and "native" city federations); the
team fielded against Hungary in Reims included three "European" players
(all born in the Dutch East Indies), three Javanese or Sumatran players,
including the team's captain, Achmad Nawir, two of Chinese and three of Moluccan
parentage. Not considering the last five "Indonesian", the P.S.S.I.
accused the N.I.V.U. of "highjacking" the World Cup participation by
minimising the number of "native" players and using the Dutch flag (it is
not known which flag the P.S.S.I. had suggested as an alternative), and
ended the collaboration with the N.I.V.U. in 1939.
Following the Japanese invasion in 1942, both the N.I.V.U. and P.S.S.I.
were disbanded and sporting activities reorganised under Japanese supervision
(apart from the "native" city matches in 1943, no notable football events
were organised during Japanese occupation, although in Soerabaja a city
league apparently was contested between 1943 and 1945).
After Japanese capitulation, Indonesian independence was proclaimed by
Hatta and Soekarno on 17 August 1945. The new Republic of Indonesia
was not recognised by the Dutch until late 1949 (sovereignty was officially
transferred to the United States of Indonesia on 27 December 1949); the
four years in between saw much violence and bloodshed.
For most of the time, the Dutch administration,
which returned in spring 1946, controlled the major cities of the country (the
main exception being Djokjakarta, capital of the republic), and gradually
most of the former "European" football federations were resurrected, including,
on 29 December 1946 in Bandoeng, the N.I.V.U.
It organised the 29th edition of the stedenwedstrijden in spring 1947,
six years after the previous edition. Another edition followed in 1948 before
the N.I.V.U. was renamed V.U.V.S.I./I.S.N.I.S. (Voetbal Unie in de Verenigde
Staten van Indonesië/Ikatan Sepakraga Negara Indonesia Serikat) on 18 September 1948
and as such organised two more stedentournooien in 1949 and 1950.
Meanwhile, also the local "European" city federations had started renaming themselves
(most adding, like V.U.V.S.I., Indonesian translations of their Dutch names; the
only major city federation not to have done so appears to have been the V.B.O.).
They kept organising their local leagues, most including a host of temporarily
resident military teams.
The transition to the post-independence (and current) "native" city federations
differed locally, with three main variants, which we may label M (for Makassar
and Medan), S (for Soerabaja and Semarang) and B (for Bandoeng and Batavia).
In some cities (in particular Makassar and Medan, the two strongest federations
outside Java) the old "European" federation survived under the Indonesian version
of their name (no serious "native" counterpart existed in either city).
The same appears to have happened in Malang.
In others (in particular the Eastern Java cities of Semarang and Soerabaja) the
"European" federations effectively absorbed their "native" counterparts, taking
the "native" name but maintaining the "European" league structure, in which a
local P.O.R.I. (Persatuan Olahraga Republik Indonesia - the sports federation of
the Indonesian republic, see also the next paragraph) team already competed at
the top level in the 1949/50 season (winning the league in Semarang and finishing
third in Soerabaja); in Soerabaja, the 1950/51 Persibaja top level consisted entirely
of clubs that played in the S.V.B./P.S.S. league in the previous season.
In Western Java, the P.S.B.S. (formerly V.B.B.O.) in Bandoeng was dissolved at the
end of 1950 and its remaining four member clubs sought (and obtained) admission to
Persib. The last "European" city federation to throw in the towel was the
V.B.O. in Batavia, which only merged into Persidja at the end of 1951.
In September 1950, the P.S.S.I. was resurrected (albeit under a slightly different name: Persatuan Sepakbola Seluruh Indonesia) by the transformation of the football department of the P.O.R.I., the Sports Federation of the Republic of Indonesia established by the republican government in 1947; the member associations of the V.U.V.S.I./I.S.N.I.S. successively joined the new federation and V.U.V.S.I./I.S.N.I.S. disbanded in 1951 (the Chinese federation H.N.V.B., which had been resurrected on 4 September 1948, followed suit in April 1952). One year later, the P.S.S.I. obtained F.I.F.A. membership.
If in the above paragraphs there appears to be undue stress on the integration of "native" (and Chinese) players in the "European" federations (undoubtedly, a feeling of superiority by "Europeans" with respect to "natives" (and Chinese) was wide-spread and often publicly expressed), this is partially because of such ludicrous claims on the internet as those made by Safari Sidakaton in PSSI Doelie dan Nasibnya kini..." (and its google translation into English at The past and present fate: PSSI; meanwhile both disappeared from the web but can still be found thanks to the Internet Archive, in both Indonesian and google English); we cite: "Saat itu bangsa Indonesia tidak diperbolehkan bermain sepakbola di lapangan sepakbola Belanda, karena dianggap tidak becus dalam bermain sepakbola secara profesional. Bahkan di tiap pintu masuk lapangan sepakbola Belanda selalu terdapat papan pengumuman besar bertuliskan "VERBODEN VOOR INDONESISCHE EN HOND", yang artinya "DILARANG MASUK BAGI ORANG INDONESIA DAN ANJING".", which google transformed into "At that time the Indonesian people are not allowed to play football on a football pitch Netherlands, for being incompetent in playing football professionally. Even at each entrance of the Dutch football pitch there is always a big billboard that read "VERBODEN voor Indonesische EN HOND", which means "FORBIDDEN FOR PEOPLE OF INDONESIA AND DOG".". Both sentences are verifiably untrue (whether they are deliberate lies or due to glaring ignorance only their author can tell). Professional football was not accepted in the Netherlands until years after Indonesian independence and the billboards (which in correct Dutch should have read "Verboden voor inlanders en honden"; the use of "Indonesiërs" on such a sign would have been highly peculiar, quite apart from the incorrect grammar in the use of both "Indonesische" and "hond") are an invention, apparently based on the alleged existence of a corresponding sign "No natives or dogs allowed" at a club in the British Indies. "Natives" were allowed (indeed encouraged) to play in league competitions organised by "European" clubs such as B.V.C. (Batavia) and D.S.V. (Medan) already before the first World War, and "native" (and Chinese) clubs were fully integrated in many "European" city leagues long before the P.S.S.I. was founded (in 1930, and not 1932 as stated in the cited article, which contains one or more inaccuracies in almost every sentence, as well as some outright lies concerning Tan Malaka). In addition, "native" attendance often outnumbered "European" attendance at league matches, even those featuring two "European" clubs.
Another puzzling statement was made by Eko Nurhuda in his article
Rindu Pesepak Bola Tionghoa
from April 2011, where it was claimed that
"Yang bikin bangga, ketika PSSI didirikan klub-klub milik orang Tionghoa memilih
bergabung dengan klub-klub perserikatan di bawah naungan PSSI. Klub UMS bergabung
dengan Voetbalbond Indonesia Jacatra (VIJ, kini Persija), sedangkan klub Tionghoa
bergabung dengan Soerabajasche Indonesische Voetbalbond (SIVB, kini Persebaya).";
in other words, that the two strongest Chinese clubs, U.M.S. in Batavia and Tiong Hoa
in Soerabaja, joined the "native" city federations, V.I.J. and S.I.V.B. respectively.
In fact, both clubs played in the leagues of the "European" federations V.B.O.
and S.V.B. (and with considerable success, in particular in the case of Tiong Hoa).
Only after the war, when the P.S.S.I. was reformed in 1950/51, these
Chinese clubs joined the "native" city federations (by then long renamed
Persidja and Persibaja), just like the "European" clubs and city federations
did at the time.
The same article also implied that "Indonesia" were invited by F.I.F.A.
to enter the 1938 World Cup based on the strength of the P.S.S.I. as
evidenced by a 2-0 win over Nan Hwa (the Hongkong club better known as
South China) in 1937, but that the opportunity
was "seized" by the N.I.V.U. Quite apart from the fact that the
match in question
finished a 2-2 draw, and that at the time "native" representative sides
(whether from the P.S.S.I. or the city federations) consistently lost
friendly matches against "European" city federations, often heavily,
there can be no question of an invitation by F.I.F.A. to the P.S.S.I.
in 1937, quite simply because the N.I.V.U. were full members of F.I.F.A.,
a status the P.S.S.I. did not obtain until 1952. To all intents and
purposes, the order of footballing strength of the three federations
on Java remained unchanged until the start of World War II: first the
N.I.V.B./N.I.V.U., then the Chinese H.N.V.B., and third the P.S.S.I.
Meanwhile a courteous erratum based on the above remarks was
added after the original article.
On three occasions a tournament was organised between the club champions of the major cities on Java; the first two times in Soerabaja at the occasion of a jubilee of the S.V.B., with the champions of Bandoeng, Batavia, Semarang and Soerabaja entering, the last time in Batavia with the champions of Bandoeng, Batavia and Soerabaja. A tournament planned for the end of August 1935 in Semarang was cancelled. Before, the two competing federations on Java, the N.I.V.B. (affiliated to F.I.F.A.) and the W.J.V.F., had organised (both for the only time in their history) a club league, the N.I.V.B. with 23 clubs from 5 cities in eastern Java, the W.J.V.F. with 5 teams from 3 cities in western Java.
Palmares
Year Winners Venue Organising federation
1929 S.V.B.B. (Batavia) Soerabaja S.V.B. (sanctioned by N.I.V.B.)
1935 cancelled Semarang V.S.O./N.I.V.U.
1939 Tiong Hoa (Soerabaja) Soerabaja S.V.B. (sanctioned by N.I.V.U.)
1941 Vios (Batavia) Batavia V.B.O. (sanctioned by N.I.V.U.)
1935 T.H.O.R. (Soerabaja) N.I.V.B. [eastern Java]
Hercules (Batavia) W.J.V.F. [western Java]
The lists below are work in progress; additions and corrections are welcomed by the author.
Batavia | Soerabaja | Bandoeng | Semarang | Malang | Oost-Sumatra (Medan) | Makassar
On 28 September 1893, the Bataviasche
Cricket-Football club "Rood-Wit" was founded in the capital
and obtained legal recognition (by official approval of its
statutes) in May 1894. The club is known to have played cricket
matches later that year against the Bataviasche Cricket Club (in
existence since the 1880s) but it is unclear to what extent football
was played, and in which form (rugby or soccer). On December 26
(Boxing Day) of 1896, a football match was played between a Dutch
and an English team at Gang Scott on the Koningsplein, the
English winning 1-0 after the Dutch side had lost a player early
on due to breaking his collarbone.
A number of other clubs were founded later in the nineties, such as N.V.
(Nimmer Vermoeid), but by the turn of the century reportedly only
one club existed in both Batavia (Trappers) and the garrison town
Meester Cornelis (S.S.S.).
In the first three years of the new century a host of new clubs were
founded, including the later local heavyweights B.V.C., Oliveo
(Onze leus is voorwaarts en overwinnen), Hercules and Vios
(Voorwaarts is ons streven, from Meester Cornelis). Together with
Dokters Djawa (later Stovia), these four clubs entered the first ever
league competition held in Batavia, organised by the newspaper
Het nieuws van den dag voor Nederlandsch-Indië in 1904.
It was succeeded by the competition for the Droogdokbeker,
held since 1904/05 and from 1907 complemented by the Visserbeker
which served as a second class feeder.
Initially, the B.V.B. (Bataviaasche Voetbal Bond), founded on 20
July 1906, organised competitions, but it fell apart in
March 1912 when four clubs (A.S.V.G., Oliveo, S.C.F. and Vios)
left and founded the W.J.V.B. (West Java Voetbal Bond), which was
joined by Velocitas and Voorwaarts in April 1912. After Hercules
also joined the W.J.V.B. in 1913, the new federation had won the
dispute and B.V.C. followed at the end of the year. In 1923, a separate
federation for Meester Cornelis (Meestersche Voetbal Bond) was
founded, as part of the W.J.V.B., for local clubs too weak to enter
the third class of the W.J.V.B. competitions. In August 1928, the
W.J.V.B. was renamed V.B.O. (Voetbalbond Batavia en Omstreken).
Since (at least) the 1920 season, when U.M.S. played in the vierde
klasse, Chinese clubs entered the league; "native" clubs were part
of the league structure since at least 1926, when B.V.V. played in
the derde klasse (ignoring the participation of Dokters Djawa/Stovia
in the leagues between 1904 and 1912).
After the second World War, the V.B.O. was the last "European" city
federation to disappear, merging into Persidja at the end of 1951.
1904 Vios [Nieuws van den dag Competitie]
1904/05 Oliveo [Droogdokbeker]
1905/06 Vios [Droogdokbeker]
B.V.B.
1906/07 Hercules [Droogdokbeker]
1907/08 Vios [Droogdokbeker]
1908/09 Oliveo [Droogdokbeker]
1909/10 Oliveo [Prinses Juliana Competitie]
1910/11 Vios [Droogdokbeker (won outright by Vios)]
1911/12 Oliveo [Schild van het A.N.V.]
1912 M.U.C. [Schild van het A.N.V.]
W.J.V.B.
1912 Vios [Tjikinibeker]
1913 Vios [Peek Frean-beker]
1913/14 Hercules [Bataviaasch Nieuwblad-beker]
1914 Vios [Tjikinibeker (won outright by Vios)]
1915 Hercules [Bataviaasch Nieuwblad-beker (won outright by Hercules)]
1916 Hercules [Schild van het A.N.V.]
1917 Hercules [Peek Frean-beker (won outright by Hercules)]
1918 Hercules [Schild van het A.N.V.]
1919 Hercules [Gouverneur-Generaal beker]
1920 Hercules [Schild van het A.N.V. (won outright by Hercules)]
1921/22 Hercules [Gouverneur-Generaal beker]
1922 Hercules
1922/23 Hercules [Gouverneur-Generaal beker (won outright by Hercules)]
1923/24 Hercules
1924/25 Hercules
1925/26 S.V.B.B.
1926/27 Oliveo
1927/28 Hercules
V.B.O.
1928/29 S.V.B.B. [*1]
1929/30 S.V.B.B.
1930/31 Hercules
1931/32 S.V.B.B
1932/33 U.M.S.
1933/34 Hercules
1934/35 Hercules
1935/36 S.V.J.A.
1936/37 S.V.J.A.
1937/38 Hercules
1938/39 B.V.C. [*2]
1939/40 Hercules
1940/41 Vios [*3]
1941/42 abandoned
1942-45 not played
1946/47 B.V.C. (noodcompetitie)
1947/48 U.M.S.
1948/49 Vios
1949/50 Chung Hua
1950/51 apparently abandoned
NB: additionally, Hercules won the 1934/35 championship of the W.J.V.F. (West-Java).
[*1] this championship qualified S.V.B.B. for the 1929 Java club championship.
[*2] this championship qualified B.V.C. for the 1939 Java club championship.
[*3] this championship qualified Vios for the 1941 Java club championship.
NB: the site http://www.jakarta.go.id/jakv1/encyclopedia/detail/3461 claimed (as
of 2011) championships for U.M.S. in the V.B.O. for the seasons 1930, 1932,
1933, 1934, 1937, 1938, and 1949; however, U.M.S. only won the league once
before World War II, in the 1932/33 season (in both 1933/34 and 1936/37 U.M.S.
finished last and had to play off against relegation). Most of the years
mentioned apparently refer to titles won by reserve sides (e.g. in 1930
U.M.S. II won the Tweede Klasse and in 1932 U.M.S. IV and U.M.S. V won their
respective sections of the Vierde Klasse).
The same page also astonishingly claims the V.B.O. changed name to Persija in
1951 but that of course should refer to the V.I.J., or rather the Djakarta
section of P.O.R.I., which was renamed Persidja on 24 Sep 1950 (considering
itself as the successor of the pre-war V.I.J.); the V.B.O. was liquidated in
1951, with its clubs joining Persidja.
Batavia - "native" champions
Inlandsche Voetbalcompetitie
1905 Gang Solitude [organised by B.V.C.]
1911 Setia Oetama
1912 Tjahja Kwitang [organised by Oliveo]
1914 Roekoen Setia
1915 Roekoen Setia
1916 Sinar Salemba
N.I.V.B. Cup (playoff between inlandsche kampioenen Batavia)
1924 Tjahja Kwitang
V.I.J.-competitie
1931 M.O.S.
1936/37 Malay Club
1937/38 Ster
1939/40 Ster
Persidja-competitie
1953/54 U.M.S.
1955/56 U.M.S. (noodcompetitie)
1956/57 Bintang Timur
Victoria, the first reported football club of Soerabaja, was founded in
September 1894 (according to other sources: 1895) by a pupil of the local
H.B.S. (Hoogere Burger School), John Edgar; in 1896, a second club, Sparta,
was founded and those two clubs played the first football match in Soerabaja
in July 1896 (Victoria winning 6-1). Soon other clubs followed (among others,
S.I.O.D., Rapiditas and E.C.A., with only the latter lasting more than a few
years and indeed dominating local football, along with T.H.O.R., for about
a decade) and in February 1897 a first local football federation (the first
of its kind on Java and in the Dutch East Indies) was founded.
This apparently did not survive long as five clubs (including E.C.A. and T.H.O.R.)
founded the O.J.V.B. (Oost-Java Voetbalbond) in August 1902; at the end of the
same year, that organisation appears to have been renamed S.V.B., and by October
1903 it is known as the Algemeene Nederlandsch Indische Voetbalbond.
Meanwhile, a championship in knock-out format (seriewedstrijden) was
first organised in 1902, with T.H.O.R. defeating E.C.A. (who were considered
'champions' of Soerabaja in 1900, apparently by virtue of remaining undefeated
in the regular 'friendly' matches organised locally) 1-0 in the final.
In 1903, E.C.A. won a championship contested by 3 clubs (E.C.A., T.H.O.R. and
Voorwaarts), but the format of the competition is not entirely clear;
the 1904/05 competition may have been the first league-style championship,
but no league appears to have been played in the next two years.
At the beginning of 1907, a second O.J.V.B. (Oost Java Voetbal Bond) was founded,
which organised a league in both 1907 and 1908 before, halfway its third league
season, four of its seven Eerste Klasse clubs left and founded the S.V.B.
(Soerabajasche Voetbal Bond) on 5 August 1909.
Both the O.J.V.B. and the S.V.B. organised a league in 1909/10 before the
former gave up; its two strongest members, E.C.A. and R.A., were both dissolved
and most of their players joined newly formed Quick, who would dominate the
S.V.B. league for the next five years. The 1910 league included a military
side from Malang, Wilhelmina.
As early as 1908 a Chinese club, S.C.R.C. (Sourabaya Chinese Recreation Club)
entered the O.J.V.B. Tweede Klasse, but the first Chinese club to play at the
top level in Soerabaja was Tiong Hoa, who joined the S.V.B. in the 1918
season and were promoted as champions of the Tweede Klasse in 1921;
at the end of the thirties, Gie Hoo followed them; both clubs provided
players for the 1938 World Cup squad of the Dutch East Indies. Ambonese
club Mena Moeria were admitted to the Eerste Klasse in 1930, and Selo,
champions of the "native" federation S.I.V.B. in 1934/35, were admitted
to the Eerste Klasse (by then the second level) in 1937 (P.S.H.W., as Hizboel
Wathon champions of Persibaja 1939, followed them in 1941).
The S.V.B. was renamed S.V.B./P.S.S. (Persatoean Sepakraga Soerabaja) shortly after
the start of the 1948/49 season before merging with Persibaja (or rather the
Surabaja section of P.O.R.I.) and the S.K.V.B. (Soerabajasche Kantoor Voetbal Bond)
into Persibaja in the summer of 1950. While the choice of name may suggest that
the "native" federation Persibaja absorbed the "European" S.V.B., in fact
the 1950/51 top level competition of Persibaja consisted exclusively of clubs
formerly with the S.V.B./P.S.S. (H.B.S., P.O.R.I.S. (who had already entered the
S.V.B. league structure starting from the 1947/48 season), Tiong Hoa, Excelsior,
P.O.M.M. (formerly Jong Ambon), Zeemacht (all in the 1949/50 S.V.B./P.S.S. Eerste
Klasse), T.H.O.R. and Assjabaab (the top-2 of the 1949/50 S.V.B./P.S.S. Tweede Klasse)).
O.J.V.B.
1902 T.H.O.R.
S.V.B./A.N.I.V.B.
1903 E.C.A.
1904/05 T.H.O.R.
1905-06 probably not held
O.J.V.B.
1907 E.C.A.
1908 T.H.O.R.
1909 abandoned
1909/10 not known (probably R.A.)
S.V.B. Eerste Klasse
1909/10 S.V.S.
1910 Quick
1911 not held
1912 Quick
1913 Quick
1914 Excelsior
1915 Quick
1916 H.B.S.
1917 H.B.S.
1918 H.B.S.
1918/19 H.B.S.
1919/20 T.H.O.R.
1920/21 T.H.O.R.
1921 Excelsior
1922 H.B.S.
1923 H.B.S.
1924 H.B.S.
1925 H.B.S.
1926/27 Excelsior
1927/28 Excelsior
1928 T.H.O.R. [*1]
1929 Tiong Hoa
1930 Excelsior
1931/32 T.H.O.R.
1932/33 Excelsior
1933/34 Tiong Hoa
1934 Tiong Hoa
S.V.B. Hoofdklasse
1935/36 H.B.S.
1936/37 H.B.S.
1937/38 H.B.S.
1938/39 Tiong Hoa [*2]
1939/40 Tiong Hoa
1940/41 H.B.S. [*3]
1941/42 abandoned
1942 not held
under Japanese occupation
1943 Tiong Hoa
1944 Tiong Hoa
1945 not known [Tiong Hoa runners-up]
S.V.B. Afdeeling I/II
1946 II-10 R.I. [*4]
S.V.B. Eerste Klasse
1946/47 Tiong Hoa
1947/48 H.B.S.
S.V.B./P.S.S. Eerste Klasse
1948/49 Tiong Hoa
1949/50 H.B.S.
NB: additionally, T.H.O.R. won the 1934/35 championship of the N.I.V.B. (Oost-Java).
[*1] this championship qualified T.H.O.R. for the 1929 Java club championship.
[*2] this championship qualified Tiong Hoa for the 1939 Java club championship.
[*3] this championship qualified H.B.S. for the 1941 Java club championship.
[*4] II-10 R.I. won Afdeeling II which served as a second level competition (they were
promoted along with runners-up M.L.D.) but they thereby also qualified for a playoff
for the overall title against N.M.B., winners of Afdeeling I, which they won 2-1.
Soerabaja - "native" champions
S.I.V.B.-competitie
1934/35 S.E.L.O.
Persibaja-competitie
1938/39 Hizboel Wathon
1950/51 Tiong Hoa
1952 Angkatan Darat
1953/54 P.O.M.M.
The first known club from Bandoeng is B.V.C. (Bandoengsche Voetbal Club),
which was founded in 1900. Sidolig (Spelen in de open lucht is gezond, 1902)
and U.N.I. (Uitspanning Na Inspanning, 1903), the two clubs to dominate
football in the mountain city during the colonial era, followed soon after.
B.V.C. received their namesakes from Batavia on 3 April 1904 (Easter Sunday),
losing 0-4 in (reportedly) the first ever venture by a Batavia club side out
of town (as early as 1898, E.C.A. from Soerabaja and Go Ahead from Malang
paid visits to each other, and S.V.V. from Semarang were hosted by Vitesse
in Soerabaja in May 1899).
On 27 November 1904, following a friendly match between Sidolig and U.N.I.,
the Preanger Voetbalbond was founded by B.V.C., Sidolig and U.N.I., the first
football federation in the city. It does not seem to have played a decisive
part in the organisation of the various league competitions in the following
years, played for a variety of trophies, including a vaandel offered by the
company Hagelsteens and the Coorde-medaille. The latter was first played
for in 1906 by five clubs, including two "native" ones, Osvia and Stovio. The
1909 competition for the Coorde-medaille is remarkable as second place
was decided on goal difference (rather than goal average), the first known
application (to the author) of this tie-breaker worldwide.
In fact, the first ever competition in which goal difference served as the
first tie-breaker was the 1890/91 season
of the Eerste Klasse in
the Netherlands itself (the first ever official league tournament there);
it was adopted as such by the N.V.A.B. at its meeting on 26 October 1890 in
Rotterdam, but no clubs finished equal on points at the end of that season
and it was replaced by the goal average rule for the 1891/92 season by a
decision at a board meeting on 21 November 1891 in Leiden.
The B.V.B. (Bandoengsche Voetbal Bond) was founded in spring 1913 by U.N.I.,
Sidolig, Roneo (a "native" club), M.B.V.C. (a military side) and D.O.S. (another
military side, based in nearby Tjimahi), and started another league competition
(involving those five clubs) in July 1913, but it considered 1914 its year of
foundation, because of obtaining official government recognition on 11 July 1914.
In 1934, a rebel organisation led by U.N.I., the B.V.U. (Bandoengsche Voetbal
Unie) was formed, in parallel with (but unrelated to) the conflict within the
N.I.V.B. (of which the B.V.U. never was a member); the B.V.B. and B.V.U. resolved
their conflict in February 1935, after which the B.V.B.O. (Bandoengsche Voetbal
Bond en Omstreken) was formed, renamed V.B.B.O. (Voetbal Bond Bandoeng en
Omstreken) in December 1935.
In 1918, "native" club Osvia entered the tweede klasse (in 1921, they
first appear at the top level since withdrawing from the 1909 league competition
for the Coorde-medaille), while Chinese side Y.M.C. made their maiden
appearance in the derde klasse in 1921, gaining access to the top
flight in 1927.
A first "native" federation was founded on 5 January 1919, when thirteen clubs
(K.B.S., B.B. (Bintang Bandoeng, who, like K.B.S., had entered the
"native" competition organised by U.N.I. in 1916),
Ster, Diana, Zwaluw, B.I.V.C., B.V.C., K.V.C., V.V.C., Visser, N.V.C., Brom
and Pasar ketjil) formed the B.I.V.B. (Bandoengsche Inlandsche Voetbal Bond);
in July 1919, the city council gave it permission to use the Tegallega grounds
but no further information on its activities is available, apart from
the organisation of the Inlandsche Wedstrijden
in May 1923. A second "native" federation with the same acronym (now denoting
Bandoengsche Indonesische Voetbal Bond) was founded in
November 1928 by seven clubs, viz. T.O.G.I.D.O. (Tot Ons Genoegen Is Deze Opgericht),
Osvia (Opleidingsschool voor inlandsche ambtenaren),
R.A.N. (Roekoen Anak Negeri), V.E.E.D. (Voor Eer En Deugd),
O.V.U. (Onze Vrije Uren), Singkalang and (again)
Diana (Doe in alles niet achteruit);
this federation was later renamed P.S.I.B. (Persatoean Sepakbola Indonesia Bandoeng)
and merged in March 1933 with the N.V.B. (Nationale Voetbal Bond) to form Persib,
one of the most successful clubs in Indonesia since independence.
On 30 July 1950, the V.B.B.O. was renamed P.S.B.S. (Persatuan Sepakraga Bandung
dan Sekitarnja) but by the end of the year only four clubs (U.N.I., Sidolig,
Chung Hua and Jong Ambon) had remained; these decided to liquidate the P.S.B.S.
and join the "native" federation Persib.
P.V.B. 1905 U.N.I. [medaille-competitie] 1906 U.N.I. [Coorde-medaille] 1906 U.N.I. [Hagelsteens-vaandel] 1908 Sidolig [Hagelsteens-vaandel] 1909 S.S. (europeesch) [Coorde-medaille] 1910/11 Sidolig [Coorde-medaille] 1912 Sidolig [Indische Sportbeker] B.V.B. 1913/14 Sidolig 1914 Sidolig 1915 U.N.I. 1916 U.N.I. 1917/18 U.N.I. [De Vries-beker] 1918 Sparta [single round robin] 1918/19 U.N.I. [Hagelsteens-vaandel] 1919 U.N.I. 1920 Sparta 1921 Sidolig 1922/23 Sparta 1923/24 U.N.I. [Maurice-Wolf-beker] 1924 Sparta 1925 U.N.I. 1926/27 Sidolig 1927/28 Velocitas (Tjimahi) 1928 U.N.I. [*1] 1929/30 U.N.I. 1930 L.U.N.O. 1931/32 Velocitas (Tjimahi) 1932/33 U.N.I. 1933/34 Sidolig 1934/35 Sidolig B.V.U. 1934/35 U.N.I. V.B.B.O. 1935/36 Sparta 1936/37 Sparta 1937/38 U.N.I. [Amstelbier-beker] 1938/39 U.N.I. [*2] 1939/40 Sidolig [Au Bon Marché-beker] 1940/41 Sparta [*3] 1941/42 abandoned 1942-45 not held 1946 Hercules 1947 U.N.I. 1947/48 U.N.I. 1948/49 Hercules 1949/50 Hercules P.S.B.S. 1950/51 abandoned [P.S.B.S. liquidated 31 Dec 1950; clubs joined Persib] [*1] this championship qualified U.N.I. for the 1929 Java club championship. [*2] this championship qualified U.N.I. for the 1939 Java club championship. [*3] this championship qualified Sparta for the 1941 Java club championship. Bandoeng - "native" champions Inlandsche Voetbalcompetitie 1913/14 Setia Oesaha [B.V.B., 2e klasse; for the Preanger Sport Revue-beker] 1916 Dreadnought [organised by U.N.I.] B.I.V.B.-competitie 1931/32 R.A.N. Persib-competitie 1939/40 Siap 1951/52 Indonesia Muda 1952/53 Indonesia Muda 1953/54 Sunda
The first club in Semarang appears to have been Go Ahead, which was founded
on 30 July 1898. It was to dominate local football for decades, along with
S.V.V., founded one year later, and M.O.T. (Moed Overwint Tegenstand,
founded in 1904).
A first league competition was held in 1906, for a cup offered by the
Semarangsche Vélo-Club (a cycling club), before, in August 1907, a first
football federation was founded, the S.V.B. (Semarangsche Voetbal Bond); it
organised its first league competition in the 1907/08 season.
However, in 1911 the S.V.B. was dissolved due to a cholera epidemy, which
caused a police prohibition on the organisation of matches; this prohibition
lasted more than a year and during this period, most member clubs failed to
pay their membership fees.
On 2 February 1912 five clubs (Go Ahead, S.V.V., M.O.T., T.H.O.S. and
Union) formed a new federation, the V.S.O. (Voetbalbond Semarang en Omstreken).
For a decade and a half, from the 1926/27 season until World War II arrived in
the Pacific, the league included clubs from Pekalongan;
the Chinese club from there, T.H.H., won the league twice and the local Arab side
Al Hilaäl once.
The strongest Chinese club in Semarang, Union, a founder member of the V.S.O.,
first entered the top level league in 1916, and were Semarang champions once
before the second World War.
The V.S.O. (which had been refounded 25 August 1946) was renamed V.S.O./P.S.S.
(Perkoempoelan Sepakraga Semarang) in September 1949 and then P.S.I.S.
(Persatuan Sepakbolah Indonesia Semarang) on 12 July 1950; the last name change
(resurrecting the pre-war P.S.S.I. members from Semarang)
involved a merger with P.O.R.I.S., the Semarang section of P.O.R.I., which
had already entered teams in the 1949 noodcompetitie; their first side
won the league in 1949/50.
S.V.C.
1906 Go Ahead
S.V.B.
1907/08 S.V.V.
1908/09 Go Ahead
1909/10 abandoned (cholera epidemy)
1911 not held
V.S.O.
1912 not held
1913 S.V.V.
1914 M.O.T.
1915/16 Go Ahead
1916 S.V.V.
1917 S.V.V.
1918 not awarded (league annulled at halfway stage)
1919 Go Ahead
1920 S.V.V.
1921 Go Ahead
1921/22 S.V.V.
1922/23 Go Ahead
1923/24 Go Ahead
1924 M.O.T.
1925 Go Ahead
1926/27 Go Ahead
1927/28 Go Ahead
1928/29 M.O.T. [*1]
1929/30 Go Ahead
1930/31 M.O.T.
1931/32 Union
1932/33 M.O.T.
1933/34 T.H.H. (Pekalongan)
1934/35 Al Hilaäl (Pekalongan)
1935/36 M.O.T.
1936/37 M.O.T.
1937/38 Go Ahead
1938/39 M.O.T. [*2] [!]
1940 T.H.H. (Pekalongan) [!]
1940/41 B.O.W. [extra competitie]
1941/42 abandoned
1942-45 not held
1946/47 II-13 R.I. (2e Bataljon, 13e Regiment Infanterie)
1947/48 Go Ahead
1948 not awarded
1949 Union [noodcompetitie V.S.O./M.L.O.]
V.S.O./P.S.S.
1949/50 P.O.R.I.S.
[*1] this championship qualified M.O.T. for the 1929 Java club championship.
[*2] this championship qualified M.O.T. for the 1939 Java club championship.
[!] note that Go Ahead, Union and S.V.V. (the top-3 of the 1937/38 season) did not enter the
V.S.O. league in 1938/39 and 1939/40 as they were active in the Midden-Java competitie
(involving 10 clubs: 4 from the V.B.D.O. (Djokjakarta/Magelang), 3 from the V.S.O. (Semarang)
and 3 from the V.B.S. (Solo)).
Semarang - "native" champions
inlandsche competitie
1918 Roban
P.S.I.S.-competitie
1935/36 league not finished
1936/37 S.S.S.
1938 S.S.S.
1939 S.S.S.
1950/51 C.H.T.C.S.
1951/52 C.H.T.C.S.
1952/53 C.H.T.C.S.
1953/54 C.H.T.C.S.
Malang boasted the strongest city selection on Java outside of the "big four",
in spite of only twice (1939 and 1940) qualifying for the final tournament of the
stedenwedstrijden before the second World War, suffering elimination
on goal average on no less than three occasions (1934, 1937 and 1938).
The city was represented at the 1938 World Cup by 'keeper Mo Heng, who played
for local champions H.C.T.N.H. at the time.
The first club founded in Malang was Go Ahead, in 1898, who went on to play E.C.A.
of Soerabaja three times in that same year (twice in Malang and once in Soerabaja).
They were followed by Voorwaarts in 1902, M.O.T. in 1904,
and the first military club in the town, Wilhelmina, in 1909. Wilhelmina
joined the Soerabaja federation, S.V.B., and
entered its league and the Robertson Reid cup competition during the 1910
season.
The first Chinese clubs were Kam Soe Twie and Tjoe Kian Hwee, both founded
in 1913, and Hak Sing Hwee, who dominated the league in the late twenties, in 1914;
all were merged into H.C.T.N.H. 1930.
For such a small though fast-growing town (Malang had 43.000 inhabitants in 1920
and twice as many in 1930), the organisation of local football was perplexingly
confusing. The M.V.B. (Malangsche Voetbal Bond) was founded on 7 August 1922 (an
earlier federation with the same name had been founded in 1917 with four member
clubs, including one Chinese one, organised a league in that same year (single round
robin) and requested N.I.V.B. membership in May 1919, but succumbed soon after that).
It affiliated to the N.I.V.B. in 1926 (in which year the first ever stadium in
the Dutch East Indies was opened in Malang as well, on
2 August 1926)
and outlasted two local rebel federations, both called Unitas Voetbal Bond
(the first was founded and dissolved in 1926, the second lasted from 1928 to
1929), but was itself dissolved in 1933 and replaced by the V.M.O. (Voetbalbond
Malang en Omstreken). One year later, three local clubs withdrew from the V.M.O.
and formed the O.J.V.B. (Oost Java Voetbal Bond). All clubs were united again
under the M.V.U. (Malangsche Voetbal Unie), founded 11 July 1935.
The M.V.U. (which had been refounded on 23 September 1948) was renamed M.V.U./P.S.M.
by the end of 1949. The current Persema list 20 June 1953 as foundation date, but
that appears to be incorrect as Persema are already mentioned in newspapers in
August 1951 (and on multiple occasions in 1952, most importantly as participants
of the 1952 Kejurnas P.S.S.I); presumably they
came into being as a continuation of or new name for M.V.U./P.S.M.
The first "native" federation in Malang appears to have been founded in 1933 as
P.S.I.M. (Persatoean Sepakbola Indonesia Malang); it was reportedly
renamed P.S.T. (Persatoean Sepakbola Toemapel) in October 1934, but in 1937
reference is made to P.S.M., and since 1939 to Persim; presumably, these were all
different acronyms for the same federation. Apart from Persim, a second "native"
federation was founded in March 1940, Perspi, which proceeded to join the "European"
M.V.U.
M.V.B. (1) 1917 V.O.G.E.L. 1918-19 not known M.V.B. (2) 1922 Vitesse 1923 Vitesse 1924 Vitesse 1925 Sparta 1926 Sparta 1927 Hak Sing Hwee 1928 Hak Sing Hwee 1929 Hak Sing Hwee 1930/31 Hak Sing Hwee 1931/32 Ardjoeno 1932/33 Xerxes V.M.O. 1933 H.C.T.N.H. 1934/35 abandoned M.V.U. 1935/36 H.C.T.N.H. 1936/37 H.C.T.N.H. 1937/38 abandoned 1938/39 H.C.T.N.H. 1939/40 H.C.T.N.H. 1940/41 The Corinthians 1941/42 abandoned 1942-48 not held M.V.U. (refounded 23 Sep 1948) 1949 Faroka
The first verified mention of football in the archipelago originates from Medan.
On 16 November 1887, the "Gymnastiek Vereeniging Medan" was founded there,
and apart from gymnastics, its members soon began to play cricket and
football, later followed by tennis and athletics. As early as January 1890, a
team from Penang, representing the Penang Cricket Club, crossed the Straits to
play a cricket match. This took place on the 20th of that month, and while the
morning innings was fairly balanced (Penang reached 76 runs, Deli 71), the hosts
collapsed after lunch, Penang winning by ten wickets. After that, time remained
to play a football game, to the great amusement of the public (tot groot vermaak
van het publiek). This match predates the first ever meeting of a Dutch club
with an English one by more than three years (Sparta of Rotterdam hosting
Harwich & Parkeston F.C.
on 13 March 1893, losing 0-8) and
occurred more
than two months before any club in the Netherlands itself met foreign
opposition (Concordia of Rotterdam playing Antwerp F.C.
on 30 March 1890 in
Breda, winning 1-0 against eight (three had failed to travel) mostly British
players).
There are several somewhat conflicting reports on this visit. The Deli Courant
of 22 January 1890, two days after the event, reported, on page 7, the result of the
cricket match, but unfortunately not that of the football game (which appears to have
come about as an ad hoc diversion). An article entitled
De voetballers naar Penang, which appeared on 12 February 1904
in De Sumatra post (page 6) on the occasion of the first ever trip
of a Deli football team to Penang (see below), singled out a Dutch back called
Verhulst, whose defending saved the (apparently goalless) draw, but who died soon
afterwards. On the English side, the meeting was recalled in an article entitled
Deli in Sumatra. Notes of a Holiday Visit by an Idle Official.
in the November 1893 issue of the Fortnightly Review, written by
R.W. Egerton Eastwick and cited at considerable length on page 2 of the 28
November 1893 issue of The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser.
Its author speaks highly of a "Dutchman, who had never seen cricket before",
who suffered a violent attack of fever, months after the match, and
was sent to Penang by his doctors, only to die there shortly afterwards.
This can only refer to Charles Hugo Verhulst, a structural engineer (he passed
his exam as bouwkundig ingenieur in June 1885 in Delft),
employed by the Deli-Maatschappij since (at the latest) February 1887,
who died in Penang on 23 July 1890, at only 25 years of age.
However, Egerton Eastwick's narratory claims the cricket match was played over two
days, and that on both a football match followed, Penang winning the first game 7-0 and the
second 4-2. Given the report in the Deli Courant cited above, this is either
an invention or indicative of a shaky memory. In addition, the statement that the
Dutchman in question had never seen cricket before is most certainly incorrect:
cricket was quite a popular game with Dutch students in Holland and Verhulst had
starred for the H.C.C. (Haagsche Cricket Club) side which won the first ever
Nationale Cricket Wedstrijd held at the Malieveld in The Hague in
August 1884.
After the foundation of the Deli Wielrijders Club (a cycling club)
in 1893, football activities within the Gymnastiek Vereeniging ceased,
and little football was played in Medan until the foundation of
the Sport Club Sumatra's Oostkust (better known as S.O.K. or simply
Sportclub) on 1 June 1899, as recalled in another article in
De Sumatra post (on 31 May 1904, page 6:
Het 5-jarig bestaan der Sportclub "Sumatra's Oostkust"), which
also mentions the draw against Penang.
One of S.O.K.'s early members was Willem "Pim" Mulier, a Dutch football
pioneer, who was appointed editor of the Deli Courant newspaper
in 1899 and lived in Medan until 1905. In January 1900, the club was
granted the use of the Esplanade in Medan; the first match took
place on 1 February 1900,
when the Sportclub, with Mulier as centre forward, defeated a Langkat
English XI 2-0 in Medan after having lost a cricket match earlier
that day. Frequent encounters between teams from Medan (usually
represented by S.O.K.) and Bindjey (usually represented by Langkat S.C.)
followed that first match. On 6 October 1901, S.O.K. hosted a visiting
team from Penang, losing 1-4, and in February 1904, a Deli side
first visited Penang, losing 2-3 and 1-5 (Penang having been reinforced
by a few Perak and Singapore players in the second match).
In 1902, two "native" teams (Zetters Club (also known as Letterzetters)
in Medan and Toengkoe V.C. in Bindjey) were formed; these played each
other as well as the "European" clubs in friendly matches. In 1905,
a Chinese club (Tiong Hoa) followed and several other clubs (including
Voorwaarts, as a merger of S.O.K. and its 1904 split-off D.S.C.; in
1911 Voorwaarts merged into D.S.V.) were formed a year later.
A first federation, the D.V.B. (Delische Voetbal Bond) was founded
on 16 July 1907 and organised the first regular league with a
three-team Eerste Klasse consisting of Voorwaarts
("European"), Maimoen S.C. ("native") and Chinese S.C. In addition,
a Tweede Klasse involving seven teams was held. The
D.V.B. disappeared after the 1908 season; the leagues in 1910 and 1912
were organised by an ad hoc committee (called Delische
Voetbal-competitie) before the omnisports club D.S.V. took over the
running of the league with the 1913 edition, adding a separate
section for "native" clubs.
The D.S.V. organised local football until the end of the 1915 season,
in which the championship included clubs from outside Medan and
its immediate surroundings for the first time.
In December 1915, the O.S.V.B. (Oost Sumatra Voetbal Bond) was
founded; it was also based in Medan but extended competition
to other parts of the Oostkust van Sumatra, most notably
Simeloengoen (with main towns (Pematang) Siantar and Tebing Tinggi)
and Asahan (with main towns Tandjong Balei and Kisaran). In some
seasons, a playoff between the champions of the different regional
leagues was organised; in other seasons only the league in Medan
(and surroundings) was played and its winners considered overall
champions.
In October 1920, a "native" football federation, the Deli Voetbal Bond,
was founded; it organised league competitions for about half a decade
(won by Soeka Madjoe in the first season, 1920/21), but after
the O.S.V.B. started including "native" clubs in its league
structure from 1922 on, the D.V.B. slowly disappeared (it is
last mentioned in 1925).
The O.S.V.B. was renamed V.B.M.O./P.S.M.S. (Voetbal Bond Medan en Omstreken/Persatuan
Sepakraga Medan dan Sekililingnja) in November 1949 and entered the
stedenwedstrijden under that name in 1950 (the last
edition organised by V.U.V.S.I./I.S.N.I.S.), finishing fifth. However, the
current P.S.M.S. (Persatuan Sepakbola Medan dan Sekitarnya) retains 21 April 1950
(a week before their first match in those stedenwedstrijden)
as its foundation date rather than 1 December 1915 (when the original O.S.V.B.
was founded, about three months before the foundation of the P.S.M. (as M.V.B.) in
Makassar).
D.V.B.
1907 Voorwaarts (Medan)
1908 Voorwaarts (Medan)
1909 not held
D.V.C.
1910 Handel (Medan)
1911 not held
1912 Handel (Medan)
D.S.V.
1913 Handel (Medan)
1914 Van Nie & Co. (Medan)
1915 R.D.M. (Pabatoe) [Medan champions: Go Ahead]
O.S.V.B.
1916 A.V.V. (Tandjong Balei) [Medan champions: D.S.V.]
1917 D.S.V. (Medan) [Asahan champions: S.S.C. (Pematang Siantar)]
1918 Go Ahead (Medan) [Asahan champions: S.S.C. (Pematang Siantar)]
1919 Go Ahead (Medan) [Asahan champions: T.T.S.C. (Tebing Tinggi)]
1920 D.S.V. (Medan) [Asahan champions: T.T.S.C. (Tebing Tinggi)]
1921 Go Ahead (Medan) [Asahan champions: A.S.V. (Kisaran)]
1922 L.S.V. (Bindjey)
1923 D.S.V. (Medan)
1924 A.S.V. (Kisaran) [Medan champions: Go Ahead]
1925 M.S.V. (Medan)
1926 L.S.V. (Bindjey)
1927 M.S.V. (Medan)
1928 M.S.V. (Medan)
1929 I.V.C. (Medan)
1930 M.S.V. (Medan)
1931/32 C.S.C. (Medan)
1932-35 U.V.V. (Belawan) [Siantar champions: S.T.S. (Tebing Tinggi)]
1934-36 U.V.V. (Belawan) [Siantar champions: P.S.V. (Tebing Tinggi)]
1936/37 Deli Mij. V.C. (Medan) [Siantar champions: P.S.V. (Tebing Tinggi)]
1937/38 C.S.C. (Pematang Siantar) [Medan champions: M.C.V.C.]
1938-40 Shell S.C. (Pangkalan Brandan)
1940/41 Deli Mij. V.C. (Medan)
1941-47 not known (most seasons: not held)
1948 not finished
1949 3-15 R.I. (3e Bataljon, 15e Regiment Infanterie)
NB: the clubs from Belawan, Bindjey and Pangkalan Brandan listed as champions above
won their titles in league tournaments involving the Medan clubs. The titles
between 1915 and 1921, in 1924 and between 1933 and 1938 were decided after
playoffs involving winners of regional leagues.
Medan/Oost-Sumatra - "native" champions
Inlandsche competitie (D.S.V.)
1913 Zetters (Medan)
1914 Amalijoen
1915 Locomotief
Deli Voetbalbond
1920/21 Soeka Madjoe
Inlandsche competitie (O.S.V.B.)
1922 M.S.V. (Medan)
1923 Bindjey S.V. (Bindjey)
The Makassaarsche Voetbalbond (M.V.B.) was founded on 27 February 1916, after the
completion of a first league competition which had started in November 1915, and was
an associate member of the N.I.V.B. since at least 1929. There were relatively
frequent visits from Soerabaja club sides to the Stad der roode vischjes,
and Makassar selections toured the Krokodillenstad in 1921, 1933 and 1941.
Exceptionally among the major cities of the colony, it appears the local football
federation did not suffer any schisms (although Excelsior withdrew from the
federation in 1937, but not for long, winning the league in 1938; earlier Jong
Ambon had withdrawn in 1932, attempting to establish an "Indonesische Voetbalbond",
but soon returned, albeit under a new name, Zwaluwen) and continues
to thrive, as P.S.M., in independent Indonesia (making them the oldest existing
city federation in the country (although P.S.M.S. could
contest that should they want to), having celebrated their centenary in 2016).
The local league was contested by "European", Chinese and "native" clubs, with all
communities earning championship honours.
The federation of Makassar twice entered (as M.V.B./P.S.M.) the
stedenwedstrijden, in 1949 and
1950 (the last two editions organised by V.U.V.S.I./I.S.N.I.S.),
finishing fourth in both seasons. Chinese club side Excelsior entered the
1950 edition of the H.N.V.B. event.
1915/16 Bintang Prijaï
M.V.B.
1916-18 not known
1919 Prosit
1920 M.R.V.
1921 Prosit
1922-23 not known [*]
1924 Vios
1925-27 not known [*]
1928 Vios
1929 Vios
1930 Excelsior
1931 Vios
1932 Vios
1933 Zwaluwen
1934 Excelsior
1935 Zwaluwen
1936 Nam Hwa
1937 Zwaluwen
1938 Excelsior
1939 Vios
1940 Excelsior
1941-46 not known (most seasons: not held)
1947 M.O.S.
1948-54 not known
1954/55 Persis
[*] on the occasion of the 1930 title of Chinese side Excelsior, it was mentioned that
they had thus ended an almost decade-long reign by Vios, suggesting the latter won
all championships held between 1922 and 1927; in 1927, Prosit were runners-up.
Note all competitions in this section were restricted to Java (with the exception of the 1949 and 1950 tournaments organised by V.U.V.S.I./I.S.N.I.S., in which Makassar and Medan entered, and the 1950 edition of the H.N.V.B. tournament in which Excelsior represented Makassar). However, similar competitions were organised in other parts of the Dutch East Indies occasionally, in particular on Sumatra (by the O.S.V.B. for Oost-Sumatra and the M.V.B. for West-Sumatra).
N.I.V.B./N.I.V.U./V.U.V.S.I. | C.K.T.H./H.N.V.B. (Chinese) | P.S.S.I. ("native")
This was the highlight of the Javanese football season; the winners of the annual stedenwedstrijden were considered the champions of Java (and, by extension, of the colony). The Perserikatan (amateur championship) organised by the P.S.S.I. between 1951 and 1994 in independent Indonesia was a direct successor of this tournament.
It was first held in 1914 at the occasion of the Koloniale Tentoonstelling in Semarang, with winners Batavia earning the silver Koloniale-Tentoonstellings-Beker. Originally, a set-up had been discussed in which club teams would contest the championship of Java. To this end, the champion clubs of Batavia, Soerabaja, Bandoeng and Semarang were to be determined in local competitions, and then contest the overall title in Semarang. At the occasion of the final of the 1913 Globe Bioscope knock-out tournament in Batavia, on May 1st, a golden ball was put on offer by Loa Soen Yang of the Globe cinema for the winners of this "Globe-bioscope-Javakampioenschap". However, by April 1914 this idea had been replaced by that of a tournament between representative selections of the four city federations involved. In addition, two Singapore selections, a civilian and a military one, were to be invited to play a representative team of Java, formed at the tournament, in October and November, still at the Semarang exposition. These would have been the first international matches for any all-Java team, but due to the outbreak of the first World War, Singapore could not send any team.
On the initiative of Batavia captain Stom, the trophy, which had colloquially been renamed Java-Cup, was played for again in the next year, with Batavia hosting the tournament. Batavia won the tournament again, but the cup was stolen in the night after the final. A new trophy was donated by a Soerabaja football fan, Monod de Froideville, first played for in 1916 in Soerabaja. The hosts won and repeated their win in 1917 in Semarang (original hosts Bandoeng having requested a postponement of their hosting right by one year). Thanks to their second win in succession, Soerabaja won the Monod-Beker to keep. Bandoeng sportsman Ernst de Vries then donated a trophy for the 1918 edition in the mountain city, the De Vries-Beker, which was to be kept outright by the first city to win the tournament five times in total or three times in succession, with Batavia fulfilling the latter condition in 1920. At most of the later editions, no cup trophy was at stake anymore, the winning team obtaining a Gouden Kampioens-Medaille (golden championship medal) as well as eleven medals for the players.
Starting with the 1920 edition, the organisation was taken over by the
N.I.V.B. (later N.I.V.U.), formed in 1919. After the first two editions,
both held in the summer, the final tournament normally took place
in the Pentecost weekend (pinksteren). Exceptions to that
rule were the tournaments of 1919 (held in the Easter weekend)
and 1938 (when the tournament was moved to the end of August because
of the World Cup participation of the Dutch East Indies).
Starting from the 1936 (1935/36) edition, the top-3 finishers of the
previous edition qualified automatically for the final tournament in
the following season, whereas the bottom team had to play off for the
final spot against the two winners of the qualifying competition for
West and East Java. Also, starting from the 1936 edition the
N.I.V.U.-Schild was at stake, kept outright by Batavia following
their second successive win in 1939.
The 1941/42 edition was abandoned due to the outbreak of World War II in the Pacific. After the war, the N.I.V.U. was re-established on 29 December 1946, and organised two Stedentoernooien in 1947 and 1948 before changing name to V.U.V.S.I./I.S.N.I.S. (Voetbal Unie in de Verenigde Staten van Indonesië/Ikatan Sepakraga Negara Indonesia Serikat) in October 1948. Under that name, the last two competitions in 1949 and 1950 (the first to involve teams from outside Java, Makassar and Medan) were played.
After the P.S.S.I. was resurrected in 1950 (by the transformation of the football department of the P.O.R.I. (Persatuan Olahraga Republik Indonesia), the Sports Federation of the Republic of Indonesia established by the republican government in 1947), member associations of the V.U.V.S.I./I.S.N.I.S. merged with their local P.S.S.I. counterparts and V.U.V.S.I./I.S.N.I.S. disbanded in 1951.
Year Winners Runners-Up Venue (of final tournament) Trophy (if known)
1914 Batavia (W.J.V.B.) 3-0 Semarang (V.S.O.) Semarang Koloniale-Tentoonstellings-Beker (Java-Cup)
1915 Batavia (W.J.V.B.) 2-0 Semarang (V.S.O.) Batavia Koloniale-Tentoonstellings-Beker (Java-Cup) [stolen]
1916 Soerabaja (S.V.B.) 0-0 Batavia (W.J.V.B.) [toss] Soerabaja Monod-Beker
1917 Soerabaja (S.V.B.) 2-0 Bandoeng (B.V.B.) Semarang Monod-Beker [won outright by Soerabaja]
1918 Batavia (W.J.V.B.) 2-0 Bandoeng (B.V.B.) Bandoeng De Vries-Beker
1919 Batavia (W.J.V.B.) 1-0 Soerabaja (S.V.B.) Batavia De Vries-Beker
1920 Batavia (W.J.V.B.) 0-0 Soerabaja (S.V.B.) [toss] Soerabaja De Vries-Beker [won outright by Batavia]
1921 Batavia (W.J.V.B.) 5-0 Semarang (V.S.O.) Semarang
1922 Soerabaja (S.V.B.) Batavia (W.J.V.B.) Bandoeng
1923 Batavia (W.J.V.B.) 1-0 Semarang (V.S.O.) Batavia
1924 Soerabaja (S.V.B.) 0-0 Batavia (W.J.V.B.) [toss] Soerabaja
1925 Batavia (W.J.V.B.) Bandoeng (B.V.B.) Bandoeng
1926 Soerabaja (S.V.B.) Batavia (W.J.V.B.) [goal avg.] Semarang
1927 Batavia (W.J.V.B.) Soerabaja (S.V.B.) Batavia
1928 Soerabaja (S.V.B.) Semarang (V.S.O.) Soerabaja
1929 Batavia (V.B.O.) Soerabaja (S.V.B.) [goal avg.] Bandoeng
1930 Soerabaja (S.V.B.) Batavia (V.B.O.) Semarang
1931 Bandoeng (B.V.B.) Batavia (V.B.O.) Batavia
1932 Soerabaja (S.V.B.) Batavia (V.B.O.) Soerabaja
1933 Batavia (V.B.O.) Soerabaja (S.V.B.) Bandoeng
1934 Bandoeng (B.V.B.) Soerabaja (S.V.B.) Semarang
1935 Batavia (V.B.O.) Bandoeng (B.V.B.O.) Batavia
1936 Soerabaja (S.V.B.) Batavia (V.B.O.) Soerabaja N.I.V.U.-Schild
1937 Bandoeng (V.B.B.O.) Semarang (V.S.O.) Bandoeng N.I.V.U.-Schild
1938 Batavia (V.B.O.) Bandoeng (V.B.B.O.) Semarang N.I.V.U.-Schild
1939 Batavia (V.B.O.) Bandoeng (V.B.B.O.) Batavia N.I.V.U.-Schild [won outright by Batavia]
1940 Batavia (V.B.O.) Soerabaja (S.V.B.) Soerabaja
1941 Soerabaja (S.V.B.) Batavia (V.B.O.) [goal avg.] Bandoeng N.I.V.U.-Wisselschild
1942 abandoned Solo
1943-45 not held
1946 cancelled Soerabaja
1947 Batavia (V.B.O.) Soerabaja (S.V.B.) Soerabaja
1948 Batavia (V.B.O.) Semarang (V.S.O.) [goal avg.] Semarang Fa. A. Gaos-Beker
1949 Soerabaja (S.V.B.) Bandoeng (V.B.B.O.) Batavia
1950 Soerabaja (S.V.B.) Malang (M.V.U.) Bandoeng
NB: [toss] indicates decision on coin toss; [goal avg.] those on goal average;
for the continuation under the P.S.S.I., see Perserikatan 1951-1994.
Number of Wins (32; runners-up finishes between square brackets):
17 [ 9] Batavia (9 [4] as W.J.V.B., 8 [5] as V.B.O. (after name change in 1928))
12 [ 8] Soerabaja (S.V.B.)
3 [ 7] Bandoeng (2 [3] as B.V.B., 1 [4] as B.V.B.O./V.B.B.O. (1935 merger of B.V.B. and B.V.U.))
[ 7] Semarang (V.S.O.)
[ 1] Malang (M.V.U.)
Hostwise split
NB: all four major cities hosted the (final) tournament on 8 occasions.
Hosts Wins by City
Bandoeng Batavia 4 Soerabaja 3 Bandoeng 1
Batavia Batavia 6 Soerabaja 1 Bandoeng 1
Semarang Batavia 4 Soerabaja 3 Bandoeng 1
Soerabaja Soerabaja 5 Batavia 3
See also the all-time tables 1914-1950.
Note that the Chinese city tournaments usually involved the leading Chinese clubs from the respective cities, in particular Tiong Hoa (now Suryanaga) from Soerabaja and U.M.S. from Batavia. The final tournament normally took place in the Easter weekend. The first edition was held in 1917; it was played for various trophies offered by private sponsors until the C.K.T.H. (Comité Kampioenswedstrijden Tiong Hoa) was founded in 1927 to organise the matches; it was succeeded by the H.N.V.B. in 1930. The H.N.V.B. was dissolved during Japanese occupation but refounded on 4 September 1948.
Year Winners Venue (of final tournament) 1917 Batavia (U.M.S.) Semarang 1918 Semarang (Union) Semarang 1919 Batavia (U.M.S.) Batavia 1920 Batavia (U.M.S.) Batavia 1921 Soerabaja (Tiong Hoa) Soerabaja 1922 Soerabaja (Tiong Hoa) Semarang 1923 Batavia (U.M.S.) Bandoeng 1924 Batavia (U.M.S.) Batavia 1925 Bandoeng (Y.M.C.) Bandoeng 1926 Batavia (U.M.S.) Semarang 1927 Soerabaja (Tiong Hoa) Bandoeng 1928 Soerabaja (Tiong Hoa) Batavia 1929 Soerabaja (Tiong Hoa) Soerabaja 1930 Batavia (U.M.S.) Bandoeng 1931 Soerabaja (Tiong Hoa) Semarang 1932 Soerabaja (Tiong Hoa) Batavia 1933 Batavia (U.M.S.) Soerabaja 1934 Soerabaja (Tiong Hoa) Bandoeng 1935 Batavia (U.M.S.) Batavia 1936 Batavia (U.M.S.) Soerabaja 1937 Soerabaja (Tiong Hoa) Soerabaja 1938 Soerabaja (Tiong Hoa) Batavia/Soerabaja 1939 Batavia (U.M.S.) Semarang 1940 Soerabaja (Tiong Hoa) Batavia 1941 Soerabaja (Tiong Hoa) Batavia 1942-48 not held 1949 Soerabaja (Tiong Hoa) Batavia 1950 Soerabaja (Tiong Hoa) Soerabaja 1951 cancelled Soerabaja Number of Wins (27): 14 Soerabaja (Tiong Hoa) 11 Batavia (U.M.S.) 1 Bandoeng (Y.M.C.) Semarang (Union)
Organised by the P.S.S.I. after its foundation in 1930, usually in combination with its annual congress. It is not clear who was responsible for organising the 1923 event in Bandoeng.
Year Winners Venue (of final tournament)
1923 Batavia Bandoeng
1930 Batavia (V.I.J.) Djokjakarta
1931 Batavia (V.I.J.) Solo
1932 Djokjakarta (P.S.I.M.) Djakarta
1933 Batavia (V.I.J.) Soerabaja
1934 Batavia (V.I.J.) Solo
1935 Solo (Persis) Semarang
1936 Solo (Persis) Bandoeng
1937 Bandoeng (Persib) Solo
1938 Batavia (V.I.J.) Solo
1939 Solo (Persis) Djokjakarta
1940 Solo (Persis) Solo
1941 Solo (Persis) Bandoeng
1942 Solo (Persis) Soerabaja
1943 Solo (Persis) Djokjakarta
1944-49 not held
1950 Bandung (Persib) Semarang
NB: the 1930 and 1950 editions are not considered official by the P.S.S.I.;
the 1923 event was held before the foundation of the P.S.S.I.
For data since 1951 see the file Indonesia - Amateur Champions (1951-1994).
Number of Titles (13; 1931-1943 events only):
7 Solo (Persis)
4 Batavia (V.I.J.)
1 Bandoeng (Persib)
Djokjakarta (P.S.I.M.)
NB: see also 1914 Batavia and Soerabaja local leagues
NB: tournament in Semarang, at the occasion of the Koloniale Tentoonstelling,
organised by the Sport-comité der Koloniale Tentoonstelling.
A Singapore selection had also been invited to play a Java representative
side, but this was cancelled because of the start of the first World War.
Semifinals
[Aug 29]
Batavia 5-0 Bandoeng
[Davies 1-0, Jolly 2-0, Cramm 3-0, Heuer 4-0, Cramm 5-0; half-time 1-0]
[Batavia: Beeuwkes; Overakker, Johannes; Kooymans, Versteegh, Olive;
Heuer, Jolly, Fisher, Davies, Cramm;
Bandoeng: Mian; Stumpf, Stam; Boers, Vink, Von Grumbkow;
Van der Worm, Endih, Belloni, Eichperger, Jansen;
ref: Stapel (Semarang)]
[Note: Batavia captain Stom, lieutenant in the army, was not allowed to
play in this match as the Bandoeng side included lower-ranked
soldiers, and was replaced by Overakker]
[Aug 30]
Semarang 3-1 Soerabaja
[Phelan 1-0, Galstaun 1-1, Pilow 2-1, Pas 3-1; half-time 2-1]
[Semarang: Van Soest; Blommesteyn, Valk; Kamperdijk, Gantvoort, Rogge;
Pilow, Lutjens, Phelan, Jr. Pas, Valk;
Soerabaja: Kloesmeyer; Van der Lee, Weyschedé; Van Damme, Gobus, Middelkoop;
V.d. Elst, Swart, Leslie Miller, Galstaun, Martens;
ref: C.ten Bruggencate (Batavia)]
Final [Aug 31]
Semarang 0-3 Batavia
[Davies 0-1, Jolly 0-2, Fisher 0-3; half-time 0-2]
[Semarang: Van Soest; Blommesteyn, Valk; Kamperdijk, Gantvoort, Rogge;
Pilow, Lutjens, Phelan, Jr. Pas, Valk;
Batavia: Beeuwkes; Stom, Johannes; Kooymans, Versteegh, Olive;
Heuer, Davies, Fisher, Cramm, Jolly;
ref: Ouwehand (Bandoeng)]
Batavia squad:
Beeuwkes (B.V.C.);
Johannes (Oliveo), Stom (captain, Oliveo), Overakker (B.V.C.);
Olive (Hercules), Versteegh (B.V.C.), Kooymans (Vios);
Jolly (Oliveo), Cramm (Hercules), Fisher (Vios), Davies (Hercules), Heuer (Hercules)
NB: see also 1915 Batavia and Soerabaja local leagues
NB: tournament at Bondsterrein (Planten- en Dierentuin), Batavia
Semifinals
[Jul 31]
Semarang 2-1 Bandoeng [aet (2x7.5 min)]
[Vink (og) 1-0, Van der Worm 1-1, Trebels 2-1; half-time: 1-0; full-time 1-1;
half-time extra time: 1-1]
[Semarang: Den Tol; Valk sr., Rogge; Walpot, Harte, Jakobsen;
Seemann, Dey, Phelan, Schmitt, Trebels;
Bandoeng: Kessler; Von Grumbkow, Boers; Eichperger, Jolly, Vink;
Ramers, Van der Worm, Belloni, Halkema, Landouw;
ref: W.van Baalen (Batavia)]
[Aug 1]
Batavia 1-0 Soerabaja
[Fisher; half-time: 0-0]
[Batavia: Van Kraayenoord; Carli, Nitschke; Olivé, Van Polanen Petel, Jasir;
Heuer, Van Bodegraven, Fisher, Davies, Jolly;
Soerabaja: Kloesmeyer; Braun, Kooymans; Fruneaux, Sarkies, Galstaun sr.;
Leslie Miller, Swart, Van Dam, W.Galstaun, Cortenbach jr.;
Soerabaja were permitted a subsitution but the identity of
the players involved is not known;
ref: W.Schoutendorp (Batavia)]
Final [Aug 2]
Batavia 2-0 Semarang
[Davies 1-0, Heuer 2-0; half-time: 1-0]
[Batavia: Van Kraayenoord; Carli, Nitschke; Olivé, Van Polanen Petel, Jasir;
Heuer, Van Bodegraven, Fisher, Davies, Jolly;
Semarang: Den Tol; Stom, Valk sr.; Walpot, Harte(?), Jakobsen(?);
Seemann, Dey, Phelan, Schmitt, Trebels;
(possibly Rogge played instead of Harte or Jakobsen);
ref: C.ten Bruggencate (Batavia)]
[Note: after the 1914 edition, Stom had moved from Batavia to Semarang;
he returned to Batavia 1916.]
NB: see also 1916 Batavia, Bandoeng, Oost Sumatra and Semarang local leagues
NB: tournament in Soerabaja
Semifinals
[Jun 10]
Soerabaja 1-0 Semarang
[Swart; half-time: 1-0]
[Soerabaja: Kloesmeyer; G.Galstaun, Renaud; Fruneaux, T.Leslie Miller, Harten;
v.d. Els, J.Swart, W.van Damme, W.Galstaun, C.Martens;
Semarang: W.van Soest; L.Rogge, A.Valk; B.Jacobson, Boender, Gerritsheim;
Jorissen, E.Halkema, J.v.d. Vinne, D.Haiggton, W.Valk;
ref: W.Schoutendorp (Batavia)]
[Jun 11]
Batavia 1-0 Bandoeng
[10' Davies; half-time: 1-0]
[Batavia: Van Kraayenoord; P.Overbeek Bloem, Cortenbach; Jolly sr., Van Polanen Petel, Olive;
Heuer, Van Bodegraven, H.Nitzschke, Davies jr., Voorstad;
Bandoeng: Bogaards; Vink, Jolly jr.; Seelig, Swartz, Von Grumbkow;
Rijkschroeff, Van der Worm, Detiger, Simons, Kok;
ref: Brussée;
note: Batavia could not field Stom and Akkersdijk, two of their best players,
and demanded that in return Bandoeng would not field Stangenberger and
Eichperger; puzzlingly enough, this request was granted]
Final [Jun 12]
Soerabaja 0-0 Batavia [aet (2x7.5 min.); Soerabaja on toss]
[Soerabaja: Kloesmeyer; G.Galstaun, Renaud; Harten, Th.Leslie Miller, Fruneaux;
Martens, Swart, Geo van Dam, W.Galstaun, W.van Damme;
Batavia: Jan van Kraayenoord; Stom, Kees Cortenbach; Olivé, Van Polanen Petel, D.Jolly;
Voorstad, Davies, Akkersdijk, H.van Bodegraven, Heuer;
ref: Schoutendorp]
NB: see also 1917 Batavia, Bandoeng and Oost Sumatra local leagues
NB: tournament at Union-terrein, Semarang
Semifinals
[May 26]
Semarang 0-3 Soerabaja
[7' Van Dam 0-1, Galstaun 0-2, Galstaun 0-3; half-time 0-2]
[Semarang: Van Eek; Onnen, v.d. Vinne; Van Eersel, Annen, Donker;
Seeman, Welsh, Noteboom, Goosens, Oedjan;
Soerabaja: Zimmermann; Johannes, Leo Verwey; Kooymans, T.Leslie Miller, Fruneaux;
Cortenbach, Galstaun, Van Dam, Swart, P.Leslie Miller;
ref: Ten Bruggencate]
[May 27]
Bandoeng 1-0 Batavia
[Geurink; half-time: 0-0]
[Bandoeng: Rijkschroeff; Vink, Jolly jr.; Von Grumbkow, Jolly sr., Stumpff;
Seelig, Eichperger, Geurink, Alting Siberg, Smits;
Batavia: Van Kraayenoord; Voorstad, Cortenbach; Schreuders, Van Polanen Petel,
Olivé; Quentin, G.Overbeek Bloem, Van Bodegraven, Davies jr., Detiger;
ref: Noorduyn]
Final [May 28]
Soerabaja 2-0 Bandoeng
[Van Dam, Galstaun; half-time: 0-0]
[Soerabaja: Zimmermann; Johannes, Leo Verwey; Fruneaux, T.Leslie Miller, Kooymans;
Cortenbach, Galstaun, Van Dam, Swart, P.Leslie Miller;
Bandoeng: Rijkschroeff; Vink, Jolly jr.; Stumpff, Jolly sr., Von Grumbkow;
Seelig, Van der Worm, Geurink, Alting Siberg, Smits;
ref: Van Koetsveld]
NB: see also 1918 Batavia, Bandoeng, Oost Sumatra, Semarang and Soerabaja local leagues
NB: tournament at U.N.I.-terrein, Bandoeng
Semifinals
[May 18]
Bandoeng 0-0 Soerabaja [aet; Bandoeng on toss]
[May 19]
Batavia 3-0 Semarang
Final [May 20]
Bandoeng 0-2 Batavia
[Vaillant, Galstaun; half-time: 0-0]
[Bandoeng: Krekelenberg; Jolly, Vink; Von Grumbkow, Eichperger, Eternich;
Smits, Overakker, Stortebeker, Stumpff, Van Helden;
Batavia: Van Kraayenoord; Cortenbach, Overbeek Bloem; Detiger, Van Polanen Petel,
Akkersdijk; Vaillant, Olivé, W. Galstaun, Van Bodegraven, Alting Siberg;
ref: Van Koetsveld]
NB: see also 1919 Batavia and Bandoeng local leagues
NB: tournament at Deca-Park, Batavia; played at Easter weekend; on the day of the
semifinals, the four participating city federations founded the N.I.V.B.
Semifinals
[Apr 19]
Bandoeng n/p Soerabaja [postponed due to rain]
[Apr 20]
Bandoeng 0-1 Soerabaja [aet]
NB: extra time 2x7.5 minutes
Batavia 5-2 Semarang
Final [Apr 21]
Batavia 1-0 Soerabaja
[Van Bodegraven; half-time 1-0]
[Batavia: Van Bladel; Thys, Overbeek Bloem; Geertsema, G. Nitschke, Kooymans;
Vaillant, H. Nitschke, Galstaun, Van Bodegraven, Manoppo;
played in yellow and green;
Soerabaja: Van Alphen jr.; Johannes, Koster; Oostendorp, Fruneaux,
Crompvoets; Priester, Papo, Rosenquist, Voll jr., Cortenbach;
ref: Geurink]
NB: see also 1920 Batavia and Bandoeng local leagues
NB: tournament at T.H.O.R.-terrein, Soerabaja; first tournament organised
by N.I.V.B.
Semifinals
[May 22]
Batavia 1-0 Semarang
[Davies; half-time 1-0]
[May 23]
Soerabaja 3-0 Bandoeng
[Le Cerff, Van Dam, Swart; half-time 2-0]
Final [May 24, Soerabaja; att: 15,000]
Soerabaja 0-0 Batavia [aet; Batavia on toss]
[Soerabaja: Van Alphen; Koster, Johannes; Olive, Fruneaux, Crompvoets;
Leslie Miller, Swart, Van Dam, Lecerff, Tait;
Batavia: Ter Laag; Thys, Overbeek Bloem; Geertsema, Van Polanen Petel, Kooymans;
Vaillant, Davies, Galstaun, Van Bodegraven, De Wilde;
sent off: Kooymans (2nd half);
ref: Geurink (Bandoeng)]
NB: by winning the De Vries beker for the third year in succession,
Batavia earned the right to keep it
NB: see also 1921/22 Batavia and Palembang and 1921 Bandoeng local leagues
NB: tournament at Union-terrein, Seteran, Semarang
Semifinals
[May 14]
Semarang 2-1 Soerabaja
[May 15]
Batavia 2-1 Bandoeng
Third Place Match [May 16]
Soerabaja 2-2 Bandoeng [aet]
Final [May 16]
Semarang 0-5 Batavia
[Davies 0-1, Van Bodegraven 0-2, Galstaun 0-3, 0-4, 0-5; half-time 0-1]
[Semarang: Henniger; Jolly, Haye; Basslé, Hoogerbeets, Donleben;
De Raadt, Van Bodegraven, Van Zuylen, Willé, Valk;
Batavia: Ter Laag; Thys, Overbeek Bloem; Geertsema, Van Polanen Petel, Kooymans;
Middleton, Davies, Galstaun, Van Bodegraven, Manoppo;
ref: Foltynski (Bandoeng)]
NB: Semarang-based newspaper De Locomotief had intended to donate a cup to the winners,
but as the N.I.V.B. had decided on 22 May 1920 not to play for any more cups donated
by whomsoever, but only for the Gouden Kampioens-medaille for the winning team as
well as eleven golden medals for its players, all awarded by the N.I.V.B., the cup
was not bought but instead its value (300 guilders) donated by the newspaper to the
organising committee.
NB: see also 1922 Batavia, Bandoeng, Oost Sumatra, Palembang and Soerabaja local leagues
NB: tournament in Bandoeng; first edition played in league rather
than knock-out format
[Jun 3]
Bandoeng 1-2 Soerabaja
Batavia 4-0 Semarang
[Jun 4]
Bandoeng 0-2 Batavia
Soerabaja 1-0 Semarang
[Jun 5]
Bandoeng 3-2 Semarang
Batavia 0-2 Soerabaja
[De Raadt 0-1, Uktolseja 0-2; half-time 0-0]
[Batavia: Ter Laag; Overbeek Bloem, Thijs; Boogh, Van Polanen Petel, Geertsema;
Olive, Davies, Galstaun, Van Bodegraven, Pesuwarisa;
Soerabaja: Van Alphen; Cortenbach, Trouerbach; Breuer, Fruneaux, Andela;
Herman Voll, Wim Voll, G. de Raadt, Leslie Miller, Uktolseja;
ref: Foltynski (Bandoeng)]
1.Soerabaja 3 3 0 0 5- 1 6
2.Batavia 3 2 0 1 6- 2 4
3.Bandoeng 3 1 0 2 4- 6 2
4.Semarang 3 0 0 3 2- 8 0
NB: see also 1922/23 Batavia and 1923 Bandoeng, Oost Sumatra, Palembang and Soerabaja local leagues
NB: tournament at Deca Park, Batavia
Semifinals
[May 19]
Batavia 2-0 Soerabaja
[May 20]
Bandoeng 1-3 Semarang
Final [May 21]
Batavia 1-0 Semarang
[25' Van Bodegraven; half-time 1-0]
[Batavia: Ter Laag; Voorstad, De Haas; Witmer, G. Nitzschke, Boogh;
Pipper, Davies, Olive, Van Bodegraven, Rehatta;
Semarang: Tan Yauw Ling; G. Claaszen, Valk; L. de la Croix, Haye, Maresch;
Abels, W. Claaszen, Basslé, Willé, De Raadt;
ref: De Wilde]
NB: see also 1923/24 Batavia and 1924 Bandoeng, Oost Sumatra, Semarang and Soerabaja local leagues
NB: tournament in Soerabaja
Semifinals
[Jun 7]
Batavia 5-1 Semarang
[Jun 8]
Soerabaja 5-1 Bandoeng
Final [Jun 9]
Soerabaja 0-0 Batavia [aet, Soerabaja on toss]
[Soerabaja: Henny van Alphen; George H. Cortenbach, Thomas Leslie Miller;
A.J. Wasterval, Armand Fruneaux, G. Andela; Patrick Leslie Miller,
F. de Bruyn Kops, Gerrit de Raadt, Wim Voll, Ch. v.d. Linden;
Batavia: Ter Laag; Voorstad, Lauw Ban Lip; Wattimena, Oost, Geertsema;
T.L. Goan, L. Tet Soey, Herman van Bodegraven, Tjoh Davies, Pipper;
ref: De Wilde]
NB: see also 1924/25 Batavia and 1925 Bandoeng, Magelang, Semarang and Soerabaja local leagues
NB: first edition to feature a qualifying match as the N.J.V.B. (Noord-Java Voetbal Bond,
a combination of Cheribon, Pekalongan and Tegal) entered for the first time ever.
Qualifying Match [Apr 4, Sidoligveld]
Bandoeng 3-0 Noord-Java
Voorwedstrijden [hosted by first named city]
[May 9]
Batavia 2-1 Bandoeng
[May 16]
Semarang 0-6 Soerabaja
Eindtoernooi [all matches at Nieuw-Houtrust, Bandoeng]
[May 29]
Bandoeng 3-1 Semarang
[May 30]
Batavia 5-0 Semarang
[May 31]
Soerabaja 1-1 Batavia
[Jun 1]
Bandoeng 1-0 Soerabaja
Final Table:
1.Batavia 3 2 1 0 8- 2 5
2.Bandoeng 3 2 0 1 5- 3 4
3.Soerabaja 3 1 1 1 7- 2 3
4.Semarang 3 0 0 3 1-14 0
NB: see also 1925/26 Batavia and 1926 Bandoeng, Djokjakarta, Magelang, Malang, Oost Sumatra, Semarang and Soerabaja local leagues
NB: Malang entered for the first time ever. Noord-Java (N.J.V.B.) was a combination
of Cheribon, Pekalongan and Tegal. Pasoeroean, Magelang, Djokjakarta and Solo
were mentioned as entrants in January but eventually did not play.
Qualifying Matches
[Feb 13]
Bandoeng 5-2 Noord-Java [at Nieuw-Houtrust, Bandoeng]
[Mar 20]
Soerabaja 3-1 Malang [at S.V.S.-H.B.S.-terrein, Pasartoeri]
Voorwedstrijden [hosted by first named city]
[Apr 30]
Bandoeng 0-1 Batavia
[May 8]
Soerabaja 9-1 Semarang
Eindtoernooi [all matches in Semarang]
[May 21]
Semarang 1-1 Bandoeng
[May 22]
Soerabaja 5-2 Bandoeng
[May 23]
Batavia 2-2 Soerabaja
[May 24]
Semarang 1-4 Batavia
Final Table:
1.Soerabaja 3 2 1 0 16- 5 5 3.20
2.Batavia 3 2 1 0 7- 3 5 2.33
3.Bandoeng 3 0 1 2 3- 7 1 0.43
4.Semarang 3 0 1 2 3-14 1 0.21
NB: a 4-0 (or 7-1) win in their final match would have given Batavia the title
on goal average
NB: see also 1926/27 Batavia and 1927 Bandoeng, Malang, Oost Sumatra, Semarang and Soerabaja local leagues NB: the N.J.V.B. was suspended by the N.I.V.B. and did not enter. Qualifying Match [Apr 24] Soerabaja 8-1 Malang [at H.B.S.-veld] Voorwedstrijden [Apr 30] Soerabaja 5-0 Semarang [at H.B.S.-veld] [May 1] Bandoeng 0-3 Batavia Eindtoernooi [all matches at B.V.C. terrein, Batavia] [Jun 3] Batavia 2-1 Semarang [Jun 4] Semarang 2-1 Bandoeng [Jun 5] Batavia 2-0 Soerabaja [Jun 6] Bandoeng 3-1 Soerabaja 1.Batavia 3 3 0 0 7- 1 6 2.Soerabaja 3 1 0 2 6- 5 2 1.20 3.Bandoeng 3 1 0 2 4- 6 2 0.67 4.Semarang 3 1 0 2 3- 8 2 0.38
NB: see also 1927/28 Batavia, Tegal, 1928 Bandoeng, Djokjakarta, Malang, Oost Sumatra, Semarang and Soerabaja local leagues
NB: Soekaboemi entered for the first time ever.
Qualifying Matches
[Apr 1]
Malang 2-3 Soerabaja
[Apr 22]
Soekaboemi 0-12 Batavia [postponed from Apr 1 due to death of heart
failure of W.J.V.B. official and
Voorwedstrijden co-founder Messchaert on Mar 31]
[Apr 30]
Semarang 1-1 Soerabaja
[May 6]
Batavia 6-0 Bandoeng
Eindtoernooi [all matches at Pasar Toerie, Soerabaja]
[May 25]
Soerabaja 2-0 Bandoeng
[May 26]
Batavia 0-2 Semarang
[May 27]
Bandoeng 3-0 Semarang
[May 28]
Soerabaja 2-1 Batavia
1.Soerabaja 3 2 1 0 5- 2 5
2.Semarang 3 1 1 1 3- 4 3
3.Batavia 3 1 0 2 7- 4 2 1.75
4.Bandoeng 3 1 0 2 3- 8 2 0.38
NB: see also 1928/29 Batavia, 1929 Bandoeng, Blitar, Malang, Oost Sumatra and Soerabaja local leagues,
and 1929 Java club championship
NB: Djokjakarta enter competition for first time ever.
Qualifying Matches
[Mar 24]
Soerabaja 3-2 Malang
Soekaboemi 0-3 Batavia
[Apr 7]
Djokjakarta 0-3 Semarang
Voorwedstrijden
[Apr 19]
Batavia abd Bandoeng [abandoned at 1-0 due to unplayable pitch]
[Apr 20]
Semarang 0-2 Soerabaja
[Apr 28, replay]
Batavia 6-0 Bandoeng
Eindtoernooi [all matches at Nieuw-Houtrust, Bandoeng]
[May 18]
Bandoeng 3-2 Semarang
[May 19]
Batavia 1-0 Semarang
[May 20]
Batavia 1-1 Soerabaja
[May 21]
Bandoeng 1-3 Soerabaja
1.Batavia 3 2 1 0 8- 1 5 8.00
2.Soerabaja 3 2 1 0 6- 2 5 3.00
3.Bandoeng 3 1 0 2 4-11 2
4.Semarang 3 0 0 3 2- 6 0
NB: see also 1929/30 Batavia and Semarang and 1930 Bandoeng, Blitar, Malang, Oost Sumatra and Soerabaja local leagues
West Java
[Feb 2]
Batavia 4-1 Bandoeng
[Mar 16]
Bandoeng 14-0 Soekaboemi
[Apr 6]
Soekaboemi 3-2 Batavia
1.Bandoeng 2 1 0 1 15- 4 2 3.75 Qualified
2.Batavia 2 1 0 1 6- 4 2 1.50 Qualified
3.Soekaboemi 2 1 0 1 3-16 2 0.19
East Java
[Feb 2]
Semarang 10-3 Malang
Djokjakarta 0-4 Soerabaja
[Mar 2]
Malang 0-5 Soerabaja
Semarang 2-1 Djokjakarta
[Apr 6]
Soerabaja 11-1 Semarang
[Bakhuys scored 5 goals]
[May 4]
Malang 4-4 Djokjakarta
1.Soerabaja 3 3 0 0 20- 1 6 Qualified
2.Semarang 3 2 0 1 13-15 4 Qualified
3.Djokjakarta 3 0 1 2 5-10 1
4.Malang 3 0 1 2 7-19 1
Final Competition
Voorwedstrijden [May 11]
Bandoeng 2-7 Batavia
Soerabaja 12-3 Semarang
[Bakhuys scored 6 goals, Smeets 4]
Kampioenswedstrijden [all matches at S.V.V.-veld, Kobongweg, Semarang]
[Jun 6]
Semarang 7-5 Bandoeng
[Jun 7]
Soerabaja 5-1 Bandoeng
[Jun 8]
Soerabaja 3-1 Batavia
[Jun 9]
Semarang 3-4 Batavia
1.Soerabaja 3 3 0 0 20- 5 6
2.Batavia 3 2 0 1 12- 8 4
3.Semarang 3 1 0 2 13-21 2
4.Bandoeng 3 0 0 3 8-19 0
NB: with 122 goals in 15 matches (an average of more than 8 goals per
match) this edition must rank among the highest-scoring official
championships anywhere in the world. The final 6 matches averaged
nearly 9 goals.
NB: see also 1930/31 Batavia and Semarang and 1931 Bandoeng local leagues
Qualifying Stage
West Java
[Jan 18]
Batavia 9-1 Soekaboemi
[Feb 15]
Bandoeng 1-1 Soekaboemi
[Mar 15]
Batavia 4-0 Bandoeng
Final Table:
1.Batavia 2 2 0 0 13- 1 4 Qualified
2.Bandoeng 2 0 1 1 1- 5 1 0.20
Soekaboemi 2 0 1 1 2-10 1 0.20
NB: according to the regulations, second place was to be decided on a draw, but
after both federations requested a playoff, the N.I.V.B. agreed to hold one.
Second Place Playoff [Mar 29]
Soekaboemi 0-3 Bandoeng
NB: Bandoeng qualified
East Java
[Jan 18]
Djokjakarta 0-2 Soerabaja
Semarang 5-1 Malang
[Feb 15]
Soerabaja 6-0 Malang
[Mar 1]
Djokjakarta 0-4 Semarang
[Mar 15]
Soerabaja 5-1 Semarang
Malang 3-5 Djokjakarta
Final Table:
1.Soerabaja 3 3 0 0 13- 1 6 Qualified
2.Semarang 3 2 0 1 10- 6 4 Qualified
3.Djokjakarta 3 1 0 2 5- 9 2
4.Malang 3 0 0 3 4-16 0
Final Competition
Voorwedstrijden [Apr 12]
Bandoeng 4-2 Batavia
Semarang 5-3 Soerabaja
Kampioenswedstrijden [all matches in Batavia]
[May 22]
Batavia 3-2 Semarang
[May 23]
Bandoeng 4-0 Semarang
[May 24]
Bandoeng 3-3 Soerabaja
[May 25]
Batavia 4-0 Soerabaja
1.Bandoeng 3 2 1 0 11- 5 5
2.Batavia 3 2 0 1 9- 6 4
3.Semarang 3 1 0 2 7-10 2
4.Soerabaja 3 0 1 2 6-12 1
NB: see also 1931/32 Batavia, Oost Sumatra, Semarang and Soerabaja local leagues
Qualifying Stage
West Java
NB: Garoet enter competition for first time ever.
[Jan 24]
Garoet 0-8 Bandoeng
Soekaboemi 1-5 Batavia
[Feb 21]
Bandoeng 4-0 Soekaboemi
[Mar 20]
Soekaboemi 2-1 Garoet
[Apr 3]
Batavia 1-1 Bandoeng
[Apr 17]
Garoet 0-13 Batavia
NB: Batavia withdrew from the competition in February due to a conflict
with the V.S.O., causing the postponement of their match against
Garoet, scheduled for 21 February, but returned after an extraordinary
general meeting of the N.I.V.B. in Djokjakarta on March 5.
1.Bandoeng 3 2 1 0 13- 1 5 Qualified
2.Batavia 3 2 1 0 19- 2 5 Qualified
3.Soekaboemi 3 1 0 2 3-10 2
4.Garoet 3 0 0 3 1-23 0
East Java
NB: Blitar enter competition for first time ever; the team in fact was
a Blitar-Kediri-Madioen combination (in the summer of 1931 the city
federations of Blitar, Kediri and Madioen had formed the S.C.V.B.
(Stedelijke Combinatie Voetbal Bond) which selected players from
the three cities (and one from Toeloengagoeng) to play for the team
which represented the B.S.B. (Blitarsche Sport Bond) which had been
admitted to the N.I.V.B. in November 1931).
[Jan 3]
Djokjakarta 2-0 Malang
[Jan 10]
Malang abd Blitar [abandoned at 2-1 due to rain]
Semarang 0-5 Soerabaja
[Jan 24]
Malang 4-5 Blitar [replay]
[date?]
Semarang 5-2 Djokjakarta
[Feb 21]
Soerabaja 2-0 Malang
[Mar 6]
Soerabaja 7-0 Djokjakarta
Blitar 2-0 Semarang
[Mar 13]
Djokjakarta 1-2 Blitar
[Apr 3]
Blitar 0-2 Soerabaja
[Apr 10]
Malang 3-0 Semarang
1.Soerabaja 4 4 0 0 16- 0 8 Qualified
2.Blitar 4 3 0 1 9- 7 6 Qualified
3.Malang 4 1 0 3 7- 9 2
4.Semarang 4 1 0 3 5-12 2
5.Djokjakarta 4 1 0 3 5-14 2
NB: Semarang miss out on the final tournament for the first time ever,
after 18 participations.
Final Competition
Voorwedstrijden
[Apr 23]
Blitar 3-6 Soerabaja
[Apr 30]
Bandoeng 0-3 Batavia
NB: in October 1931, the S.V.B. had withdrawn the press cards for the Chinese
newspapers Sin Tit Po and Pewarta Soerabaia following match reports in those
newspapers deemed defamatory and insulting by the S.V.B. board; after a request
by the S.V.B., the N.I.V.B. decided on 28 March 1932 to extend this measure to
the kampioenswedstrijden; the editor-in-chief of the Sin Tit Po, Liem Koen Hian,
then started a boycot movement (Comité van Actie Persatoean Bangsa Asia) aimed
at dissuading Chinese and "natives" to attend the matches (partially by organising
simultaneous matches elsewhere in Soerabaja) and pressurising Chinese and "native"
players not to represent their cities; this had a particularly unfortunate effect
on the Blitar side making its maiden appearance, as it had to replace more than
half of the regular first eleven.
Kampioenswedstrijden [all matches in Soerabaja]
[May 13]
Soerabaja 4-0 Bandoeng
[May 14]
Batavia 8-1 Blitar
[May 15]
Blitar 3-5 Bandoeng
[May 16]
Soerabaja 4-2 Batavia
1.Soerabaja 3 3 0 0 14- 5 6
2.Batavia 3 2 0 1 13- 5 4
3.Bandoeng 3 1 0 2 5-10 2
4.Blitar 3 0 0 3 7-19 0
NB: Soerabaja included two Dutch international players, Bakhuys and Smeets.
NB: see also 1932/33 Batavia, Bandoeng, Semarang, Soerabaja and 1933 Blitar local leagues
NB: Buitenzorg and Tegal enter competition for first time ever.
Qualifying Stage
West Java
[Jan 8]
Bandoeng 5-1 Batavia
Buitenzorg 2-1 Garoet
[Jan 15]
Buitenzorg 1-5 Batavia
Garoet 3-4 Soekaboemi
[Feb 5]
Batavia 7-1 Garoet
Soekaboemi 2-9 Bandoeng
[Feb 12]
Soekaboemi 1-4 Buitenzorg
Garoet 0-4 Bandoeng
[Mar 5]
Batavia 8-2 Soekaboemi
Bandoeng 5-0 Buitenzorg
1.Bandoeng 4 4 0 0 23- 3 8 Qualified
2.Batavia 4 3 0 1 21- 9 6 Qualified
3.Buitenzorg 4 2 0 2 7-12 4
4.Soekaboemi 4 1 0 3 9-24 2
5.Garoet 4 0 0 4 5-17 0
Central Java
[Jan 8]
Tegal 5-2 Semarang
[Feb 5]
Semarang 0-0 Djokjakarta
[Mar 19]
Djokjakarta 2-3 Tegal
1.Tegal 2 2 0 0 8- 4 4 Qualified
2.Djokjakarta 2 0 1 1 2- 3 1
3.Semarang 2 0 1 1 2- 5 1
East Java
[Jan 8]
Malang 4-0 Blitar [half-time 2-0]
[P. Schuurmans 1-0, Cooke 2-0, Boen Poo 3-0, F. Schuurmans 4-0]
[Feb 5]
Blitar 1-7 Soerabaja [half-time 0-4]
[10' Th. Jahn 0-1, Tetalepta 0-2, Tetalepta 0-3, Bakhuys 0-4,
Toekidjo 1-4, Bakhuys 1-5, Bakhuys 1-6, Ludwig Jahn 1-7]
[Mar 5]
Soerabaja 10-0 Malang [half-time 3-0]
[Ludwig Jahn 1-0, Ludwig Jahn 2-0, Ludwig Jahn 3-0, Ludwig Jahn 4-0,
Bakhuys 5-0, Bakhuys 6-0, Ludwig Jahn 7-0, Bakhuys 8-0, Ludwig Jahn 9-0,
Tetalepta 10-0]
1.Soerabaja 2 2 0 0 17- 1 4 Qualified
2.Malang 2 1 0 1 4-10 2
3.Blitar 2 0 0 2 1-11 0
Final Competition
Voorwedstrijden [Apr 30]
Soerabaja 6-1 Tegal [half-time 5-0]
[10' Bakhuys 1-0, 13' L. Jahn, 15' Kwai Sing 3-0, 30' Tetalepta 4-0,
32' Bakhuys (pen) 5-0, 37' Bakhuys 6-0, 64' N.N. 6-1]
Batavia 5-1 Bandoeng [half-time 1-1]
[Lee Wai-tong 1-0, Goyers 1-1, Soemo 2-1, Soemo (pen) 3-1, Kek Boo 4-1, Soemo 5-1]
Kampioenswedstrijden [all matches at Nieuw-Houtrust, Bandoeng]
[Jun 2]
Bandoeng 7-1 Tegal [half-time 2-1]
[Lontoh 1-0, Lontoh 2-0, Eng Tiong (or An Soen?) 2-1, Lontoh 3-1, Vogler 4-1,
Welffers 5-1, Goyers 6-1, Van Coevorden 7-1]
[Jun 3]
Batavia 4-3 Soerabaja [half-time 2-1]
[Batavia: Van Dorp; Van Houten, Eddie Meeng; Lasso, Frans Meeng, Weskin;
Knape, Soemo, L.K. Tai, Lee Wai-tong, Thio Kek Boo;
Soerabaja: De Wilde; Baumgarten, Tan Chin Hoat; Hiang Gwan, Tio Sie Liong,
Tik Kwie; Kwai Sing, Tetalepta, Bakhuys, Ludwig Jahn, Hong Djien]
[L.K. Tai 1-0, Bakhuys 1-1, Soemo (pen) 2-1, Jahn 2-2, Bakhuys (pen) 2-3,
Lee Wai-tong 3-3, L.K. Tai 4-3]
[Jun 4]
Batavia 6-2 Tegal [half-time 4-2]
[5' Soemo 1-0, 10' Frans Meeng 2-0, 18' L.K. Tai 3-0, 19' C. Bastiaans 3-1,
29' An Soen 3-2, 35' Lee Wai-tong 4-2, Lee Wai-tong 5-2, 64' Soemo 6-2]
[Jun 5]
Bandoeng 0-2 Soerabaja [half-time 0-1]
[35' L. Jahn 0-1, 51' Hong Djien 0-2]
1.Batavia 3 3 0 0 15- 6 6
2.Soerabaja 3 2 0 1 11- 5 4
3.Bandoeng 3 1 0 2 8- 8 2
4.Tegal 3 0 0 3 4-19 0
NB: see also 1933/34 Bandoeng, Semarang, Soerabaja and 1932-35 Oost Sumatra local leagues
NB: Madioen and Solo enter competition for first time ever.
NB: Batavia opposed the new set-up and withdrew from the competition;
the V.B.O. was then suspended by the N.I.V.B. on an extraordinary
general meeting in Bandoeng on December 23, 1933. Batavia then
organised an alternative tournament in which Soekaboemi (which
had meanwhile resigned from the N.I.V.B.) and a rebel federation
(B.V.U.) from Bandoeng entered. Eventually, in the summer of 1935
the N.I.V.B. was liquidated and succeeded by the N.I.V.U. as the
official football association on Java.
Qualifying Stage
West Java
[Oct 22, 1933]
Batavia 2-1 Soekaboemi
[Nov 19, 1933]
Soekaboemi 0-1 Buitenzorg
[Dec 3, 1933]
Buitenzorg 1-2 Batavia
[Jan 28]
Buitenzorg 2-1 Soekaboemi
1.Buitenzorg 2 2 0 0 3- 1 4 Qualified
2.Soekaboemi 2 0 0 2 1- 3 0
-.Batavia withdrew mid-December 1933;
playing record: 2 2 0 0 4- 2 4
NB: Soekaboemi resigned from the N.I.V.B. on March 31 and joined Batavia in
the rebel tournament organised by the V.B.O.
Central Java I
[Oct 22, 1933]
Bandoeng 4-1 Tegal
[Nov 19, 1933]
Tegal 3-2 Garoet
[Dec 3, 1933]
Bandoeng 3-0 Garoet
[Jan 21]
Tegal n/p Bandoeng [unplayable pitch; instead a friendly was
[Jan 28] played, which Bandoeng won 6-2]
Garoet 1-0 Tegal
1.Bandoeng 2 2 0 0 7- 1 4 Qualified
2.Tegal 3 1 0 2 4- 7 2
3.Garoet 3 1 0 2 3- 6 2
NB: it appears the remaining two matches were never played as Bandoeng were
practically sure of qualification.
Central Java II
[Oct 22, 1933]
Djokjakarta 0-1 Solo
Semarang 6-2 Madioen [also reported 6-1]
[Nov 19, 1933]
Madioen awd Djokjakarta [awarded 0-8; originally 0-3, Madioen used
Solo 1-2 Semarang ineligible player]
[Dec 3, 1933]
Madioen 1-7 Solo
Djokjakarta 2-3 Semarang
[Jan 7]
Semarang 2-1 Solo
Djokjakarta 0-1 Madioen
[Jan 28]
Madioen 1-9 Semarang
[Feb 3]
Solo 3-1 Djokjakarta
[Feb 10]
Solo 8-1 Madioen
[Feb 11]
Semarang 5-0 Djokjakarta
1.Semarang 6 6 0 0 27- 7 12 Qualified
2.Solo 6 4 0 2 21- 7 8
3.Djokjakarta 6 1 0 5 11-13 2
4.Madioen 6 1 0 5 6-38 2
East Java
[Oct 22, 1933]
Soerabaja 5-1 Blitar
[Nov 19, 1933]
Blitar 1-3 Malang
[Dec 3, 1933]
Malang 1-6 Soerabaja [annulled; protest Malang demanding a
[Jan 7] replay because of the match being ended
Blitar 0-6 Soerabaja 8 minutes early rejected; later
[Jan 28] Soerabaja agreed replay, confirmed
Malang 4-0 Blitar on N.I.V.B. meeting Dec 23]
[Feb 11]
Soerabaja 6-0 Malang
[Feb 18]
Malang 3-2 Soerabaja [replay Dec 3; after protest, originally 3-3]
1.Soerabaja 4 3 0 1 19- 4 6 4.75
2.Malang 4 3 0 1 10- 9 6 1.11
3.Blitar 4 0 0 4 2-18 0
Final Competition
Voorwedstrijden
[Mar 4]
Soerabaja 8-0 Semarang
Buitenzorg 2-3 Bandoeng
[Mar 25]
Soerabaja 1-1 Bandoeng
[Apr 14]
Bandoeng 3-2 Buitenzorg
[Apr 15]
Semarang 5-2 Soerabaja
[Apr 22]
Buitenzorg 2-1 Semarang
[Apr 29]
Soerabaja 1-2 Buitenzorg
Bandoeng 3-1 Semarang
Table before final tournament:
1.Bandoeng (B.V.B.) 4 3 1 0 10- 6 7
2.Buitenzorg 4 2 0 2 8- 8 4
3.Soerabaja 4 1 1 2 12- 8 3
4.Semarang 4 1 0 3 7-15 2
Kampioenswedstrijden in Semarang
[May 18]
Semarang 1-2 Bandoeng
[May 19]
Soerabaja 3-1 Buitenzorg
[May 20]
Bandoeng 2-3 Soerabaja
[May 21]
Semarang 3-1 Buitenzorg
1.Bandoeng (B.V.B.) 6 4 1 1 14-10 9
2.Soerabaja 6 3 1 2 18-11 7
3.Buitenzorg 6 2 0 4 10-14 4 0.71
4.Semarang 6 2 0 4 11-18 4 0.61
NB: see also 1933/34 Batavia local league
NB: after the V.B.O. had resigned from the N.I.V.B., they organised
their own tournament with federations from Soekaboemi and Bandoeng
(the rebel B.V.U.; the official B.V.B. remained in the N.I.V.B.
until January 1935).
NB: tournament in Batavia
[May 19]
Bandoeng 4-2 Soekaboemi
[May 20]
Batavia 5-2 Bandoeng
[May 21]
Batavia 4-2 Soekaboemi
1.Batavia 2 2 0 0 9- 4 4
2.Bandoeng (B.V.U.) 2 1 0 1 6- 7 2
3.Soekaboemi 2 0 0 2 4- 8 0
NB: see also 1934/35 Batavia, Bandoeng, Cheribon, Malang, Semarang and Soerabaja local leagues
NB: Magelang enter competition for first time ever; it is unknown whether they played
any matches and they would never enter again.
Qualifying Stage
West Java
[Sep 16, 1934]
Bandoeng 1-0 Buitenzorg
[Dec 2, 1934]
Buitenzorg 3-4 Bandoeng
1.Bandoeng 2 2 0 0 5- 3 4 Qualified
2.Buitenzorg 2 0 0 2 3- 5 0
-.Garoet withdrew from N.I.V.B. Aug 1934
Central Java I
NB: participants were Magelang, Semarang and Tegal;
it is not known whether any matches were played.
Central Java II
[Sep 16, 1934]
Madioen 0-6 Djokjakarta
NB: third participants Solo;
it is not known whether any other matches were played.
East Java
[Sep 16, 1934]
Soerabaja 8-0 Blitar
NB: third participants Malang;
it is not known whether any other matches were played.
NB: the above matches were organised by the N.I.V.B., which had scheduled the final
tournament in 1935 for Solo (it would have been Batavia's turn, but the V.B.O.
had left the N.I.V.B.);
more matches may have been played but the tournament was cancelled, as more and
more city federations left the N.I.V.B.: both Bandoeng and Buitenzorg did so in
the beginning of 1935 and by spring 1935 the N.I.V.B. only consisted of Soerabaja,
Malang, Blitar, Djokjakarta, Solo and Tegal.
The V.B.O. then invited the federations of Bandoeng and Semarang as well as
Soerabaja club side Tiong Hoa, who had left the S.V.B., to participate in a
tournament in Batavia between the traditional four cities. On May 12, the S.V.U.
(Soerabaiasche Voetbal Unie) was founded in Soerabaja to organise a team for the
final tournament and join the N.I.V.U. to be founded there. In the match on May 4,
Soerabaja was represented by Tiong Hoa, by far the strongest club among the
founding members of the S.V.U.
Voorwedstrijden
[May 4]
Soerabaja 4-1 Semarang
[May 18]
Bandoeng 2-8 Batavia
Kampioenswedstrijden
NB: tournament in Batavia; organised by the V.B.O.; on the penultimate match day,
the N.I.V.U. was founded.
[Jun 7]
Batavia 5-2 Semarang
[Jun 8]
Semarang 0-5 Bandoeng
[Jun 9]
Batavia 0-0 Soerabaja
[Jun 10]
Bandoeng 3-1 Soerabaja
1.Batavia 3 2 1 0 13- 4 5
2.Bandoeng 3 2 0 1 10- 9 4
3.Soerabaja 3 1 1 1 5- 4 3
4.Semarang 3 0 0 3 3-14 0
NB: see also 1935/36 Batavia, Bandoeng, Cheribon, Djokjakarta, Malang, Semarang, Soerabaja, 1935 Kediri and 1934-36 Oost Sumatra local leagues
Qualifying Stage
Oost/Midden Java
[Jan 18]
Malang 8-0 Madioen [annulled]
Solo 0-2 Djokjakarta
[Feb 8]
Solo 4-0 Madioen [annulled]
[Feb 9]
Djokjakarta 2-3 Malang
[Feb 29]
Djokjakarta n/p Madioen [Madioen withdrew; Djokjakarta played a
[Mar 1] friendly against Pekalongan (0-0) instead]
Malang 4-1 Solo
Final Table:
1.Malang 2 2 0 0 7- 3 4 Qualified
2.Djokjakarta 2 1 0 1 4- 3 2
3.Solo 2 0 0 2 1- 6 0
-.Madioen withdrew; results annulled
West Java
[Jan 18]
Soekaboemi 0-4 Buitenzorg
[Jan 19]
Cheribon 2-2 Tegal
[Feb 8]
Buitenzorg 2-4 Cheribon
[Feb 16]
Tegal 5-3 Soekaboemi
[Mar 14]
Cheribon 1-1 Soekaboemi [in Bandoeng]
Tegal 3-3 Buitenzorg
Final Table:
1.Cheribon 3 1 2 0 7- 5 4 1.40 Qualified
2.Tegal 3 1 2 0 10- 8 4 1.25
3.Buitenzorg 3 1 1 1 9- 7 3
4.Soekaboemi 3 0 1 2 4-10 1
Voorronde (Promotie/degradatie-competitie)
NB: between last team kampioenswedstrijden 1935 (Semarang)
and winners of qualifying sections for West-Java (Cheribon)
and Oost-Java (Malang).
NB: tournament in Semarang
[Apr 2]
Semarang 2-1 Malang
[Apr 3]
Malang 4-2 Cheribon
[Apr 4]
Semarang 0-0 Cheribon
1.Semarang 2 1 1 0 2- 1 3 Qualified
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2.Malang 2 1 0 1 5- 4 2
3.Cheribon 2 0 1 1 2- 4 1
Final Competition
Voorwedstrijden [May 10]
Semarang 0-4 Soerabaja
Batavia 3-1 Bandoeng
Kampioenswedstrijden [all matches at Tiong-Hoa-veld, Soerabaja]
[May 29]
Bandoeng 4-2 Semarang
[May 30]
Soerabaja 4-1 Bandoeng
[May 31]
Batavia 4-3 Semarang
[Jun 1]
Soerabaja 4-2 Batavia
1.Soerabaja 3 3 0 0 12- 3 6
2.Batavia 3 2 0 1 9- 8 4
3.Bandoeng 3 1 0 2 6- 9 2
4.Semarang 3 0 0 3 5-12 0
NB: see also 1936/37 Batavia, Bandoeng, Cheribon, Malang, Oost Sumatra, Semarang, Soerabaja and Solo local leagues
Qualifying Stage
Oost/Midden Java
Round 1
[Oct 18]
Djokjakarta 0-0 Pekalongan
[Oct 25]
Solo 2-3 Malang
[Nov 1]
Pekalongan 3-2 Djokjakarta
Malang 2-2 Solo
Round 2
[Nov 15]
Pekalongan 3-4 Malang
[Nov 28]
Malang 3-0 Pekalongan
NB: Malang qualified
West Java
Round 1
[Oct 18]
Soekaboemi abd Buitenzorg [abandoned at 0-0 due to rain]
Tegal 0-0 Cheribon
[Oct 24]
Soekaboemi 0-2 Buitenzorg [replay, in Buitenzorg]
[Oct 31]
Buitenzorg 3-1 Soekaboemi
[Nov 1]
Cheribon 1-0 Tegal
Round 2
[Nov 14]
Cheribon 3-0 Buitenzorg
[Nov 27]
Buitenzorg 3-0 Cheribon
NB: Cheribon qualified on lots
Voorronde (Promotie/degradatie-competitie)
NB: between last team kampioenswedstrijden 1936 (Semarang)
and winners of qualifying sections for West-Java (Cheribon)
and Oost-Java (Malang).
NB: tournament in Semarang
[Mar 26]
Semarang 4-0 Cheribon
[Mar 27]
Cheribon 2-5 Malang
[Mar 28]
Semarang 1-1 Malang
1.Semarang 2 1 1 0 5- 1 3 Qualified
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2.Malang 2 1 1 0 6- 3 3
3.Cheribon 2 0 0 2 2- 9 0
Voorwedstrijden
[Apr 30]
Batavia 2-3 Bandoeng
[May 2]
Soerabaja 2-4 Semarang
Kampioenswedstrijden
NB: tournament in Bandoeng
[May 14]
Bandoeng 3-1 Soerabaja
[May 15]
Semarang 2-2 Bandoeng
[May 16]
Soerabaja 1-0 Batavia
[May 17]
Batavia 5-0 Semarang
1.Bandoeng 3 2 1 0 8- 5 5
2.Semarang 3 1 1 1 6- 9 3
3.Batavia 3 1 0 2 7- 4 2
4.Soerabaja 3 1 0 2 4- 7 2
NB: see also 1937/38 Batavia, Bandoeng, Cheribon, Malang, Oost Sumatra, Semarang, Soerabaja and Solo local leagues
Qualifying Stage
NB: Afdeeling I and IV both had only one entrant (Buitenzorg and Malang respectively);
it was decided that these two were to play for the right to play the winners of
Afdeeling III (Djokjakarta and Solo) for one place in the Voorronde, while the
other place was allocated to the winners of Afdeeling II (which had three entrants,
Cheribon, Pekalongan and Tegal).
Oost/Midden Java
Semifinal Afd. I/IV [Sep 24, Batavia]
Buitenzorg 0-13 Malang
NB: first ever match between the two federations; played over one leg in Batavia
due to distance between the two cities.
Semifinal Afd. III
First Leg [Sep 5]
Djokjakarta 3-6 Solo
Second Leg [Oct 2]
Solo 2-2 Djokjakarta
Final
First Leg [Oct 30]
Malang 6-0 Solo
Second Leg [Nov 6]
Solo 1-5 Malang
NB: Malang qualified for Voorronde
Midden Java (Afdeeling II)
[Oct 3]
Tegal 2-3 Cheribon
[Oct 17]
Cheribon 4-0 Pekalongan
[Oct 31]
Pekalongan n/p Tegal [cancelled due to irrelevance]
Final Table:
1.Cheribon 2 2 0 0 7- 2 4 Qualified
2.Tegal 1 0 0 1 2- 3 0
3.Pekalongan 1 0 0 1 0- 4 0
Voorronde (Promotie/degradatie-competitie)
NB: between last team kampioenswedstrijden 1937 (Soerabaja)
and winners of qualifying sections for West-Java (Cheribon)
and Oost-Java (Malang).
NB: tournament in Soerabaja
[Aug 5]
Soerabaja 9-0 Cheribon
[Aug 6]
Cheribon 1-2 Malang
[Aug 7]
Soerabaja 0-0 Malang
1.Soerabaja 2 1 1 0 9- 0 3 Qualified
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2.Malang 2 1 1 0 2- 1 3
3.Cheribon 2 0 0 2 1-11 0
Voorwedstrijden
[Aug 7]
Bandoeng 1-1 Batavia
[Aug 13]
Semarang 3-4 Soerabaja
Kampioenswedstrijden
NB: tournament in Semarang
[Aug 28]
Soerabaja 0-4 Bandoeng
[Aug 29]
Semarang 1-4 Batavia
[Aug 30]
Semarang 0-0 Bandoeng
[Aug 31]
Soerabaja 1-3 Batavia
1.Batavia 3 2 1 0 8- 3 5
2.Bandoeng 3 1 2 0 5- 1 4
3.Soerabaja 3 1 0 2 5-10 2
4.Semarang 3 0 1 2 4- 8 1
NB: see also 1938/39 Batavia, Bandoeng, Malang, Semarang, Soerabaja and Solo and 1938-40 Oost Sumatra local leagues,
and 1939 Java club championship
NB: at the N.I.V.U. general meeting on 30 Aug 1938 it was decided to admit the
winners of the Districtstournooi automatically to the final competition;
because of this, the fourth team in 1938 (Semarang) is exempt from playing
the Voorronde (Promotie/degradatie-competitie); in the future, the fifth
and last team of the final tournament is automatically relegated to the
Districtstournooi for the next season.
Qualifying Tournament (Districtstournooi)
West-Java
Toernooi in Cheribon
[Oct 22]
Cheribon 1-0 Buitenzorg
[Oct 23]
Buitenzorg 0-1 Tegal
[Oct 24]
Cheribon 2-0 Tegal
Table:
1.Cheribon 2 2 0 0 3- 0 4
2.Tegal 2 1 0 1 1- 2 2
3.Buitenzorg 2 0 0 2 0- 2 0
NB: Tegal and Cheribon qualified for final round.
Oost-Java
Toernooi in Djokjakarta (Gouverneur Bijleveld stadion)
[Oct 15]
Malang 4-3 Solo
[Oct 16]
Djokjakarta 0-1 Malang
[Oct 17]
Djokjakarta 4-0 Solo
Table:
1.Malang 2 2 0 0 5- 3 4
2.Djokjakarta 2 1 0 1 4- 1 2
3.Solo 2 0 0 2 3- 8 0
NB: Malang and Djokjakarta qualified for final round.
Final Round
NB: was to be played over 6 matches, with 2 voorwedstrijden and a final
tournament consisting of 4 matches November 23-26 in Djokjakarta (later
postponed to January 1939 and eventually cancelled due to the withdrawal
of Tegal and Cheribon).
[Nov 5]
Malang 4-0 Djokjakarta
[Nov 6]
Tegal 1-1 Cheribon [annulled]
Schedule for tournament in Djokjakarta:
[Nov 23]
Cheribon n/p Malang
[Nov 24]
Djokjakarta n/p Cheribon
[Nov 25]
Djokjakarta n/p Tegal
[Nov 26]
Malang n/p Tegal
NB: Tegal withdrew for financial reasons (viz. the costs for the trip to the
final tournament in Djokjakarta); the result of the match on Nov 6 was
thus annulled; Cheribon then requested that the result of the match
between Malang and Djokjakarta would also be annulled, in order to
"restore equal chances"; the N.I.V.U. of course refused this, upon which
Cheribon also withdrew, resenting the "preferential treatment" of Malang;
the N.I.V.U. then decided to organise a second leg between the two
remaining cities.
[Jan 28]
Djokjakarta 3-6 Malang
Table:
1.Malang 2 2 0 0 10- 3 4 Qualified
2.Djokjakarta 2 0 0 2 3-10 0
Voortoernooi in Bandoeng
[Apr 7]
Bandoeng 5-2 Malang
[Apr 8]
Batavia 5-2 Semarang
[Apr 9]
Malang 2-3 Semarang
[Apr 10]
Bandoeng 1-3 Batavia
[Apr 15]
Soerabaja 2-0 Malang
[Apr 30]
Semarang 3-4 Soerabaja
Kampioenswedstrijden [at B.V.C.-veld, Batavia]
[May 26]
Batavia 8-0 Malang
[May 27]
Bandoeng 2-1 Soerabaja
[May 28]
Bandoeng 3-2 Semarang
[May 29]
Batavia 3-2 Soerabaja
1.Batavia 4 4 0 0 19- 5 8
2.Bandoeng 4 3 0 1 11- 8 6
3.Soerabaja 4 2 0 2 9- 8 4
4.Semarang 4 1 0 3 10-14 2
5.Malang 4 0 0 4 4-18 0
NB: see also 1939/40 Batavia, Bandoeng, Semarang, Soerabaja and Solo local leagues
Qualifying Tournament
Semifinals
[Sep 30, Deca-Park, Batavia]
Cheribon 5-2 Buitenzorg
[Oct 8, Soerabaja]
Malang 3-1 Djokjakarta
Final [Nov 4, H.B.S.-terrein, Tambaksarie, Soerabaja]
Malang 3-3 Cheribon [aet]
Final Replay [Nov 5, H.B.S.-terrein, Tambaksarie, Soerabaja]
Malang 3-1 Cheribon
NB: Malang qualified.
Voorwedstrijden
[Jan 28]
Malang 2-1 Soerabaja
[Feb 18]
Soerabaja 2-0 Semarang
Voortoernooi in Semarang
[Mar 22]
Semarang 2-2 Bandoeng
[Mar 23]
Bandoeng 4-1 Malang
[Mar 24]
Malang 1-1 Batavia
[Mar 25]
Semarang 1-2 Batavia
Kampioenswedstrijden [in Soerabaja]
[May 10]
Malang 3-6 Semarang
NB: after this match, news of the German invasion in the Netherlands became known;
the remaining matches were postponed and the tournament was finished around
31 August (Koninginnedag, the 60th birthday of Queen Wilhelmina).
[Aug 30 (postponed from May 12), H.B.S.-veld]
Soerabaja 2-0 Bandoeng
[Aug 31 (postponed from May 11), Tiong Hoa-veld]
Batavia 4-0 Bandoeng
[Sep 1 (postponed from May 13), Tiong Hoa-veld]
Soerabaja 1-1 Batavia
1.Batavia 4 2 2 0 8- 3 6
2.Soerabaja 4 2 1 1 6- 3 5
3.Semarang 4 1 1 2 9- 9 3
4.Bandoeng 4 1 1 2 6- 9 3
5.Malang 4 1 1 2 7-12 3
NB: see also 1940/41 Batavia, Bandoeng, Djokjakarta, Malang, Semarang, Soerabaja and Solo local leagues,
and 1941 Java club championship
Qualifying Tournament (Districtstournooi)
West-Java
First Leg [Oct 5]
Buitenzorg awd Cheribon [awarded 4-0; originally 2-3, Cheribon used
ineligible players]
Second Leg [Nov 23]
Cheribon 3-1 Buitenzorg
NB: Buitenzorg qualified for final
Oost-Java
[Oct 5]
Djokjakarta 0-2 Solo
[Oct 12]
Solo 1-1 Malang
[Oct 26]
Malang 2-2 Djokjakarta
Table:
1.Solo 2 1 1 0 3- 1 3
2.Malang 2 0 2 0 3- 3 2
3.Djokjakarta 2 0 1 1 2- 4 1
NB: Solo qualified for final
Final
First Leg [Nov 30]
Solo 2-2 Buitenzorg
Second Leg [Jan 18]
Buitenzorg 2-4 Solo
NB: Solo qualified.
Voortoernooi in Soerabaja
NB: at Easter weekend; first two matches at Tiong Hoa-terrein, last two at H.B.S.-terrein
[Apr 11]
Soerabaja 6–1 Solo
[Apr 12]
Solo 4–2 Bandoeng
[Apr 13]
Bandoeng 0–0 Semarang
[Apr 14]
Soerabaja 0-1 Semarang
Voorwedstrijden in Semarang
[May 3]
Semarang 2-3 Batavia
[May 4]
Solo 3-5 Batavia
Kampioenswedstrijden [in Bandoeng]
NB: first two matches at Sidolig-terrein, last two at Nieuw-Houtrust
[May 30]
Semarang 1–1 Solo
[May 31]
Bandoeng 1-4 Soerabaja
[Jun 1]
Bandoeng 2–1 Batavia
[Jun 2]
Batavia 1–1 Soerabaja
1.Soerabaja 4 2 1 1 11- 4 5 2.75
2.Batavia 4 2 1 1 10- 8 5 1.25
3.Semarang 4 1 2 1 4- 4 4
4.Solo 4 1 1 2 9-14 3 0.64
5.Bandoeng 4 1 1 2 5- 9 3 0.56
NB: see also 1941/42 Batavia, Bandoeng, Djokjakarta, Semarang, Soerabaja and Solo local leagues
Qualifying Tournament (Districtstournooi)
West-Java
Toernooi in Bandoeng
[Oct 31]
Bandoeng 3-1 Buitenzorg
[Nov 1]
Buitenzorg 7-0 Tegal
[Nov 2]
Bandoeng 3-0 Tegal
Table:
1.Bandoeng 2 2 0 0 6- 1 4
2.Buitenzorg 2 1 0 1 8- 3 2
3.Tegal 2 0 0 2 0-10 0
NB: Bandoeng qualified for final
Oost-Java
Final
First Leg [Nov 15]
Malang 3-3 Djokjakarta
Second Leg [Nov 29]
Djokjakarta 0-0 Malang
NB: a playoff was to be held with the winners meeting Bandoeng (winners West-Java)
for a place in the final tournament in 1942; the tournament was abandoned after
the declaration of war on Japan on December 8 and subsequent mobilisation.
NB: a tournament was announced for the end of August in Soerabaja, with the intention
of resurrecting the N.I.V.U., but cancelled just before the event due to problems
with transportation; the semifinals had already been drawn as follows:
Semifinals
[Aug 29]
Soerabaja - Semarang
[Aug 30]
Batavia - Bandoeng
Final [Aug 31]
NB: the resurrection of the N.I.V.U. eventually took place on December 29 in Bandoeng.
NB: see also 1946/47 Soerabaja local league Voorwedstrijden [Apr 4] Soerabaja 4-2 Semarang [Apr 6] Batavia 4-2 Bandoeng Kampioenswedstrijden NB: tournament in Soerabaja [May 23] Soerabaja 2-2 Bandoeng [May 24] Batavia 3-0 Semarang [May 25] Semarang 0-1 Bandoeng [May 26; att: 11,000] Soerabaja 1-1 Batavia 1.Batavia 3 2 1 0 8- 3 5 2.Soerabaja 3 1 2 0 7- 5 4 3.Bandoeng 3 1 1 1 5- 6 3 4.Semarang 3 0 0 3 2- 8 0
NB: see also 1947/48 Batavia, Semarang and Soerabaja and 1948 Semarang local leagues Voorwedstrijden [Mar 27] Bandoeng 1-1 Batavia Soerabaja 2-2 Semarang Kampioenswedstrijden NB: tournament in Semarang [May 14] Semarang 3-2 Bandoeng [May 15] Bandoeng 0-2 Soerabaja [May 16] Soerabaja 1-3 Batavia [May 17] Semarang 2-2 Batavia 1.Batavia 3 1 2 0 6- 4 4 [1.50] 2.Semarang 3 1 2 0 7- 6 4 [1.17] 3.Soerabaja 3 1 1 1 5- 5 3 4.Bandoeng 3 0 1 2 3- 6 1
NB: see also 1948/49 Batavia and Soerabaja and 1949 Semarang local leagues NB: organised by V.U.V.S.I./I.S.N.I.S.; Medan were invited but withdrew early March Voorwedstrijden [Apr 30] Semarang 2-0 Batavia Soerabaja 0-0 Makassar [May 1] Semarang 0-1 Soerabaja Bandoeng 1-1 Makassar [in Soerabaja] [May 21] Bandoeng 2-0 Batavia [May 22] Bandoeng 1-0 Semarang Kampioenswedstrijden NB: tournament at B.V.C.-terrein, Batavia [Jun 3] Batavia 0-0 Makassar [Jun 4] Bandoeng 1-4 Soerabaja [Jun 5] Makassar 1-4 Semarang [Jun 6] Batavia 2-3 Soerabaja 1.Soerabaja 4 3 1 0 8- 3 7 2.Bandoeng 4 2 1 1 5- 5 5 3.Semarang 4 2 0 2 6- 3 4 4.Makassar 4 0 3 1 2- 5 3 5.Batavia 4 0 1 3 2- 7 1
NB: see also 1949/50 Djakarta, Semarang and Surabaja local leagues
NB: organised by V.U.V.S.I./I.S.N.I.S.
Qualifying Tournament (Districtstournooi)
West-Java
NB: at U.M.S.-terrein
[Dec 3]
Djakarta 6-0 Tjirebon
[Dec 4]
Bogor 3-1 Tjirebon
[Dec 5]
Djakarta 5-1 Bogor
1.Djakarta 2 2 0 0 11- 1 4
2.Bogor 2 1 0 1 4- 6 2
3.Tjirebon 2 0 0 2 1- 9 0
NB: Djakarta winners West-Java and qualified for final round (kwalificatietoernooi).
Midden-Java
NB: in Tegal
[Dec 9]
Tegal 4-1 Purwokerto
[Dec 10]
Purwokerto 0-4 Pekalongan
[Dec 11]
Tegal 1-1 Pekalongan
1.Pekalongan 2 1 1 0 5- 1 3 [5.00]
2.Tegal 2 1 1 0 5- 2 3 [2.50]
3.Purwokerto 2 0 0 2 1- 8 0
NB: Pekalongan winners Midden-Java and qualified for final round (kwalificatietoernooi).
Kwalificatietoernooi
NB; between winners West-Java (Djakarta), Midden-Java (Pekalongan) en Oost-Java (Malang);
tournament at U.M.S.-terrein, Djakarta
NB: Malang did not show; instead P.O.R.I. (Djakarta) played two matches.
[Mar 31]
Djakarta 8-0 Pekalongan
[Apr 1]
Pekalongan n/p Malang
Pekalongan 1-2 P.O.R.I. (Djakarta)
[Apr 2]
Djakarta n/p Malang
V.B.O. 4-1 P.O.R.I. (Djakarta)
NB: Djakarta qualified for stedentoernooi.
Voortoernooi in Surabaja
NB: as Makassar could not travel, Malang were admitted to the
tournament and took over their fixtures
[Apr 14]
Surabaja 3-0 Semarang
[Apr 15]
Malang 1-1 Semarang
[Apr 16]
Surabaja 3-3 Malang
[Apr 17]
Surabaja 2-0 Bandung
[Apr 18]
Malang 5-2 Bandung
Voortoernooi in Djakarta
[Apr 28]
Djakarta 1-0 Bandung
[Apr 29]
Bandung 0-3 Medan
[Apr 30]
Djakarta 2-0 Medan
[May 1]
Semarang 2-2 Medan
[May 2]
Djakarta 2-1 Semarang
Voorwedstrijden Makassar
[May 13]
Surabaja 2-0 Makassar
[May 14, in Surabaja]
Malang 0-2 Makassar
[May 17]
Semarang 1-2 Makassar
[May 20]
Djakarta 0-0 Makassar
[May 21, in Djakarta]
Bandung 3-3 Makassar
Table (before start Eindtoernooi):
1.Djakarta 4 3 1 0 5- 1 7
2.Surabaja 4 3 1 0 10- 3 7
3.Makassar 5 2 2 1 7- 6 6
4.Malang 4 1 2 1 9- 8 4
5.Medan 3 1 1 1 5- 4 3
6.Semarang 5 0 2 3 5-10 2
7.Bandung 5 0 1 4 5-14 1
Eindtoernooi
NB: tournament in Bandung
[May 25]
Medan 2-1 Makassar
[May 26]
Djakarta 0-3 Malang
[May 27]
Surabaja 1-0 Medan
[May 28]
Bandung 0-3 Semarang
[May 29]
Medan 1-3 Malang
[May 30]
Djakarta 2-2 Surabaja
1.Surabaja 6 4 2 0 13- 5 10
2.Malang 6 3 2 1 15- 9 8 [1.67]
3.Djakarta 6 3 2 1 7- 6 8 [1.17]
4.Makassar 6 2 2 2 8- 8 6
5.Medan 6 2 1 3 8- 9 5
6.Semarang 6 1 2 3 8-10 4
7.Bandung 6 0 1 5 5-17 1
NB: matches in Batavia Semifinal [Apr 19] Batavia 2-1 Semarang Soerabaja bye Final [Apr 20] Batavia 2-0 Soerabaja
Participating clubs (representing their cities): Batavia: U.M.S. Semarang: Union Soerabaja: Tiong Hoa NB: matches at Deca-Park, Batavia Semifinal [Apr 3] Batavia 0-0 Semarang [Batavia on lots] Soerabaja bye Final [Apr 4] Batavia 2-1 Soerabaja
NB: matches in Bandoeng Semifinals [Mar 31] Bandoeng 0-3 Soerabaja [Apr 1] Semarang 0-1 Batavia Third Place Match [Apr 2] Bandoeng 0-0 Semarang Final [Apr 2] Batavia 2-0 Soerabaja
Participating clubs (representing their cities): Bandoeng: Y.M.C. Batavia: U.M.S. Semarang: Union/Djien Gie combination Soerabaja: Tiong Hoa NB: matches in Batavia (B.V.C-terrein, Koningsplein Zuid) Semifinals [Apr 18] Batavia 6-0 Bandoeng [Apr 19] Soerabaja 3-0 Semarang Final [Apr 20] Batavia 1-0 Soerabaja
Participating clubs (representing their cities): Bandoeng: Y.M.C. Batavia: U.M.S. Semarang: Union Soerabaja: Tiong Hoa NB: matches in Bandoeng Semifinals [Apr 10] Bandoeng 2-1 Semarang [aet (2x7.5)] [Apr 11] Batavia 0-0 Soerabaja [Soerabaja on lots] Final [Apr 12] Bandoeng 1-0 Soerabaja
Participating clubs (representing their cities): Bandoeng: Y.M.C. Batavia: U.M.S. Semarang: C.S.A. Soerabaja: Tiong Hoa NB: matches in Semarang (Union-terrein, Seteran) Semifinal [Apr 2] Soerabaja 4-0 Bandoeng [Apr 3] Batavia 1-0 Semarang Final [Apr 4] Batavia 2-0 Soerabaja
NB: organised for the first time by the newly formed C.K.T.H.
Participating clubs (representing their cities):
Bandoeng: Y.M.C.
Batavia: U.M.S.
Cheribon: Y.N.H.
Malang: H.S.H.
Pekalongan: T.H.H.
Semarang: C.S.A.
Soerabaja: Tiong Hoa
Tegal: T.O.A.
Voorwedstrijden [Mar 20]
Tegal w/o Batavia
Semarang 2-1 Pekalongan
Soerabaja 3-1 Malang
Bandoeng bye [Cheribon withdrew]
NB: Batavia (U.M.S.) did not enter due to a suspension and disagreements;
T.O.A. (Tegal) played a practice match on Mar 20 against C.V.B. (the
"European" federation of Cheribon), winning 5-1
NB: all matches at Nieuw-Houtrust (U.N.I.-terrein), Bandoeng
Semifinals
[Apr 15]
Bandoeng 3-0 Tegal
[Apr 16]
Semarang 2-3 Soerabaja
Final [Apr 17]
Bandoeng 1-2 Soerabaja [aet (2x7.5)]
Participating clubs (representing their cities): Bandoeng: Y.M.C. Batavia: U.M.S. Cheribon: Y.N.H. Malang: H.S.H. Pekalongan: T.H.H. Semarang: C.S.A. Soerabaja: Tiong Hoa Tegal: T.O.A. Voorwedstrijden [Mar 23] Soerabaja bt Malang Pekalongan 1-1 Semarang [aet (2x7.5), Semarang on lots] Tegal lt Bandoeng Cheribon lt Batavia Kampioenswedstrijden NB: matches in Batavia Semifinals [Apr 6] Batavia 2-1 Bandoeng [Apr 7] Soerabaja 7-0 Semarang Final [Apr 8] Batavia 1-3 Soerabaja Friendly [Apr 9, Batavia] V.B.O. 3-1 Chinese Java XI
Participating clubs (representing their cities):
Bandoeng: Y.M.C.
Batavia: U.M.S.
Cheribon: Y.N.H.
Malang: Hak Sing Hwee
Pekalongan: T.H.H.
Semarang: Union
Soerabaja: Tiong Hoa
Tegal: T.O.A.
Voorwedstrijden
[Jan 27]
Bandoeng 0-2 Tegal
Semarang 0-5 Pekalongan
Batavia 1-0 Cheribon
[Mar 10]
Malang 2-2 Soerabaja [Malang on lots; match awarded to Soerabaja
on Mar 11 because of ineligible player Malang]
Kampioenswedstrijden
NB: matches in Soerabaja
Semifinals
[Mar 29]
Soerabaja w/o Pekalongan [awarded 5-0, Pekalongan forfeited]
[Mar 30]
Batavia 4-1 Tegal
Final [Mar 31]
Soerabaja 1-0 Batavia
NB: after Hak Sing Hwee (Malang) had resigned from the H.N.V.B.,
Tiong Hoa (Soerabaja) were to receive a bye from the preliminary
matches, but were later fixtured to play Tjin Ik Hwee (Blitar)
after the latter club had joined the H.N.V.B. early 1930.
Participating clubs (representing their cities):
Bandoeng: Y.M.C. (newly promoted to B.V.B. Eerste Klasse)
Batavia: U.M.S.
Blitar: Tjin Ik Hwee
Cheribon: Y.N.H.
Malang: H.S.H. (resigned) (champions of M.V.B.)
Pekalongan: T.H.H.
Semarang: Union
Soerabaja: Tiong Hoa (champions of S.V.B.)
Voorwedstrijden [Mar 9]
Soerabaja 9-0 Blitar
Semarang 3-1 Pekalongan
Cheribon 0-3 Batavia
Bandoeng bye
NB: at the annual meeting of the H.N.V.B. in April, Cheribon complained
about having to play Batavia in the preliminary matches every year
and it was agreed to instead play single round robin qualifying
tournaments in 1931.
Kampioenswedstrijden
NB: matches in Bandoeng
Semifinals
[Apr 18]
Batavia 3-0 Semarang
[Apr 19]
Bandoeng 1-1 Soerabaja [aet, Bandoeng on lots]
Final [Apr 20]
Batavia 3-0 Bandoeng
Participating clubs (representing their cities):
Bandoeng: Y.M.C.
Batavia: U.M.S.
Blitar: Tjin Ik Hwee
Cheribon: Y.N.H.
Djokjakarta:H.S.H.
Pekalongan: T.H.H.
Semarang: Union
Soerabaja: Tiong Hoa
Tegal: T.O.A.
Voorwedstrijden
West-Java
[Oct 19, 1930]
Batavia 5-3 Bandoeng
[Nov 23, 1930]
Cheribon 1-2 Bandoeng
[Mar 1]
Batavia 2-1 Cheribon
1.Batavia 2 2 0 0 7- 4 4 Qualified
2.Bandoeng 2 1 0 1 5- 6 2
3.Cheribon 2 0 0 2 2- 4 0
Midden-Java
[Oct 19, 1930]
Semarang 2-4 Tegal
[Nov 23, 1930]
Tegal n/p Pekalongan
[Mar 1]
Pekalongan 2-1 Semarang [at Go Ahead, Semarang, as H.N.V.B. rejected
the Pekalongan field]
1.Pekalongan 1 1 0 0 2- 1 2 Qualified
2.Semarang 1 0 0 1 1- 2 0
-.Tegal disqualified for contravening article 54 of regulations
Oost-Java
[Oct 19, 1930]
Soerabaja 6-1 Djokjakarta
[Nov 23, 1930]
Djokjakarta 0-4 Blitar
[Mar 22]
Blitar 1-4 Soerabaja
1.Soerabaja 2 2 0 0 10- 2 4 Qualified
2.Blitar 2 1 0 1 5- 4 2
3.Djokjakarta 2 0 0 2 1-10 0
Kampioenswedstrijden
NB: matches at Seteran, Semarang
[Apr 3]
Soerabaja 6-1 Pekalongan
[Apr 4]
Batavia 6-1 Pekalongan
[Apr 5]
Soerabaja 2-0 Batavia
Final Table:
1.Soerabaja 2 2 0 0 8- 1 4
2.Batavia 2 1 0 1 6- 3 2
3.Pekalongan 2 0 0 2 2-12 0
Friendly [Apr 6]
V.S.O. XI 3-1 Hwa Nan XI
Participating clubs (representing their cities): Bandoeng: Y.M.C. Batavia: U.M.S. Blitar: Tsing Nien Hui Djokjakarta:T.N.H. Cheribon: Y.N.H. Pekalongan: T.H.H. Semarang: Union Soerabaja: Tiong Hoa Voorwedstrijden West-Java [Oct 11] Batavia 3-1 Bandoeng [Nov 15] Bandoeng 4-3 Cheribon [Dec 13] Batavia 2-1 Cheribon 1.Batavia 2 2 0 0 5- 2 4 Qualified 2.Bandoeng 2 1 0 1 5- 6 2 3.Cheribon 2 0 0 2 4- 6 0 Midden-Java [Oct 11] Semarang 2-1 Pekalongan 1.Semarang 1 1 0 0 2- 1 2 Qualified 2.Pekalongan 1 0 0 1 1- 2 0 Oost-Java [Oct 11] Djokjakarta 0-2 Soerabaja [Nov 15] Blitar 2-3 Djokjakarta [Dec 13] Soerabaja 5-1 Blitar 1.Soerabaja 2 2 0 0 7- 1 4 Qualified 2.Djokjakarta 2 1 0 1 3- 4 2 3.Blitar 2 0 0 2 3- 8 0 Kampioenswedstrijden NB: matches at Deca-Park, Batavia [Mar 25] Batavia 2-2 Semarang [Mar 26] Soerabaja 7-0 Semarang [Mar 27] Batavia 3-3 Soerabaja 1.Soerabaja 2 1 1 0 10- 3 3 2.Batavia 2 0 2 0 5- 5 2 3.Semarang 2 0 1 1 2- 9 1 Friendly [Mar 28] V.B.O. XI 5-0 Hwa Nan West-Java XI
Participating clubs (representing their cities): Bandoeng: Y.M.C. Batavia: U.M.S. Blitar: H.C.T.N.H. Cheribon: Y.N.H. Pekalongan: T.H.H. Semarang: Union Soerabaja: Tiong Hoa West-Java [Oct 9] Bandoeng 4-2 Batavia Cheribon 0-2 Pekalongan [Nov 6] Bandoeng 5-3 Cheribon Batavia 3-2 Pekalongan [Dec 4] Pekalongan 5-0 Bandoeng Batavia 10-0 Cheribon 1.Pekalongan 3 2 0 1 9- 3 4 3.00 Qualified 2.Batavia 3 2 0 1 15- 6 4 2.50 Qualified 3.Bandoeng 3 2 0 1 9-10 4 0.90 4.Cheribon 3 0 0 3 3-17 0 Oost-Java [Oct 9] Soerabaja 4-0 Semarang [Nov 6] Semarang 3-2 Blitar [Dec 4] Blitar 1-6 Soerabaja 1.Soerabaja 2 2 0 0 10- 1 4 Qualified 2.Semarang 2 1 0 1 3- 6 2 Qualified 3.Blitar 2 0 0 2 3- 9 0 Final Tournament Voorwedstrijden Semarang 1-6 Soerabaja Batavia 5-0 Pekalongan Kampioenswedstrijden NB: matches in Soerabaja [Apr 14] Soerabaja 1-2 Pekalongan [Apr 15] Batavia 7-0 Semarang [Apr 16] Soerabaja 4-3 Batavia [Apr 17] Semarang 3-3 Pekalongan 1.Batavia 3 2 0 1 15- 4 4 3.75 2.Soerabaja 3 2 0 1 11- 6 4 1.83 3.Pekalongan 3 1 1 1 5- 9 3 4.Semarang 3 0 1 2 4-16 1
Participating clubs (representing their cities):
Bandoeng: Y.M.C.
Batavia: U.M.S.
Blitar: H.C.T.N.H.
Cheribon: Y.N.H.
Pekalongan: T.H.H.
Semarang: Union
Soerabaja: Tiong Hoa
West-Java
[Oct 15]
Batavia 3-2 Cheribon
Bandoeng 2-2 Pekalongan
[Nov 5]
Batavia 0-3 Pekalongan
Cheribon abd Bandoeng [abandoned at 1-2 with 3 minutes left]
[Nov 26]
Bandoeng 0-4 Batavia
Pekalongan 3-4 Cheribon
[Dec 10]
Cheribon 4-3 Bandoeng [replay Nov 5]
Final Table (Dec 11):
1.Batavia 3 2 0 1 7- 5 4 Qualified
2.Cheribon 3 2 0 1 10- 9 4 Qualified
3.Pekalongan 3 1 1 1 8- 6 3
4.Bandoeng 3 0 1 2 5-10 1
NB: on Dec 23, the N.I.V.B. suspended the V.B.O.; as the H.N.V.B. was an
associate member of the N.I.V.B., U.M.S. were disqualified and their
results annulled.
Final Table:
1.Cheribon 2 2 0 0 8- 6 4 Qualified
2.Bandoeng 2 0 1 1 5- 6 1 Playoff
Pekalongan 2 0 1 1 5- 6 1 Playoff
Playoff [Feb 24]
Bandoeng 0-1 Pekalongan
NB: Pekalongan qualified
Oost-Java
[Oct 15]
Blitar 0-0 Semarang
[Nov 5]
Semarang 3-4 Soerabaja
[Nov 26]
Soerabaja 11-1 Blitar
Final Table:
1.Soerabaja 2 2 0 0 15- 4 4 Qualified
2.Semarang 2 0 1 1 3- 4 1 Qualified
3.Blitar 2 0 1 1 1-11 1
Voorwedstrijden
[Dec 24]
Soerabaja 3-4 Semarang
[Mar 11]
Pekalongan 6-3 Cheribon
[Mar 18]
Pekalongan 1-1 Semarang
Kampioenswedstrijden
NB: in Bandoeng
[Mar 30]
Cheribon 1-0 Semarang
[Apr 1]
Soerabaja 7-1 Cheribon
[Apr 2]
Soerabaja 3-2 Pekalongan
Final Table:
1.Soerabaja 3 2 0 1 13- 7 4
2.Pekalongan 3 1 1 1 9- 7 3
3.Semarang 3 1 1 1 5- 5 3
4.Cheribon 3 1 0 2 5-13 2
Participating clubs (representing their cities):
Bandoeng: Y.M.C.
Batavia: U.M.S.
Blitar: H.C.T.N.H.
Djokjakarta:H.C.T.N.H.
Pekalongan: T.H.H.
Semarang: Union
Soerabaja: Tiong Hoa
Voorwedstrijden
[Feb 10]
Soerabaja 12-1 Blitar
[Mar 3]
Batavia abd Bandoeng [abandoned at 1-1 due to crowd trouble]
[Batavia apparently qualified]
Soerabaja abd Djokjakarta [abandoned at 0-1 due to unplayable pitch]
[Mar 17]
Soerabaja 9-2 Djokjakarta [replay Mar 3]
[Mar 31]
Semarang 2-5 Pekalongan
Kampioenswedstrijden
NB: matches at U.M.S.-veld, Batavia
[Apr 19]
Batavia 3-1 Pekalongan
[Apr 20]
Pekalongan 1-6 Soerabaja
[Apr 21]
Batavia 3-0 Soerabaja
1.Batavia 2 2 0 0 6- 1 4
2.Soerabaja 2 1 0 1 6- 4 2
3.Pekalongan 2 0 0 2 2- 9 0
NB: at the general meeting held at the final tournament, the H.N.V.B.
decided to follow most local federations on Java and withdrew from
the N.I.V.B.
Participating clubs (representing their cities): Batavia: U.M.S. Pekalongan: T.H.H. Soerabaja: Tiong Hoa Kampioenswedstrijden NB: matches at Tiong Hoa-veld, Soerabaja [Apr 10] Soerabaja 1-2 Pekalongan [Apr 11] Pekalongan 0-7 Batavia [Apr 12] Soerabaja 2-1 Batavia 1.Batavia 2 1 0 1 8- 2 2 4.00 2.Soerabaja 2 1 0 1 3- 3 2 1.00 3.Pekalongan 2 1 0 1 2- 8 2 0.25 Friendly [Apr 13] S.V.B. XI 2-1 Hwa Nan V.B. XI
Participating clubs (representing their cities): Bandoeng: Y.M.C. Batavia: U.M.S. Blitar: H.C.T.N.H. Cheribon: Y.N.H. Djokjakarta:T.H.H. Pekalongan: T.H.H. Semarang: Union Soerabaja: Tiong Hoa Qualifying Matches West-Java [Dec 25] Bandoeng 1-3 Batavia [Dec 26] Bandoeng 1-0 Cheribon [date?] Batavia - Cheribon NB: Batavia qualified Qualifying Matches Midden-Java (in Semarang) [Dec 25] Semarang 1-3 Pekalongan [Dec 26] Semarang 5-3 Djokjakarta [Dec 27] Djokjakarta 5-4 Pekalongan Final Table: 1.Pekalongan 2 1 0 1 7- 6 2 Qualified 2.Semarang 2 1 0 1 6- 6 2 3.Djokjakarta 2 1 0 1 8- 9 2 Qualifying Matches Oost-Java First Leg [Jan 3] Blitar 0-6 Soerabaja Second Leg [Jan 17] Soerabaja 11-0 Blitar Kampioenswedstrijden NB: matches at Tiong Hoa-veld, Soerabaja [Mar 26] Soerabaja 6-0 Pekalongan [Mar 27] Pekalongan 4-2 Batavia [Mar 28] Soerabaja 8-0 Batavia 1.Soerabaja 2 2 0 0 14- 0 4 2.Pekalongan 2 1 0 1 4- 8 2 3.Batavia 2 0 0 2 2-12 0 Friendly [Mar 29] S.V.B. XI 2-0 Hwa Nan V.B. XI
Participating clubs (representing their cities): Bandoeng: Y.M.C. (also reported as P.M.Y.) Batavia: U.M.S. Pekalongan: T.H.H. Soerabaja: Tiong Hoa Voorwedstrijden [Mar 20] Batavia 4-3 Bandoeng [Mar 27] Soerabaja 4-0 Pekalongan Kampioenswedstrijden NB: matches at U.M.S.-veld, Batavia [Apr 15] Bandoeng 2-6 Pekalongan [Apr 16] Soerabaja 2-0 Bandoeng [Apr 17] Batavia abd Soerabaja [abandoned at 1-3 due to fighting] [Apr 18] Batavia 2-0 Pekalongan Replay [Oct 7, 1939, Soerabaja] Soerabaja 4-2 Batavia 1.Soerabaja 3 3 0 0 10- 2 6 2.Batavia 3 2 0 1 8- 7 4 3.Pekalongan 3 1 0 2 6- 8 2 4.Bandoeng 3 0 0 3 5-12 0
Participating clubs (representing their cities): Bandoeng: Y.M.C. Batavia: U.M.S. Pekalongan: T.H.H. Soerabaja: Tiong Hoa Voorwedstrijden [Mar 18] Soerabaja 2-1 Pekalongan [void after withdrawal Soerabaja] [Mar 19] Batavia 3-1 Bandoeng [void after withdrawal Soerabaja] Kampioenswedstrijden NB: in Semarang; Soerabaja withdrew [Apr 7] Bandoeng 1-4 Pekalongan [Apr 8] Batavia 7-2 Bandoeng [Apr 9] Batavia 5-1 Pekalongan Final Table: 1.Batavia 2 2 0 0 12- 3 4 2.Pekalongan 2 1 0 1 5- 6 2 3.Bandoeng 2 0 0 2 3-11 0
Participating clubs (representing their cities):
Bandoeng: Y.M.C.
Batavia: U.M.S.
Pekalongan: T.H.H.
Semarang: Union
Soerabaja: Tiong Hoa
Qualifying Match [Dec 3]
Soerabaja 1-0 Semarang
Voorwedstrijden
[Dec 24]
Soerabaja abd Pekalongan [abandoned at 3-1 at half-time due to unplayable pitch]
Batavia 4-1 Bandoeng
[Mar 9]
Soerabaja 4-1 Pekalongan [replay]
Kampioenswedstrijden
NB: all matches at Deca-Park, Batavia
[Mar 22]
Pekalongan 6-1 Bandoeng
[Mar 23]
Bandoeng 1-5 Soerabaja
[Mar 24]
Batavia 1-1 Soerabaja
[Mar 25]
Batavia 1-0 Pekalongan
Final Table:
1.Soerabaja 3 2 1 0 10- 3 7 3.33
2.Batavia 3 2 1 0 6- 2 7 3.00
3.Pekalongan 3 1 0 2 7- 6 2
4.Bandoeng 3 0 0 3 3-15 0
NB: if Batavia would have beaten Pekalongan 2-0 or 6-1 in their last match,
they would have claimed the title
Participating clubs (representing their cities): Batavia: U.M.S. Pekalongan: T.H.H. Soerabaja: Tiong Hoa Kampioenswedstrijden NB: all matches in Batavia [Apr 15] Batavia 6-0 Pekalongan [Apr 16] Pekalongan 0-9 Soerabaja [Apr 17] Batavia 1-3 Soerabaja Final Table: 1.Soerabaja 2 2 0 0 12- 1 4 2.Batavia 2 1 0 1 7- 3 2 3.Pekalongan 2 0 0 2 0-15 0 Friendly [Apr 18] V.B.O. XI 4-4 Hwa Nan V.B. XI
Participating clubs (representing their cities): Bandung: Chung Hua Djakarta: U.M.S., Chung Hua Makassar: Excelsior Malang: Chung Hua Pekalongan: T.H.H. Semarang: C.H.T.C.S., Union Surabaja: Tiong Hoa Tegal: C.H.T.H. Qualifying Matches Voorwedstrijden [Feb 5] Pekalongan 1-2 Tegal U.M.S. 3-1 Chung Hua [defining Djakarta representatives] Union 3-4 C.H.T.C.S. [defining Semarang representatives] Surabaja 2-1 Malang Halve finales [Mar 4] Makassar 1-2 Surabaja Djakarta 3-1 Bandung Semarang 4-1 Tegal Kampioenswedstrijden NB: all matches at Tiong Hoa-terrein, Cannalaan, Surabaja [Apr 7] Surabaja 5-0 Semarang [Apr 8] Semarang 0-5 Djakarta [Apr 9] Surabaja 2-0 Djakarta Final Table: 1.Surabaja 2 2 0 0 7- 0 4 2.Djakarta 2 1 0 1 5- 2 2 3.Semarang 2 0 0 2 0-10 0
NB: first edition organised in Bandoeng (unclear whether it was held elsewhere before);
all matches at aloen-aloen Bandoeng.
[May 19]
Bandoeng 3-0 Semarang
Batavia 3-0 Soerabaja
[May 20]
Batavia 3-0 Semarang
Bandoeng 4-0 Soerabaja
[May 21]
Semarang 2-1 Soerabaja
Bandoeng 0-1 Batavia
Final Table:
1.Batavia 3 3 0 0 7- 0 6
2.Bandoeng 3 2 0 1 7- 1 4
3.Semarang 3 1 0 2 2- 7 2
4.Soerabaja 3 0 0 3 1- 9 0
Semifinals
[Apr 18]
Bond Mataram 1-1 S.I.V.B. [S.I.V.B. on lots]
[Apr 19]
V.I.J. 3-1 S.V.B.
Final [Apr 20]
V.I.J. 4-2 S.I.V.B.
Final Ranking:
1.V.I.J. (Batavia)
2.S.I.V.B. (Soerabaja)
NB: the S.V.B. were from Solo; the name presumably refers to the V.V.B.;
Bond Mataram refers to the Persatoean Sepakraga Mataram (Djokjakarta; later P.S.I.M.).
On 19 April the P.S.S.I. was officially founded. The above tournament is not
included among its official championships.
Final Tournament May 22-24 in Solo. [May 22] V.V.B. 1-4 P.S.I.M. [May 23] V.I.J. 5-1 P.S.I.M. [May 24] V.V.B. 1-3 V.I.J. Final Table: 1.V.I.J. 2 2 0 0 8- 2 4 (Batavia) 2.P.S.I.M. 2 1 0 1 5- 6 2 (Djokjakarta) 3.V.V.B. 2 0 0 2 2- 7 0 (Solo) NB: P.S.M. (aka Bond Mataram) renamed P.S.I.M.
Final Tournament May 14-16 in Batavia. [May 14] V.I.J. 6-2 P.S.M. [May 15] P.S.I.M. 1-0 P.S.M. [May 16] V.I.J. 1-2 P.S.I.M. Final Table: 1.P.S.I.M. 2 2 0 0 3- 2 4 (Djokjakarta) 2.V.I.J. 2 1 0 1 7- 4 2 (Batavia) 3.P.S.M. 2 0 0 2 2- 7 0 (Madioen)
Qualifying Stage Midden-Java [Nov 5] Persib 3-2 P.P.S.M. [Nov 6] Persib 1-0 P.S.I.S. Final Tournament Jun 2-5, 1933 in Surabaja. Persib 2-2 S.I.V.B. P.S.I.M. 0-2 Persib V.I.J. 3-1 P.S.I.M. S.I.V.B. 1-2 V.I.J. Final Ranking: 1.V.I.J. (Batavia) 2.Persib (Bandoeng) 3.S.I.V.B. (Soerabaja) 4.P.S.I.M. (Djokjakarta) NB: Persib were formed on 14 March 1933 as a merger of P.S.I.B. (formerly B.I.V.B.) and N.V.B.
Qualifying Stage Oost-Java
[Sep 16, 1933]
P.S.M. (Madioen) 6-1 Djombang
Final Tournament in Solo
[Jun 22]
Persis 5-0 P.S.M.
[Jun 23]
P.S.M. 1-4 V.I.J.
[Jun 24]
V.I.J. 2-2 S.I.V.B.
[Jun 25]
Persis 3-2 S.I.V.B.
Final Ranking:
1.V.I.J. (Batavia)
2.Persis (Solo)
3.S.I.V.B. (Soerabaja)
4.P.S.M. (Madioen)
NB: [PSSI 80] erroneously lists the venue of the tournament as Bandoeng
and its runners-up as Persib (Bandoeng).
Qualifying Stage Midden-Java P.P.S.M. 2-1 P.S.I.S. Qualifying Stage Oost-Java Final [Feb 9] P.S.M. (Madioen) 1-5 Persis Final Tournament in Semarang [Jun 8] Persis 7-1 P.P.S.M. [Jun 9] P.P.V.I.M. 5-0 P.P.S.M. [Jun 10] Persis 4-1 P.P.V.I.M. Final Table: 1.Persis 2 2 0 0 11- 2 4 (Solo) 2.P.P.V.I.M. 2 1 0 1 6- 4 2 (Meester Cornelis) 3.P.P.S.M. 2 0 0 2 1-12 0 (Magelang) NB: V.V.B. (Solo) renamed Persis; Meester Cornelis now Jatinegara (part of Jakarta)
Final Tournament in Bandoeng (Tegallega Sportpark) [May 30] Persib 7-1 P.S.I.S. [Jun 1] Persis 5-0 P.S.I.S. [Jun 2] Persib 0-2 Persis Final Table: 1.Persis 2 2 0 0 7- 0 4 (Solo) 2.Persib 2 1 0 1 7- 3 2 (Bandoeng) 3.P.S.I.S. 2 0 0 2 1-12 0 (Semarang)
Final Tournament [Apr 30, Bandoeng] Persib 2-1 P.S.I.T. [as friendly] [May 1, Bandoeng] P.S.I.M. 1-2 P.S.I.T. [May 2, Bandoeng] Persib 1-0 P.S.I.M. [May 9, Solo] Persis bt P.S.I.M. [May 15, Solo] Persis 1-1 P.S.I.T. [May 16, Solo] Persib 2-1 P.S.I.T. [May 17, Solo] Persis 0-1 Persib [att: 15,000] Final Table: 1.Persib 3 3 0 0 4- 1 6 (Bandoeng) 2.Persis 3 1 1 1 3 (Solo) 3.P.S.I.T. 3 1 1 1 4- 4 3 (Cheribon) 4.P.S.I.M. 3 0 0 3 0 (Djokjakarta) NB: V.I.J. (Batavia) did not enter
Qualifying Stage West-Java Known result [Feb 26] V.I.J. 5-2 Persitas (Tasikmalaja) NB: V.I.J. champions of West-Java Qualifying Stage Midden-Java Known result [Nov 1937, Gendongan] P.S.I.Sa. 1-1 K'Satrya (Sragen) Champions Midden-Java: P.S.I.B. (Poerwokerto) Qualifying Stage Oost-Java Known result [Dec 12] P.S.B.I. 8-0 R.E.N.S. (Bodjonegoro) NB: P.S.B.I. (Blitar) qualified to play S.I.V.B. (Soerabaja) Champions Oost-Java: S.I.V.B. Voorwedstrijden [May 7] V.I.J. 2-2 P.S.I.B. [date?] S.I.V.B. bt Persis NB: S.I.V.B. renamed Persibaja in May 1938. Final Stage [in Solo] [Jun 3] Persis 8-1 P.S.I.B. [HT: 3-0] [Jun 4] P.S.I.B. 0-5 Persibaja [HT: 0-3] [Jun 5] V.I.J. 4-0 Persibaja [HT: 1-0] [Jun 6] V.I.J. 3-1 Persis [HT: 1-1] Final Table: 1.V.I.J. 3 2 1 0 9- 3 5 (Batavia) 2.Persibaja 3 2 0 1 4 (Soerabaja) 3.Persis 3 1 0 2 2 (Solo) 4.P.S.I.B. 3 0 1 2 3-15 1 (Poerwokerto)
Final Stage [in Djokjakarta] [May 27] P.S.I.M. 2-0 Persib [May 28] Persis 3-0 Persib [May 29] Persis 2-2 P.S.I.M. Final Table: 1.Persis 2 1 1 0 5- 2 3 [ga: 2.5] (Solo) 2.P.S.I.M. 2 1 1 0 4- 2 3 [ga: 2.0] (Djokjakarta) 3.Persib 2 0 0 2 0- 5 0 (Bandoeng)
Qualifying Stage Oost-Java NB: Persis champions district V, Persibaja champions district VI Final First Leg [Dec 3, 1939] Persibaja 2-2 Persis Second Leg [Dec 31, 1939] Persis 3-0 Persibaja NB: Persis qualified for final stage Final Stage [May 10-13 in Solo] Persis 4-2 V.I.J. P.S.I.M. 3-2 V.I.J. Persis 4-2 P.S.I.M. Final Ranking: 1.Persis 2 2 0 0 8- 4 4 (Solo) 2.P.S.I.M. 2 1 0 1 5- 6 2 (Djokjakarta) 3.V.I.J. 2 0 0 2 4- 7 0 (Batavia)
Final Ranking: 1.Persis (Solo) 2.Persibaja (Soerabaja) 3.Persib (Bandoeng)
Final Ranking: 1.Persis (Solo) 2.Persibaja (Soerabaja)
Final Ranking:
1.Solo (Persis)
2.Djokjakarta (P.S.I.M.)
NB: held under Japanese occupation; the P.S.S.I. became part of a Japanese sports organisation
(Tai Iku Kai) and the teams at the 1943 tournament officially represented their cities and
not the corresponding city football federations.
Qualifying Tournament
NB: organised by P.O.R.I.
Djawa Barat
Persidja (Djakarta) awarded the championship after Persib (Bandung) refused to play off,
claiming there was no need for a playoff as they had defeated Persidja in a match in 1949.
Djawa Tengah
NB: tournament in Solo
[Jul 28]
P.S.I.S. 3-0 P.S.I.M.
[Jul 29]
Persis 1-3 P.S.I.S.
[Jul 30]
Persis 0-0 P.S.I.M.
Final Table:
1.P.S.I.S. 2 2 0 0 6- 1 4 (Semarang)
2.Persis 2 0 1 1 1- 3 1 (Solo)
3.P.S.I.M. 2 0 1 1 0- 3 1 (Jogjakarta)
Champions: P.S.I.S. (Semarang)
Djawa Timur
[Jul 29, Stadion Tambaksari, Surabaja]
Persibaja 3-0 Persema (Malang)
[Seeman 1-0, Ing Hien 2-0, Seeman 3-0; half-time 1-0]
[Persibaja: Bing Mo Heng; Koo Tiong Kiem, W.Manginsela; Kees Elmensdorp, J.Walandouw, Saderan;
Willy Stalder, Tee San Liong, Liem Tiong Hoo, Bhe Ing Hien, Hanny Seeman;
Persema: Gwan Liep; Bram Kwee, Lanting; V.d. Togt, V.d. Endt, Tobing;
King Thong, Swie Han, Thiam Gwan, De Bruijckere, Sudarmo]
Champions: Persibaja (Surabaja)
Final Tournament
NB: tournament in Semarang; organised by P.S.S.I. (following reformation of P.O.R.I.);
the P.S.S.I. (Persatuan Sepakbola Seluruh Indonesia) was officially (re)formed on
2 Sep 1950 under the stipulation that the organisation was not a continuation of
the pre-war P.S.S.I. but coincidentally shared its name.
P.O.R.I. had originally intended to include P.S.M. (Makassar) and P.S.M.S. (Medan)
as participants (announced mid-July) but this did not materialise.
Original schedule (as announced on Aug 30)
[Sep 2]
P.S.I.S. - Persidja
[Sep 3]
Persibaja - Persidja
[Sep 4]
P.S.I.S. - Persibaja
However, Persib showed up with a team insisting they were Djawa Barat champions and the
P.S.S.I. decided to change the set-up to knock-out (apparently scheduling Persib to
play Persibaja on the final day even before the match on Sep 3 was played).
Semifinals
[Sep 2]
P.S.I.S. 0-2 Persib
[Witarsa 0-1, Jahja (pen) 0-2; half-time 0-1]
[PSIS: Van Donk; Beng Gwee, Kamdi; Ngo Liok, Tik Tjwan, Khee Sien;
Sugiono, Supardi, Hok Tjwan, Tjin Hiap, Sulud;
Persib: Smith; Leepel, Wagiman; Nandang, Jahja, Anas;
Amung, Tanu, Anda Ratna, Mucharam, Aang Witarsa;
ref: Mardanung (Solo)]
[Sep 3]
Persibaja 6-1 Persidja
[Stalder 1-0, San Liong 2-0, Stalder (pen) 3-0, Ing Hien 4-0, Sumo 4-1,
Trouerbach 5-1, Ing Hien 6-1; half-time 3-0]
[Persibaja: Bing Mo Heng; Ing Hiong, W.Manginsela; Kees Elmensdorp, J.Walandouw, Saderan;
Willy Stalder, Tee San Liong, Bhe Ing Hien, Aldjuffri, Trouerbach;
Persidja: Parengkuang; Kutjid, Kavid; Murad, Sudjadja, Nurhusin;
Supardjono, Abidin, Sumo, Ramlan, Hilman]
Final [Sep 4]
Persib 2-0 Persibaja
[Anda 1-0, Anda 2-0; half-time 1-0]
[line-ups not available but presumably identical to semifinals]
Final Ranking:
1.Persib (Bandung)
2.Persibaja (Surabaja)
NB: Saderan (P.O.R.I.S., Surabaja) was chosen as best player of the tournament.
NB: the above tournament is not included among the official P.S.S.I. championships.
Oost-Sumatra (Gouverneur van Suchtelenbeker) | West-Sumatra (S.W.K. Stedentoernooi)
The Gouverneur van Suchtelenbeker was a silver cup made in Djokjakarta and offered to the O.S.V.B. (Oost Sumatra Voetbal Bond) by the new governor of the Oostkust van Sumatra in November 1933. Inspired by the popular stedenwedstrijden on Java, the O.S.V.B. offered it to the winners of a competition of city selections, which was organised on five occasions before World War II.
1934 Pematang Siantar 1936 Medan 1936/37 Medan 1938 Bindjei 1940 Pematang Siantar
Organised by the M.V.B. (Minangkabau Voetbalbond), held on three occasions before World War II.
1939 Padang 1940 Padang 1941 Sawah Loento
Introduced in 1939 in order to facilitate the formation of a Java selection, but only held once as the event was no great success (in particular the East Java selection was severely weakened because of the non-availability of most players from the two strongest Soerabaja clubs, H.B.S. and Tiong Hoa) and the relevance of forming a Java selection had become minimal because of the start of World War II in Europe.
NB: all matches at U.N.I.-terrein (Nieuw-Houtrust), Bandoeng
[Dec 23]
Midden-Java 4-4 Oost-Java
[Elmensdorp (pen) 0-1, Berkenbosch 0-2, Van der Weide 0-3, Harings 1-3,
Soemarto 2-3, Van der Weide 2-4, Poo Hok Soei 3-4, Harings 4-4;
half-time 1-3]
[MJ: Nix; Achmad, Ong Ing Hok; Musch, Poo Hok Soei, Faulhaber;
Butteling, V.d. Zande, Harings, Soemarto, King Gwan;
OJ: Telusa; Van Kan, Bongers; Kruythoff, Samuels, Elmensdorp;
Berkenbosch, Kalaty, Van der Weide, Hway Gie, Blogg;
ref: Daerden]
[Dec 24]
West-Java 2-1 Midden-Java
[Vermandel 1-0, Lübach 2-0, De Leeuw 2-1; half-time 2-0]
[WJ: De Leeuw; Dorst, Denkelaar; Remmers, Deibel, Brugman;
Taihitu, Pattiwael, Vermandel, Lübach, V.d. Giessen;
MJ: Nix (Brosky); Achmad, Ong Ing Hok; Musch, Poo Hok Soei, Faulhaber;
Butteling, V.d. Zande, Harings, Soemarto, King Gwan;
ref: De Graaf]
[Dec 25]
West-Java 2-2 Oost-Java
[Hway Gie 0-1, Pattiwael 1-1, Kalaty 1-2, V.d. Giessen 2-2;
half-time 0-0]
[WJ: De Leeuw; Dorst, Brugman; Breitschaft, Deibel, Remmers;
Taihitu, Pattiwael, Vermandel, Lübach, V.d. Giessen;
OJ: Telusa; Van Kan, Samuels; Pen Hwa, Elmensdorp, Ie Khiam;
Berkenbosch, Kalaty, Van der Weide, Hway Gie, Blogg;
ref: Van Beekom]
Final Table:
1.West-Java 2 1 1 0 4- 3 3
2.Oost-Java 2 0 2 0 6- 6 2
3.Midden-Java 2 0 1 1 5- 6 1
Test Match [Dec 26]
Bandoeng 6-0 N.I.V.U. XI
[Zegers 1-0, Saris 2-0, Vermandel 3-0, Zegers 4-0, Zegers 5-0, Monterie 6-0;
half-time 3-0]
[VBBO: Jansen; Gerritsen, Breitschaft; De Gelder, Deibel, Remmers;
Monterie, Zegers, Vermandel, Saris, Berk;
NIVU: Nix; Musch, Brugman; Ong Ing Hok, Poo Hok Soei, V.d. Zande;
Taihitu, Pattiwael, Harings, Lübach, King Gwan]
Many thanks to Allard Doesburg, Budi Gustaman, Novan Herfiyana, Laszlo Scheltens and Adri van Veen
Sources:
newspapers (mostly available through
Delpher):
Algemeen handelsblad voor Nederlands-Indië,
Het Bataviaasch nieuwsblad, Het dagblad, Deli courant, De expres,
De Indische courant, De Javabode, Kaoem Moeda, De koerier,
De locomotief, Nederlandsche Sport, Nieuwe courant,
Het nieuws van den dag voor Nederlands-Indië,
Het nieuwsblad voor Sumatra, De Preanger-bode, Palembangsch Sportblad,
Het Soerabajaasch Handelsblad, Sumatra-bode,
Sumatra post, De vrije pers,
and Weekblad voor Indië;
magazines: [spo];
articles and books:
[Bay 10],
[Ber 34],
[Col 00],
[FIF 31],
[PSS 80],
[Sto 98];
websites:
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