Draft:Mitra Surabaya F.C.

Mitra Surabaya
Full nameMitra Surabaya Football Club
Founded1997; 27 years ago (1997)
GroundPoral Stadium
Surabaya, East Java
Capacity2,000
CoachIlham Bintang
LeagueLiga 3
2021Group stage, (in East Java zone)
Current season

Mitra Surabaya Football Club is an Indonesian football club based in Surabaya, East Java. This team competes in the Liga 3 East Java zone.

History edit

Mitra Surabaya was founded and trained by former players from the Galatama era club, namely NIAC Mitra which disbanded in 1999 because it was bought by a businessman from Kalimantan which later became Mitra Kukar.[1] One of the famous former Mitra Surabaya players who was a coach of Mitra Surabaya is Mursyid Effendi who is also a former player of Persebaya Surabaya.

With the sale of the NIAC Mitra club which was headquartered in Surabaya in 1999, then former players from the Mitra Surabaya club, which existed in the 1990s, founded an soccer school called SSB Mitra Surabaya, whose address in Lidah Wetan, Surabaya who competed and trained at Poral Stadium, Surabaya. As SSB Mitra Surabaya developed, its membership was registered with the Asprov PSSI East Java.[2]

References edit

  1. ^ Sejarah Mitra Kukar FC berawal dari Mitra Surabaya. Website resmi Mitra Kukar. Diakses tanggal 15/11/2019
  2. ^ Profil Mitra Surabaya FC