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Gresik United
Full name	Gresik United Football Club
Nickname(s)	Laskar Joko Samudro ; (Joko Samudro Warriors) ; Kebo Giras ; (The Mad Buffalo)
Short name	GRE
Founded	2 December 2005; 19 years ago
Ground	Gelora Joko Samudro Stadium;
Capacity	40,000
Owner	PT Gresik Usaha Sejahtera
CEO	Muhammad Allan
Manager	Toriqi Fajerin
Coach	Djadjang Nurdjaman
League	Liga 2
2023–24	Liga 2/Championship Round (Group Z), 2nd
Website	gresikunited.com
Home colours	Away colours
	Current season

Gresik United Football Club, commonly known as GUFC, is an Indonesian professional football club based in Gresik, East Java. They currently compete in Liga 2, after promotion from Liga 3.

History

The club was founded as Petrokimia Putra Gresik, which was established on May 20, 1988. The club was funded by the fertilizer company, PT Petrokimia Gresik, which has been active in the Liga Indonesia Premier Division for more than 15 years. Petrokimia Putra competed in Galatama, which at the time was a professional football league in Indonesia. Many big clubs from Galatama that were once in the same class with Petrokimia Putra are now already defunct, such as Krama Yudha Tiga Berlian, Bandung Raya, Warna Agung, Pardedetex Medan, Assyabaab Surabaya, Perkesa 1978, BPD Jateng, Yanita Utama, Makassar Utama, and Indonesia Muda. The clubs which are still surviving until now are Arema, Barito Putera, and Semen Padang and some of them now have their names changed, Niac Mitra now is known as Mitra Kukar, Pelita Jaya changed their name so many times until their recent current name, Madura United. PKT Bontang became Bontang FC and Petrokimia Putra merged with Persegres United and became Gresik United.^[1]

When they first entered Galatama, Gresik already had Persegres Gresik playing in the same division. In fact, some of the first batch of Petrokimia Putra players were Persegres alumni. At that time, the enthusiasm of the people of Gresik was more inclined to Persegres than to Petrokimia Putra. Some of Petrokimia Putra's first batch of players who graduated from Persegres, including Sasono Handito, Ferril Hattu, Rubianto, Reno Latupeirissa, Karyanto, Abdul Muis, Masrukan, Lutfi, Hasan Maghrobi, Derry Krisyanto, and many others.^[1]

When the first edition of Liga Indonesia Premier Division was held in 1994–95, Petrokimia Putra was given with title "Champion without trophy". Because, in the final at the Gelora Bung Karno Stadium, they lost to Persib Bandung with a score of 0–1. In fact, in that match, Petrokimia scored the first goal through Jacksen F. Tiago. However, the referee annulled for no apparent reason.^[1]

Petrokimia Putra became the champion of 2002 Liga Indonesia Premier Division after beating Persita Tangerang at the final by a score 2–1. This achievement broke the hegemony of big city clubs in the main row of national football. Usually the league champions are won by teams from big cities. Unfortunately, in the next season, Petrokimia was relegated to Liga Indonesia First Division.^[1] They qualified for the 2003 ASEAN Club Championship, which is the first edition of the Southeast Asia competition. This season they qualified to semi-final after defeating S.League club Singapore Armed Forces with a score of 3–2.^[2]

On 2 December 2005 as a merger between two clubs from Gresik, which were Petrokimia Putra and Persegres Gresik. So Gresik United was established to replace Petrokimia Putra and Persegres, who once made City of Gresik the champion of Ligina.^[3]

With their fanatical supporters, Ultras Gresik is famous for its noise when the club competes and creativity in its actions. Their identity was removed (2012 - 2019) with the addition of the identity Persegres in their first name (Persegres Gresik United) by the management who was said to be an investor at the time. in 2017, they played in 2017 Liga 1 and only managed to finish in the last position of the Liga 1 standings by only collecting 10 points from 34 games (2 wins and 4 draws). With that result, Gresik United were relegated to Liga 2.^[4]

In 2018 Liga 2, they again experienced the same thing, where they only finished in 10th place out of 12 teams in the East Region of Liga 2, so they were relegated two consecutive seasons to Liga 3.^[5] Until the 2021 season, Gresik United are still in the lowest tier of Liga 3. and in the 2021 Liga 3 East Java zone, they finished in 3rd position out of 69 clubs and they qualified for the National Round.^[6]

Players

As of December 2024^[7]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
1	GK	IDN	Dikri Yusron
2	DF	IDN	Ade Kristiano
3	DF	IDN	Joko Supriyanto
4	DF	IDN	Samsul Arifin
7	MF	IDN	Rossy Noprihanis
9	FW	IDN	Ivan Syahdana
10	MF	BRA	Renan Silva (captain)
13	DF	IDN	Soni Setiawan
14	MF	IDN	Fadil Sausu
15	DF	IDN	Airlangga Mutamasiqdina
16	MF	IDN	Burhan Afiludin
17	MF	IDN	Fahmi Al-Ayyubi
21	DF	IDN	Iswahyudi Ardinata
22	MF	IDN	Ibnu Hajar
23	DF	UZB	Azamat Abdullayev


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
25	FW	IDN	Kahar Kalu
26	GK	IDN	Ulul Arham
27	DF	IDN	Putra Pradananta
34	MF	IDN	Guntur Triaji
38	DF	IDN	Ridho Al Ikhsan
39	MF	IDN	Egi Regiansyah
46	FW	IDN	Wahyu Agong
57	MF	IDN	Akbar Firmansyah
66	MF	IDN	Dicky Kurniawan
71	GK	IDN	Visal Akbar
85	MF	IDN	Dian Ardiansyah
92	FW	BRA	Jose Wilkson
96	MF	IDN	Didan Paulista
—	DF	IDN	Faris Abdul Hafizh (on loan from Persib Bandung)
—	MF	IDN	Alif Jaelani

Coaching staff

Position	Staff
Team Manager	Toriqi Fajerin
Head coach	Djadjang Nurdjaman
Assistant coach	Andik Ardiansyah
Physical Coach	Dimas Agung
Goalkeeper coach	Dedy Sutanto

Honours

Liga Indonesia Premier Division
- Champions (1): 2002^[8]

Continental record

AFC Competitions

Season	Competition	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
1995	Asian Cup Winners' Cup	Second round	Rajapracha UCOM FC	3–2	4–5	7–7 (a)
1995	Asian Cup Winners' Cup	Quarter finals	Bellmare Hiratsuka	1–1	0–6	1–7
2002–03	AFC Champions League	Qualifying round	Shanghai Shenhua	3–1	1–5	4–6

AFF Competitions

Season	Competition	Round	Club	Home	Away
2003	ASEAN Club Championship	Group A	Samart United	2–0	1st
		Quarter Final	Singapore Armed Forces	3–2 (a.e.t)
		Semi Final	Kingfisher East Bengal	1–1 (p) 6–7
		3rd Place Playoff	Perak FA	3–0	3rd place