Bintang Timur Surabaya Futsal Club
association futsal club in Indonesia
Bintang Timur Futsal Club Surabaya, commonly known as Bintang Timur Surabaya or abbreviated as BTS, is an Indonesian professional futsal club based in Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia. The club competes in the Indonesia Pro Futsal League (PFL), the top tier of Indonesian professional futsal.
BTS is widely regarded as the most successful futsal club in Indonesian history, having won five consecutive Pro Futsal League titles from 2021–22 through 2025–26, as well as the inaugural 2022 AFF Futsal Cup, becoming the first Indonesian club to claim that title. As the 2025–26 PFL champions, BTS will represent Indonesia and Asia at the 2026 Intercontinental Futsal Cup in Pato Branco, Paraná, Brazil.
History
Foundation
Bintang Timur Surabaya was founded on 13 July 2009 in Surabaya, East Java. The club is owned and chaired by Dimas Bagus Kurniawan, who previously served as head coach from 2015 to 2017 and has since been active as a manager of the Indonesia national futsal team.
In its early years, the club competed in the lower divisions of Indonesian futsal, gradually building its identity around Bhaskara Futsal Arena in Surabaya as its home ground.
Rise to dominance (2017–2022)
BTS first attracted national attention with a third-place finish in the 2016–17 Pro Futsal League, and again in 2019–20. The club began its ascent toward the top of Indonesian futsal in the 2021–22 season, finishing as champions for the first time under head coach Héctor Souto — clinching the PFL title with an unbeaten nine-match winning streak.
In 2022, BTS achieved an unprecedented double.
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