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Bandung United F.C.

Indonesian association football club

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ64685261 ↗
Source-derived summary

Bandung United Football Club is an Indonesian football club based in Bandung, West Java that competes in Liga 4, the fourth tier of Indonesian football. The club was founded in 2019 after the takeover of Blitar United by PT. Persib Bandung Bermartabat and its subsequent relocation to Bandung. It is the feeder club of Persib Bandung and holds its home matches at Siliwangi Stadium.

History

Bandung United was formed in 2019 after PT. Persib Bandung Bermartabat (PBB) bought Blitar United's license and relocated their homebase to Bandung, making it the feeder club of Persib Bandung. In its first season, the club finished 12th in the West Region of Liga 2, sending it down to Liga 3 where it will compete with fellow Persib satellite team, Maung Anom.

Players

Current squad

As of 12 May 2021

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

Editorial summary

“Bandung United F.C.” enters the record as indonesian association football club. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Bandung, United and Indonesian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewMost valuable as an event-and-institution map that identifies actors, dates and record creators for deeper historical inquiry. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2019, 2021—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Bandung, United and Indonesian.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Bandung United F.C.” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Bandung, United and Indonesian provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 29, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q64685261. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2019 and 2021.

Critical limits

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This entry incorporates text from “Bandung United F.C.” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.