User:Wira rhea/Bali United F.C. season

The 2023–24 season is the ninth season in the history of Bali United Football Club and the club's eighth consecutive season in the top flight of Indonesian football. In addition to the domestic league, Bali United will also participate in this season's editions of the AFC Champions League. The season covers the period from 1 June 2023 to 31 May 2024.

Pre-season and friendlies
Bali United received an invitation to a friendly match from Persebaya in the context of the Surabaya's 730th anniversary on 28 May 2023. Then organized a friendly against Arema and Dewa United behind closed doors in Kapten I Wayan Dipta Stadium.

AFC Club Competition play-off
Due to the change of AFC competition dates to an autumn–spring format, the winners of the last two seasons of Liga 1 (Bali United as 2021–22 champions and PSM as 2022–23 champions) competed in an additional two-legged play-off to determine the allocation of AFC competition slots. Bali United won the play-off by defeating PSM 5–4 on penalties after 2–2 draw on aggregate. Therefore, Bali United will compete in the preliminary round of the 2023–24 AFC Champions League.

Liga 1
The league season began with a home loss against PSS on 1 July. Ricky Cawor scored in the early second half for PSS to give Bali their third consecutive defeat to PSS since last season. Bali then suffered another defeat to Borneo Samarinda, the first time they had started a league campaign with consecutive losses since the 2017 season. Privat Mbarga scored first before Terens Puhiri and a brace from Matheus Pato turn things around for Borneo.

Group stage
As one of the losers in the Champions League preliminary round, Bali entered the AFC Cup group stage. This was their fifth AFC Cup campaign. They entered the competition in the group stage, which was drawn on 24 August 2023, with Bali in Pot 2 ASEAN Zone along with Macarthur and Hougang United. They are drawn into Group G with Malaysian club Terengganu, Philippines representative Stallion Laguna and Australian champions Central Coast Mariners. The meetings with all of clubs in this group are Bali's first against teams. The group stage will begin on 20 September and will be concluded on 13 December 2023.

Club officials
Brazilian coach, Stefano Cugurra is resuming his duties as head coach in his fifth season with the club. On 16 May 2023, Stefan Keeltjes is appointed as the new assistant coach. Followed by Stefano Implagliazzo, who become the new physical coach of Bali United.

Appearances and goals
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Disciplinary record
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