2021 Menpora Cup

PT Liga Indonesia Baru (LIB) decided that only 18 teams that participated in the 2020 Liga 1 could join this tournament. Previously, two Liga 2 teams, PSMS and Sriwijaya, were invited. However, their participation was canceled after PT LIB held a virtual meeting.^[6] Persipura decided not to take part in the tournament which led to only 17 teams participating.^[7]

The draw of the tournament was held on 8 March 2021. Eighteen teams were divided into four groups, the first two groups contain five teams, while the rest contain only four teams.^[8] Four teams, Persija, Persib, Arema, and Persebaya, were distributed to separate groups to ensure they do not meet each other in order to mitigate security risks from travelling fans of these rivalling teams.^[9] The draw resulted in the following groups:^[10]

Four venues in four cities on Java Island were selected for the tournament.

2021 Menpora Cup Venues Surakarta Malang Bandung Sleman
Surakarta	Malang	Bandung	Sleman
Manahan Stadium	Kanjuruhan Stadium	Jalak Harupat Stadium	Maguwoharjo Stadium
Capacity: 20,000	Capacity: 42,449	Capacity: 27,000	Capacity: 31,700

The regulations were as follows:^[11]

• Each team might register 30 players and did not require bringing all players to the stadium.
• Teams must register three goalkeepers.
• Player registration started on 9 March 2021 until one day before of each group's first match.
• Each team allowed to register four foreign players, including one slot for a player from AFC countries.
• Teams could only register a maximum of 10 officials with eight people allowed to sit on the bench.
• Each match was held for 90 minutes by adding a cooling break in the 30th and 75th minutes. The duration of the cooling break was 3 minutes and would be added to the extra time at the end of each round.
• Each team was allowed to substitute a maximum of six players on three occasions.
• There were additional substitutions when entering the knock-out stage. When the match was drawn for up to 90 minutes, then in the extra round, each team was allowed to add one substitution.

In the quarter-finals, extra time would not be played, and a match would go straight to a penalty shoot-out to determine the winner.^[12] In the semi-finals and finals, the away goals rule would not be applied, and a penalty shoot-out would be used if necessary (no extra time was also played).^[12][14]

All times were local, WIB (UTC+7).

0–0 on aggregate. Persija won 4–3 on penalties.

Persib won 3–2 on aggregate.

Persija won 4–1 on aggregate.

There were 96 goals scored in 39 matches, for an average of 2.46 goals per match.

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal