Persegi Gianyar
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Persegi Gianyar is a defunct Indonesia
Indonesia
Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...

n football
Football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

 club based in Gianyar, Bali
Bali
Bali is an Indonesian island located in the westernmost end of the Lesser Sunda Islands, lying between Java to the west and Lombok to the east...

. They used to play in the top division in Indonesian football, the Liga Indonesia
Liga Indonesia
The Indonesian football league system is a series of league system for association football clubs in Indonesia. Since 1994, Liga Indonesia is the league competition featuring association football clubs, as a result of two existing top flight football leagues merger: Perserikatan and Galatama...

. Their home stadium is Kapten i Wayan Dipta Stadium
Kapten i Wayan Dipta Stadium
Kapten I Wayan Dipta Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Gianyar, Bali Indonesia. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is used as the home stadium for Bali Persegi FC. The stadium has a capacity of 25,000 people....

 (now home to Bali FC
Bali Persegi FC
Bali FC is an Indonesian football club based in Gianyar Regency.-History:Bali FC, formed in 2006 is a merger of football clubs from Bali, such as Persegi Gianyar, Perseden Denpasar, Persekaba Kabupaten Badung and Perst Tabanan...

). The club hit financial difficulties in 2005 and has decided to discontinue its run. This led to an opportunity for other clubs from Bali to merge and form a club using Persegi Gianyar's license to compete in the Liga Indonesia. Local clubs such as Perseden Denpasar, Persekaba Badung and Perst Tabanan
Perst Tabanan
Perst stand for Persatuan Sepakbola Tabanan . Perst Tabanan is an Indonesian football club based in Tabanan Regency, Bali. Club played at Liga Indonesia Third Division.-External links:* Liga-Indonesia.co.id...

merged with Persegi Gianyar to form a new club called Bali FC.
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