Suwon FC (Korean: 수원 FC; Hanja: 水原 FC) is a South Korean professional football club based in Suwon, that competes in the K League 1, the South Korea's top professional league. They play their home games at Suwon Stadium.
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| Full name | Suwon Football Club 수원시민프로축구단 | |||
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| Founded | 2003[1] | |||
| Ground | Suwon Stadium | |||
| Capacity | 11,808 | |||
| Owner | Suwon Government | |||
| Chairman | Lee Jae-joon (Mayor of Suwon) | |||
| Manager | Kim Eun-jung | |||
| League | K League 1 | |||
| 2023 | K League 1, 11th of 12 | |||
| Website | https://suwonfc.com/ | |||
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History
editEarly years: semi-professional
editSuwon city government decided to create a semi-professional level football club that would link school-level football clubs within the city and Suwon Samsung Bluewings, which is a professional club based in the city. On 15 March 2003, Suwon City Football Club was officially formed. The club appointed Kim Chang-kyum as their manager and joined the semi-professional Korea National League, which was then called the K2 League.
They won their first trophy in 2004 by winning the Korean President's Cup National Football Tournament. Slowly, they rose to strong contenders in the Korea National League as they reached the play-off on four occasions between 2005 and 2009, although they failed to lift the trophy on all four occasions. Finally, in the 2010 season, they became the league champions after beating Daejeon Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power 2–1 on aggregate in the final. Manager Kim Chang-kyum left the team after the 2011 season as his contract expired and Cho Deok-je, who had been managing the club's youth team, took over his place.
Suwon FC era
editOn 9 December 2012, it was officially announced that the team would become fully professional. The club's name was also changed to Suwon FC and got an approval to join the professional K League. Suwon FC joined the second-tier K League Challenge in the 2013 season. Their debut season as a professional club was successful, as they finished fourth in the league and became the only K League Challenge club to reach the quarter-finals in the FA Cup.
The 2015 season was a milestone for the club. After finishing the regular season in third place, Suwon FC proceeded to the K League Challenge play-offs in which they eliminated Seoul E-Land and Daegu FC.[2] In the promotion-relegation playoffs, Suwon then defeated top division side Busan IPark 3–0 on aggregate and won the promotion to the 2016 K League Classic.[3]
Players
editCurrent squad
edit- As of 13 March 2024[4]
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
Managers
edit| No. | Name | From | To | Season(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
1
|
 Kim Chang-kyum
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2003/03/15 | 2011/11/14 | 2003–2011 |
2
|
Cho Deok-je
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2011/11/15 | 2017/08/26 | 2012–2017 |
| C | Cho Jong-hwa
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2017/08/26 | 2017/10/12 | 2017 |
3
|
Kim Dae-eui
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2017/10/12 | 2019/10/29 | 2017–2019 |
| C | Lee Kwan-woo
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2019/10/30 | 2019/11/13 | 2019 |
4
|
Kim Do-kyun
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2019/11/14 | 2023/12/12 | 2020–2023 |
5
|
Kim Eun-jung
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2023/12/20 | 2024– |
Honours
editLeague
editCup
edit- National League Championship
- National Sports Festival
- Runners-up (3): 2006, 2007, 2011
- Gyeonggido Sports Festival
- Winners (8): 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2011, 2012
- Runners-up (1): 2010
- President's Cup
- Winners (2): 2004, 2007
Season-by-season record
edit| Season | Division | Teams | P | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Position | Korean FA Cup | Top scorer (league goals) |
Manager |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 2 | 8 | 35 | 13 | 8 | 14 | 53 | 51 | +2 | 47 | 4th | Quarter-final | Park Jong-chan (11) |
Cho Deok-je
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| 2014 | 2 | 10 | 36 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 52 | 49 | +3 | 48 | 6th | Round of 16 | Jung Min-woo (8) Kim Han-won (8) |
Cho Deok-je
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| 2015 | 2 | 11 | 40 | 18 | 11 | 11 | 64 | 54 | +10 | 65 | 3rd 
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Third round |  Japa (19) |
Cho Deok-je
|
| 2016 | 1 | 12 | 38 | 10 | 9 | 19 | 40 | 58 | –18 | 39 | 12th 
|
Round of 32 | Lee Seung-hyun (6) |
Cho Deok-je
|
| 2017 | 2 | 10 | 36 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 42 | 48 | –6 | 45 | 6th | Third round | Baek Sung-dong (8) |
Cho Deok-je Cho Jong-hwa (C) Kim Dae-eui
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| 2018 | 2 | 10 | 36 | 13 | 3 | 20 | 29 | 46 | –17 | 42 | 7th | Round of 32 | Fernando Viana (6) |
Kim Dae-eui
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| 2019 | 2 | 10 | 36 | 11 | 10 | 15 | 49 | 55 | –6 | 43 | 8th | Round of 32 |  Chisom Egbuchulam (18) |
Kim Dae-eui Lee Kwan-woo (C)
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| 2020 | 2 | 10 | 27 | 17 | 3 | 7 | 52 | 28 | +24 | 54 | 2nd
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Round of 16 |  An Byong-jun (20) |
Kim Do-kyun
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| 2021 | 1 | 12 | 38 | 14 | 9 | 15 | 53 | 57 | –4 | 51 | 5th | Third round |  Lars Veldwijk (18) |
Kim Do-kyun
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| 2022 | 1 | 12 | 38 | 13 | 9 | 16 | 56 | 63 | –7 | 48 | 7th | Third round | Lee Seung-woo (14) |
Kim Do-kyun
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| 2023 | 1 | 12 | 38 | 8 | 9 | 21 | 44 | 76 | –32 | 33 | 11th | Third round | Lee Seung-woo (10) |
Kim Do-kyun
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See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Official Club Profile at K League Website Archived 2014-04-29 at the Wayback Machine (in Korean)
- ^ "Summary – 2015 K League 2 – Soccerway". soccerway.com. Retrieved 21 November 2022.
- ^ "Suwon soars to K-League Classic". koreajoongangdaily.joins.com. 6 December 2015. Retrieved 21 November 2022.
- ^ "선수소개". suwonfc.com (in Korean). Suwon FC. Retrieved 13 March 2024.
External links
edit
- Official website (in Korean)
