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FC Seoul is a football club based in Seoul, South Korea. It is currently owned by GS Sports, a subsidiary of GS Group. The club is usually considered a powerhouse in the K-League, with the notorious financial backing of the GS Group. The club disclosed its three-year contract with Senol Günes, a former Turkish national manager who lead the side to the semi-final at the 2002 FIFA World Cup and 2003 FIFA Confederations Cup, on 8 December 2006.
club was formed in December 1983, and started out in 1984 as Lucky-Goldstar Hwangso, owned and financially supported by the LG Group (then Lucky-Goldstar Group), with Chungcheong region as its franchise.
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FC Seoul is a football club based in Seoul, South Korea. It is currently owned by GS Sports, a subsidiary of GS Group. The club is usually considered a powerhouse in the K-League, with the notorious financial backing of the GS Group. The club disclosed its three-year contract with Senol Günes, a former Turkish national manager who lead the side to the semi-final at the 2002 FIFA World Cup and 2003 FIFA Confederations Cup, on 8 December 2006.
History
Founding
The club was formed in December 1983, and started out in 1984 as Lucky-Goldstar Hwangso, owned and financially supported by the LG Group (then Lucky-Goldstar Group), with Chungcheong region as its franchise. In the inaugural season, the club finished seventh out of the eight sides. The club fared better in 1985 when they won the Championship with the help of Thai international Piyapong Pue-On, who was the top goalscorer, as well as the league leader in assists.
Move to Seoul and then to Anyang
At the start of 1990 season, the K-League, worried about financial stability of clubs, invited number of clubs to play in Seoul, the capital and the most populous city in South Korea. Thus, the Lucky-Goldstar Hwangso moved to Dongdaemun Stadium in Seoul at the beginning of 1990. The move proved to be a very good one, as the club finished the year as champions of K-League. The club changed its name to LG Cheetahs in 1991 after LG Twins, a professional baseball team owned by LG Group. After several seasons in Seoul, the club was forced to move in 1996, as part of K-League's decision to create strong regional basis for each club. For clubs located in Seoul, this meant a forced move, as the K-League banned clubs from claiming Seoul as their home, asserting that clubs based in the capital had the unfair advantage in drawing crowds compared to others and, thus, would harm any type of competition. As a result, the club moved to the city of Anyang, a satellite city of Seoul, and now was known as the Anyang LG Cheetahs. In the upcoming years, a solid base of supporters was formed, and it established a strong league rivalry with the Suwon Samsung Bluewings, partly fueled also by the fact that LG Group and Samsung Group, which owned the Suwon club, were also considered rivals in the business world, especially in electronics. The club continued to grow and in 2000, they won their third Championship, behind the firepower of striker Choi Yong-Soo.
Franchising to Seoul
For 2002 FIFA World Cup, in Korea and Japan, 10 brand new stadiums of World Cup standards were built in Korea. After the World Cup, the Korean World Cup Organizing Committee and the Korea Football Association (KFA) actively supported the move of regional K-League clubs into the new stadia, to avoid any financial losses by having to maintain a stadium in playing conditions without any income. However, due to the previous decision by the league to exclude any member club from being based in Seoul, Seoul World Cup Stadium remained vacant, except as a host of some international friendlies. Thus, the city government of Seoul and the KFA both actively sought for a K-League club to play at the stadium to avoid substantial financial losses. Initially, the idea was to create a new club, but when it was later learned that any club playing in Seoul World Cup Stadium would have to pay partially for the construction fees of the stadium, this proved very unlikely. Thus, the KFA tried to lure one of the current clubs to Seoul. Anyang LG Cheetahs, behind the financial backing of the LG Group, who not only viewed the move to Seoul as a way to increase its advertising presence, but has the right to come back to Seoul because it was forcefully changed its franchise in 90's, announced in February 2004 that it would pay the share of the construction fees (which turned out to be 15 billion wons, or at that time 15 million USD).
This proposed move provoked a significant amount of anger from the local supporters of the club, 'Anyang RED', resulting in series of demonstrations by the supporters, also the supporters of other clubs and 'Red Devil'. Further fueling the resistance was the general consensus of the South Korean public that football clubs need to have strong regional ties, not a simple marketing branch of a corporation that could be moved without agreement of the fans. However, the lure of the Seoul market was too great for the LG Group to avoid. Furthermore, the LG Group considered the move to Seoul as a "return" to Seoul, asserting that it is simply reclaiming what was taken away from them. Despite a strong supporter protest against move from fans of many other clubs, the move was finalised but the club had to relent somewhat, as the official name of the club was changed to FC Seoul, along with the promise that the LG Group would invest money into youth football in Seoul. The lack of the corporate identity in the club name was seen by the media as a huge compromise, since it is bound to lose certain marketability.
Senol Günes Period
Senol Günes has started to lead FC Seoul since 8th, December, 2006. The opening part was fantastic. FC Seoul won every matches and the biggest result was the victory of Seoul-Suwon Derby. FC Seoul Defeated Suwon Samsung with the result of 4-1. But the nightmare of injury was started. After the draw with Gwangju Sangmu, Seoul couldn't score and was defeated by Suwon Samsung. The 80% of the Regulars got injuried. After all, FC Seoul failed to entrance into the play-off but they succeeded to get into the final of the League Cup. The second season was different. There were no big injuries and although Park Joo-Young, the ace of FC Seoul, transferred to AS Monaco, the double dragons of FC Seoul(Ki Sung-Yong, Lee Chung-Yong) made big growthes and Dejan Damjanovic scored 14 goals so they could end the league as 2nd. FC Seoul Defeated Ulsan Hyundai in the play-off semi-final but was defeated by Suwon in the final. But they advanced into the AFC Champions League. FC Seoul was just defeated two times and it's the least defeat record of K-League.
Seoul-Suwon Derby
Seoul-Suown derby's origin is Anyang-Suwon derby(Jijidae Derby). Anyang was a part of LG Electronics and Suwon was also a part of Samsung Electronics. They were the biggest rivals in their market. When the day of Jijidae derby, the chairman of two sides came to watch this game. So spontaneously people thought, they were in the relaton of rival. In 2004, Anyang moved to Seoul. Fans thought the derby between LG and Samsung was gone. But it was still considered the biggest event of the K-League by the news medias. Also the fans of FC Seoul and Suwon Samsung have very bad relationship. So the new derby between Seoul and Suwon Started. Now it is the biggest derby of K-League. Seoul-Suwon derby recorded the attendence of 55,397 in 8th, April, 2007 and it's the biggest record of South Korean Sports history. FC Seoul also has a derby with Incheon United.
Current team squad
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| FC Seoul usual starting lineup for 2008 season. |
As of March 3, 2009
On loan
2009 season transfers
In
Out
Staff
Coaching Staff
Executive Office, Front Staff
- Chairman: Huh Chang-Soo
- President: Jeong Jong-Soo
- General Manager: Han Woong-Soo
- Marketing Team: Lee Jae-Ha, Jeon Jae-Hong, Lee Jae-Ho, Kim Min-Soo, Kim Seon-Wook, Ryu Seung-Reuol, Seong Min, Jeong Song-Yi
- Operation Team,Information Team: Kang Myung-Won, Kim Tae-Joo, Seong Dong-Hoon, Cho Seong-Dae, Yoo Seong-Han, Lee Hyang-Mi, Moon In-Seong
- Forcelogic Team: Choi Ki-Bong, Kim Hyuek-Joong
- PlanSupport Team: Han Byueng-Seok, Son Hyueng-Kwon, Lee Mi-Ae, Jeon Eun-Seon
Medical Staff
- Club Doctor: Lee Kyung-Tae
- Trainer: Park Kyu-Pho, Kwon Ki-Yong, Lee Jong-Kyu
Support Staff
- Equipment Supervisor: Lee Chun-Kil, Kim Seon-Ki
- Vehicles: Oh Kwui-Do, Won Bong-Hui
- Dietitian: Nam Yeon-Ak
- Interpreter: Park Man-Choon;by and large, Kim Eun-Young;Exception Turkey
- Mental Consultationer: Kim Byung-Joon
- Players Supervisor: Yoo Seong-Han in Front Staff Operation Team
- Player Scouter: Choi Ki-Bong in Front Staff Forcelogic Team
- Video logic: Kim Hyuek-Joong in Front Staff Forcelogic Team
Notable players
The players in bold have senior international caps.
Year* = Retired Player
Organizing Members
1. Won Jong-Duk 2. Valenzing 4. Kim Dong-Jin 5. Souza 6. Park Jung-Suk 7. Lee Eul-Yong 8. Kim Sung-Jae
9. Renaldo 11. Lee Won-Shik 13. Choi Won-Kwon 14. Park Yong-Ho 15. Han Tae-You
17. Kim Chi-Gon 19. Lee Jung-Yeul 20. Lee Jung-Soo 21. Park Yo-Seb 22. Kim Eun-Jung 25. Jung Jae-Yoon
28. Wang Jung-Hyun 29. Kim Seung-Yong 30. Ku Kyung-Hyen 31. Kim Tae-Soo 33. Ahn Sang-Hyun
34. Jung Sung-Ho 35. Song Jin-Hyung 36. Ko Myong-Jin 37. Kim Dong-Suk 38. Lee Kwang-Hee
39. Lee Ik-Sung 40. Bae Hae-Min 41. Park Dong-Suk 42. Lee Ji-Nam 43. Yoon Hong-Chang
44. Valeri Sarychev 45. Jung Chang-Geun 47. Ko Yo-Han 48. Ricardo 49. Cho Sung-Yong 80. Dragan Manager : Cho Kwang-Rae
Honours
Club captains and Managers
Captains
| Dates | Captains | Vice-Captains |
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| 2004 | Kim Sung-Jae | | 2005 | Kim Sung-Jae | Lee Min-Sung | | 2006 | Lee Min-Sung | Lee Eul-Yong | | 2007-2008 | Lee Eul-Yong | Kim Chi-Gon | | 2009-present | Kim Chi-Gon |
Managerial history
| Dates | Name | Notes |
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| 2004 | Cho Kwang-Rae | | 2005-2006 | Lee Jang-Soo | FC Seoul got the first title(League Cup). | | 2007-present | Senol Günes | First foreigner manager of FC Seoul. | |
Club records
K-League records
| Year | Position | Point | Games | Wins | Draws | Losses | Goals Scored | Goals Against |
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2004 | 5 | 33 | 24 | 7 | 12 | 5 | 32 | 27 | 2005 | 8 | 32 | 24 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 37 | 32 | 2006 | 3 | 39 | 26 | 9 | 12 | 5 | 31 | 22 | 2007 | 7 | 37 | 26 | 8 | 13 | 5 | 23 | 16 | 2008 | 2 | 54 | 26 | 15 | 9 | 2 | 44 | 25 |
FA Cup records
- 2004 Round of 16
- 2005 Round of 16
- 2006 Quarter Final
- 2007 Quarter Final
- 2008 Round of 32
Hauzen Cup records
- 2004 12th
- 2005 5th
- 2006 Winner
- 2007 Runners-up
- 2008 3rd, Group A
Average Attendence
| Season | K-League | FA Cup | Hauzen Cup | AFC Champions League |
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| 2004 | 15363 | | 6529 | | | 2005 | 22010 | | 32415 | | | 2006 | 18782 | | 11921 | | | 2007 | 21515 | | 14315 | | | 2008 | 22417 | | 12499 | |
Sponsors
Kit Sponsors
Main Sponsors
External links
See also
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