FC Seoul
FC 서울

Full name	Football Club Seoul FC 서울
Founded	1983 (Original) 2004 (FC Seoul)
Ground	Seoul World Cup Stadium Seongsan-dong, Mapo-gu, Seoul, South Korea (Capacity: 68,476 seats)
Owner	GS Group
Chairman	Huh, Chang Soo
Manager	Şenol Güneş
League	K-League
K-League 2008	Runners-up
Home colours Away colours

FC Seoul is a professional 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 well-known financial backing of the GS Group. The club disclosed its three-year contract with Şenol Güneş, a former Turkish national manager who led the side to the semi-final at the 2002 FIFA World Cup and 2003 FIFA Confederations Cup, on 8 December 2006.

Contents 1 History 1.1 Founding 1.2 Move to Seoul and then to Anyang 1.3 Franchising to Seoul 1.4 Şenol Güneş period (2007–current) 1.5 Seoul–Suwon derby 1.6 AFC Champions League 2 Supporters 3 Players 3.1 Current team squad 3.1.1 Out on loan 3.2 U-18 Team (Dongbuk High School) Squad 3.3 Retired number(s) 3.4 Notable players 3.4.1 Players with a World Cup career 3.5 Captains 3.6 2004 organizing members 4 Managers 4.1 Coaching staff 4.2 Managerial history 5 Honours 5.1 Predecessor club statistics included (1984–present) 5.1.1 Domestic competitions 5.1.2 International competitions 5.2 Predessor club statistics not included (2004–present) 5.2.1 Domestic competitions 5.2.2 International competitions 6 Statistics 6.1 Predecessor club records 6.2 FC Seoul records 6.2.1 K-League records 6.2.2 K-League Championship records 6.2.3 K-League Cup records 6.2.4 FA Cup records 6.2.5 Season by season records 6.2.6 Average attendance records 7 Ownership 8 Sponsors 8.1 Main sponsors 8.2 Kit sponsors 9 Sister Clubs 10 See also 11 References 12 External links

[edit] History

[edit] Founding

The club was founded on 22th December 1983, and started out in 1984 as Lucky-Goldstar Hwangso^[1] Football Club, owned and financially supported by the Lucky-Goldstar Group (now LG Group), with Chungcheong region as its franchise. In order to launch the professional football club, Lucky-Goldstar Group had a preparation period from 1982 ^[1] and demanded that original franchise should be Seoul.^[2] In the 1984 season, the club finished seventh out of the eight clubs. 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.
^[1] Hwangso means bull

[edit] Move to Seoul and then to Anyang

At the start of the 1990 season, the K-League, worried about the financial stability of the clubs, invited a number of clubs to play in Seoul, the capital and 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 the 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 a strong regional identity 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 was now 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.

[edit] Franchising to Seoul

For the 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. The 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 had the right to come back to Seoul because it had its franchise moved by force in the 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).^[3]

This proposed move provoked a significant amount of anger from the local supporters of the club, 'Anyang RED', resulting in a 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 the move from fans of many other clubs, the move was finalised but the club had to compromise 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.

[edit] Şenol Güneş period (2007–current)

Şenol Güneş has led FC Seoul since 8 December, 2006.^[4] The opening part was fantastic. FC Seoul won every match and the biggest result was the victory in the Seoul–Suwon Derby. FC Seoul defeated Suwon Samsung with the result of 4–1.^[5] But the nightmare of injury was started. After the draw with Gwangju Sangmu, Seoul couldn't score and was defeated by Suwon Samsung. 80% of the regulars were injured. FC Seoul failed to enter into the play-off after all, but they succeeded in getting 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 progress and Dejan Damjanović scored 14 goals so they could end the league as second. 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.^[6] FC Seoul was just defeated two times and it's the least defeat record of K-League.

[edit] Seoul–Suwon derby

The Seoul–Suwon derby's origin is the Anyang–Suwon derby (Jijidae Derby). Anyang was a part of LG Electronics and Suwon was a part of Samsung Electronics. They were the biggest rivals in their market. On the day of the Jijidae derby, the chairmen of both sides came to watch this game. So spontaneously people considered it to be a rivalry. 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 media. Also the fans of FC Seoul and Suwon Samsung have a very bad relationship. So the new derby between Seoul and Suwon started. Now it is the biggest derby of the K-League. The Seoul–Suwon derby recorded an attendance of 55,397 on 8 April 2007, the biggest record of South Korean professional sports history.^[7] FC Seoul also has a derby with Incheon United.

[edit] AFC Champions League

FC Seoul had its first appearance in the AFC Champions League in 2009. They won their first match in the league against Sriwijaya FC. After showing poor form in several matches after that, it looked impossible for Seoul to qualify for the second round, but a dramatic come-from-behind victory over reigning champion Gamba Osaka and Sriwijaya's unexpected victory over Shandong Luneng enabled them to advance to the second round with taking second place in Group F. On 24 June 2009, they beat the Kashima Antlers in the Round of 16 and went on to the quarterfinal.^[8]

[edit] Supporters

FC Seoul's no. 12 is blanked for the supporters. The main supporter group of FC Seoul is Suhoshin. It means the Guardian Deity and was organized in March, 2004. There are also some minor supporter groups such as RedPower and THANATOS.

[edit] Players

[edit] Current team squad

As of 22 October 2009.

No. Position Player 1 GK Kim Ho-Jun 2 DF Yoon Hong-Chang 3 DF Ahn Tae-Eun 4 DF Park Yong-Ho 6 DF Kim Jin-Kyu 7 MF Kim Chi-Woo 8 DF Adilson dos Santos 9 FW Jung Jo-Gook 10 FW Dejan Damjanović 11 FW Kim Seung-Yong 13 MF Ou Kyoung-Jun 14 MF Kim Han-Yoon 15 MF Ko Yo-Han 16 MF Ko Myong-Jin 17 DF Lee Jong-Min 18 FW Anderson 19 FW Lee Sang-Hyup 20 MF Han Tae-You 21 MF Ki Sung-Yong 22 DF Kim Chi-Gon (captain)

No. Position Player 23 GK Jo Soo-Hyuk 24 DF Jeong Hyung-Joon 25 FW Sim Woo-Yeon 26 MF Moon Ki-Han 28 FW Lee Seung-Ryul 29 MF Lee Hwa-Seob 30 FW Jeong Da-Hooeon 31 GK Kang Jae-Wook 32 MF Kim Ui-Beom 33 MF Park Young-Joon 34 DF Jung Sung-Ho 35 DF Yeo Hyo-Jin 36 MF Ahn Jeong-Koo 37 FW Seo Seung-Hoon 38 MF Choi Jae-Woong 39 FW Kim Hyun-Sung 40 MF Cho Beom-Seok 41 GK Park Dong-Suk 43 FW Bae Hae-Min — DF Choi Jae-Soo

[edit] Out on loan

No. Position Player — FW Ahn Sang-Hyun (to Gyeongnam FC)

[edit] U-18 Team (Dongbuk High School) Squad

as of 2009

No. Position Player * GK Kang Jin-Koo * GK Ahn Dong-Hyun * GK Yoo Jae-Geun * DF Cho Min-Woo * DF Lee Dong-Nyeok * DF Choi Ji-Hoon * DF Kim Hyo-Soo * DF Park Jung-In * DF Song Seung-Joo * DF Lee Joo-Hyun * DF Im Ki-Sub * MF Kim Hwan-Hee * MF Lee Gwang-Jin * MF Jang Doo-Young * MF Hong Jin-Hyuk

No. Position Player * MF Lee Han-Wool * MF Jeon Byung-Soo * MF Joo Hyung-Joon * MF Jang Hyun-Woo * MF Lee Geun-Ho * MF Shin Ho-Rim * FW Jeon Ho-Yeon * FW Yoo Dong-Won * FW Jeong Dong-Chul * FW Kim Hak-Seung * FW Park Joon-Kyung * FW Bae Do-Hyuk * FW Baek Chul-Seung * FW Choi Myong-Hoon * FW Jeong Seung-Yong

[edit] Retired number(s)

12 – Club Supporters (the 12th Man)

[edit] Notable players

The players in bold have senior international caps.

South Korea Choi Yong-Soo 1994-1996, 1999-2000, 2006* Valeri Sarychev/Shin Eui-Son 2000–2004* Kim Dong-Jin 2000–2006 Lee Jung-Soo 2002-2004 Kim Chi-Gon 2002–present Jung Jo-Gook 2003–present Kim Eun-Jung 2004–2008 Lee Eul-Yong 2004, 2006–2008 Lee Chung-Yong 2004–2009 Lee Ki-Hyung 2005–2006 Baek Ji-Hoon 2005–2006 Kwak Tae-Hwi 2005–2007 Lee Min-Sung 2005–2008* Park Chu-Young 2005–2008 Kim Byung-Ji 2006–2008 Ki Sung-Yong 2006–present Kim Jin-Kyu 2007–present Lee Jong-Min 2008–present

Netherlands Kizito "Kiki" Musampa 2008  Montenegro Dejan Damjanović 2008–present  Turkey Ceyhun Eriş 2008  Portugal Ricardo Nascimento 2005–2007  Brazil Renaldo 2004* Dudu 2006–2007 Adi 2006–present

Year* = Retired Player

[edit] Players with a World Cup career

World Cup Germany 2006 Park Chu-Young Lee Eul-Yong Kim Jin-Kyu Kim Dong-Jin Baek Ji-Hoon

[edit] Captains

Dates	Captains	Vice-Captains
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	Kim Jin-Kyu

[edit] 2004 organizing members

	Name
Manager	Cho Kwang-Rae
FW	22. Kim Eun-Jung, 9. Renaldo, 18. Jung Jo-Gook 11. Lee Won-Shik, 29. Kim Seung-Yong, 33. Ahn Sang-Hyun
MF	7. Lee Eul-Yong, Valenzing, 8. Kim Sung-Jae 13. Choi Won-Kwon 15. Han Tae-You 25. Jung Jae-Yoon 27. Lee Chung-Yong 30. Ku Kyung-Hyen 31. Kim Tae-Soo 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 42. Lee Ji-Nam 43. Yoon Hong-Chang 45. Jung Chang-Geun 47. Ko Yo-Han 48. Ricardo 49. Cho Sung-Yong
DF	17. Kim Chi-Gon 6. Park Jung-Suk, 4. Kim Dong-Jin 5. Souza 19. Lee Jung-Youl 20. Lee Jung-Soo 21. Park Yo-Seb 14. Park Yong-Ho, 28. Wang Jung-Hyun
GK	1. Won Jong-Duk 44 Valeri Sarychev, 41. Park Dong-Suk

[edit] Managers

[edit] Coaching staff

Position	Name	Nationality
Manager	Şenol Güneş	Turkish
First team coach	Lee Young-Jin	Korean
First team coach	Choi Yong-Soo	Korean
First team coach	Seref Çiçek	Turkish
Goalkeeping coach	Yasin Özdenak	Turkish
Reserve team manager	Kim Sung-Nam	Korean
U-18 team manager	Choi Jin-Han	Korean
U-18 team coach	Lee Young-Ik	Korean
U-18 team coach	Lee Won-Joon	Korean

[edit] Managerial history

Start	End	Name	Notes
02/02/2004	12/15/2004	Cho Kwang-Rae	The first Manager of FC Seoul. He collected lots of young players such as Lee Chung-Yong, Ko Myong-Jin, Song Jin-Hyung.
01/10/2005	12/02/2006	Lee Jang-Soo	FC Seoul got their first K-League Cup title.
01/08/2007	present	Şenol Güneş	First foreign manager of FC Seoul.

[edit] Honours

[edit] Predecessor club statistics included (1984–present)

[edit] Domestic competitions

• K-League
  • Winners (3) : 1985, 1990, 2000
  • Runners-up (5) : 1986, 1989, 1993, 2001, 2008
• K-League Cup
  • Winners (1) : 2006
  • Runners-up (4) : 1992, 1994, 1999, 2007
• FA Cup
  • Winners (1) : 1998
  • Runners-up (0) :
• National Football Championship
  • Winners (1) : 1988
• Super Cup
  • Winners (1) : 2001
  • Runners-up (1) : 1999

[edit] International competitions

• Asian Club Championship / AFC Champions League
  • Runners-up (1) : 2001-02
  • Quarterfinalist (1) : 2009

[edit] Predessor club statistics not included (2004–present)

[edit] Domestic competitions

• K-League
  • Winners (0) :
  • Runners-up (1) : 2008
• K-League Cup
  • Winners (1) : 2006
  • Runners-up (1) : 2007
• FA Cup
  • Winners (0) :
  • Runners-up (0) :

[edit] International competitions

• AFC Champions League
  • Quarterfinalist (1) : 2009

[edit] Statistics

[edit] Ownership

• 2004: LG Group
• 2005–present: GS Group

[edit] Sponsors

[edit] Main sponsors

• 2004: Cyon of LG Electronics
• 2005–present: Xi of GS Group
• 2009–present: Hi! Seoul of Seoul for AFC Champions League

[edit] Kit sponsors

• 2004–present: Adidas

[edit] Sister Clubs

• Boca Juniors
• FC Tokyo

[edit] See also

• K-League
• K-League Cup
• Korean FA Cup
• Korean Super Cup
• AFC Champions League
• Football in Seoul

[edit] References

1. ^ "Interview of Lucky-Goldstar Football Club first chairman (Korean)". Maeil Business Newspaper. 1983-08-19. http://dna.naver.com/viewer/index.nhn?editNo=1&printCount=1&publishDate=1983-08-19&officeId=00009&pageNo=12&printNo=5372&publishType=00020&articleId=1983081900099212006. 
2. ^ "Lucky-Goldstar Group wants Seoul franchise. (Korean)". Kyunghyang Newspaper. 1983-08-19. http://dna.naver.com/viewer/index.nhn?editNo=2&printCount=1&publishDate=1983-08-19&officeId=00032&pageNo=8&printNo=11659&publishType=00020&articleId=1983081900329208023. 
3. ^ "안양LG, ‘서울LG’ 선언 (Korean)". Kyunghyang Newspaper. 2004-02-02. http://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=LSD&mid=sec&sid1=001&oid=032&aid=0000051353&. 
4. ^ "FC서울 새사령탑 명장 귀네슈 영입 (Korean)". Kyunghyang Newspaper. 2006-12-08. http://sports.khan.co.kr/news/sk_index.html?cat=view&art_id=200612082334073&sec_id=520201. 
5. ^ "박주영 해트트릭 폭발…서울, 수원에 4-1 대승 (Korean)". Mydaily. 2007-03-21. http://www.mydaily.co.kr/news/read.html?newsid=200703212137482232. 
6. ^ "Korea: Suwon Bluewings Crowned Champions". Goal.com. 2008-12-07. http://www.goal.com/en/news/1275/east-asia/2008/12/07/1000210/korea-suwon-bluewings-crowned-champions. 
7. ^ "서울-수원, 5만5397명 최다 관중 신기록 (Korean)". Newsis. 2007-04-8. http://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=LSD&mid=sec&sid1=001&oid=003&aid=0000372706&. 
8. ^ "Kashima Antlers 2-2 FC Seoul. AET (4-5 pens)". AFC. 2009-06-24. http://www.the-afc.com/en/afc-champions-league-2009/24592-kashima-0-0-fc-seoul. 

[edit] External links

• (English) Official Website
• (Korean) Official Website
• (Korean) Official Pictures Website
• (Korean) Official Website of FC Seoul Main Supporters 'Suhoshin'
• (Korean) Official Website of FC Seoul Ultras 'Thanatos'
• (English) Seoul Sports Teams

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