It’s 2023 and it’s the year of the rabbit for all Koreans but for a certain, rather small, section of the country it’s the year of deja vu as Seongnam FC fans find themselves staring into the K-League 2 abyss rather than the K-League 1 paradise of the last two years. Unlike like back in…
When the 2021 season started I decided that I wanted to profile one player every month, someone who I thought would be the standout player for the month, for one reason or another. For March I was spoiled for choice, we had Ki Sung-yeung finally getting the chance to perform on a K-League pitch again,…
Week One of the 2021 K-League One is done and dusted and we had goals, red cards, VAR (obviously), successful debuts and some unsuccessful ones as were treated to a long weekend of football fayre. Below are my 5 picks of things that we learned from the weekend and beyond.
It’s almost that time of the year again when hopes are built, dreams created and expectations elevated all for it to come crashing down mid-summer as Jeonbuk inevitably extend their lead at the top of the table and, for myself, Seongnam lurch from one poor performance to the next. I am of course talking about…
It was a rain-battered Seongnam fanbase that left Tancheon on Sunday October 10th 2016 having witnessed their team huff, puff and basically look disinterested as they sideways passed their way to a 0-0 against Incheon United in the first of 5 disastrous Relegation Group matches. As the fans made their way around the almost flooded…
It’s safe to say this fixture is not exactly a favourite among the Seongnam faithful with The Magpies having won only 5 games out of 20 down the years, and throw in the fact that 3 of them have come in the last three years and you can understand why the ‘old guard’ are less…
When you’ve just spent 2 weeks in Thailand and are going thru a live football ‘cold turkey’ that would make most of Hollywood shudder then there are few better games to quench your needs than the visit of the 2019 Ulsan FC team. I’ve watched K-League for the best part (or worst depending on the…
As the full time whistle rang out on Friday past it signalled not only a huge 3pts for Seongnam but also brought the curtain down on their temporary stay back in Seongnam Sports Complex. The move was initiated by the need to upgrade the facilities at Tancheon Sports Complex but it was also something that…
Over the last few years Seongnam FC have had some spectacular advertising promotions for their games, the tagline for the visit of Pohang was a simple, but powerful ‘Remember’ as the club geared up to welcome The Steelers for the first time since they effectively relegated them back in 2016. Seongnam have not exactly had…
Nam Ki-il celebrated 200 games in management yesterday as he guided Seongnam to victory over Pohang Steelers in the team’s first meeting since Pohang consigned Seongnam to the playoffs and ultimately relegation back in 2016.
The K-League Kilt 