2009 K League

The 2009 K League was the 27th season of the K League. It was held from 7 March to 6 December 2009, and a total of 15 teams contested, including newly formed Gangwon FC.

K League

Season	2009
Dates	Regular season: 7 March – 1 November 2009 Championship: 21 November – 6 December 2009
Champions	Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors (1st title)
Champions League	Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma Pohang Steelers Suwon Samsung Bluewings
Matches played	210
Goals scored	554 (2.64 per match)
Best Player	Lee Dong-gook
Top goalscorer	Lee Dong-gook (20 goals)
Biggest home win	Seoul 5–1 Incheon (12 July 2009)
Biggest away win	Jeju 1–8 Pohang (13 September 2009)
Highest scoring	Jeju 1–8 Pohang (13 September 2009)
Longest winning run	6 matches Pohang Steelers
Longest unbeaten run	15 matches Pohang Steelers
Longest losing run	8 matches Gwangju Sangmu
Highest attendance	36,764 Seoul 2–1 Jeonbuk (12 September 2009)
Lowest attendance	1,367 Seongnam 3–1 Gyeongnam (12 July 2009)
Average attendance	11,226
← 2008 2010 →

Teams

Busan IPark

Jeonnam Dragons

Daegu FC

Daejeon Citizen

FC Seoul

Gwangju Sangmu

Gyeongnam FC

Incheon United

Jeju United

Jeonbuk Hyundai
Motors

Pohang Steelers

Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma

Suwon Samsung Bluewings

Ulsan Hyundai

Gangwon FC
(Gangneung)

Gangwon FC
(Chuncheon)

Locations of the 2009 K League clubs

General information

Club	Manager	City	Stadium	2008 season
Busan IPark	Hwang Sun-hong	Busan	Busan Asiad Stadium	12th place
Jeonnam Dragons	Park Hang-seo	Gwangyang	Gwang-Yang Stadium	9th place
Daegu FC	Byun Byung-joo	Daegu	Daegu Stadium	11th place
Daejeon Citizen	Wang Sun-jae	Daejeon	Daejeon World Cup Stadium	13th place
FC Seoul	Şenol Güneş	Seoul	Seoul World Cup Stadium	Runners-up
Gangwon FC	Choi Soon-ho	Gangneung Chuncheon	Gangneung Stadium Chuncheon Stadium	—
Gwangju Sangmu	Lee Kang-jo	Gwangju	Gwangju World Cup Stadium	14th place
Gyeongnam FC	Cho Kwang-rae	Changwon	Changwon Civil Stadium	8th place
Incheon United	Ilija Petković	Incheon	Incheon Munhak Stadium	7th place
Jeju United	Park Kyung-hoon	Seogwipo	Jeju World Cup Stadium	10th place
Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors	Choi Kang-hee	Jeonju	Jeonju World Cup Stadium	4th place
Pohang Steelers	Sérgio Farias	Pohang	Steelyard Stadium	6th place
Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma	Shin Tae-yong	Seongnam	Seongnam 2 Stadium	5th place
Suwon Samsung Bluewings	Cha Bum-kun	Suwon	Suwon World Cup Stadium	Champions
Ulsan Hyundai	Kim Ho-kon	Ulsan	Munsu Cup Stadium	3rd place

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing	Manner	Date	Incoming	Date	Table
Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma	Kim Hak-bum	Resigned	27 November 2008	Shin Tae-yong	1 December 2008	Pre-season
Incheon United	Chang Woe-ryong	Signed for Omiya Ardija	10 December 2008	Ilija Petković	7 January 2009
Ulsan Hyundai	Kim Jung-nam	Resigned	26 December 2008	Kim Ho-kon	26 December 2008
Daejeon Citizen	Kim Ho	Sacked	25 June 2009[1]	Wang Sun-jae	25 June 2009[2]	13th
Jeju United	Arthur Bernardes	Resigned	14 October 2009[3]	Cho Jin-ho	14 October 2009	13th
Jeju United	Cho Jin-ho	Caretaker	29 October 2009	Park Kyung-hoon	30 October 2009[4]	13th

Foreign players

Club	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	AFC player	Former player(s)
Busan IPark	Di Fábio	Paulinho Guará	Rômulo
Jeonnam Dragons	Adriano Chuva	Wesley	Aleksandar Petrović
Daegu	Léo Paulista	Valdeir		Feng Xiaoting	Émile Mbamba Lazar Popović
Daejeon Citizen	Alexandre	Válber	Stevan Račić		Vinicius Ricardo Costa
FC Seoul	Adilson	Anderson	Dejan Damjanović		Kevin Hatchi
Gangwon FC	Caion	Stipe Lapić		Masahiro Ohashi
Gwangju Sangmu Bulsajo
Gyeongnam	Bruno Cazarine	Índio	Marcelo Pinheiro	Kazuyuki Toda	Claudinho Rogério
Incheon United	Dragan Čadikovski	Dragan Mladenović	Ognjen Koroman	Jade North	Borko Veselinović
Jeju United	Esquerdinha	Jóbson	Ricardinho
Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors	Brasília	Eninho	Luiz Henrique	Wan Houliang	Aleksandar Petrović
Pohang Steelers	Denílson	Vaguinho	Stevica Ristić		Brasília
Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma	Fabrício Souza	Mauricio Molina	Dženan Radončić	Sasa Ognenovski	Mota
Suwon Samsung Bluewings	Edu	Sandro Hiroshi	Tiago	Li Weifeng	Jorge Luiz
Ulsan Hyundai	Almir	Fábio Luís	Slavčo Georgievski	Antun Kovacic	Luizinho

Regular season

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors	28	17	6	5	59	33	+26	57	Qualification for the playoffs final
2	Pohang Steelers	28	14	11	3	55	33	+22	53	Qualification for the playoffs semi-final
3	FC Seoul	28	16	5	7	47	27	+20	53	Qualification for the playoffs first round
4	Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma	28	13	6	9	40	34	+6	45
5	Incheon United	28	11	10	7	31	29	+2	43
6	Jeonnam Dragons	28	11	9	8	41	39	+2	42
7	Gyeongnam FC	28	10	10	8	38	32	+6	40
8	Ulsan Hyundai	28	9	9	10	32	29	+3	36
9	Daejeon Citizen	28	8	9	11	29	38	−9	33
10	Suwon Samsung Bluewings	28	8	8	12	29	32	−3	32	Qualification for the Champions League[a]
11	Gwangju Sangmu	28	9	3	16	33	40	−7	30
12	Busan IPark	28	7	8	13	36	42	−6	29
13	Gangwon FC	28	7	7	14	42	57	−15	28
14	Jeju United	28	7	7	14	22	44	−22	28
15	Daegu FC	28	5	8	15	20	45	−25	23

Source: K League (in Korean)
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored
Notes:

1. Qualified as champions of the FA Cup.

Positions by matchday

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30
Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors	6	2	1	1	2	2	2	1	1	1	2	3	3	2	3	2	2	2	2	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	1	1	1	1
Pohang Steelers	3	3	5	7	7	7	8	9	7	10	10	8	6	6	5	4	4	3	3	2	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	2
FC Seoul	1	4	7	6	4	3	3	3	4	4	4	2	2	3	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	3
Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma	6	9	9	12	10	5	5	5	6	7	6	7	8	8	7	8	9	8	8	8	8	7	4	4	5	4	4	4	4	4
Incheon United	4	6	6	3	5	4	4	4	3	3	3	4	4	4	4	5	5	5	5	4	6	4	5	5	6	6	6	6	7	5
Jeonnam Dragons	15	15	13	14	14	15	9	6	5	5	5	6	7	7	8	7	7	9	6	6	5	6	7	7	4	5	5	5	5	6
Gyeongnam FC	6	8	8	9	9	14	15	15	11	12	11	12	11	11	14	14	14	14	14	14	13	10	8	6	7	8	7	7	6	7
Ulsan Hyundai	10	10	14	10	13	9	11	7	8	11	12	14	12	13	9	10	10	12	13	13	11	9	10	9	8	7	8	8	8	8
Daejeon Citizen	14	14	12	8	8	10	12	11	13	13	14	13	13	12	11	12	13	13	12	10	10	12	13	10	11	11	12	12	11	9
Suwon Samsung Bluewings	11	11	15	15	12	12	14	13	15	15	13	11	14	14	13	11	12	11	11	12	14	14	11	12	10	10	9	9	9	10
Gwangju Sangmu	2	5	3	2	1	1	1	2	2	2	1	1	1	1	2	3	3	4	4	5	4	5	6	8	9	9	10	10	10	11
Busan IPark	12	11	10	11	15	13	6	10	9	6	7	9	10	10	12	13	11	10	10	11	12	13	14	14	14	13	11	11	12	12
Gangwon FC	4	1	2	5	3	5	7	8	10	9	8	5	5	5	6	6	8	6	9	9	9	11	12	13	13	14	14	14	14	13
Jeju United	12	7	4	4	6	8	10	12	12	8	9	10	9	9	10	9	6	7	7	7	7	8	9	11	12	12	13	13	13	14
Daegu FC	6	13	11	13	11	11	13	14	14	14	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15

Source: K League

Results

Home \ Away	BIP	JND	DGU	DJC	SEO	GWN	GWJ	GNM	ICU	JJU	JHM	PHS	SIC	SSB	USH
Busan IPark	—	2–2	1–0	2–1	2–2	2–0	2–3	2–0	0–1	3–0	3–1	1–2	1–2	1–1	1–2
Jeonnam Dragons	3–2	—	0–1	2–0	1–6	4–1	1–1	2–0	1–1	0–0	1–3	1–0	2–0	2–0	1–0
Daegu FC	1–1	1–2	—	2–2	0–3	2–1	1–3	1–3	0–0	2–1	0–3	2–2	1–1	1–0	0–1
Daejeon Citizen	3–2	1–0	2–0	—	0–2	2–2	3–1	0–0	1–1	1–0	0–2	0–0	1–2	0–0	1–0
FC Seoul	2–2	1–1	0–0	3–0	—	1–2	2–1	2–1	5–1	2–1	2–1	1–0	1–0	1–0	0–2
Gangwon FC	1–1	3–3	2–2	1–2	1–3	—	2–2	0–4	3–2	1–0	1–3	1–2	4–1	1–1	1–2
Gwangju Sangmu	0–1	1–2	0–1	3–0	1–0	3–1	—	0–0	1–0	0–1	2–3	2–3	2–3	0–3	2–1
Gyeongnam FC	3–1	4–1	3–0	1–1	1–1	1–0	2–1	—	0–2	0–0	1–1	0–2	4–1	0–0	1–1
Incheon United	1–0	1–1	2–1	2–1	0–1	2–0	1–0	1–2	—	3–3	0–1	1–4	1–0	0–0	0–0
Jeju United	2–0	1–1	0–0	1–0	0–2	0–1	1–0	1–1	0–2	—	0–5	1–8	1–2	1–0	0–1
Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors	3–1	2–0	2–0	4–2	2–0	2–5	2–0	4–2	0–0	4–2	—	1–3	4–1	1–1	1–1
Pohang Steelers	1–1	2–1	3–0	2–2	3–2	1–0	2–1	1–1	2–2	2–2	1–1	—	1–1	1–0	1–1
Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma	0–0	3–1	3–0	1–2	1–0	3–0	0–1	3–1	1–1	2–0	3–1	3–1	—	3–2	0–0
Suwon Samsung Bluewings	2–0	1–4	1–0	1–0	2–0	3–3	0–2	3–1	1–2	0–1	1–1	2–3	1–0	—	1–0
Ulsan Hyundai	3–1	1–1	3–1	1–1	1–2	3–4	2–0	0–1	0–1	1–2	0–1	2–2	0–0	3–2	—

Source: K League
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Championship playoffs

Main article: 2009 K League Championship

Bracket

	First round					Second round					Semifinal					Final
	3	FC Seoul	1 (2)													1	Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors	0	3	3
	6	Jeonnam Dragons (p)	1 (3)								2	Pohang Steelers	0				Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma	0	1	1
						Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma		1				Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma	1
						Jeonnam Dragons		0
	4	Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma (p)	1 (3)
	5	Incheon United	1 (2)

Final table

Pos	Team	Qualification
1	Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors (C)	Qualification for the Champions League
2	Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma
3	Pohang Steelers
4	Jeonnam Dragons
5	FC Seoul
6	Incheon United

Source: RSSSF
(C) Champions

Top scorers

This list includes goals of the championship playoffs. The official top goalscorer was decided with records of only regular season, and Lee Dong-gook won the award with 20 goals.^[5]

Rank	Scorer	Club	Goals	Apps
1	Lee Dong-gook	Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors	21	29
2	Dejan Damjanović	FC Seoul	14	23
3	Adriano Chuva	Jeonnam Dragons	13	25
	Kim Young-hoo	Gangwon FC		27
5	Yoo Byung-soo	Incheon United	12	26
	Kim Dong-chan	Gyeongnam FC		27
7	Ko Chang-hyun	Daejeon Citizen	10	19
8	Choi Tae-uk	Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors	9	26
	Choi Sung-kuk	Gwangju Sangmu		26
	Índio	Gyeongnam FC		27
	Kim Myung-joong	Gwangju Sangmu Pohang Steelers		27

Awards

Main awards

The K League Players' Player of the Year was published by Korean edition of FourFourTwo in summer, and was not an official award of the K League, but 143 players participated in the selection process.^[6]

Award	Winner	Club
Most Valuable Player[7]	Lee Dong-gook	Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors
Top goalscorer[8]	Lee Dong-gook	Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors
Top assist provider[8]	Luiz Henrique	Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors
Rookie of the Year[7]	Kim Young-hoo	Gangwon FC
FANtastic Player[7]	Lee Dong-gook	Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors
Manager of the Year[7]	Choi Kang-hee	Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors
Special Award[7][8]	Kim Young-kwang	Ulsan Hyundai
	Kim Byung-ji	Gyeongnam FC
Goal of the Year[7]	Kim Dong-chan	Gyeongnam FC
Best Referee[8]	Choi Gwang-bo	—
Best Assistant Referee[8]	Won Chang-ho	—
Team of the Year[8]	Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors
Fair Play Award[8]	Gangwon FC
Youth Team of the Year[8]	Gwangyang Jecheol High School (Jeonnam Dragons)
Merit Award[8]	Pohang Steelers
Players' Player of the Year[6]	Ki Sung-yueng	FC Seoul

Best XI

Position	Winner	Club
Goalkeeper	Shin Hwa-yong	Pohang Steelers
Defenders	Kim Sang-sik	Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors
	Hwang Jae-won	Pohang Steelers
	Kim Hyung-il	Pohang Steelers
	Choi Hyo-jin	Pohang Steelers
Midfielders	Ki Sung-yueng	FC Seoul
	Kim Jung-woo	Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma
	Eninho	Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors
	Choi Tae-uk	Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors
Forwards	Lee Dong-gook	Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors
	Denilson	Pohang Steelers

Source:^[7]

Attendance

Team	Stadium	Matches	Highest	Lowest	Average
Suwon Samsung Bluewings	Big Bird Stadium	14	35,058	10,206	18,583
FC Seoul	Seoul World Cup Stadium	14	36,764	7,685	16,779
Gangwon FC	Gangneung Stadium	10	21,316	5,129	14,787
	Chuncheon Stadium	4
Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors	Jeonju World Cup Stadium	14	21,516	10,756	14,227
Jeonnam Dragons	Gwang-Yang Stadium	13	19,800	10,420	13,263
	Suncheon Stadium	1
Gyeongnam FC	Changwon Civil Stadium	10	21,947	5,764	12,269
	Masan Stadium	1
	Miryang Stadium	1
	Geochang Stadium	1
	Yangsan Stadium	1
Pohang Steelers	Pohang Steelyard	14	16,382	7,348	11,041
Incheon United	Incheon World Cup Stadium	14	34,275	2,315	10,499
Ulsan Hyundai	Ulsan Munsu Stadium	14	13,761	3,864	9,188
Daejeon Citizen	Daejeon World Cup Stadium	14	16,561	3,535	8,596
Daegu FC	Daegu Stadium	12	32,250	3,201	8,541
	Daegu Civil Stadium	2
Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma	Seongnam Sports Complex	14	17,049	1,367	7,917
Jeju United	Jeju World Cup Stadium	14	32,765	1,753	7,757
Gwangju Sangmu	Gwangju World Cup Stadium	13	25,762	2,873	7,719
	Yeonggwang Sportium	1
Busan IPark	Asiad Main Stadium	14	17,577	3,998	7,221
Total		210	36,764	1,367	11,226

Source: K League (in Korean)

See also

• 2009 in South Korean football
• 2009 K League Championship
• 2009 Korean League Cup
• 2009 Korean FA Cup