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2013 K League Classic
The 2013 K League Classic was the 31st season of the top division of South Korean professional football. The South Korean professional football league, K League, was split into two divisions since this year, and the top division was named the "K League Classic". Its fixtures were announced on 30 January, and began on 2 March. Teams General information Managerial changes Foreign players Restricting the number of foreign players strictly to four per team, including a slot for a player from AFC countries. A team could use four foreign players on the field each game including a least one player from the AFC country. League table Positions by matchday Round 1–26 Round 27–40 Results Matches 1–26 Matches 27–40 Group A Group B Relegation playoffs Player statistics Top scorers Top assist providers Awards The 2013 K League Awards was held on 3 December 2013. Main awards Source: Best XI Source: Attendance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hyundai Oilbank
Hyundai oil bank () is a petroleum and refinery company with its headquarters in Seosan, South Korea. It was established in 1964 as Kukdong Oil Industry Company () and later taken over by the Hyundai Group (1993). It is currently a part of the Hyundai Heavy Industries Group. Its primary business is petroleum products, similar to the SK Energy, GS Caltex, S-Oil. See also *Economy of South Korea *Hyundai Heavy Industries Group HD Hyundai () is one of the largest South Korean conglomerates engaged in shipbuilding, heavy equipment, machine, and petroleum. HHI Group is controlled by HD Hyundai Co., Ltd. (), formerly known as Hyundai Heavy Industries Holdings Co., Ltd. ... External links Hyundai Oil Bank Homepage History , Overview {{SouthKorea-company-stub Hyundai Heavy Industries Group Oil companies of South Korea Chemical companies of South Korea Automotive companies of South Korea Automotive fuel retailers Non-renewable resource companies established in 1964 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma
Seongnam () is the fourth largest city in South Korea's Gyeonggi Province after Suwon and the 10th largest city in the country. Its population is approximately one million. Seongnam is a satellite city of Seoul. It is largely a residential city located immediately southeast of Seoul and belongs to the Seoul Capital Area. Seongnam, the first planned city in Korea's history, was conceived during the era of President Park Chung-Hee for the purpose of industrializing the nation by concentrating electronic, textile, and petrochemical facilities there during the 1970s and 1980s. The city featured a network of roads, to Seoul and other major cities, from the early 1970s on. Today, Seongnam has merged with the metropolitan network of Seoul. Bundang, one of the districts in Seongnam, was developed in the 1990s. To accelerate the dispersion of Seoul's population to its suburbs and relieve the congested Seoul metropolitan area, the Korean government has provided stimulus packages to larg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Busan
Busan (), officially known as is South Korea's most populous city after Seoul, with a population of over 3.4 million inhabitants. Formerly romanized as Pusan, it is the economic, cultural and educational center of southeastern South Korea, with its port being Korea's busiest and the sixth-busiest in the world. The surrounding "Southeastern Maritime Industrial Region" (including Ulsan, South Gyeongsang, Daegu, and some of North Gyeongsang and South Jeolla) is South Korea's largest industrial area. The large volumes of port traffic and urban population in excess of 1 million make Busan a Large-Port metropolis using the Southampton System of Port-City classification . Busan is divided into 15 major administrative districts and a single county, together housing a population of approximately 3.6 million. The full metropolitan area, the Southeastern Maritime Industrial Region, has a population of approximately 8 million. The most densely built-up areas of the city are situat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chuncheon Songam Sports Town
Chuncheon Songam Sports Town is a sports complex in Chuncheon, South Korea. The former stadium was built in 1980 as ''Chuncheon Civic Stadium''. Facilities Chuncheon Songam Stadium Newly established main stadium was opened in May 2009. It is used mostly for football matches. The stadium has a capacity for 20,000 spectators. It is home ground of Gangwon FC since June 2009. See also * Chuncheon Civic Stadium Chuncheon Stadium ( ko, 춘천종합운동장) was a multi-purpose stadium located in Chuncheon, Gangwon-do, South Korea. It was built in 1980 to hold Korean Junior Sports Festival. It also held Korean National Sports Festival twice, in 1985 a ... External links Chuncheon Songam Leports Townat World Stadiums Football venues in South Korea Gangwon FC Sports complexes in South Korea Chuncheon Sports venues in Gangwon Province, South Korea Sports venues completed in 2009 K League 1 stadiums 2009 establishments in South Korea {{SouthKorea-sports-venue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gangneung Stadium
The Gangneung Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Gangneung, South Korea. It is currently used mostly for football (soccer), football (American English: soccer) matches. The stadium has a capacity of 22,333 spectators and was opened in 1984. It is the home ground of Gangneung City FC and Gangwon FC (since 2009). It is located within the Gangneung Olympic Park, one of the main sites of the 2018 Winter Olympics. External links Gangneung Sports Facilities Management Center World Stadiums Football venues in South Korea Gangwon FC Ulsan Hyundai FC Multi-purpose stadiums in South Korea Sports venues in Gangneung Sports venues completed in 1984 K League 2 stadiums {{SouthKorea-sports-venue-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeju United FC
Jeju United Football Club ( Hangul: 제주 유나이티드) is a South Korean professional football club based in Jeju Province that competes in the K League 1, the top division in South Korea. In the past, the club has been known as the ''Yukong Elephants'' and ''Bucheon SK''. History An original member of the K League founded on 17 December 1982, the team was then called the Yukong Elephants. Yukong was owned and financially supported by the Sunkyoung Group's subsidiary, Yukong (currently SK Group's "SK Energy"), along with Seoul, Incheon, Gyeonggi as its franchise. The '' Kokkiri'' (elephant) was its mascot. The club won the league championship on only one occasion (in 1989). At the end of 1995 the side moved from the Dongdaemun Stadium in Seoul to the Mokdong Stadium on the western edge of Seoul, as part of K-League's decentralization policy.Note:This policy was carried out due to two reasons. In 1995, Korea was under bidding for 2002 FIFA World Cup. The reason ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Incheon United FC
Incheon United FC is a South Korean professional football club based in Incheon that competes in the K League 1, the top flight of South Korean football. Founded in 2003, the club is a so-called "community club", with the government of the city of Incheon being its key shareholder. The club's home stadium is the Incheon Football Stadium. History Formation Officially founded at the end of the 2003 season, the move to create a professional football club in Incheon had come about in part by the construction of the Incheon Munhak Stadium for the 2002 FIFA World Cup. Mayor of Incheon Ahn Sang-soo began the process of creating a new club in earnest in June 2003 with the official founding of Incheon FC. German Werner Lorant was appointed as manager in September of that year, assisted by Chang Woe-ryong and Kim Si-seok. A public share issue was launched and ran from October to November 2003 and in December, the name ''Incheon United'' was adopted. Sponsorship contracts worth a tota ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daejeon Citizen
Daejeon Hana Citizen Football Club ( Korean 대전 하나 시티즌 축구단) is a South Korean professional football team based in Daejeon that competes in the K League 1, the top tier of South Korean football. At the time of its foundation in 1997, Daejeon Citizen was the first community club in South Korea, not belonging to any company. The club first entered the K League for the 1997 season, finishing in seventh place. In spite of a limited budget, Daejeon won the 2001 Korean FA Cup. It has not achieved sustained success in the K League, historically occupying the middle and lower reaches of the standings each season. At the end of the 2013 season, Daejeon was relegated to the K League Challenge, the second-tier league. On 24 December 2019, Hana Financial Group Football Club Foundation bought operating rights of the club, renaming the club to its current name. History First steps into the K League Following the foundation of the professional football league (the Korean Su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Busan IPark
Busan IPark ( ko, 부산 아이파크) is a South Korean professional football club based in Busan that competes in K League 2, the second tier of the South Korean football pyramid. Its current home ground is Busan Gudeok Stadium. The club was one of the original five founding members of the K League and continuously competed in the first division from 1983 to 2015, when they were relegated for the first time. Initially, the club was called Daewoo Royals, in reference to the motor company that originally owned and financed it. Since the mid-1990s, Busan has actually received financial backing from the HDC Group and its apartment brand IPARK, rebranding as Busan i.cons, and then as Busan IPark in the process. History Daewoo Royals After being at the top of the league for most of the 1983 season, Daewoo finished second in its league debut conceding the title to Hallelujah FC by a single point after a goalless draw against Yukong Elephants in the Masan Series. In its sophomor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
K League
K League (Hangul: K리그) is South Korea's professional football league. It includes first division K League 1 and second division K League 2. History Until the 1970s, South Korean football operated two major football leagues, the National Semi-professional Football League and the National University Football League, but these were not professional leagues in which footballers could focus on only football. In 1979, however, the Korea Football Association (KFA)'s president Choi Soon-young planned to found a professional football league, and made South Korea's first professional football club Hallelujah FC the next year. After the South Korean professional baseball league KBO League was founded in 1982, the KFA was aware of crisis about the popularity of football. In 1983, it urgently made the ''Korean Super League'' with two professional clubs (Hallelujah FC, Yukong Elephants) and three semi-professional clubs ( POSCO Dolphins, Daewoo Royals, Kookmin Bank) to professional ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Association Football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is to score more goals than the opposition by moving the ball beyond the goal line into a rectangular framed goal defended by the opposing side. Traditionally, the game has been played over two 45 minute halves, for a total match time of 90 minutes. With an estimated 250 million players active in over 200 countries, it is considered the world's most popular sport. The game of association football is played in accordance with the Laws of the Game, a set of rules that has been in effect since 1863 with the International Football Association Board (IFAB) maintaining them since 1886. The game is played with a football that is in circumference. The two teams compete to get the ball into the other team's goal (between the posts and under ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
