The Super Match ( ko, 슈퍼매치) is a name for a football rivalry between two South Korean football teams from the

Seoul Capital Area The Seoul Capital Area (SCA), Sudogwon (, ) or Gyeonggi region (), is the metropolitan area of Seoul, Incheon, and Gyeonggi Province, located in north-west South Korea. Its population of 26 million (as of 2020) is ranked as the fifth largest me ...

FC Seoul FC Seoul ( ko, FC 서울) is a South Korean professional football club based in Seoul that competes in the K League 1, the top flight of South Korean football. The club is owned by GS Sports, a subsidiary of GS Group. They play their home games ...

and

Suwon Samsung Bluewings ''(The Blue, White and Reds)''Tricolor'' , short name = SSB , image = , caption = , founded = , ground = Suwon World Cup Stadium , capacity = 44,031 , owner = Cheil Worldwide(Samsung's subsidiary) , chairma ...

. The match and the rivalry between the two teams is regarded as the biggest in South Korean

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 S ...

. The first match was played in 1996. The rivalry became more fierce in 2004, after Anyang LG Cheetahs relocated to

Seoul Seoul (; ; ), officially known as the Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea.Before 1972, Seoul was the ''de jure'' capital of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) as stated iArticle 103 ...

and changed the club's name to FC Seoul.

History

In 1996, neighboring

Gyeonggi Gyeonggi-do (, ) is the most populous province in South Korea. Its name, ''Gyeonggi'', means "京 (the capital) and 畿 (the surrounding area)". Thus, ''Gyeonggi-do'' can be translated as "Seoul and the surrounding areas of Seoul". Seoul, the na ...

cities of

Anyang Anyang (; ) is a prefecture-level city in Henan province, China. The northernmost city in Henan, Anyang borders Puyang to the east, Hebi and Xinxiang to the south, and the provinces of Shanxi and Hebei to its west and north respectively. It had a ...

and

Suwon Suwon (, ) is the capital and largest city of Gyeonggi-do, South Korea's most populous province which surrounds Seoul, the national capital. Suwon lies about south of Seoul. It is traditionally known as "The City of Filial Piety". With a populati ...

started hosting

clubs. LG Cheetahs (currently

), based in Seoul between 1990 and 1995, has relocated to Anyang under

decentralization policy in K League The K League decentralization policy in 1995 was a policy of moving K League clubs located in Seoul to other regions. It was an effort by the Government of South Korea and the K League Federation to increase popularity of football nationwide befor ...

. Suwon has hosted the newly founded

since that year. For Suwon in early days, main rivals were

Ulsan Hyundai Ulsan Hyundai FC ( ko, 울산 현대 축구단) is a South Korean professional football club based in Ulsan that competes in the K League 1, the top tier of South Korean football. Founded in 1983 as Hyundai Horang-i, they joined the K League in ...

and Pusan Daewoo which had fierce showdowns in the league finals in

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and

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. Anyang and Suwon became rivals between 1998 and 1999, after former Suwon assistant coach

Cho Kwang-rae Cho Kwang-rae ( ko, 조광래, born March 19, 1954) is a former South Korean football player and manager. He is the current executive director of Daegu FC. International career Cho was selected for the university students' national team for t ...

joined Anyang and former Anyang player

Seo Jung-won Seo Jung-won (born 17 December 1970) is a South Korean football manager and former player, currently in charge of Chengdu Rongcheng. Playing career A winger who had explosive pace, Seo was nicknamed the "Nalssaendori", which means an agil ...

transferred to Suwon after his short spell with

RC Strasbourg Racing Club de Strasbourg Alsace (commonly known as RC Strasbourg, Racing Straßburg, RCSA, RCS, or simply Strasbourg; Alsatian: ''Füeßbàllmànnschàft Vu Stroßburri'') is a French association football club founded in 1906, based in the c ...

to beat Anyang 5–1 in the 1999

Korean Super Cup The Korean Super Cup was the annual curtain-raiser to the South Korean football season from 1999 to 2006, and was contested between the champions of K League and Korean FA Cup. It was dropped from the South Korean football calendar in 2007. Afte ...

. Also a fact that the club's parent companies (

LG Electronics LG Electronics Inc. () is a South Korean multinational electronics company headquartered in Yeouido-dong, Seoul, South Korea. LG Electronics is a part of LG Corporation, the fourth largest '' chaebol'' in South Korea, and often considered a ...

and

Samsung Electronics Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (, sometimes shortened to SEC and stylized as SΛMSUNG) is a South Korean multinational corporation, multinational electronics corporation headquartered in Yeongtong-gu, Suwon, South Korea. It is the pinnacle of ...

) being industrial arch rivals, boosted the rivalry. The match up was informally named ''Jijidae Derby'' in 2003, after a hill on the National Route 1 connecting two cities. The rivalry between the two clubs became more fierce after 2004, when Anyang LG Cheetahs relocated back to Seoul and changed the club's name to FC Seoul. Since then, the rivalry has been promoted heavily by the league and media for commercial reasons, and is officially named "Super Match" since 2009.

Venues

Players who have played for both clubs

Kim Dong-hae Kim Dong-Hae (born March 16, 1966) is a South Korean footballer. He graduated in Hanyang University, and played for LG Cheetahs and Suwon Samsung Bluewings. Club career *1989-1995 Luckey-Goldstar Hwangso / LG Cheetahs *1991-1992 Sagnmu ...

(Seoul: 1989–1995 / Suwon: 1996) *

Park Chul-woo Park Chul-Woo (born September 29, 1965) is a retired football player and goalkeeper coach. He played in K-League side POSCO Atoms, LG Cheetahs, Chunnam Dragons and Suwon Samsung Bluewings in South Korea South Korea, officially the Repu ...

(Seoul: 1992–1994 / Suwon: 1996–1997) *

(Seoul: 1992–1997 / Suwon: 1999–2004) * Park Jung-suk (Suwon: 1996–2000 / Seoul: 2001–2007) *

Lee Ki-hyung Lee Ki-hyung (born 28 September 1974) is a South Korean Association football, football coach and former player. International career Nicknamed the "Cannon shooter", Lee was a full-back who showed the strongest shot in South Korea. He played ...

(Suwon: 1996–2002 / Seoul: 2005–2006) *

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(Suwon: 1998–2000 / Seoul: 2001) * Tuta (Seoul: 2002 / Suwon: 2003) *

Lee Jung-soo Lee Jung-soo ( ko, 이정수; born 8 January 1980) is a South Korean former professional association football, footballer who played as a Defender (association football)#Centre-back, centre-back. Club career Career in South Korea After gra ...

(Seoul: 2002–2004 / Suwon: 2006–2008, 2016–2017) * Han Dong-won (Seoul: 2002–2006 / Suwon: 2012) * Lee Jong-min (Suwon: 2002–2004 / Seoul: 2008–2012 / Suwon: 2013) *

Baek Ji-hoon Baek (), also often spelled Paek, Baik, Paik is a Korean family name. In the year 2000, there were 351,275 people with this surname in South Korea. The word means the color white. Baek (白) "白" has a Cantonese origin from the Yuan dynasty an ...

(Seoul: 2005–2006 / Suwon: 2006–2016) *

Park Sung-bae Park Sung-Bae is a South Korean football player. He played for several clubs, including Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors, Gwangju Sangmu Bulsajo (army), FC Seoul, Busan I'Park and Suwon Samsung Bluewings. Also, he played for the South Korea national ...

(Seoul: 2005–2006 / Suwon: 2007) * Choi Jae-soo (Seoul: 2004–2007 / Suwon: 2012–2015) * Cho Chan-ho (Suwon: 2015 / Seoul: 2016–2017) * Lee Sang-ho (Suwon: 2009–2016 / Seoul: 2017–2018) *

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(Seoul: 2008–2013, 2016–2017 / Suwon: 2018–2019) * Cho Ji-hun (Suwon: 2011–2018 / Seoul: 2022–present)

Match reports

All times are KST ( UTC+09:00).

League matches

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League Cup matches

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FA Cup matches

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Super Cup matches

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AFC Champions League matches

Records and statistics

* As of 9 October 2022. * K League official match statistics are including Anyang LG Cheeths statistics. * All records and statistics are based on K League official FC Seoul vs Suwon Samsung Bluewings all-time statistics. * Penalty shoot-outs results are counted as a drawn match.

All-time results

Top goalscorers

* Goals against both teams **

(3 goals against Suwon, 3 goals against Seoul) ** Lee Sang-ho (4 goals against Seoul, 1 goal against Suwon) **

(7 goals against Suwon, 2 goals against Seoul)

Largest victories

Highest attendances

Honours

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Super Match FC Seoul Suwon Samsung Bluewings Football rivalries in South Korea