Diogo Valente July 24, 2025

Newcastle United fans, there's a K League team you can adopt - South Korea's Magpies

English Premier League side and 2025-2026 Carabao Cup winners Newcastle United FC will travel to South Korea this summer for pre-season, where they will play Team K League and Tottenham Hotspur in the 2025 Coupang Play Series. Newcastle United's fa [...]

Andrew Farrell March 22, 2025

Suwon to Siheung perfectly encapsulates the enormous gulf to K3

The early rounds of national cup competitions always offer a unique opportunity to compare clubs with vastly different resources, history, success, and tradition compete for the same prize. The Korean Cup is no different and due to Suwon Bluewings' [...]

Diogo Valente February 13, 2025

2025 Season Preview: Seongnam FC

 In 2024, "The Magpies" had the worst season in the club's history finishing rock bottom seven points away from the nearest opponent. With 66 goals conceded Seongnam had the worst defense in the entire league, allying that with 26 points in 36 game [...]

Andrew Farrell September 25, 2024

Bucheon hammer Seongnam on landmark occasion

Bucheon FC marked their 600th appearance as a professional club with a 3-0 trashing of 10-man Seongnam on Wednesday night. Rodrigo Bassani ran the show once Seongnam's half-time substitute Choi Jun-hyeong was red-carded four minutes after entering [...]

K League United August 07, 2024

#KLUpod | The Shin Jae-won Interview

The K League United Podcast dips back into the second tier to visit Seongnam FC's training ground and speak with Shin Jae-won about his career to date, footballing future and the Magpies' season so far.Matthew Binns and Andrew Farrell host this epi [...]

Andrew Farrell June 19, 2024

Penalty agony for Cheongju as Seongnam advance in the Cup

Seongnam FC are through to the quarter-finals of the Korean Cup after beating Chungbuk Cheongju 5-4 on penalties. The game ended 1-1 and while Seongnam sometimes rode their luck, they did not care as they celebrated wildly in front of their fans. A [...]

Andrew Farrell May 04, 2024

Seongnam FC vs. Suwon Samsung: former heavyweights meet in unfamiliar surroundings

The 98th meeting between Seongnam FC and Suwon Samsung, former K League 1 and AFC champions, will take place in K League 2 for the first time this Sunday. Seongnam are approaching rock bottom, in disarray and near the foot of the table, whereas Suw [...]

Paul Neat April 10, 2024

Seongnam FC 2-2 Seoul E-Land: Who are the more likely promotion contenders?

Seongnam FC came back from 2-0 down to rescue a point at home to Seoul E-Land with goals from Lee Joon-sang and Fernando Ruiz capping off a chaotic second half. Bruno Silva had given the Leopards a 2-0 lead with aggressive pressing forcing errors o [...]

Diogo Valente March 23, 2024

One Out Of Nine, Lee Ki-hyung Out After Three

 With one point after three games into the 2024 K League 2 season, Seongnam´s board has decided to part ways with head coach Lee Ki-hyung. Some questions can be made, one of them being: "Was this the best decision?" Time will tell.START OF THE 2024 [...]

Andrew Farrell March 21, 2024

5 Korea Cup games to look out for this weekend

K League 2 clubs enter the Korea Cup second round stage this weekend, hoping to avoid a giant-killing and the loss of a potentially lucrative cup run. The draw features two K5 clubs, a five-time champion, and the 2021 winners. Here is the full list [...]

Diogo Valente February 12, 2024

2024 Season Preview: Can Seongnam return to K League 1 after a disappointing 2023 season?

After an underwhelming 2023 season, can Seongnam climb up the racks and comeback to the pinnacle of South Korea football?LAST SEASON’S RÉSUMÉIn 2023, Seongnam played in K League 2 and the expectations were high, especially because the supporters w [...]

Diogo Valente August 04, 2023

Preview: Gimcheon Sangmu Vs Seongnam FC

In the 25th round, Seongnam will travel to the mountains of Gimcheon to face the league leader Gimcheon Sangmu. Will the Magpies keep their fine form and give Gimcheon the second loss in a row, or will the Military team bounce back from the defeat [...]

Andrew Farrell July 23, 2023

Groundhopping K League 2

Thirteen clubs make up Korea's second tier and most are located in easily accessible regions serviced by excellent transport links. K League 2 is the most achievable Futbology "league completed" badge in the country. This is all you need to know.K [...]

K League United July 21, 2023

#KLUPod | K League 2 Update & Nilson Junior, Peter Makrillos & Patrick Flottmann Mixed Zone Interviews

In this week's episode of the K League United Podcast Paul and Andrew recap K League 2 Round 22 and look at the state of play for the 13 teams currently in the second tier. We also hear from Bucheon FC 1995's Nilson Junior, Chungbuk Cheongju's Pete [...]

Andrew Farrell July 20, 2023

Match recap: Points shared in Tancheon heat

Seongnam FC deservedly took a point from Gyeongnam FC as they continue their mid-season improvement. For Gyeongnam, it is points dropped again in this increasingly unpredictable title race. OverviewSeongnam FC 1-1 Gyeongnam FC.The prolific Brazilia [...]

K League United June 25, 2023

#KLUpod EXTRA | Kim Ji-soo to the Premier League & Gangwon FC's current situation

In this bonus episode of the K League United Podcast, Nathan Sartain speaks to Seongnam FC columnist Diogo Valente about Kim Ji-soo's move to Brentford in the English Premier League before Nathan talks about the current situation at Gangwon with ma [...]

Diogo Valente June 18, 2023

Kim Ji-soo: The Next Kim Min-jae Or The First Kim Ji-soo?

 A couple of months ago, young Seongnam FC center-back KimJi-soo was linked with a move to Europe, Bayer München, Sporting CP, and some unnamed Austrian clubs were interested in acquiring his services. But the only team that showed concrete interes [...]

Andrew Farrell June 16, 2023

Stadiums of Seoul Capital Area, ranked!

Seoul metropolitan area is home to 25 million people and ten fully professional football clubs. Each club plays in its own unique and distinct ground so we undertake the difficult task of ranking the stadiums of Seoul, Incheon, and Gyeonggi-do.This [...]

Diogo Valente May 23, 2023

Preview: Seongnam FC Vs. Pohang Steelers: The Magpies Face their first Top flight Opponents of the Cup

Seongnam is doing well in the FA Cup, starting the campaign with a difficult win against Pyeongchang from K4 in the second round. The third round saw the Magpies playing against Gimcheon Sangmu in a match where Seongnam had the lead for most of the [...]

Diogo Valente May 02, 2023

Seongnam’s April Recap: Results Over Performances.

The first month of the season went by and Seongnam only won two games, one against a K4 opposition in the FA Cup and the other in the opening-day match against Ansan Greeners. After the opening-day win, the Magpies went three games in a row without [...]