R League

The R League (Korean: R리그), also known as the Korean Professional Football Reserve League, is the league for reserve teams of professional association football clubs in South Korea. The league started in 1990 with five reserve teams of K League member clubs: Pohang Steelworks, Yukong Elephants, Daewoo Royals, Hyundai Horang-i and Lucky-Goldstar.[1][2] Pohang Steelworks won the inaugural title, finishing two point ahead of Yukong Elephants to lift the crown.[3] But league was shortlived for only one year and reserve teams participated in semi-professional tournaments such as the National Football Championship.[4]

R League
Founded1990
Country South Korea
Number of teams16
Current championsFC Seoul (Central)
Pohang Steelers (Southern)

The competition was relaunched in 2000 with a dual league format. Nine reserve teams were divided into the Central League (currently Group League A) and the Southern League (currently Group League B). Each team played against the other teams in the same league for four times. In 2001, Police FC joined the R League and Gwangju Sangmu's reserve team joined in 2002.

For the 2009 season, the R League was renamed to its current name[5] and thirteen of the fifteen K League clubs are fielding reserve teams in the league along with the Police FC, giving a total of fourteen participating clubs. Gangwon FC and Jeju United did not participate.

As part of the plan to form the system of promotion and relegation in the K League starting from the 2013 season, the R League was planned to downsize after the 2012 season.[6] The competition was ceased until 2015. Starting from the 2016 season, K League clubs officially announced that they will resume the R League.[7]

Appearances

Since 2016 season, R league's participating teams are changing depending on the choice of each K league team.
  Entered
  Did not enter

1990–2021
Season 1990
I		 2000
II		 2001
III		 2002
IV		 2003
V		 2004
VI		 2005
VII		 2006
VIII		 2007
IX		 2008
X		 2009
XI		 2010
XII		 2011
XIII		 2012
XIV		 2016
XV		 2017
XVI		 2018
XVII		 2019
XVIII		 2020
XIX		 2021
XX
FC Seoul12345678910111213141516 17 18
Ulsan Hyundai12345678910111213141516 17 18
Busan IPark123456-789101112131415 16 17
Pohang Steelers1234567891011121314-- 15 16
Jeju United12345678910-1112--13 14 15
Seongnam FC-123456789101112131415 - 16
Suwon Samsung Bluewings 123456789101112131415 16 17
Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors 123456789101112-13- 14 15
Jeonnam Dragons 123456789101112--- 13 -
Ansan Mugunghwa -12345678910111213- - -
Sangju Sangmu---1---2345678-- - -
Incheon United -1234567891011 12 13
Gyeongnam FC -123456-- 7 8
Daegu FC -----1234-56 7 8
Daejeon Citizen --------1234-5- 6 7
Gangwon FC - 1 2 3 - 4 5 6
Bucheon FC 1995 -----12 3 4
Seoul E-Land 12 - -
Chungju Hummel -------------1
Goyang Zaicro - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1
Ansan Greeners 1 2 3
Suwon FC - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1
Total 5 9 10 11 10 11 10 12 13 15 14 16 16 11 14 12 15 16

Winners

Titles by year
Season Single league / Championship Regional leagues
Winners Runners-up Central Winners (A) Southern Winners (C) Group B Winners
1990 POSCO Atoms Yukong Elephants No competition
No competition from 1991 to 1999
2000 Anyang LG Cheetahs Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma Anyang LG Cheetahs Jeonnam Dragons —
2001 Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma Anyang LG Cheetahs Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma Pohang Steelers
2002 Anyang LG Cheetahs Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma Gwangju Sangmu
2003 No competition Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma Jeonnam Dragons
2004 FC Seoul Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma Pohang Steelers
2005 Bucheon SK FC Seoul FC Seoul Jeonnam Dragons
2006 Incheon United Busan IPark FC Seoul Jeonnam Dragons Incheon United
2007 Pohang Steelers Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma Pohang Steelers Jeju United
2008 Incheon United Pohang Steelers Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma Gyeongnam FC —
2009 Incheon United Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma Incheon United Pohang Steelers Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors
2010 No competition FC Seoul Pohang Steelers —
2011 Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma Sangju Sangmu
2012 Police FC Busan IPark
No competition from 2013 to 2015
2016 No competition FC Seoul Daegu FC —
2017 Ulsan Hyundai Suwon Samsung Bluewings No competition
2018 No competition FC Seoul Daejeon Citizen —
2019 FC Seoul Pohang Steelers

Titles by club

K League's principle of official statistics is that final club succeeds to predecessor club's history & records.[8]

Club Group National titles Regional titles Total
FC Seoul Central 3 (2000, 2002, 2004) 7 (2000, 2005, 2006, 2010, 2016, 2018, 2019) 10
Pohang Steelers Southern 2 (1990, 2007) 6 (2001, 2004, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2019) 8
Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma Central 1 (2001) 7 (2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2011) 8
Incheon United Central 3 (2006, 2008, 2009) 2 (2006B, 2009) 5
Jeonnam Dragons Southern — 4 (2000, 2003, 2005, 2006) 4
Jeju United Southern 1 (2005) 1 (2007B) 2
Sangju Sangmu Southern — 2 (2002, 2011) 2
Ulsan Hyundai Southern 1 (2017) — 1
Gyeongnam FC Southern — 1 (2008) 1
Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors Southern — 1 (2009B) 1
Police FC Central — 1 (2012) 1
Busan IPark Southern — 1 (2012) 1
Daegu FC Southern — 1 (2016) 1
Daejeon Citizen Southern — 1 (2018) 1

Individual awards

Most Valuable Player
Season Player Club
1990 Choi Moon-sik POSCO Atoms
2000 Kim Woo-jae Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma
2001 Back Young-chul Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma
2002 Park Dong-suk Anyang LG Cheetahs
2004 Han Dong-won FC Seoul
2005 Yoo Hyun-goo Bucheon SK
2006 Lee Keun-ho Incheon United
2007 Lee Won-jae Pohang Steelers
2008 Kang Su-il Incheon United
2009 Kim Sun-woo Incheon United

Top goalscorer
Year Player Club Goals Matches Average
1990 Kim Dong-hae Lucky-Goldstar Hwangso 7 ? ?
2000 Wang Jung-hyun Anyang LG Cheetahs 8 8 1.00
2001 Hwang In-soo Suwon Samsung Bluewings 10 13 0.77
2002 Lee Sun-woo Suwon Samsung Bluewings 7 13 0.54
2003 Back Young-chul Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma 8 13 0.62
2004 Bu Young-tae Busan IPark 8 8 1.00
2005 Han Dong-won FC Seoul 10 20 0.50
2006 Song Keun-soo Gwangju Sangmu 11 16 0.69
2007 Yoon Jun-soo Jeonnam Dragons 8 16 0.50
2008 Yoo Chang-hyun Pohang Steelers 13 23 0.57
2009 Song Je-heon Daegu FC 8 13 0.62
2010 Gomes Jeju United 7 3 2.33
2011 Jung Sung-min Gangwon FC 10 17 0.59
2012 Kim Young-hoo Police FC 11 14 0.79
2016 Han Hong-gyu Ansan Mugunghwa 9 10 0.9
2017 Kim Hee-won Seoul E-Land 11 16 0.69
2018 Kwon Ki-pyo Pohang Steelers 14 19 0.74

Top assist provider
Year Player Club Assists Matches Average
1990 Ahn Ki-chul Daewoo Royals ? ? ?
2000 Shin Jong-hyok Pohang Steelers 6 12 0.50
2001 Lee Jung-woon Pohang Steelers 5 13 0.38
2002 Kim Woo-jae Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma 6 18 0.33
2003 Park Won-jae Pohang Steelers 4 13 0.31
2004 Jang Dong-hyun Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma 5 17 0.29
2005 Yu Hyun-goo Jeju United 8 21 0.38
2006 Lee Keun-ho Incheon United 7 20 0.35
2007 Hwang Jin-sung Pohang Steelers 5 5 1.00
2008 Lee Tae-young Pohang Steelers 7 21 0.33
2009 Choi Sung-hyun Suwon Samsung Bluewings 5 7 0.71
2010 Kim Eun-hu Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors 6 10 0.60
2011 Sin Jin-ho Pohang Steelers 7 17 0.41
2012 Choi Jin-soo Ulsan Hyundai 5 10 0.50
2016 Kim Dae-won Daegu FC 5 13 0.38
2017 Kim Soo-beom Jeju United 5 9 0.56
2018 Song Min-kyu Pohang Steelers 8 18 0.44

See also

References
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