Korean K-League

FM05 Update

Competition
110Reputation
—League games
14Clubs
—Total squad value

Competition

Code
K-L
Confederation
Asia
Type
—
Level
1
Reputation
110
Status
Active
Season
— – —
Colours
#000000 #80C848
Short name
K-League
Parent competition
—
Crowd tendencies
—

Format

Partial export
Teams
14
League games
—
Promoted in
—
Relegated
—
Champions League
—
Europa League
—
Conference League
—
Play-offs
—
Maximum games
—
Joined since 2002–03
Gyeongnam FC, Incheon United
Left since 2002–03
None

Squad rules

Partial export
Registered squad
—
Home-grown
—
Club-trained
—
Foreign players
—
Under-21
—
Loans
—

Most titles

22 recorded titlesFMDB calculation
6Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma2003, 2002, 2001, 1995, 1994, 1993
4Busan I'PARK1997, 1991, 1987, 1984
3Suwon Samsung Blue Wings2004, 1999, 1998
3FC Seoul2000, 1990, 1985
3Pohang Steelers1992, 1988, 1986

Counted over every recorded season of this competition, not the page of the roll of honour below. Placings point at teams rather than clubs, because international tournaments are won by national teams. Every recorded season in this version. It records no cancelled, abandoned or joint-winner flags, so none are excluded.

Season table

In the export
Pos Team P W D L GF GA GD Points
1 Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma 44 27 10 7 85 50 35 91
2 Ulsan Hyundai 44 20 13 11 63 44 19 73
3 Suwon Samsung Blue Wings 44 19 15 10 59 46 13 72
4 Chunnam Dragons 44 17 20 7 65 48 17 71
5 Chonbuk Hyundai Motors 44 18 15 11 72 58 14 69
6 Daejeon Citizen 44 18 11 15 50 51 -1 65
7 Pohang Steelers 44 17 13 14 53 46 7 64
8 FC Seoul 44 14 14 16 69 68 1 56
9 Busan I'PARK 44 13 10 21 41 71 -30 49
10 Sangmu Bulsajo 44 13 7 24 41 60 -19 46
11 Daegu FC 44 7 16 21 38 60 -22 37
12 Bucheon SK 44 3 12 29 39 73 -34 21

Points are shown as the database stores them, including deductions, so they will not always match a total derived from wins and draws — and wins, draws and losses need not add up to games played. A blank cell is a figure the source does not record; it is never a zero.

2002–03 — full season table. Showing 12 of 12 recorded rows. Points are shown as stored.

League strength

FMDB calculation
Member clubs with the figures that size them up
Bucheon SK8098109126——£3,610—400002058
Busan I'PARK10595106126——£5,320—6000012208
Chonbuk Hyundai Motors9097109128——£12,056—424774631
Chunnam Dragons83104113135——£13,716—200006600
Daegu FC85101110125——£1,187—658577000
Daejeon Citizen80105111125——£9,932—4100014000
FC Seoul10599113136——£9,311—6608021000
Gyeongnam FC55———————6000—
Incheon United7598108126——£4,168—5025626000
Pohang Steelers110100111131——£19,699—250009891
Sangmu Bulsajo6097107129——£3,882—391186920
Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma120103114131——£16,865—190006000
Suwon Samsung Blue Wings120103123140——£24,041—4395912000
Ulsan Hyundai95104113134——£3,837—5215214000

Every club naming this competition as its current division, with the squad of the team that shares the club uid. Average ability, CA16, PA16, average age, squad value and wage bill are the FMDB's own figures over each club's whole squad; hover one for the population it was computed from. CA16 and PA16 are the means of the sixteen highest abilities and potentials, a coded potential counted at its band midpoint as on the club page. Balance is the club's authored club_finance_detail.cash; reputation, capacity and attendance are stored club figures.

Best in the league

FMDB calculation

Roll of honour

Placings point at teams, not clubs

A season links to its league table only where team_league_history records one. The top scorer is the rank-1 winner of the one award of type “Most goals scored” scoped to this competition, with the goals it records; no single award can be identified as the player of the season, so that column points to the Awards panel.

Across versions

Recorded
Korean K-League reputation across versions0100200 CM0102 RFM06 RFM10 RFM13 RFM16 RFM19 RFM22 RFM26 UReputation, CM0102 Release: 12 Reputation, CM0203 Release: 12 Reputation, CM0304 Release: 11 Reputation, CM0304 Update: 11 Reputation, FM05 Release: 110 Reputation, FM05 Update: 110 Reputation, FM06 Release: 110 Reputation, FM07 Release: 110 Reputation, FM07 Update: 110 Reputation, FM08 Release: 110 Reputation, FM09 Release: 110 Reputation, FM09 Update: 110 Reputation, FM10 Release: 110 Reputation, FM10 Update: 110 Reputation, FM11 Release: 110 Reputation, FM11 Update: 110 Reputation, FM12 Release: 115 Reputation, FM12 Update: 115 Reputation, FM13 Release: 115 Reputation, FM13 Update: 115 Reputation, FM14 Release: 115 Reputation, FM14 Update: 115 Reputation, FM15 Release: 115 Reputation, FM15 Update: 115 Reputation, FM16 Release: 115 Reputation, FM16 Update: 115 Reputation, FM17 Release: 115 Reputation, FM17 Update: 115 Reputation, FM18 Release: 115 Reputation, FM18 Update: 115 Reputation, FM19 Release: 115 Reputation, FM19 Update: 115 Reputation, FM20 Release: 115 Reputation, FM20 Update: 115 Reputation, FM21 Release: 115 Reputation, FM21 Update: 115 Reputation, FM22 Release: 118 Reputation, FM23 Release: 118 Reputation, FM24 Release: 127 Reputation, FM26 Release: 122 Reputation, FM26 Update: 122
Recorded reputation in each database where this uid resolves. Missing values remain gaps. Raw export scales may differ between versions.
Version Name as recorded
CM0102 ReleaseKorean League
CM0203 ReleaseKorean League
CM0304 ReleaseKorean K-League
CM0304 UpdateKorean K-League
FM05 ReleaseKorean K-League
FM05 UpdateKorean K-League
FM06 ReleaseKorean K-League
FM07 ReleaseK-League
FM07 UpdateK-League
FM08 ReleaseK-League
FM09 ReleaseK-League
FM09 UpdateK-League
FM10 ReleaseK-League
FM10 UpdateK-League
FM11 ReleaseK-League
FM11 UpdateK-League
FM12 ReleaseK-League
FM12 UpdateK-League
FM13 ReleaseK-League
FM13 UpdateK-League
FM14 ReleaseK LEAGUE CLASSIC
FM14 UpdateK League Classic
FM15 ReleaseHyundai Oilbank K League Classic
FM15 UpdateHyundai Oilbank K League Classic
FM16 ReleaseHyundai Oilbank K LEAGUE Classic
FM16 UpdateHyundai Oilbank K LEAGUE Classic
FM17 ReleaseHyundai Oilbank K LEAGUE Classic
FM17 UpdateHyundai Oilbank K LEAGUE Classic
FM18 ReleaseKEB Hanabank K LEAGUE Classic
FM18 UpdateKEB Hanabank K LEAGUE Classic
FM19 ReleaseKEB Hana Bank K LEAGUE 1
FM19 UpdateKEB Hana Bank K LEAGUE 1
FM20 ReleaseHana 1Q K LEAGUE 1
FM20 UpdateHana 1Q K LEAGUE 1
FM21 ReleaseHana 1Q K LEAGUE 1
FM21 UpdateHana 1Q K LEAGUE 1
FM22 ReleaseKorean Hana 1Q K LEAGUE 1
FM23 ReleaseHana 1Q K LEAGUE 1
FM24 ReleaseHana 1Q K LEAGUE 1
FM26 ReleaseHana Bank K League 1
FM26 UpdateHana Bank K League 1

Recorded competition names are shown for each version where the identity resolves.

Awards

Not in this export

No award scope in this export

Only the modern exports record which competition an award belongs to (award_scope). Sharing a nation with a competition does not make an award that competition's, so none is listed.

Awards whose award_scope names this competition. Editions flagged as having no data or not taking place are not counted. “Latest” is the award's stored season year; where that season has several editions — one per slot of a team of the year — the award page lists them.

Media prediction

Not in this export

No media predictions in this export

club_media_expectation is part of the modern exports only.

The predicted finish is the authored club_media_expectation.expected_league_finish. Last position is club_team.last_position as stored, in whatever competition the team last played, so for a club that has just joined it is not a place in this division.

Derbies in this division

0 between member clubs
Derbies whose two clubs both name this competition as their division
Derby Clubs W–D–L National reputation
No derby in this version is between two of this competition's clubs.

Derbies between two clubs that both name this competition as their current division. derby.competition_uid is empty in every loaded export, so this is the only way a derby belongs to a league. W–D–L is the first-named club's record as stored.

All-time records

FMDB calculation

Most goals and appearances in this division, summed from the playing history of every person this database records.

It counts only the people the export carries, it can include seasons the source files under this competition from before it took its current form, and some players are listed by uid because their person record is missing. The page states each of these.

See the all-time records

Member teams

Current members from club.division_uid; no comp_membership rows are recorded.

Last position is club_team.last_position as stored. The manager is the current staff_history spell at the club — the one whose end date is absent or in the future, most recent join first — never club_team.manager_index, which is a raw internal index that joins to nothing.

Teams recorded as members of this competition
Team Membership Last position Manager
Bucheon SKCurrent division13—
Busan I'PARKCurrent division7—
Chonbuk Hyundai MotorsCurrent division6—
Chunnam DragonsCurrent division4—
Daegu FCCurrent division10—
Daejeon CitizenCurrent division11—
FC SeoulCurrent division5—
Gyeongnam FCCurrent division——
Incheon UnitedCurrent division12—
Pohang SteelersCurrent division2—
Sangmu BulsajoCurrent division8—
Seongnam Ilhwa ChunmaCurrent division9—
Suwon Samsung Blue WingsCurrent division1—
Ulsan HyundaiCurrent division3—

Data wishlist for this page

13 data pointsWhole site
  • club_media_expectation, club_finance_detail Media prediction and club balances across the division Now liveThe predicted finish of every member club and each club's authored cash balance, where the version exports them.
  • player_history.division_uid All-time goals and appearances in the division Now liveAn FMDB sum over the people this database records, on its own page. Players with no person record are listed by uid; seasons the source files under this competition before it took its current form are included and dated.
  • derby, club.division_uid Derbies between member clubs Now livederby.competition_uid is empty in every export, so a derby belongs to a division when both its clubs name that division.
  • comps_competition, comps_stage and stage promotion, relegation and play-off tables Format, promotion, relegation, play-offs and qualification Needs source dataThe comps.dbc archive tables are empty in every loaded export. The format panel shows the clubs that joined and left since the latest recorded season table as an FMDB comparison, which is not a count of promotion places.
  • competition rules, nation_foreign_rule, nation_agreement Registration size, home-grown quotas, foreign-player limits and age rules Partial exportNation foreign/non-foreign definitions and agreements are exported, but do not supply the complete competition registration rules.
  • competition income and prize schedules Prize money, television distributions and sponsor Needs source dataThe current catalog does not provide these competition-level schedules and contracts.
  • competition.champions_club_uid, parent_division_uid, league_body_club_uid Current champions, parent division and organising body Needs source dataThe parent division is displayed. The champions and organising-body columns are empty in all 41 loaded databases.
  • team_league_history Recorded season tables Now liveSeason links are offered only where rows exist; stored points and missing results are preserved.
  • club.division_uid, stadium and primary-team squads League strength and leading players Now liveStrength and ability rankings use clubs naming this division, with a 100-club cap. League totals are withheld on overflow.
  • person.date_of_birth, export_meta.game_start_year Best young players in the league Now liveUnder-21s at 1 July of the exported game start year, ranked on recorded potential. Versions without a start year say so; coded potential bands are not ranked.
  • award_scope, award_type, award_history_winner Top scorer and player-of-season awards by season Now liveScoped awards are listed with their latest winner and the top scorer fills the roll of honour where exactly one most-goals award is scoped. No award type identifies a single player of the season, so that column stays empty. CSV-era exports have no award scope.
  • comp_history and Honours Titles per team over recorded history Now liveCounts use the bounded history query, not just the displayed page, and apply available edition and stage flags. Coverage is stated.
  • competition across versions, export_value_scale Recorded names and reputation across versions Now liveThese are real version records. Reputation is shown against its stated 1–200 scale where the export records one; the cross-version chart still plots raw values.

Reviewed 30 September 2026 against the current schema and page implementation. “Now live” means implemented where data is recorded; “Exported; UI pending” means the schema has data this page does not yet use. Tables and coverage vary by version. Missing values stay blank.