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Yahoo
3 days ago
- Sport
- Yahoo
Are Daegu FC's days in the sun all but done?
Daegu FC have a double-digit points deficit from safety, sitting rock bottom of the division heading into Friday's trip to the capital to take on FC Seoul in Round 25 of the Hana Bank K League 1 season. With such a chasm to overcome, are Daegu's days in the sun all but done? Stuck on three wins, Daegu FC are 13 points behind FC Anyang in 11th heading into Friday's Round 25 match against FC Seoul. The Sky Blues are 14 behind Suwon FC in 10th and then 15 behind Jeju SK in ninth, meaning that absolute safety, clear of any relegation playoff, is 16 points ahead of them. Historically, there have only been three other K League 1 teams in this position, with a double-digit deficit in points, heading into Round 25. What happened to them? 2015 - Daejeon Citizen At this stage in the 2015 season, Daejeon Citizen were rock bottom on just eight points following one win and five draws. The Purples were 12 points behind 11th (the only relegation playoff place), and 17 behind absolute safety. Daejeon only added one more win pre-split - two more after - to end the season seven points behind Busan in 11th, but 23 behind a safe Gwangju FC in 10th. Daejeon were relegated that year and it took them eight years to escape K League 2. The following season, following Suwon FC's first-ever promotion to the top flight, the Castle Park club were sat bottom with 19 points, five points from 11th but 10 points from safety. At this point in the campaign (24 matches played), Suwon had won four and drawn seven. They would get four more wins pre-split but just two more in what was then referred to as the Relegation Round. The season culminated with them going down, four points behind Seongnam in 11th and six behind Incheon in 10th. Suwon returned to K League 1 in 2021 and have stayed in the division ever since, despite one or two relegation battles. The 2022 season was one for sorrow for the Magpies, sitting bottom with 15 points, eight behind 11th and 10th - with third-bottom added as a relegation-playoff place. Seongnam had won just three games by this point in the season, and had added just four more by season's end to finish eight points behind 11th, 14 behind 10th, and 16 behind Daegu in ninth. Seongnam have been in K League 2 ever since.
New Straits Times
4 days ago
- Sport
- New Straits Times
Former South Korea coach Shin takes over at Ulsan HD
LONDON: South Korean champions Ulsan HD have appointed former national team manager Shin Tae-yong as their coach, the K-League club said on Tuesday. The 54-year-old replaces Kim Pan-gon, who left Ulsan by mutual consent after the weekend's 3-2 loss to Suwon FC. Shin, who led South Korea at the 2018 World Cup and most recently worked as Indonesia coach, takes over with Ulsan seventh in the standings, 23 points adrift of leaders Jeonbuk Motors after 24 matches. Kim, the former Harimau Malaya coach, left after 13 months in the role having replaced Hong Myung-bo following his appointment as South Korea coach in July last year. Kim guided the club to the league title last season and was in charge during their involvement in the Club World Cup in the United States in June.
Korea Herald
01-08-2025
- Sport
- Korea Herald
K League champions Ulsan HD part ways with head coach Kim Pan-gon
The three-time defending South Korean football champions Ulsan HD FC announced Friday they have terminated their contract with head coach Kim Pan-gon, barely a year after hiring him. Ulsan HD said the decision was reached through a mutual agreement between the club and the departing coach. Kim will coach his final match at 7 p.m. Saturday against Suwon FC at Munsu Football Stadium in Ulsan, some 300 kilometers southeast of Seoul. Ulsan HD brought in Kim on July 28 last year to replace Hong Myung-bo, who had left for the South Korean men's national team after coaching Ulsan HD to back-to-back K League 1 titles in 2022 and 2023. They were in their season-low fourth place when Kim was hired, but won eight of their first 11 matches under the new coach to claim their third consecutive title. Kim had played for Ulsan's championship squad in 1996, making him the first man to win the league title with Ulsan both as player and head coach. This year, Ulsan HD put together an early three-match winning streak, seemingly on their way to another title, before fading away badly. They are winless in their past six league matches, leaving them in seventh place among 12 clubs with 31 points -- 23 behind the league-leading Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors with 15 matches left. Kim had been under pressure to step down for weeks. When he coached Team K League in a friendly match against Newcastle United on Wednesday, some Ulsan HD fans chanted, "Kim Pan-gon, get out!" before the kickoff. Kim said after the match he hadn't heard the chants and said he would try to right the ship in August. Former South Korean national team head coach Shin Tae-yong is believed to be in line to succeed Kim, who claimed he'd found about his dismissal through a media report Thursday before the club had even contacted him. Also Friday, Ulsan HD CEO Kim Gwang-guk resigned after 10 years on the job.
