R-League

R-League
Countries Korea Republic
Founded 1990
Number of teams 15
Current champions Incheon United Reserves
(2009)
2011 R-League

Korea Professional Football Reserve League (Hangul: R리그), or R-League for short, is the league for reserve teams of the top football clubs in South Korea.

The league started in 1990 and consisted of the five reserve teams of the K-League member clubs -POSCO Atoms, Yukong Kokkiri, Daewoo Royals, Hyundai Horang-i and Lucky-Goldstar Hwangso.[1][2] POSCO Atoms won the inaugural title, finishing two point ahead of Yukong Kokkiri to lift the crown.[3] But league was lived just for 1 years and reserve teams participated in semi-professional tournament such as National Football Championship.[4]

The competition was relaunched in a different format in 2000. Nine reserve teams were divided into two groups, Central and South. Each team in the same group met each one of the other teams four times.

In 2001, National Police Agency FC joined the league and Gwangju Sangmu's reserve team joined in 2002.

For the 2009 season, The League was rename to R-League[5] and thirteen of the fifteen K-League clubs are fielding reserve sides in the league along with the National Police Agency FC team, giving a total of fourteen participating sides. K-League newcomers Gangwon FC and Jeju United are the two sides not entering teams in 2009.

The part of advance arrangements for promotion and relegation in 2013 season, the 2011 season will be the last season of R-League.[6]

Contents

Members for 2011 season

The following 16 clubs will compete in the R-League during the 2011 season.

A Group B Group
Daejeon Citizen Reserves Busan I'Park Reserves
FC Seoul Reserves Chunnam Dragons Reserves
Gangwon FC Reserves Daegu FC Reserves
Incheon United Reserves Gyeongnam FC Reserves
Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors Reserves Jeju United Reserves
Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma Reserves Pohang Steelers Reserves
Suwon Samsung Bluewings Reserves Sangju Sangmu Phoenix Reserves
National Police Agency Ulsan Hyundai Reserves

Previous winners

Titles By Season

Season Winner Runner-up MVP
1990 POSCO Atoms Reserves Yukong Kokkiri Reserves Choi Moon-Sik (POSCO Atoms)
1991–1999
No Competition
2000 Anyang LG Cheetahs Reserves Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma Reserves Kim Woo-Jae (Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma)
2001 Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma Reserves Anyang LG Cheetahs Reserves Back Young-Chul (Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma)
2002 Anyang LG Cheetahs Reserves Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma Reserves Park Dong-Suk (Anyang LG Cheetahs)
2003
No winner (Final match was not held)
2004 FC Seoul Reserves Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma Reserves Han Dong-Won (FC Seoul)
2005 Bucheon SK Reserves FC Seoul Reserves Yoo Hyun-Goo (Bucheon SK)
2006 Incheon United Reserves Busan I'Park Reserves Lee Keun-Ho (Incheon United)
2007 Pohang Steelers Reserves Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma Reserves Lee Won-Jae (Pohang Steelers)
2008 Incheon United Reserves Pohang Steelers Reserves Kang Su-Il (Incheon United)
2009 Incheon United Reserves Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma Reserves Kim Sun-Woo (Incheon United)
2010
No winner (Final match was not held)

Titles By Club

Club Winners Runners-up
FC Seoul Reserves 3 (2000, 2002, 2004) 2 (2001, 2005)
Incheon United Reserves 3 (2006, 2008, 2009) 0
Pohang Steelers Reserves 2 (1990, 2007) 1 (2008)
Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma Reserves 1 (2001) 5 (2000, 2002, 2004, 2007, 2009)
Jeju United Reserves 1 (2005) 1 (1990)
Busan I'Park Reserves 0 1 (2006)

See also

References

  1. ^ "프로축구 2군리그 5개구단 내년 창설 (Korean)". Mail Business Newspaper. 1989-12-06. http://dna.naver.com/viewer/index.nhn?articleId=1989120600099216009&editNo=1&printCount=1&publishDate=1989-12-06&officeId=00009&pageNo=16&printNo=7312&publishType=00020. 
  2. ^ "도시연고제 도입 등 탈바꿈 시도 (Korean)". K-League Official Website. http://www.kleague.com/kleague/kleague_about_k_seazon1990.aspx. 
  3. ^ "프로축구 2군 리그 종료 포항제철, 첫 우승 차지 (Korean)". Monthly Football. 1990-11. http://blog.naver.com/zxnmbvc/20104682425. 
  4. ^ "대우2군 "프로가 한수위" (Korean)". Donga Newspaper. 1991-11-26. http://dna.naver.com/viewer/index.nhn?articleId=1991112600209217002&editNo=2&printCount=1&publishDate=1991-11-26&officeId=00020&pageNo=17&printNo=21661&publishType=00020. 
  5. ^ "K-리그-2군 리그 ‘R-리그(Reserve League), 30일 개막 (Korean)". K-League Official Website. 2009-03-30. http://www.kleague.com/news/kleague/view.aspx?pg=32&u=21021. 
  6. ^ "R리그 내년부터 폐지 왜?" (in Korean). Sports Dong-a. 2011-09-16. http://sports.donga.com/3/all/20110915/40342680/3. 
  7. ^ "The Official K-League Almanac (Korean)". K-League editorial division. 

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