2014 FC Seoul season

FC Seoul

2014 season
Chairman	Huh Chang-soo
Manager	Choi Yong-soo
K League Classic	3rd
FA Cup	Runners-up
AFC Champions League	Semi-finals
Top goalscorer	League: Yun Il-lok (7) All: Yun Il-lok (10)
Highest home attendance	46,549 vs Suwon (League, 12 July)
Lowest home attendance	3,115 vs Incheon (FA Cup, 30 April)
Average home league attendance	16,867
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The 2014 season is FC Seoul's 31st season in the K League Classic.

Pre-season

FC Seoul had a first winter training from 7 January 2014 to 27 January 2014 in Guam^[1]

Pre-season match results

Type	Date	Opponents	Scorers	Result	Score	Notes
Practice matches during winter training spell in Kagoshima, Japan	5 February 20140	Ehime FC	W	2–1	Osmar Ibáñez, Sergio Escudero
	7 February 20140	Kamatamare Sanuki	W	2–1	Sergio Escudero, Kim Hyun-sung
	10 February 20140	Shimizu S-Pulse	L	1–3	Yun Ju-tae
	12 February 20140	Urawa Red Diamonds	L	0–2
			L	2–3	Rafael Costa (2)
	15 February 20140	Kyoto Sanga F.C.	L	2–4	Yun Ju-tae, Go Yo-han

Match results

Fixtures and Results at FC Seoul Official Website (in English)

K League Classic

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors !Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors (C) (Q)	38	24	9	5	60	22	+38	81	Qualification to 2015 AFC Champions League Group stage
2	Suwon Samsung Bluewings !Suwon Samsung Bluewings (Q)	38	19	10	9	52	37	+15	67
3	FC Seoul !FC Seoul (Q)	38	15	13	10	42	28	+14	58	Qualification to 2015 AFC Champions League Third qualifying round
4	Pohang Steelers !Pohang Steelers	38	16	10	12	50	39	+11	58
5	Jeju United !Jeju United	38	14	12	12	39	36	+3	54
6	Ulsan Hyundai !Ulsan Hyundai	38	13	11	14	44	43	+1	50
7	Jeonnam Dragons !Jeonnam Dragons	38	14	9	15	48	53	−5	51
8	Busan IPark !Busan IPark	38	10	13	15	37	49	−12	43
9	Seongnam FC !Seongnam FC (Q)	38	9	13	16	32	39	−7	40	Qualification to 2015 AFC Champions League Group stage 1
10	Incheon United !Incheon United	38	8	16	14	33	46	−13	40
11	Gyeongnam FC !Gyeongnam FC (R)	38	7	15	16	30	52	−22	36	Qualification for relegation play-offs
12	Sangju Sangmu !Sangju Sangmu (R)	38	7	13	18	39	62	−23	34	Relegation to 2015 K League Challenge

Updated to games played on 5 December 2015.
Source: []
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Results summary

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
38	15	13	10	42	28	+14	58	6	7	6	20	14	+6	9	6	4	22	14	+8

Last updated: 30 November 2014.
Source: Competitive matches

Results by round

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38
Ground	H	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	A	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	H	H	A	H	H	A
Result	L	D	L	W	L	D	L	D	L	W	L	W	D	D	W	D	W	D	L	W	W	W	D	W	W	W	D	D	W	L	L	W	D	L	W	D	D	W
Position	8	10	10	9	9	9	11	11	11	10	11	9	9	9	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	6	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	4	5	4	4	4	3

Last updated: 30 November 2014.
Source: Competitive matches
Ground: A = Away; H = Home. Result: D = Draw; L = Loss; W = Win; P = Postponed.

Matches

FA Cup

AFC Champions League

Group Stage

Group F

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
FC Seoul	6	3	2	1	9	6	+3	11
Sanfrecce Hiroshima	6	2	3	1	9	8	+1	9
Beijing Guoan	6	1	3	2	7	8	−1	6
Central Coast Mariners	6	2	0	4	4	7	−3	6

Knockout Stage

Round of 16

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Season statistics

K League Classic records

Season	Teams	Final Position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Manager
2014	12	3rd	38	15	13	10	42	28	+14	58	Choi Yong-soo

All competitions records

Seasoan	Teams	K League Classic	FA Cup	AFC Champions League	Manager
2014	12	3rd	Runners-up	Semi-finals	Choi Yong-soo

Attendance records

Season	Season Total / Average Att.	K League Classic Total / Average Att.	FA Cup Total / Average Att.	ACL Total / Average Att.	Friendly Match Att.	Att. Ranking	Notes
2014	421,631 / 15,058	320,470 / 16,867	36,901 / 12,300	64,2640 / 10,710	46,722	K League Season Total Att. 2nd

• Season total attendance is K League Classic, FA Cup, AFC Champions League in the aggregate and friendly match attendance is not included.

Squad statistics

Top 5 Goal Scorers

Pos	K League Classic	FA Cup	AFC Champions League	Total	Notes
1	Yun Il-lok (7 / 27)	Ko Kwang-min (2 / 5)	Yun Il-lok (3 / 10)	Yun Il-lok (10 / 40)
2	Escudero (6 / 32)	Park Hee-seong (1 / 1) Shim Je-hyeok (1 / 1)	Rafael (2 / 5)	Escudero (9 / 48)
3	Molina (5 / 19)	Yun Ju-tae (1 / 2)	Escudero (2 / 11)	Molina (5 / 27)
4	Go Yo-han (4 / 32)	Escudero (1 / 5) Kim Ju-young (1 / 5) Lee Woong-hee (1 / 5)	Yun Ju-tae (1 / 4)	Yun Ju-tae (4 / 16)
5	Éverton (3 / 16)	N/A	Kang Seung-jo (1 / 7)	Go Yo-han (4 / 44)
			Go Yo-han (1 / 9 ) Kim Chi-woo (1 / 9 ) Osmar (1 / 11)

Top 5 Assist Makers

Pos	K League Classic	Total	Notes
1	Escudero (4 / 32)	Escudero (4 / 32)
2	Molina (3 / 19)	Molina (3 / 19)
3	Ko Kwang-min (3 / 20)	Ko Kwang-min (3 / 20)
4	Kim Chi-woo (3 / 25)	Kim Chi-woo (3 / 25)
5	Go Yo-han (3 / 32)	Go Yo-han (3 / 32)

Coaching staff

Position	Name	Notes
Manager	Choi Yong-soo
Assistant Manager	Vacant
Coach	Kim Seong-jae
	Lee Ki-hyung
	Kim Han-yoon
	Adilson dos Santos
Goalkeeping Coach	Weon Jong-teok
Fitness Coach	Kanno Atsushi
U-18 & U-15 Team Manager	Choi Gi-bong
U-18 Team Coach	Yun Dae-sung
U-18 Team Goalkeeping Coach	Leandro
U-15 Team Coach	Chung Sang-nam
U-15 Team Goalkeeping Coach	Cho Jun-ho
Chief Scout	Kim Hyun-tae
Scout	Lee Won-jun
	Jung Jae-yoon
	Kim Sang-moon
	Seo Min-woo

Players

Team squad

As of 31 December 2014, FC Seoul's all players registered in 2014 season.

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Kim Yong-dae 2 DF Choi Hyo-jin 3 DF Lee Woong-hee 4 DF Kim Ju-young 5 DF Cha Du-ri 6 DF Kim Jin-kyu (captain) 7 DF Kim Chi-woo 8 MF Moon Ki-han (Discharged) 9 FW Sergio Escudero 10 FW Rafael Costa (Out) 10 FW Éverton Santos (In) 11 FW Mauricio Molina 13 MF Go Yo-han 14 FW Park Hee-seong 15 DF Cho Min-woo (Out) 15 MF Choi Jung-han (In) 16 MF Kang Seung-jo 17 MF Choi Hyun-tae (Conscripted) 18 FW Kim Hyun-sung 19 FW Yun Ju-tae 20 MF Han Tae-you 21 DF Sim Sang-min 22 MF Koh Myong-jin 23 GK Han Il-koo 24 MF Yun Il-lok

No. Position Player 25 MF Kim Dong-suk 26 DF Kim Nam-chun 27 MF Ko Kwang-min 28 DF Osmar Ibáñez 29 MF Lee Sang-hyeob 30 DF Lee Jun-hyeong 31 GK Yu Sang-hun 32 MF Jung Seung-yong 33 DF Kim Woo-hyun 34 FW Jung Dong-cheol 35 MF Choi Myung-hun 36 DF Lee Taig-ki (Out) 36 FW Jung Jo-gook (Discharged) 37 MF Cho Nam-ki 38 MF Yoon Hyun-oh (Out) 38 GK Yang Han Been (In) 39 MF Hwang Sin-young (Out) 39 DF Kim Dong-woo (Discharged) 40 FW Shim Je-hyeok 41 GK Kim Chol-ho 42 DF Hwang Hyun-soo 43 FW Kang Jung-hun (Out) 43 MF Kim Won-sik (Discharged) 44 DF Song Seung-ju (Discharged)

Out on loan & military service

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player MF Moon Dong-ju (to Ehime FC until December 2014) DF Cho Min-woo (to Gangwon FC until December 2014) MF Yoon Hyun-oh (to Gangneung FC until December 2014) MF Rafael Costa (to Ponte Preta until December 2014)

No. Position Player DF Kim Dong-woo (to Ansan Police until September 2014 / Discharged) DF Song Seung-ju (to Ansan Police until September 2014 / Discharged) MF Moon Ki-han (to Ansan Police until September 2014 / Discharged) MF Kim Won-sik (to Ansan Police until September 2014 / Discharged) FW Jung Jo-gook (to Ansan Police until September 2014 / Discharged) MF Lee Jae-kwon (to Ansan Police until September 2015)

• In : Transferred from other teams in the middle of season.
• Out : Transferred to other teams in the middle of season.
• Discharged : Transferred from Sangju Sangmu and Ansan Police for military service in the middle of season. (Registered in 2014 season)
• Conscripted : Transferred to Sangju Sangmu and Ansan Police for military service after end of season.

Transfers

In

#	Name	POS	Moving from	Mode	Window	Period	Fee	Notes
1	Cho Min-woo	DF	V-Varen Nagasaki	Loan return	Winter (End of the 2013 season)		N/A
2	Kang Jung-hun	FW	Gangwon FC	Loan return	Winter (End of the 2013 season)		N/A
3	Osmar Ibáñez	DF	Buriram United	Transfer	Winter (2014-01-05)	3 years	Undisclosed
4	Rafael Costa	FW	Figueirense	Transfer	Winter (2014-01-19)	4 years	R$2,000,000[2][3]
5	Lee Woong-hee	DF	Daejeon Citizen	Transfer	Winter (2014-01-13)	Undisclosed	Traded for Lee Kwang-jin
6	Kim Dong-suk	MF	Ulsan Hyundai	Transfer	Winter (2014-01-28)	Undisclosed	Traded for Choi Tae-uk
7	Choi Jung-han	MF	Oita Trinita	Free transfer (Contract terminated)	Summer (2014-07-07)	Undisclosed	Free
8	Éverton Santos	FW	Figueirense	Transfer	Summer (2014-07-17)	Undisclosed	Undisclosed
9	Yang Han-been	GK	Seongnam FC	Free transfer (Contract terminated)	Summer (2014-07-29)	Undisclosed	Free
10	Jung Jo-gook	FW	Ansan Police	Return from military service	N/A (2014-09-26)		N/A
11	Lee Jong-min	DF	Ansan Police	Return from military service	N/A (2014-09-26)		N/A
12	Moon Ki-han	MF	Ansan Police	Return from military service	N/A (2014-09-26)		N/A
13	Song Seung-ju	DF	Ansan Police	Return from military service	N/A (2014-09-26)		N/A
14	Kim Won-sik	MF	Ansan Police	Return from military service	N/A (2014-09-26)		N/A

Rookie Draft & Free Agent

#	Name	POS	Moving from	Mode	Notes
1	Jung Dong-cheol	DF	Kyung Hee University	Youth system (After Univ.)	FC Seoul U-18 Team (2011 Draft)
2	Choi Myung-hun	MF	Soongsil University	Youth system (After Univ.)	FC Seoul U-18 Team (2012 Draft)
3	Hwang Hyun-soo	DF	Osan High School	Youth system	FC Seoul U-18 Team
4	Yoon Hyun-oh	MF	Osan High School	Youth system	FC Seoul U-18 Team
5	Kim Chol-ho	GK	Osan High School	Youth system	FC Seoul U-18 Team
6	Shim Je-hyeok	FW	Osan High School	Youth system	FC Seoul U-18 Team
7	Park Min-gyu	DF	Osan High School	Youth system (Univ.)	FC Seoul U-18 Team
8	Park Jun-Young	DF	Osan High School	Youth system (Univ.)	FC Seoul U-18 Team
9	Yun Ju-tae	MF	FSV Frankfurt	Regular (1st)
10	Kim Woo-hyun	DF	Korea University	Regular (3rd)
11	Lee Jun-hyeong	DF	Myongji University	Extra
12	Sim Sang-min	DF	Chung-Ang University	Rookie Free Agent

• (Univ.) means player who go to university then back to FC Seoul.
• (After Univ.) means player who is joined FC Seoul after entering university.

Out

#	Name	POS	Moving to	Mode	Window	Period	Fee	Notes
1	Dejan Damjanović	FW	Jiangsu Guoxin-Sainty	Transfer	Winter (2013-12-26)	2 years (?)	$4,120,000
2	Ha Dae-sung	MF	Beijing Guoan	Transfer	Winter (2014-01-03)	3 years	$1670,000
3	Jang Hyun-woo	DF	Sangju Sangmu	Military service (Contract terminated)	Winter (2014-01-03)
4	Kim Eun-do	GK	Chungju Hummel	Free transfer (Contract terminated)	Winter (2014-01-03)	Undisclosed	Free	Free agent
5	Choi Bong-won	DF	FC Slovan Liberec	Free transfer (Contract terminated)	Winter (2014-01-03)	Undisclosed	Free	Free agent
6	Choi Won-wook	DF	Unknown	Contract terminated	Winter (2014-01-03)			Free agent
7	Park Seung-ryeol	MF	Unknown	Contract terminated	Winter (2014-01-03)			Free agent
8	Shin Hak-young	MF	Unknown	Contract terminated	Winter (2014-01-03)			Free agent
9	Roh Young-gyun	MF	Unknown	Contract terminated	Winter (2014-01-03)			Free agent
10	Kyung Jae-yoon	MF	Bucheon FC 1995	Free transfer (Contract terminated)	Winter (2014-01-03)	Undisclosed	Free	Free agent
11	Lee Kwang-jin	MF	Daejeon Citizen	Transfer	Winter (2014-01-08)	Undisclosed	Trade	Traded for Lee Woong-hee
12	Lee Seung-kyu	GK	Gwangju FC	Free transfer (Contract expired)	Winter (2014-01-10)	Undisclosed	Free
13	Kim Sang-pil	DF	Daejeon Citizen	Free transfer (Contract terminated)	Winter (2014-01-14)	Undisclosed	Free	Free agent
14	Joo Ik-seong	FW	Daejeon Citizen	Transfer	Winter (2014-01-14)	Undisclosed	Undisclosed
15	Choi Tae-uk	MF	Ulsan Hyundai	Free transfer (Contract expired)	Winter (2014-01-28)	2 years	Trade	Traded for Kim Dong-suk
16	Adilson dos Santos	DF	N/A	Retirement (Contract expired)	Winter (2014-01-29)			Coach appointed
17	Youn Sung-woo	MF	Gangneung City Government	Free transfer (Contract terminated)	Winter (2014-02-03)	Undisclosed	Free	Free agent
18	Yoon Seung-hyeon	MF	NK Istra 1961	Free transfer (Contract terminated)	Winter (2014-02-03)	2 years 6 months	Free	Free agent
19	Lee Taig-ki	DF	Chungju Hummel	Free transfer (Contract terminated)	Summer (2014-07-03)	Undisclosed	Free	Free agent
20	Hwang Shin-young	MF	Contract terminated	Unknown	Summer (2014-07-03)			Free agent
21	Kang Jung-hun	FW	Busan Transportation Corporation	Transfer	Summer (2014-07-11)	6 months	Undisclosed

Loan & Military service

#	Name	POS	Moving to	Window	Period	Fee	Notes
1	Lee Jae-kwon	MF	Police FC	End of the 2013 season (2013-12-??)	21 months	N/A
2	Moon Dong-ju	MF	Ehime FC	End of the 2013 season (2014-01-20)	1 year	Undisclosed
3	Cho Min-woo	DF	Gangwon FC	Summer (2014-07-04)	6 months	Undisclosed
4	Yoon Hyun-oh	MF	Gimhae FC	Summer (2014-07-11)	6 months	Undisclosed
5	Rafael Costa	FW	Ponte Preta	Summer (2014-07-17)		Undisclosed

Tactics

Starting eleven and formation

This section shows the most used players for each position considering a 3–4–2–1 or 3–4–3 formation.

Substitutes

No.	Pos.	Nat.	Name	MS	Notes
31	GK		Yu Sang-hun
2	MF		Choi Hyo-jin
16	MF		Lee Sang-hyeob
27	MF		Ko Kwang-min
10	FW		Éverton Santos
11	FW		Mauricio Molina
19	FW		Yun Ju-tae

See also

• FC Seoul

References

1. ↑ "한 눈에 보는 K리그 동계 훈련 일정" (in Korean). SportalKorea. 8 January 2014. 
2. ↑ "Rafa Costa é liberado para problemas particulares e saída pode estar perto" (in Portuguese). Globoesporte.com. 2014-01-06. 
3. ↑ "Rafa Costa é liberado para problemas particulares e saída pode estar perto" (in Portuguese). Expressomt.com. 2014-01-06. 

• FC Seoul 2014 Matchday Magazines (in Korean)

External links

• FC Seoul Official Website (in Korean) (in English)