2019 K League 2

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K League 2
Season	2019
Champions	Gwangju FC ; (1st title)
Promoted	Gwangju FC; Busan IPark
Matches played	180
Best Player	Lee Dong-jun
Top goalscorer	Felipe ; (19 goals)
	← 2018 2020 →

The 2019 K League 2 was the seventh season of the K League 2, the second-highest division in the South Korean football league system. Its champions could be promoted to the K League 1 the next season, and second, third and fourth-placed team advanced to the promotion playoffs.

Teams

Team changes

Relegated from K League 1

Jeonnam Dragons

Promoted to K League 1

Seongnam FC

Stadiums

Ansan Greeners	Asan Mugunghwa	Bucheon FC 1995	Busan IPark	Daejeon Citizen
Ansan Wa~ Stadium	Yi Sun-sin Stadium	Bucheon Stadium	Busan Gudeok Stadium	Daejeon World Cup Stadium
Capacity: 35,000	Capacity: 17,376	Capacity: 34,456	Capacity: 12,349	Capacity: 40,535

FC Anyang	Gwangju FC	Jeonnam Dragons	Seoul E-Land	Suwon FC
Anyang Stadium	Gwangju World Cup Stadium	Gwangyang Stadium	Seoul Olympic Stadium	Suwon Sports Complex
Capacity: 17,143	Capacity: 40,245	Capacity: 13,496	Capacity: 69,950	Capacity: 11,808

Personnel and sponsoring

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

Team	Manager	Kit manufacturer	Main sponsor
Ansan Greeners	Lim Wan-sup	Lupo Finta	Ansan Government
Asan Mugunghwa	Park Dong-hyuk	Mizuno	Asan Government and Korean Police Agency
Bucheon FC 1995	Song Sun-ho	Astore	Bucheon Government
Busan IPark	Cho Deok-je	Adidas	Hyundai Development Company
Daejeon Citizen	Lee Heung-sil	Joma	Daejeon Government
FC Anyang	Kim Hyung-yul	Joma	Anyang Government
Gwangju FC	Park Jin-sub	Kelme	Gwangju Government
Jeonnam Dragons	Jeon Kyung-jun	Joma	POSCO
Seoul E-Land	Woo Sung-yong	New Balance	E-Land
Suwon FC	Kim Dae-eui	Hummel	Suwon Government

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing	Manner	Date	Incoming	Date
Daejeon Citizen	Ko Jong-soo	Sacked	21 May 2019	Park Chul (caretaker)	21 May 2019
Seoul E-Land	Kim Hyun-soo	Sacked	22 May 2019	Woo Sung-yong (caretaker)	17 June 2019
Daejeon Citizen	Park Chul	Caretaker	1 July 2019	Lee Heung-sil	1 July 2019
Jeonnam Dragons	Fabiano Soares	Resigned	27 July 2019	Jeon Kyung-jun (caretaker)	27 July 2019
Suwon FC	Kim Dae-eui	Resigned^[2]	29 October 2019	Lee Kwan-woo (caretaker)	29 October 2019

Foreign players

Restricting the number of foreign players strictly to four per team, including a slot for a player from AFC countries. A team could use four foreign players on the field each game. Players in bold are players who joined midway through the competition.

Club	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	Player 4	Asian player	Former player(s)
Ansan Greeners	Fauver	Gustavo Vintecinco			Masatoshi Ishida
Bucheon FC 1995	Nilson Júnior	Marlon de Jesús			Rodrigo Maranhão	Nan Song
Busan IPark	Diego Maurício	Rômulo	Soma Novothny	Aleksandar Šušnjar
Daejeon Citizen	Matheus Pato	Rafael Ramazotti	Aurelian Chițu			Shohrux Gadoyev Sanzhar Tursunov
FC Anyang	Alex Lima	Manuel Palacios	Mykola Kovtalyuk			Dylan Fox
Gwangju FC	Felipe	Ratinho	Willyan		Rustam Ashurmatov
Jeonnam Dragons	Bruno Baio	Bruno Nunes	Wanderson Macedo		Nick Ansell	Vedran Jugović
Seoul E-Land	Wesley Alex	Douglas Coutinho	Róbson Duarte		Chikashi Masuda
Suwon FC	Henri Anier	Chisom Egbuchulam	An Byong-jun^[a]		Jovlon Ibrokhimov	Sebastián Velásquez

^ An Byong-jun represented North Korea at international level, but he was deemed as a native player in the K League 2 by South Korean law and passport.

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or qualification
1	Gwangju FC (C, P)	36	21	10	5	59	31	+28	73	Promotion to the K League 1
2	Busan IPark (O, P)	36	18	13	5	72	47	+25	67	Qualification for the promotion playoffs semi-final
3	FC Anyang	36	15	10	11	63	50	+13	55	Qualification for the promotion playoffs first round
4	Bucheon FC 1995	36	14	9	13	49	51	−2	51	Qualification for the promotion playoffs first round
5	Ansan Greeners	36	14	8	14	46	42	+4	50
6	Jeonnam Dragons	36	13	9	14	43	47	−4	48
7	Asan Mugunghwa	36	12	8	16	42	56	−14	44
8	Suwon FC	36	11	10	15	49	55	−6	43
9	Daejeon Citizen	36	8	11	17	31	47	−16	35
10	Seoul E-Land	36	5	10	21	43	71	−28	25

Source: K League Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goals scored; 3) Goal difference; 4) Wins; 5) Head-to-head points.
(C) Champions; (O) Play-off winners; (P) Promoted

Positions by matchday

Leaders
Qualification for the promotion playoffs

Round 1–18

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Team ╲ Round
Gwangju FC	3	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	1	1	1	1	1
Busan IPark	7	6	5	6	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	1	2	2	2	2	2
FC Anyang	1	4	6	7	7	9	5	3	3	3	4	5	4	5	6	5	5	3
Asan Mugunghwa	2	5	4	2	2	3	4	7	4	5	5	4	5	4	4	4	4	4
Suwon FC	8	9	7	5	5	5	7	5	6	4	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	5
Ansan Greeners	6	7	10	9	8	6	8	8	5	6	6	6	7	7	5	6	6	6
Bucheon FC 1995	5	3	3	3	4	4	6	4	7	7	7	7	6	6	7	7	7	7
Jeonnam Dragons	10	10	8	8	9	10	10	9	9	9	9	8	8	9	8	8	8	8
Daejeon Citizen	4	2	2	4	6	7	3	6	8	8	8	9	9	8	9	9	9	9
Seoul E-Land	9	8	9	10	10	8	9	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10

Source: K League

Round 19–36

Team ╲ Round	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36
Team ╲ Round
Gwangju FC	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Busan IPark	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
FC Anyang	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	4	3	3	3	3	3	3	4	3	3	3
Bucheon FC 1995	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	8	8	6	5	5	4
Ansan Greeners	6	6	5	5	5	5	4	3	4	4	4	4	5	4	3	4	4	5
Jeonnam Dragons	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	7	6	7	7	6	6
Asan Mugunghwa	4	4	4	4	4	4	5	5	5	5	5	5	4	5	5	6	7	7
Suwon FC	5	5	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	7	8	8	8	8
Daejeon Citizen	9	9	9	9	10	10	10	10	10	10	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9
Seoul E-Land	10	10	10	10	9	9	9	9	9	9	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10

Source: K League

Results

Matches 1–18

Home \ Away	ANS	ANY	ASM	BUC	BIP	DJC	GWJ	JND	SEL	SUW
Ansan Greeners	—	1–1	1–0	0–1	0–0	1–2	0–0	3–0	1–0	2–3
FC Anyang	0–0	—	0–1	2–2	1–3	2–1	0–1	2–1	2–1	2–0
Asan Mugunghwa	1–1	0–2	—	3–2	2–5	1–0	0–0	1–1	3–1	1–2
Bucheon FC 1995	1–2	1–0	0–0	—	1–3	1–1	0–1	1–1	3–2	1–0
Busan IPark	3–0	1–4	2–4	3–3	—	2–1	1–1	1–0	4–1	2–2
Daejeon Citizen	1–3	0–2	0–1	1–0	0–5	—	0–1	1–2	0–0	0–2
Gwangju FC	3–1	2–2	4–0	4–1	1–1	0–0	—	2–0	3–1	2–1
Jeonnam Dragons	1–3	1–0	0–3	1–0	1–0	1–3	1–2	—	1–1	1–2
Seoul E-Land	1–1	4–1	0–2	1–2	3–3	1–1	0–2	0–1	—	1–1
Suwon FC	2–1	1–2	2–0	0–3	1–2	2–0	0–2	1–1	3–1	—

Source: K League
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Matches 19–36

Home \ Away	ANS	ANY	ASM	BUC	BIP	DJC	GWJ	JND	SEL	SUW
Ansan Greeners	—	1–3	1–2	1–2	2–0	0–2	2–1	1–0	2–0	1–2
FC Anyang	3–2	—	4–1	1–2	2–2	0–0	7–1	4–2	5–2	0–2
Asan Mugunghwa	1–1	1–4	—	2–3	0–1	0–1	0–1	1–0	3–2	1–1
Bucheon FC 1995	1–2	2–2	3–0	—	0–2	1–3	1–1	0–3	3–2	1–1
Busan IPark	0–2	1–1	3–2	2–2	—	2–0	3–2	0–0	3–1	2–0
Daejeon Citizen	0–0	1–1	0–1	1–2	0–0	—	3–1	1–2	1–0	2–4
Gwangju FC	2–1	4–0	3–1	1–0	1–1	0–0	—	1–2	3–1	2–0
Jeonnam Dragons	2–1	2–0	2–0	0–1	3–3	2–0	1–1	—	0–1	3–2
Seoul E-Land	1–3	2–0	1–1	1–0	3–5	2–2	0–2	2–2	—	2–1
Suwon FC	2–3	1–1	2–2	1–2	0–1	2–2	0–3	2–2	1–1	—

Source: K League
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Promotion playoffs

When the first round or semi-final match was finished as a draw, its winners were decided on the regular season rankings without extra time and the penalty shoot-out.

Bracket

First round			Semi-final			Final

			2	Busan IPark	1

			3	FC Anyang	0
3	FC Anyang	1

4	Bucheon FC 1995	1
						Busan IPark	0	2	2

						Gyeongnam FC	0	0	0

First round

23 November 2019

15:00 KST

FC Anyang	1–1	Bucheon FC 1995
Palacios 11'	Report	An Tae-hyun 78'

Anyang Stadium, Anyang

Attendance: 6,017

Referee: Park Byung-jin

Semi-final

30 November 2019

14:00 KST

Busan IPark	1–0	FC Anyang
Rômulo 61'	Report

Busan Gudeok Stadium, Busan

Attendance: 8,570

Referee: Kim Yong-woo

Final

The promotion-relegation playoffs were held between the winners of the 2019 K League 2 playoffs and the 11th-placed club of the 2019 K League 1.

5 December 2019

19:00 KST

Busan IPark	0–0	Gyeongnam FC
	Report

Busan Gudeok Stadium, Busan

Attendance: 8,249

Referee: Kim Dae-yong

8 December 2019

14:00 KST

Gyeongnam FC	0–2	Busan IPark
	Report	Rômulo 78' (pen.) Novothny 90+5'

Changwon Football Center

Attendance: 5,397

Referee: Go Hyung-jin

Busan IPark won 2–0 on aggregate and were promoted to the K League 1, while Gyeongnam FC were relegated to the K League 2.

Player statistics

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Felipe	Gwangju FC	19
2	Chisom Egbuchulam	Suwon FC	18
3	Cho Gue-sung	FC Anyang	14
4	Lee Dong-jun	Busan IPark	13
	Rômulo	Busan IPark
	Lee Jeong-hyeop	Busan IPark
	Alex Lima	FC Anyang
8	Ko Moo-yeol	Asan Mugunghwa	12
8	Soma Novothny	Busan IPark	12

Top assist providers

Rank	Player	Club	Assists
1	Jeong Jae-hee	Jeonnam Dragons	10
2	Chang Hyuk-jin	Ansan Greeners	9
3	Kim Sang-won	FC Anyang	8
4	Park Jong-woo	Busan IPark	7
	Baek Sung-dong	Suwon FC
	Lee Dong-jun	Busan IPark
7	Kim Min-kyun	Seoul E-Land	6
7	Manuel Palacios	FC Anyang	6
9	Ju Se-jong	Asan Mugunghwa	5
	Róbson	Seoul E-Land
	Alex Lima	FC Anyang
	Kim Ryun-do	Bucheon FC 1995

Attendance

Attendants who entered with free ticket were not counted.

Pos	Team	Total	High	Low	Average	Change
1	Busan IPark	71,000	7,724	1,386	3,944	+59.3%^†
2	FC Anyang	65,597	11,098	835	3,644	+142.1%^†
3	Asan Mugunghwa	56,494	6,040	1,361	3,139	+78.9%^†
4	Gwangju FC	56,669	5,408	903	3,148	+106.8%^†
5	Seoul E-Land	56,114	4,752	1,316	3,117	+352.4%^†
6	Ansan Greeners	53,438	7,714	619	2,969	+63.1%^†
7	Suwon FC	45,674	4,383	1,477	2,537	+35.2%^†
8	Bucheon FC 1995	39,946	3,987	771	2,219	+116.3%^†
9	Jeonnam Dragons	41,709	4,882	48	2,317	−30.2%^†
10	Daejeon Citizen	35,589	4,370	655	1,977	+20.2%^†
	League total	522,130	11,098	48	2,901	+73.5%^†