The League will kick off on March 1st, 2018 with two marquee matchups: Jeonbuk vs. Ulsan (@ The Castle of Jeonju) Jeju vs. Suwon (TBD) The remaining opening matches will be held on 3rd and 4th of March.
After Roger Martinez, Jeong-Ho Hong is leaving Jiangsu Suning soon. The ex-Augsburg defender will be loaned to Jeonbuk Hyundai for more chances to be selected in Korea Republic squad for the World Cup 2018. pic.twitter.com/pMTnQPTIwY— Titan Sports (@titan_plus) January 8, 2018
Starting on Thursday, Mar 1? That would be great ! Do you know when the full fixture list will be announced? I could not find any information about this, not even the matches on Mar 1.
Will be announced by the end of this month or so. For additional known fixed schedule are first two Supermatches will be played on 4/8 (@ Big Bird) and 5/5 (@ Seoul WC Stadium), respectively.
Clubs in the K League can now sign 17-year-olds on professional contracts after the league’s board meeting has agreed to lower the minimum age (previously 18).— Steve Han • 한만성 (@realstevescores) January 15, 2018
We talked about this before but yes just get rid of the quota. The problem is that I doubt most of the team can afford that many foreigners. Maybe Jeonbuk can afford foreign players. Just imagine the current Jeonbuk team with 6 good Brazilians/Europeans, they'll be a super team. But yes more foreigner if it means increasing the quality. No need for the Asian quota thing. If they're legit then they can play.
what do you think about one of the most often stated concern regarding loosening foreign quotas (or abolishing them altogether)-- that is, that at least in the short-run, the national team might be hurt from potential loss of playing time for Korean players in K-league. (mod edit to remove content from ConcernedK)
Thread cleaned and ConcernedK banned. Thanks for your patience (didn't see it until his posts were reported).
I'm not. I had to use google translate. Anyways, what do you think of the Dutch model? I've been informed that Dutch clubs have no non-EU player quotas, but any non-EU player they sign must be paid at minimum 1.5x the official average pay for Dutch players. I was thinking allowing each club a maximum of 5 foreigners of any nationality and beyond that, 2.0x average Korean pay for any AFC player.
concernedk said Chook90 was Chinese. Chook90 baited him by using google translate to respond in Chinese. Concernedk responded by being a racist.
looks like K League Classic will now be K League 1 and K League Challenge will be K League 2 starting this upcoming season. http://v.sports.media.daum.net/v/20180122161636970
K1 and K2. Reading the Naver and Daum comments from the Korea FC fans/eurosnob fans who never watched the K-League are giving me hemorrhoids. The Classic and Challenge name was stupid. This is the best decision the Korea Pro Football Federation has ever done.
I'm definitely in the minority here, but I actually liked "Classic" and "Challenge". I know, I know. But it definitely makes sense to re-name it K1 and K2.
I liked it too. Similar to how I liked 'Genesis' and 'Equus' before they renamed it to a generic alphanumeric name like all other cars out there.