Whichever teams are relegated from K1.... But I see what you mean. No, there was talk of Seoul Utd or Cheonan joining a few years ago, but nothing really progressed from there.
OK Yes I was thinking of any of the 2 rumours had come any longer in the progress. J2 also had 4/5 years where always no new clubs joined the league suddenly everybody wanted to be there, but maybe oney men needs to see the league be a success before they invest in a new club.......
Tbh I don't think we'll see many new clubs. The trend has been cutting costs for awhile now. Ilhwa got rid of their club, Pohang sold their best player, Samsung shifted their club's ownership to a smaller division, and there was talk of winding up Incheon. Investing in clubs isn't really popular right now. Ofc there are exceptions like city of Seongnam stepping into buy Ilhwa's team and E-land, but like I said those are exceptions.
Hi, i'm new to this forum. I wanted to ask, what do you think about the new Seoul E-Land FC joining in 2015?
Teams imo have the mentality of "let's not get in the red too much" instead of profit-driven mentality. K-league teams just do not invest enough. Have to take risks in investments. I'm hoping e-land brings some aggressiveness in management and try to make the effort to profit as a club and club only instead of indirectly marketing their parent entity brand.
I agree that it's good to start in the Challenge. Some of you may already be aware but for those that are not. Seoul E-Land FC are providing content for the English speaking markets on social media. If you're interested here they are... The Facebook is targeting by language: https://www.facebook.com/SeoulEland There is also a new English specific Twitter account: https://www.twitter.com/SeoulEland As you can see above, manager Martin Rennie is also active in social media. His links are http://www.facebook.com/Renniecoaching http://www.twitter.com/Renniecoaching Cheers
Let's see how far they could go with that. My prediction is that English content updates won't even last a year. They could try to be global all they want but when the league isn't, it's useless attempt
Who said anything about global? The English speaking markets of Korea, there are large expat communities. As far as global is concerned, the league is now changing that, they have launched the English website and are launching an English speaking Twitter account. The reason the league is currently not global is because it's hard for people elsewhere to find content they understand. The interest for world football is there, just look at the buzz around the Indian Super League. If it's made available, people around the world like to know about it. If the leagues don't want to cater for English speaking countries then websites like Goal.com won't bother, it has to change from the source and that's what the league has finally realized. If they sustain it then you will see the major publications begin to take an interest. Of course this will take time, but everything starts with that first step.
I agree with everything you just said. Although I don't think the rest of the league will follow suit anytime soon.
Probably not, hopefully they see the benefits of it. If everyone gets on board then it can be great for Korean football in general.
I wouldn't call expats in korea as large base; certainty not big enough. I know there's a expat k-league forum but last time I visited that forum many years ago, it wasn't that busy of a forum
And you got to be honest. Reason why k-league haven't gone global is because even Koreans refuse to watch the k-league. You can't be global if you can't even be local
I dunno. It seems like a low investment - high potential yield to me. If the interest IS there in the global/expat market, why not tap into it? All it will take is one decent English speaking person to translate the content on their website. Won't know how much interest there is/will be until you market it. I see no harm in this. Edit: plus, I don't think their goal is to sell shirts overseas. I think it's more about making the team more accessible.
I see no harm in it as well. I support it. I'm just not sure if it will be successful but it certainly doesn't hurt.
It all depends on what the bench mark for success is, if the goal is to raise further awareness to the K League and get the larger online magazines to write more about the K League then the goals are very achievable. I know myself and many others that always try and watch local games when traveling to different parts of the world, so if the K League and clubs can raise awareness to people like me then it can't be a bad thing for the league. Of course it'll be a long journey but anything worth doing takes time. There are millions of people that travel to Seoul & Korea in general every year, you can bet your bottom dollar there's quite a few football fans in that bunch. Why not try and get them interested enough to go to a game?
4 consecutive wins & 2nd place currently for FC Anyang! Anyang 3-1 Daejeon (fcking Cho Min-gook giving away Choi Jin-soo ) Current Standings
Daejeon wont even be able to celebrate at the Purple Arena because they wont be able to use until early next year
Adios to Byun Sung-hwan Daejeon might have to wait again for the league title as they are currently losing to Gwangju FC 1-0.
Byun Sung-hwan starts on his final match If anyone wants to the matches then http://www.pan-live.com/Page/?Page=Main
[Latest League Ladder] Tight fight for the play-off ticket. Ansan only need a win to be guaranteed a play-off spot while Anyang, Gangwon and Gwangju in virtually a 3 way fight for the 2 left spots.
As a Daejeon fan I'm alarmed... by our recent form... with Ansan keeps on winning and we keep on losing, then we will not clinch the title.. Daejeon's lead striker and the K-League Ch lead striker Adriano is out for 3 games with a suspension, first of which was yesterday's game... Daejeon can't finish without him...