2008 K League

Samsung Hauzen
K League
Season	2008
Dates	Regular season:; 8 March – 9 November 2008; Championship:; 22 November – 7 December 2008
Champions	Suwon Samsung Bluewings; (4th title)
Champions League	Suwon Samsung Bluewings; FC Seoul; Ulsan Hyundai; Pohang Steelers
Matches played	182
Goals scored	485 (2.66 per match)
Best Player	Lee Woon-jae
Top goalscorer	Dudu; (15 goals)
Average attendance	2,347,897
	← 2007 2009 →

The 2008 K League was the 26th season of the K League. The regular season and playoffs' format was the same as the one used in the 2007 season. It began on March 8, and the final of the playoffs finished on 7 December.

On 2 August 2008, the first ever Jomo Cup kicked off. The K League All-Stars squared off against the J.League All-Stars at the Japan National Stadium. Lee Woon-jae was selected as the K League All-Star Team's captain and Cha Bum-kun managed the squad. The K League All-Stars won the game by a score of 3–1.^[1]

Teams

Jeonbuk Hyundai
Motors

Pohang Steelers

Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma

Suwon Samsung Bluewings

Ulsan Hyundai

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Locations of the 2008 K League clubs

General information

Club	Manager	City	Stadium	2007 season
Busan IPark	Hwang Sun-hong	Busan	Busan Asiad Stadium	13th place
Jeonnam Dragons	Park Hang-seo	Gwangyang	Gwang-Yang Stadium	10th place
Daegu FC	Byun Byung-joo	Daegu	Daegu World Cup Stadium	12th place
Daejeon Citizen	Kim Ho	Daejeon	Daejeon World Cup Stadium	6th place
FC Seoul	Şenol Güneş	Seoul	Seoul World Cup Stadium	7th place
Gwangju Sangmu	Lee Kang-jo	Gwangju	Gwangju World Cup Stadium	14th place
Gyeongnam FC	Cho Kwang-rae	Changwon	Changwon Civil Stadium	5th place
Incheon United	Chang Woe-ryong	Incheon	Incheon Munhak Stadium	9th place
Jeju United	Arthur Bernardes	Seogwipo	Jeju World Cup Stadium	11th place
Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors	Choi Kang-hee	Jeonju	Jeonju World Cup Stadium	8th place
Pohang Steelers	Sérgio Farias	Pohang	Steelyard Stadium	Champions
Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma	Kim Hak-bum	Seongnam	Seongnam 2 Stadium	Runners-up
Suwon Samsung Bluewings	Cha Bum-kun	Suwon	Suwon World Cup Stadium	3rd place
Ulsan Hyundai	Kim Jung-nam	Ulsan	Munsu Cup Stadium	4th place

Foreign players

Club	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	Former player(s)
Busan IPark	Di Fábio	Paulinho Guará	Pingo	Reinaldo Zé Augusto
Jeonnam Dragons	Adriano Chuva	Renato	Victor Simões	Sandro Hiroshi
Daegu	Eninho	Leandro	Geovane	Alexsandro Jorge Santos
Daejeon Citizen	Walter Minhoca	Selmir	Eric Obinna	Edson Araújo
FC Seoul	Adilson	Dejan Damjanović	Ceyhun Eriş	Kiki Musampa
Gwangju Sangmu Bulsajo
Gyeongnam	Almir	Índio		Wellington Silva
Incheon United	Dženan Radončić	Dragan Mladenović	Borko Veselinović
Jeju United	Ednilton Souza	Rômulo		Rafael Paty Ricardinho
Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors	Luiz Henrique	Jusuf Dajić	Aleksandar Petrović	Zé Carlos Antonio Franja Stevica Ristić
Pohang Steelers	Denílson	Stevica Ristić		Clodoaldo
Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma	Juan Carlos Arce	Dudu	Mota
Suwon Samsung Bluewings	Edu	Lucas Pereira	Mato Neretljak	Luiz Henrique
Ulsan Hyundai	Almir	Brasília	Luizinho	Ferreira Pedrão

Regular season

League table

Top six teams qualified for the championship playoffs.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Suwon Samsung Bluewings	26	17	3	6	46	24	+22	54	Qualification for the playoffs final
2	FC Seoul	26	15	9	2	44	25	+19	54	Qualification for the playoffs semi-final
3	Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma	26	15	6	5	45	21	+24	51	Qualification for the playoffs first round
4	Ulsan Hyundai	26	14	7	5	39	26	+13	49
5	Pohang Steelers	26	13	5	8	43	34	+9	44
6	Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors	26	11	4	11	39	37	+2	37
7	Incheon United	26	9	9	8	29	30	−1	36
8	Gyeongnam FC	26	10	5	11	35	39	−4	35
9	Jeonnam Dragons	26	8	5	13	26	40	−14	29
10	Jeju United	26	7	7	12	23	31	−8	28
11	Daegu FC	26	8	2	16	46	58	−12	26
12	Busan IPark	26	5	7	14	30	39	−9	22
13	Daejeon Citizen	26	3	12	11	18	35	−17	21
14	Gwangju Sangmu	26	3	7	16	22	46	−24	16

Source: RSSSF (in English), K League (in Korean)
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored

Results

Home \ Away	BIP	JND	DGU	DJC	SEO	GWJ	GNM	ICU	JJU	JHM	PHS	SIC	SSB	USH
Busan IPark	—	2–0	0–4	1–2	2–0	0–0	0–1	2–2	3–0	2–1	1–2	1–3	0–2	1–1
Jeonnam Dragons	2–1	—	2–3	1–1	3–3	1–0	1–0	1–1	0–0	2–1	2–0	0–1	0–2	2–2
Daegu FC	3–2	1–2	—	1–1	1–2	3–2	1–4	2–4	2–4	1–3	1–4	0–1	1–2	3–1
Daejeon Citizen	2–2	0–1	0–0	—	1–1	0–0	1–2	0–0	0–2	2–0	0–3	1–2	1–0	2–2
FC Seoul	2–1	3–0	3–1	1–0	—	3–1	3–1	2–1	3–1	2–2	4–1	1–0	0–2	1–1
Gwangju Sangmu	0–2	3–1	1–4	0–0	0–1	—	2–0	0–1	1–0	2–3	1–1	1–1	2–5	1–2
Gyeongnam FC	1–0	2–1	4–2	2–2	1–1	1–1	—	2–1	1–1	1–0	3–4	3–4	0–1	1–0
Incheon United	2–2	1–0	0–2	2–1	2–2	3–0	0–0	—	0–0	0–0	2–1	0–2	1–3	0–3
Jeju United	1–1	1–0	3–2	0–0	0–0	3–1	0–2	0–2	—	0–1	0–1	0–3	3–1	0–1
Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors	2–1	2–1	0–3	3–1	1–2	2–1	3–1	0–1	2–1	—	1–1	1–2	1–2	1–2
Pohang Steelers	3–2	2–1	3–0	0–0	1–2	3–1	3–1	1–2	0–1	1–1	—	2–1	0–0	3–1
Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma	1–0	4–0	4–1	3–0	1–1	3–0	3–1	0–0	0–0	1–2	2–3	—	2–2	0–1
Suwon Samsung Bluewings	1–1	3–0	3–2	2–0	0–1	2–0	3–0	2–0	2–1	2–5	1–0	0–1	—	2–0
Ulsan Hyundai	1–0	1–2	3–2	4–0	0–0	1–1	1–0	2–1	2–1	2–1	3–0	0–0	2–1	—

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

Championship playoffs

Bracket


First round			Second round		Semifinal			Final



3	Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma	1						1	Suwon Samsung Bluewings	1	2	3

6	Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors (a.e.t.)	2			2	FC Seoul (a.e.t.)	4		FC Seoul	1	1	2

			Ulsan Hyundai	1		Ulsan Hyundai	2

			Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors	0

4	Ulsan Hyundai (p)	0 (4)

5	Pohang Steelers	0 (2)

Final table

Pos	Team	Qualification
1	Suwon Samsung Bluewings (C)	Qualification for the Champions League
2	FC Seoul
3	Ulsan Hyundai
4	Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors
5	Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma
6	Pohang Steelers	Qualification for the Champions League^[a]

Source: RSSSF
(C) Champions
Notes:

^ Qualified as champions of the FA Cup.

Top scorers

This list includes goals of the championship playoffs. The official top goalscorer was decided with records of only regular season, and Dudu won the award with 15 goals.^[2]

Rank	Player	Club	Goals	Apps
1	Dudu	Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma	16	27
2	Dejan Damjanović	FC Seoul	15	29
3	Dženan Radončić	Incheon United	13	26
3	Edu	Suwon Samsung Bluewings	13	27
5	Lee Keun-ho	Daegu FC	11	26
6	Jang Nam-seok	Daegu FC	10	24
7	Luizinho	Ulsan Hyundai	9	19
7	Seo Dong-hyeon	Suwon Samsung Bluewings	9	22
9	Jung Jo-gook	FC Seoul	8	14
	Eninho	Daegu FC	8	19
	Adriano Chuva	Jeonnam Dragons	8	19
	Rômulo Marques Macedo	Jeju United	8	21
	Mota	Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma	8	22
	Cho Jae-jin	Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors	8	26

Awards

Main awards

The K League Players' Player of the Year was published by Korean edition of FourFourTwo in summer, and was not an official award of the K League, but 124 players participated in the selection process.^[3]

Award	Winner	Club
Most Valuable Player^[4]	Lee Woon-jae	Suwon Samsung Bluewings
Top goalscorer^[2]	Dudu	Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma
Top assist provider^[2]	Brasília	Ulsan Hyundai
Rookie of the Year^[4]	Lee Seung-yeoul	FC Seoul
Manager of the Year^[4]	Cha Bum-kun	Suwon Samsung Bluewings
Players' Player of the Year^[3]	Mota	Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma

Best XI

Position	Winner	Club
Goalkeeper	Lee Woon-jae	Suwon Samsung Bluewings
Defenders	Adilson	FC Seoul
	Mato Neretljak	Suwon Samsung Bluewings
	Park Dong-hyuk	Ulsan Hyundai
	Choi Hyo-jin	Pohang Steelers
Midfielders	Kim Hyeung-bum	Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors
	Cho Won-hee	Suwon Samsung Bluewings
	Ki Sung-yueng	FC Seoul
	Lee Chung-yong	FC Seoul
Forwards	Lee Keun-ho	Daegu FC
Forwards	Edu	Suwon Samsung Bluewings

Source:^[4]

Attendance

The records were calculated for the regular season.

Club	Matches	Total	Average
Suwon Samsung Bluewings	13	309,623	23,817
FC Seoul	13	271,290	20,868
Daegu FC	13	221,623	17,048
Daejeon Citizen	13	188,892	14,530
Incheon United	13	175,023	13,463
Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors	13	166,625	12,817
Gyeongnam FC	13	153,853	11,835
Pohang Steelers	13	153,540	11,811
Jeonnam Dragons	13	150,156	11,550
Ulsan Hyundai	13	130,758	10,058
Gwangju Sangmu FC	13	128,630	9,895
Busan IPark	13	107,830	8,295
Jeju United	13	96,377	7,414
Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma	13	93,677	7,206
Total	182	2,347,897	12,901