Super Match Explained

Super Match
Other Names:FC Seoul vs Suwon Samsung Bluewings
City Or Region:Seoul Capital Area
First Contested:10 April 1996
Teams Involved:FC Seoul
Suwon Samsung Bluewings
Most Wins:Seoul (43)
Most Player Appearances:Suwon: Kwak Hee-ju (34)
Seoul: Dejan Damjanović (27)
Top Scorer:Park Chu-young (10)
Mostrecent:25 November 2023
K League 1
Total:112
Series:Seoul: 43
Drawn: 30
Suwon: 39
Largestvictory:Suwon 5–1 Anyang (20 March 1999)
Suwon 5–1 Seoul (18 April 2015)
Broadcasters:JTBC Golf&Sports, Sky Sports

The Super Match (Korean: 슈퍼매치) is a name for a football rivalry between two South Korean football teams from the Seoul Capital Area, FC Seoul and Suwon Samsung Bluewings. The match and the rivalry between the two teams is regarded as the biggest in South Korean K League.[1]

The first match was played in 1996. The rivalry became more fierce in 2004, after Anyang LG Cheetahs relocated to Seoul and changed the club's name to FC Seoul.

History

In 1996, neighboring Gyeonggi cities of Anyang and Suwon started hosting K League clubs. LG Cheetahs (currently FC Seoul), based in Seoul between 1990 and 1995, has relocated to Anyang under decentralization policy in K League.[1] Suwon has hosted the newly founded Suwon Samsung Bluewings since that year.

For Suwon in early days, main rivals were Ulsan Hyundai and Pusan Daewoo which had fierce showdowns in the league finals in 1996 and 1997. Anyang and Suwon became rivals between 1998 and 1999, after former Suwon assistant coach Cho Kwang-rae joined Anyang and former Anyang player Seo Jung-won transferred to Suwon after his short spell with RC Strasbourg to beat Anyang 5–1 in the 1999 Korean Super Cup.[1] Also a fact that the club's parent companies (LG Electronics and Samsung Electronics) being industrial arch rivals, boosted the rivalry. The match up was informally named Jijidae Derby in 2003, after a hill on the National Route 1 connecting two cities.[1]

The rivalry between the two clubs became more fierce after 2004, when Anyang LG Cheetahs relocated back to Seoul and changed the club's name to FC Seoul.[2] Since then, the rivalry has been promoted heavily by the league and media for commercial reasons, and is officially named "Super Match" since 2009.

Venues

FC SeoulSuwon Samsung Bluewings
Seoul World Cup StadiumSuwon World Cup Stadium
Capacity: 66,704Capacity: 44,031

Players who have played for both clubs

Match reports

All times are KST .

League matches

1990s

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2000s

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2010s

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2020s

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League Cup matches

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FA Cup matches

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Super Cup matches

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AFC Champions League matches

Records and statistics

All-time results

Competition Played Seoul wins Draws Suwon wins Seoul goalsSuwon goals
K League 185361930100105
Korean League Cup186662727
Korean FA Cup613279
Korean Super Cup100115
AFC Champions League202000
Total112433039135146

Top goalscorers

No. !Player Team !K League 1 !League Cup !FA Cup !Total
1 FC Seoul 6 3 1 10
2 Both teams 7 2 0 9
3Suwon Samsung Bluewings 6 0 0 6
FC Seoul 5 1 0
Suwon Samsung Bluewings 4 1 1
Both teams 3 2 1
FC Seoul 2 4 0
Suwon Samsung Bluewings 2 4 0
9FC Seoul 5 0 0 5
Both teams 5 0 0
FC Seoul 4 0 1
3 2 0

Largest victories

Date CompetitionResultVenue
20 March 1999 Suwon 5–1 Anyang Suwon Stadium
18 April 2015 Suwon 5–1 Seoul Suwon World Cup Stadium
21 July 1999 Anyang 0–4 Suwon Changwon Civic Stadium
13 November 2002 Suwon 4–1 Anyang Suwon World Cup Stadium
21 March 2007 Seoul 4–1 Suwon Seoul World Cup Stadium
14 July 2002 Anyang 3–0 Suwon Anyang Stadium
23 October 2005 Suwon 0–3 Seoul Suwon World Cup Stadium
19 September 2015 Suwon 0–3 Seoul Suwon World Cup Stadium

Highest attendances

No.Date CompetitionAttendanceVenueResult
1 8 April 2007 55,397 Seoul World Cup Stadium Seoul 0–1 Suwon
2 6 March 2011 51,606 Seoul World Cup Stadium Seoul 0–2 Suwon
3 8 August 2012 50,787 Seoul World Cup Stadium Seoul 0–2 Suwon
4 4 April 2010 48,558 Seoul World Cup Stadium Seoul 3–1 Suwon
5 18 June 2016 47,899 Seoul World Cup Stadium Seoul 1–1 Suwon
6 13 July 2014 46,549 Seoul World Cup Stadium Seoul 2–0 Suwon
7 1 April 2012 45,192 Suwon World Cup Stadium Suwon 2–0 Suwon
8 3 October 2011 44,537 Suwon World Cup Stadium Suwon 1–0 Seoul
9 13 April 2008 44,239 Seoul World Cup Stadium Seoul 0–2 Suwon
10 3 August 2013 43,681 Seoul World Cup Stadium Seoul 2–1 Suwon

Honours

FC SeoulCompetitionSuwon Samsung Bluewings
International
0 2
0 Asian Super Cup (defunct)2
Domestic
6 4
2 League Cup (defunct) 6
2 5
1 Korean Super Cup (defunct) 3
11 Aggregate 22

References

  1. News: Former neighbours, forever foes. https://web.archive.org/web/20190220181700/https://www.fifa.com/news/former-neighbours-forever-foes-1085354. dead. 20 February 2019. FIFA. 30 July 2009. 30 April 2016.
  2. News: '축구와 전쟁 사이' 서울 vs 수원 더비 . KBS News. 9 July 2012. ko. 20 March 2023.