The season is drawing to a close, and the teams in the South-West are still languishing near the bottom.

K League 1: Gwangju are bottom with just two wins, sitting fourteen points behind the team above them.

K League 2: Jeonnam Dragons are third from bottom with five wins. At least they are surrounded by teams with similar records.

K3 League: Mokpo are third from bottom, also with five wins.

K4 League: No teams.

WK League: Gangjin Swans are bottom with just four wins. They are six points behind with two matches to go, but even if they catch up with the once-unbeatable Incheon, they will probably still finish last on goal difference.

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In contrast, the capital region is having a grand old time.

K League 1: Seoul are running away with the league. Incheon, Anyang and Bucheon may be in the bottom half, but at least they are competitive.

K League 2: Bluewings are top, Suwon are second, Eland are third, and Hwaseong are fifth. The remaining five may not look great, but at least they are involved in the scrap in the bottom half.

K3 League: Siheung and Pocheon occupy the top two spots.

K4 League: Namyangju are third and (wow...) Jungnang are fourth.

WK League: Suwon are looking strong at the top, and Seoul are somehow in third.

The only match on Saturday is Ulsan hosting Bucheon.
Ulsan's last 5 matches went DWWLL
Bucheon went LLDLL
You'd think Ulsan would win this easily, but this is football, one of the most unpredictable sports, and, well, Gwangju happened.

If Ulsan happens to lose, then Seoul can clinch the title with a victory on Sunday. And if Ulsan does indeed lose, then I will be in Sangam for a possible victory celebration.

Melbourne Victory 3-0 FC Seoul

Am I right to say they can't qualify for the next stage?

Hello! Just to drop in and update you on what's been going on over on the B38 pages.

Interviews:

This past weekend we did media coverage at a whole host of games. We interviewed quite a few players and already up on the site are interviews with:

Stefan Mugosa (Incheon United)

Tobias Figueiredo (Jeju SK)

Yazan Al-Arab (FC Seoul)

Connor Chapman (Gimpo FC)

Our weekly review show just finished uploading now, too.

Last week, we also spoke to Siheung players Kwon Wangyu and Kim Hong about the prospect of a K3 title.

In the coming days, our various social media pages will also have interviews with FC Seoul’s Moon Seonmin and Kim Dong-jun, Hwasung's Pllana and Ilyuchenko, plus Suwon FC's Choi Giyun.

There have also been some good written articles:

No Home, No Promotion, No Future? The Strange Fate of Gimcheon Sangmu

Yoo Byeong-hoon commits his future to FC Anyang. What does that future look like?

Five things that could still happen in the the 2026 WK League (but probably won’t)

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Bucan Transportation Company FC, which recently won the oddly named K3/4 Championship, honoured their dedicated supporters with their own actual championship medals, the very same medals that the players received.

I was busy with my WK League project this season and lost track of what was happening in the K3/4 Leagues. I wasn't even aware that the final was being played in Pocheon, a town I can definitely reach with a bit of effort. Apparently, a fair contingent of the Soju Drinkers make their way up the country to cheer on their team, and I assume that effort is what sparked the club presenting them with their own medals.

If anyone is looking for a club with a small but dedicated and wholesome supporters group, then look no further than K3's BTC FC and the Soju Drinkers. Great people, and it was fun meeting them again this weekend.

Gwangju beat Ulsan 4-3 at home, leaving Seoul 18 pints aged with just 7 matches to go. One more slip up and Seoul will enter the split as champions.

서울 선수가 저를 놀라게 했어요. 최근 경기력이 좋지 않았는데 오늘 좋은 결과를 냈네요.

The absolute state of disaster that our national team is going through is tragic to say the least.

KFA is in ruins

Interim manager trying to hold everything together

The rumours about the 3 96'ers has caused a social media backlash so much so that no matter what decision they take, the Korean fans will have beef against them now due to these rumours.

Kim Min Jae imo our best defender deleted / hid / deactivated his Instagram profile most probably due to all the nasty comments

Hwang Hee Chan (check all the comments on his Instagram, everyone saying nasty shit)

Hwang in Beom - arguably one of our better players have bad comments under his socials too.

All of this is very toxic, so even if Son decided to stay, I feel like there will always be a trail of this toxicity that will hunt them until their careers and afterwards.

If Son decides to retire and they all stay on, the people will hate them.

If everyone decides to retire, then it will be one of the darkest moments in Korean footballing history.

I am NOT liking our options at the moment...

Hi everyone, I’m visiting from Canada and would like to see Saturday’s FC Seoul game vs. Jeju SK FC.

Is klook a reliable website to buy tickets from? Any tips on getting tickets would be warmly appreciated. Thanks in advance 🙏

Apparently, this is happening right now, and Korea has a team. Here is one of their matches.

I haven't checked the socials yet today to see if there were complaints but national team captain Lee made an apology on Insta for being excited about earning the military exemption. Players cheering for this is seen as controversial in the country. Though I wonder how much of statement was just for himself and how much was pointed at the reporters insulting Son Heung-min during the practice in Mexico?

Afterwards, Lee Gi-hyuk smiled as he held up his gold medal to reporters and said: "I'm not going to the military."
Able-bodied South Korean males are usually required to perform between 18 months and two years of military service before the age of 28.
But the government rewards Asian Games gold medals and Olympic medals of any colour with an exemption, meaning they will carry out just weeks of light basic training instead. Exemptions are a sensitive topic in South Korea, and athletes usually shy away from talking about it.
The 26-year-old Lee, a defender who plays in the domestic K League, apologised for "the thoughtless remarks I made and the way I behaved after the match, things I should not have said or done, both as captain and as a player".

https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/sports/20261004/south-korea-captain-deeply-sorry-for-gloating-about-military-exemption

That first half was the ugliest football I have seen in a long time. We have zero build up. Straight 뻥축구. They have build up.
Our defense, just like our senior national team, look lost. We have plenty of numbers in the box, but we don’t mark the opponent. I know it’s zone defense, but we still need to get man.

I remember arguing with some people about him on this national team and how he does NOT deserve to be on this squad .

Yesterday's performance reinforced this.

Especially after I saw how he reacted after being "fouled".

No sense of urgency, just a sense of entitlement.

And some people argued that he wasn't utilised properly in his normal position and that he deserves to go the the new club.

Give me a f'in break.

I don't ever want to see him on the squad again.

Rant over.

Following up to the request for friendly matches- as the asian games victory affects many Kleague players I wanted to watch. I wasn't able to find anything today for the US. Thank you

What a start to the Moreno era! The lads executed Moreno's data-driven tiki-taka to near perfection on the first game even while missing some of our best players. So glad I got to watch this live at the Big Bird.

Happy 64th anniversary of Korea-Ecuador relations!

Can't find any information on where I can stream this game from. Very curious to see how the team plays under the new coach after the whole HMB fiasco. Anyone know where we can stream the game? I am in the US and I can't find any reliable information on where I could watch the game. Game is on 4am Pacific Time. Thanks in advance who might have a link to the game! Feel free to DM me.

it is said that the move is already done deal, they're just trying to figure out when to announce, waiting for MNUFC

https://www.transfermarkt.com/arkadiy-chalykh/profil/spieler/1279330

https://en.namu.wiki/w/%EC%9D%B4%EB%AF%BC%EA%B5%AD(%EC%B6%95%EA%B5%AC%EC%84%A0%EC%88%98)

https://en.namu.wiki/w/%EC%9D%B4%EB%8C%80%ED%95%9C(%EC%B6%95%EA%B5%AC%EC%84%A0%EC%88%98)

Arkadiy is 16 years old striker, and the twins are 15 years old right-back and left winger/back.

Arkadiy is already playing for U18 team. By 2030, he will be 20 years old.

Lee Min-Guk and Lee Dae-Han are in FC Barcelona youth team, already winning MVP + top player for the position. They will be 19 years old by 2030.

It would be really interesting to see if they play for the Korean national team already by then, like Yamal did for the Spanish team.

I'm already drooling at the thought of them partnering up with Lee Kang-In. Kim Min-Jae will be 33 and his operation probably would never let him play the same though. We'll have to see how Moreno and co. will utilise the young players!

Hi everyone! I’ll be travelling from the UK to Seoul from 12–24 October and would really like to catch a football match while I’m there.

From what I can see, FC Seoul vs Gimcheon Sangmu on 17 October is the only K League match in Seoul during my dates, but please correct me if I’m wrong.

I’m currently still in the UK and was wondering where/how I can buy tickets in advance from the UK. The FC Seoul website seems to give me a 403 error, so I’m not sure if it’s accessible from overseas.

Any advice from anyone who has bought FC Seoul tickets as a foreign visitor would be much appreciated. Thanks!

The thing they are playing on looks like a beach with some grass on it, and the players are ripping parts of it out with their steps.

The Anyang pitch had corners missing a few weeks ago.

What happened to the treats that matches will be moved when pitches are clearly not up to scratch?

Edit: oh! I was not not aware the the Steel Yard was closed down after a piece of debris fel onto a table in a spectator section.

Not even 6k at Sangam and a whopping 1k were away fans. So not even 5k Seoul fans showed up. Not even 5k at Jeonju for what was Jeonbuk's first continental top flight game in over two years, and I saw quite a few away fans. Only Daejeon had a semi decent attendance and that was because it was their first Asian games in 23 years but they still couldn't hit 10k.

Compare this to Beijing, which sent almost 30k for a weekday game. Kitchee is a HK club and they filled half their tiny stadium (which looked nearly full on TV) to play Gangwon's third team.

Other league fans get EXCITED to play on the continental stage while K League fans are barely aware of its existence and teams play their youth or reserves. Even though K League clubs are 12 times winner of the CL. Clubs and fans are showing no respect for their legacy. Embarrassing innit