Super Match

Super Match
Other names	FC Seoul vs Suwon Samsung Bluewings
Location	Seoul Capital Area
Teams	FC Seoul; Suwon Samsung Bluewings
First meeting	10 April 1996
Latest meeting	25 November 2023; K League 1; Seoul 0–1 Suwon
Broadcasters	JTBC Golf&Sports, Sky Sports
Statistics
Meetings total	112
Most wins	Seoul (43)
Most player appearances	Suwon: Kwak Hee-ju (34); Seoul: Dejan Damjanović (27)
Top scorer	Park Chu-young (10)
All-time series	Seoul: 43; Drawn: 30; Suwon: 39
Largest victory	Suwon 5–1 Anyang (20 March 1999); Suwon 5–1 Seoul (18 April 2015)

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 edit

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 edit

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

Players who have played for both clubs edit

Kim Dong-hae (Seoul: 1989–1995; Suwon: 1996)
Park Chul-woo (Seoul: 1992–1994; Suwon: 1996–1997)
Seo Jung-won (Seoul: 1992–1997; Suwon: 1999–2004)
Park Jung-suk (Suwon: 1996–2000; Seoul: 2001–2007)
Lee Ki-hyung (Suwon: 1996–2002; Seoul: 2005–2006)
Vitaliy Parakhnevych (Suwon: 1998–2000; Seoul: 2001)
Tuta (Seoul: 2002; Suwon: 2003)
Lee Jung-soo (Seoul: 2002–2004; Suwon: 2006–2008 and 2016–2017)
Han Dong-won (Seoul: 2002–2006; Suwon: 2012)
Lee Jong-min (Suwon: 2002–2004 and 2013; Seoul: 2008–2012)
Baek Ji-hoon (Seoul: 2005–2006; Suwon: 2006–2016)
Park Sung-bae (Seoul: 2005–2006; Suwon: 2007)
Choi Jae-soo (Seoul: 2004–2007; Suwon: 2012–2015)
Cho Chan-ho (Suwon: 2015; Seoul: 2016–2017)
Lee Sang-ho (Suwon: 2009–2016; Seoul: 2017–2018)
Dejan Damjanović (Seoul: 2008–2013 and 2016–2017; Suwon: 2018–2019)
Cho Ji-hun (Suwon: 2011–2018; Seoul: 2022)
Lim Sang-hyub (Suwon: 2018–2020; Seoul: 2023–present)
Lee Si-young (Suwon: 2024–present (on loan); Seoul: 2023–present)

Match reports edit

All times are KST (UTC+09:00).

League matches edit

1990s edit

1996 K League
16 June 1996

15:00

Anyang LG Cheetahs	0–2	Suwon Samsung Bluewings
	Report	Park Kun-ha 70' Alaor 77'

Anyang Stadium

Attendance: 32,865

Referee: Jung Jong

1996 K League
25 July 1996