K League is a professional football league in South Korea organized by Korea Professional Football Federation. It is also known as the K League 1 and K League 2, which are located at the top of the Korean Football Association as Super League. There are 12 teams in K League 1. The relegation of K League 1 team and promotion of K League 2 team was changed to 12 teams, namely Ulsan hyundai, Pohang Steelers, Daegu FC, Gwangju FC, Gangwon FC, Suwon Bluewings, Seoul FC, Seongnam FC, Incheon United, Jeju FC, Suwon FC, and Jeonbuk Hyundai.

▲ The Logo of the K League

K League 1 is divided into two rounds, the regular round, and the split round. First, the total of 12 teams of classical teams will play a total of 33 rounds of the regular league in a round-robin manner of three games each. After the 33 rounds, the 12 teams will be divided into high rank six teams and low rank six teams, and they will have a split round. Depending on the results of the split round, the first place to third place in the high rank will qualify for the Asian Champions League. If the FA Cup winners are among the high-ranked three teams, they will be given up to fourth place. the low ranked team in the lower split will be relegated to the K League Challenge, while the 11th the ranked team will play the promotion playoffs.

In K League 1, 2020, Jeonbuk Hyundai won the championship and Ulasn Hyundai scored the second rank in K League 1. There were the best players in each position during the matches in K League 1. the best forwards were Junio and Ilyuchenko. Han kyo-won, Sejingya, Palochebeach, and Son joon-ho were the best midfielders. Hong jeong-ho, Kang sang-won, Kwon gyeong-won, Kim tae-hwan were the best defenders. Then, the best goalkeeper of the season was Jo hyun-woo.

▲ Jeonbuk Hyundai, the Champion of the K League 1 2020

These were the ranks and players in K League 1 in 2020. However, many players were scouted and many players were removed, so the team strategy will become different from the result of K League 1 2020. High-ranked teams will struggle for the championship, and low-ranked teams will need to have hard work not to be degraded.

By Junseo Lee