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Jeju United FC

Full name	Jeju United Football Club 제주 유나이티드 FC
Founded	1982; 42 years ago (1982) (as Yukong FC)
Ground	Jeju World Cup Stadium
Ground Capacity	35,657
Owner	SK Energy
Chairman	Koo Ja-young
Manager	Kim Hak-bum
League	K League 1
2023	K League 1, 9th of 12
Home colours Away colours

Jeju United FC (Korean: 제주 유나이티드 FC) is a South Korean professional football club based in Jeju Province that competes in the K League 1, the top division in South Korea. In the past, the club has been known as the Yukong Elephants and Bucheon SK.

History

The club was founded on 17 December 1982 as Yukong Elephants, and became one of the founding members of the K League. The club was owned and financially supported by the Sunkyoung Group's subsidiary, Yukong (currently SK Group's "SK Energy"), along with Seoul, Incheon, and Gyeonggi as its franchise. Yukong Elephants won the league championship on only one occasion, in 1989.

At the end of 1995, the team moved from the Dongdaemun Stadium in Seoul to the Mokdong Stadium on the western edge of the city, as part of the K League's decentralization policy. The three clubs based in Seoul (Yukong Elephants, LG Cheetahs and Ilhwa Chunma) didn't accept this policy, so the Seoul government gave an eviction order to the three clubs. However, they guaranteed that if clubs built a football-specific stadium in Seoul, they could have a Seoul franchise and return to Seoul. As a result, the three clubs were evicted from Seoul to other cities. The Yukong Elephants moved to the city of Bucheon, a satellite city of Seoul. Mid-way through the 1997 season, the club re-branded itself as Bucheon SK.

Because the city of Bucheon lacked a stadium, they used the Mokdong Stadium in Seoul until 2000. At the start of the 2001 season, the team moved to the 35,545-capacity Bucheon Leports Complex.

In 2006, Bucheon SK announced their move to Jeju without any fore notice, and renamed as Jeju United FC. They adopted the vacant Jeju World Cup Stadium as their new home ground.

Franchise relocation history

Kits

Kit suppliers

• 1983–99: Adidas
• 2000–01: Fila
• 2002–03: Puma
• 2004–08: Diadora
• 2009–12: Astore
• 2013–2019: Kika
• 2020–2022: Puma
• 2022–present: Fila

Players

Current squad

No. Position Player 1 GK Kim Dong-jun (vice-captain) 4 DF Song Ju-hun 5 MF Italo 6 MF Kim Jung-min 7 MF Koo Ja-cheol 8 MF Kim Geon-woong 9 FW Yuri 10 FW Reis (vice-captain) 11 FW Tales 13 DF Chung Woon 14 FW Seo Jin-su 15 DF Hong Joon-ho 16 DF Kim Tae-hwan 17 FW Jegal Jae-min 18 FW Jin Seong-uk 19 FW Kim Ju-gong 20 DF Yeon Je-un 21 GK An Chan-gi 22 DF An Tae-hyun

No. Position Player 23 DF Rim Chang-woo 24 MF Han Jong-mu 25 MF Won Hui-do 26 DF Lim Chai-min (captain) 27 MF Jeon Sung-jin 28 MF Kim Jae-min 29 FW Kim Hyeon-woo 30 MF Choi Young-jun 32 DF Lee Ju-yong 33 FW Ji Sang-wook 34 FW Park Ju-seung 35 DF Jo In-jung 36 FW Kim Seung-sub 37 FW Ye Hong-gyu 38 DF Kwak Seung-min 39 FW Baek Seung-heon 40 GK Lim Jun-sub 41 GK Kim Geun-bae

Out on loan

No. Position Player MF Lee Chang-min (to Geoje Citizen for military service)

Honours

• K League 1
  • Winners (1): 1989
  • Runners-up (5): 1984, 1994, 2000, 2010, 2017
• K League 2
  • Winners (1): 2020
• Korean FA Cup
  • Runners-up (1): 2004
• Korean League Cup
  • Winners (3): 1994, 1996, 2000s
  • Runners-up (2): 1998, 1998s

Season-by-season records

Domestic record

Key

• Tms. = Number of teams
• Pos. = Position in league

AFC Champions League record

All results (home and away) list Jeju United's goal tally first.

Season	Round	Opposition	Home	Away	Agg.
2011	Group E	Tianjin TEDA	0–1	0–3	3rd
		Melbourne Victory	1–1	2–1
		Gamba Osaka	2–1	1–3
2017	Group H	Jiangsu Suning	0–1	2–1	2nd
		Gamba Osaka	2–0	4–1
		Adelaide United	1–3	3–3
	Round of 16	Urawa Red Diamonds	2–0	0–3 (aet)	2–3
2018	Group G	Guangzhou Evergrande	0–2	3–5	4th
		Cerezo Osaka	0–1	1–2
		Buriram United	0–1	2–0

Managerial history

No.	Name	Start	End	Season(s)	Notes
1	Lee Jong-hwan	1982/04/20	1985/07/21	1983–1985	Resigned in the middle of season.
2	Kim Jung-nam	1985/07/21	1992/05/12	1985–1992	Resigned in the middle of season.
C	Park Young-hwan	1986/??/??	1986/??/??	1986	Kim Jung-nam was called up as a national team manager (1986 FIFA World Cup, 1986 Asian Games).
C	Choi Jong-duk	1988/07/13	1988/09/14	1988	Kim Jung-nam was called up as a national team manager (1988 Summer Olympics).
C	Park Sung-hwa Ham Heung-chul	1992/05/12	1992/12/19	1992
3	Park Sung-hwa	1992/12/20	1994/10/29	1993–1994
C	Cho Yoon-hwan	1994/10/30	1994/12/31	1994
4	Valeri Nepomniachi	1995/01/01	1998/10/31	1995–1998
C	Cho Yoon-hwan	1998/11/01	1998/12/31	1998
5	Cho Yoon-hwan	1999/01/01	2001/08/14	1999–2001	Resigned in the middle of season.
C	Choi Yun-kyum	2001/08/14	2001/08/31	2001
6	Choi Yun-kyum	2001/09/01	2002/09/01	2001–2002	Resigned in the middle of season.
7	Tınaz Tırpan	2002/09/02	2003/05/14	2002–2003	Resigned in the middle of season.
C	Ha Jae-hoon	2003/05/14	2003/07/18	2003
8	Ha Jae-hoon	2003/07/19	2003/12/31	2003
9	Jung Hae-seong	2004/01/01	2007/11/03	2004–2007
10	Arthur Bernardes	2008/01/04	2009/10/14	2008–2009	Resigned in the middle of season.
C	Cho Jin-ho	2009/10/14	2009/10/29	2009
11	Park Kyung-hoon	2009/10/30	2014/12/03	2010–2014
12	Jo Sung-hwan	2014/12/19	2016/10/14	2014–2016
13	Kim In-soo	2016/10/14	2016/12/15	2016	Appointed for the AFC Champions League matches.
14	Jo Sung-hwan	2016/12/30	2019/05/02	2017–2019
15	Choi Yun-kyum	2019/05/03	2019/11/30	2019
16	Nam Ki-il	2019/12/26	2023/09/26	2020–2023
C	Jung Jo-gook	2023/09/26	2023/12/04	2023
17	Kim Hak-bum	2023/12/05	present	2024–

See also

In Spanish: Jeju United Football Club para niños