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

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 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

• 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

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

League matches

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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

• As of 25 November 2023.
• Penalty shoot-outs results are counted as a drawn match.

All-time results

Competition	Played	Seoul wins	Draws	Suwon wins	Seoul goals	Suwon goals
K League 1	85	36	19	30	100	105
Korean League Cup	18	6	6	6	27	27
Korean FA Cup	6	1	3	2	7	9
Korean Super Cup	1	0	0	1	1	5
AFC Champions League	2	0	2	0	0	0
Total	112	43	30	39	135	146

Top goalscorers

No.	Player	Team	K League 1	League Cup	FA Cup	Total
1	Park Chu-young	FC Seoul	6	3	1	10
2	Dejan Damjanović	Both teams	7	2	0	9
3	Adam Taggart	Suwon Samsung Bluewings	6	0	0	6
	Jung Jo-gook	FC Seoul	5	1	0
	Yeom Ki-hun	Suwon Samsung Bluewings	4	1	1
	Seo Jung-won	Both teams	3	2	1
	Jung Kwang-min	FC Seoul	2	4	0
	Park Kun-ha	Suwon Samsung Bluewings	2	4	0
9	Yun Ju-tae	FC Seoul	5	0	0	5
	Lee Sang-ho	Both teams	5	0	0
	Adriano	FC Seoul	4	0	1
	Choi Yong-soo		3	2	0

• Goals against both teams
  • Seo Jung-won (3 goals against Suwon, 3 goals against Seoul)
  • Lee Sang-ho (4 goals against Seoul, 1 goal against Suwon)
  • Dejan Damjanović (7 goals against Suwon, 2 goals against Seoul)

Largest victories

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

Highest attendances

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

Honours

FC Seoul	Competition	Suwon Samsung Bluewings
International
0	AFC Champions League	2
0	Asian Super Cup (defunct)	2
Domestic
6	K League 1	4
2	League Cup (defunct)	6
2	FA Cup	5
1	Korean Super Cup (defunct)	3
11	Aggregate	22

References