The Super Match ( ko, 슈퍼매치) is a name for a football rivalry between two South Korean football teams from the

Seoul Capital Area The Seoul Capital Area (SCA), Sudogwon (, ) or Gyeonggi region (), is the metropolitan area of Seoul, Incheon, and Gyeonggi Province, located in north-west South Korea. Its population of 26 million (as of 2020) is ranked as the fifth largest ...

FC Seoul FC Seoul ( ko, FC 서울) is a South Korean professional football club based in Seoul that competes in the K League 1, the top flight of South Korean football. The club is owned by GS Sports, a subsidiary of GS Group. They play their home ga ...

and

Suwon Samsung Bluewings The Suwon Samsung Bluewings ( ko, 수원 삼성 블루윙즈) are a South Korean Association football, football club based in Suwon that competes in the K League 1, the top tier of South Korean football. Founded in December 1995, they have won t ...

. The match and the rivalry between the two teams is regarded as the biggest in South Korean

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. The first match was played in 1996. The rivalry became more fierce in 2004, after Anyang LG Cheetahs relocated to

Seoul Seoul (; ; ), officially known as the Seoul Special City, is the Capital city, capital and largest metropolis of South Korea.Before 1972, Seoul was the ''de jure'' capital of the North Korea, Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea ...

and changed the club's name to FC Seoul.

History

In 1996, neighboring

Gyeonggi Gyeonggi-do (, ) is the most populous province in South Korea. Its name, ''Gyeonggi'', means "京 (the capital) and 畿 (the surrounding area)". Thus, ''Gyeonggi-do'' can be translated as "Seoul and the surrounding areas of Seoul". Seoul, the na ...

cities of

Anyang Anyang (; ) is a prefecture-level city in Henan province, China. The northernmost city in Henan, Anyang borders Puyang to the east, Hebi and Xinxiang to the south, and the provinces of Shanxi and Hebei to its west and north respectively. It had ...

and

Suwon Suwon (, ) is the capital and largest city of Gyeonggi-do, South Korea's most populous province which surrounds Seoul, the national capital. Suwon lies about south of Seoul. It is traditionally known as "The City of Filial Piety". With a populati ...

started hosting

clubs. LG Cheetahs (currently

), based in Seoul between 1990 and 1995, has relocated to Anyang under

decentralization policy in K League The K League decentralization policy in 1995 was a policy of moving K League clubs located in Seoul to other regions. It was an effort by the Government of South Korea and the K League Federation to increase popularity of football nationwide before ...

. Suwon has hosted the newly founded

since that year. For Suwon in early days, main rivals were

Ulsan Hyundai Ulsan Hyundai FC ( ko, 울산 현대 축구단) is a South Korean professional football club based in Ulsan that competes in the K League 1, the top tier of South Korean football. Founded in 1983 as Hyundai Horang-i, they joined the K League i ...

and Pusan Daewoo which had fierce showdowns in the league finals in

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and

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. Anyang and Suwon became rivals between 1998 and 1999, after former Suwon assistant coach

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joined Anyang and former Anyang player

Seo Jung-won Seo Jung-won (born 17 December 1970) is a South Korean football manager and former player, currently in charge of Chengdu Rongcheng. Playing career A winger who had explosive pace, Seo was nicknamed the "Nalssaendori", which means an ag ...

transferred to Suwon after his short spell with

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to beat Anyang 5–1 in the 1999

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. Also a fact that the club's parent companies (

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and

Samsung Electronics Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (, sometimes shortened to SEC and stylized as SΛMSUNG) is a South Korean multinational electronics corporation headquartered in Yeongtong-gu, Suwon, South Korea. It is the pinnacle of the Samsung chaebol, a ...

) 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. 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. 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

Players who have played for both clubs

* Kim Dong-hae (Seoul: 1989–1995 / Suwon: 1996) * Park Chul-woo (Seoul: 1992–1994 / Suwon: 1996–1997) *

(Seoul: 1992–1997 / Suwon: 1999–2004) * Park Jung-suk (Suwon: 1996–2000 / Seoul: 2001–2007) * Lee Ki-hyung (Suwon: 1996–2002 / Seoul: 2005–2006) *

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(Suwon: 1998–2000 / Seoul: 2001) * Tuta (Seoul: 2002 / Suwon: 2003) *

Lee Jung-soo Lee Jung-soo ( ko, 이정수; born 8 January 1980) is a South Korean former professional footballer who played as a centre-back. Club career Career in South Korea After graduating from Kyung Hee University in 2002, Lee started his profess ...

(Seoul: 2002–2004 / Suwon: 2006–2008, 2016–2017) * Han Dong-won (Seoul: 2002–2006 / Suwon: 2012) * Lee Jong-min (Suwon: 2002–2004 / Seoul: 2008–2012 / Suwon: 2013) * Baek Ji-hoon (Seoul: 2005–2006 / Suwon: 2006–2016) *

Park Sung-bae Park Sung-Bae is a South Korean football player. He played for several clubs, including Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors, Gwangju Sangmu Bulsajo (army), FC Seoul, Busan I'Park and Suwon Samsung Bluewings. Also, he played for the South Korea national ...

(Seoul: 2005–2006 / Suwon: 2007) *

Choi Jae-soo Choi Jae-Soo (; born 2 May 1983) is a South Korean footballer who plays as full back for Gyeongnam FC. On 22 October 2009, he was discharged from the army and returned to FC Seoul FC Seoul ( ko, FC 서울) is a South Korean professional ...

(Seoul: 2004–2007 / Suwon: 2012–2015) *

Cho Chan-ho Cho Chan-ho (; born 10 April 1986) is a South Korean football winger. International career On 25 March 2011, Cho made his debut for national team in a friendly match against Honduras Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras, is ...

(Suwon: 2015 / Seoul: 2016–2017) * Lee Sang-ho (Suwon: 2009–2016 / Seoul: 2017–2018) *

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(Seoul: 2008–2013, 2016–2017 / Suwon: 2018–2019) *

Cho Ji-hun Cho Ji-hun ( ko, 조지훈; born 29 May 1990) is a South Korean football midfielder who plays for FC Seoul. Honours Club ;Chiangrai United * Thai FA Cup (1): 2020–21 The dash is a punctuation mark consisting of a long horizontal l ...

(Suwon: 2011–2018 / Seoul: 2022–present)

Match reports

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

League matches

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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 9 October 2022. * K League official match statistics are including Anyang LG Cheeths statistics. * All records and statistics are based on K League official FC Seoul vs Suwon Samsung Bluewings all-time statistics. * Penalty shoot-outs results are counted as a drawn match.

All-time results

Top goalscorers

* Goals against both teams **

(3 goals against Suwon, 3 goals against Seoul) ** Lee Sang-ho (4 goals against Seoul, 1 goal against Suwon) **

(7 goals against Suwon, 2 goals against Seoul)

Largest victories

Highest attendances

Honours

References

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