Suwon Samsung, which dreamed of becoming a conqueror despite its first K-League 2 relegation, hoped to return to the K-League 1 for the first time in a season. However, their first K-League 2 season was never easy and they came to accept a different result from their desired result.
All six final games of Hana Bank’s K League 2 2024 39th round, held at 2 p.m. on the 9th, were completed.
Suwon finished the final 36 games of the regular season ahead of other teams. Since there are 13 teams in the K League 2, there is one resting team in every round, and Suwon became the final resting team and played one round earlier than others.
Suwon finished the 2024 regular season with 56 points and 46 points from 36 matches. Suwon ranks fourth with the other teams playing 35.
There were two teams that influenced Suwon’s ranking. As of the final match, South Jeolla Province Dragons (54 points) ranked fifth and Busan I’Park (53 points) ranked sixth.
If Busan wins against Bucheon, it will have 56 points, the same as Suwon. In this case, the K-League will determine multiple points, and Busan will already win Suwon with 42 points before the final match, so if Busan wins against Bucheon, it will be ranked higher than Suwon.
In addition, if Jeonnam wins against Seoul E-Land, it will be 57 points, so it can be ranked higher than Suwon.
In other words, if South Jeolla Province and Busan both win at the same time, Suwon will rank sixth. The sixth team failed to advance to the playoffs. Except for the number of such cases, Suwon ranks fourth or fifth in all other results. If only one team wins, Suwon will rank fifth, and if both teams draw or lose, Suwon will rank fourth.
For Suwon, E-Land and Bucheon needed to play well against South Jeolla Province and Busan. “E-Land coach Kim Do-kyun played for Ulsan, his junior and junior high school. They have been together for more than six years. I think Kim Do-kyun will give us a great gift,” Suwon manager Byun Sung-hwan said in a press conference on Thursday after the regular season. “Buchon coach Lee Young-min was my head coach when I retired from FC Anyang. Although the playoffs were disappointed, I believe he will play a great game.”
He also wished E-Land and Bucheon well, saying, “I’m ready to buy meals for the two seniors.”
However, the final round did not go as Suwon and Coach Byun Sung-hwan had planned. South Jeolla Province scored three goals in the first half alone in an away match at E-Land in Seoul to win 4-0, while Busan scored a 3-1 victory at home by targeting Bucheon little by little, which had to be fought for by one player due to Kim Kyu-min’s departure in the eighth minute of the first half.
With the victory, Jeonnam advanced to the semi-playoff with the fourth place with 57 points, and Busan tied Suwon with 56 points and led Suwon with 55 goals, taking the last leg of the semi-playoff. Suwon finished sixth in the final round and confirmed its remaining in the K League 2 next season without even experiencing the playoffs. The only “worst-case number” of Suwon’s failure to make the promotion playoffs has come true.
Suwon started the game under Yeom Ki-hoon after the demotion. Even Yeom, who is facing the opening match, said he agreed with the statement, “The first candidate to win.” 메이저사이트
In fact, Suwon ranked first overall with six wins and two losses in the first eight games, including four consecutive wins in five to eight rounds. However, one draw later, it lost five consecutive games to say goodbye to Yeom Ki-hoon.
Still, Suwon was undefeated in 11 games with five wins and six draws until the home match against Jeonnam on August 18, starting with the 1-1 draw in Busan, the debut match of the successor, Sung-hwan. Suwon, which had fallen to 8th place under Yeom Ki-hoon before Byun’s appointment, steadily accumulated points without breaking the trend and raised its ranking to 3rd place on August 18.