The competition between the two teams that will play in the K-League 1 will kick off. In the history of the promotion PO, if the K-League 1 team succeeds in staying, and if the K-League 2 team is promoted, it will be the same six times each. It is a war of 50 percent chance.
This season’s K-League promotion PO will be divided into promotion PO1 and promotion PO2. The promotion PO1 will be contested by Chungnam Asan, the second-ranked team in the K-League 2, and Daegu FC, the 11th-ranked team in the K-League 1, while the promotion PO2 will be contested by Seoul E-Land, the third-ranked team in the K-League 2, and Jeonbuk Hyundai, the 10th-ranked team in the K-League 1. The two teams that survived the two promotion POs will play on the K-League 1 stage next season. For K-League 1 teams such as Daegu and Jeonbuk, they will remain or be demoted, and for K-League 2 teams such as Seoul E-Land and Chungnam Asan, promotion or promotion has been frustrated.
South Chungcheong Province’s Asan and Daegu will play the first round of POs. The first round of PO1 will be held at Cheonan Stadium at 7 p.m. on the 28th, and the second round will be held at Daegu DGB Daegu Bank Park at 2 p.m. on the 1st. South Chungcheong Province’s Asan home is Yi Sun-shin Stadium in Asan, but due to grass replacement work, the team will move to Cheonan Stadium, home of Cheonan City in the “Rival.”
Seoul E-Land and Jeonbuk will then hold the first round of the promotion PO2 at 4 p.m. on the 1st of next month, and the second round at Jeonju World Cup Stadium at 2:20 p.m. on the 8th, a week later. Initially, the promotion PO1 and promotion PO2 were scheduled to be held on the 28th and the 1st of next month, but the schedule was adjusted as Jeonbuk’s Asian Football Confederation Champions League 2 (ALC2) schedule was held. The Seoul E-Land-Jeonbuk match, which will be held on the 1st, was already expected to be so hot that additional seats were opened as it was sold out 10 minutes after the reservation began.
The promotion PO record, which was introduced in 2013, coincidentally showed six successful stays by K League 1 teams and six promotions by K League 2 teams. At the beginning of the promotion PO, the K League 2 teams were clearly strong. Starting with Sangju Sangmu (currently Kimcheon Sangmu) in 2013, K League 2 teams including Gwangju FC, Suwon FC, and Gangwon FC won the promotion PO for the fourth consecutive year, pulling down K League 1 teams and succeeding in promotion. In the process, Gangwon FC, Gyeongnam FC, Busan I’Park, and Seongnam FC experienced the pain of relegation from K League 2.
However, after Sangju wrote the history of staying in the K League 1 club for the first time after a penalty shootout battle with Busan in 2017, FC Seoul also shook off Busan’s challenge and succeeded in staying the following year. Busan, which had shed tears in the promotion PO for the second consecutive year, had the joy of promotion by defeating Gyeongnam in 2019, its third attempt.
From 2021 onwards, K League 1 clubs have clearly been strong. In 2021, Gangwon succeeded in staying, beating Daejeon Hana Citizen. In 2022, when the promotion PO was expanded to two matches (elevation POs 1 and 2), as this year, Suwon Samsung stayed dramatically, beating Anyang, and Daejeon succeeded in promotion by beating Gimcheon. Last year, Suwon FC and Gangwon FC, which were K League 1 clubs, beat Busan and Gimpo FC, respectively, to remain together.
In the history of the tight probability of remaining in the K League 1 club and promotion of the K League 2 club, it was the “first-round preoccupation”. Except for the match that failed to fight in the first round, six of the eight winning teams in the first round achieved successful results, such as staying in the K League 1 or being promoted. For K League 2 clubs, they have to make a winning move in the first round in order to ease the burden of the away game in the second round, and in the process, the strategic confrontation between the two team leaders could eventually be an important factor in determining the fate of the two teams. 먹튀검증
It is the first time for all four teams to receive a promotion PO in the club’s history. Daegu coach Park Chang-hyun, South Chungcheong Asan coach Kim Hyun-seok and Jeonbuk coach Kim Doo-hyun have all experienced the promotion PO in their first year as professional coaches. Kim Do-kyun, who leads Seoul E-Land, has the experience of leading Suwon FC to promotion to the K-League 1 in the past, and succeeded in remaining after the promotion PO last season.