Incheon United FC

The Incheon United FC is a football franchise from Incheon, South Korea. Currently playing the franchise in the K League Classic, the top division of South Korea.

History

The franchise was founded in late 2003. Incheon was one of the 10 cities where the 2002 World Cup was held, whereby the desire was to have a football franchise in the city. The franchise was founded under the name Incheon FC, ​​but was renamed in December 2003 in Incheon United FC. The first coach of the new association was Werner Lorant.

They tried to put together a very good squad in order to achieve a good ranking in the league in the very first season. Thus, inter alia, Committed Alpay Özalan of Aston Villa. The first opponent in league history of the franchise was on April 3, 2004, the Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors. The game ended in a goalless draw. On the 3rd round of the first victory in the K -League was celebrated as Incheon defeated the then reigning champions Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma 1-0. After the first half of the season Werner Lorant had to leave his post at the end of August 2004. Incheon United was Table with only 9 points. The second series was much better and you could still get 17 points, but was still at the end of the season just before last.

2005 went much better for Incheon. After a 2nd place at the end of the first round and a 3rd place at the end of the second round Incheon was qualified for the championship playoffs. In the semifinals they defeated Busan IPark 2-0. In the final Ulsan Hyundai waited. In the first leg Incheon clearly lost a 5-1, 2-1 victory in the second leg was only a consolation. After the end of the season Incheon United the highest average attendance of the league with 24 353 spectators had.

In the following season, it did not go so well and Incheon United was only ninth in the league. However, one could reach the semi-finals in the Cup, which Incheon lost on penalties for the first time. The same fate befell Incheon one year later, when she competed again in the Cup semi-final against the Chunnam Dragons. In 2007, she was again ninth.

Since then, the team is reaching ever rankings in the midfield. So she took the 9th place in 2012.

For the AFC Champions League, the franchise could never qualify.

Stadium

From the first season of 2004 to 2011, the franchise wore out its home games in Incheon Munhak Stadium. The stadium was built for the World Cup 2002. It had a capacity of 50 256 spectators.

2008, work began to build a smaller stadium because the Incheon Munhak Stadium is too big and does not belong to the franchise. The stadium was completed in 2012. It's called Incheon Football Stadium and has a capacity of 20.891 spectators. It was built on the site of the 1934 built Incheon Civil Stadium.

Achievements

National

  • K League Classic

Former notable players

  • Serbia Dragan Mladenovic
Sports franchising Aston Villa F.C. Dragan Mladenović Gyeongnam FC
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