Super Match
| Company type | Football rivalry |
|---|---|
| Industry | Sports |
| Founded | 1996 |
Area served | Seoul Metropolitan Area, South Korea |
| Products | Football matches |
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The Super Match (Korean: 슈퍼매치) refers to the football rivalry between two prominent South Korean clubs situated in the Seoul Metropolitan Area: FC Seoul and Suwon Samsung Bluewings. This confrontation is widely considered the most significant derby within the South Korean K League competition.
The inaugural fixture took place in 1996. The intensity of this rivalry escalated notably in 2004 following the relocation of Anyang LG Cheetahs to Seoul, after which they rebranded as FC Seoul. As of 2025, Suwon competes in K League 2 due to relegation from the 2023 K League 1 season, whereas FC Seoul remains in the premier division.
History
The year 1996 marked the establishment of K League teams in neighboring cities within Gyeonggi Province, specifically Anyang and Suwon. Previously based in Seoul from 1990 until 1995, LG Cheetahs (now known as FC Seoul) moved to Anyang as part of the league’s decentralization strategy.[1] Meanwhile, Suwon became home to the newly created club, Suwon Samsung Bluewings, that same year.
In its early period, Suwon’s primary competitors were Ulsan Hyundai and Pusan Daewoo, with intense clashes during the league finals of 1996 and 1997. The rivalry between Anyang and Suwon developed between 1998 and 1999, intensified by notable personnel changes such as former Suwon assistant coach Cho Kwang-rae joining Anyang and ex-Anyang player Seo Jung-won returning to Suwon after a stint at RC Strasbourg. This culminated in a decisive 5–1 victory for Suwon over Anyang in the 1999 Korean Super Cup.[1] Additionally, the competition was fueled by the corporate rivalry between their parent companies, LG Electronics and Samsung Electronics. The fixture was colloquially dubbed the Jijidae Derby in 2003, named after a hill along the National Route 1 that links the two cities.[1]
The rivalry intensified further after the year 2004 when Anyang LG Cheetahs moved back to Seoul and adopted the FC Seoul identity.[2] Since then, both the league authorities and media outlets have actively promoted this rivalry for commercial purposes, officially branding it as "Super Match" starting in 2009.
Venues
| FC Seoul | Template:Location map+ | Suwon Samsung Bluewings |
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| Seoul World Cup Stadium | Suwon World Cup Stadium | |
| Capacity: 66,704 | Capacity: 44,031 |
Players who have represented both teams
- Template:Country data KORTemplate:Namespace detect showall Kim Dong-hae (Seoul: 1989–1995; Suwon: 1996)
- Template:Country data KORTemplate:Namespace detect showall Park Chul-woo (Seoul: 1992–1994; Suwon: 1996–1997)
- Template:Country data KORTemplate:Namespace detect showall Seo Jung-won (Seoul: 1992–1997; Suwon: 1999–2004)
- Template:Country data KORTemplate:Namespace detect showall Park Jung-suk (Suwon: 1996–2000; Seoul: 2001–2007)
- Template:Country data KORTemplate:Namespace detect showall Lee Ki-hyung (Suwon: 1996–2002; Seoul: 2005–2006)
- Template:Country data TJKTemplate:Namespace detect showall Vitaliy Parakhnevych (Suwon: 1998–2000; Seoul: 2001)
- Template:Country data BRATemplate:Namespace detect showall Tuta (Seoul: 2002; Suwon: 2003)
- Template:Country data KORTemplate:Namespace detect showall Lee Jung-soo (Seoul: 2002–2004; Suwon: 2006–2008 and 2016–2017)
- Template:Country data KORTemplate:Namespace detect showall Han Dong-won (Seoul: 2002–2006; Suwon: 2012)
- Template:Country data KORTemplate:Namespace detect showall Lee Jong-min (Suwon: 2002–2004 and 2013; Seoul: 2008–2012)
- Template:Country data KORTemplate:Namespace detect showall Baek Ji-hoon (Seoul: 2005–2006; Suwon: 2006–2016)
- Template:Country data KORTemplate:Namespace detect showall Park Sung-bae (Seoul: 2005–2006; Suwon: 2007)
- Template:Country data KORTemplate:Namespace detect showall Choi Jae-soo (Seoul: 2004–2007; Suwon: 2012–2015)
- Template:Country data KORTemplate:Namespace detect showall Cho Chan-ho (Suwon: 2015; Seoul: 2016–2017)
- Template:Country data KORTemplate:Namespace detect showall Lee Sang-ho (Suwon: 2009–2016; Seoul: 2017–2018)
- Template:Country data MNETemplate:Namespace detect showall Dejan Damjanović (Seoul: 2008–2013 and 2016–2017; Suwon: 2018–2019)
- Template:Country data KORTemplate:Namespace detect showall Cho Ji-hun (Suwon: 2011–2018; Seoul: 2022)
- Template:Country data KORTemplate:Namespace detect showall Lim Sang-hyub (Suwon: 2018–2020; Seoul: 2023–2024)
- Template:Country data KORTemplate:Namespace detect showall Lee Si-young (Seoul: 2023–present; Suwon: 2024, on loan)
- Germany Stanislav Iljutcenko (Seoul: 2022–2024; Suwon: from 2025 onwards)
- Template:Country data KORTemplate:Namespace detect showall Kang Seong-jin (Seoul: since 2021; Suwon on loan from 2025)
Match reports
All kickoff times follow the local time zone in South Korea (UTC+09:00).
1990s
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2000s
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date (2004 K League)
23 May 2004
time 15:00
team1 FC Seoul
score 1–0
report http://www.kleague.com/kr/sub.asp?avan%3D1002010000%26year%3D2004%26month%3D5%26leagueMode%3Dpreview_4%26meet_year%3D2004%26meet_seq%3D1%26game_id%3D45%26
team2 Suwon Samsung Bluewings
goals1 (Ricardo Campos da Costa, Ricardo, goal at minute 15)
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stadium Seoul World Cup Stadium
attendance 30,751
referee Lee Sam-ho
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date : October 3, 17:00, Suwon Samsung Bluewings vs FC Seoul, final score: 1-0. Goal scored by Kim Do-heon at minute 82. Match held at Suwon World Cup Stadium with an audience of 19,836. Referee was Knut Kircher from Germany.
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date : June 12, 19:00, FC Seoul faced Suwon Samsung Bluewings ending in a draw of one goal each. Choi Jae-soo scored at the twelfth minute for FC Seoul and Kim Dae-eui equalized at the eighty-eighth minute for Suwon. The match took place at Seoul World Cup Stadium with an attendance of nineteen thousand three hundred eighty-five. Lee Jong-gook officiated the game.
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date : On October twenty-third at fifteen hundred hours, Suwon Samsung Bluewings hosted FC Seoul and were defeated three-nil. Goals came from Park Chu-young at the twentieth minute, Jung Jo-gook at fifty-one minutes and Han Tae-you at sixty-nine minutes. The venue was Suwon World Cup Stadium with thirty-three thousand four hundred seventy-nine spectators. Referee was Kwon Jong-chul.
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date : March twelfth, fourteen hundred hours saw Suwon Samsung Bluewings and FC Seoul draw one-all. Itamar Batista da Silva netted a penalty for Suwon in the sixty-fourth minute while Park Chu-young converted a penalty for FC Seoul in the seventy-eighth minute. The match was held at Suwon World Cup Stadium with thirty-three thousand eight hundred nineteen attendees under the supervision of referee Lee Young-chul.
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date : August twenty-third at twenty hundred hours featured FC Seoul against Suwon Samsung Bluewings ending in a one-one tie. Dudu scored for FC Seoul in the eighteenth minute and Lee Kwan-woo equalized in the sixty-third minute for Suwon. The game took place at Seoul World Cup Stadium with forty-one thousand two hundred thirty-seven fans watching. Ko Kum-bok was the referee.
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date : On April eighth at fifteen hundred hours FC Seoul suffered a narrow loss to Suwon Samsung Bluewings by zero to one. Ha Tae-goon scored the only goal in the seventeenth minute at Seoul World Cup Stadium with an audience of fifty-five thousand three hundred ninety-seven. Lee Sang-yong officiated this match.
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date : August nineteenth saw a nineteen hundred hour kickoff where Suwon Samsung Bluewings defeated FC Seoul two to one. Goals were recorded by Lee Kwan-woo in the forty-fifth minute and Kim Dae-eui in the fiftieth for Suwon while Kim Dong-suk scored for FC Seoul in the fifty-seventh minute. The venue was Suwon World Cup Stadium attended by forty-one thousand eight hundred nineteen spectators with Choi Kwang-bo as referee.
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date : April thirteenth at fifteen hundred hours featured FC Seoul losing to Suwon Samsung Bluewings zero to two. Shin Young-rok scored twice for Suwon in the fifty-first and sixty-second minutes at Seoul World Cup Stadium before a crowd of forty-four thousand two hundred thirty-nine with Choi Kwang-bo refereeing.
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date : On October twenty-ninth at nineteen thirty hours Suwon Samsung Bluewings hosted FC Seoul and lost one nil due to Ki Sung-yueng’s goal in stoppage time at ninety plus two minutes. This match was held at Suwon World Cup Stadium with an attendance of twenty-six thousand seven hundred thirteen and officiated by Ko Kum-bok.
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date : December third marked the first leg of the 2008 K League Championship between FC Seoul and Suwon Samsung Bluewings ending one all; Adi scored for FC Seoul in the twenty-first minute while Kwak Hee-ju equalized in the seventy-ninth minute for Suwon. The game took place at Seoul World Cup Stadium before thirty-nine thousand eleven fans under German referee Peter Gagelmann’s supervision.
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date : The second leg on December seventh saw Suwon Samsung Bluewings win two to one against FC Seoul with Edu scoring in the eleventh minute and Song Chong-gug adding another in the thirty-sixth minute; Jung Jo-gook netted a penalty for FC Seoul in the twenty-fifth minute. Held at Suwon World Cup Stadium before forty-one thousand forty-four spectators with Felix Brych from Germany as referee.
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date : April fourth, seventeen hundred hours witnessed FC Seoul narrowly defeating Suwon Samsung Bluewings one nil thanks to Lee Chung-yong’s goal in the sixty-eighth minute at Seoul World Cup Stadium where thirty-two thousand seventy-five attended under Choi Kwang-bo’s officiating.
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date : August first evening match saw Suwon Samsung Bluewings triumph over FC Seoul two nil with An Yong-hak scoring fifty-first minute and Tiago sealing victory eighty-fifth minute; played at Suwon World Cup Stadium before thirty-five thousand fifty-eight fans with Choi Kwang-bo refereeing again.
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2010s
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| date =12 November 2026 3 August 2013 | time =Template:Time 19:00 | team1 South Korea's Suwon Samsung Bluewings | score Suwon's home win with a close score of two to one | report http://www.kleague.com/kr/sub.asp?avan=[...] |
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2020s
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| date = 2021 K League 1
29 May 2021
| time = 19:00
| team1 = FC Seoul
| score = 0–3
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| team2 = Suwon Samsung Bluewings
| stadium = Seoul World Cup Stadium
| attendance = 4,976
| referee = Kim Jong-hyeok
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date = 2023 K League 1
22 April 2023
time = 14:00
team1 = FC Seoul
score = 3–1
report = https://int.soccerway.com/matches/2023/04/22/korea-republic/k-league-classic/fc-seoul/suwon-bluewings/4020221/
team2 = Suwon Samsung Bluewings
stadium = Seoul World Cup Stadium
attendance = 30,186
referee = Jeong Dong-sik
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date = 2023 K League 1
24 June 2023
time =16:30
team1 =Suwon Samsung Bluewings
score =0–1
report =https://int.soccerway.com/matches/2023/06/24/korea-republic/k-league-classic/suwon-bluewings/fc-seoul/4020287/
team2 =FC Seoul
stadium =Suwon World Cup Stadium
attendance =19,513
referee =Kim Woo-sung
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date = 2023 K League 1
02 September 2023 time =16:30 team1 =Suwon Samsung Bluewings score =0–1 report =https://int.soccerway.com/matches/2023/09/02/korea-republic/k-league-classic/suwon-bluewings/fc-seoul/4020349/ team2 =FC Seoul stadium =Suwon World Cup Stadium attendance =22,882 referee =Ko Hyung-jin goals1 = goals2 = *Stanislav Iljutcenko Template:Goal
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date = 2023 K League 1
25 November 2023 time =16:30 team1 = FC Seoul score =0–1 report =https://int.soccerway.com/matches/2023/11/25/korea-republic/k-league-classic/fc-seoul/suwon-bluewings/4261485/ team2 = Suwon Samsung Bluewings stadium = Seoul World Cup Stadium attendance =36,007 referee = Park Byung-jin goals1 = goals2 = *Rodrigo Bassani Template:Goal
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League Cup encounters
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FA Cup encounters
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Super Cup encounters
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Statistics and records
- Updated as of 25 November 2023.
- Matches decided by penalty shoot-outs are recorded as draws.
Comprehensive results
| Competition | Matches played | Seoul victories | Draws | Suwon victories | Goals by Seoul | Goals by Suwon |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Leading scorers
| # | Player | Team | K League 1 | League Cup | FA Cup | Total goals |
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| 1 | Template:Country data KORTemplate:Namespace detect showall Park Chu-young | FC Seoul | 6 | 3 | 1 | 10 |
| 2 | Template:Country data MNETemplate:Namespace detect showall Dejan Damjanović | Both teams | 7 | 2 | 0 | 9 |
- Goals scored against both clubs:
- Template:Country data KORTemplate:Namespace detect showall Seo Jung-won (3 goals versus Suwon, and another 3 against Seoul)
- Template:Country data KORTemplate:Namespace detect showall Lee Sang-ho (4 goals against Seoul, plus one against Suwon)
- Template:Country data MNETemplate:Namespace detect showall Dejan Damjanović (7 goals versus Suwon, and two against Seoul)
Most decisive wins
| Date | Tournament | Scoreline | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Top attendances
| Rank | Date | Tournament | Crowd | Venue | Final Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 Seoul |
| 8 | 3 October 2011 | K League | 44,537 | Suwon World Cup Stadium | Suwon1–0 Seoul |
| 9 | 13 April 2008 | K League | 44,239 | Seoul World Cup Stadium | Seoul0–2 Suwon |
| 10 | 3 August2013 | KLeague Classic | 43,681 | Seoul WorldCupStadium | Seoul2–1 Suwon |
Honours
| Club | Title Category | Titles Won |
|---|---|---|
| International Achievements | ||
| AFC Champions League |0 | ||
| AFC Champions League |2 | ||
| Asian Super Cup (defunct) |0 | ||
| Asian Super Cup (defunct) |2 | ||
| Domestic Achievements | ||
| K League 1 |6 | ||
| K League 1 |4 | ||
| Korean League Cup (defunct) |2 | ||
| Korean League Cup (defunct) |6 | ||
| Korean FA Cup |2 | ||
| Korean FA Cup |5 | ||
| Korean Super Cup (defunct) |1 | ||
| Korean Super Cup (defunct) |3 | ||
| Total Titles ! — ! FC Seoul: 11, Suwon Samsung Bluewings: 22 | ||
References
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