Suwon FC

Early years: semi-professional

Suwon city government decided to create a semi-professional level football team that would link school-level football clubs within the city and Suwon Samsung Bluewings, which is a professional club based in the city. On 15 March 2003, "Suwon City Football Club" was officially formed. The club appointed Kim Chang-Kyum as their manager and joined the semi-professional Korea National League, which was then called the "K2 League".

They won their first trophy in 2004 by winning the Korean President's Cup National Football Tournament. Slowly, they rose to strong contenders in the Korea National League, reaching the play-off in four occasions in 2005, 2007, 2008 and 2009 although they failed to lift the trophy on all four occasions. Finally, in the 2010 season, they became the league champions after beating Daejeon Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power 2–1 aggregate in the finals. Manager Kim Chang-Kyum left the team after the 2010 season as his contract expired and Cho Duck-je, who had been managing the club's youth team, took over his place.

Suwon FC era

On 9 December 2012, it was officially announced that the team would become a fully professional club. They officially changed their name to "Suwon FC" and got an approval to join the professional K League. Suwon FC joined K League Challenge in the 2013 season. Their debut season as a professional club was successful, as they finished 4th in the league and became the only K League Challenge club to reach quarter-finals in the FA Cup.

The 2015 season was a dramatic milestone for the club. After finishing the regular season as third, Suwon FC proceeded to the semi play-off in which they met Seoul E-Land FC, on 25 November 2015. They drew 3–3, but since if scores are tied after regular time at semi play-off and play-off, the higher placed team advances to the next phase. On 28 November 2015, Suwon FC beat Daegu FC 2–1 in the play-off. Suwon FC beat Busan IPark 3–0 on aggregate in the K League Promotion-Relegation Playoffs and won the promotion. Suwon made their K League Classic (top tier) debut in the 2016 season.

Current squad

As of 27 February 2018

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 3 DF Kim Byeom-yong 5 DF Kim Chang-hun 6 DF Kim Min-je 7 MF Lee Seung-hyun (captain) 8 MF Lee Kwang-jin 9 FW Jeong Woo-geun 10 MF Baek Sung-dong 11 MF Alex Bruno 13 MF Jung Hoon 14 MF Alex 15 MF Choi Won-cheol 16 DF Park Se-jin 17 MF Kim Cheol-ho 18 DF Chae Seon-il 19 FW Mo Jae-hyeon

No. Position Player 20 MF Cho Yu-min 21 GK Lee In-soo 22 MF Bae Shin-young 24 DF Adrian Leijer 25 DF Lee Han-bin 26 DF Cho Sang-beom 28 DF Jung Ho-young 29 DF Min Hyun-hong 30 FW Seo Se-kyeong 31 GK Kim Da-sol 32 MF Kim Sang-woo 33 FW Bae Ji-hoon 34 MF Jeong Myeong-won 33 FW Kim Dong-chan 90 GK Lee Sang-wook 92 FW Fernando Viana 99 FW Hwang Do-yeon (on loan from Jeju United)

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player — MF Kim Jong-gook (to Asan Mugunghwa for military service) — FW Lee Jae-an (to Asan Mugunghwa for military service) — GK Park Hyeong-soon (to Asan Mugunghwa for military service) — FW Kim Byung-oh (to Sangju Sangmu for military service)

No. Position Player 16 FW Song Soo-young (to Sangju Sangmu for military service) 32 MF Lee Han-saem (to Asan Mugunghwa for military service) 19 MF Lim Chang-gyoon (to Asan Mugunghwa for military service) 9 MF Kim Boo-gwan (to Asan Mugunghwa for military service) 4 DF Lim Ha-ram (on loan to Gangneung City FC) 2 DF Ma Sang-hoon (to Sangju Sangmu for military service)

Domestic competitions