WK League

WK League
Founded 2009
Country Korea Republic
Confederation AFC
Number of teams 8
Level on pyramid 1
Relegation to none
Current champions Incheon Hyundai Steel Red Angels
(2017)
Most championships Incheon Hyundai Steel Red Angels
(5 titles)
TV partners KBS N Sports
Website Official website
2018 WK League

The WK League (Hangul:WK리그) is a professional women's football league, run by the Korea Football Association (KFA) and the Korea Women's Football Federation (KWFF), which represents the sport's highest level in South Korea.[1] The regular season runs from April to October, with each team playing 28 games.

Since the inception of the WK League in 2009, three clubs have won the title: Incheon Hyundai Steel Red Angels (5), Goyang Daekyo, who relocated to Icheon in the 2015 offseason from Goyang (3) and Suwon UDC (1).

Competition format

The eight teams in the league play each other four times, twice at home and twice away. The games are played on Monday and Thursday evenings. The regular season comes to an end when each team has played 28 games in total and it's followed by playoffs: the second and third placed face each other in a one-leg semi-final, with the winner facing the first placed team in a two-leg final. The winner of the final is crowned WK League champion.

The WK League is the only professional women's league in the country and as such there is no relegation system in place.

Teams (2018)

Team Location Position in 2017
Boeun SangmuBoeun8th
ChangnyeongChangnyeong
Gumi SportstotoGumi6th
Gyeongju KHNPGyeongju7th
Hwacheon KSPOHwacheon3rd
Incheon Hyundai Steel Red AngelsIncheon1st
SeoulSeoul4th
Suwon UDCSuwon5th

Championship

The following is a list of all season's championships. Those were played over two legs. There is no away goal rule.

Season Champion Aggregate score Runner-up Leg 1 Leg 2
2009 Goyang Daekyo KangaroosR 2–0 Incheon Hyundai Steel Red Angels 1–01–0
2010 Suwon Facilities Management Corporation 2–1 Incheon Hyundai Steel Red AngelsR 0–12–0
2011 Goyang Daekyo NoonnoppiR 5–3 Incheon Hyundai Steel Red Angels 2–23–1
2012 Goyang Daekyo NoonnoppiR 3–2 Incheon Hyundai Steel Red Angels 0–13–1
2013 Incheon Hyundai Steel Red AngelsR 4–2 Seoul 1–13–1
2014 Incheon Hyundai Steel Red AngelsR 1–0 Goyang Daekyo Noonnoppi 1–00–0
2015 Incheon Hyundai Steel Red AngelsR 1–1 (pen.) Icheon Daekyo 0–01–1
2016 Incheon Hyundai Steel Red AngelsR 4–0 Icheon Daekyo 0–04–0
2017 Incheon Hyundai Steel Red AngelsR 4–2 Hwacheon KSPO 3–01–2
  • R denotes regular season first-place finisher

See also

References

  1. ↑ "개요" (in Korean). WK League. Retrieved 22 April 2018.
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