2020 K League 1
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(8th title)
Busan IPark
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| Season | 2020 |
|---|---|
| Dates | 8 May – 1 November 2020 |
| Champions | Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors (8th title) |
| Relegated | Sangju Sangmu Busan IPark |
| Champions League | Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors Ulsan Hyundai Pohang Steelers Daegu FC |
| Matches | 162 |
| Goals | 425 (2.62 per match) |
| Best Player | Son Jun-ho |
| Top goalscorer | Júnior Negrão (26 goals) |
| Biggest home win | Daegu 6–0 Seoul (14 June 2020) |
| Biggest away win | Seongnam 0–6 Incheon (27 September 2020) |
| Highest scoring | Daegu 4–6 Gwangju (30 August 2020) |
| Longest winning run | 5 matches Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors Ulsan Hyundai |
| Longest unbeaten run | 11 matches Ulsan Hyundai |
| Longest winless run | 15 matches Incheon United |
| Longest losing run | 8 matches Incheon United |
← 2019 2021 → | |
The 2020 K League 1 was the 38th season of the top division of professional football in South Korea, and the eighth season of the K League 1. Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors won their eighth title, becoming the most successful K League club which had the most titles.[1]
The regular season was scheduled to begin on 29 February and to end on 4 October,[2] but was postponed until 8 May due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[3][4][5]
On 24 April 2020, the K League Federation confirmed that they would adopt a modified plan for the season, reducing the number of matchdays to 27 including five matchdays of each divided final league.[6]
Sangju Sangmu and the lowest-placed team at the end of the season were relegated to the K League 2 for the 2021 season.[7]
In this season, one additional spot for players from ASEAN countries was added regardless of the "3+1" foreign players rule.[8][9]
Team changes
League table
Positions by matchday
Leaders
Qualification for Champions League group stage
Relegation to K League 2
Round 1–22
Round 23–27
The league was divided into two groups, the top six and the bottom six, after the 22nd matchday.
Results
Matches 1–22
Matches 23–27
Final A |
Final B |
Statistics
Top goalscorers
| Rank | Player[12] | Club | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Júnior Negrão |
Ulsan Hyundai | 26 |
| 2 |  Stanislav Iljutcenko |
Pohang Steelers | 19 |
| 3 | Cesinha |
Daegu FC | 18 |
| 4 |  Aleksandar Paločević |
Pohang Steelers | 14 |
| 5 |  Stefan Mugoša |
Incheon United | 12 |
| Felipe |
Gwangju FC | ||
| 7 |  Han Kyo-won |
Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors | 11 |
| 8 | Song Min-kyu |
Pohang Steelers | 10 |
| 9 | Dejan Damjanović |
Daegu FC | 9 |
 Adam Taggart |
Suwon Samsung Bluewings | ||
| Ko Moo-yeol |
Gangwon FC | ||
Top assist providers
| Rank | Player[12] | Club | Assists |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kang Sang-woo |
Sangju Sangmu Pohang Steelers |
12 |
| 2 | Jeong Seung-won |
Daegu FC | 7 |
| 3 | Kim Seung-dae |
Gangwon FC | 6 |
| Aleksandar Paločević |
Pohang Steelers | ||
| Kim In-sung |
Ulsan Hyundai | ||
 Manuel Palacios |
Pohang Steelers | ||
| Stanislav Iljutcenko |
Pohang Steelers | ||
| Song Min-kyu |
Pohang Steelers | ||
| 9 | Son Jun-ho |
Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors | 5 |
| 10 | 12 players | 4 | |
Awards
Weekly awards
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Monthly awards
| Month | Player of the Month | Manager of the Month | Goal of the Month | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Player | Club | Manager | Club | Division | Player | Club | |
| May | Júnior Negrão |
Ulsan | Kim Nam-il |
Seongnam | 1 | Cho Jae-wan |
Gangwon |
| June | Cesinha |
Daegu |  José Morais |
Jeonbuk | 1 | Cesinha |
Daegu |
| July | Júnior Negrão |
Ulsan | Kim Do-hoon |
Ulsan | 1 | Lee Dong-gyeong |
Ulsan |
| August | Moon Seon-min |
Sangju | Nam Ki-il |
Jeju | 2 | Moon Seon-min |
Sangju |
| September | Stefan Mugoša |
Incheon | Kim Gi-dong |
Pohang | 1 | Adam Taggart |
Suwon |
| October | Stanislav Iljutcenko |
Pohang | Nam Ki-il |
Jeju | 2 | Hong Si-hoo |
Seongnam |
Annual awards
The 2020 K League Awards was held on 5 November 2020.
| Position | Best XI | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Goalkeeper | Jo Hyeon-woo (Ulsan) | |||
| Defenders | Kim Tae-hwan (Ulsan) |
Kwon Kyung-won (Sangju) |
Hong Jeong-ho (Jeonbuk) |
Kang Sang-woo (Sangju, Pohang) |
| Midfielders | Aleksandar Paločević (Pohang) |
Cesinha (Daegu) |
Son Jun-ho (Jeonbuk) |
Han Kyo-won (Jeonbuk) |
| Forwards | Stanislav Iljutcenko (Pohang) |
Júnior Negrão (Ulsan) | ||
Attendance
Attendants who entered with free ticket are not counted.
| Pos | Team | Total | High | Low | Average | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors | 16,808 | 10,535 | 0 | 1,200 | −91.4% |
| 2 | Ulsan Hyundai | 16,352 | 6,973 | 0 | 1,168 | −87.9% |
| 3 | FC Seoul | 13,047 | 5,485 | 0 | 931 | −91.9% |
| 4 | Daegu FC | 7,265 | 3,030 | 0 | 558 | −94.8% |
| 5 | Suwon Samsung Bluewings | 7,072 | 2,912 | 0 | 544 | −93.8% |
| 6 | Incheon United | 6,849 | 3,428 | 0 | 526 | −93.8% |
| 7 | Pohang Steelers | 6,996 | 3,280 | 0 | 499 | −94.1% |
| 8 | Seongnam FC | 5,066 | 1,655 | 0 | 361 | −93.5% |
| 9 | Gangwon FC | 2,978 | 1,967 | 0 | 212 | −92.6% |
| 10 | Gwangju FC | 1,711 | 860 | 0 | 131 | −95.8%† |
| 11 | Busan IPark | 1,416 | 830 | 0 | 108 | −97.4%† |
| 12 | Sangju Sangmu | 1,080 | 666 | 0 | 83 | −96.5% |
| League total | 86,640 | 10,535 | 0 | 534 | −93.3% |
Updated to games played on 1 December 2020
Source: K League
Notes:
† Teams that played previous season in K League 2.