2023 K League 2

The 2023 K League 2, also known as the Hana 1Q K League 2 for sponsorship reasons, is the 11th season of the second division of professional football in South Korea since its establishment in 2013 as the K League Challenge and the sixth season under its current name, the K League 2. The league will be this season to feature relegation. Gwangju FC are the defending champions and were promoted to K League 1. The 2023 season will kick off at 1 March 2023.[1]

KEB Hana Bank
K League 2 2023
Season2023
Dates1 March – 2 December 2023 (including Promotion play-offs)
6 and 9 December 2023 (Promotion-Relegation play-offs)
RelegatedNone (No Relegation between K League 2 and K3 League)
← 2022
2024 →

The 2023 season will have 39 Regular rounds (each team plays 36 matches) in which 13 teams play a triple round robin (Rounds 1–39 (1–36)). Then final 3rd, 4th and 5th place teams will join K League 2 play-offs for promotion and 2nd place team will join in K League 1-2 Promotion-Relegation play-off 1 and the winner of K League 2 promotion play-offs(3rd-4th-5th) will join in K League 1-2 Promotion-Relegation play-off 2. Initially bottom teams are relegated to K3 League, but eventually it won't be applied yet.

Overview

A total of thirteen teams are participating in the 2023 edition of K League 2.

Changes

Gwangju FC (promoted after a one-year absence) and Daejeon Hana Citizen (promoted after a seven-year absence) were promoted from the 2022 K League 2. Gimcheon Sangmu (relegated after one year in the top flight) and Seongnam FC (relegated after four years in the top flight) were relegated to 2023 K League 2.

Cheonan City FC and Chungbuk Cheongju FC, which played in the K3 League, made their professional debuts on the K League 2 in the 2023 season, being the 24th and 25th K League member.

No Promotion or relegation between K League 2 and K3 League.

Incoming
from 2023 K League 1 New teams
Gimcheon Sangmu
Seongnam FC		 Cheonan City FC
Chungbuk Cheongju FC
Outgoing
to 2023 K League 1
Gwangju FC
Daejeon Hana Citizen

Teams
Locations of the 2023 K League 2 teams

Stadiums
Ansan Greeners FC Anyang Bucheon FC 1995 Busan IPark Cheonan City Chungbuk Cheongju Chungnam Asan
Ansan Wa~ Stadium Anyang Stadium Bucheon Stadium Busan Asiad Main Stadium Cheonan Stadium Cheongju Stadium Yi Sun-sin Stadium
Capacity: 35,000 Capacity: 17,143 Capacity: 34,456 Capacity: 53,769 Capacity: 26,000 Capacity: 16,280 Capacity: 19,283
Gimcheon Sangmu FC Gimpo FC Gyeongnam FC Jeonnam Dragons Seongnam FC Seoul E-Land
Gimcheon Stadium Gimpo Solteo Football Stadium Changwon Football Center Gwangyang Stadium Tancheon Stadium Mokdong Stadium
Capacity: 25,000 Capacity: 5,000 Capacity: 15,074 Capacity: 13,496 Capacity: 16,146 Capacity: 15,511

Foreign players

Restricting the number of foreign players strictly to six per team, including a slot for a player from the Asian Football Confederation countries. Gimcheon Sangmu FC, being a military-owned team, is not allowed to sign any foreign players. A team could use five foreign players on the field each game, including at least one player from the AFC confederation.
The name in bold indicates that the player was registered during the mid-season transfer window.

Club Player 1 Player 2 Player 3 Player 4 Player 5 AFC player Left in mid-season
Ansan Greeners Gabriel Honório Go Iwase
FC Anyang Jonathan Moya Andrigo
Bucheon FC 1995 Nilson Júnior Gabriel Ramos Kalil Kazuki Takahashi
Busan IPark Bruno Lamas Fessin
Cheonan City Mota Rodolfo Damir Šovšić Vũ Minh Hiếu Nguyễn Cảnh Anh
Chungbuk Cheongju Paulinho Kogileswaran Raj Peter Makrillos
Chungnam Asan Róbson Duarte
Gimpo FC Pablo González Juninho Rocha Luis Mina
Gyeongnam FC Castro Gleyson
Jeonnam Dragons Leonard Pllana Nika Kacharava Valdívia Asnawi Mangkualam Yuhei Sato
Seongnam FC Patrick Flottmann
Seoul E-Land FC Renan Ronan Bruno Oliveira Tsubasa Nishi Nguyễn Văn Toàn

League table
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Promotion or qualification
1 Gimcheon Sangmu 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Promotion to 2024 K League 1
2 Seongnam FC 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Qualification for promotion playoff 1
3 FC Anyang 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Qualification for K League 2 playoff 2
4 Bucheon FC 1995 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Qualification for K League 2 semi-playoff 2
5 Gyeongnam FC 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
6 Chungnam Asan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
7 Seoul E-Land 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
8 Gimpo FC 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
9 Ansan Greeners 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
10 Busan IPark 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
11 Jeonnam Dragons 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
12 Cheonan City 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
13 Chungbuk Cheongju 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
First match(es) will be played on 1 March 2023. Source: Official website of K League SOCCERWAY
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goals scored; 3) Goal difference; 4) Number of wins; 5) Head-to-head points

Positions by matchday

  Leader & promotion to the 2024 K League 1
  Qualification for relegation/promotion play-offs

First match(es) will be played on 1 March 2023. Source: kleague.com

Results
Home \ Away ASG AYG BCN BSI CNC CBCJ CNAS GCS GIM GNM JND SNM SUE ASG AYG BCN BSI CNC CBCJ CNAS GCS GIM GNM JND SNM SUE
Ansan Greeners
FC Anyang
Bucheon FC 1995
Busan IPark
Cheonan City
Chungbuk Cheongju
Chungnam Asan
Gimcheon Sangmu
Gimpo FC
Gyeongnam FC
Jeonnam Dragons
Seongnam FC
Seoul E-Land
First match(es) will be played on 1 March 2023. Source: K League 2
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For upcoming matches, an "a" indicates there is an article about the rivalry between the two participants.

Promotion/relegation play-offs

There are two playoffs contested in this stage. The Playoff "1" is played with the two league extremes facing each other (K League 1 second-worst placed team against K League 2 second-best placed team). Meanwhile, the Playoff "2" is played with K League 2 10th facing the Semi-playoffs winner. The winners of both ties earn two spots in the 2024 K League 1.

If scores are tied after regular time in any match of both the Semi-playoffs and playoffs, the higher-placed team will advance to the next phase. However, The same conditions do not apply for the Promotion/relegation Playoffs, with the match, if tied, requiring extra time. Should it remain tied, the match will go to the penalty shoot-outs.

Semi-playoff
(4th)v(5th)

Playoff
(3rd)v(4th or 5th)

Promotion-Relegation Playoff Final Round

Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
(PO2 Winners) agg. (KL1 10th) 1st 2nd
(KL2 2nd) agg. (KL1 11th) 1st 2nd

First leg
(K2 2nd)v(K1 11th)
(PO2 Winners)v(K1 10th)

Second leg
(K1 10th)v(PO2 Winners)
(K1 11th)v(K2 2nd)

See also

Notes

    References
    1. "2023시즌 K리그2 일정 발표, 3·1절 킥오프 (2023 K League 2 fixture announced., Kick-off at 1 March )". K League. 26 January 2023. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
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