2022 FC Seoul season explained

The 2022 season was FC Seoul's 39th in the K League 1. For the 3rd consecutive season, FC Seoul wasn't able to end the K League 1 at the Championship Round, leaving them a K League 1 Relegation Round spot. They finished in 9th place, escaping relegation play-offs at their last match, after winning 2–0 past Suwon FC. They didn't participated —or qualified to participate—in the 2022 AFC Champions League. Their final chance of reaching the 2023–24 AFC Champions League was via the 2022 Korean FA Cup, where they played a two-legged final against Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors, losing on aggregate score. Overall, no titles were won by FC Seoul in the season.

Pre-season

• First Winter Training Camp: In Namhae County, South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea - From 1 January 2022 to 25 January 2022^[1]
• Second Winter Training Camp: In Geoje and South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea - From 29 January 2022 to 6 February 2022^[2]
• Third Winter Training Camp: In Yeongdeok County and North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea - From 7 February 2022 to 11 February 2022^[3]

Pre-season match results

Type	Date	Opponents	Result	Score	Scorers	Notes
Practice matches during winter training spell	13 January 2022	Daejeon Korail FC			1–1[4]
1 February 2022	Hwaseong FC			5–0[5]
4 February 2022	Jeonju University			4–3[6]
4 February 2022	Gangneung FC			4–0[7]
9 February 2022	Chungju Citizen FC			5–0[8]
9 February 2022	Busan IPark			1–1[9]

Competitions

K League 1

See main article: 2022 K League 1.

Matches

FA Cup

See main article: 2022 Korean FA Cup.

Coaching staff

Position	Name	Notes
Manager	An Ik-soo
Assistant manager	Park Hyuk-soon
Coach	Kim Jin-kyu
	Kim Sun-ho	(21 June 2022–)
	Kim Myung-gon	(22 June 2022–)
Goalkeeping coach	Jeon Sang-wook
Fitness coach	Hwang Ji-hwan
U-18 Team Manager	Kim Pil-jong
U-18 Team Coach	Choi Hyun-tae
U-18 Team Goalkeeping Coach	Yoo Hyun-wook
U-18 Team Fitness Coach	Jung Hoon-gi
U-15 Team Manager	Yoon Si-ho
U-15 Team Coach	Yoon Hyun-pil
	Huh Jae-won
U-15 Team Goalkeeping Coach	Bagn Hyung-gon
U-15 Team Fitness Coach	So Ki-dong
U-12 Team Coach	Seo Ki-man
Scout	Lee Won-jun
	Jung Jae-yoon

Players

Team squad

• All players registered for the 2022 season are listed.

^[10]

No.	Pos.	Nationality	Player	Notes
		South Korea	Baek Jong-bum
		South Korea	Hwang Hyun-soo
		South Korea	Lee Sang-min
		Spain	Osmar
		South Korea	Ki Sung-yueng (captain)
		South Korea	Na Sang-ho (vice-captain)
		South Korea	Lim Min-hyeok
		South Korea	Kim Sin-jin
		South Korea	Ji Dong-won
		South Korea	Cho Young-wook
		South Korea
		Australia	Ben Halloran	Left mid-season
		Japan		Signed mid-season
		South Korea
		South Korea		Left mid-season
		South Korea	Jung Hyun-cheol	Signed mid-season
		South Korea	Kim Jin-ya
		South Korea	Hwang Sung-min
		South Korea	Jung Han-min
		South Korea
		South Korea	Yang Han-been (vice-captain)
		South Korea		Left mid-season
		South Korea	Yoon Jong-gyu
		South Korea	Kwon Sung-yun
		South Korea	Ahn Ji-man
		Serbia
		South Korea	Ko Kwang-min
		South Korea	Kang Sang-hee
		South Korea	Kang Seong-jin
		South Korea	Kim Jin-sung	Left mid-season
		South Korea		Signed mid-season
		South Korea	Seo Jae-min
		South Korea	Yang Yu-min
		South Korea
		South Korea
		South Korea	Park Seong-hoon
		South Korea	Seo Ju-hwan	Signed mid-season
		South Korea	Park Jang Han-gyeol
		South Korea	Cho Ji-hun
		Brazil	Ricardo	Left mid-season
		South Korea	Kim Woo-hong	Signed mid-season
		South Korea
		South Korea
		South Korea
		South Korea	Lee Seung-jae	Left mid-season
		South Korea
		Russia	Stanislav Iljutcenko	Signed mid-season
		South Korea	Jung Jin-wook	Left mid-season
		South Korea	Hwang In-beom	Left mid-season
		South Korea

Out on loan and military service

No.	Pos.	Nationality	Player	Moving To	Loan Period
		South Korea	Kim Woo-hong	FC Namdong	July 2020–September 2022 (returned)
		South Korea	Kim Ju-sung	Gimcheon Sangmu	March 2021–September 2022 (returned)
		South Korea	Jung Hyun-cheol	Gimcheon Sangmu	March 2021–September 2022 (returned)
		South Korea	Han Chan-hee	Gimcheon Sangmu	June 2021–December 2022
		South Korea	Lee In-gyu	Hwaseong FC	February 2022–December 2022
		South Korea	Lee Seung-jae	Chungnam Asan FC	July 2022–December 2022
		South Korea	Kim Jin-sung		July 2022–December 2022

Transfers

In

		scope=col	Player	Transferred from	Transferred on
18		Hwang Sung-min	Gyeongnam FC	January
91		Jung Jin-wook	Gimhae FC	January
3		Lee Sang-min	Seoul E-Land	January
40		Park Seong-hoon	FC Seoul U-18	January
8		Lim Min-hyeok	Gyeongnam FC	January
25		Ahn Ji-man	FC Seoul U-18	January
44		Cho Ji-hun	Chiangrai United	January
9		Kim Sin-jin	Sunmoon University	January
99		Park Ho-min	Korea University	January
77		Lee Seung-jae	Chungnam Asan	January
40		Park Seong-hoon	FC Seoul U-18	January
45		Ricardo	América-MG	February
31		Seo Jae-min	FC Seoul U-18	March
61		Han Seung-gyu	Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors	April
96		Hwang In-beom	Rubin Kazan	May
41		Seo Ju-hwan	Ulsan Hyundai	July
14		Keijiro Ogawa	Yokohama FC	July
90		Stanislav Iljutcenko	FC Seoul U-18	July
30		Kim Ju-sung	Gimcheon Sangmu	September
16		Jung Hyung-cheol	Gimcheon Sangmu	September
–		Han Chan-hee	Gimcheon Sangmu	December

Out

		scope=col	Player	Transferred to	Transferred on
–		Yu Sang-hun	Gangwon FC	January
–		Kim Won-gun	Gangwon FC	January
–		Shin Jae-won	Suwon FC	January
–		Yeo Reum	Incheon United	January
–		Hwang Sung-min	Gyeongnam FC	January
–		Gabriel Barbosa	Palmeiras	January
–		Park Chu-young	Ulsan Hyundai	January
–		Lee In-gyu	Hwaseong FC	February
22		Park Jung-bin	Free agent	May
91		Jung Jin-wook	Cheongju FC	June
96		Hwang In-beom	Rubin Kazan	June
45		Ricardo	América-MG	July
16		Jung Won-jin	Busan IPark	July
30		Kim Jin-sung	Cheonan City	July
77		Lee Seung-jae	Chungnam Asan	July
14		Ben Halloran	Adelaide United	May

See also

• FC Seoul

External links

• FC Seoul official website

Notes and References

1. https://www.facebook.com/fcseoul/posts/4714954545225602 FC서울 1차 동계 전지훈련 일정 안내
2. https://www.facebook.com/fcseoul/posts/4826467304074325 FC서울 2차 동계 전지훈련 일정 안내
3. https://www.facebook.com/fcseoul/posts/4857669490954106 FC서울 3차 동계 전지훈련 일정 안내
4. https://www.facebook.com/fcseoul/posts/4753580161363040 FC Seoul Official Pre-Match Result
5. https://www.facebook.com/fcseoul/posts/4836487156405673 FC Seoul Official Pre-Match Result
6. https://www.facebook.com/fcseoul/posts/4846007538786968 FC Seoul Official Pre-Match Result
7. https://www.facebook.com/fcseoul/posts/4846035868784135 FC Seoul Official Pre-Match Result
8. https://www.facebook.com/fcseoul/posts/4861654010555654 FC Seoul Official Pre-Match Result
9. https://www.facebook.com/fcseoul/posts/4861673370553718 Official Pre-Match Result
10. Web site: Team. FC Seoul.