Suwon FC

Suwon Football Club (수원 FC) is a South Korean professional football club based in the city of Suwon. It plays in the K League Challenge. They play their home games at Suwon Sports Complex. 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". 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. Suwon FC will take over city owned women football team, Suwon UDC from 2021 on. Suwon will be the first team to own and operate men's and women's team together in the same entity.