🟧🔴 Hwaseong FC vs Gyeongnam FC
⚔️ 1-1
🏆 K League 2, matchweek 3
🏟️ Hwaseong Sports Complex
🗓️ 2025-03-08
🕑 14:00
🎟️ 10000 KRW
👥 1425
✍️ A battle of the two meme gaffers. Cha Du-ri's catchy supplement ad song was a mega hit in the early 2010s, while Lee Eul-yong is famous for the Eul-yong ta incident...which has its own English Wikipedia page?! (sadly Sinophobia is only continuing to grow here)
Unlike the first match where the cheerleaders were going around the seats, the club decided to make a supporters' section and made them stay there. It was a family friendly atmosphere with many in the stands and young voices singing along the chants. The crowd halved after the opening game but that wasn't surprising.
Hwaseong's biggest obstacle in gathering fans is that the stadium is pretty inaccessible. 40% of the city's population live in the rich new town Dongtan in the northeast end, and it takes 2 hours by public transit from there to get to Hyangnam in the south where the stadium is. Even Suwon Samsung is closer to them, and since they're one of Korea's most popular clubs, a lot of Hwaseong's football fans have already gone over there. The silver lining is that Hyangnam is also a budding new town, so they'll have to get the fans from there. Let's wait and see.
Also credit to the away fans, they travelled 5 hours from the south coast!
