K-League individual title competition to become fiercer, will it continue once again in the heyday of foreigners…Who's "The 2nd Yang Minhyuk"?
K-League individual title competition to become fiercer, will it continue once again in the heyday of foreigners…Who's "The 2nd Yang Minhyuk"?
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The K League 1 of the 2025 season will start with the official opening match between the Pohang Steelers and the Daejeon Hana Citizen at 1 p.m. on the 15th at Pohang Steelyard. Not only the competition for the championship of FC Seoul and Jeonbuk Hyundai, which have undergone renovation to counter Ulsan HD, which aims to win its fourth consecutive league title, but also the individual title race is drawing attention from fans. The fierce competition is expected to continue this year for the MVP, the top scorer, the help king and the Young Player Award.
●Race, the top scorer in the heyday of foreigners...What about this year?
Over the past decade, the K-League 1 top scorer title has been divided into five for domestic and five for foreign strikers. Last year, "Montenegro Express" Mugosa won the K-League 1 top scorer with 15 goals, struggling despite his team's relegation from Incheon United falling to the bottom (12th) at the bottom. Ilyuchenko, who ranked second with 14 goals in Seoul, moved to Suwon Samsung and headed to the K-League 2 again.
Brazilian striker Yago (Ulsan) wants to continue as a foreign striker in the K League 1, where Mugosa and Ilyuchenko are absent. Although he changed his uniform from Gangwon FC to Ulsan during the last season, he showed off his consistent scoring sense and scored 13 goals, which increases Ulsan's chances of winning the championship only when he continues his firepower. Daegu FC's ace Cesinha (Brazil), who scored 11 goals and eight assists last year, is also considered a candidate for the top scorer and assist this year.
Joo Min-gyu (Daejeon Hana Citizen) is aiming for the throne as the representative of a native goal scorer in two years. Having become the top scorer in the K League 1 in 2021 and 2023, he left Ulsan for Daejeon Hana. He is committed to "consulting with misinformation" as he failed to perform as well as expected by scoring only 10 goals last year. He will meet again with Hwang Sun-hong, the coach who first picked him as a member of the national team in March last year, at Daejeon Hana to seek synergy effect from the priest. Lee Sang-hun (Gangwon), Lee Dong-kyung (Kimcheon Sangmu), and Lee Seung-woo (Jeonbuk Hyundai), who ranked fourth and sixth respectively last season, will also join the race to become top scorers.
● Who is the "Second Yang Minhyuk"?
Attention is also focusing on the best new star. Yang Min-hyuk (Queens Park Rangers) made an impressive 12 goals and 6 assists in his professional debut season last year when he was a member of Gangwon FC, and immediately moved to Tottenham Hotspur in the English Premier League, emerging as a rising star in Korean soccer. His win at the year-end award ceremony was expected early on. 카지노사이트
Another factor of interest is finding a promising player who will succeed Yang Min-hyuk. Not only defender Shin Min-ha, whom Choi pointed out as his successor after leaving Gangwon Province, but also Jeonbuk's left fullback Choi Woo-jin is a likely candidate for the Rookie of the Year award. Choi, who moved to Jeonbuk from the winter transfer market Incheon, was recognized for his potential as he was selected for the national team in September last year ahead of the first and second Group B matches of the final Asian qualifying round for the 2026 North-China World Cup with Palestine and Oman.