2025 K4 League

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K4 League
Season 2025
Dates22 February – 15 November 2025
Champions Dangjin Citizen
(1st title)
Promoted Dangjin Citizen
Best PlayerShin Jae-wook [1]
Top goalscorerGu Hyun-woo
(20 goals) [1]
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The 2025 K4 League is the sixth season of the semi-professional K4 League, the fourth-highest league of men's football in South Korea.

Contents

Competition format

The pre-season winter transfer window opened between 1 January and 24 March 2025, and the summer transfer window opened between 20 June and 31 July 2025.[ citation needed ]

Prior to the 2025 season, the size of each matchday squad increased from 18 to 20 players, following the rule of the K League. Among them, three or more players had to be under-23 Koreans, with one included in the starting line-up. The AFC player quota was removed, and participating teams could include four foreign players of any nationality. [2]

The 2025 season consisted of 33 rounds with each team playing 30 matches. [3] [4] The champions were directly promoted to the K3 League, and the runners-up qualified for the promotion play-off where they played the lowest-ranked team of the 2025 K3 League. [5]

Teams

Team changes

Jeonju Citizen suspended their participation due to financial issues. [6] Seoul Nowon United also suspended their participation after failing to extend the contract with Nowon Madeul Stadium. The two teams eventually decided to be disbanded. [7]

FC Sejong were forced out of the K4 League due to issues about their management. They moved to Malaysia with renamed Seoul Phoenix, and were replaced by Sejong SA. [8]

Relegated from K3 League

Newly joined

Promoted to K3 League

Withdrawn

Stadiums and locations

A total of eleven teams participated in the 2025 season. [2] FC Chungju relocated to Yeoncheon and changed their name to Yeoncheon FC. [11]

TeamCityStadiumCapacity
Daegu FC B Daegu Daegu World Cup Stadium2,500
Dangjin Citizen Dangjin Dangjin Sports Complex66,422
Geoje Citizen Geoje Geoje Sports Park3,000
Gijang United Gijang Jeonggwan Sports Healing Park2,200
Jinju Citizen Jinju Jinju Sports Complex
Modeok Sports Park [12] [13] 		20,116
?
Namyangju FC Namyangju Namyangju Sports Complex2,901
Pyeongchang United Pyeongchang Jinbu Sports Park300
Pyeongtaek Citizen Pyeongtaek Sosabug Sports Town12,738
Sejong SA Sejong Sejong Citizen's Stadium996
Seoul Jungnang Seoul Jungnang District Field400
Yeoncheon FC Yeoncheon Yeoncheon Sports Complex9,000

Season overview

Namyangju FC and Pyeongchang United recruited South Korea internationals Suk Hyun-jun and Hwang Mun-ki as social service personnels respectively. [14] [15]

Ghanaian Isaac Osei and Brazilian Roberto Henrique played for Daegu FC B and Sejong SA respectively, becoming the only two foreign players of this season. [16] [17] Osei was also known as one of the first two homegrown players at the K League. [18]

Seoul Jungnang earned only one win in the first half of the season. They had the possibility of gaining their second win after defeating Pyeongtaek Citizen 5–3 in their ninth match (on the tenth matchday), but forfeited the match by using an unauthorized player. [19] They also forfeited the previous match, which ended in a goalless draw with Gijang United, due to the same resaon. [20]

Namyangju FC started the season well, earning six wins without a defeat in the first nine matches. [21] Pyeongchang United also showed good start, not losing in the first eight matches. The two clubs showed a very close race in the upper ranks until the last matchday, but conceded the title to Dangjin Citizen. Especially, Namyangju lost the title on goal difference after losing the last match despite Dangjin's defeat at the same time. [22] Afterwards, Namyangju falied to be promoted to the K3 League by losing 1–0 to FC Mokpo at the promotion play-off. [23]

League table

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPtsPromotion
1 Dangjin Citizen (C, P)30163117254+1851Promotion to 2026 K3 League
2 Namyangju FC 3015694733+1451Qualification for promotion play-off
3 Pyeongchang United 30131074938+1149
4 Jinju Citizen 3014795548+749
5 Gijang United 30154114540+549
6 Geoje Citizen 30146106349+1448
7 Daegu FC B 3013984430+1448
8 Yeoncheon FC 30107133961−2237
9 Pyeongtaek Citizen 3088144664−1832
10 Sejong SA 3078154556−1129
11 Seoul Jungnang 3044224476−3216
Source: JoinKFA Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Wins
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted

Results

Matches 1–20

Home \ Away DJC DGB GJC GJU JJC NYJ PCU PTC SJS SJN YC
Dangjin Citizen —2–14–22–15–20–10–18–01–04–23–0
Daegu FC B 1–2—0–11–02–13–01–10–02–23–02–2
Geoje Citizen 4–11–1—0–02–21–35–03–12–24–21–0
Gijang United 3–20–31–2—1–30–31–06–31–11–03–1
Jinju Citizen 3–31–13–21–0—0–21–11–12–10–23–0
Namyangju FC 3–01–24–30–12–0—2–10–02–13–23–0
Pyeongchang United 1–41–01–11–04–11–1—3–01–12–11–1
Pyeongtaek Citizen 3–50–12–12–10–20–12–4—3–23–0 [a] 1–1
Sejong SA 4–21–32–01–31–21–01–22–3—2–12–3
Seoul Jungnang 3–20–11–40–3 [b] 2–40–11–11–12–2—2–3
Yeoncheon FC 0–32–11–10–04–10–00–51–23–24–3—
Updated to match(es) played on unknown. Source: JoinKFA Soccerway
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Notes:
  1. ↑ KFA awarded Pyeongtaek Citizen a 3–0 win as a result of Seoul Jungnang fielding an ineligible player.
  2. ↑ KFA awarded Gijang United a 3–0 win as a result of Seoul Jungnang fielding an ineligible player.

Matches 21–30

Home \ Away DJC DGB GJC GJU JJC NYJ PCU PTC SJS SJN YC
Dangjin Citizen ———3–3—2–0——4–0—4–1
Daegu FC B 4–0——2–1—0–0———2–02–0
Geoje Citizen 2–03–1—2–3————1–0—2–3
Gijang United ——1–0—1–03–2——0–3—3–0
Jinju Citizen 4–13–21–3————4–1—5–3—
Namyangju FC ——2–3—0–0—0–05–74–0——
Pyeongchang United 1–12–0—3–20–2————5–2—
Pyeongtaek Citizen 0–20–11–21–2———————
Sejong SA —1–14–3—0–0—1–30–0——1–2
Seoul Jungnang 4–2——1–2—1–2——1–4—4–0
Yeoncheon FC ————1–31–03–12–23–2——
Source: JoinKFA Soccerway
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Promotion play-off

The promotion play-off was contested between the 15th-placed team of K3 League and the runners-up of K4 League.

FC Mokpo 1–0 Namyangju FC
Ryu Yeon-joon Soccerball shade.svg63' Report
Mokpo International Football Center, Mokpo

Statistics

Top scorers

RankPlayer [24] [25] ClubGoals
1 Flag of South Korea.svg Gu Hyun-woo Dangjin Citizen 20
2 Flag of South Korea.svg Ko Byung-beom Pyeongtaek Citizen 15
3 Flag of South Korea.svg Lee Dong-jin Sejong SA 15
4 Flag of South Korea.svg Kim Su-seong Pyeongchang United 13
5 Flag of South Korea.svg Kim Gyeong-gu Geoje Citizen 12

Hat-tricks

PlayerForAgainstResultDate
Flag of South Korea.svg Kim Hye-seong Dangjin Citizen Pyeongtaek Citizen 8–0 (H) [26] 24 May 2025
Flag of South Korea.svg Kim Hong Dangjin Citizen Seoul Jungnang 4–2 (H) [27] 6 July 2025
Flag of South Korea.svg Gu Hyun-woo Dangjin Citizen Sejong SA 4–0 (H) [28] 23 August 2025
Flag of South Korea.svg Lee Dong-jin Sejong SA Seoul Jungnang 1–4 (A) [29] 6 September 2025
Flag of South Korea.svg Ahn Jun-hyeok Seoul Jungnang Dangjin Citizen 4–2 (H) [30] 15 November 2025

Most assists

RankPlayer [24] [25] ClubAssists
1 Flag of South Korea.svg Park Yo-han Pyeongchang United 16
2 Flag of South Korea.svg Jeong Hyun-woo Pyeongtaek Citizen 10
3 Flag of South Korea.svg Park Kyong-min Jinju Citizen 9
4 Flag of South Korea.svg Kim Jae-cheol Sejong SA 7
Flag of South Korea.svg Seo Gyeong-ju Dangjin Citizen 7

Clean sheets

RankPlayer[ citation needed ]ClubClean sheets
1 Flag of South Korea.svg Park Han-geun Namyangju FC 9
Flag of South Korea.svg Kim Min-geun Gijang United 9
4 Flag of South Korea.svg Yoo Jong-min Pyeongchang United 6
Flag of South Korea.svg Lee Tae-hee Geoje Citizen 6
Flag of South Korea.svg Kim Won-jeong Jinju Citizen 6

Discipline

Player

  • Most yellow cards: 10
    • Flag of South Korea.svg Lee Si-hun (Yeoncheon FC)
  • Most red cards: 1
    • Flag of South Korea.svg Lee Hyeon-jo (Pyeongchang United)
    • Flag of South Korea.svg Gang Seong-yun (Pyeongtaek Citizen)
    • Flag of South Korea.svg Kim Woo-jin (Pyeongtaek Citizen)
    • Flag of South Korea.svg Park Jin-bae (Gijang United)
    • Flag of South Korea.svg Lee Je-wook (Daegu FC B)
    • Flag of South Korea.svg Shim Min (Sejong SA)
    • Flag of South Korea.svg Oh Chang-gwon (Sejong SA)
    • Flag of South Korea.svg Ma Ji-gang (Sejong SA)
    • Flag of South Korea.svg Kim Jae-bong (Seoul Jungnang)
    • Flag of South Korea.svg Park Jae-woo (Jinju Citizen)
    • Flag of South Korea.svg Kim Yun-hyeon (Yeoncheon FC)

Club

  • Most yellow cards: 57
    • Yeoncheon FC
  • Fewest yellow cards: 34
    • Namyangju FC
  • Most red cards: 6
    • Pyeongcaek Citizen
  • Most straight red cards: 3
    • Sejong SA
  • Fewest red cards: 0
    • Geoje Citizen
    • Dangjin Citizen

See also

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